The alarm sounded at the research institute, and the guard team appeared immediately to protect the entire institute.
The director rushed out in a panic, "What's wrong? What happened?"
The others were also startled by the alarm, stopped what they were doing, and looked towards the door.
The thick fog outside the research institute dissipated, revealing a desolate landscape.
Where is this?
"What's going on? Where's the wall outside? Where's everything else? Where are we?"
"Is it an illusion or a mirage? It feels real when I touch it."
The researchers were stunned and restless by what they saw.
Sheng Lao Si, who had just stepped inside, was also stunned by the scene.
The guards adopted a defensive posture, forming the outermost layer and protecting everyone from the research institute within the encirclement.
"Click".
"Click".
"Thump."
Suddenly, something strange happened; the ground shook.
The guards drew their weapons and aimed them at the source of the sound.
With a serious expression and a tense back, the researcher knew he couldn't help and remained silent.
I breathed softly, and apart from the sounds coming from afar, I could only hear my heartbeat.
"Thump."
"Thump."
The strange movement was getting closer; some kind of monster was approaching them. This commotion was clearly not something a human could make.
Yu Hongbo, who was standing next to Sheng Laosi, nervously gripped Sheng Laosi's clothes.
Amidst the swirling dust, they finally saw the monster in its entirety.
It was a huge skull.
It was taller than a three-story research institute; one step on it left a large crater in the ground.
It had a tattered cloak hanging behind it and held a longsword almost as tall as itself in its hand.
A hoarse, howling roar, carried on the wind, came from a voiceless throat: "...Charge...to death..."
The guard captain shouted, "Everyone, scatter!"
The researchers weren't stupid; they scattered, and the skeleton's kick destroyed the institute's main gate.
Everyone's eyes widened in astonishment; the research institute had used the hardest materials available.
It couldn't even withstand a single kick from the skeleton.
If they hadn't dodged, they probably wouldn't even have been left with a complete corpse.
"We're doomed, what do we do now?"
"Where did this monster come from? How can there be such a terrifying skeleton in this world?"
The young researchers were somewhat devastated.
"We've sent the signal; headquarters will soon realize we're missing. Just hold on a little longer!"
The captain of the guard shouted and fired a weapon at the skeleton to attract its attention.
The skull's dark eye sockets fixed on the captain of the guard.
He raised his hand and with a gentle stroke of his sword, slashed a wide, large gash in the ground.
The captain of the guard couldn't dodge and had his arm chopped off.
He immediately used hemostatic drugs and fled in a sorry state.
The skeleton's attacks were completely erratic; it was like a cat chasing a mouse, chasing one thing after another.
But its encirclement is constantly shrinking, leaving them with fewer and fewer places to escape.
It seemed to have had enough of the game, and stood up, its tattered cloak billowing in the wind, its sword raised high in its hand.
Humans are as insignificant as ants before it; all the guards' weapons are like tickles, leaving no mark on it whatsoever.
"We can't hide, we have nowhere to hide, we can't get out of this place."
"I don't want to die."
"How could this happen? Where did this skeleton come from? I was just working properly!"
Fear began to spread. They couldn't find a way out. The sky seemed to have been split open, and all that remained was the skeletal monster besides them.
This thing was beyond their comprehension; even lasers and cannons couldn't budge it in the slightest, and their resistance was utterly futile.
This thing is simply beyond human resistance.
The young researcher began to sob quietly.
The skeleton wouldn't deliberately give them time to grieve; its longsword came crashing down.
"Thump!"
The longsword struck the protective shield with a loud thud.
The desperate researchers looked up and saw a golden protective shield above them.
I also saw the Milky Way appear out of nowhere.
As Xinghe's talisman fell, it spread in all directions, and the protective shield firmly protected everyone.
"It's Master! It's Master."
Yu Hongbo excitedly gripped Sheng Laosi's hand, his eyes filled with tears.
The institute director touched his shiny bald head and wiped the sweat from his brow.
This is a key member of the highest ranks; she can save them, right?
The institute director clenched his fists.
Sheng Lao Si also breathed a barely perceptible sigh of relief. Even though his relationship with Xinghe was just so-so, he had to admit that Xinghe was very capable.
When Xinghe appeared here, his heart, which had been in his throat, suddenly settled down.
Xinghe: "You've been dead for hundreds of years, wouldn't it be better to just bury you peacefully in the ground?"
Xinghe searched for quite a while before finding the entrance, and was a little annoyed.
She stared at the skeleton for a while. "All that's left is obsession. Still thinking about killing?"
The skeleton in front of me was unusual; it wasn't a living creature.
It was a wisp of obsession left behind by the original owner before his death, which has not dissipated for hundreds of years and has cultivated into its current form.
Xinghe had only ever seen this creature in the notes of the ancestors of the Zhengyi sect.
The skeleton struggled to utter a few words from its slurred throat, "Intrusion...kill..."
The skeleton neither understood nor wanted to listen; it raised its sword and slashed down at the starry river.
Xinghe reached out and summoned his large sword, which had a small chip in it.
The broadsword and the longsword clashed violently together.
Xinghe stood in front of everyone, blocking the three-story-tall skeleton.
Despite her small size, she possesses immense power; having her in front of me feels like my life is secure.
After one round of fighting, Xinghe did not retreat, but the skeleton took a small step back.
A hint of doubt flickered in its dark eye sockets, followed by another slash.
This time, the force applied was several times greater than before.
Xinghe's hands were numb from the shock.
The greatsword, which was already missing a small piece, was now missing an even smaller one. The greatsword got angry and pulled itself back, refusing to come out again.
The moment the greatsword disappeared, a green vine appeared in Xinghe's hand, tightly wrapping around the skeleton's longsword.
The golden boy also possessed the vines and reached out to hug the long sword.
"Sister, I've caught it."
Before the boy's excited voice could spread, the longsword in the skeleton's hand cleaved through the vines and slashed down again.
There were no fancy moves or tricks.
One force can overcome ten techniques.
It's simply strong.
There was no reason for Xinghe to stand still and wait for him to cut her down. She shrank the distance and appeared on the other side.
When the skeleton swung its sword, the earth cracked open several inches, and half of the research institute's wall was sheared away.
The sword energy reached the protective shield, causing ripples to appear on its surface before calming down.
The ground trembled, and several people lost their footing and fell to the ground.
This move is comparable to Xinghe's previous moves, but back then Xinghe infused his greatsword with golden light of merit.
This skeleton relies purely on brute force.
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