bookmarkrole Chapter 723 All-Out Showdown
Chapter 723 All-Out Showdown
Chapter 723 All-Out Showdown (4000 words)
The meeting lasted for 10 days and 10 nights, and the human leaders of the five Red Moon worlds were unable to reach a consensus.
Forty-seven days after the opening of the Insect Hive instance, the fluctuation frequency of the Fate Space underwent an irreversible change.
The library's core monitoring nodes show that the entrance to the Destiny Space is slowly expanding, like a malignant tumor spreading across the body of the Red Moon World.
Servilia's voice was unusually calm under the gaze of those pure black eyes: "At the current rate of expansion, the Fate Space will cover the entire city of London in seven months. At that time, all uncontaminated humans will automatically become challengers, and none will be spared."
The silence at the round table was heavier than ever before.
While they were still hesitating about whether to stake the fate of the Red Moon world on the table, the ancient beings that had awakened had already sounded the horn of all-out war.
"beat!"
The library and the nuns stopped hiding their cards and revealed their true intentions.
The Sisters: "We have established a deeper connection with the divine. The divine has told us that there is a core node in the Destiny Space, and if this node is broken, the Destiny Space will be completely destroyed. The aftershocks of this destruction will annihilate our world. Those who survive will be sucked into the ruins of the gods."
"That place could be a divine realm, or it could be a divine tomb."
The nuns were worried that the demons, by corrupting humans and obtaining this information, would break the rift and perish along with the Red Moon world. Therefore, they kept this information a closely guarded secret, known only to the core members of the nuns and the library.
Servilia then added, "Through our calculations and practice, we have determined the location of the node."
The five people decided to commit all of humanity's existing combat power to the most core node of the Destiny Space.
"Current combat strength assessment: The Knights Order has 3,700 available personnel, the Library has 420 available combat researchers, the Mechanical Association has 910 combat units, the Control Council has 170 combat controllers, and the Silent Sisters have 89 combat nuns."
Servilia's voice was low and hoarse: "A total of 5,289 people. This is the total number of heroes in our Red Moon World."
If the operation fails, the rest of us will just have to wait to die.
Of course, if the operation succeeds, perhaps a few lucky individuals will enter the divine realm and continue the civilization of the Red Moon world.
Kaimon: "Where's the node? How do we get in there?"
The nun said, "God will guide us."
The nunnery is located at the bottom of a dried-up riverbed.
The riverbed was filled with the bones of countless otherworldly beings, white, gray, and black, layer upon layer, tinged with a rusty red by the light of the crimson moon.
The gaps between the bones were filled with dried blood, which solidified like cement, transforming the entire riverbed into a massive altar of death.
Tonight, the red moon is brighter than usual.
Inside each skeleton, a dark red fluorescence shone, like ten thousand candles about to burn out being lit at the same time.
The nuns knelt among the bones, forming a circle.
Mother Agatha knelt at the innermost part of the circle.
Her throat emitted a low humming sound, like the vibrations of a bee deep within its hive.
Blood streamed down her forehead, past her tightly closed eyes, past her tightly pursed lips, and dripped onto the bones in the riverbed.
The moment each drop of blood hit the ground, the dark red fluorescence within the bones intensified.
The other nuns also began to bleed.
The blood pooled at the bottom of the riverbed, forming a dark red, slowly swirling pool of liquid.
The liquid rolled inward from the edge, like a piece of paper being ignited from all four corners at the same time, burning inward and leaving a black, non-reflective, and thin void.
At that instant, the nuns began to chant.
The cavity rapidly expanded, and at the very moment the nuns all stopped breathing, it grew large enough for one person to pass through, and remained stable.
Servilia stepped in first: "We lost 89 comrades. They opened the door to war for us with their blood. Warriors, for the world of Red Moon, let's set off!"
They walked through a long, dark corridor and arrived at a prison.
Many corpses lay in each cell.
Ignoring the corpses, Servilia pulled a compass from her cloak.
The pointer spun wildly on the bronze compass, then gradually stopped and pointed forward.
Servilia: "Follow the compass. Where the pointer points is the node of the Destiny Space."
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Lin Xiaohe did not wait any longer.
Although she regained her left arm, right arm, left leg, right leg, and torso, only her head was missing, the other members of her race in the instance sent her some ominous news: the heroes of the Red Moon World were gathering.
It seems the people of the Red Moon world aren't fools; they've chosen to fight!
What finally convinced her to launch a full-scale offensive was the message that a certain space within the insect hive was being opened.
Chen Ying's stomach was very powerful; it digested the skull, as well as the prison and dimensional space inside it.
Therefore, the insect hive and the prison have a subtle connection.
And this prison is being opened.
Lin Xiaohe could guess without even thinking that the person who opened the prison must be from the Red Moon World!
"Rise, my people!"
The gods, whose confinement has been gradually broken, are fully capable of breaking through the final layer of the dungeon's barrier.
At Lin Xiaohe's summons, the gray building existing in a certain dimension trembled violently.
Two hundred and four cells, and the locks on the doors of each cell popped open simultaneously.
The replicas, samples of the alien demon factors, and the "corpses" that he had digested and stored countless times in the cells began to respond to her will.
The prison corridors began to melt, and the gray walls became translucent, revealing a dense network of fine tubular structures made of cellular essence inside.
The door to the first cell disappeared completely.
The corpses exploded instantly, shattering into individual cells.
These cells climbed up the corridor walls, like sea anemones blooming in the deep sea, stretching out their tentacles that had been curled up for who knows how long.
The tentacles pierced deep into the wall, absorbing some kind of energy to quickly replenish themselves.
The cells first divide into five fingers, with distinct joints, complete nails, and clear fingerprints.
After the fingers come the palm, wrist, and forearm.
The grayish-black substance receded upwards along the newly formed limbs, like a snake shedding its skin, revealing the fresh, fleshy, and warm skin underneath.
The skin is a pale, translucent grayish-blue, through which you can see the bluish veins and the deeper, slowly flowing purple blood.
After the arms come the shoulders, chest, pelvis...
Until this cluster of cells divides into a complete, adult male body.
He "stood up" from his cell, naked, looked down at his hands, and then let out a silent roar.
"I, Wu Xian, have returned!"
After him, the cells in the first prison all grew into gray-blue humanoid shapes.
They shouted in unison, "We, the First Clan of Witches, have returned!"
The second cell.
The cells from the exploding corpses began to grow upwards, like a plant that had been watered but had been parched for too long. The first thing to grow was a slender, feminine body.
Its limbs are long and slender, with faint, translucent webs at the joints. They are thin and light, like butterfly wings, and flutter slightly in the air, emitting a very faint, almost inaudible buzzing sound.
Her face was very young, looking no more than twenty years old, and her hair was made up of fine, translucent tendrils that hung down from the top of her head, reaching her waist.
Each tentacle has a pinhead-sized, glowing node at its end.
They drifted slowly in the still air, like the tentacles of a deep-sea jellyfish.
She walks on tiptoe, her heels never touching the ground, like a bird ready to take flight at any moment.
She turned to look at her people who had regrown up, her eyes sparkling with amusement: "I, Wuji, the second clan of Wu, have returned!"
The third room, the fourth room, the fifth room...
Some are enormous, exceeding three meters in length, with skin covered in fine, fish-scale-like scales, each scale slowly opening and closing as if breathing.
Some are extremely small, only half a person's height, their entire bodies encased in a gray, rough exoskeleton like tree bark, with only a pair of deep red eyes shining through the gaps in the exoskeleton.
Some have no fixed shape; they are a semi-transparent gel-like mass that is constantly changing shape, with countless tiny, luminous organs suspended inside.
But they had one thing in common: the moment they stepped out of the cell, all their eyes turned in the same direction.
Lin Xiaohe!
Their immortal leader, the pinnacle of civilization, the revered and great Divine Heir!
Watching her clansmen emerge from the prison like butterflies from their cocoons, regaining their original bodies, Lin Xiaohe laughed heartily, "Hahahaha, just as I thought!"
The moment they stepped into the City of No Return, they entered the deep space of the boundary marker.
The prisons set up for the Protoss, the means to prevent the Protoss from escaping, were triggered in that instant.
Unbeknownst to them, everyone lost their original bodies and fell into the space of fate and the world of the Red Moon.
But everything has two sides. The boundary markers' anti-escape measures prevented the gods from escaping, but at the same time, they also washed away the marks left on the gods by so many cycles of node worlds.
Like a bowl covered in grease, when rubbed at high speed, although there is a risk of it breaking, the grease on the surface is also cleaned away!
The only one who didn't get the complete form was Lin Xiaohe.
She is still missing a head, a head that belongs to her, a head that carries the life essence and destiny chart!
It's okay, she knows where her head is hidden.
Lin Xiaohe raised her right arm and pointed to the prison's core control room: "Go, take it down, smash it!"
The two armies soon clashed.
No need for slogans, just get started!
Kaimon raised the holy silver greatsword, its blade illuminating the corridor.
"kill!"
The sound of human footsteps charging through the corridor exploded.
Silver bullets, alchemical bombs, and holy water shrapnel rained down.
The gods need not dodge. Their bodies are completely impervious to human attacks.
The shaman chanted softly, and the roots of countless plants pierced through the ground, instantly breaking up the human formation.
With a wave of his hand, Wu Xian unleashed flames from the sky!
This battle was almost a complete rout.
The heroes of the Crimson Moon world, with their almost tragic resistance, were nothing more than the struggles of ants before the gods.
The demise of a less advanced civilization is sometimes simply a matter of curiosity from a more advanced one.
Such is the cruel reality of relationships between civilizations in the universe: only when they are evenly matched can they have a say.
Lin Xiaohe pushed open the door to the control room.
The control room was small, only twenty square meters. The floor was a black and white checkered pattern, the ceiling was made of fluorescent material, and the walls were gray and undecorated, looking quite ordinary.
In the very center of the room, a head floats.
Her eyes were closed, her lips slightly pursed, and her long hair swayed slowly in the still air like seaweed in water.
Lin Xiaohe breathed a sigh of relief; she could finally get her body back!
With its head and body connected, the octopus-like body finally completed its mission and vanished into the air like a flower withering.
Lin Xiaohe turned her head, clenched her hands, and let out a comfortable sigh.
Ah, this long-lost body, possessing divine authority and a portion of the boundary marker key!
This is an incredibly powerful eye that can see into the past and the future!
When top-tier software meets top-tier hardware, the effect is far greater than 2!
Lin Xiaohe saw through one layer after another, and then another.
The control room became transparent to her, a cage riddled with holes, woven from chains of cause and effect.
"Tsk tsk, kneel down, this world has welcomed their king!"
She drew a whip from the void.
A gentle flick of the whip.
The whip pierced through the ceiling, through the underlying structure of the space of destiny, through the shadow of the boundary marker, and struck the surface of the red moon directly.
The crimson moon cracked open, instantly shattering into countless tiny, luminous fragments, like a giant mirror being smashed by a hammer.
The fragments scattered in all directions, drawing dark red trails in the void before extinguishing one by one.
The Lord of No Return City and the Lord of Rebirth City stared in disbelief as their bodies cracked open.
How could this be?!
How did she know that the Red Moon was their true form?!
What was that whip? Why couldn't they dodge it even though it wasn't going very fast?
Who exactly is she?!
The two still had many questions, but neither had time to think about them.
Like the heroes of the Crimson Moon world, they are utterly powerless in the face of absolute strength.
The fragments of the underworld and the key to the boundary marker accumulated in the two cities seemed to have their own consciousness and flew into Lin Xiaohe's body.
Lin Xiaohe continued to lash out with the second whip.
The whip struck the floor.
The floor cracked in the middle, and the crack spread outwards. Wherever the crack reached, pieces of the black and white checkered floor peeled away, revealing the primitive, chaotic, and unrestrained void beneath.
The control room began to collapse.
The walls crumbled piece by piece, the ceiling collapsed section by section, the fluorescent lights went out, and the underlying structure of the Destiny Space collapsed layer by layer like dominoes.
The world within the boundary marker began to tear apart inch by inch, and the underworld once again faced annihilation.
In this terrifying, all-consuming chaos, a circular passage slowly unfolds.
Lin Xiaohe stood suspended in the air in front of the circular passage, looking down at the fearful and uneasy life forms in the underworld.
When she led her army to attack the City of No Return, some people did not follow her for various reasons.
Some are unawakened, while others are life forms that evolved on their own within the node world.
Lin Xiaohe flicked her fingers, and green leaves formed a stepped pattern, connecting the passageway to the ground.
"If you want to come with me, get on."