Chapter 349: Dormancy and Fall: The Beginning of the Age of Alien Beasts
Underground City No. 02 is located in the big city of the former Demon City.
Eight young men and women, through the ventilation ducts, "smuggled" to the surface. They were four pairs of young lovers, four men and four women.
The leading pair was particularly "eye-catching". The man had a fluorescent green comb, a skull earring in his left ear, and the words "take life and death lightly" tattooed in cursive on his neck. The woman had pink and purple ponytails, rhinestones on her nose, a lip ring and fishnet stockings, a jingling keychain around her waist, and riveted thick-soled platform shoes on her feet.
The other three pairs of men and women had similar styles, some with dyed hair, some with bald heads, and some with tattoos. When the flashlight swept over them, one could see the unhealed needle holes on their arms and the sour smell of sweat mixed with cheap perfume.
"The air up here is so fresh, much more breathable than down here."
Each holding a high-powered flashlight, they came laughing and giggling to a high-end villa community called "Platinum Garden". They had not been qualified to enter before, but now of course they had to go in and take a look.
The place was already deserted, and the eight men climbed in easily. When the strong flashlight swept across the Roman columns, in a garage, the carbon fiber bodies of Bugatti Veyron and Rolls-Royce Phantom glowed coldly under the beam.
"Fuck, this car paint is enough to buy ten lives of mine!" Ajie kicked open the gate with a malfunctioning smart lock, and everyone entered the villa, rummaging through the drawers to find the crystal keychain.
Xiaolu took a selfie while sitting on the steering wheel of the Phantom. In the background, Dafei was smashing open the wine cellar with a baseball bat, taking out a bottle of red wine that the rich man didn't take away, and guzzling it down: "It's so sweet, but it's not as good as Erguotou!"
The car audio system was turned up to the maximum volume and played "Love Until Death". Two luxury cars rushed out of the community and came to the main road.
“Those cowards are still hiding underground, trembling like rats, but we have already come to the surface to have fun!” The young man with dreadlocks, holding a cigar he got from the study, increased the speed of the car to 280 mph.
The feeling of pushing back is awesome! There is no one on the ground, the road is extremely smooth, you can drive as fast as you want.
The car lights cut through the darkness, illuminating a large area ahead. Suddenly, the spirited girl in the passenger seat, with smoky makeup smudged to her cheekbones and wearing a sequined backless dress, pointed at the sky and screamed - dozens of black shadows the size of houses were wrapped in purple flames and fell. The nearest one was a heavily armored monster that smashed five meters in front of the car. Its multi-legged torso caused the Rolls-Royce Phantom to fly half a meter into the air.
"What the hell! What the hell?"
"Hi, buddy, we're from here!" Ajie was trembling with fear, but under the influence of alcohol, he mustered up the courage to wave at the strange beast, saying hello and showing a friendly smile, hoping that the strange beast would let them go. Well, they had seen a short video before, where someone met a wild tiger in the Northeast, and that's how they greeted it.
Little did they know that this was a "Earthly Evil Abyss Demon" of level ten, a blind, multi-legged creature that relied purely on vibrations to sense its prey, and its shell could also secrete highly toxic mucus.
However, black mist seeped out of the cracks in the creature's shell, and it suddenly pounced over, and its six pairs of chelicerae easily overturned the Phantom. Behind it, the Bugatti Veyron tried to reverse, and another "corrosive heart-eating spider" drilled out from the ground, and its spider legs pierced through the tires and sprayed a corrosive poison web from its tail...
During this process, the car recorder was recording all the time. The last picture was a girl wearing a lip ring and fishnet stockings, being drilled into the mouth by a young alien beast. Her fishnet stockings were fused with her skin due to the erosion of the venom.
In the underground city, the owner of this luxury car looked at the images sent back by the car recorder, his face turned pale with fright, and he dialed 110 tremblingly.
The situation in China is actually better. After all, the management is strict and grid-based, and more than 99% of residents are relatively cooperative. But it is far worse abroad, and similar scenes are more common.
In the Centennial Underground City in Colorado, the United States, a group of young people who are keen on extreme sports climbed to the surface through an abandoned subway tunnel.
They are using their mobile phones to broadcast live their "apocalyptic adventure", claiming they want to "record the last blue sky for mankind".
After escaping, this group of people felt particularly thrilled and excited.
When the black fog enveloped them, they still insisted on exploring. Suddenly, a 25th-level "Blazing Sky Eagle" fell from the sky. The camera shook violently and only captured the burning wings passing by. The live broadcast signal was abruptly interrupted.
Afterwards, the military found a half-charred GoPro at the entrance of the tunnel, with the memory card containing memories of screams and the sound of bones breaking.
Thousands of homeless people in the Tijuana slums in Mexico who were not allowed to enter the underground city gathered in the church square to pray. Hundreds of 6th to 12th level "corruption heart-eating spiders" descended from the black fog, and the spider silk wrapped around the human body and quickly corroded the flesh. Survivors recalled that the poisoned people's skin was ulcerated but they still moved forward mechanically, like puppets controlled by the spiders, and finally fell into the spider's nest and turned into nutrients. And that church also became a nest of "corruption heart-eating spiders".
In Paris, France, a group of rich kids who called themselves "end of the world revelers" drove a modified off-road vehicle out of the outer defense line of the underground city. They mistook the 15th-level "Eclipse Moon Star Skeleton Beast" for a "luminous meteorite" and watched and took pictures, but were instantly vaporized by the dark blue energy beams ejected by the beasts.
The next day, an alchemical puppet reconnaissance bird refined by Irene was only the size of a palm, but with extremely strong endurance. It went out to scout the enemy situation and only recovered a half-melted diamond necklace and a Van Cleef & Arpels watch next to the car body.
In Africa, on the edge of the Sahara Desert, a nomadic tribe refused to move into an underground city, firmly believing that the ancestral spirits could dispel the darkness. When the female beast "Garuda Phoenix" with a wingspan of over 100 kilometers flew over, countless blood-red beast eyes opened in the sandstorm. The entire oasis was uprooted, tents and people and animals were torn to pieces in the air, and the yellow sand was stained dark red.
On an inland highway in Australia, a large number of "suicidal pilgrims" appeared, shouting that they wanted to "face the judgment of God", but were dragged into the cracks in the ground by a 14th-level "Earthly Evil Demon".
On the banks of the Ganges River in India, hundreds of ascetics were unwilling to enter the dungeon, but chanted in the black fog. Then a rank 19 "Void Soul Devouring Leech" appeared, sucking the brains of the ascetics dry, leaving only their dried corpses sitting with their hands folded...
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The entire earth was covered with black fog, and large numbers of strange beasts were falling from the sky everywhere.
Their curled bodies ignited blue tail flames during the friction, like a group of burning paratroopers landing accurately on various continents. The Statue of Liberty in New York was cut in half by the tail fin of the 12th-level "Eclipse Star Skeleton Beast"; the wings of the "Garuda Phoenix" hovering over the Sahara Desert raised a sandstorm tornado; and on the west coast of the Pacific Ocean - the "Earth Titan" with a diameter of more than 200 kilometers was carrying magma and tsunamis, crashing into the Japanese Shikoku Islands.
Shikoku Island was pulverized the moment it came into contact with the beast's body, and the shock wave spread in a circular pattern. Fukuoka Tower on the coast of Kyushu Island broke like a matchstick, and the crust of the Kinki region was blown up to the stratosphere. The seawater evaporated and condensed rapidly to form a thousand-meter-high turbid wave. The outer wall of the Osaka Underground City was broken like an eggshell, and tens of thousands of residents who did not have time to evacuate were sucked into the vortex along with the steel and concrete. The air defense array deployed by the Self-Defense Forces in the Seto Inland Sea only caused ripples on the monster's skin, and was completely destroyed by the 9.8-magnitude earthquake caused by it drilling into the mantle.
Mount Fuji, more than 300 kilometers away, roared like thunder. Inside the base in the belly of the mountain, Chiba Yukio, dressed in white, appeared like a goddess descending to the earth. She inserted the Kusanagi sword into the magma lake, and the boiling silicate fluid formed a protective matrix along the sword pattern.
"Mom, Lake Biwa has disappeared from the radar!" Chiba Chaolu shouted loudly while holding the violently shaking instrument.
Chiba Yukio stepped on the void, her hunting clothes fluttering in the agitation of spiritual power. She scattered 19 shikigami, Aoandon's demon-subduing pestle burst into Buddha light, Chi Prajna's calamity fire folding fan hovered in the air, Hakuzo's nine ice crystal fox tails formed a frost sky barrier, and Yukiyomi's haloed moon sword slashed through the sky...
The twin magatama stood on both sides, with Asaro's red kite flaming wings and Yugiri's black ice magatama complementing each other. The three worked together to pull the earth veins, thus protecting the area of dozens of miles around Mount Fuji with the shelter as the core.
When the powerful "Earth Titan" completely sank into the earth's crust, the western part of Honshu Island had become a boiling turbid sea. The wreckage of the cruise ship and the convenience store sign in Yokohama Port were floating in the blood foam, and the seabed rift formed by the giant's drilling was constantly spewing sulfide gas.
In Europe, a mother beast with a wingspan of nearly a thousand kilometers appeared above the surface and threw down many cubs. This mother beast was obviously more powerful. It disappeared in mid-air, and then the next second, it appeared eight hundred meters underground and went towards the center of the earth.
Hundreds of thousands of alien beasts descended in almost every place, including the United States, Africa, Australia, the Middle East, Siberia, etc. These small alien beasts began to occupy hilltops, forests, lakes, and empty cities of humans, and built nests. Some also fell into the sea.
The mother animal that transported them here sank deep into the ground and disappeared.
Although tragic, it is much better than the previous life.
In Li Xiang's previous life, because the end of the world came suddenly, people did not enter the underground city, but stayed on the surface. When they looked up, they saw a meteor shower all over the sky. Many people naturally thought it was a spectacle because they had never seen it before. They came out to see it, and some even took pictures and recorded videos. As a result, in the first round, they encountered the strange beasts head-on, and there was no shelter in the underground city, so it was a tragedy.
On the first day of darkness, the global population dropped by 700 million to 800 million; seven days later, the loss was nearly 4 billion.
The tragedy is comparable to that of Lion Camel Ridge.
But Lion Camel Ridge was only 800 miles, while all the densely populated areas in the world at that time were like that.
But in this life, everyone knew that these were ferocious beasts, not dazzling meteors, so everyone lay dormant and hid. Although there were losses, the casualties definitely did not exceed 100 million.
Among the 72 underground cities in China, one met with an unexpected disaster and was destroyed by a single claw of a mother beast. In addition, seven or eight satellite cities also suffered disasters and were discovered by strange beasts and invaded.
Lijia Village Underground City, main city.
Jiang Caier, Yao Yao, Zhao Xueqing, Lei Xiaohui, and a group of senior executives from the underground city gathered in the command room of the central building and watched the radar screen.
Although the satellites in the sky have lost contact and there is no picture, there are still many high-power radars on the surface, which can "reflect" the situation outside clearly at this moment.
When they saw a female beast with a wingspan of two to three thousand kilometers appear on the radar screen, everyone gasped and exclaimed, how could it be so big?
Is this a spaceship? Even the city-sized spaceships in science fiction movies are not this big? Lei Xiaohui asked, "Should we attack?"
Yao Yao: "Are you stupid? How do we fight in this situation? Follow Brother Xiang's instructions and lie dormant."
Zhao Xueqing: "In other words, just stay calm and develop first."
Yao Yao immediately became excited: "This is what I am best at. In a disadvantageous situation, you have to hide and try to drag out the game as long as possible, so that you can have a chance to turn the situation around."
However, the final decision still has to be made by Jiang Caier.
Everyone looked at Jiang Caier. Without Li Xiang, Jiang Caier was the boss here.
"Just stay here." Jiang Cai'er looked serious. She switched another screen to the main screen, which had many names, tens of thousands of them, all of which were member bases of the Anti-Alien Beast Alliance. Global Network.
At this moment, many dungeon names have turned gray, indicating that they have lost contact.
"We can't take care of so many things abroad for the time being. Domestically, one main city and eight satellite cities have come under attack. It is estimated that there are heavy casualties. There are three satellite cities closest to us. Why don't you three lead a team each to go and provide support." Jiang Caier said to Yao Yao, Zhao Xueqing and Lei Xiaohui.
"We're leaving, what about you?" Zhao Xueqing asked worriedly. They got along well with Jiang Caier, not that they were worried that Jiang Caier would deliberately use this opportunity to send them to their deaths.
But, if something happened to Jiang Caier after they left, Li Xiang might blame them. And there were still Xiang's three children.
"I still have nine holy beasts here, as well as many drones, robot dogs, and missiles." Jiang Caier said with a little confidence. If she couldn't defend here, it would be even more impossible for other dungeons.
The nine holy beasts are naturally the three tigers, the white elephant and its mother, Tuan Tuan, Dun Dun, Er Huang and the little fox.
Among them, Jin Hu and Dun Dun reached the Saint level by relying on their own talents, while the other seven were promoted to the Saint level with the help of the Holy Blood Alchemy Core bestowed by Li Xiang.
Irene refined ten alchemical hearts for Li Xiang. Li Xiang gave seven to the cute pets, and left three in the warehouse as backup.
As for drones, robot dogs, various artillery shells, missiles, the main city of Lijia Village underground city and 12 satellite cities have accumulated innumerable stocks.
Although there are no satellites, missiles can still be used, but the accuracy is affected. You know, the invention of missiles came before satellites.
Inertial guidance, infrared guidance, starlight guidance, radar guidance... Well, starlight guidance is no longer available. Radar and infrared are the most reliable.
After Jiang Caier took over, she modified the missiles in the base and added a "two-way data link" that was connected to her super quantum computer through various relays. She sensed the battlefield situation and guided it herself.
Yao Yao, Zhao Xueqing and Lei Xiaohui each selected an elite team, boarded a small rail car, and set off from the underground railway network.
These people have had rich rescue experience in previous floods, and this time they went out to provide support, mainly focusing on treating the wounded and helping the trapped people escape.
Before leaving, Jiang Caier also reminded them to ensure their own safety first, and if they encountered a powerful monster, they must escape as soon as possible and not fight it head-on.
Yao Yao, Zhao Xueqing and Lei Xiaohui are all very smart girls and naturally understand this.
The reason they set out to rescue was because the Lijia Village underground city was luckier and had not been attacked yet. They couldn't just sit back and watch the nearby underground cities suffer.
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On the moon, Li Xiang's white jade golden hook stick left behind a series of afterimages and killed dozens of saints who were besieging him. He did not care about other strange beasts on the moon, broke through the siege, and rushed towards the earth at an extremely fast speed.
Because there are too many of them, so densely packed.
Although he had the ability of "Beast Taming: Canglin Attraction", he had no time to subdue those holy beasts at this tense moment. The conclusion of the soul contract required a process, and countless beasts swarmed in, and he could not kill them all, leaving him no time window.
Fortunately, after breaking out of the encirclement, these strange beasts were no longer as fast as him, and the previous god-level female beasts disappeared, so Li Xiang was able to escape.
After fighting against dozens of powerful holy-level beasts, Li Xiang was also injured. However, with Zhao Xueqing's "Spiritual Dew", he swallowed a few bottles and his injuries healed quickly.
Zhao Xueqing's realm has now been raised to the eighteenth level, and she is only one step away from the saint level. As her realm improves, the "spiritual dew" she secretes becomes more effective, with a strange fragrance and sweet aroma. It is an unparalleled medicine for treating internal and external injuries.
When Li Xiang came back, the underground city of Lijia Village was under fierce attack.
(End of this chapter)
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