Chapter 427: Dark Energy

The tingling sensation of tiny electric arcs still remained on Mo Xiaotian's fingertips, but his nasal cavity was first filled with a salty, fishy, and putrid smell. He stumbled and propped himself up. His palms didn't sink into the carriage floor as expected, but into some kind of sticky and cold particles. Each grain of sand was oozing black-red mucus, like crushed, rotten internal organs.

"Where... is this?"

The trembling voice was swallowed by the sound of the waves. He looked up. The entire beach presented a sickly gray-blue color, as if it had been soaked in formalin. What was piled up at the tide line wasn't seashells, but dense, gum-like bone fragments and a large amount of piled-up garbage, which made giggling sounds as they collided with the surge of the waves.

His head was dizzy, and he tried to struggle to stand up. A chill rushed from the soles of his feet to the top of his skull, making him unable to help but shiver.

For a time, feelings of weirdness, fear, and doubt kept breeding in his heart. Strange, he was clearly practicing his ability in the warm carriage just now, how could he suddenly appear outside?

Whoosh—

At this moment, the seawater in front suddenly surged as if boiling. Mo Xiaotian took two steps back and stepped on a soft object. Looking down, he saw it was a bloated corpse in the giant-view posture. Countless fluorescent sea lice crawled out from under the festering skin, turning their needle-point-sized compound eyes toward him in unison. Mo Xiaotian was startled and hurriedly moved away, only to find that further away, where the sea level should have been, a hill-like, ghostly blue arc was rising. The seawater split into waterfalls and slid down from the smooth surface, as if something was slowly rising from beneath the sea.

"Woo woo..."

An eerie humming came from the seabed, and the air trembled with it. The arc continued to rise, revealing an umbrella-shaped, translucent body. It was actually a jellyfish with a diameter of several hundred meters. The umbrella edge rolled, and in the center, there seemed to be some kind of luminous tissue emitting a blue light. It looked beautiful, but looking closely, one could see black veins similar to human cerebral blood vessels flowing inside. Twelve tentacles broke through the water and floated and rolled in the air.

This scene was like an alien creature from a wonder world breaking out of the sea. A kind of eulogizing echo sounded on the sea surface, making everyone who looked at this huge jellyfish feel sacred and terrified at this moment. Their consciousness fell like a landslide. Mo Xiaotian widened his eyes, his face pale. Even though he gritted his teeth, a large amount of black bloodshot began to spread in his eyes.

Fear Alienation!

At the same time, the huge fluorescent jellyfish slowly flew closer. The cold light illuminated the entire beach, and the huge tentacles rolled down like spirit snakes, swinging toward Mo Xiaotian.

Just as Mo Xiaotian felt the sound of the sea tide in his ears drifting away and becoming ethereal, a sharp shout suddenly came from the sky.

"Xiaotian, don't look!"

Bang bang!

Several sharp piercing sounds exploded over the beach instantly. Lin Xian, wearing power armor, flew over at high speed. He raised his hand and used a move against Mo Xiaotian. In an instant, the Black Star Forge opened, and several nano-devices sprayed out, flying directly to Mo Xiaotian to surround him. In a flash, an outer armor wrapped Mo Xiaotian, whose whole body was cold. The life support system started, and a warmth came.

Before he could react, the power armor had already started the automatic cruise system to take him away, and then he was wrapped by an invisible telekinetic wave. Kiki and Lin Xian attacked together, and Shizhi immediately activated her ability, the healing light quickly clearing the dark toxins from Mo Xiaotian's body. He finally caught his breath and breathed heavily inside the power armor.

"Brother Lin, Sister Kiki, I... I didn't mean to..."

"It's okay, adjust your mindset first, concentrate. This might be a Special-level!" Kiki responded immediately.

"The main body is here!"

At the same time, a line of fire streaked across the night sky above the sky, Lu Xingchen.

"What kind of sea monster, let the main body—burn the sky and boil the sea!"

Lu Xingchen's voice was wrapped in blazing flames, tearing through the fog. A crimson figure swooped down from mid-air. The flame wings spread behind him dragged out a thousand-meter-long flowing fire in the night sky. The plasma flow gushing from the joints of the power armor evaporated the fog within a hundred meters into a spiral vacuum zone. This usually playful middle-two youth now had bloodshot eyes, but the corners of his mouth were split into a nearly ferocious arc. It could be seen that the anger under nervous tension had begun to erupt.

"Godly · Infinite Burning Flame Sword!"

Boom!

In an instant, a pillar of fire as white as magma sprayed out from Lu Xingchen's palm. The Infinite Ring spun crazily, blue fire gushing. This red light flame sword, carrying a violent Mach ring, instantly and accurately hit the front umbrella of the jellyfish in the air. In an instant, a white biological force field appeared transparently, but in a flash, it was pierced by Lu Xingchen's full-force blow under rage. The fire sword swept across, and the transparent umbrella edge immediately curled and exploded. The rotten flesh carbonized into black snow in the sky at a high temperature of three thousand degrees. A tooth-aching scream came from the steam boiling on the sea surface. The luminous tissue in the center of the umbrella suddenly contracted, revealing a huge mouthpart covered with spiral patterns.

Beep beep beep.

On Lin Xian's side, the detector had already made an explosive sound. Both teams on the beach were marked with Level 4 markers at this moment, which meant that this fluorescent jellyfish was at least A-level or had reached Special-level!

The moment the marker took effect, the air seemed to freeze for a second.

In the city ruins in the distance, rustling friction sounds came, like countless fine claw tips scraping over concrete, and like decaying metal being slowly twisted by invisible hands. In the dark, the glass curtain wall of a certain high-rise building suddenly exploded, and fragments fell like rain, but no footsteps could be heard, only the dripping sound of some viscous liquid spreading from the depths of the alley.

In the direction of the sea, the rhythm of the surge changed. The original regular tide sound was disrupted. A dull vibration came from under the water, as if a huge body was turning over in the abyss. The bone fragments on the beach began to vibrate at high frequency, as if resonated by some low-frequency sound wave. Black-red mucus oozed from between the sand grains, gathering into small streams, weirdly crawling upstream toward the sea.

On the holographic interface of Lin Xian's power armor, dense red dots suddenly appeared on the edge of the radar. There was no form, no outline, only pulse signals representing life reactions surrounding from all directions. A sharp wail of metal deformation came from the tunnel of the abandoned highway on the east side. Near the reef group near the tide line on the west side, the seawater suddenly receded, revealing the rock wall gnawed into a honeycomb shape. In the thick fog of the city area on the north side, a street lamp that had long been out of power suddenly flickered twice. The moment the bulb exploded, a scream like a baby's crying came from the fog, and then stopped abruptly.

"Level 4 marker... trouble is coming!" Kiki felt waves of strong Spirit-Oscillation Value fluctuations coming from all directions. Without seeing any creatures yet, everyone felt that their vision had begun to become increasingly dark. That was the marker of the continuously increasing concentration of Dark Invasion. At the same time, a suffocating aura pressed over.

"Kiki, Abai, let's attack together, quick battle, quick decision!"

Lin Xian sensed this and said decisively. The monster was on the sea. Here, only Abai, he, and Kiki were ability users who could attack quickly from a distance.

"Good!"

Abai responded immediately. His special combat armor allowed him to fly directly in the air. His eyes turned into black-red light beams and sprayed out from the laser eyes of the power armor. The two laser beams tore through the night sky the moment they focused in his pupils, piercing through the translucent umbrella of the jellyfish like a sword of judgment.

At the same time, Kiki manipulated her flying blade device to open the gate. Thousands of VK electric knives turned into a dense torrent of blades under the control of telekinesis, each flickering with electric arcs and thunder light, turning into a vast galaxy flowing in the air. Her eyes flashed with ability light, manipulating these electric knives. The violent telekinesis instantly made these blades break the speed of sound and instantly impact toward the giant jellyfish.

In an instant, Fire Brother, Abai, and Kiki all attacked, and the biological force field on the fluorescent jellyfish instantly shattered.

Thud!

Just then, when the fluorescent jellyfish's body tissue was being beaten to pieces, the luminous tissue under the umbrella suddenly erupted with a violent light wave and oscillated. In an instant, Lu Xingchen's flames stagnated in the air for a second, and Abai and Kiki's abilities also felt a momentary stagnation. Everyone at this moment seemed to hear an abnormal humming from their power armor's cooling system, as if cold fingers were crawling into the reactor along the pipelines. The oxygen circulating inside the armor suddenly mixed with a fishy smell, and a layer of frost formed on the inside of the mask. The pattern formed by the frost looked exactly like a twisted human face.

This was a way of attacking that Lin Xian had never encountered before. This moment made him feel extremely dangerous, because just a short while ago, he had felt the fluctuation from that mysterious container that made ability functions weaken. This was definitely not a good sign.

Therefore, Lin Xian didn't hesitate. He looked at the huge mouthpart covered with spiral patterns revealed by the jellyfish and immediately raised his hand, pointing at the mouthpart and directly activating the Gravity Lens!

Hum!

A spatial humming sound rang out, and all the sounds on the beach seemed to stagnate instantly, as quiet as before.

The world changed color, and the blue fluorescence twisted instantly. Everyone felt that the light of the fluorescent jellyfish in front of them dimmed immediately. A twisted space formed in the huge mouthpart below the jellyfish, like a black water vortex in the air. The edges of the blue fluorescence at the core of the jellyfish all turned into curved light lines.

In the twisted space, the darkness was rapidly disintegrating and reorganizing, as if smoke was being swallowed spirally. In the twisted spatial ripples, an orange scene appeared intermittently in Lin Xian's line of sight again.

Lin Xian looked at this scene and couldn't help but shrink his pupils.

That was the sunrise at dawn on the sea!

The picture was intermittent, constantly covered by darkness, and constantly being "erased" by this Gravity Lens!

Clang clang clang!

And as the "daytime" world revealed light in the twisted space, the twisted space seemed to carry an incomparably strong attraction, instantly starting to crush the jellyfish's mouthpart and core.

Boom!

In a flash, Lin Xian, Fire Brother, Kiki, and Abai all stopped at the same time. Under the huge attack, this huge Special-level creature was already torn apart. Countless jellyfish tissues emitting blue light kept falling, splashing huge water waves on the sea surface. The fluorescent jellyfish let out a low humming sound, and several tentacles were still rolling rapidly.

"Why isn't it dead yet?" ===== CHAPTER 428 =====