Chapter 1375: Meat Pillar

Stay hidden.

After moving quickly in a circle, Lin An quickly confirmed that the entire layer of Alien Species had disappeared.

But with his overall vague perception, the underground structure clearly had that many Alien Species.

According to normal distribution and the total energy intensity emitted by the Alien Species, Lin An was certain his estimated data would not be wrong!

Just like a sphere at one thousand degrees high temperature, if one unit of energy burned brings a one-degree temperature rise, then naturally there should be one thousand units!

Unless...

His brows slightly furrowed, and the next second he directly entered the twenty-fifth layer.

"Still empty..."

"Also disappeared three days ago.."

He murmured softly in his heart, and Lin An's eyes involuntarily flashed a strange color.

Two consecutive layers being empty is clearly abnormal. Given the layout here, it's neither a place for storing supplies nor does it mean no Alien Species have ever stayed here.

Then...

The total amount remains unchanged, but some layers are empty.

That can only mean that a large number of Alien Species are crowded into the last few layers!

Without hesitation, upon thinking this, Lin An seemed to be verifying his guess, and decisively descended again.

Twenty-six..

Twenty-seven..

Empty! Still empty!

As he passed over layer after layer of empty area, the strange color in Lin An's eyes grew stronger.

Three layers left..

If they are all concentrated in the last three layers, then the density of Alien Species would be somewhat astonishing...

Twenty-eight..

Thirty...

Thirty-two!

He suddenly stopped.

After quickly passing through several layers in one breath, a vague sense of unease suddenly spread in his heart.

This is already the second-to-last layer.

But in Lin An's expectation, the six layers that were completely empty should have been the area where at least 180,000 Alien Species were located, all empty!

If they were all concentrated in the last layer, the crowding would be unimaginable!

"Including the Alien Species native to the thirty-third layer, the Alien Species in the last layer will reach over two hundred thousand..."

His face slightly changed.

Sensing that the lowest layer beneath his feet was obviously shielded by a special ability, Lin An's heart suddenly sank.

No mistake.

The spiritual energy intensity of the last layer is astonishingly high; it's obvious that there really are that many Alien Species below!

But under the shielding, he cannot perceive the specifics, only the overall intensity.

Scorching, high temperature.

This last layer is like a huge fireball filled with spiritual energy and vitality!

In an instant.

A strange yet the only reasonable guess suddenly appeared in his mind.

Two hundred thousand Alien Species, concentrated in one layer...

You must know this place has a hive structure; from the outside observation, Lin An had long seen the entire hive's structure.

Small at top and bottom, large in the middle.

This means the area of the last layer is pitifully small, like the bottom of a rugby ball, the actual load-bearing area will not exceed a football field...

Under the shielding of spiritual power detection and perception here, an ordinary Third Rank would probably feel no movement at all...

To set it up like this, the energy consumed would not be little...

Even with such vigilance inside, it couldn't possibly be guarding against him, Lin An.

Then the only possibility is that the last layer has something that absolutely does not allow alien species to be discovered...

At least before being transported to the last layer, it will not allow being discovered!

Having thought this.

Taking a deep breath, Lin An expressionlessly added another layer of spiritual power disguise around himself, and decisively descended to the last layer!

He wanted to see what these Alien Species were up to!

The next second, as if melting into the rock strata, Lin An's whole body strangely sank into the ground, heading straight for the last layer.

Blood...

In less than a second, as Lin An drilled into the last layer without even seeing his surroundings clearly, a strong to the extreme bloody smell rushed into his nostrils.

The concentration is so high that it even gives him the illusion of being soaked in blood!

Amid the fishy sweetness mixed with a nauseating fragrance, in an instant Lin An's heart trembled slightly; this smell, he actually found somewhat familiar!

This is the peculiar taste formed when a large amount of blood containing spiritual energy is squeezed out and mixed together!

Just like when high-concentration perfumes are mixed together, they become a nauseating fragrant stench!

After breaking through the last layer's shielding, Lin An silently opened his eyes, and instantly a scarlet color filled his entire field of vision.

His face changed.

Even having seen all kinds of bloody, cruel, and even extreme scenes, Lin An couldn't help but be slightly stunned at this moment.

Only to see in the center of the hall on the top floor, not... but the center of the abyss.

Two huge pillars, each a hundred meters thick, of flesh-colored columns stood there.

Various colored spots were distributed on them, looking like spoiled square sausages.

The blood continuously flowing on the ground gathered like a stream, immersing the two pillars.

But upon closer look, as Lin An kept enlarging the image, he suddenly realized these were not flesh-colored pillars at all!

These two massive cylindrical bodies were entirely made of alien species whose limbs had been chopped off and turned into meat chunks like canned food, stacked together!

And those dense, varied spots were actually pairs of eyes filled with extreme terror.

Echoes of painful groans and wails reverberated, hundreds of thousands of anguished moans like a demonic chant, actually making one's head feel heavy.

His mind shuddered.

Looking at the hellishly cruel scene before him, even though Lin An himself had once personally created "meat balls," his heart could not help but be filled with shock.

For the meat balls he made in the Red Tower were also produced by the emotionless Red Tower zombies!

But these meat pillars here are all made of living alien species!

Yet in the eyes of the alien species on guard around him, Lin An saw no trace of pity; instead, on the faces of several high-ranking alien species, he saw an incomprehensible look of satisfaction.

It seemed that this act of turning their own kind into meat pillars was their greatest artwork.

"What on earth are these alien species doing!!"

Suppressing the turmoil in his heart, Lin An did his utmost to conceal his form, trying to investigate what these alien species were up to.

It was obvious that the alien species in these human meat pillars were all participants in the selection.

The so-called saints were merely one of the materials for the meat pillars!

"Notify the overseers above."

"This last batch of transported materials is not high grade, making them will be troublesome."

"Let's just ship this batch of sacrificial goods together with the previous one; otherwise they won't keep long."

He spoke calmly.

Floating before the giant meat pillar formed from his own kin, a third-rank peak alien species expressionlessly ordered his subordinates, then swiftly circled the meat pillar.

It seemed he was somewhat dissatisfied with this batch's quality; he casually shoved into an alien species' skull embedded in the meat pillar, and with a "plop," pulled out an alien species that had died sometime ago.

The limp, limbless alien species lay soft on the ground like a meat worm.

"Weren't you supposed to check them constantly?"

"Such dead material, if mixed in, will contaminate the other materials."

The pulled-out portion of the meat pillar expelled a puddle of pus with a "splurt," and under high pressure, the missing part quickly restored itself.

Thousands of alien species squeezed into meat strips opened their mouths hoarsely; pressed into the meat pillar, they could only painfully gaze at this peak alien species, seemingly pleading with groans.

Yet looking at the twisted faces, whether young or old, male or female, this peak alien species merely gave a light chuckle and muttered to himself.

"To become offerings for the new world, you should feel honored..."