Chapter 1230: Centipede Legion

Centipede Legion

It wasn't until the earthquake ended and everything inside the laboratory returned to dead silence that Teacher Ye slowly put down the liquid in his hands.

He took off his white lab coat, put on a teacher's shirt, and after writing a few lines on today's experimental results, he walked along the stairs toward the first floor of the Mother Tree...

"Teacher Ye, there was an earthquake outside!"

At this time, outside the laboratory, several very young students were already waiting apprehensively. Seeing Teacher Ye come out, they immediately described everything just now vividly.

Earthquakes rarely happened in the Gray World. Teacher Ye could understand these children's uneasiness. He gently stroked their heads and spoke mildly:

"Don't be afraid, the Mother Tree is very safe."

As soon as this sentence came out, the tension on the children's faces dissipated mostly. After Teacher Ye comforted them for a bit, they completely set their hearts at ease and bounced away toward the distance.

As Teacher Ye walked outside, he asked, "Has Zhao Yi returned yet?"

"How many days have they been gone?"

"It must be half a month by now..."

Teacher Ye's brow furrowed imperceptibly, but soon he was laughing and joking with the children again.

As his figure gradually walked up the stairs, under the gray firmament outside the tree hollow, a Great Crimson Theatrical Robe caught his attention.

...

Chen Ling walked out of the Mother Tree's gate and went straight toward the gray earth in the distance.

This was outside the canopy of the Mother Tree. A large number of holes had appeared on the originally hard ground. Looking around, there were a full hundred of them. The smallest were over ten meters wide, while the largest were as thick as buildings, bottomless, as if leading straight to the netherworld.

If someone jumped down these holes, they would find that beneath this area, a massive underground kingdom had already been hollowed out.

The Great Crimson Theatrical Robe walked among the edges of these holes.

When he reached the perimeter of the largest hole, he gently lifted his foot and stomped on the earth!

"Come out."

One second, two seconds...

Boom—!!

The next moment, an enormous, entirely crimson centipede drilled out of the hole. Its darkly gleaming carapace exuded a fatal cold glint, and every leg was like a pitch-black blade. It towered over the hole like a magnificent red mountain peak...

And around it, more and more centipedes also drilled out of the holes. Their bodies were slightly smaller than the enormous centipede, but they were still a hundred meters tall. In addition, there were also a large number of tiny centipedes, like children they had bred, currently wagging their bodies at Chen Ling's back like puppies, incomparably joyful. The originally silent, sieve-like earth transformed into a forest of centipedes in the blink of an eye.

In half a year's time, the auras of these centipedes, which had once shared Chen Ling's Red Star power, had advanced by leaps and bounds. Especially that largest super centipede, Chen Ling estimated its Combat Power was already at Peak Seventh-Tier. If they really fought, relying on its advantage as a Calamity, it could even contend against Rank 8...

There were also quite a few other Sixth Stage centipedes. Trailing behind their butts was a bunch of tiny centipedes glowing red. Given time, they would also grow into high-rank combat forces.

If the centipede army Chen Ling casually scraped together half a year ago was only a prototype, then these ones before him now could truly be called a "Legion"!

Who could have thought that a Thespian whose own strength was still at peak Fifth-Tier had actually cultivated a terrifying Calamity Legion in the Gray World?

"Wu Yi, did you sense the source of the earthquake just now?" Chen Ling looked at the enormous centipede before him and spoke calmly.

Wu Yi was the name Chen Ling gave this large centipede. Chen Ling had never raised a pet before, nor did he know how to name these non-human species. Moreover, with so many centipedes in the legion, naming them one by one would probably exhaust him to death... He simply took the "Wu" from centipede (Wugong) as the surname, and added a number to address these centipedes.

Wu Yi coiled its body, its sharp mouthparts constantly opening and closing, as if recounting something.

After listening, Chen Ling's frown deepened.

Just as he had guessed, the earthquake just now was not a natural phenomenon, but a mountain range shifting across the earth's crust under some kind of power. Without a doubt, this was a certain World-Ending entity moving its entire Calamity Domain...

Fortunately, its route was very far from the Mother Tree, so the tremors weren't intense. According to what Wu Yi said, all the geological structures on that path had been overturned, and many weaker Calamities had also been crushed to death.

"I understand."

Chen Ling was just about to leave when from the corner of his eye, he suddenly saw something, and his footsteps paused slightly.

He saw a giant skeletal wolf madly sprinting towards here from the end of the gray earth in the distance. When it got closer, deep score marks could be seen on its bones, as if it had suffered heavy injuries... On its back, several human figures hung limply, as if unconscious.

"Old Wolf?"

Chen Ling's heart sank, and he immediately transformed into an afterimage, rushing over there!

Old Wolf's strength was not weak, and its speed after Calamity Transformation was incredibly fast. Even when they forcefully broke into the Wuji Domain back then, the injuries he suffered weren't considered too serious. But right now, he looked almost entirely exhausted, his body teetering on the verge of collapse.

Seeing the silhouette of the Mother Tree in the distance, Old Wolf's body had held out to its limit. He staggered, and his massive body tumbled and fell to the earth. The few people originally hanging on his body were also thrown off, crashing miserably all over the place. But even so, they still hadn't awakened.

Chen Ling was the first to arrive. The first thing that caught his eye was Zhao Yi, covered in blood...

Zhao Yi's injuries were considered light relative to the others. With a sweep of his gaze, Chen Ling saw two other people at their dying breaths nearby. Without the slightest hesitation, he directly hoisted them onto his back and ran rapidly in the direction of the Mother Tree!!

At this time, the crowd inside the Mother Tree also noticed the abnormality here. More and more figures rushed over. Seeing this scene, they were all given a fright, and they one after another hoisted the wounded on their backs, following behind Chen Ling.

"Teacher Ye!"

"Teacher Ye! Quickly save them!!"

The crowd rushed into the Mother Tree carrying the heavily injured Zhao Yi and the others on their backs, giving a huge fright to the students who were just preparing to go to class. Seeing those blood-drenched figures, they all cried out in alarm, at a loss for a moment.

"It's the Holy Son!"

"Didn't the Holy Son and the others go to the Human Domains to purchase supplies? How could they..."

"Quick! Stretchers! Stretchers!!"

"..."

At the same time, Teacher Ye's figure arrived at the door. After clearly seeing the injuries on their bodies, his face instantly turned incredibly unsightly.

He pushed up his glasses and spoke composedly:

"Little Peach, take the people from the hygiene group and take care of Zhao Yi, his injuries are the lightest... You few, carry the others to the laboratory, and pay attention to move faster."

"Yes, Teacher Ye!!"

With Teacher Ye appearing, the crowd regained their senses as if they had taken a reassurance pill, and immediately began to orderly divide the wounded into two groups.

Chen Ling stood to the side, watching helplessly as Teacher Ye led Old Wolf and the others into the underground laboratory. As the door was slowly closed, the Integration Faction fell into a brief dead silence...