The other two spheres were hit by a chain reaction, and one was swept by the violent energy turbulence and exploded into a ball of sparks! The last one was also blown away and embedded deeply in the ruins in the distance!
Pei Du himself was also shocked by the terrifying reaction force and flew backwards. His huge body slammed heavily into a thick wall behind him that was covered with condensed glass-like substance and had not yet completely collapsed!
Boom!!!!
The wall shook violently, covered with spiderweb-like cracks! Pei Du embedded himself in the wall, and gravel fell in a patter. The light in his dark golden pupils dimmed for a moment, and a large stream of dark red, hot blood gushed out of his mouth! The conflict between the two forces in his body was temporarily eased by this cathartic outburst, but the backlash from the forced guidance and release also caused him severe damage! The light of the lava lines and mycelium veins on his body surface dimmed significantly.
"Opportunity!" The sentry's cold voice rang out in the aftermath of the explosion!
Like a long-awaited venomous snake, he (she) leaped forward again, before the energy shockwave had completely subsided and Pei Du, severely injured by the backlash and embedded in the wall, suddenly! This time, he (she) was even faster! The target was more specific: Pei Du's head, where his defense had dropped sharply due to the severe damage! The area where the twisted thorns were deeply embedded and the energy fluctuations were relatively chaotic! A brand new arm blade, flashing with high-frequency blue light, pierced Pei Du's temple with deadly determination! This was a fatal blow!
Xu Shuangyao's eyes were bloodshot! Pei Du was seriously injured and stiff, unable to dodge at all!
At this critical moment——
“Buzz——!!!”
A completely different, vast, and strange energy wave suddenly swept across the entire ruined space without warning! This wave did not come from the two sides of the battle, but from... deeper! From the void area left by the annihilation point at the core of the throne!
It was as if some dormant will, far older and more terrifying than the Fungus Master, was disturbed by Pei Du's devastating blow and the energy fluctuations of the Sentinel's high-frequency weapons, and it woke up for a very brief moment...
A buzzing sound resounded directly in everyone's mind! It wasn't just a sound, but a direct impact on the spiritual level! It carried a cold, dead silence, a pure sense of "emptiness" that seemed to come from the beginning of the universe!
Time seemed to be stretched and distorted at this moment.
The Sentinel's fatal strike, under this sudden mental shock, froze for a fraction of a second, almost imperceptibly! The blue light from the electronic eye beneath his (or her) helmet instantly became disordered, and the movement exhibited a subtle deviation!
Phew!
The high-frequency arm blade grazed the twisted thorns at Pei Du's temple and pierced through! It brought up a trail of dark red blood and several broken thorn fragments! It penetrated deeply into the wall behind Pei Du, missing his head by a fraction of a millimeter!
Pei Du, stimulated by both the intense pain and the terrifying mental shock of "nothingness," suddenly contracted his dark golden pupils to their limit! He roared in agony and fury, his massive bone claws instinctively sweeping forward!
The sentry's reaction was incredibly fast. When his strike missed, he dropped his blade without hesitation! His body fell backward like a boneless mollusk!
Swish!
The sharp bone claws scraped across the sentry's breastplate! Three deep, sparking cracks instantly appeared on the matte black armor! The powerful impact sent the sentry flying!
The Sentinel tumbled mid-air, dissipating the force, landing somewhat awkwardly. A faint trace of dark red energy erosion spread through the cracks in their chest armor. They quickly distanced themselves, their compound eye helmets swiveling toward the depths of the ruins from which the energy fluctuations were emanating. For the first time, a cold electronic voice took on a solemn and... incomprehensible tone: "Unknown high-dimensional energy disturbance detected... Source: Core annihilation remnant... Threat nature: Unknown... Priority: Beyond existing targets... Recording coordinates..."
He (she) seemed to have made a judgment in an instant, no longer looking at the seriously injured Pei Du, and his (her) figure flashed a few times before disappearing into the shadows leading deeper into the ruins, as if attracted by the unknown terrifying existence.
On the ruins, only Pei Du, who was seriously injured and embedded in the wall, and Xu Shuangyao, who was behind a metal plate in the distance and witnessed everything with his heart almost stopping.
The sudden surge of "nothingness" came and went quickly, like the fleeting breath of a giant beast from the abyss. But the mental pollution and icy fear it left behind, like a maggot on the tarsal bone, were deeply imprinted in the depths of their consciousness.
Pei Du gasped violently, his dark golden pupils swirling with pain and violence, and a hint of a deeper, life-instinct shudder, triggered by the wave of "nothingness." He struggled, trying to pull himself free from the wall.
Xu Shuangyao collapsed to the ground, trembling with the exhaustion of surviving a catastrophe and the mental chill brought on by the fluctuations of "emptiness." The whispers of the plant network echoed in her mind with unprecedented urgency: [Deep space... whispers... awakening... fragments... covenant... must... be found... before he... completely... loses control...]
Whispers from deep space... that terrifying fluctuation just now? A greater threat... has a corner of it awakened?
Her gaze passed over the struggling, wounded Pei Du, toward the direction where the sentinel had vanished, toward the abyss of nothingness left at the core annihilation point. Hope was like a candle in the wind, but the shadows had already enveloped it.
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