Brutal Feast
The Calamity of Mockery was not stupid.
It naturally didn't expect this bunch of trash to truly be able to defeat that monster, but if... if that monster truly was another self, then the Calamity of Mockery could roughly guess that there was only one way to distract it...
It was just that the Ghost Mockery Abyss was going to suffer a massive bleeding this ti.
Under the Calamity of Mockery's dominating Oppressive Aura, all Calamities within the Ghost Mockery Abyss shuddered. This was especially true for the nurous centipedes; even that Rank 8 Centipede Poison Chief was slightly trembling in fear at this mont... Then, all of their attention fell upon that "pursuer" behind.
They didn't dare to disobey the King's command. They knew too well the King's thods of torturing bugs; those were things even more terrifying than death.
But when they felt the aura of the black shadow coming in pursuit, they froze simultaneously.
Why was it another aura of the King?
And when the rapidly flying beastly Calamity of Mockery saw the densely packed Poisonous Insects below, the excitent in its scarlet pupils grew increasingly intense!
The hideous giant mouth slowly opened, and a slender red tongue licked its lips, like an extrely starved jackal finally seeing delicious food. For a mont, it directly gave up on the fleeing Calamity of Mockery and instead charged towards the nurous bugs below!
To the Calamity of Mockery, there was no food more delicious than Poisonous Insects. Moreover, the beastly Calamity of Mockery's Human Nature was already very weak to begin with. While its beastly nature brought it extrely strong power, it also brought it an extrely strong physiological instinct to feed. Naturally, it very much wanted to catch that identical self to use as a toy, but before that, it was truly too hungry.
The Calamity of Mockery leading it to the Ghost Mockery Abyss was like bringing it to a free buffet. The beastly Calamity of Mockery temporarily gave up on hunting down its toy and instead charged towards those terrified little snacks below.
Under this extrely brutal world-destroying Oppressive Aura, the nurous Poisonous Insects, which were already shivering, beca increasingly terrified. Even the several Poison Chiefs couldn't muster the slightest thought of contending with it, frantically fleeing in all directions!
Venom and flesh flew about in the shattered abyss, and the beastly Calamity of Mockery's violent and hideous laughter resounded through the sky...
A brutal and maddened gluttonous feast of slaughter chaotically unfolded within the Ghost Mockery Abyss.
...
Several streaks of starlight streaked across the sky, like teorites piercing through the dim deep space, falling towards the edge of the city.
"Wow! Shooting stars!"
"Quick, make a wish! Quick, make a wish!"
"I wish for the war to end sooner, and I wish for my little sister's illness to get better as quickly as possible..."
"I wish that we won't have to live in temporary shelters anymore. I want to go back to my little ho. Although... the mortgage hasn't been fully paid off yet, the bank has probably gone bankrupt by now, right? Does that an we don't have to pay it back anymore?"
"I wish that the war and misfortune will stop here, let everything return to how it was before... I kinda miss the days of being a corporate slave every day."
"..."
Seeing several streaks of flowing light suddenly streak across the earth, figures among the ruins of the war devoutly began to make wishes one after another. The more turbulent and chaotic an era was, the more helpless people needed Faith. This was the Walking Stick that could support them through despair.
And on the other side, as the swirling dust silently flew about, several figures supported each other, staggering out from within.
At the sa ti, a figure completely enveloped in starlight rapidly descended in front of them.
Dr. Lu's gaze swept across the crowd, freezing slightly:
"Where is Director Chen?"
Wu Tongyuan and the others exchanged a glance, silently lowering their heads.
Lu Xun furrowed his brows tightly. He didn't know what had happened within the Gray World. He rely received Yang Xiao's signal and imdiately used starlight to guide them back... He couldn't help but anxiously ask again:
"Where is Director Chen???"
"Director Chen... didn't co back." Carrying the unconscious Chu Changqing on his back, Wen Ruoshui spoke bitterly. "To cover our retreat, he stayed behind alone to fight those World-Ending Calamities."
Lu Xun stood blankly in place.
Wu Tongyuan, Wen Ruoshui, Qi Muyun, as well as the heavily injured Ji Xuan, and the unconscious Chu Changqing... These five people in front of him were all personally rescued by Chen Ling. He alone had forcefully snatched back half of humanity's territory from the desperate situation in the Gray World.
Yet in the end... he himself failed to return?
"After they ca out and told , I originally wanted to imdiately enter the Gray World to help Director Chen... But when I was preparing to go in, that rift had already closed." Yang Xiao was also extrely anxious right now. "Old Lu, is there any other way to open a passage to the Gray World?"
Every Extra-dinsional Wake nuclear weapon that Yang Xiao detonated was personally instructed by Chen Ling. Four to five missiles were the limit that Fate Weaving could influence. This last ti when Wu Tongyuan and the others evacuated, Chen Ling directly had Yang Xiao detonate the final four nuclear weapons, simply not leaving any path of retreat for himself... Right now, Yang Xiao could only place his hopes on Earth still having extrely deeply hidden Extra-dinsional Wake nuclear weapons, to give Chen Ling a chance to co back.
"There definitely still are, right!" Wu Tongyuan looked at Lu Xun as if clutching at a life-saving straw. "We were able to reach this step all because of Director Chen... Now that he's trapped in that dangerous world, we won't be completely unable to do anything... right??"
"Perhaps there are still countries hiding Extra-dinsional Wake Missiles? Perhaps... besides missiles, there are other thods to open a rift." Qi Muyun also couldn't help but speculate.
Lu Xun's expression was sowhat ugly. He took a deep breath and spoke in a deep voice:
"I'll go ask again."
After saying that, his figure once again turned into a streak of starlight, disappearing without a trace.
...
"Dr. Lu, I don't understand what you an."
Within the familiar conference room, Lu Xun looked at those figures in front of him with solemn expressions who were also keeping their guard up against him, and opened his mouth wanting to explain sothing more:
"I..."
"Didn't you personally launch all the nuclear weapons? Since that's the case, you should know clearly that we indeed do not have any nuclear weapon reserves anymore. Moreover, with high-precision equipnt gradually failing now, we have no way to manufacture new nuclear weapons anymore."
"Then what about other experints regarding the Extra-dinsional Wake? Perhaps the carrier to open the Extra-dinsional Wake doesn't necessarily have to be a nuclear weapon?"
"The equipnt has failed, and research regarding the Extra-dinsional Wake has also hit a bottleneck. We indeed have no other way."
"..."
Lu Xun's consecutive questions only received one more despairing answer after another. His fists unconsciously clenched tightly, and green veins popped out one by one from the back of his hands.
"Do you have any other questions? Dr. Lu?"
"...No more."
"Then let's adjourn the eting. You launched all the nuclear weapons globally, and the current international war situation has already completely fallen into a Loss of Control... If you don't plan on intervening, I believe we won't need to hold any more etings to discuss these topics in the future." A figure slowly spoke.
"Dr. Lu, from this day forward, we will strip you of all your identities and political rights, and will no longer provide any form of support to you all."
"Good luck to you in the future."
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