Chapter 54 Victory "Except Her"
The protective net was enveloped by a scarlet energy wave, repelling all the [solvents] that tried to invade.
The sea breeze carried a salty and rotten smell, causing Xu An's white wings to tremble slightly.
She stood on the broken cross-sea bridge, her dagger still dripping with foul-smelling green liquid. Beneath the surface of the ocean, the mandrake's tentacles stirred up a new wave, its sticky secretions dripping from its suction cups into the seawater, stirring up strange ripples. With each drop, Xu An could feel the bromine mist in the air thicken.
As the thickening bromine mist engulfed her body, Xu An's frenzy surged. A scarlet halo danced across her dagger, burning all of it away.
"Xu An, the energy fluctuation has reached the standard, but all the alien species in the area have been attracted by Mandragora. We need to fight quickly and decisively." Lin Yu's voice came through the headset.
Xu An heard the sound and looked towards the shore.
The abandoned city was almost buried in the dust raised by the running aliens. The humans on the ground were remotely controlling the biological weapons that resonated with them to fight against the crazy aliens.
Some were torn apart by alien species, while others died together with them while hugging them. Amidst the cries of anger and despair, there was also a ridiculous hope.
But it was these unrealistic thoughts ignited in despair that turned into an endless stream of energy and flowed into her body.
When the overwhelming emotions came, Xu An's fingers were almost shaking, causing the bleeding dagger to tremble as well.
The tentacles of the Datura plant became more and more aggressive amid the repeated alarms in the base. The continuously increasing concentration of bromine mist and the frenzy factor made Xu An's movements pause, and he was almost thrown to the bottom of the sea by the waves caused by the tentacles.
Several feathers were blown away by the force and floated to the surface of the sea. Just as Xu An dodged another struggling tentacle, a chill suddenly came from behind him.
Almost the next moment, she instinctively threw the dagger and stabbed it into a transparent object in the air.
The low roar made her eardrums hurt, sticky green juice dripped down the dagger, and a huge monster slowly appeared in the air.
This is the "eye".
Affected by the frenzy factor, it has completely transformed into a beast, without any will at all.
In addition, other invisible alien species also appeared, separating Xu An from the Datura plant.
And the next moment, they almost simultaneously launched a mental wave attack with supernatural powers, but even they were shredded into blood mist by Xu An's terrifying supernatural powers in the next second.
"Xu An, they are consuming your superpowers!" Lin Yu's cry rang in his ears, "You must approach the Datura plant immediately!"
Xu An naturally understood and responded softly: "Well, has the mental wave resistance test of the protective net been completed?"
Lin Yu knew that she didn't want to harm the only normal human left in the base, so he sighed helplessly and replied, "It's only enough for you to cast a mental wave once."
"That's enough." The next moment after the words fell, the blood-colored supernatural fluctuations in the air spread at a speed visible to the naked eye. Suddenly, it felt like something was grabbing the throat, and then it became tighter and tighter, and more and more painful, until the sound of cracks in the protective net was heard, and a strange "ding" sound instantly exploded in the mind.
The strong smell of blood and the stench of rotten flesh spread into the nasal cavity, and the alien species wrapped between Xu An and the Datura plant instantly turned into blood mist and fell like blood rain.
The protective net finally broke at this moment, and the blood that had not yet fallen soaked the people on the ground into bloody corpses.
The air seemed to be quiet for a moment.
Immediately afterwards, the sound of a dagger cutting through flesh spread from the sky, and two more twitching tentacles fell to the bottom of the sea.
Ran Yue quickly recovered from her shock and stared at the battle situation on the screen. "Members of A061, listen to my orders. Baili Yunle will suppress Mandragora's tentacles. Jie Shuqin will lead the others to protect the humans on the ground. 0301 will be ready to support Xu An at any time!"
As he finished speaking, the sniper rifle bullet accurately hit the tentacles of the mandragora that were spreading out towards Xu An, but it only left a shallow wound. But blocking it for only a second or two was enough for Xu An to fly above the mandragora from the heavy encirclement.
The dense swarms of alien species coming from afar were also stopped by the machine gun fire. Jie Shuqin mobilized her special powers and almost caught them in the trap by drawing a thick "wall" on the ground, separating the alien species firmly.
Xu An silently took everything in. The increasingly intense frenzy factor almost made her lose her mind, and the hand holding the dagger was trembling.
When the overlapping tentacles slapped towards her again, the humming sound of the mecha running and the sharp sound of the sharp weapons colliding brought Xu An back to her senses.
When the things in front of her eyes became clear again, Xu An saw Captain A061's flying mecha standing in front of her, his eyes looking at her level through the mecha shell.
Xu An suddenly remembered the first time she met 0301. They had also looked at each other through the glass of the observation room. But back then, they were an ignorant young beast and a desperate girl, while now they were the ultimate weapon of humanity against alien species.
"Program set to assist 0302 at all costs."
A cold mechanical sound pulled Xu An's consciousness back. She took a deep breath, suppressed the various emotions churning in her heart, and nodded solemnly to it.
After several rounds of drastic consumption of supernatural powers, Mandragora finally couldn't hold on anymore and wanted to sink to the bottom of the sea again.
When the tentacles slowly retracted, the ball wrapped in the middle was finally revealed, and Xu An led 0301 to fly over almost instantly.
"Stop the tentacles. I want to get to its core."
Hearing the sound, 0301 instantly rushed towards the alien species blocking their way, tearing it into pieces. Mandragora seemed to sense their approach, and its tentacles surged forward frantically. 0301 then emitted an alluring energy, drawing all the alien species to her surroundings.
The tentacles tightly wrapped around the fuselage, and the smell of mucus corroding the metal shell rushed into my nostrils.
Xu An took the opportunity to fly towards the exposed sphere. When the dagger cut through the thin membrane, it pulled out a sticky thread, and inside it was swaying a red mucus of unknown origin.
The stench rushed into his nostrils. Xu An prepared himself mentally for a second, then closed his eyes, held his breath, and went in.
The energy in her body had reached its limit, and all kinds of emotions and memories were clamoring in her mind.
Xu An's head was about to explode. The tragic battlefields, the warm friends, one after another, emerged in her mind as the energy of Yuanyuan continued to flow towards her. But Xu An knew that every time a picture appeared, another person died.
The juice of the mandrake wrapped around her, and the frenzy factor raged in her body. The sticky and suffocating feeling made Xu An breathless, and her consciousness began to blur.
The dagger still stubbornly stabbed forward. Xu An could hardly open his eyes, but he still stubbornly crawled downwards.
Her whole body seemed to be filled with sticky juice. She could feel the wailing of Mandragora and the frenzy factor rushing towards her.
The body feels like being locked in an airtight room, with no air and no space, and is squeezed so tightly that it feels like it's not my own.
Her fingers were shaking so much that she could no longer hold the dagger. Her hazy consciousness was still mixed with the memories of others, one after another, so many that she could hardly distinguish them all.
Suddenly, Xu An seemed to see his own face in the memories that came flooding back.
It flashed so fast that even she felt like it was an illusion.
After a person dies, when the last bit of magnetic field fluctuation is collected, an unforgettable scene of that person's life will flash.
Sometimes it's a person, sometimes it's an object. Humans generally like to call this a revolving lantern.
Xu An knew it very well.
Because when Yin Shu died, she saw Yin Xiangrong's appearance from infancy to youth.
"Yin Shu..."
Xu An suddenly woke up, and Yin Shu's face appeared uncontrollably in his mind.
"Can you watch the base take off for me?"
"Let me become a taboo..."
“Only humans can possibly return to the surface.”
It is also possible that alien species will return to the ocean.
For a moment, she couldn't tell whether this was someone else's memory or her own revolving lantern.
Her eyelids were covered with juice and she couldn't open them, but she vaguely felt something flashing in front of her.
The moment the dagger with scarlet supernatural power pierced the crystal core, the mandala let out a deafening scream and waved its tentacles wildly, but gradually withered and exploded under the burning of supernatural power from within, turning into a blood-stained flower.
All the wailing seemed to stop at this moment, and the alien's flesh slowly softened, turning into a pool of mud and falling to the ground.
When everything returned to calm, the broken cross-sea bridge was dripping with blood, the lights of the base shone on the scorched earth, and the stench and smell of gunpowder filled the nose.
The dark clouds that had covered the sky for a long time were gradually peeled away, revealing a ray of light as if as a gift. People were covered in blood and looked over blankly.
Suddenly, an unbelievable voice sounded.
"Did we win?"
"It seems so."
The sound echoed for a while, and after the first laugh began, almost everything seemed to explode.
"We won! We won!"
The cheers were deafening, and the sound seemed to be reaching Xu An's ears through the sticky juice.
Soon, as the mandala dispersed, she fell from the sky.
The noisy sound rang in her ears, and her wings were blown by the wind and unable to move. For the first time, Xu An realized that she could also be afraid in the air.
Just like the day when she first regained consciousness, her tiny body dragged its soaked wings as it crawled ashore from the sea, and behind her was a school of mutated fish that had turned into skeletons.
Xu An ran away in fear, instinctively wanting to flap his wings, and finally flew into the air after a bumpy journey.
This is a successful mutation of the alien species escaping from their homeland.
At that time, Xu An didn't know what flying meant, but she still had nightmares about that day. It was not until much later, long after Yin Shu taught her to read and write, that she learned from a research report that the group of skeletons that kept her awake at night were actually her mothers.
They risked their lives to lift this child, who had fully evolved into a land creature, out of the sea and brought her to the shore.
Human research reports define this as a "genetic lock."
But this time, there is no so-called "gene lock", and she will finally return from the sky to the ocean.
When she fell into the sea, Xu An's consciousness seemed to be stunned. The overdraft of her supernatural powers had made her unable to move. Perhaps she couldn't even walk on the revolving lantern anymore.
Xu An slowly closed her eyes and let her body be submerged. Suddenly, she seemed to hear someone calling her.
The sound became louder and clearer, as if exploding in her ears.
"Jie Shuqin!"
Xu An woke up instantly, no longer caring about the pain all over his body, and staggered ashore.
A light rain had begun to fall, turning over the dirt to cover the bloodstains. She saw the discarded bionic limbs glowing with electricity, and saw humans supporting and treating them.
The alien species disappeared.
Except her.
Xu An subconsciously turned on the headset and called out to Lin Yu, but he heard no sound.
Her eyelids began to twitch violently, her clothes and hair were soaked and stuck to her body, making it impossible to see her face.
Xu An grabbed the person and asked him numbly.
"Where are the humans on the ground?"
“They’re all dead.”
"Where's 0301?"
“It’s scrapped.”
"Where's Baili Yunle?"
"His leg is broken, he's being treated."
Xu An choked up, "Where's Jie Shuqin?"
"Just died."
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The author has something to say: There will be a special chapter 40 years later as a supplementary ending, and then there will be a bonus chapter about the if line that wraps up the story.
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