In the helmet's field of view, the icon representing the status of the leg armor instantly turned into a glaring scarlet, and then dimmed at a speed visible to the naked eye!
Two hundred meters!
The dark tentacles of the black tide suddenly stretched out from behind like a poisonous snake, silently rolling towards the severely damaged alloy right leg that Pei Du was dragging behind him!
laugh!
There was no real sense of contact, but Pei Du instantly lost all feeling in his right leg! The thick armor covering his leg, the moment it was "touched" by the dark tentacles, instantly turned gray and brittle, as if washed away by eons of time! The metal skeleton and bionic structure within emitted a piercing noise like chalk scraping against glass, the wail of material structure rapidly disintegrating under the law of entropy!
[Right leg… structural integrity… lost…!]
[Neural link... interrupted...! ]
The cold reminder was like a verdict! Pei Du stumbled, his heavy body suddenly falling forward! Only the alloy claws on his left arm and the support of his left leg prevented him from falling completely!
One hundred meters!
The entrance was right before my eyes! The dark archway, like the throat of a giant beast, emitted a cold, faint blue light! The path to survival was within reach!
However, the darkness behind him, like a roaring wave, brought an all-consuming, absolute silence as it slammed down upon the collapsed Pei Du... Countless twisted tentacles of darkness danced wildly, blocking any room for escape! The icy will of the Creator, like an invisible giant net, completely enveloped him!
Is it over?!
At this desperate moment!
"Pollution...core...key...final...agreement..." The last cold electronic sound fragment of the Watcher flashed through Pei Du's chaotic and collapsing consciousness like lightning!
The tainted core? The key? The restless dark red energy within? The crimson embers? Or... the awakened unknown will?!
No time to think! This is the only clue! The only bet!
The two dark red embers in Pei Du's eyes instantly burned to a blazing rage! He no longer suppressed it! No longer restrained himself! He used up his last remaining willpower, not to fight the darkness behind him, but... like opening a Pandora's box, he directed the most insane, most primitive command to the core of the seething conflict within his body, to the awakened unknown will.
release!
“Uh ...
An ultimate roar that exceeded the limit of pain and was a mixture of metal cracking and star annihilation erupted from Pei Du's broken body!
boom--!!!
An indescribable aura of terror, a mixture of the remnant tyranny of the laws of the starry sky, the violence of the dark red energy turbulence, and some kind of older, colder, and more indifferent chaotic will, centered on Pei Du's fallen body, was like a volcano that had been suppressed for billions of years, rushing in all directions... especially the surging black tide of entropy behind him... It erupted and rushed forward fiercely!
This is not an energy attack, but... a fierce collision and declaration of the essence of existence and the level of laws!
Buzz——!!!
The entire space seemed to freeze for a moment!
The surging sticky darkness and the countless dancing dark tentacles, the moment they came into contact with this explosive breath, actually... extremely strangely... froze for a billionth of a second!
It's like a cold program encountering unparseable, higher-authority garbled code!
It's like a giant predator smelling the scent of a predator of the same level!
The cold and indifferent creator-level will that was locked onto Pei Du showed for the first time an extremely weak fluctuation that could be called "surprise"!
It's this billionth of a second of stagnation!
Pei Du's fallen body, with the weak counter-thrust generated by the chaotic shock wave that erupted in his body, his alloy claws and left leg burst out with the last bit of strength, like an arrow from a bow, and rushed towards the dark archway that was so close...!
The sticky, all-devouring dark wave, after being frozen for an imperceptible moment, slammed fiercely on the thick armor plate with faint blue lines at the entrance of the archway with an enraged and even more violent will of extinction!
laugh--!!!!
The piercing noise of the Law of Annihilation was like the screams of billions of evil spirits! The thick armor plate surface was instantly covered with gray-white cracks! Dark blue lines flickered wildly, like the struggle of a dying being!
But, in the end... it was blocked!
The darkness, like a raging tide, was firmly blocked outside by the thick armored dam! It could only roll and roar angrily, encroaching on the space at the entrance, but could not move forward a single step!
Inside the archway was a metal passage that sloped downward, deep and profound. The passage was utterly silent and dark, with only the entrance casting a strange, distorted light and shadow from the swirling black tide of entropy outside.
Under the action of inertia, Pei Du's heavy steel body rolled and collided along the inclined metal passage floor, making harsh metal scraping and collision sounds all the way down, and finally hit a cold metal wall deep in the passage before stopping.
Inside his helmet, his vision was a blood-red, and alarms blared so shrill they threatened to pierce his eardrums. The alarms of an energy core overload, neural link collapse, and the outer armor being corroded by entropy… And then there was the chaotic storm of conflict within him—the fury of dark crimson energy, the cold command of the Crimson Key, and the awakened, ancient, indifferent, and unknown will—all clashing and tearing furiously through his stitched-together body!
[Warning…Core…Multiple contamination…Conflict…On the verge of…disintegration…]
[Detected... unknown... higher-dimensional will... increased activity...! ]
[The Entropy Field... is... blocked... by an external barrier... and its strength... is weakened...]
[Ark Core…Channel…Confirmed…Enter…]
The cold reminder was accompanied by extreme confusion and pain.
Pei Du collapsed onto the cold metal floor of the tunnel, his heavy armored body covered in dents and scratches from impact. He raised his head with difficulty. Behind his dark red crystal visor, his molten gold pupils were sluggish and chaotic, reflecting the entrance to the tunnel, the thick armor-plated barrier that blocked out the thick, roiling darkness that roared like the gates of hell.
I got in... and survived... for now...
But within him, a greater storm had just begun. The key to the tainted core... had been inserted... What was the final agreement...? And what was that thing that had awakened within him...?
Deep in the cold, dark passage, it seemed as if countless eyes slowly opened in the darkness, staring at this intruding, multi-polluted... "foreign object".
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com