Chapter 420: Chapter 420

At this moment, Lin Xian was absolutely certain that the creature he saw within the cloud layer was, by the Phoenix Society’s standards, definitely a world-class disaster!

He just never expected such a terrifying world-ending creature to suddenly appear above Haiyan Island’s airspace on such a clear afternoon.

Without any warning, it stirred a sense of hopelessness.

The fierce wind howled, tsunamis surged, and the three of them seemed to feel the trembling of the air and the island itself.

At this moment, strange sounds echoed from the island’s ridges, the coastline, and the distant city area. This feeling gave Lin Xian a sense of oppression reminiscent of his time in Star Abyss Sector 5.

“What does that thing want?!”

KIKI’s eyes widened as she stared at the ominous silhouette flashing in the distant high sky amid thunderclaps. She said in disbelief, “Could it be coming for us?”

“I don’t sense that it’s noticed us.”

Lin Xian immediately tightened his fists and said sternly, “That area is the orbital station. This is bad...”

“What do we do?!” KIKI turned her head, her face pale. “Sister Chen and the others are all there!”

The thunderous roar in the sky carried oppressive sound waves and ionization, making it feel as though the entire island was trembling amid the waves. Under the terrifying storm, ordinary people didn’t even dare to raise their heads and look. Lin Xian’s heart raced like electricity as he gritted his teeth, “Rescue them, then evacuate by Sky Dome train!”

Before she finished speaking, KIKI suddenly shouted. Lin Xian looked up to see the sky ablaze with wildfire, thunderclouds pressing down on the dome, and a giant tsunami hundreds of meters high rushing directly toward the western coastal ridge. On the thundercloud, with the rolling thunder echoing, a massive shadow appeared on the peak near them in an instant, like a ruler drifting beyond the atmosphere!

For a moment, Lin Xian felt as if all sound between heaven and earth ceased. The next moment, Shiori’s shocked shout came through the headset.

“It’s coming toward us!”

In the blink of an eye, Lin Xian activated all propulsion systems of his nano power armor. Reflexively, he grabbed KIKI and Shiori and shot backward into the valley!

“Ah!” KIKI hissed sharply as a violent telekinetic wave erupted, instantly leveling half the hill where they had stood and blasting away with tremendous kinetic energy.

At that moment, the speed Lin Xian and KIKI unleashed together pushed the power armor’s load beyond 12G. Shiori’s vision blackened, blood spewed from her mouth and nose, and she was carried more than a thousand meters away.

When she opened her eyes again, she saw hundreds of meters of giant waves surging over the mountains, and under the black clouds, two sky-blocking tentacles swept down like they would cover the sky itself!

The entire ridge collapsed with a roar. The waves and rocks swept down from the sky with immense kinetic force, as if a small landmass had tipped over.

The sudden destruction happened almost instantaneously. Even though Yan Wan and KIKI coordinated perfectly, moving at the slowest possible pace, they were blasted away by the shockwave and slammed into a forest clearing.

KIKI’s telekinetic shield blazed like a burning shell, protecting the eight people as they crashed onto the forest floor, carving a collision pit hundreds of meters long!

“Energy overload! Energy overload!”

Alarms blared from Lin Xian’s power armor system.

“Damn it, why does it seem thing is coming for me?!”

The Oceanic Titan’s movement was like a meteor crashing to earth, instantly destroying half the western coastal mountain range. Lin Xian and the other two could only flee hurriedly like mosquitoes before it, even the shockwave from its wake made their power armor exceed limits!

The tsunami and mountain collapse hadn’t stopped yet when Lin Xian took off again. The three power armors exploded with powerful thrust, breaking the sound barrier in seconds and soaring out from the dust of shattered mountains.

“We haven’t been marked, right?”

Flying alongside Lin Xian, KIKI asked.

Lin Xian had no time to think about that. Turning back to observe the looming shadow in the sky, a sudden massive explosion thundered above like a thunderclap. The next instant, a black tentacle, like a skyscraper, pierced vertically through the downpour!

KIKI reacted first, raising her hand to push a powerful shockwave that sent Lin Xian and Shiori flying apart.

The giant tentacle crashed down with a roar, flickering with a dark red ionized force field. Even with KIKI’s entire body wrapped in a telekinetic shield, she was thrown back by the impact. Facing that enormous tentacle, the three were instantly swallowed by the violent wind like lizards.

The tentacle smashed from the thundercloud directly into the ridge like divine punishment, instantly blasting a mountain hill hundreds of meters high into a landslide. Rocks and mud cascaded down like an apocalypse.

Lin Xian’s blood surged as he was blasted away. He remotely controlled Shiori’s power armor to fly in the opposite direction while fiercely stretching out his right hand toward the black tentacle hanging in the sky. Grasping at the void, his three hyperstring reactor phase halo rings lit up layer by layer as he shouted, “Get back, girl!”

At that moment, a black mechanical gate thundered open high in the sky. The next instant, a mechanical giant arm wielding the Suzaku Plasma Diffraction Sword extended out of the gate. Hundreds of engines roared on the mechanical arm, the elbow rocket thruster spewed high-speed Mach diamonds, propelling the heavy right arm to accelerate fiercely.

This modified Genbu mech’s right broken arm tightly gripped the crimson divine sword, which heated slightly as it sliced through the air at high speed, slashing horizontally at the black tentacle!

Swoosh swoosh swoosh!

The Plasma Diffraction Sword’s earth-shattering slash collided with the dark red ionized field on the tentacle, sparking thousands of electric arcs and intense thermal plumes, illuminating the coastline in the torrential rain for a moment.

Lin Xian remotely controlled this slash through the void, forcibly cutting open about one-third of the giant tentacle. Immediately, the lightning and ionization atop it vanished with the trembling rain and waves!

Just as Lin Xian thought he had seized a chance to retreat, he suddenly heard a tremendous energy blast roar from the sky. The next moment, a wildly violent dark invasive energy surged down the tentacle like lightning, pouring into the ground as dark energy concentrated!

Lin Xian’s gaze sharpened. This was bad.

The tentacle charged straight into the mountain center, flashing dazzling white light. A visible explosion wave carrying destructive thunder radiation spread out!

KIKI was about to assist Lin Xian but was instantly blasted away in midair.

Watching the annihilating thunder, KIKI’s face went pale, her breath momentarily halted.

Time seemed to slow for Lin Xian as he looked at the blown-back KIKI. He clenched his teeth toward the dark sea, and the next moment, both were swallowed by destruction.

Shiori, flying far away, tried to control her power armor to return and support, but the armor was in full AI control mode, and she couldn’t operate it manually.

She turned around, helplessly watching Lin Xian and KIKI being engulfed by the explosion, her face turning deathly pale.

“Hurry... disengage AI control.”

[Level 3 Crisis Remote Control Mode activated, manual takeover unavailable.]

“How... could this happen?”

At that moment, the power armor suddenly transmitted [Remote control disconnected, switching to autonomous mode].

Shiori snapped back to reality. The power armor stopped flying as remote control was lost. She immediately tried to call for help but was blasted away by another shockwave, her vision going black.

After an unknown length of time, Shiori awoke from unconsciousness. Only the alarms inside the power armor and her own breathing could be heard.

[Heart-lung status stable, minor brain impact]

[Surface abrasions: 7 spots]

[Power armor airtightness intact]

“Cough... cough cough!” Shiori propped herself up from a pile of rubble. The joints of the nano power armor scraped loudly. She realized she had been buried under huge stones. Without this armor, the shockwave would have turned her into a puddle of mush.

When she looked up at the sky, her breath suddenly stopped.

That black shadow stretching across the sky was slowly retracting within the thunderclouds. Countless huge tentacles covered the sky and moved atop the clouds. The mountains ahead lay shattered. The collapsing rock masses and hundred-meter-high tsunami advanced together, pulverizing even reinforced concrete ruins along their path.

Shiori’s expression changed drastically. Facing the oncoming tsunami, she immediately flew her power armor high into the sky. The black tentacles had already vanished into the heavens. The HUD continuously flashed a red warning: [Signal Searching], with no sign of Lin Xian or KIKI.

In the muddy tsunami, Shiori suddenly spotted several rolling abnormal entity figures. Extremely anxious, she flew away and hid on a steel signal tower halfway up a mountain.

At this moment, she was isolated and helpless, unable to contact Lin Xian, KIKI, or anyone else. Facing the monsters rushing toward her, she could only evade first and then cautiously investigate the explosion site along the mountain slope.

Lin Xian felt for a moment as if he had died. The first time using the amplified [Energy Leap], he experienced dizziness similar to when using the Flickering Bullet. The difference was he had no idea how far the skill would transport him or what side effects it might have.

He only felt his brain lose all sense of orientation and gravity. Dizzy and spinning, he had appeared somewhere else.

The sound of water pressure made Lin Xian realize he was definitely underwater. Outside the power armor’s holographic interface was a pitch-black abyss. His breath hit the viewport. He felt warmth from the life-support system as the oxygen and pressurization systems simultaneously activated.

[Current depth: 327 meters; water pressure: 42.7 MPa; nano negative pressure layer activated to counteract water pressure deformation]

[Oxygen reserve: 71%; deep maintenance system activated]

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Seeing the situation behind him, Lin Xian immediately searched for KIKI.

He found KIKI’s communication online, turned on the light, and called out. Unexpectedly, KIKI’s hand suddenly reached out to block the searchlight under Lin Xian’s mask.

“Turn off the light!” KIKI’s voice was tense. Lin Xian immediately understood the danger and switched off the light.

Being deep underwater induced a bit of panic. It was worse than when he had teleported into space. The seawater was icy cold, and the pressure was overwhelming.

At this moment, Lin Xian and KIKI maintained silence. KIKI’s voice came through the headset.

“Something’s behind us...”

Lin Xian nodded, “I’ll have the drone draw it away.”

He didn’t know what was happening, but underwater, drones could scout and distract targets.

Lin Xian immediately deployed a deep-diving drone to slowly move behind them. But the drone immediately sent back an alarm.

[Massive abnormal lifeform detected ahead]

Lin Xian and KIKI turned sharply, faces tense, and stopped.

Above the deep-diving drone appeared a pentagonal, blood-red giant mouth. Countless eyes extended along its edges. It was a giant starfish floating in the deep sea, resembling an alien creature. Its body was hundreds of meters long, moving vertically. The giant eyes rotated slowly, illuminated by the drone’s light.

The giant mouth suddenly snapped open wide, extending hundreds of thin tentacles to capture the drone and quickly dragging it inside.

The deep sea plunged into darkness again.

“That’s a huge starfish.”

Lin Xian grabbed KIKI and slowly retreated using the power armor’s propulsion system, ascending toward the surface.

Looking back, they saw more giant starfish moving like an army beneath the deep sea. The eerie scene sent chills down their spines.

Rumble rumble rumble.

At this moment, a huge dark current surged beneath the ocean like an earthquake shaking the seabed. The water flow became chaotic. Lin Xian checked the power armor’s scanner and detected a giant creature diving nearby. Furious waves began to surge.

“That’s the world-class creature!” KIKI said.

After retreating from the terrifying abyssal starfish, Lin Xian prepared to activate the thrusters and leave the area. Just then, his gaze caught a strange slender figure radiating silver light, like a sharp sword piercing down from above the water surface.

Lin Xian immediately recognized it as the humanoid alien-like monster they had encountered before at Taku Deepwater Port.

KIKI also noticed it and quickly formed a telekinetic bubble around the two of them. The monster seemed oblivious to Lin Xian and KIKI and directly fled toward the deep ocean. Strangely, it was enveloped in an opaque cylindrical bubble that did not disturb the water, disappearing at unimaginable speed.

At the same time, the violent underwater earthquake intensified. The entire deepwater area grew dark and murky. Dark vortex currents furiously swallowed them down. Lin Xian immediately and decisively activated the thrusters with KIKI, rushing toward the surface at full speed.

“How did that thing ? Could it be related to the Oceanic Titan?” KIKI asked reflexively.

“Let’s get out of the water first!”

Lin Xian used Energy Leap to escape, suddenly surging deep into the ocean. The distance was several kilometers, far beyond his expectations even after fully unleashing the hyperstring reactor phase halos. Luckily, he had saved KIKI at the explosion’s critical moment. Now, he just wanted to rush out of the eerie deep ocean.

The power armor’s pressurization system quickly balanced the changing water pressure. Thanks to the heat exchanger, even in the icy depths, his body temperature remained unaffected.

Fortunately, he had equipped the team with complete stellar-class power armor, each like an Iron Man, giving them the survival capability they needed.

Soon, Lin Xian and KIKI burst out of the water. The sea surface boiled as tens-of-meters-high waves surged violently in the storm. The dark Pacific Ocean seemed to release waves of rage. Thunder rolled continuously overhead.

In the distance, a towering giant monster roared in the storm and lightning. Each of its massive tentacles could flip a cruise ship. Its full form was impossible to see. The Oceanic Titan seemed to stand between the sea and atmosphere, revealing its towering evil godly form. Just a glance could make one’s sanity plummet wildly.

Seeing this, Lin Xian wasted no words and, alongside KIKI, flew at full speed close to the raging waves toward the shore.

Amid the tsunami’s wild surges, they hid behind a huge rocky reef. Looking back, they saw the world-class disaster slowly descending, stepping on the seabed and moving toward the deep Pacific Ocean.

It seemed KIKI’s prediction was right—the direction was exactly where the silver monster had fled!