Chapter 493: Advanced Evolution

After the consciousness link in front of him slowly disappeared, Seeing Chu Yan leaned back against the corner of the wall with a pale face. She kept adjusting her breathing heavily. At this moment, looking at her physical sign HUD, it showed that her heart rate and mental fluctuations were in a state of critical crisis.

"Hope you're okay..."

Seeing Chu Yan said to the air in a low voice, then looked at her hands that she couldn't stop from trembling, and slowly clenched her fists.

As a spiritual esper, she should have been the best candidate to explore the scarlet, but under the combined effect of Seeing Chu Yan's supernatural ability and the Dark Energy Co-potential Device, she still felt tremendous pressure from the invasion. This was still inside the house; if it were outdoors, she estimated she wouldn't have lasted more than 30 minutes.

She must find a way to return as soon as possible. The Spark Project failed, so she needed to cooperate with Lin Xian to assemble on the South American continent. The Star Abyss here was roaring, and the world was burning. Perhaps there wasn't much time left for humanity.

Seeing Chu Yan thought of Lin Xian's words just now, her gaze flickering, but she didn't contact Grace.

The South Tianmen was Lin Xian's trump card. In her and Professor Ye's view, this trump card might be the reason Lin Xian could survive under the Foundation's nose. Based on this reason, she would definitely not use it casually. What's more, this scarlet was full of unknown anomalies, and whether the South Tianmen's energy beam weapon could achieve the same lethality as in Dawn City was unknown.

*Hoo~*

"*Zzz... *"

Seeing Chu Yan took a deep breath. At this moment, intermittent electrical noise suddenly sounded in her communication frequency. She looked at the interface and found it was coming from the frequency of one of her teammates.

"Tornado, Black Bee, report the situation!"

"*Zzz... *"

No response.

*Creak... *

An abrupt strange sound suddenly came, interrupting Seeing Chu Yan's train of thought.

The scarlet outside the window was carrying a subtle aura, making the window frame creak.

Seeing Chu Yan frowned coldly. Her power armor was covered with an energy force field, and a thin glimmer flowed on the curves of her power armor. She stood up quietly, and two silver sharp blades ejected from under her arms. Diffraction particles gradually heated up. These two swords had huge power in close-quarters combat and could directly cut through even S-level flesh.

Seeing Chu Yan walked slowly to the window, her fingertips spraying high-temperature rays to cut a gap, and then she looked out the window. The scarlet storm was invading the world in a visible state. The world wasn't pitch black; instead, the scarlet seemed to carry a kind of visible light, making everything in her sight turn into this strange negative color of scarlet.

The earth was stained with a layer of blood red. The blood-red mud was emitting visible red water vapor into the air, which then instantly evaporated into blood-red mist, quickly blending into the air, making the water and sky one color, and it was impossible to tell where the sky was and where the earth was.

*Creak... *

The sound came again. This time, Seeing Chu Yan was certain—it was outside the door!

She turned around immediately, looking at the apartment's iron door that had been sealed. The cold electrical noise was still hissing in the communication channel. Outside the door, the deathly silence was suddenly broken.

It wasn't the roar of zombies, nor the walking of anomalous entities, but a sticky, heavy crawling sound, like wet, thick leather being slowly dragged across a rough surface. Step by step, the sound ground over the cold cement floor, as if it were just inches away, carrying unspeakable malice, moving firmly toward the sealed, rusted iron door.

At this moment, the sound outside suddenly disappeared after approaching the door. Replacing it was an extremely cold aura rapidly spreading toward the room. Seeing Chu Yan could see the temperature displayed on the power armor's temperature detector dropping visibly, and a layer of frost condensed on the defensive skin of the nano-armor.

At the same time, the wall made a teeth-aching groan. The rough wall skin, as if drenched in strong acid, peeled off and rotted in large chunks, revealing the more decayed bottom layer underneath. And those peeled-off wall skins, when falling halfway, melted into sticky dark red liquid like sponges soaked in dirty blood with a "*Puchi*" sound, dripping onto the ground and emitting a suffocating stench.

The dark brown rust spots on that already rusted iron door spread rapidly as if they were living things, seemingly being corroded and aged quickly. Accompanying this was the "vision" of the entire room collapsing at an accelerated rate. The scarlet thick fog rolled like ink, swallowing vision. Light was suppressed to only be able to outline a blurry, twisted silhouette within half a meter around Seeing Chu Yan. The cold light lamp placed on the ground now only had a light spot the size of a millet grain left.

Then, that thick, heavy iron door, which had been sealed by Seeing Chu Yan and completely covered by layers of scarlet corrosion, as if it had merged with the wall, opened inward silently without any external force touching it.

No sound. Outside the door frame, it was pitch black. One couldn't see the corridor, nor the walls, as if it were a deep, pitch-black void where even darkness lost its meaning. It was an absolute emptiness capable of swallowing all light and hope. Just staring at it made one feel the cold fear of the soul being stripped from the flesh.

Seeing Chu Yan's muscles tensed instantly, her pupils constricted, and cold killing intent replaced the fatigue in her eyes. She slowly gripped the blades in her hands.

"Rose."

【I am here.】 The smart body belonging exclusively to Seeing Chu Yan's power armor responded.

"My spiritual perception senses that some cross-dimensional guy is standing right in front of me."

【Is it similar to the situation in Star Abyss No. 3?】

"Don't know. Should be about the same. Prepare!"

【Good, immediately deploy the Gravity Lens Ejector!】

*Woo! *

One of Seeing Chu Yan's shoulder armors opened, and a black precision device like a small electromagnetic cannon rose. Then the muzzle aimed at the void at the door, and a special firing metal was loaded into it.

Her gaze looked at it. Within that door of twisted light and shadow that existed only for an instant, where the void and the scarlet chaos in the room intertwined, she saw the outline of the "door frame". At this moment, it was like the rotten ribs of some huge creature, twisting visibly to the naked eye.

She knew, a creature was right there!

"Since you're here, why hide? Want me to show you a mirror?"

Seeing Chu Yan held her sword horizontally in front of her chest, and the power armor thrusters behind her roared. At the same time, a piece of metal carrying powerful gravity shot out from the muzzle on her shoulder, instantly turning into an annihilation black hole that expanded geometrically, washing away space fragments and roaring into that piece of scarlet void!

Lin Xian's consciousness was pulled back from the Black Star Forge, looking at the brightly lit, clean, and tidy sleep hall, his expression full of solemnity.

Although he didn't show much pressure in front of Seeing Chu Yan, the situation he learned from Seeing Chu Yan gave Lin Xian a hunch that the swallowing of darkness was about to reach the final moment of life and death.

"Scarlet... it really looks like a nuclear radiation cloud ejected from the Star Abyss. This is more troublesome than the Polar Night. Who knows when we might be trapped in a scarlet area during some night."

Lin Xian took a deep breath, took out the simulation sphere given by Hua Xiaoling, and frowned secretly: "The Advent Sect's actions are also starting to become frequent. It looks like it might be the Dark Civilization instructing them to carry out some kind of infiltration."

Although he could think of this, what Lin Xian couldn't understand was what means the Foundation used to make those people defect from the human camp without any warning.

One had to know that changing one's stance wasn't easy, let alone those people Seeing Chu Yan mentioned—every one of them was an elite figure among human survivors. These people had strong strength, wisdom, and personal charm. Even regarding the dark invasion and the collapse of fear, they should have had stronger reason and spiritual power than ordinary people. So Lin Xian was very curious. If they had been forcibly kidnapped or tortured, he wouldn't have thought so much. Instead, the fact that these people seemed to change their stance proactively and left peacefully was what made people curious.

*Di~*

Pressing the civilization simulation sphere again, the light screen projected in front of Lin Xian.

【Currently simulating Civilization Simulation No. 16751. Do you want to start the simulation?】

"16751? Isn't this jumping too much?"

Lin Xian frowned immediately. Although a civilization's development had too many contingencies, he didn't expect that to generate a civilization, there would be so many failed simulations...

Just as he was about to conduct the civilization simulation again, a dull stagnation came from his head, accompanied by a cold impact, making Lin Xian shiver. This feeling was very familiar. He had felt this feeling in Seeing Chu Yan's consciousness just now.

Perhaps he was affected. Lin Xian pinched his brow. The continuous work plus the 6 construction sequences running non-stop made him unable to bear it. He simply put away the civilization simulation sphere first, preparing to rest for a while and wait until his state was better at night. Perhaps there would be some different discoveries. ===== CHAPTER 494 =====