Chapter 811: The Onslaught of the Abyss Worms
by xennovel“Bastard…”
At the same time, as the Black-clad Bishop coldly declared the truth and led the Abyss Worms forward,
Suddenly, a barrage of bullets crackling with blue electricity flew toward him. Each bullet burst into clusters of blue electric arcs, slamming against the swirling, distorted force field hanging beside the Abyss Worms. It looked like an aerial minefield.
Doctor An clutched a customized submachine gun, forcefully pulling the trigger as she glared at the Black-clad Bishop with pure hatred.
Her eyes shimmered with red as she shouted, “Even I think you’ve gone too far…”
“How can you let people fall into such despair?”
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“Hmph!”
Under the protection of the Abyss Worms, the Black-clad Bishop coldly eyed Doctor An and those who had rushed forward to stop him. “We simply choose the most rational approach at every step,” he declared indifferently.
“If you can’t accept that, it only proves you’re no true researcher.”
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Even as he spoke, his brow furrowed tightly.
Nearby, the Abyss Worms stretched their massive bodies and surged down toward Doctor An’s position.
Their gigantic maws slowly opened in concentric circles, revealing a grotesquely grinning human face at the throat.
A dazzling burst of mental power, like exploding fireworks, completely overwhelmed Doctor An and the few others present.
“Abyss Worm…”
“One of the Thirteen Ultimate…”
“Its nature is to devour—devouring all mental power…”
“Logic Chain…”
“Damn it, what the hell is a Logic Chain?”
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Doctors Wang and Zhang charged ahead of Doctor An, firing their guns rapidly while desperately deploying their abilities.
They hoped to quickly uncover the Abyss Worm’s logic and weaknesses.
But before they could even complete a calculation, the plunging maw of the worm swallowed them whole.
Layer upon layer of gnashing maws ground their bodies into a pulpy mess.
Massive surges of mental power hurled Sissi, A Zhen, Master Li, Doctor An, and the others away in all directions…
“How dare you devour them…”
“How dare you devour them…”
“You’ve eaten them all…”
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Master Li, crashing heavily to the ground, spat a string of curses with bloodshot eyes.
Clutching the control panel, he rose while furiously cursing the worm and directing the remaining electronic flies to charge forward.
“Rat-a-tat-tat…”
Every electronic fly slammed into the Abyss Worm at that moment.
Then, a surge of immense electrical current burst forth, draping the worm’s head in a blue electric net.
But as the fine blue light dwindled, the worm remained virtually unscathed, merely twitching slightly.
In the next moment, an overwhelming wave of mental power ripped Master Li’s body apart amid a torrent of curses.
Thump, thump, thump…
A Zhen’s eyes flashed with red light as both his arms transformed into complex, silver firearms, relentlessly bombarding the worm.
Sissi lifted her head, her blood-threaded arms reaching toward the back of her head.
There lay her last ability inhibitor.
In making that decision, her expression was solemn and tinged with reluctance; she only glanced in Lu Xin’s direction.
She was worried, for she could no longer sense the presence of her friend.
“Abyss Worm…”
Elsewhere, Doctor An pulled out a roughly twenty-centimeter-long glass cylinder from beneath her clothes, inside of which deep blue liquid swirled. Gritting her teeth, she strode barefoot across wild grass toward the worm.
She bellowed fiercely, “So you devour all mental power, huh? Can you devour all of humanity?”
“Come on, sis, let me feed you a real treat…”
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“Humanity’s greatest weakness is its inability to maintain its own sanity.”
“Foolish actions, absurd as they are, still have a way of touching one’s heart…”
Charging like mad toward her and the Abyss Worm, Doctor An and the others were met with the Black-clad Bishop’s icy frown.
He scanned their diverse offensive tactics with cold detachment, then nonchalantly selected a playing card from his hand and casually tossed it aside.
Swish…
Once the playing card left the worm’s distorted force field, it suddenly vanished into the air.
The next moment, a blood-red gate swung open.
A massive tentacle extended from the gate, coiling around A Zhen, who was enduring a relentless barrage from the Abyss Worm.
Even with his semi-mechanical body, under such overwhelming mental power—which felt palpably real—A Zhen was dragged with a wrenching crunch as his body from chest to waist was constricted, deformed, and sparked with fire.
Yet A Zhen remained cold; his mechanical red eyes blazed even more fiercely as he continuously fired special bullets.
Then, in the next instant, the tentacle violently recoiled, yanking A Zhen into the dark red gate.
Crackling sounds filled the air.
From deep within came the sound of shattering parts, and soon A Zhen’s head was flung out of the gate.
The red glow in his eyes gradually faded away.
At the same time, Sissi released her final ability inhibitor, and her body suddenly transformed into countless writhing filaments.
They flailed wildly in mid-air like ropes, lashing fiercely into the Abyss Worm and its distorted force field. A few sharp strands even dashed right in front of the Black-clad Bishop.
Yet even as the blood threads stretched out ten centimeters before him, the Black-clad Bishop didn’t even blink.
Chitter, chitter, chitter…
The blood threads clinging to Sissi, embedded in the Abyss Worm, were rapidly devoured.
The worm’s skin split into countless fine cracks.
Astonishingly, each crack formed a mouth lined with menacing, barbed teeth.
Those sharp teeth clamped onto the blood threads exuding from Sissi, persistently chewing them.
Bit by bit, they devoured her essence while tugging at her body.
The few blood threads extending before the Black-clad Bishop were stretched unbearably until they finally snapped.
Sissi’s body was slowly drawn in, merging helplessly with the Abyss Worm.
In the final moment, she reverted to the form of a small hand and lightly smacked the Abyss Worm.
Meanwhile, Doctor An’s despair deepened as a stray bullet pierced her chest. She collapsed helplessly while the cylinder rolled far out of reach, her outstretched fingers unable to grasp it.
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What felt like an eternity unfolded in mere seconds.
The Black-clad Bishop never paused his march; all he did was toss out a playing card.
“You survive only to serve as a bearer of knowledge—a meager value indeed.”
“In my view, your Moon Eclipse Research Institute is flawed, incapable of nurturing true researchers.”
He walked past Doctor An with cold detachment, crushing her delicate hand beneath his with a crunch.
Pausing briefly, he looked down at Doctor An from above and spoke in a low, commanding voice.
At the same time, behind him, another Abyss Worm’s head frantically stretched forward.
In an instant, it pierced through Lu Xin’s old apartment buildings scattered across the wasteland, sending endless debris cascading down.
At that moment, Doctor An’s eyes finally filled with despair.
She felt excruciating pain in her fingers, yet it was completely swallowed by the surrounding chaos.
She watched as the old building was pierced, and the terrifying, uncanny Lu Xin was being devoured one by one by the Abyss Worm.
She also saw the strange, ceaseless phenomena around her growing increasingly agitated.
Especially that black vine, racing like a giant python toward Lu Xin’s location.
And those it targeted—the Lu Xin she was determined to protect—were now utterly engulfed by glaring red eyes and drowned in profound despair. Even with time running short, she could no longer shout a warning for him to flee…
Flee? There’s no hope of escape now.
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Gurgling…
At that very moment, as the Black-clad Bishop’s shadow enveloped Doctor An’s view,
the Keeper of Fate’s final sigh vanished completely from Lu Xin’s ears.
An endless torrent of strangeness surged forward, greedily and fiercely closing in on Lu Xin, who was utterly sealed off by the Keeper of Fate.
Suddenly, the sound of several helicopter rotors echoed through the air.
“Swish, swish, swish…”
Immediately after, several micro-missiles were ejected, diving toward the ground.
“Blam…”
Within an area spanning at least ten kilometers, several massive, dazzling blue electric spheres exploded violently amid the tide of strangeness.
Horrific electrical currents surged wildly as anguished screams were silenced by the blue electric arcs, reducing them to ash.
One sphere struck with eerie precision, directly hitting the Abyss Worm’s head that had pierced Lu Xin’s old apartment building.
“Boom…”
That worm’s head was even half-destroyed by the blue electric sphere.
From within the shattered flesh, bizarre flesh buds surged forth, writhing and growing.
“Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh…”
Soon after, several helicopters overhead with blaring rotors revealed seven or eight nimble black silhouettes descending, clutching ropes.
Their movements were exceptionally agile, exhibiting feats beyond human limits.
Descending by rope—barely decelerated—it seemed as if they had leaped directly from the helicopters, landing instantly on the ground to guard Lu Xin.
Then, maintaining perfect coordination, they turned and formed a circle around Lu Xin.
They raised their specialized weapons and fired in all directions.
The unified black armed force, donning round reinforced glass helmets and outfitted with custom metallic components at key points, moved with agility far surpassing that of ordinary humans.
Amid the pervasive, bizarre mental radiation, they shot with uncanny precision, dismantling the strangeness.
Negative Zero Unit.