Chapter 660 Melee (Part 1)
Even as a guide to light, Yun Zhao wasn't confident he could kill Red Eyes.
She deliberately wanted to disgust it, using a contemptuous attitude to challenge its bottom line time and time again.
But it's strange.
Red Eyes wasn't angered by her words; instead, he gradually calmed down.
The ripples on the surface of his enormous eyeballs ceased, replaced by indifference and apathy as he stared down at her from a superior position.
The Black Tower has long since vanished into nothingness.
Yun Zhao seemed to be falling from the clouds, his body plummeting rapidly.
The Azure Phoenix shook off the dirt on its body and flew straight back to its true form.
In the distance, another phoenix saw Yun Zhao falling and swooped down at an extremely fast speed.
On the ground below, a figure was running at top speed towards this direction.
The scene outside the tower was even more horrific.
As far as the eye could see, the entire earth was covered by wriggling vines, and the sentries below looked as tiny as ants.
Xie Tu had no idea what had happened inside the tower.
Just as he looked up, he witnessed a scene that nearly stopped his heart from beating.
The familiar figure plummeted from the now-vanished spire like a kite with a broken string.
Time seemed to stretch out infinitely in Xie Tu's perception.
From his perspective at this moment, there is only one simple, yet most brutal, fact.
—The tower is gone, and she is falling from it.
Panic instantly spread throughout my body.
Xie Tu mustered all his strength and ran as fast as he could in the direction she had fallen!
He gripped the Tang sword tightly in his backhand, the blade tearing through the air and slicing through all the vines blocking his path.
He ignored the thorny vines brushing against his cheeks, ignored the muddy, dark substance beneath his feet, his eyes fixed only on the figure that kept falling.
The fire phoenix in the sky arrived first.
Fearing that the flames on her body would harm her, the large creatures dared not get too close. They frantically flapped their wings to generate a powerful airflow in an attempt to slow her descent.
The Azure Phoenix flew over, gave the Fire Phoenix a look as if she were an idiot, and then released its spiritual threads to condense into a net, which floated below the main body and caught her.
Yun Zhao's descent speed did indeed slow down.
It began to slowly approach the ground.
As soon as she landed, a tremendous force came towards her, pulling her fiercely into a firm and warm embrace.
That embrace carried the trembling of someone who had survived a catastrophe, and the almost ferocious confirmation of something lost and then found.
The force was so great that she could barely breathe.
It is Xie Tu.
"Captain," Yun Zhao called out to him.
Xie Tu didn't speak, but made a soft sound in his throat and hugged the person even tighter.
He reeked of blood, gunpowder, and sweat, a foul odor, and his tense body betrayed the panic he had just experienced while on the verge of his limit.
Yun Zhao was stunned for a moment, then relaxed his body and did not struggle.
Did I scare you?
Yun Zhao explained, "When I fell, the Great Bluebird was already planning to catch me, but I was afraid that Red Eyes would cause trouble, so I wanted to put some distance between us first... My spiritual threads can condense into physical form, and I was fine even in Contaminated Zone 88..."
She was halfway through her sentence when she suddenly remembered that Xie Tu seemed to have no idea about the gatekeeper's attempt to kill her.
The more you talk, the more worried he might become.
Yun Zhao simply shut up.
She had only been gone for a short while, but the surrounding scenery had turned into hell.
Fortunately, after she landed, the surrounding vines retreated in all directions, clearing a large open space.
Xie Tu lowered his head, his deep eyes meeting her gaze.
The emotions surging in his eyes had been forcibly suppressed, leaving only a deep, unyielding darkness.
He finally spoke, his voice so low and hoarse it was almost unbearable, each word seeming to be painstakingly ground out from the depths of his throat:
"after……"
Xie Tu paused, as if considering his words or trying to calm his still unsettled emotions, "...Whatever the plan, tell me in advance."
"Okay." Yun Zhao naturally agreed, tilting her head up to give him a hug.
Out of the corner of her eye, she precisely caught sight of that huge, cold, red eye in the center of the darkness above the sky.
Just moments ago, when the source was destroyed, it unleashed a tremendous rage.
At this moment, the darkness that shrouded the sky was as still as stagnant water, and the huge pupils were filled with indifference.
An utter indifference, as if looking down at ants, devoid of any emotion.
Yun Zhao was a little confused about what it meant.
Something unusual must be going on.
She told Xie Tu about what happened inside the tower: "The source was destroyed by the Great Bluebird, but I learned from Red Eyes that all the contaminated areas have collapsed, and the outside may be in danger."
Xie Tu's pupils suddenly contracted, and his personal emotions were forcibly suppressed in an instant.
He regained his composure and looked up.
The eyeball in the sky was enormous, staring intently at Yun Zhao without any murderous intent; it was more like a cold gaze after a countdown had begun.
"Is it waiting?" Xie Tu quickly made a judgment after observing for a moment.
Yun Zhao instantly understood what the red-eyed man was waiting for.
“Kerry calls dark matter the Black Seed, and the source is the Seeding Machine.”
She gently broke free from Xie Tu's embrace, took half a step forward, stood side by side with Xie Tu, and looked up directly into those eyes.
“Destroying the source only stops it from continuing to ‘sow,’ but the ‘seeds’ that have already been sown and taken root in all contaminated areas… will not disappear.”
Yun Zhao said, "Red Eyes also said that destroying the source wouldn't stop it; it's preparing to harvest the last wave of food."
The Pupil Shadow Clan feeds on consciousness.
This is the purpose of this race's invasion of other planets.
Once it completes its final harvest, all life on the entire blue planet will perish, and then...
The two exchanged a glance.
Xie Tu understood her intention, and suddenly tightened his grip on the Tang sword in his hand. "Let's try it together."
He couldn't attack the red-eyed one, but the fire phoenix could.
He would never let her risk her life alone again, no matter what.
Yun Zhao saw the determination in his eyes and slowly nodded: "Okay."
*
On the other side.
Xie Tu wasn't the only one who saw Yun Zhao fall from the top of the tower.
"Is Yun Zhao alright?" Fu Heng emptied her bag of bullets and flipped onto the back of the Bixi from the other side.
The turtle's shell was already covered with its companions.
Jiang Mu stood at the very front, gazing into the distance.
The dense vines blocked the view, making it impossible to see what was happening over there.
"I don't know, let's go over and take a look."
The Black Tower wouldn't disappear without a reason; it's very likely that its source has been destroyed. But since Xie Tu hasn't returned after half a day, they need to confirm whether Yun Zhao is safe.
How do we get there?
"Let the tortoise carry us. As long as we don't touch the ground, those vines won't mimic human forms."
These are the rules that everyone just discovered.
The chamois is just a plant and does not possess the intelligence of higher life forms. If you cannot touch them, then it is just a vine, not a mimicry of their appearance.
Xia Mingang was quite pleased with the fact that the Bixi could materialize, so he didn't mind at all and generously said, "Okay, let's go."
Which way to go?
A woman's voice suddenly came from behind.
Suddenly, a dilapidated iron gate appeared, and a pair of pale hands turned the doorknob. The door opened, revealing a woman in a white dress inside.
The woman smirked at them, "Your opponent is me."
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