My Way

Chapter 1043 Meteorite Fragments
The sky was dyed red by the firelight, and the sky gradually brightened from darkness...

Because of the long distance.

When the earth-shattering explosion came with overwhelming force, a while had already passed since the nuclear bomb was detonated.

of course.

In the instant it swept past with a gust of wind, the fledglings, already trembling with fear from all the noise, swayed wildly from side to side like weeds being blown by the wind, huddling together in a corner, trying to gain a sense of security in this way.

For a while.

Inside the entire nest, the only sound was the rustling of the various structures that had already been built into nests.

but.

It was also at this time.

Perhaps it was because the noise from the nuclear explosion was too great.

Ji Lang, who had been unconscious, slowly opened his eyes.

But all he could see was crimson and fire.

The crimson color came from the corpse of his teammate beside him.

The firelight originated from the mushroom cloud that was still rising in the distance.

Looking at these scenes.

An instinctive thought immediately popped into his mind:

'It seems I'm already dead...'

Is this hell?

His ideas, of course, received no response.

'Ouch...'

next moment.

With this in mind.

Due to weakness and excruciating pain, he fainted once again.

He had only been briefly awake throughout the entire ordeal, and hadn't noticed the fledgling in the corner at all, nor even realized that he was actually still alive...

Seeing this, Ling Wuyuan simply shook his head speechlessly, then looked into the distance once more.

Through the ebb and flow of cause and effect, he was able to clearly judge that things were far from over... or rather, things had only just begun at this point.

that's it.

He was also quietly waiting for things to change in the next phase...

About twenty minutes later.

The brightness of that mushroom cloud has gradually begun to dim, but its presence remains strikingly obvious.

This caused all the mutated creatures in the surrounding area to show expressions of fear.

Meanwhile, Ling Wuyuan silently observed.

In the distant sky, a familiar, enormous figure finally revealed itself once more...

That was the mutated golden eagle that had left earlier.

However, compared to when it left, its current state can only be described as extremely miserable.

The feathers all over its body had lost their original smoothness and shine, and were now completely charred black.

Vaguely.

You can also see that beneath those feathers, even the opponent's flesh is charred black.

Besides.

There were also numerous deep wounds on his body that exposed bone.

One of his eyes was already blind, leaving only a dark, bloody hole.

Even so, it was still tightly gripping a scarlet object, roughly the size of a newborn calf, on its foot...

Look around.

Due to the extreme severity of its injuries, the mutated golden eagle could only be described as having a staggering flight speed, a far cry from its previous top speed, managing only a hundred meters per second.

Moreover, even so.

Even at this speed, it still requires it to exert all its strength to maintain it.

The entire flight path had a rather erratic, crooked feel, much like that of a drunkard.

Finally, after it managed to fly back to its nest...

As if it had exhausted the last bit of strength in its body, it collapsed headfirst into its nest...

It was also at this time.

Ling Wuyuan could clearly see that a large amount of blood, like a trickle, was continuously flowing from its body...

By the way...

At the moment it fell, Ji Lang was just a hair's breadth away from being smashed into mincemeat.

The sound was like a road roller crashing down from a height of several meters...

The enormous commotion that was so close at hand forcibly woke Ji Lang up once again.

then.

As he opened his eyes.

The first thing that caught his eye was a huge claw and a large piece of unidentified substance being held by that claw.

Due to the dim lighting.

At first glance, Ji Lang thought it was some kind of dark red stone.

But after looking at it a few more times, he felt that the thing looked very strange. It didn't look like a stone, but more like some kind of... dried flesh and blood, or a piece of meat that had just been forcibly removed from the specimen.

In short.

It had a rather strange texture.

"..."

It was also at this time.

When he woke up for the second time, he was finally able to see his surroundings clearly.

They saw human corpses all around them.

I saw the fledglings screaming as their parents collapsed to the ground.

They also saw the mutated golden eagle, its appearance utterly miserable, completely devoid of its previous awe-inspiring power.

"...What's all this nonsense?"

He stared blankly at the mutated golden eagle that he remembered as incredibly powerful, with strength comparable to a god descended to earth, but which was now silent and whose fate was unknown.

"Why do you seem a bit dead?"

"Where have you been working?"

His consciousness was still stuck in the moment when he and his companions were ambushed by the mutated golden eagle in the dark. Looking at the scene around him, his brain was really struggling to process what was happening.

He felt that he completely failed to understand the current situation...

At the same time.

Ling Wuyuan, whose gaze could only linger around Ji Lang, was intently staring at the object that the mutated golden eagle had risked its life to bring back.

'Is this a fragment of a meteorite?'

'But why does this thing feel so familiar...'

Familiarity with the literal meaning.

So familiar...it feels like we see each other all the time.

However, because his main body was too far away from this place, and his observation ability was temporarily limited, he found it difficult to understand the actual origin of the thing in front of him for the time being.

The only option was to secretly mobilize the [Heavenly Torrent] to forcibly enhance the power that he could project from a distance, intending to improve his observation capabilities in this location.

however.

even so.

The power he could project remotely was still pitifully weak...

Just when Ling Wuyuan was somewhat troubled by this.

In that distant place.

In the area where the mushroom cloud had not yet dissipated, three figures who had forcibly avoided most of the destructive power of the nuclear explosion through various methods also managed to escape the nuclear blast zone in a very disheveled state.

They then followed the scent and rushed towards the location of the mutated golden eagle's nest...

Among them was even a mutated raptor several times larger than a mutated golden eagle!
In the eyes of that creature and the other two enormous beings, there was an undisguised greed and rage!

(End of this chapter)