Chapter 409: After Dusk (Monthly votes requested at the end of the month!)

Rumble.

The sky was overcast with rain, wild thunder roaring. Beneath the ruins of the central city under the darkness, a series of violent earthquakes began to occur. Searchlights shone over, and then, in the shocked gaze of countless people, a super-large S-class creature, covered in gray-white bone spurs and with only part of the inhibition armor left on its head, slowly stood up. Flesh and blood steam permeated its body, and the 24 EVA restraint locks behind its spine were completely broken!

The one who stood up was not the Gray Mist Envoy.

It was... Gray Mist!

Kiki, far away in the air, looked at this scene, her face horrified. She murmured a sound.

"Lin Xian..."

Then she immediately rushed toward the direction of the ruins regardless of her own safety.

There were still large fragments of colonial armor left here, and the ground was full of blood mist!

Seeing this tragic state, Kiki immediately used telekinesis to shake away the smoke and dust, and then frantically searched for Lin Xian.

"Lin Xian! Lin Xian!"

And at this time, the towering S-class Gray Mist eerie body in front suddenly let out a dull low drink. Kiki reacted and immediately prepared to use telekinesis to resist.

Who knew that at this time, Lin Xian's voice suddenly came from the headset.

"Kiki, get out of here!"

"Lin Xian?" Kiki said in surprise, "Where are you?"

"I am where I should be..."

Inside the main cabin of the inhibition device remaining on the Gray Mist Envoy's head, Lin Xian lay quietly in the survival pod. Before disconnecting the neural connection, he sent it the last command.

Rampage!

Gray Mist was now filled with hot steam, its inhibited action brain now only had a violent desire to attack, and its gaze slowly looked at the... Corpse-Carrier that was attacking the survivors and the army!

Ugh!!

Suddenly, this super-large S-class creature lifted all mechanical restrictions and rushed toward the Corpse-Carrier with a violent stride.

And at this moment, the Corpse-Carrier, which was firing laser beams at Huo Jiang's Iron Guard Brigade, felt an unusual presence. It turned around, preparing to use the Dark Mark to detect, but what greeted it was a bone-spur giant fist like a landslide!

Boom!

This punch was powerful and heavy. The collision of the two giants emitted a roar, and one could even clearly see a white shockwave shaking open with the naked eye.

Eerily, after Gray Mist's punch, the Corpse-Carrier didn't activate any defensive force field or red mist, and was just like that, half of its face blasted off by a punch, tissue on its skull ejected in large quantities, and blood plasma burst.

And Gray Mist didn't stop at all after one punch, followed by a kick! It kicked the Corpse-Carrier so hard that it staggered a few steps and hit several high-rise buildings. However, Gray Mist followed up with a third move, rushing up in the air, and knee-struck again. The sharp bone spurs directly pierced into the Corpse-Carrier's sternum, knocking it down from the front.

The Corpse-Carrier, hundreds of meters tall, fell backward with a bang, instantly causing a violent earthquake, with smoke and dust rising everywhere!

At this moment, all the soldiers and survivors in the city were stunned. This eerie scene was not only an S-class eerie body beating its own teammate, but the key was that this Gray Mist, covered in bone spurs like an alien creature, was actually performing a set of... military physical exercise!

Inside the Twin Star Tower building, a group of Phoenix Society high-level officials were all stunned. Just as Huo Jiang and Lu Tianye were preparing to aim all artillery at the two giants, Ye Lan suddenly spoke.

"Adjust firepower to deal with other monster tides. That Gray Mist must be operated by Lin Xian!"

"Yes!"

Above the sky, Mochizuki Shinji in the Silent City also discovered it for the first time. He immediately contacted Lin Xian through the communicator, only to find that Lin Xian's voice was already so weak that it was about to disappear, and what came more was... the sound of giant fist impacts.

Above a ruin, an eerie scene appeared. The violent Gray Mist eerie body was frantically swinging its fists at the Corpse-Carrier, which was even larger than it. Every punch shook the earth and mountains, and smoke and dust erupted.

And at this time, the Corpse-Carrier, whose torso was almost beaten to pieces, seemed to finally be ready to fight back. Wum!

In an instant, four laser beams directly pierced through Gray Mist's sternum, bringing out four huge blood holes. However, Gray Mist at this time seemed to not feel pain at all, and there was no mental communication, only bloodthirst and blind rampage. Every punch blasted the Corpse-Carrier's face, and the Corpse-Carrier's torso was also constantly recovering.

This earth-shattering fight brought up violent energy, with flesh and blood tissue flying everywhere. The Corpse-Carrier suddenly launched a white shockwave, stripping Gray Mist's tissue layer by layer. In the colonial inhibition main control cabin, Viola sensed the crisis and immediately disconnected all links. Just before it was about to completely shatter Gray Mist's torso, the inhibition device on Gray Mist's head suddenly opened, and a dancer robot loaded with thrusters suddenly brought out two survival pods and flew out.

And at this time, Gray Mist suddenly stopped its movements and stood in place, maintaining the posture of punching.

Wum! Wum!

Huge shockwaves followed one after another, annihilating Gray Mist's skin, scorching the tissue blocks, blowing away the internal organs, and finally, Gray Mist was blasted into a skeleton by the Corpse-Carrier's shockwave and fell down with a bang.

On a damaged high-rise building, Viola brought out two survival pods.

Ssh.

One of the blood-stained survival pods opened, and Lin Xian struggled to crawl out and lie on the ground. He breathed rapidly, his whole body trembling. Severe mental overload had already begun to cause him consciousness hallucinations, and his vision was blurry.

"Viola..." Lin Xian said weakly, shouting in a very low voice, "Is she alive..."

【No life reaction.】

【Start the second AED procedure】

Zzz!

The bright light flickered. In the other freezer pod, Chu Yan's face was pale, and blood was constantly flowing from her mouth and nose, still without any reaction. At the last moment, he took Chu Yan's freezer pod out of the Black Star Forge to try to save Chu Yan's consciousness, but the result did not develop according to his expectations.

Lin Xian sighed softly, trying to stand up, but found that his body was completely unresponsive, and his head was splitting with pain. He could only let Viola drag him up from the ground, let him lean against Chu Yan's freezer pod, and look at Dawn City, which was already full of ruins.

"This is the Garrison 7th Division West Street position. Our air defense array energy has been cut off, and ammunition is exhausted! Repeat, ammunition exhausted!"

"Chen Weiguo, Zhao Gang, immediately pull your 4th Division and 11th Division to the River Area line in front of the No. 2 city wall!"

"All special action groups, concentrate on the Star Port and Central Tower to protect the City Ring!"

"Central Street urgently needs a medical team, hurry, the injuries here are very serious!"

"The Dawn Watcher Alliance and the Iron Barrier convoy were scattered in the South District, everyone concentrate and retreat to the East District!"

"Don't give up, Dawn City's City Ring is still shining!"

"Lin Xian, Lin Xian, can you hear me? Our train is surrounded, we need..."

"Lin Xian, where are you?"

"Team Lin!"

In the headset, the sounds of various channels were noisy—command, shouting, roaring, crying, asking for help. Human voices gathered in the radio frequency, like a symphony from a desperate civilization engraved on a phonograph stone.

16:45, the sky was still dark.

The dark tide was like an endless haze, shrouding Dawn City.

The once prosperous smart city, the City of Night, had now turned into a living hell. Those brilliant holographic screens had long been extinguished, replaced by rolling smoke, like a pot of boiling asphalt, thick, suffocating, obscuring the entire firmament. The light rain in the sky had been falling for two days and two nights. Occasionally, the wind tore open a piece of smoke, revealing not a blue sky, but blood-colored thunderclouds, which were burning dust reflecting the flames that had not yet been extinguished in the distance.

High in the air, the wreckage of several crashed airships still hung between skyscrapers, steel cables broken, hulls tilted, like giant beasts nailed to a cross.

On the side of the No. 2 city wall, in the direction of the inner city, flames still filled the sky, artillery fire ignited the firmament, the entire Dawn City's front line was split in two, and the human front line was still constantly shrinking.

Beneath those ruins lay young corpses, and in those flames burned immortal ashes.

On the cloudy sky, wild thunder flickered, fire burned the sky, and the outline of a terrifying giant snake in the clouds loomed under the thunder, its scale even exceeding the Silent City.

All eerie bodies were becoming more violent. In the darkness, it seemed that endless creatures were crawling out from the 3 Star Abysses, devouring humans, devouring Dawn City.

In the distance, the Corpse-Carrier, whose upper torso had already been shattered by the rampaging Gray Mist, was now surging with black mist. Under the desperate gaze of countless people, it returned to its original state. And this time, the Corpse-Carrier did not go in the direction of the No. 2 city wall, but braved the artillery fire and walked toward the ruin building where Lin Xian was.

Boom, boom, every step was earth-shaking, carrying a destructive oppressive aura.

"Don't let large eerie bodies enter the city, the Corpse-Carrier will use this to restore its vitality!" At this moment, in the cockpit of the Zhu Que, which was fighting a bloody battle with the stitched S-class, the couple Bai Ye and Su Rui saw the Corpse-Carrier walking toward Lin Xian's side, shouting while waving the plasma diffraction sword.

On the side of the City West wall, the deep blue Inside Inside Xuanwu, covered in deep blue, split a deep-sea worm burrowing out of the ground with one sword. Then the two brothers, Qin Yue and Qin Chuan, raised their heads and looked at the eerie bodies pouring in like a tide from the gap in the city wall and the outlines of various large eerie bodies in the darkness behind. The brothers' blood-colored gazes met.

"Brother!"

"Come on!"

Empty, empty! With the Qin brothers' angry shouts, the nuclear power hub in Inside Inside Xuanwu's chest erupted with a sharp hum, plasma beams sprayed frantically, and then the two swung their right arms simultaneously, stepping forward a few steps, directly cutting off the city wall gap of the monster tide with the momentum of ten thousand men!

"Teacher Ye."

In the Twin Star Tower command center, Ye Lan, who had been standing for a day and a night, heard a weak voice in her headset.

"Lin Xian, where are you?" Ye Lan's voice sounded calm as ever. It seemed that everyone could feel an unyielding power from this old yet firm voice.

"Teacher Ye, is the darkness really afraid?" At the ruins, Lin Xian felt the S-class chaos after the rampage, looking at the approaching Corpse-Carrier, knowing that his mental power penetration might have attracted some attention from this dark creature.

Ye Lan heard Lin Xian's voice and replied, "We cannot use human thinking to understand a civilization. From the macroscopic perspective of the universe, whether it is an ant or a human at the top of the food chain, there is a survival crisis. In this point, whether it is a high-level civilization or a low-level civilization, it is the same."

"But the resistance we can make seems insignificant in front of such a civilization. Does that mean we don't have the power to resist at all?" Lin Xian watched the towering giant shadow approach. Under the weakness, he didn't seem to have much fear of death; he had more unwillingness and anger.

Ye Lan replied patiently, "The suspicion chain between civilizations cannot be broken. This is the basic axiom of cosmic sociology. Like a hunter lurking in a dark forest, every civilization has to treat other existences as a threat—because survival is the first need of civilization, and the total amount of matter in the universe remains constant. The difference between high-level civilizations and low-level civilizations is just the range of the hunting gun. Ants cannot understand why humans want to destroy the anthill, and we cannot understand why dark creatures want to destroy human civilization in this way, but one thing is certain."

"What?" Lin Xian asked.

"They cannot effectively and completely destroy us, at least not in a short time. Or perhaps they have some purpose, but these just go to show that they don't have the same understanding of us as God's perspective."

Lin Xian listened to Ye Lan's words, looked at the gradually approaching Corpse-Carrier, and leaned weakly against Chu Yan's freezer pod to respond. ===== CHAPTER 410 =====