Returning from the abyss

Deep underground in Kane Fortress, a huge alchemy cauldron is burning with a strong flame. Eski Kane stuffed a huge piece of firewood into the furnace and looked at the rolling dark green liquid with joy on her face. An hourglass was placed on the table behind her, and the sand inside was almost leaking out. .

"Awakening Potion", Kukash called it. Ai Siqi was naturally able to determine whether the potion had the effect described by Kukash, so she was now in an unprecedented frenzy.

One of the founders of Kane Fortress, her father had died of a sudden illness during the war years. But Ai Siqi and Delos perfectly inherited his character and wishes, even more so.

"It's going to be ready soon, it's going to be ready soon..." Ai Siqi kept repeating in a low voice and continued to fill in the firewood. In fact, the temperature here has long exceeded the level that ordinary people can bear. Ai Siqi now has a ferocious face and cracked lips, looking like a madman.

"When will you behave like a lady, sister?" A cold voice suddenly came from the door. Delos opened the door, holding a lunch box in his hand, with a slightly disgusted expression on his face.

"Lady can't let us survive, Delos." Ai Siqi licked her lips and walked over to take the lunch box. "I originally thought that the safety of Kane Fortress had ended our dream. But who knew , it’s just the beginning, we are a group of ants struggling to survive in the hands of the gods... Is there any dream more magnificent than this?"

"I admit that this sounds very tempting, sister." Delos didn't care about the heat in the room. He pulled a stool over and sat down. He watched Ai Siqi open the lunch box and gobble it up, with a hint of anticipation on his face.

"Delos, my good brother. Lord Constantine is a great man, but he is too old and he cannot defeat life through natural means. The same goes for us..."

"...Yes, death can always end everything easily, and even people like my father cannot escape death." Delos held his chin and said with some melancholy, "We have made all preparations to live. But there are too many things that can stop our fragile bodies from moving. If our bodies are strong enough, we may be able to ignore many threats that now seem fatal."

"This is exactly what the awakening potion does. It can revive the dormant part of the blood in our body and return it to the appearance of our ancestors, instead of being a divided and limited species like now. We should have unlimited life and time, Let’s pursue a more high-end competition for survival!” Ai Siqi said enthusiastically, “Even the gods can’t stop us! We should be born free!”

"But I don't believe in the language of God spoken by Mr. Kukash." Delos said softly.

"Ha! We never fully believe it!" Ai Siqi laughed, suddenly jumped up, hurried to the alchemical cauldron, picked up a large metal spoon, stirred it twice, took a spoonful out of it, and poured it in into a basin next to it.

A strange smell emanated from inside, but Ai Siqi took a deep breath and said intoxicatedly: "It looks better."

"Oh? So fast?" Delos was a little surprised.

Ai Siqi pinched a spell to extinguish the flame, then called to Delos and asked him to help take out the contents of the alchemy cauldron and put them in bottles. Both of them were good at precise control of magic, so this task was not very strenuous.

"How are you going to use such a big pot of medicine? If you drink it all, it will kill you." Delos said with a straight face.

"Of course I'll try it with a few people first."

Ai Siqi picked up a few bottles with her fingers and smiled so hard that she couldn't close her mouth: "If it works, then we can share it with everyone. If it doesn't work, that Kukash has deceived us, so let him Taste it.”

"That makes sense." Delos nodded.

The two siblings left the room together and sealed the door firmly.

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Lu Ning's team had already passed through the center of the foggy area after dusk. Their speed was not that fast, and it would take them a day longer than previously expected to reach the Hermit Canyon.

The sample Christine mentioned fell in the southern area, most likely in the Smoker's Forest. But finding such a target in such a large forest is like finding a needle in a haystack. After all, Christine couldn't even provide any data on that thing.

Lu Ning thought about the magic she knew and found no better solution.

Try your luck? This is not a good idea.

"Captain, there's a reaction in front of me. It's a larger creature. Do you want to avoid it?"

"Try to avoid it as much as possible. We are not prepared to cause much damage to the ecological environment here, unless it is the gods or demons again."

Lu Ning replied in a low voice.

"Okay...wait a minute! Captain, something's not right!" Ruidi suddenly screamed.

Lu Ning immediately put her head out to look at the panel in front of Ruidi. After all, she was someone who had been with her for a while, so she wouldn't be so surprised under normal circumstances.

During life detection and pollution monitoring, it can be clearly seen that several light spots disappear instantly, and then small-scale pollution spreads out.

These pollutions are not serious at all, and even the natural purification of Smoker's Forest can eliminate them. The reason why Ruidi was surprised was of course because of the problems behind this.

Why couldn't they find those young demons they saw? Because these little guys have learned to disguise themselves as harmless little animals, the only inconvenient natural light detection in Smokey Forest is the only way to see through them.

Then there is another problem. These cunning brats were killed by something, causing the pollution in their bodies to leak out. However, all detections did not find the attacker at close range. As for the long distance? Lu Ning and his team have just tried it. Although it is not impossible to lock them, it is not very difficult to lock and chase several young demons.

"What's the straight-line distance?" Lu Ning asked immediately.

"About five hundred meters...we are avoiding it!" Ruidi reported.

"It's too late!" Lu Ning stretched out her hand to open the door and jumped out.

What's too late? There was no time to explain. Lu Ning already felt a great sense of crisis, which was a warning from the spiritual sea.

Chi.

There was a clear sound in her ears, like a small hole being gently poked in the balloon, and the gas was leaking in from there.

"burst."

The big explosion knocked Lu Ning to the side, but the place where the explosion occurred was very strange.

An extremely black pointed cone suddenly appeared from the air and stretched at a gradually slowing speed. The flames of the explosion were stuck to the pointed cone the moment it approached, like a pasted-up painting. After the cone stopped elongating, it gradually became thinner and disappeared. But that space became as if it were shrouded in frosted glass, and when the firelight jumped in, it turned into a mosaic.

Lu Ning couldn't even imagine what would happen if he was hit by such an attack.

But fortunately, after the enemy discovered them, they made Lu Ning their first target. A strong wind blew up, and Garuda evoked a storm, temporarily dispersing the surrounding white mist. But there was still no sign of the enemy.

"Christine! Are you there?"

[We are talking in our heads, so you don’t have to be so excited! I can only see your status, you have to describe to me what happened! 】

"I was attacked by something? I can't figure it out. There's just an inexplicable sharp cone——"

Lu Ning quickly described what she encountered. Although she could tell that this was probably caused by that "sample", she still couldn't confirm the attack method until she saw more.

During this period, the pointed cone attacked her three more times, but because of the obvious sound prompts, Lu Ning dodged them all. But she could feel that sooner or later she would be unable to escape if this continued.

【I’m so annoyed that I can’t see it! If only I could use space transfer! What you encounter should be a sample...]

"Didn't you ask me to collect samples for you? Why would Ben hit someone like this?"

[How did I know I could drop a creature directly? According to the physical strength of living creatures in this world, they would definitely not be able to survive an explosion of that energy level! I'm still curious about what this is! 】

"Don't you know these things best? If you can't think of a countermeasure, help me analyze the nature of its attack!"

[The essence of the attack must be to penetrate the world barrier and cause material convection, but you can’t do anything if you know this! That was an attack from another world, and some of its limbs must have not landed here! 】

"Isn't that enough?" Lu Ning suddenly stepped forward and reached out to touch his waist.

【What are you going to do? 】

"Kristine, I can't guarantee you will survive!"

After shouting these words in his mind, Lu Ning's body suddenly collapsed and disappeared into the forest in an instant amid the strong wind around him.

The attack method of material convection can be regarded as unilateral suppression. After all, the opponent does not need to care about the world being destroyed, but Lu Ning cannot let the world he is in be destroyed too much. However, since it can cause convection, part of it must be within this world.

The Smokey Forest straddles the equator and should normally be a standard tropical rain forest. Haifa mainland may have caused some climate changes due to factors such as magic, but in the final analysis it is still hot and hot here.

The bacterial colony began to grow rapidly almost as soon as it landed, quickly forming a coverage advantage in such an environment. The decomposers begin to devour everything in the forest. If they are living things, they will be infected and killed before eating.

The natural disaster named Lu Ning used the power of the wind to sweep across a large forest in an instant. Among them, the target that was attacked but not damaged was very conspicuous.

It is like a starfish, but it has eight arms and legs. It is lying on a tree, and the cluster-shaped eyes that grow from its back are constantly looking around. If Lu Ning hadn't destroyed everything around him in an instant, it would have been difficult to pull this mimicry master out of the tree.

Several eyeballs floated through the air and glared at the sea star monster.

The starfish monster is undoubtedly intelligent. It may have been a little unclear just now because it crashed into the world, but now it knows that it has been found. It immediately spreads its tentacles around, making several "chi" sounds in a row, and suddenly appeared. The sharp cone instantly turns the eyeball into a surface map.

But those are just a collection of bacteria.

Half of Lu Ning's body grew out of the tree, and she had opened up the vision of the two worlds again. At this time, the spell pen in one hand pierced the starfish's body, and the "Plague" in the other hand "Through her alienated vision, she pointed the gun at a silver-white needle.

It still has a few arms and legs crawling like this in another world, and continues to prepare to launch an attack.

boom!

Lu Ning wasn't sure how useful the plague virus was to this thing, so he just used the maximum lethal shot. When the bullet hit the needle, a cloud of green mist suddenly exploded. In an instant, traces of lesions began to appear on those needles.

At the same time, the spell pen also detonated a series of killing spells, opening huge wounds on the sea star monster's body.

Well, it is still just a living thing. Although the appearance has not changed, the intensity has been suppressed simultaneously with the fall to this world.

At this moment, countless dark holes suddenly opened on the body of the starfish monster, and black liquid spurted out from the body. Lu Ning was dissolved by the liquid on the spot without even having time to react. Only the plague fell on the ground and merged with the bacteria. Inside.

The attack method has also become simpler.

Of course, it was still very fast. Although the movement speed itself was not fast, the time from opening the hole to spraying liquid also exceeded the limit of human reaction.

Normal close combat is dangerous. But Lu Ning doesn't need to do this. Now is the data collection stage. She still has to go all out. Except for the cognitive skills she studied before, which are probably useless, everything else will do.

This monster does not have a strong recovery ability. The lesions on the needles are still spreading and the wounds have not closed. In contrast, it has quick attack response and learning ability. Fortunately, Lu Ning obtained it in the first sneak attack. After that, it was hard for her to do any harm to it.

Finally, the movement of the starfish monster slowed down. The evil disease had infected the world along its body. It was twitching and seemed to be using the solution in its body to solve the virus. However, the level of this monster was obviously not the core weapon manufactured by Judgment Island. It also After trying hard to resist for a while, he slowly stopped squirming.

After that, Lu Ning checked several more times. It turned out that this was necessary. This guy actually pretended to be dead the first two times.

It wasn't until she was sure that the dangerous monster was really dead that she sent a signal to the team members to come over. As for Christine, she casually introduced the current situation, and Christine had no objection to the dead samples.

However, Lu Ning was still a little worried.

"Kristin, do you think there is more than one of these things?"

[It's hard to say, but if it didn't happen to fall in, the danger wouldn't be that high. You saw it too. 】

"Except for that outrageous cross-border attack, its other attacks have a very short range and can be solved with over-the-horizon strikes. But what exactly is this thing?"

[Maybe it’s just a starfish, but from another world. 】