Chapter 278 Extended Track
The sky suddenly brightened, like flashes of lightning cutting through the long night.
But once the eyes adjusted to the changing glow, they discovered that the lightning in the white night was all continuous lines. There was some gold in them, but more of it was a bright white burning to a blazing heat.
Chen Xiao'er fled in despair and panic, choosing to leave. The new power had been shattered, but the multiple power rituals did not stop.
The three overlapping ritual formations were strangely distorted by an unknown effect and slowly nested together.
They sometimes float up and sometimes sink, seeming to overlap or even look like double images.
The moment power is born, it will drain the energy nearby, but now all the detection instruments have failed and all the pointers are pointing to the maximum value.
The energy in the ritual site suddenly increased dramatically. No, it was not just the ritual site, the energy was increasing dramatically in any place that humans could explore.
Everyone looked at the silver pointer in the glass shell that was firmly locked on the maximum value and was shocked: Where does the energy come from?
The core of the star is of course full of energy, and the supply inside is approximately [infinite] for humans or abyss creatures.
But even behemoth-level abyssal creatures or ritual arrays specifically used to extract energy cannot provide such a stable link.
If ordinary rituals and abyssal creatures were like sucking water with a straw, the power ritual was like pumping water through a pipe. The current absorption efficiency was like a difficult-to-detect tornado, which would restore the energy to the water level or even overflow before humans noticed.
Their questions were quickly answered.
"Meteor!!" The person who had shouted for a meteor shower before shouted again.
Buzz, buzz, buzz.
The energy alarm has been manually turned off, and the noise coming from the monitoring center is completely a natural reaction to the energy overload of the strange equipment.
Is a meteor shower coming? The predicted doomsday meteor!
The observers' faces were gloomy. Some raised their strange telescopes and looked into the distance, while others pushed up their glasses, and strange light flashed across their lenses and irises at the same time.
The blood-red clouds are like a layer of wet tissue paper, revealing a glass-like dome in the moist gradient.
The black and gray were dispelled by the beams of light from the polar day, and clusters of faint flames burned the sky.
"I know, I know!" An observer shouted at the top of his lungs: "The ceremony is not over, because, because--" His voice was choked in his throat, but everyone understood what he meant.
This ceremony was no longer just a crude imitation of natural rituals by the church; despair was indeed a creature of the abyss that had been lurking until now to reveal itself.
No wonder He dared to plan to fight two against three and devour all the power holders one by one.
Originally, everyone was calculating whether he could win in a one-on-one situation, ignoring the energy concentration around the ceremony.
This is the surface.
Every leap forward for an organism requires a huge amount of energy, which cannot be produced out of thin air.
Although humans do not know what theorem the weirdness follows, whether from the perspective of conservation of mass or reference to chemical reactions, if there are no reactants that provide sufficient energy, these successive leaps will most likely fail directly or leave huge flaws.
That's why He uses a multi-power ritual with stronger suction power. This is not to speed up the extraction of abyssal energy, but to attract meteors.
If his plan succeeds, at least he won't have to worry about the energy problem: the alien objects will provide him with enough energy to forcibly create a vast world and reach the future of the endless sky.
bite--
A white star lit up in the sky, flickered twice, and then slowly fell, dragging its tail.
The trajectory of the meteor is a perfect arc, as if someone is standing in the sky city and throwing a bouquet to announce the start of the banquet.
Buzz.
The noise of rising energy was heard again inside the monitoring center. Even though the equipment had malfunctioned, everyone could imagine the movement of water overflowing from the cup.
"No, there are too many meteors this time! It's definitely a crisis of annihilation level!"
An expert stood at his computer, typing furiously: [We should initiate a corresponding interception plan, such as activating space-based weapons left over from the technological era. Codename... Request the following rare item...]
His suggestion hung alone on the screen, and the sequence of beings that had been silent for a long time immediately expressed their opposition.
【J: Rejected.】
[J: The current ammunition reserves are insufficient. Even if the ring shield is fully activated, it can only intercept thirty meteors at most.]
This level of defense is more than sufficient in normal times. The defense system deployed by the Church of Light is specifically designed to protect important church strongholds. In extreme situations, it can also buy enough time for internal personnel to evacuate.
The most fatal drawback of this set of equipment is that it is expensive. They are all relics of the technological age, and even the ammunition they are refilled with is becoming less and less.
The electric current in the surrounding instruments surged, and there were crackling noises everywhere.
Vast screens displayed a dazzling display of interwoven stars—a few? A dozen? The myriad stars, like a goddess scooping up a stream of spring water and sprinkling it down upon the earth, were indistinguishable.
Can we calculate the orbits and blow up the most dangerous ones?
There is no need to ask such a question. Who can accurately pick out a few special grains of sand from the turbulent torrent?
Woo—the melodious sound of the whistle penetrated the space, disturbing everyone's chaotic thoughts.
The screen captured the image of an unusual train, or rather a ghost image.
At first glance, this train still looks like the bloody and tangled train of the past, with human hands and feet tumbling and weaving in the light and shadow, weaving a very strange track.
However, at this moment, it is carelessly showing off the changes in its key parts, just like a black cat deliberately turning over its white belly to show you.
Every time it jumps through space, there will be a very obvious flash, and the carriage will blur at the moment of the flash, revealing the ordinary car inside.
It looks like just an ordinary white van, but no one dares to underestimate it.
Even though the Doomsday Meteor Shower and the rampaging multiple ritual formations were very eye-catching, some observers were still diligently reviewing Chen Xiao'er's previous experiences.
This girl's whereabouts are relatively easy to track, at least within the academy, there is no need to worry.
Chen Xiao'er would not use any unusual means to conceal herself, and Guanghui had already planted a Divine Eye in her long ago. They were at the same power level, so it was very convenient to monitor her.
[Guanghui: Please note, if Chen Xiao'er is too far away from me, I will not be able to monitor her in real time.]
[C: Can the monitoring be delayed? How long is the delay?]
[Glorious: Yes, the delay is probably within an hour. I can transmit some still images and retell some of the dialogue, but the exact quality cannot be guaranteed.]
The observers noted Guanghui's reply and continued to watch the replay.
Chen Xiao'er fell from the tower and was caught by Apostle Zero. During this time, someone from the Chaos God Cult intervened and used special bullets to destroy the hot air balloon that Despair had manifested.
This process should be guided by despair. He would not let Chen Xiao'er control a means of transportation that could possibly catch up with Him.
Zheng Xiuli then briefly embraced power, detonating the parallel world created by Despair, and working with Chen Xiaotong to severely damage Despair. Chen Xiao'er fell with the apostle and was picked up by the arriving anomalous train.
The pale giant that had previously stood at the front of the train transformed into a human-like woman. She was likely the being named Lan that had been witnessed during the ceremony.
Lan sat in the passenger seat, while Chen Xiao'er and Apostle Zero sat in the back seat.
The playback ended here, and everyone focused on observing the anomaly passing by on the screen - the train.
Has it become weaker?
Many people had some doubts. After all, the van was really ordinary and weak compared to its original form of a flesh and blood train.
The train is rising.
Seeing the conclusion of the expert group, one observer subconsciously wanted to refute it, but when his eyes moved to the screen, he had to admit that the expert's speculation made sense.
Because the surging force was hitting every corner of the train, the energy did not disappear out of thin air, but was transferred to the train itself.
The train is actively consuming energy.
No, it was not just active swallowing. An invisible force, pulled by the ritual array, was hammering like a blacksmith swinging a hammer, melting a large amount of energy into the interior of the train.
No wonder the Anomaly-Train appeared with Lan many times, vaguely helping Chen Xiao'er. It must have gained many benefits in the process.
Everyone's lips tingled after watching this: Initially, some people wanted to name Zero Reset "Holy Suppression" or "Anomaly Neutralization", which almost led to a fallacy.
Chen Xiao'er's zeroing probably has far more effects on anomalies than just suppression and stripping.
Bang, bang, bang.
The train jumped in space, creating many bumpy distortions around it, and then returned to normal after the next jump.
"Meteor shower--" Meteorites fell to the ground amid everyone's sighs.
No matter how powerful Zero is, it is impossible to swallow all the meteors.
They opened their eyes wide and held their breath: the Church of Light had tracked the trajectory of meteors and their whereabouts after falling more than once in its history.
Meteorites flash various colors of light in space. After falling into the atmosphere, most of them will break up and burn, while a small part will remain stable.
Some meteorites will crash directly into the abyss, and not even a fragment can be dug out.
Others will remain on the surface, where they can be picked up by humans or transformed into strange anomalies, posing numerous dangers to nearby humans.
Their previous calculations had pegged this meteor shower to a level of annihilation. Even if most of the meteors were swallowed by the abyss, the bombardment they caused would still destroy humanity's last hope.
How much could Zero actually block? Their most optimistic prediction was that Chen Xiao'er's ability could deflect the meteor, sending it crashing to a location she couldn't see, creating at least a safe zone around the United City.
But such safety is only temporary. When the nest is overturned, all the eggs will be broken. Meteor showers bombarding the world will definitely bring a lot of irreversible damage.
"The orbit of the meteor has changed!" The observation team exclaimed one after another, and a chart was quickly shared on everyone's screen.
Golden tracks descended from the sky, changing course and flying towards the United City—no, towards Chen Xiao'er's location.
"What the hell is going on?! Is Despair summoning a meteor to crush Chen Xiao'er?!" An overzealous observer covered his head. Even if Zero was powerful, it couldn't consume so much energy in an instant. Even if its status was high, the energy waves it emitted would shatter the surrounding space!
The first falling meteors have reached the surface. They are swept towards the train in a tornado-like vortex, like passionate butterflies flying towards the only light in the darkness.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
One, scattered like stardust.
Two, scattered into dust.
Three stars, flickering and blending together.
Meteors bombarded the train and tracks continuously, and in the endless blows, it was tempered into an increasingly "normal" white van. People could also see a black-haired girl wearing sunglasses in the passenger seat.
She - perhaps she saw them too, so she moved her hat brim, raised her finger, and made a provocative gesture towards the screen.
Chen Xiao'er sat in the back seat, one of her hands pressed against the car window, the other hand held in Ling's arms, her eyes swollen and red.
Boom!
The van rushed down along the track in the sky and crashed heavily to the ground. A smooth cement road continued to extend along its rut.
You can't hear the roar of the engine behind the screen, but you can see the falling meteors blending with the trajectory of the car, like fallen petals turning into mud.
The car carrying Chen Xiao'er drove into the distance. The trees on both sides of the road and even the small buildings near the horizon rose from the ground. The hidden abnormalities turned into birds, flowers and pedestrians, constantly generating and changing in the white light.
That is the world in Chen Xiao'er's eyes, it - came from the illusion to the human world.
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