Apocalypse: I Build A Doomsday Train-Chapter 1085 - 414: Dark Energy
Mo Xiaotian’s fingertips still retained a slight tingling sensation from the electric arcs, but his nostrils were first filled with a salty, nauseating stench. He stumbled as he tried to prop himself up, his palm sinking not into the expected floor of the carriage, but into some kind of viscous, cold granules. Each grain of sand seeped black-red liquid, like crushed, rotten viscera.
"Where is this...?"
His trembling voice was swallowed by the sound of waves. He looked up, and the whole beach appeared in a sickly gray-blue, as if soaked in formalin. At the tide line, instead of shells, were densely packed bone fragments resembling jaws and piles of garbage, colliding with each other as they surged in with the waves, making a cackling laughter sound.
His head was dizzy, trying to stand up, while an icy chill rushed from the soles of his feet straight to the top of his head, making him involuntarily shiver.
In an instant, feelings of weirdness, fear, and confusion constantly burgeoned in his heart. Strange, he was clearly practicing superpower inside the warm carriage just moments ago, how did he suddenly find himself outside?
Crash—
At this moment, the seawater ahead suddenly churned as if boiling. Mo Xiaotian stepped back and trod on a soft mass, looking down to see an inflated giant corpse, out of its decaying skin drilled countless glowing marine lice, with needle-eye-sized compound eyes all turning toward him, making Mo Xiaotian jump and quickly move away, only to find further away, where the sea level should be, a hill-like radiant blue arc light was looming. The seawater split into waterfalls sliding off the smooth surface, as if something was slowly rising from beneath the sea.
"Oo...oo..."
A bizarre humming sound emanated from the seabed, causing the air to tremble. The arc light continued to ascend, revealing a dome-shaped translucent body. It turned out to be a jellyfish with a diameter of hundreds of meters, its umbrella edge curling. From its center seemed to be some kind of luminous tissue emitting a radiant blue light. It appeared breathtakingly beautiful, yet upon closer inspection, one could find black patterns akin to human cranial blood vessels flowing within. Twelve tentacles broke through the water, floating and swirling in the air.
This scene was like an alien creature breaking through from the strange world, a certain chant echoing over the sea making all those who witnessed the enormous jellyfish feel both sacred and terrified at this moment. Consciousness seemed to slide into an abyss, Mo Xiaotian’s eyes widened, his face pale, even as he gritted his teeth, his eyes began to fill with large black bloodshot streaks.
Fear-induced mutation!
Meanwhile, the massive glowing jellyfish slowly flew closer, its cool light illuminating the entire beach, the giant tentacles swirling down toward Mo Xiaotian.
Just as Mo Xiaotian felt the sound of the tide in his ears gradually growing distant and ethereal, suddenly a sharp shout came from the sky.
"Xiao Tian, don’t look!"
Bang bang!
Several sharp sonic booms instantly exploded over the beach, Lin Xian clad in power armor flew at high speed, raising his hand and casting a move toward Mo Xiaotian. In an instant, the Black Star Forge opened, several nano-devices shot out, encircling Mo Xiaotian instantly, wrapping him in outer armor, his cold body immediately enveloped by a supportive warmth as the Life Maintenance System activated.
Before he could react, the power armor’s automatic cruise system had already taken off with him, then wrapped in an invisible telekinesis wave, KIKI and Lin Xian jointly took action, Shi Zhi also immediately activated her superpower, the healing light swiftly purging the dark toxin from Mo Xiaotian’s body, he finally caught a breath inside the power armor.
"Brother Lin, Sister Kiki, I... I didn’t mean to..."
"It’s alright, first adjust your mindset, concentrate, this might be a special level!" KIKI immediately responded.
"The Scion is here!"
At the same time, in the sky above, a fire line streaked across the night sky like a meteor, Lu Xingchen
"What sea oddity, let the Scion—burn the sky and boil the sea!"
Lu Xingchen’s voice wrapped in explosive flames tore through the mist, a crimson figure diving from mid-air. The fiery wings unfolding behind him in the night dragged out a kilometer-long trail of flowing fire. Plasma streams spouting from the joints of the power armor evaporated the mist in a hundred-meter radius into a spiral-shaped vacuum belt. This usually jolly young man at this moment had his eyes shot through with blood vessels, yet his mouth stretched into an almost sinister arc, evidently rage fueled by taut nerves was starting to erupt.
"Divine Infinite Burning Flame Sword!"
Boom!
In an instant, a magma-like scorching white pillar of fire burst from Lu Xingchen’s palm, the Infinite Ring spinning wildly, blue flames spewing forth. The Red Light Flame Sword carried a furious Mach Ring and instantly hit the jellyfish’s umbrella straight on, penetrating through the white biological force field that appeared momentarily, only to be pierced through by Lu Xingchen’s full-strength wrathful strike. As the flame sword swept across, the transparent umbrella edge instantly curled and exploded, decaying flesh carbonizing into sky-black snow under a three-thousand-degree heat, piercing screams filled the steaming vapor over the sea, the luminous organization at the umbrella’s center abruptly contracted, revealing a giant maw covered with spiral patterns.
Beep beep beep.
Lin Xian’s side, the detector had already sounded an alarm, at this moment two squads on the beach marked as Level 4, indicating the glowing jellyfish before them was at least A-level or reached special level!
At the moment the mark took effect, the air seemed to freeze for a second.
From the distant city ruins came the rubbing sound of numerous tiny claws scraping concrete, or like decaying metal being twisted slowly by invisible hands. In the darkness, the glass curtain wall of a certain high-rise suddenly shattered, fragments plummeting like rain, with no footsteps to be heard, only the sound of some viscous liquid dripping echoing from deep within the alley.
