Chapter 610, Contaminated Zone 6 (Thirty-Four)
The burning roots convulsed violently in the flames of the fire phoenix, and the vines that had been coiling around the van suddenly lost their strength.
The van, which was suspended in mid-air, suddenly sank and then began to plummet rapidly!
"Save them!" Fu Yu shouted, and the armored vehicle braked suddenly and swerved, its tires screeching on the scorched earth.
Two enormous spiritual entities appeared, their massive bodies crouching steadily like mobile fortresses, forcefully holding back the overturned carriages.
The dull thud of metal colliding made the ground tremble.
You Fei, in the passenger seat, had already smashed the windshield.
He wiped the blood from his forehead, drew his dagger with a backhand, and with a flash of light, the seatbelt buckle snapped.
"Go from the front!" You Fei shouted to the back, then turned around and grabbed his injured comrade in the back seat, helping the wounded man out of the car window first.
Just as everyone was climbing out of the car windows, a strange tremor suddenly came from the ground.
Beneath the scorched earth, burned by the fiery phoenix flames, countless tender green tentacles are breaking through the soil, growing wildly like bamboo shoots after a spring rain, winding and climbing towards the armored vehicle and the spiritual entity.
"Damn it! This is never going to end!"
The sentries' boots sizzled from corrosion.
Everyone drew their weapons and swung their swords to cut the attacking vines, only to find that even more mutated plants were emerging from the cracks in the ground.
The armored vehicle drifted past them.
Fu Yu honked the horn repeatedly, "Get in the car!"
Just as You Fei pushed the wounded into the carriage, the entire ground suddenly bulged up.
He quickly jumped into the car.
The armored vehicle accelerated, rumbling as it sped away into the distance, vines along the way lashing out, trying to ensnare the vehicle as well.
Jiang Mu hung on the car body, holding a gun in one hand and firing at the mutated creatures that attacked.
He turned to the sentries and said, "Anyone still capable of fighting, go to the roof of the vehicle and help clear the way."
The sentries replied, "Roger!"
Four sentries climbed onto the roof of the vehicle.
There were four people on the roof of the car.
"Captain Xie," Cai Zhou called out instinctively as he climbed up.
The attacks were intense, and the others were overwhelmed as soon as they arrived. Strangely, all the vines that attacked them bypassed Xie Tu.
Or rather, he was protecting the guide in his arms.
Yun Zhao remained silent.
The giant eye's consciousness coiled around her like tentacles, slowly becoming strange, rubbing against her nerves, as if someone was constantly urging her from the depths of her consciousness.
return?
Where to go back?
Manor Castle, Green Mountain Town, Dawn Base, or that hometown I've never seen before?
Yun Zhao was conscious.
Sound can influence her, but it cannot control her consciousness.
She was relieved that the red eyes hadn't targeted anyone else.
The overwhelming psychological pressure was simply too much for the sentries to bear.
Yun Zhao tried to make a sound, but failed twice. So she started letting the words she wanted to say echo in her mind, trying to convey them to the voice.
"What exactly are you?"
After repeated attempts, Red Eyes finally realized it.
Its voice was seductive: "I've watched you grow up. We come from the same place. You shouldn't be hostile towards me..."
The last remaining white mist in the area was churning violently.
Yun Zhao remained calm. "The same place? So you're also from Mistweaving Star?"
She didn't know where Mistweave Star was.
The vastness of the universe is unimaginable. Blue Star is too small and too remote. The galaxies we observe are all things that existed in the past.
"Tell me first, what are you?"
Yun Zhao kept repeating this thought; her mind was a jumble of thoughts, running wild.
Is it the source?
Would everything end if we killed it?
But how can we kill it?
It seemed more powerful than any gatekeeper I had ever seen before.
Yun Zhao wasn't even sure if her killing intent towards it stemmed solely from her uncles, or from instinct...
Devour...
Yun Zhao desperately tried to control his thoughts, not wanting to be noticed by the red-eyed man.
[From a great race in the universe, the Shadow Clan... Your mother once signed an agreement with our clan on behalf of the Federation, stipulating that you would not interfere in areas outside the Federation. Therefore, I agreed to your father's request to protect you as you grow up safely.]
Red Eyes seemed to regard her as an ally and was not afraid that she would know all this.
When Yun Zhao heard "your mother," his thoughts became slightly dazed.
These lowly, defective products have assimilated you. This is where you belong. You can go back; they must die.
Yun Zhao snapped back to reality and became wary. "You dare!"
A sticky, murky voice echoed in her mind: "These substandard survivors should be eliminated."
You should understand that outside of federal boundaries, there is no such thing as "coexistence."
The universe operates on a law of survival of the fittest; lowly creatures are merely nourishment, just as pigs, sheep, and cows are destined to be devoured by humans. Child, don't be so deluded...
"You so-called Shadow Clan are the instigators of this disaster?"
Yun Zhao exuded a chilling aura. "The law of the jungle? That's the law of beasts, not the foundation of civilization."
Her voice was as cold as ice, each word sharp and cutting: "You take plunder as truth and slaughter as law, what makes you call yourselves a 'great race'? You are nothing but parasites in the guise of civilization!"
She was truly furious.
"You call lowly creatures nourishment? Then what about you who survive by devouring other civilizations? You're even less than nourishment—rotten fungi!"
"The Federation talks about coexistence not because it is weak, but because it understands that the foundation of civilization is never destruction, but continuation! When my mother signed the agreement, it was not because she was afraid of you, but to leave you a way out—unfortunately, you don't even deserve this much dignity."
"Stop using the laws of the universe as a fig leaf."
Her eyes grew even colder. "You are not enforcers of the law, but creators of disaster."
Over billions of years since the universe's birth, countless stars have been born and perished, countless civilizations have risen and vanished. The so-called "coexistence" is nothing more than a lie used by the weak to band together for warmth.
There was no trace of anger in that sticky voice, only a detached indifference that looked down upon ants. [Pitying the weak is the shackle of civilization; devouring the strong is the shortcut to survival.]
You shouldn't have run away back then. Those lowly people, with their cheap warmth and false protection, twisted your bloodline, which should have awakened.
They are the ones who made you treat your "kind" as enemies and "parasites" as your destiny. These parasites that twisted your bloodline should have been completely burned away the moment you awakened.
It always believed that Yun Zhao's hatred for it stemmed from the distorted mindset instilled in him by humans since childhood.
These ant-like creatures weave a cheap cage with so-called "family ties" and "morality," trapping her bloodline, which should have been indifferent to everything, in the dust.
In recent years, it has hung in the starry sky, overlooking this land that has been eroded by pollution.
I've witnessed countless instances of humans killing each other just to survive: survivors turning against each other with knives for half a biscuit, cowards betraying their companions for shelter spots, and "leaders" breaking their oaths for a little resource...
Human greed and cowardice are ingrained in our very bones.
In its eyes, such a lowly race should not exist in the universe.
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