Chapter 1374: The Vanishing Alien Species

After purchasing another puppet to impersonate himself, Lin An directly activated the stealth effect of the Shadow Blade and vanished into the shadows.

Having rarely used the Shadow Blade's attached skill, he was quite surprised by how useful the stealth effect was.

Like a writhing shadow, he moved swiftly and reached the corner of the top floor in just over ten seconds, intending to sneak directly into the next level.

After obtaining the Shadow Blade from the Daywalker reward, he hardly had any chance to use the special effect that came with this Epic Tier weapon.

But on his first attempt, the effect turned out surprisingly good.

Seeing himself seemingly invisible, Lin An felt his mind settle slightly and turned his focus to the points exchange panel.

"One-time skill scroll..."

"Wall-Penetration Technique..."

Among the dazzling exchange interface, he quickly found what he needed.

Every entrance and exit on each level of this holy site has a Third Level handle.

Even with Milai's scalpel providing disguise, Lin An didn't think he could just swagger his way down.

Although teleportation ability could skip several levels at once, as a life-saving trump card it would be too wasteful to use in this situation.

Therefore, he planned to spend some points to save time.

Just looking at the exchange options, he immediately frowned.

"One hundred points, that's a bit expensive..."

Gazing at the scroll in the exchange panel, Lin An let out a quiet sigh, feeling the pinch.

He had thought one or two points would suffice, but he never expected the system to seem to know exactly what he needed now, as even the cheapest wall-penetration ability costs 100 points!

If he hadn't known the system wasn't that boring and disgusting, he would definitely have cursed the damn system right now.

The points exchange function is great in every way; even Rule Fragments can be exchanged like in a battle arena shop. Theoretically, if he had enough points, he could even exchange for a Star-Annihilator warship in this world.

But similarly, the price is outrageously high.

"A wall-penetration ability, on Earth would at most be worth a piece of White Equipment in the trading channel."

"But in the system exchange, it's almost like robbery..."

"One hundred points could buy dozens of attribute points for the Third Level... Fourth Level would be enough for a little..."

Without overthinking it, after a brief hesitation, Lin An still chose to exchange for it.

He needed to grasp the distribution of each level to avoid accidents.

The wasted points can be considered a friendly sponsorship from these alien species.

"Hum"

After glancing at the white scroll in his hand, Lin An decisively tore it open, and the next second he felt a yellowish energy envelop him.

With a slight step downward, instantly his body seemed to merge into the hard ground, and he suddenly sank in.

Hmm?

Is the effect this good?

Somewhat unexpected.

Realizing that the wall-penetration effect from this hundred-point exchange was astonishingly effective, Lin An's pang of hurt eased a little.

Faintly, he felt that this wall-penetration force surrounding him somewhat resembled a certain rule.

Continuing to descend.

After swiftly and secretly passing through layer after layer, Lin An now moved like a diver, heading straight for the last few levels.

But whenever he passed a level, his spreading mental power, like a spiderweb, blanketed that level and also recorded the conversations of the alien species on that level.

There's no way around it; this underground hive-like holy site is covered by rule power on the outside, and there seems to be other shielding inside, so he can only obtain information this way.

If his mental power weren't strong enough, he'd have to sweep layer by layer with just visual observation.

"With the interior protected this well, it looks like this place isn't simple..."

Thirteenth level.

After quickly scanning the general distribution of alien species on this level, Lin An felt a slight stir and constructed a three-dimensional map in his mind.

Compared to his initial perception outside the hive, the internal perception is much clearer.

The first ten levels are where Second Level beings stay; according to these alien species' conversations, they seem to have been transported here in the past few days.

Starting from the tenth level, he locked onto some Third Level alien species.

"About thirty thousand alien species per level..."

"With thirty-three levels total, roughly a million."

"Subtracting the original internal 'staff'..."

In just a few seconds, Lin An marked the alien species distribution for the first thirteen levels.

The situation went more smoothly than he imagined.

Most of the internal alien species are low-level Third Level, with a few medium-level Third Level mixed in; those guarding this place, however, include many high-level Third Level and even peak ones.

But compared to the alien species wearing wristbands, the workers here number fewer than a thousand.

There isn't a single Fourth Level being.

"The aura of Fourth Level alien species... is probably independent of the entire hive."

"Just like two energy sources protecting the whole holy site from outside."

"The distance is... six hundred meters..."

He frowned slightly.

Lin An sensed two rule sources ahead and behind, and couldn't help feeling a bit tricky.

Although the Fourth Level alien species here should pose little threat to him.

But two of them, far stronger than Qingya and his group, left Lin An unsure if he could instantly kill them.

After all, it's hard to guarantee whether these two fourth-stage alien species have mastered any special rules.

Moreover, Lin An also realized that the alien species such as Qing Ya that had descended onto Earth were essentially just recently fused with human bodies, and their strength might not exhibit the level expected of a fourth-stage.

But the arrow is on the bow and must be released; Lin An can only bet that his strength can still achieve instant kills against peers.

If he can't even do that, then there's really no hope left!

"Six hundred meters... for a fourth-stage alien species, they can react and come to kill within at most 0.2 seconds."

"Even if the speed slows underground, the whole process won't exceed one second..."

Constantly refining his slaughter plan, Lin An, while descending, simultaneously envisioned in his mind's three-dimensional map the abilities needed for each level.

Strength needs to be maximized.

His Eternal Body's rules have already been consumed by more than half; the only rule left usable is electromagnetism.

This means that, to slaughter nearly a million alien species, he can rely solely on spiritual energy and mental power!

Fortunately, the Death God Set can draw energy while killing enemies; otherwise he would have no chance of achieving this!

Although the fourth stage is strong, its energy is not inexhaustible!

But just as Lin An was rehearsing the scenario of fighting a fourth-stage, after habitually scanning the twenty-fourth layer, his expression suddenly froze.

"This layer is.."

"Empty!?"

Withdrawing his focus, he subconsciously looked up at the twenty-fourth layer he had descended to, only to see that in the empty hall, there was no trace of any alien species.

Moreover, a faint smell of blood also drifted into his nostrils.

And around the hall, the small grid honeycombs used for alien species' habitation retained a strong presence of alien species.

Here, there were 【them】 before.

But they disappeared around three days ago...

The overly empty twenty-fourth layer instantly gave Lin An a sense of eeriness.

"The alien species on this layer have disappeared?"