Chapter 514 Gravitational Lensing
Bang!
With the power armor's thrusters firing at full power, Lin Xian descended from the sky like a sharp sword, quickly breaking through the crimson fog and spotting the Infinity speeding through the ruins of the city's rail line. At this moment, the Infinity, driven by KIKI's telekinesis, was moving through the air in its full range of motion. Although it was close to the rails, it didn't care whether the rails in front of it were damaged or whether the road was clear, and it just rushed straight through.
As the distance closed, the communication frequency was reconnected.
"Lin Xian, are you alright?!"
"No, keep going forward, just along the tracks, don't fly upwards!"
Once they stray off the track, finding their way becomes difficult. If their signal is lost, they'll be like blind men groping an elephant in this crimson darkness—that would be a real problem.
Knock knock knock!
Just as Lin Xian landed on the roof of the Infinite, a tremendous earthquake shook the ground behind him. Countless buildings and streets collapsed neatly like wheat being harvested, and dust rose into the air. A terrifying, serpentine giant shadow could be seen moving ferociously at a terrifying speed, so fast that it was hard to believe that such a behemoth was of such a size. The reinforced concrete city buildings were crushed like sand in front of it.
Lin Xian watched as the raging crimson storm condensed around the colorful blood python, forming a viscous substance, while other areas were noticeably thinner, resembling a crimson fog approaching the Infinity.
"This thing is enveloped in crimson mist like it's swimming in water; nothing can stop it. Ordinary physical armor would probably have a hard time resisting it!"
Inside the cockpit, KIKI looked at the monitor and said with a serious expression, "Lin Xian, let me handle this."
"No need, let it get closer."
Lin Xian's gaze sharpened, and with the mechanical heart in operation, all the drones were retracted to avoid being indiscriminately destroyed by the crimson storm. Then, under his command, all the heavy cannons on the vehicle aimed at the direction of the red mist and opened fire simultaneously!
beep!!!
The fire lines of the three 1130s, along with the storm gaps torn open by the electromagnetic railguns, swept towards the black shadow of the mottled blood python like a torrent of metal, sweeping across an entire area, hitting not only the crashing buildings but also the bone tentacles swirling on the snake's body. The black and red force field flickered and repaired, but even at this rate of fire, it still managed to create some gaps in the reaction time. A series of metal rainstorms caused large waves of blood and bone fragments to fall like rain from the mottled blood python's body.
Whoosh!
The mottled blood python was clearly enraged. Its flesh writhed wildly, then it disappeared into the crimson mist, becoming completely transparent. Lin Xian frowned and manipulated all his firepower to sweep through the blood mist. Soon, he struck it in a void, causing large pieces of flesh and bone to burst out. The mottled blood python accelerated, and the blood mist, like a storm, instantly merged into the crimson sky and vanished completely.
With a deafening roar, the enormous, mottled blood python vanished completely from the world, leaving only the sky ablaze with crimson lightning.
"It's gone? Be careful, it's definitely getting closer to us," KIKI said sternly.
"I know."
Lin Xian stood on the roof of the vehicle, and all the heavy artillery were now staggered in all directions, then fired into the void, searching for targets.
After several dozen seconds, thunder rumbled in the sky, and a strong gale pressed down on the ground, swirling up dust like a sandstorm, turning the entire city ruins into darkness. Only the headlights of the rapidly speeding Mugen train pierced the darkness, and the hollow sound of heavy firepower pointing skyward from the roof of the train could be heard.
Just then, above their heads, a faint black abyss mouth slowly opened amidst the blood mist. The mottled blood python did not pounce on the Infinite Train. Instead, a bolt of lightning was gathering in that eerie abyss mouth!
However, just as the variegated blood python was about to launch some kind of dark energy attack, a dazzling golden-red light suddenly shone from the roof of the fast-moving train.
"We've been waiting for you!"
null!
All the heavy cannons on the Infinity suddenly shut down at the same time. The energy beams of the three G3 electromagnetic railguns seemed to be rapidly drawn away and extinguished. Lin Xian's power armor emitted a high-energy electromagnetic roar, and his body crackled with electric arcs. He stood still and suddenly raised his hand to point at the black maw in the air. The three superstring reactor phase rings behind him lit up instantly!
Supercritical diffraction sword!
Buzz!
Lin Xian's right hand, on the diffractor base, suddenly unleashed a golden-red impact sword, like a beam from a space-based weapon. It shot hundreds of meters in an instant, its flames scorching the air and its brilliance illuminating the heavens and earth. From bottom to top, it pierced through the center of the red blood mist and lightning in the sky. With a deafening explosion, a serpentine bio-force field flashed in the previously drifting void high in front of the golden-red beam. At the same time, a giant blood python floating in the crimson blood mist appeared strangely. Its skull-like mouth was now completely illuminated by the high-energy beam of the supercritical diffractor sword, and the critical temperature, several times that of the sun, exploded into a raging wave of high-temperature air!
After the impact sword pierced the head of the blood python, Lin Xian did not hesitate, grabbing his right wrist with his left hand and slashing down!
Thump thump thump thump thump!
The kilometer-long diffraction sword slashed through the air, bursting with dazzling light. As it cut through the colorful blood python's body, the high temperature caused a violent air explosion, causing only 2/3 of the python's body to completely disintegrate in mid-air!
"Are you going to die now?!"
Lin Xian, having deactivated the diffraction sword, took a deep breath inside his power armor. He now had a considerable understanding of the movements of these crimson monsters. Their attack methods could not be judged by common sense. Although they appeared to be snakes, Lin Xian realized that they were not 'crawling' at all. Their movement was more like swimming, like a sea snake.
The entire Crimson World is a vast body of water, and the Infinity is the train that travels underwater, so it's not surprising that the monster can swim in the air.
Sure enough, when Lin Xian looked up at the sky, the huge blood python, after being cut into pieces by his supercritical diffraction sword, was strangely floating in the thick blood mist, as if it had lost its gravity, which looked very counterintuitive.
At the same time, large swaths of black mist raged within the blood mist. Upon seeing this, he immediately raised his hand to activate the Black Star Forge, releasing a series of drones that flew out at high speed.
These drones rushed into the remaining crimson storm and quickly disintegrated on a large scale, but some drones still managed to get in. Before long, several wrecked PX-05 drones flew back and hovered in front of Lin Xian. Lin Xian raised his hand, the robot's tool bay opened, and a blood essence that was still radiating heat gurgled into his palm.
Lin Xian was shocked when he saw it. This blood essence was the size of his palm, too big to be held in one hand. It was significantly larger than the previous level four blood essence. But its size wasn't the most important thing. Lin Xian also discovered that this blood essence was no longer like blood essence. It had the texture of mineral crystals inside. He immediately used the visual system of his power armor to magnify it and quickly discovered that the blood essence was filled with hexagonal energy grids, making it look like a sophisticated engineered creation.
“Crystal lattice…”
Lin Xian pondered for a moment. The creations within the crimson light were increasingly resembling what an advanced civilization should look like. He no longer considered these bizarre entities as monsters. In Director Ding's words, these bizarre entities were 'soldiers' forged from the flesh and blood of the Tower People. Their 'homogenized bodies' were not in the same direction of civilization as human mechanical creations, where any silicon-based organic matter could be molded. These indescribable monsters, like Cruise, were products of the Tower People before their 'angels' were assembled…
"This thing should be able to build a large-scale same-potential frequency device, and it might have other uses as well."
The mechanical components gleamed, and the metal containment box quickly collected the blood essence.
"It's resolved. It seems it didn't trigger the Crimson Tide," Lin said to KIKI through the communicator.
"You're pretty fast. How come your Spirit Awakening Value fluctuations were about the same as before, but you're so much stronger after you woke up?" KIKI asked in the earpiece.
"Well..."
Lin Xian glanced at the Infinity symbol below and thought that his strength was now completely unrelated to the so-called Spirit Resonance Value. With Mechanical Resonance, he had completely relied on mechanical energy as a carrier to unleash his superpowers.
As soon as Lin Xian finished speaking and turned around, his vision was suddenly engulfed by a black tidal wave that blotted out the sky. It was not a liquid, but more like a black gas solidified into asphalt. Like a viscous ink blob of billions of living things, it completely swallowed up the Infinite and Lin Xian. At the same time, Lin Xian's power armor immediately sounded an alarm, and the ultra-low temperature instantly froze the surface of the armor with a crackling sound.
"KIKI!"
He shouted and clenched his fist to break free, but after shattering a layer of ice, he was quickly frozen again, as if he had fallen into an ultra-low temperature planetary storm!
Just as they were being submerged, a deafening crashing sound came from the space below. It seemed that the Infinite had collided head-on with something in the darkness, and was swept away along with Lin Xian in the black storm.
not good……
The instant he detached from the Infinity, Lin Xian immediately activated the Mechanical Heart, remotely controlling the derailed Infinity and causing all its engines, including the Dragon-class and the Whale 03E heavy gas turbine locomotive, to roar simultaneously. The derailed wheels exploded blue and white arcs of electricity in the ink cloud, like a giant beast roaring.
A whoosh—an electromagnetic shockwave exploded outwards from the train! A split was torn open in the thick darkness, and Lin Xian immediately received KIKI's communication.
"Lin Xian, charge out!"
A few seconds after being submerged by the ink tide, KIKI used her psychic field to forcefully pull the Infinity away from the ink tide area and fly it hundreds of meters into the air. With one hand holding the thousands of tons of Infinity, she floated in the air, while with the other hand, she used her psychic power to grab the spreading jet tide below. The extremely cold tide was largely annihilated under KIKI's psychic field, but the jet tide was spreading and covering the entire ruined area at an extremely fast speed. If Lin Xian could not escape quickly, he would likely be in danger.
After Lin Xian created an opening, he was quickly annihilated by the ultra-low temperature storm. Upon hearing KIKI's shouts and realizing that the Infinite had been moved, he immediately understood that KIKI had escaped. He subconsciously prepared to use the strongest escape method, energy jump, and flashed into the sky.
But the thought stopped as soon as it crossed his mind, as a chilling aura above him instantly cleared his restless mind.
Something was above him, right there in this black storm!
Lin Xian's heart sank. Dangers lurked endlessly within this crimson mass, making it virtually impossible to defend against. This black storm was like a bizarre space, possessing extremely low temperatures and the ability to isolate air and space, like a giant net. He had to escape as quickly as possible with all his might. Thinking of this, he didn't hesitate. He released another electromagnetic vibration to tear open the dark storm, then raised his hand upwards, preparing to release a gravitational lens to tear open space first. Since this monster could isolate, he would use a black hole to tear open space!
However, at that moment, space suddenly cracked like a shattered mirror, and the inky tide was twisted into a spiral shape and sucked into the core of a black hole with a diameter of more than 100 meters, which continued to expand. The storm exploded, tearing apart the scarlet mist and black tide to form a huge black hole that was constantly expanding.
At this moment, Lin Xian saw that right above his head, next to the black hole, was another black disc, which was being frantically chewed up and sucked in by the black hole.
It was a black suction cup hanging upside down in the air, with a diameter as big as a football field. Its umbrella-shaped body resembled a giant sunflower, while a fleshy root was inserted diagonally in another direction. Before the black storm clouds it spewed out had subsided, this plant-like yet bizarre monster was torn into pieces by the gravitational field, and rain fell from the sky like blood from hell.
"Lin Xian!"
In the sky, KIKI breathed a sigh of relief upon seeing Lin Xian escape from the black storm below: "Luckily you reacted quickly. I've encountered this thing on the Hako battlefield before; it's disgusting, it comes out of the ground..."
Lin Xian, panting, watched as the black curtain was violently torn open, his face still grave.
"What's wrong?" KIKI asked.
Lin Xian looked down and gasped, "I didn't place this gravitational lens."
"Huh?!" KIKI also looked down at this moment.
After the inverted black disc monster was torn apart, the gravitational lens rapidly collapsed and disappeared, leaving only swirling mist and large pieces of falling flesh and blood like hailstones falling to the ground. At this moment, as countless black dark energy mists continued to fall to the ground, a figure walked over amidst the swirling blood foam. The crisp sound of combat boots crushing frozen soil and ice crystals clearly resonated between the two people's heartbeats.
Chu Yan's attire was completely different. Her former silver-white mental combat suit had been replaced by a kind of matte black armor. Her left arm had been replaced with a mechanical prosthetic limb engraved with energy circuits. Her shoulder armor was branded with the Phoenix Society's new Crimson Flame Emblem. Her high ponytail swept behind her with a dashing air. She only wore a black respirator on her face. Apart from that, she had no other protective equipment on her body. She walked in the crimson.
"Long time no see." She flicked away the monster remnants stuck to the mechanical arm with her finger, looked at Lin Xian and KIKI in the air, and said calmly, "I didn't expect that after you took a nap, the monsters would become so difficult to deal with."
He never expected that Chu Yan would suddenly appear in front of him in this way. He thought of the woman in the Civilization game who had given him everything and whose consciousness was eventually swallowed up by an angel. Now, looking at the familiar figure on the ground, his gaze was solemn and a few complicated thoughts flashed through it.
Lin Xian didn't know if the person standing in front of him was still the one he knew...
That Chu Yan.
(End of this chapter)
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