Eternal Night

Chapter 99: Destruction and Depth

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Wu Xianxiao roared and struck out at the tentacles that were coming towards him with a few claws and palms.

To his surprise, these ferocious-looking tentacles collapsed at the slightest touch. Almost wherever his fist touched, all the flesh and blood began to wither and dissipate.

In the eyes of the others, they saw Wu Xianxian suddenly burst forward, waving his arms at a speed invisible to the naked eye. As his fists swung, they seemed to hit something invisible to the naked eye. Then they suddenly saw withered flesh and blood appear out of thin air, and then turned into ashes.

While they were still in a daze, Wu Xianxiao bumped into them, and one after another they rolled into the military base like a string of gourds. Fortunately, Wu Xianxiao used his skill, otherwise this would have been a series of deaths.

Even so, these people were all dizzy and swollen from the fall, and they rolled on the ground for a while and couldn't get up.

However, there were not only these people in the base. The standing guard team immediately rushed out from the guard room. Each of them was well-equipped and wearing exoskeleton armor. But when they came outside, they did not see any enemies. Only Wu Xianxiao was standing at the end of the corridor and punching non-stop.

With every punch, withered flesh and blood appeared. Wu Xianxiao's palms had been waving to a point that was invisible to ordinary people's eyes, but even so, he was still pushed into the passage by these flesh and blood.

The officer had recovered a little by this time, and he immediately shouted, "Mr. Wu, lie down!"

Wu Xianxiao did not lie down. Instead, he pushed his hands forward vigorously, then fell backward with his whole body. He kicked his feet hard backward, and fell backward into the hall.

Without any orders from the officers, the guards immediately opened fire in the passage.

Their firearms were specially designed with the most advanced high-powered large magazines. Under normal circumstances, it was impossible for any living thing to survive the crazy shooting. Even Wu Xianxiao could not survive such a metal storm.

However, when a metal storm of this scale was launched, the flesh and blood tentacles simply ignored it. All the bullets passed through these tentacles and disappeared, while the flesh and blood tentacles continued to surge towards the hall at the bottom of the passage.

Although the crowd could not see these flesh and blood tentacles, there was no reaction at all when the bullets were fired at them. Obviously, this was the same situation as when they attacked the fake people, and all weapons were ineffective.

The officer immediately yelled, "Retreat! Let's retreat back to the elevator!"

All members of the escort team stood in front. Although bullets were ineffective and they didn't know what was in the passage, their only mission was to follow orders and protect the old man, so they naturally stepped forward at this time.

Wu Xianxiao was standing next to the guard team members. He had originally planned to retreat to the elevator, but suddenly he stopped and looked at the flesh and blood tentacles in front of him thoughtfully. Then he closed his eyes slightly, and after concentrating, the sleepless spiritual light floated out from his sea of ​​consciousness.

As the sleepless aura floated out, everyone suddenly stopped, because at this moment, the underground base space showed its true side. Not to mention the flesh and blood tentacles in the passage, there were also many blood vessel-like substances climbing on the walls, ceiling, and even the ground of this underground base space, and they had seen nothing before.

"Clap clap clap!"

With the appearance of the sleepless spiritual light, all the flesh and blood tentacles became visible. At the same time, the bullets could actually touch these flesh and blood tentacles. With a burst of crackling sounds, these flesh and blood tentacles were actually smashed and beaten back. Once they were smashed, they immediately began to turn into ashes.

Everyone was stunned, having never expected such a change. Then they immediately looked at the white light source floating in front of Wu Xianxiao's forehead.

"What...what is this!?"

The old man's eyes immediately lit up, and he didn't even care that there were still endless flesh and blood tentacles in the passage. He ran directly to Wu Xianxiao's side, looking around at the ball of light, as if he wanted to reach out and touch it.

Wu Xianxiao ignored him completely and just felt the consumption of his sleepless spiritual light. Then he breathed a sigh of relief after ten seconds or so.

This is different from directly touching the pseudo-human. If the sleepless light just shines, the consumption will be very small. At this level of consumption, he can last at least a hundred hours without any problem.

At this time, the guards also came to their senses. They immediately took turns shooting in a well-trained manner and changed the ammunition so that the bullets they fired had diffuse damage and reduced penetrating damage. The same bullet could destroy more flesh tentacles.

At the same time, sharp alarms sounded throughout the military base.

The officer stared at the sleepless light on Wu Xianxiao's forehead, and then looked at the endless blood and flesh tentacles at the end of the passage. He immediately asked the old man: "Doctor! The most important thing now is to destroy these gushing blood and flesh. This is probably the truth of everything!"

The old man also came back to his senses. He looked at the end of the passage and said, "It may not be the real truth, but these flesh and blood must be related to the appearance of the fake city. Before this light source appeared, we couldn't see the flesh and blood tentacles at all, and bullets couldn't hurt them. This is the same property as the fake people... Mr. Wu, how long can your light source last!?"

Wu Xianxiao said: "It should be no problem to continue for dozens of hours."

The old man immediately said to the officer, "Open the topmost closed deck and let the mechas in the base join the battle. At the same time, use ultra-high temperature sulfur flames to block the combustion. Order all personnel in the base to be ready for replacement battles. Also, all researchers come down here and bring down all the research equipment. We will study the reality of these flesh and blood on the spot!"

The officer immediately walked to a certain wall, ignoring the flesh and blood on the wall. He pressed the wall and a screen suddenly appeared there. He then communicated with the personnel of the entire base through this screen. The old man stood beside Wu Xianxiao, still looking at the ball of light. He asked, "Mr. Wu, is this some kind of high-tech creation?"

Wu Xianxiao didn't mind answering, nor did he think of lying. After all, it was only a 24-hour fate. He shook his head and said, "No, this is the sleepless spiritual light, which I cultivated."

"Insomnia...what words does 'cultivation' refer to?" the old man asked with a very strange expression.

Wu Xianxiao didn't know how to explain it, so he thought and said, "Meditation? Thoughts? Or is it the self-evolution of the spirit?"

He said a few words in a row. No one knew how the main brain translated them. The old man actually showed a thoughtful expression and murmured, "So superpowers and the holy name climbing in mythological religions are real? Damn government! They must be hiding a lot of things!"

At this time, the officer came to the old man. He said with an extremely ugly face: "Doctor, Skynet has not responded. Currently, the base is using emergency artificial intelligence to maintain everything, but without the energy hub outside the Skynet integrated base, the plasma isolation layer can no longer be activated."

The old man opened his mouth, and finally could only sigh: "We can only take care of ourselves, fortunately we have Mr. Wu here..."

As they were talking, a large number of explosions were heard from not far away, and a sea of ​​fire appeared at the end of the passage. Under the illumination of the sleepless spiritual light, the flesh and blood tentacles at the end of the passage all withered, revealing a scene of red flames at the end of the passage.

At this time, Wu Xianxiao suddenly said: "I need research information on all the pseudo-humans, lizardmen, illuminators, and underground pseudo-cities in the base. Just find a USB drive and copy it to me."

The old man and the officer were both stunned. The officer didn't say anything, so the old man explained: "We don't have much information. So far, we don't know what these things are or where they come from. If it weren't for Mr. Wu this time, we wouldn't even be able to see these flesh and blood."

Wu Xianxiao shook his head and said, "It doesn't matter, just give it to me."

The old man nodded to the officer, and the officer didn't say much. He turned around and ordered the personnel to do this.

The entire base was fully operational, with a total of more than ten mechas participating in the battle. Above this bottomless pit was a huge alloy enclosed door, which was usually completely closed. However, at this time, with the disappearance of the plasma isolation layer, flesh and blood tentacles poured out of the pit, and the alloy enclosed door was quickly destroyed.

The weapons of more than a dozen mechas were extremely powerful. After the sleepless spirit revealed the flesh and blood tentacles, the mechas took less than a minute to clear them all out. Then the mechas went deep into the ground from the ground and began to clean and burn these flesh and blood tentacles.

The old man and the research team in the base also began to cut flesh and blood tentacles for research.

Because once the flesh tentacles are destroyed or detached, they will completely die within just two seconds, so this kind of research is very difficult. The researchers used ultra-high-speed panoramic photography to capture the moment each piece of flesh was cut and separated, and then judged the flesh composition through the images frame by frame.

At the same time, researchers have been constantly trying various other methods to make the flesh and blood visible, or to damage it without making it visible.

Time just passed by minute by minute.

One hour after the plasma isolation layer disappeared, the officer received a communication from the military zone outside the base.

The country's capital disappeared, and in everyone's memory, their country had no capital!
Four hours after the plasma isolation layer disappeared, the officers could not remember the names of all the military regions in their country.

Nine hours after the plasma isolation layer disappeared, the disposable photographic satellite launched by the military district only captured less than ten crowded places in the country, including villages and towns.

On the eighteenth hour after the plasma isolation layer disappeared, which was also when Wu Xianxiao and his team had less than half an hour left before returning in twenty-four hours, the disposable satellite only captured their city from high altitude.

At the same time, researchers finally made a qualitative breakthrough in their study of unknown flesh and blood.

They discovered that under the irradiation of a certain frequency, the flesh and blood could also become visible, but unlike the illumination of the sleepless spiritual light, the surface of the flesh and blood that was visible under the special radiation was covered with a layer of darkness visible to the naked eye. The darkness was surging and surging, revealing the horrifying images of human bodies, heads, and faces from time to time.

Researchers call radiation at this frequency phantom rays.

Finally, with less than ten minutes left before Wu Xianxiao and Jiujiu could return, Wu Xianxiao made a request to the old man and the officer.

"Give me a set of those high-tech exoskeleton armors you use, the kind that can fly."

Wu Xianxiao held the Bumei Lingguang and came to the end of the passage. He looked at the huge burning pit and said, "I want to go to the bottom of the pit and take a look."

"What is the truth behind all this?"

(End of this chapter)