Chapter 292: Star God? Bird God!

The cold wind over the glass earth, carrying fine metal slag, scraped the black stone Obelisk, emitting a dry, harsh screech.

On the central clearing of the Obelisk array, crowds of women, children, old and young filled the space, all mortals dragged out of the underground shelter by Dead Spirits.

They still stand, but their eye sockets have lost all spark.

If there is any emotion left in their eyes, it is perhaps only the instinctual hunger response caused by prolonged famine and cold.

And as Xisi and his group looked, they even happened to see a little girl, staring with a hollow gaze, driven by hunger instinct toward the nearest equally stiff low‑rank Dead Spirit infantryman.

She then stretched out two small hands and bit into the Dead Spirit's living metal.

Although living metal doesn't sound very hard, the girl's bite shattered her own teeth, spitting out a flood of fresh blood.

Yet the girl felt no pain, pressing her blood‑filled mouth against the Dead Spirit infantry and continuously gnawing.

Until a Gauss shot disintegrated the girl outright.

"Take them down; Lord Silent King will need this flesh and blood."

The Silent King has spent his whole life seeking a way to restore Dead Spirits' flesh, and human flesh—cheap and abundant—has become the primary material for the Dead Spirits.

In the eyes of the Dead Spirits, these humans are no different from the rubble and stones they usually see.

They're just things commonly found throughout the galaxy.

At this moment, compared to the heavily consumed women and children, the Obelisk Dead Spirits worry more about the other group of Dead Spirits pursuing from the opposite side—hoping a Gauss shot won't blast the Obelisk they painstakingly built.

Indeed, the Dead Spirits here only worry about that; as for the few hundred human remnants below, they can't even be bothered to glance.

After all, around Alert Star, the Dead Spirits have killed countless humans.

The few hundred people before them aren't even worth a single insect.

It was only that the tomb technician was preparing to have his subordinates cooperate with the other side, lest these humans damage his precious Obelisk.

The pursuing Dead Spirits on the opposite side actually sent a transmission before the tomb technician.

The Dead Spirits' advanced phase communication, with no physical manifestation, transmitted a complete set of data as the tomb technician's eyes flashed with light.

Then the technician, about to lead these tens of thousands of soulless mortals to the living‑body laboratory, suddenly froze in place.

After digesting the information sent by the opposing Nobility, he suddenly looked at the distinctly dressed human among the crowd below.

"What do you mean this kid is a Star God disguised as a human?!"

The tomb technician stared in astonishment at Xisi in the crowd, and after this doubt arose, immediately looked toward the Dead Spirit Nobility pursuing from further back.

His first reaction was that the Dead Spirit nobility on the other side had slept too long and corrupted their core personality.

Otherwise, how could they utter such nonsense in broad daylight?!

"Star God? Bird God!"

Perhaps the tomb technician, who was already sharp‑tongued during the Era of the Fearful Dead, responded with just these four words after hearing the entire transmission.

The opposing Nobility, after a moment's pause at the technician's reply, was instantly stunned.

Then, as he was about to continue explaining, his attendant silently moved away from the console, ignoring the powerful human standing below, and simply sat aside.

The Nobility was even more stunned; following the view cleared by his subordinate, he saw Xisi leading the remnants, standing still, silently watching the scene beneath the distant Obelisk.

Human......

No, the descendants of Xisi's followers!

Their widows are imprisoned in iron cages like pigs and dogs.

The iron cages are so cramped that the humans must hunch over, lying on the ground, limbs curled into a ball.

Through the pale faces of women and children and the stiff, twisted limbs, this undignified posture has persisted for an unknown length of time.

Even now, many have died outright from maintaining the abnormal posture for too long.

The rare chance they get to stretch their bodies is merely to walk from the iron cage to the center of the Obelisk in front of others, used by the Dead Spirits to test how effectively their newly built black‑stone array disperses souls.

The final outcome is becoming soulless zombies, then having their necks bound by Dead Spirits and dragged in rows to the living‑body experiment site.

As a key node in the Silent King's plan for the spirit‑purging dead zone, Alert Star not only hosts extensive black‑stone arrays but also various Dead Spirit facilities.

The living‑body laboratory dedicated to reconstructing flesh has been heavily built due to the sizable remaining human population on Alert Star.

In fact, Sakan and Danika were not unaware of this information; indeed, most surviving humans know it.

However, the dire circumstances force the survivors to ignore it as much as possible.

Or rather, they dare not think further in that direction.

Now, with Xisi leading Sakan and the remaining troops forward, the repeatedly rumored scene finally materializes before their eyes; even the usually composed Sakan's black cheeks flush with large swells of red.

Danika stared blankly, trembling all over as she kept whispering:

"Profane."

"What a blasphemy!!!"

Sakan and Danika represent all the humans behind Xisi at this moment.

Especially the surviving remnants; looking at these women and children, they instantly know they must be from some shelter.

But because the resistance failed, they were all captured by the Dead Spirits.

And when they think that if they fail, their families left in the shelter will suffer the same fate, their chests rise and fall with a fervor no less than that of the fanatical Battle Nun.

This scene even makes the most timid conscripts' eyes redden.

Then, staying true to his usual style, Xisi didn't even issue a battle command; he simply raised the Black Spear, aimed at the tomb technician eyeing him from afar, and pulled the trigger.

Although Xisi's power is greatly reduced before the black‑stone array, he still used Hundredfold Amplification to fire a divine‑energy‑covered explosive shell.

The blast's power isn't great, at least not against the Dead Spirits' living metal.

Yet when Xisi's shell stopped in front of the black‑stone array and fired a divine projectile, the tomb technician, who had ignored Xisi all along, suddenly froze in place.

His red Prosthetic Eye glowed to its limit, watching the divine‑charged blast cling to the black stone Obelisk and rush toward his body.

The divine‑charged blast detonated on the tomb technician's body.

And in the final second before his body shattered completely, the technician's Prosthetic Eye finally flared wildly.

Subspace power, in the Black Stone Array......

Can still use???