Chapter 496 Lin appears!
Rumble~
As soon as the words fell, the entire dune erupted in a tizzy! Thousands upon thousands of scarlet worms, awakened by the explosion, burst forth from beneath the sand like a crimson tide! Simultaneously, the crimson storm in the distance intensified, and within the twisting winds, the figures of several tall figures, identical to those from before, loomed. Even more terrifying, above, the dense crimson clouds enveloping the Noah ripped apart. Several gigantic, dark-red tentacles, over ten meters in diameter and covered in suction cups and crimson eyeballs, like giant pythons from the abyss, slammed down upon the team's area with devastating force!
Lister immediately put away his sniper rifle and ran towards the motorcycle with Song Wei. KIKI picked up Aaron's broken right arm on the ground, and then an invisible mental force field exploded all over his body, and the insect swarm within a hundred meters in diameter was directly shaken into a bloody mist.
But it was useless. The scarlet blood mist would only cause more terror to come. She did this just to throw a smoke bomb to temporarily deprive the attackers in the distance of their target.
"Don't fight any longer, we've definitely alerted the S-class. Let's retreat first!"
The team was like an arrow shot from a bow, fleeing for their lives between the scarlet insect swarm and the giant shadow in the sky.
KIKI flew in the front, his telekinesis transformed into an invisible ramming horn, smashing and pushing away the swarm of insects blocking the way. The other four rode on flying motorcycles and sped all the way. Raymond's magnetic vibrations continuously created quicksand traps and shock waves behind him. Song Wei nimbly shuttled between the sand dunes, using life resonance to avoid energy gathering points. Lister rode his bike while accurately shooting at the nearest large scarlet creature with a sniper rifle. Coolant and blood continued to flow from Aaron's broken arm. In order to cover up the smell, he directly covered it with a handful of yellow sand. He gritted his teeth all the way, roaring with the shotgun in his left hand to blast away the monsters blocking the way.
An hour later.
Beneath the Noah's rusty, mountain-like hull, in a cave eroded by the waves, the team activated the frequency oscillator. A lavender energy barrier blocked the raging sandstorms outside the cave and the prying eyes of the scarlet worms. Three corpses in black power armor lay on the ground. They were the members of the Holy City Organization who attacked them.
"It's these guys again."
"It seems that their purpose is the same as ours."
"The commander-in-chief has explained the importance of the sword-bearer, even if it is..." Raymond paused in the middle of his words and did not continue.
Whether it is for the research of mechanical superpowers or for psychological warfare against human survivors, it would definitely be a disaster if the body of the Swordsman who once became famous in the battle of Dawn City fell into the hands of the Adventists.
This is also the reason why Night Walker has dispatched a large number of reconnaissance teams to search tirelessly in this life-threatening scarlet abyss area.
Liszt kicked aside a corpse of a Holy City member, squatted down and looked at the claw marks pierced by crimson corrosion. His eyes were stern and he said, "I thought the Adventists weren't afraid of monsters. Why are they being retaliated against even after surrendering to the enemy?"
"Who knows? Could the Dark Civilization have issued some sort of order telling those insect monsters not to attack them?" Song Wei folded her arms across her chest and said coldly, "That's nothing more than the imagination of a bunch of cowards."
"alright!"
Raymond bandaged Aaron's right arm, then looked at Kiki and said, "This area has been alerted. We don't have much time left. Kiki, do you think we should move the search to other areas next, or retreat to the safe house to be on the safe side?"
"No, we haven't searched all the areas yet. We can't miss any corner."
KIKI looked at the crimson still surging outside the cave, her purple eyes filled with anxiety, "We have to find him quickly!"
"Actually, before you woke up, more than a dozen teams from our first unit had already searched many times." Raymond said calmly, his eyes slightly thoughtful. "In this case, if it was the Adventists who took him away, it would be good news from a certain perspective, but these guys are still here..."
After that, they fell silent. Everyone understood what Raymond meant. Simply put, he hoped KIKI wouldn't have too high hopes that Lin Xian was still alive. Their current task was more likely to be to find the body of the swordsman.
After all, it was a hibernation capsule that crashed in the Scarlet Battlefield. It had no protection and no device to shield the Scarlet Isomorphs. The ground was full of Scarlet Bugs. It was hard to imagine how a hibernating living person could survive until now.
Upon hearing this, KIKI's body trembled slightly and she stood there for a long time without saying anything.
Song Wei and other team members exchanged glances in silence. Just as they were about to offer comfort, they heard KIKI's voice ringing in the air.
"He won't die."
The voice was small, but it was unusually firm.
"He survived Yubei City, Xilan City, and Shuguang City. His goal was to take us on the Infinite Train, soaring into the sky and heading for the distant stars. How could he inexplicably die in a hibernation pod due to lattice evolution..."
There was a hint of lighthearted mockery in his words, and then KIKI turned around and looked at everyone: "Believe me, he must still be alive!"
Raymond was stunned. Even though he was used to seeing life and death, he couldn't help but feel a little touched. He took a deep breath and looked at the team members.
"Our mission is to find the Sword Wielder at all costs. This is our mission, even if it means losing our lives!"
After saying that, he checked the time and said, "It should be less than an hour before the Sky Giant Lapel arrives. Let's hurry and plow this area!"
"Got it!" Liszt and Song Wei both responded.
"No problem!" Aaron, who had already bandaged his broken arm, stood up and patted his chest.
"Then we need to change our strategy," Raymond said immediately. "Time is running out. Since we can't do it quietly, we need to make a quick decision. There's no scapegoat this time. We can only pray that we don't encounter a special-level hunting entity."
"It's a blessing that the S-class just now wasn't marked." Song Wei nodded and said, "KIKI and I will search for all the warships along the way, and you three will be responsible for covering them. This will speed up our progress!"
"good!"
"That's it."
Bang bang bang!
A scarlet sea of solidified blood hung overhead, and yellow sand was blown into the air by telekinesis and the explosion, then fell down mixed with sticky dark red dust.
The entire southern coast of Jako was like a boiling casserole, with exploding fireballs rising one after another, accompanied by the dull thunderous roar of the Gauss sniper rifle and the sharp hissing of the pulse weapon. Raymond, Lister and Aaron formed a triangle formation and continued to kill the monsters that emerged from the yellow sand everywhere.
In addition to the scarlet worms, there are also strange creatures that spit out glowing tentacles. These creatures do not rely on dark marks, but are attracted by the sound and the smell of blood mist, and continue to move closer. Without the large-scale dark energy fluctuations created by the Holy City before, the scale of the attack has not expanded, but relying solely on the team's firepower to deal with it is still gradually doubling the pressure.
“Hurry, hurry, hurry!”
KIKI was suspended in the low sky, her long purple hair dancing wildly in the scarlet storm, her eyes flowing with dark purple light like the stars, her telekinesis turned into an invisible giant hand, and she brazenly "pulled" out another transport ship half-buried in the yellow sand from the ground!
The sound of twisting metal was deafening, and the sand waterfall poured down, revealing the rusted skeleton and scattered shriveled corpses inside.
Song Wei followed closely behind, her life resonance ripples like precise probes, rapidly sweeping through the smoke and wreckage. At the same time, her agile figure moved between the overturned deck and broken bulkheads. The detector of the power armor was running at full power, searching for the target together with KIKI.
"No! Next one!" Song Wei's voice was filled with anxiety in the communication channel.
"Three o'clock direction, red ghost, be careful!"
"Boss, it's not good, the visibility is getting worse!" Lister shot a strange spider that was approaching at high speed and smashed it to pieces. The erupting blood mist made the entire area even more scarlet.
Aaron's voice was cold: "Watch out for the hunting body, that thing is the most difficult to deal with!"
"7 o'clock! The wreckage of the Exocet class, 15 meters deep!" Captain Raymond's roar was drowned out by a violent explosion. He clashed his fists together, and the azure magnetic storm shock ring spread out, shaking the three sand monsters with metal claws that were rushing towards him into pieces of meat and dark red pulp.
Aaron behind him operated the pulse shotgun with one arm. Every roar blew away the monsters that tried to approach, and the broken mechanical arm interface flashed dangerous electric sparks.
"There are more and more bugs! Captain, this is not right!" Lister's voice came from a twisted starship keel high up. He held up his exaggerated giant sniper rifle. Every blue-white beam of light ejected from the muzzle could accurately tear apart a scarlet bug or repel a giant claw covered with a dark red shell that stretched out from behind the sand dunes. "We're making more and more noise!"
As if to confirm his words, farther away, the scarlet blood mist surged violently like a living thing, making a teeth-grinding "crackling" sound as if countless bones were rubbing against each other.
"What is that?"
KIKI raised his hand and put down a wreckage of the ship, his eyes fixed on the blood mist in the distance. A distorted figure emerged from the blood mist, like a human, like a zombie, but not just a zombie. It vaguely retained the outline of a human, but its limbs were stretched and twisted, and the joints were bent in the opposite direction. The skin was in a weird state of dark red keratin and festering flesh. The head was either cracked into a mouth full of sharp teeth, or replaced by a wriggling scarlet tumor, which made people's scalp tingle.
There were no roars, only a chilling, gasping sound like sandpaper scraping against glass. They gathered into a tide, treading across the yellow sand, ignoring the terrain, closing in from all directions at a speed far exceeding that of ordinary zombies! It was the Crimson Mutant! A true zombie tide!
"Damn it, Scarlet Man!"
Raymond's eyes were bloodshot, and the magnetic shock burst out with all its strength, plowing a deep trench in the sand. The five members of the team shrank instantly, forming a small circle with their backs to each other. KIKI fell from the air, and the telekinesis barrier instantly enveloped everyone like a huge purple crystal dome, repelling several oncoming mutants and spraying acid.
"These people may have all kinds of supernatural powers, so we must not take them lightly!"
As soon as he finished speaking, a scarlet ghost with strange pointed wings on its back suddenly emerged from the ground and hit KIKI's mental barrier in a strange posture. KIKI frowned immediately. The ghost's impact actually carried a force of dark energy, which was as powerful as a cannonball, and even raised a shock wave that made a large amount of yellow sand explode and fly!
KIKI didn't hesitate at all, and crushed the scarlet human ghost with five fingers. It exploded into a high-pressure energy body, and the redundant dark energy and scarlet blood mist sprayed out violently, which was no less than the explosion of a small bomb!
boom!
"Be careful, these human ghosts are hard to deal with. The more you kill, the more they'll appear. The things they explode can devour each other and grow into strange shapes. They're completely different from the human ghosts we've encountered before!" Raymond shouted to Kiki in the smoke and dust, "We can only retreat now. If we're surrounded by them, the more you kill, the more they'll come. We'll definitely attract hunting bodies!"
"Okay!" KIKI also understood the current situation, and helplessly prepared to use telekinesis to first shock the Scarlet Man Tide away, and then evacuate with the team members.
However, a greater fear suddenly descended.
"Damn it! Boss, look!" Aaron's roar was trembling with despair, and he suddenly pointed to the direction where the scarlet was the most intense at the back of the team.
The blood mist there seemed to be stirred by an invisible giant hand, and suddenly spread to both sides and faded a little!
The outline of a "giant wall" connecting the sky and the earth appeared!
It was not a solid wall, but a row of huge cylindrical objects that swept across in a translucent state, like the tentacles of some giant creature, swinging directly from the sky to the ground, sweeping all the way!
It moved silently, yet carried a terrifying, all-consuming pressure. Ignoring dunes, debris, and broken walls, it surged forward like a cosmic wave, silently crushing the team at a steady, irresistible speed! Wherever it passed, even the pervasive crimson mist was briefly "pushed aside" or "absorbed," leaving behind a brief, even more deadly vacuum. It was so massive, encompassing the entire horizon, so swift that the moment it caught sight of it, it was already within reach! Escape? There was no time!
"Giant Sky Lace?! It's earlier than the observation time!?" Raymond said at this time and looked at KIKI: "It seems that your previous guess was right, it must be a living creature!"
"What should we do? It seems we can't hide anymore?!" Song Wei's voice fluctuated violently at this moment. Facing the tide of scarlet ghosts, they might still be able to escape, but this huge scarlet wall was sweeping over like a tsunami. There was no way to escape at such a close distance. Once swept over, all members would immediately lose most of their combat effectiveness. Facing these ghosts again at that time would be tantamount to suicide!
"Hold on! We must hold on!" Raymond roared, magnetic vibrations emanating from his body, creating a violent turbulence that swept several mutants away and shredded them. Song Wei's face paled, and she channeled her life resonance to the fullest, attempting to stabilize Kiki's telekinetic barrier while providing Hawkeye with a more precise lock. Aaron gnashed his back teeth, his single-armed shotgun blazing with the final fury. Kiki's pupils blazed purple like stars, and her telekinetic barrier shone brightly. But against the boundless, crimson wall that carried the might of heaven and earth, the power of an individual seemed so insignificant.
In front of them, there's the frenzied onslaught of endless scarlet insects and twisted mutants, and behind them, a life-destroying scarlet wall silently approaches! If the barrier is breached by the zombie tide, or if the wall sweeps through them, causing instant blood loss, any scarlet creature in this desperate situation will be able to slaughter them all, and utter annihilation awaits them!
Despair is like a cold poisonous snake, entwining everyone's heart.
At this critical moment, when life is about to be lost!
Buzz——!!!
A strange metallic hum, as if the entire space was resonating, drowned out all the noise on the battlefield!
Crack! Clang! Clang!
They looked down at the ground, and suddenly, in less than half a second, a square cabin with sharp corners and a gleaming cold metallic sheen rose from the ground! The cabin walls were incredibly thick, and the surface was covered with azure light patterns of high-frequency energy barriers. Like a precisely designed metal honeycomb module, it tightly enveloped the five members of the team, including Kiki!
Buzz!
The hatch closed at the last moment, and the high-frequency energy barrier instantly increased to maximum power!
The next moment, the huge scarlet wall that connected the sky and the earth swept across the area silently.
A dead silence fell within the cabin, and everyone subconsciously held their breath, awaiting the terrifying blood-sucking effect... However, nothing happened! Only a terrifying, muffled pressure wave, as if the entire universe were groaning, echoed from outside the cabin wall, along with the low hum of the energy barrier's continued operation. The life-destroying crimson energy was perfectly isolated by the sturdy metal cage and energy barrier!
"What is this?!" Lister didn't react for a moment. In the small cabin, Raymond, Lister, Song Wei, and Aaron were all in shock. They stared at the tightly closed cabin door with energy light patterns flowing on it, their minds blank.
At this moment, KIKI looked at the mechanical protective cabin that was created out of thin air with shock on her face. Her little face turned pale and a familiar feeling came to her heart.
The next moment, the scarlet sky was torn apart!
It wasn't an energy beam, nor a meteorite falling, but—
Steel rain!
Countless silver-gray meteors tore through the sticky scarlet sky, crashing down with piercing shrieks and terrifying kinetic energy like divine punishment! They were dense and precise, smashing into the scarlet insect swarm and mutant clusters surrounding the team!
Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!
The earth trembled violently at the deafening crash! Yellow sand was whipped up into turbid waves tens of meters high! Following the impact, there was an instantaneous, suffocating surge of metal!
The dust from the falling steel had not yet dispersed, but a ferocious figure had already crushed the dust, revealing its fangs!
As the dust settled, countless heavily armored mechas, like moving iron towers, emerged from the shadowy silhouettes! Their bodies were clad in gleaming, cold, super-carbon alloy explosion-proof composite armor. Their powerful, ferocious torsos were encircled by magnetic coils wrapped around their sturdy arms, and arcs of azure electricity danced across their bodies. Upon landing, their heavy alloy feet sank deeply into the sand, and magnetic generators on their shoulders, backs, and arms simultaneously lit up with a dazzling blue light! Boom! The violent magnetic shockwaves, like tangible shock waves, spread out in a circular pattern centered on the impact point! The scarlet worms and mutants within range, as if struck by an invisible giant hammer, instantly exploded into a foul-smelling mist of blood and fragments!
The heavy mechs raised their heavily armored arms, the arm armor sliding open to reveal their massive cannon muzzles. No precise aiming, only devastating sweeping fire! Dazzling blue pulses of energy intertwined into a web of death, plowing across the battlefield. Everything they passed, insects and mutants alike, was vaporized! Like silent fortresses of war, they relentlessly advanced, each step accompanied by the roar of magnetic storms and the roar of pulse cannons, crushing and pushing back the surging tide of corpses!
Afterwards, countless ghostly lightning figures burst out from the heavy mechas. They were like killers whose movements had been uniformly trained to extreme regularity. The moment they landed, they turned into deadly silver streams of light. The slender but powerful mechanical bodies jumped between the sand and the wreckage, so fast that they left fragments of afterimages. Their feet were no longer ballet shoes, but two VK alloy blades that flashed with deadly cold light. Every time they touched the ground, there was a sharp sound of cutting the air. The VK electric blades on the elbows popped out silently, and the high-frequency oscillating blades cut through the air, making a low humming sound.
Like death dancers on the battlefield, their figures flickered through the swarms of monsters, their VK twin blades tracing endless trails of azure lightning. Every flash of blade light was accompanied by the crisp sound of tearing metal and the frantic spray of dark red liquid.
Whether it was the tough armor of the beetles or the twisted, horny limbs of the mutants, they were as fragile as a hot knife through butter before the VK electric blades. They precisely sliced through the monsters' joints, nerve nodes, and energy cores, their movements swift, graceful, and deadly! The insect swarm was fragmented and dismembered before them, falling in droves, their dark red fluids pouring like a torrential rain, leaving vast stains on the yellow sand.
A torrent of steel, composed of thousands of Iron Men and Dragon Ladies, swept the battlefield like two giant combs! The crimson worm and mutated zombie swarms that had surged like raging waves were, in the face of sheer numbers, firepower, and the sheer disparity in power, like fragile sand castles, shattered, flattened, and swept away in a matter of seconds! All that remained was a smoldering, blackened pit, the shattered remains of limbs torn apart by the magnetic storm, the neatly cut sections of a battlefield, and a deadly silence!
This devastating and overwhelming appearance made everyone in Raymond's team extremely shocked and stunned, and they even forgot to breathe.
KIKI widened her purple eyes that were like flowing stars, and the light of the mental barrier swayed slightly. Her body trembled violently, and she quickly broke through the protective cabin. She looked around at the scarlet land in panic, searching in the yellow sand battlefield that was still filled with blood mist.
Soon, she looked into the distance, where she saw a vague human figure walking slowly towards the cabin on the yellow sand.
Soft and steady white lights silently lit up above the figure's head, around him, and behind him... Dozens, hundreds of them... Like stars in the night sky suddenly lighting up, or like guiding fireflies quietly gathering together.
The drones hovered steadily and lined up, casting a brilliant and mysterious starlight against the sticky and depressing scarlet background, clearly outlining the man's path forward.
The light spot is quiet, yet it has a penetrating power that can tear apart all darkness.
The starlight flows, like a galaxy leading to life in the scarlet hell.
In the center of that artificial galaxy, the figure of the mechanical mutant became clearer and clearer!
(End of this chapter)
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