Chapter 421: Chapter 421

The tsunami surged violently, thunder roared wildly. Although it was only 3 PM, the entire Haiyan Island felt as if it had fallen into a polar night.

The storm above continued its furious roar. Lin Xian and KIKI hid behind the reef, watching the seabed retreat before the tsunami and the massive creature disappearing into a whirlpool far out at sea. In the next moment, a tsunami hundreds of meters high surged forward.

Lin Xian and KIKI’s power armor impact resistance systems activated. The restraining clamps latched tightly onto the reef, and then, as if the sea itself was rushing backward, the entire beach along with the mountain behind it was completely submerged.

The raging waves swallowed them whole. At this moment, Lin Xian didn’t immediately ascend but dodged the incoming tsunami underwater before flying out from beneath. The two of them skimming the turbulent waves returned to the shore.

“That monster is gone!”

“Did it go into the sea or fly up?”

Lin Xian’s expression tightened. He couldn’t confirm the location of the Oceanic Titan now. The sky was covered with thunderclouds, blocking all light. The sea raged violently. Even on the island, there was no sense of safety.

“That monster is unimaginable to deal with. Even the emperor mech is like an ant in front of it,” Lin Xian gritted his teeth. “But I just tried to cut it. If we can solve the creature’s force field problem, maybe we can try heavy nuclear weapons.”

“You say that like we have nuclear weapons,” KIKI said nervously. “So weird, it came straight for us, like it had a target and could see us.”

Lin Xian’s expression darkened slightly upon hearing this, a bad thought forming. He said,

“Maybe it’s coming for us...”

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They had not fully escaped danger yet. Lin Xian stared at the rushing tsunami below with urgency. “First, find Shiori, then meet up with Teacher Chen.”

The two flew along the ridge toward the island’s interior, heading toward the escape route previously set for Shiori to find her.

At this moment, the storm began to clearly weaken. Suddenly, a signal from Shiori’s power armor appeared on Lin Xian’s communication frequency. He immediately shouted,

“Shiori, where are you?”

“Zzz... zzz... ah...”

The signal was intermittent. Lin Xian watched the positioning marker flicker on and off, moving toward the city area, instantly realizing something was wrong.

“She’s in danger, hurry!”

Accelerating their thrusters, Lin Xian and KIKI streaked like two low-flying meteors, crossing over the mudslide caused by the tsunami, flying from the jungle into the city. At the same time, eerie howls echoed through the dark streets below.

Ignoring everything, they fixed their eyes on the slowly moving coordinate on the screen. The two were approaching the moving Shiori when suddenly, a shockwave explosion erupted behind them. Lin Xian looked up and saw Shiori moving slowly between several abandoned low-rise buildings, with a few pale figures dressed in torn clothing hunting her down!

Those pale figures looked only slightly mutated. Their limbs had been pushed to extreme limits, their faces melting. During the power armor’s locking interval, Lin Xian even noticed their skin slowly stretching and changing, as if the mutation process was reversing.

“They’re human horrors!”

Shiori realized Lin Xian’s arrival and anxiously shouted toward Lin Xian and KIKI, “Those human horrors have very low ability peaks. It’s safe!”

Lin Xian and KIKI rushed in at high speed, immediately attacking. KIKI raised her hand to cast telekinesis, preparing to directly grab the three human horrors. Unexpectedly, this attempt made both Lin Xian and KIKI clearly understand what Shiori meant. One of the human horrors, sensing KIKI’s telekinetic threat, suddenly leaped into the air with a twisted posture, shooting its arm forward. In the next instant, its fingers transformed into dozens of long, thin green tendrils that wrapped around and surged with green electric light toward KIKI and Lin Xian!

KIKI’s pupils contracted sharply. She quickly clenched her fist, condensing the telekinetic density, forcibly freezing the slender tendrils before them. At that moment, the green electric light on the tendrils exploded intensively, releasing a fierce surge of uncontrolled ability fluctuations.

KIKI frowned and instantly twisted the void, pushing the entire cluster of tendrils aside. A green bio-electric arc exploded in the air, tearing through the atmosphere with a destructive force. However, before it could expand, KIKI used telekinesis to trap it all in a ball, then hurled it back toward the monster.

The pale human horror was slammed into a tall building by the telekinetic ball. The green lightning erupted, blasting half its torso apart. The massive shockwave caused the building’s exterior walls to collapse with a loud crash.

Lin Xian rushed to Shiori to block the other two human horrors. One of them suddenly grew a bizarre backward foot and stomped through a wall. The enormous force caused the wall to cave in, creating a deep impact crater. Then, with a speed almost invisible to the naked eye, it launched itself like a cannonball toward Lin Xian. Meanwhile, at Shiori’s side, a very fast human horror flew through the air, closing the distance. This creature had four eyes on its face, glowing faintly red. It aimed four beams at Shiori’s power armor.

But the next moment, before the beams could hit Shiori, they were inexplicably swallowed by a black spatial mass. Crimson light diffused and shone within the lens.

Lin Xian activated the AT force field in mid-air to block the incoming claws. With a loud boom, the powerful impact lit up the hyperstring reactor’s phase halo behind him. Lin Xian frowned coldly, seeing Shiori’s situation. In a flash, he summoned several mechanical arms out of thin air to grab the human horror mid-air, then pointed remotely. The gravitational lens captured the beams and refracted them directly to split the creature in front!

Then, spreading his five fingers, the gravitational lens suddenly expanded and moved forward, swallowing the four-eyed flying human horror, crushing it brutally!

Lin Xian and KIKI decisively eliminated the three human horrors, then immediately took over control of Shiori’s power armor. The three flew toward the direction of the mountainous forest.

“There are quite a few abnormal entities in the city. We need to avoid them first,” Lin Xian panted, glancing at the Dark Mark detector. Finding no fluctuations, he finally breathed a sigh of relief.

“Wow, those three human horrors were no joke. At least 5,000 peak power each. Any normal convoy encountering one would be doomed!” KIKI said to Shiori, “Shiori, how did you get targeted?”

Shiori shook her head. “I was just trying to find you by the sea and got targeted. At first... they still looked like humans, wearing power armor.”

“They just mutated.” Lin Xian analyzed grimly, “They probably couldn’t withstand the Oceanic Titan’s terror invasion. These people are strong. Once mutated into human horrors, they’re even harder to deal with.”

“No wonder.” KIKI responded, “Who are these people? Why are they here?”

Shiori said, “When I fled just now, I saw several small flying machines leaving. They should be from some convoy. Their gear looked very similar.”

“Convoy? Could it be the Sanctum Vanessa mentioned?” KIKI asked.

“I don’t know. It was too chaotic just now. Those human horrors suddenly appeared too. I think they might be working together.”

The three stopped on a hillside, watching the sky as the wind died down and clouds cleared. Lin Xian turned back and said,

“There must be others on this island, but the Oceanic Titan’s appearance was too strange. Fortunately, the storm should be passing.”

Lin Xian checked the time. It was still before 4 PM. If the storm passed now, there would still be daylight. He only hoped the Infinite and other squads wouldn’t encounter trouble.

The red thunderclouds slowly contracted like a closing wound, tearing the darkness engulfing the sky into several pale slits. The murky seawater, mixed with city debris, receded, leaving black sticky slime bubbling on the beach and twisted metal fragments.

“The tide line has receded,” KIKI looked toward the distant coastline. The roaring sea seemed to quiet down, leaving only the rumbling sound of the receding tsunami.

Lin Xian checked the Geiger counter. Radiation levels had significantly dropped, mechanical signals began to restore, and the sky brightened. Sunlight streamed through cloud gaps, casting golden beams onto the sea, as if the catastrophic storm moments ago was just an illusion.

Confirming the situation was improving, Lin Xian immediately flew with the others toward the west coast docking port. Before approaching, they saw entire streets and buildings destroyed. Streets were smashed into ruins by the giant tendrils, the earth deeply scarred. The scene was shockingly grim.

The port’s rail station dome had partially collapsed. Seeing this, Lin Xian’s heart sank. Still in the air, he started contacting via communicator.

“Teacher Chen, can you hear me?”

Unexpectedly, a tense voice immediately responded, “Lin Xian! Are you okay?”

Lin Xian and KIKI exchanged glances. They landed from the collapsed rail station dome’s hollow, and beneath the rubble, saw the Infinite.

Fortunately, despite being covered in glass shards, Infinite appeared intact. The platform it rested on hadn’t fully collapsed either. Chen Sixuan and Miao Lu, fully armed, stepped out of the vehicle. Seeing Lin Xian return, they sighed in relief.

“That’s great. I was worried since we lost contact.”

“Is everyone okay?” Lin Xian immediately asked. “What about Qian Dele and the others?”

Chen Sixuan replied with a frown, “Before you arrived, they had already rushed out. We contacted Monica and Ning Jing’s squads through your drone link. They seem to have encountered trouble. Qian Dele led a team to assist.”

Then Chen Sixuan opened a holographic projection in front of Lin Xian. The image showed a strangely shaped device wreckage resembling a floating airship, surrounded by explosion marks.

“What is this?” KIKI asked.

“Luo Yang said it looks similar to the bait agent device Vanessa’s team used yesterday. We suspect the recent storm was caused by this thing.”

Chen Sixuan looked at Lin Xian with a serious expression. “Someone deliberately released it!”

Lin Xian’s gaze flickered. “I’ll go check it out. You all stay in the vehicle. Don’t go anywhere.”

Chen Sixuan nodded. “Alright, the enemy is prepared. Be careful.”

Seeing the device in the image, although it hadn’t been scanned mechanically, Lin Xian was already 80% certain this was a large bait agent. That means the group probably came for the Infinite.

Thinking of this, Lin Xian’s heart sank. Although mentally prepared, he still found it hard to believe a world-class disaster would occur. He had to understand what happened. The Phoenix Society had classified this as Creature No. 04. If they had encountered it during the Dawn City defense battle, they would have had no chance of victory. But the human horror incident just now made Lin Xian feel this was more complicated.

Without hesitation, he led KIKI and Shiori flying toward the main city district while contacting Qian Dele, Monica, and others.

At this time, after the storm, Haiyan City’s streets were torn into chaos. Broken roads exposed twisted rebar. Glass shards sparkled dazzlingly in the sunlight. The air was thick with the salty smell of seawater and burning metal. From the coastal commercial district in the distance came wild fighting sounds—abilities clashing, monsters roaring, gunfire exploding. Ning Jing’s squad was in the east, Monica’s in the north, and Qian Dele with Lü Chang, Shu Qin, and Luo Yang were supporting from the west. Several blocks were engulfed in battle.

Here, over a hundred Sanctum members clad in black power armor were fully armed. Various vehicles darted through the ruins, bullets flying, ability users moving through air and ground. Meanwhile, many split-tailed horrors, Red Bones, and mutated human horrors among the Sanctum members were launching indiscriminate attacks!

Monica stood on the edge of a half-collapsed tall building. Her silver-white power armor gleamed coldly in the sunlight. She unleashed a powerful sonic roar sword that instantly pierced the head of a sniper hiding on a rooftop about three hundred meters away.

“East rooftop cleared~” Her lazy voice came through the communicator, but her posture was queenly and majestic.

Then she looked down at the street, one hand pressing her earpiece, and said to Shasha,

“Shasha, shoot down their flying machines!”

Shasha piloted the Flying Peach, raising a violent gust and oppressive aura as she rushed out from behind a building. Two plasma high-energy pulse rifles fired blue pulses, instantly blowing up an armed flying vehicle just taking off. Then she began bombing along the streets, relieving pressure on the building.