Chapter 349: Anomaly Nest

The moment he saw that humanoid creature, Lin Xian's first reaction was to strike immediately!

He pointed his hand, and the mechanical energy cannon, along with the 25 Lei Sun drones, simultaneously erupted with pulse beams, firing directly at the monster's twisting face.

Whoosh!

Who knew that the white shadow was extremely fast, retreating into the tunnel in the blink of an eye. Dozens of pulse beams seemed to have hit something, emitting a burst of explosive sounds, and smoke and dust rose everywhere.

Subsequently, the click-click-click eerie laughter continued to come from the depths of the tunnel, accompanied by echoes, as if attracting the group to follow inside.

Seeing the monster disappear, Xiang Xiang Ningjing immediately looked at Abai.

Abai shook his head strangely: "So weird, I feel like we are being watched, but there is no particularly obvious mark on our bodies..."

"Perhaps in a place like this, there is no need for a mark at all," Mo Nika said pointedly at this moment.

"What do you mean?"

Xiang Xiang Ningjing looked at her: "Are you trying to say that this place is originally the world of dark creatures?"

"How is that possible!" Qian Dele immediately retorted: "If no mark is needed, wouldn't our position have been gone long ago?"

"This is our world."

Lin Xian looked at the tunnel with a solemn expression and said: "It's just been polluted by the Star Abyss."

"Why did this monster run away without attacking us?" Kiki's doubts arose at this moment. It was the first time they had encountered an anomaly that ran away, and there was no mark on their bodies.

"Let's go first!"

Without much consideration, Lin Xian immediately set off toward the Baicheng orbital station. The anomalies of Baicheng were beginning to show, and all they could do was hurry to solve the problem and return to the train to rush out of the Star Abyss!

Zzz...

As soon as the group started moving, the signal frequency inside the mecha began to become unstable. Even though Kiki, Fire Brother, and the others were right in front and behind, the communicator was full of sharp noise. Lin Xian, inside the holographic mask, adjusted his breathing and tightened his nerves completely.

As they traveled through the darkness, the 'people' on the street became more and more numerous and dense.

Lin Xian noticed that these 'people' seemed to be gathering mainly toward a certain central area. Realizing this, he stopped immediately, unfolded the map of the original Baicheng, and found that the direction of the gathering was exactly the area in the center of the city.

Baicheng was a mountain city. The city layout was a narrow and long terrain, leaning against the mountains in the north and south, and wide in the east and west. Except for the city center, most of the buildings were relatively low and old.

Looking at the map, it looked like an eye in the mountain range, and the Baicheng orbital station was in the eastern suburbs.

But at this moment, the more Lin Xian ran, the more he felt something was wrong. When Grace came to scout before, the journey was relatively smooth. Now that they were rushing over, they specifically prepared to bypass the sewage treatment plant in the north of the city and detour, but the current situation vaguely made him feel something was wrong.

"Everyone," Mo Nika followed Lin Xian and ran, saying at this moment: "There are many sounds getting closer to us. This is not good."

Hearing this, Lin Xian looked at the dense corpses on the street below looking up at them, and immediately said: "Hide in the buildings. Don't let these things watch us!"

Swoosh!

As he spoke, Lin Xian jumped directly onto the outer wall of a high building, accelerated vertically upward with the booster, and then drilled directly into the top floor. All the glass of this building had shattered and disappeared, standing on the ground like a rotted fish bone. Others followed suit and drilled into the corridor.

Clang.

For a time, several heavy footsteps broke the silence in the corridor. It was pitch black all around. Under the night vision and searchlights, the ground was full of broken bricks, wall skins, and rubble. This place seemed to be an apartment building, only a dozen stories high. The door numbers on the apartment doors in the corridor had completely rotted and could not be seen clearly. Bursts of footsteps echoed.

"Grace, you go scout the path!"

The situation outside was truly eerie. The more they ran, the more people there were. Coupled with the scouting of Abai and Mo Nika, to be safe, Lin Xian prepared to let Grace move out first, and the group would hide in this apartment building to observe the situation.

【Understood, you can trust Grace.】

Swoosh, swoosh, swoosh.

Grace instantly made a posture of rushing, and several crisp sounds of tiptoes quickly disappeared in the dark corridor, running toward the street outside.

Lin Xian and the others found an apartment and hid inside.

The original anti-theft door of the apartment had rusted. With a light push, the door hinge snapped and fell off, falling inside with a thud.

Lin Xian casually created an alloy door to seal it, then said: "Wait a few minutes. Let's see the situation before acting."

Xiang Xiang Ningjing nodded, then signaled to Xiaoqing. Xiaoqing immediately entered several rooms with a knife to check.

At this moment, Lin Xian manufactured several completely sealed iron windows to seal the windows in the room, and then lit a lamp in the living room.

Instantly, the light drove away the darkness. The first thing that came into view was a completely grayed-out living room. The sofa, coffee table, TV, TV cabinet, and wooden floor—except for still being able to see the shape, everything was gray. All the wall skins and floors were covered together.

"It was so scary just now. How did so many people suddenly appear on the street without even time to react?"

Kiki said, reaching out and patting a bookshelf beside her. Unexpectedly, the bookshelf scattered into a piece of rotten debris with a clatter, stirring up dust all over the floor.

Qian Dele also looked at the situation in the apartment at this moment, then looked at Lin Xian and said:

"Is it because there was no mark, so you didn't attack those people?"

Lin Xian was paying attention to Grace's information and said: "Those look like human corpses at first glance."

"Zombies won't mark us, but how did that monster in the tunnel also..."

"Anyway, it's weird."

Lu Xingchen gathered fire with one hand, releasing a warmth to wash away the cold in this space, and said seriously: "We humans still like places with light."

Chen Sixuan took a gun and Xiaoqing to check around and came back, gathering with everyone to discuss:

"Lin Xian, those meat tissues, don't you think they are very similar to the ones under the No. 9 Underground City?"

Lin Xian nodded: "That's why I'm worried. There might be a big monster in this city."

Kiki frowned: "Grace didn't see it when she came a few hours ago. How did it appear?"

"We are still 8 kilometers away from the Baicheng orbital station in a straight line. If we can't pass through the city, should we see if we can go around the mountain side?" Xiang Xiang Ningjing said at this moment: "Or through Kiki's flight ability."

"Team Leader Lin?"

After Xiang Xiang Ningjing finished speaking, she found that Lin Xian did not respond, and then said another sentence.

And at this moment, Lin Xian suddenly said: "Abai is right. It's a good thing we didn't fly into the air."

At this very moment, Grace had already transmitted the image back. Because the distance was not far, the information was not compressed and delayed very seriously. He immediately synchronized the retrieved image to the others.

"Right now outside, it's full of anomalies!"

【Currently, I am moving east on Elm Street. Many corpses are hanging on the cables. At the same time, I am being tracked and observed by several 'humans'. Through the biological detector, there are no signs of life.】

In the image, a large number of corpses like puppets were hanging above the street. And in front of Grace, several 'people' who looked like human children appeared eerily, looking straight at Grace. Some of them squatted on cars, some were running, but when Grace moved forward, these eerie children all quickly retreated into various car bottoms or gaps.

In the communicator, Grace's voice was crisp and cold, as if she didn't feel like she was in a dark, terrifying, and gloomy street at all.

And Lin Xian saw this image and began to feel more and more that something was wrong.

"Scout the light ahead. If attacked, fight back directly!"

【Grace understands.】

In the dilapidated apartment, the exploration team gathered together, all frowning at the image in the holographic interface.

"It seems they are all people, but they are not people..."

Chen Sixuan said in a subtle tone. If some monsters appeared, maybe their pressure would be a little less, but this was the first time they had seen a city in the Star Abyss, and what they saw were all ghost things related to people, one more eerie than the other.

Abai stood quietly on the side, observing the room of this apartment, looking at the direction of the door from time to time, his face a bit cold. He seemed to be able to feel the sound of pacing coming from under the floor, and there seemed to be some anomaly breathing in the depths of the dark corridor...

The door panel manufactured by Lin Xian isolated the light in this small room, and at this moment everyone was closely watching Grace's information.

In the pitch-black Baicheng street, a silver-black female robot moved rapidly. She crossed vehicles and obstacles precisely and elegantly, moving nimbly, almost without making any sound.

But even so, at this moment, many 'existences' were watching this robot. There was a grotesque feeling in the entire city street that seemed empty but lively.

In Grace's system, more and more corpses appeared hanging on the street ahead. At the same time, the brown-red tissue-like objects at the street corners became denser. She noticed this situation, then quickly climbed onto a high building, laid down a new signal relay, and began to cross the roof.

At this moment, her radar scan found that many of the surrounding buildings began to be wrapped by this kind of meat tissue. Gradually, the roof and the road surface no longer had concrete. The entire block seemed to have become a part of the tissue of some large creature.

After climbing to the top of an office building in the city center, Grace's night vision image showed a dead city shrouded in darkness.

The asphalt road was covered by some kind of living tissue, and the sticky meat film wriggled on the surface of the building like a layer of rotten skin. In the center of the meat tissue ahead, the main body of those tissues finally appeared. It was a nest piled up with flesh and blood, as huge as a large stadium, covered with pulsating black blood vessels, and dark purple veins spread like tree roots. The nest opened its bloody mouth like a volcano, and thousands of tentacles rose, constantly decomposing many human corpses!

And at the top of the nest, another more twisted existence floated. It was like a "printer" made of flesh and blood and madness, composed of countless tiny tentacles and cysts, constantly spitting out semi-formed monsters. Those reorganized humanoid creatures fell from its bottom, fell on the meat blanket, and climbed up twitching.

Their limbs were misplaced, their heads were inverted, and their joints were twisted at impossible angles, yet they could still walk, crawl, and even make some sticky whispers that approximated language.

Subsequently, the decomposed human corpses and those semi-formed monsters began to be stitched together. A large amount of black fog drilled into the monster's body, like some kind of biological energy medium, rapidly causing these semi-formed monsters to mutate, growing spikes, thick armor, sharp claws, forest teeth...

Thus, three-headed spider monsters, white human anomalies, huge black bodies, monsters crawling upside down...

All kinds of mixed anomalies were 'manufactured' through the decomposition of human corpses in this way, and then crawled into the darkness in all directions.

Eyeballs proliferated in mutation, arms twisted and deformed, skeletons expanded, muscles dissolved...

The nest did not have any generation rules, like an AI generation system that was not restricted by any rules and was fed with a large number of disordered keywords, eerily answering 'results' that had no logic at all.

Countless black smoke sprayed out from the giant mouth of the nest, like an old gas engine running at full power, and the black blood vessels covering the whole city constantly swallowed the dead human corpses.

Grace stood far away from the nest, trying to transmit the information back, but the interference received was too great, and all video image information became mottled and twisted.

So from Lin Xian's side, the scene in the city center was like hell, making one's scalp tingle.

Hiss!!!

In the sealed apartment building, many people in the exploration team gasped, looking at the image synchronized by Lin Xian in their holographic interface, stunned and silent.

A few seconds later, Kiki exclaimed:

"My god, those anomalies were actually manufactured like this??"

"I said how these anomalous creatures are always related to people. It turns out they really used human corpses for stitching," Qian Dele said in disbelief: "How did these things appear on Blue Star? Other cosmic civilizations?"

Xiang Xiang Ningjing's pupils vibrated: "It's simply... like a monster factory."

"There must be more than one of these things. Maybe they are in those Star Abysses, so after the night falls, the monsters appear," Chen Sixuan also said in a solemn voice.

Fire Brother was silent, looking at the nest in the image, seemingly a bit shocked.

"If this kind of thing is solved, will the end of the world not come?" At this moment, the taciturn Xiaoqing suddenly asked such a sentence, which immediately stumped everyone.

"It's not that simple."

Lin Xian said in a deep voice: "Didn't you notice that those stitched out are basically some C-level and B-level anomalies."

"How did the higher-level A-level, special-level, and S-level appear?"

"Not to mention those giant beasts that are dozens of kilometers long, cover terrain areas, and occupy volcanoes, deep oceans, and the sky. Those world-level disasters don't look like they were manufactured like this."

Mo Nika nodded: "I think there must be some rule among these creatures."

"What rule?" Qian Dele asked.

"Just like humans and creatures on Blue Star, insects, microorganisms, animals, etc., including humans themselves, are divided into classes, mastering different social resources and means of production," Mo Nika said in an analytical tone: "Isn't this obvious?"

"I don't think now is the time to discuss this issue," Lin Xian said at this moment.

He looked at the situation in the lagging image and said with a solemn expression: "Those anomalies are coming from all directions!"

Outside the sealed apartment, more and more sounds appeared—moving, climbing, countless eerie whispers sounded in the dark alleys, and harsh roars echoed in the darkness. Everyone in the exploration team held their breath at this moment, looking at Abai.

Undoubtedly, at this very moment, once a mark appeared on them, they would fall into an endless monster tide.

And facing that nest, everyone finally understood why the monsters in the darkness could never be killed...

At this moment, the time reached 11:04.

Lin Xian watched the time stop at the 59th second again. At this moment, the time dilation effect around them seemed to be instantly elongated, and everyone felt their breathing stop for a moment.

The next moment, the time reached 11:05.

Suddenly, the sounds outside disappeared. A few seconds later, Grace's voice came over.

【The observation target has disappeared, and effective information cannot be obtained. This may be a visual effect brought about by spatial distortion.】

Hearing Grace's words, Lin Xian felt a chill in his heart. What's the situation? Why did they all disappear suddenly? Isn't it night now?

The sudden situation caught Lin Xian off guard. He immediately arranged for Grace to observe around, and sure enough, not only the nest, but even the human corpses and meat tissue on the street had disappeared.

This weird situation made the exploration team a bit confused.

"What's going on? Hallucination?"

"Strange, Abai said the aura of those monsters has disappeared."

"Disappeared in the night?" Kiki looked puzzled: "Don't these monsters appear in the night?"

The sudden change once again overturned everyone's cognition.

Lin Xian was full of question marks at this moment. Although he didn't know the reason, at least the disappearance of the anomalies could be considered good news for now. However, out of caution, since Grace would not be marked or attacked by anomalies now, Lin Xian let her go directly to the city center where the nest was originally located to scout first, just in case.

So Grace immediately began to act, running rapidly on the roof and then jumping down to the street, running toward the place that was originally the center of the nest.

Soon, a huge sinkhole appeared ahead, splitting the original city square from the center, but except for the ground, the surrounding houses did not collapse or break. At the same time, several armored vehicles of survivors that looked relatively new also appeared here, but they were all covered in blood, and there was no one in sight.

Grace quickly patrolled and scanned various information to transmit back, while waiting for Lin Xian's next instruction.

Just at this moment, a sound of breaking through the air sounded eerily and quietly over the square, and a black iron spear shot toward Grace at extreme speed.

Swoosh!

Grace, who was performing the task, raised her arm and caught the iron spear steadily.

【Attack behavior detected, combat system activated!】

Instantly, several more iron spears flew over. At the same time, the two cars beside Grace seemed to be controlled by some kind of power, suddenly closing in and attacking her!

Grace jumped up directly, turned her palm, and the plasma pulse ray generator in her wrist activated instantly, cutting open a car head while melting the controlled iron spears together.

But at this moment, a figure suddenly appeared behind. The energy pulse of the four-limb mechanical power armor joints erupted, and the running speed was as fast as a residual shadow, almost instantly rushing to below Grace, reaching out and grabbing Grace's neck, then slamming her to the ground.

Boom!

In an instant, the ground was smashed into a concave pit. Just when the person thought he had controlled Grace, Grace turned her head mechanically and scanned the person quickly, then her feet exploded into the ground, and she turned her body. The black shadow only felt a huge force twisting from the robot under his hand, about to twist his wrist directly. His eyes flashed, he let go, and his claw turned into a fist, smashing toward Grace's head.

But Grace just tilted her head to dodge ruthlessly, avoiding the heavy punch while reaching out to grab the opponent's arm, directly turning over and buckling him to the ground.

And the moment Grace attacked, the mutation happened again. The stone blocks on the ground in front of her suddenly rose from the ground eerily, knocking her away. At the same time, another car flew toward her, directly smashing Grace onto another steel heavy truck, clamping her tightly.

At this time, the black shadow that attacked stood up quickly and said in a cold tone.

"What a powerful robot. It should be an alloy body of the Deep Red World's intelligent brain, much rarer than ordinary goods."

This was a short-haired woman wearing black power armor, with two short knives on her back, full of surging power. That seemed to be the energy change that could be felt when gene evolution reached a certain stage. She wore a set of black exoskeleton armor that was clearly special, and the clothing on her body carried a red symbol.

She seemed to be contacting with a walkie-talkie. As soon as the words fell, another man's voice came from the air:

"Lan, don't be distracted!"

In the sky, a man wearing strange power armor with a hood and a Japanese samurai sword at his waist floated down slowly. He raised his hand and waved, and all kinds of stones and broken metal fragments on the ground floated up, twisting into sharp cones in the air, and then shot violently toward the car that was pressing Grace.

In an instant, these objects were like bullets, shooting violently at the jeep, and the armor plates on the jeep all burst!

Boom!

And at this moment, with an explosion, a metallic figure instantly ejected from the car fragments, swept over the roofs of several cars, and rushed toward the Baicheng train station behind.

"Want to run?!" The man in the black hood seemed to have an ability extremely similar to Kiki's, flying rapidly in the air, raising his hand and trying to control Grace, but Grace's power was too great, so he pulled out the red samurai sword at his waist directly.

Seeing this scene, Tianye Lan immediately said in the communicator.

"Long Zhijie, don't break it. The quantum intelligent brain is very valuable. It's best to catch it and bring it to Zhensi. We need this right now!"

"Shizhi, follow!"

"Okay."

At this moment, in the corner, a petite girl wearing a set of expensive flight power armor rushed out and followed the two. She spread her hands, and a dark green energy film wrapped the three of them. At the same time, she followed and said:

"This robot has residual soul-swinging value aura. It was left by a very strong psychic."

"Then it must be a high-level person from the Deep Red World!"

Hearing the companion's words, Long Zhijie, who was flying, put away the samurai sword and turned to use his psychic power to grab the surrounding stone bricks and various metal objects, trying to wrap Grace up.

Just as the three were chasing Grace, the girl named Shizhi suddenly changed her face and turned to look at the dark street behind.

"There are enemies approaching. They... are very fast!"

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 350 =====