Assimilation.
Ogyust's words caused Huai Shi to fall into silence.
He couldn't help but feel a chill under the yellow setting sun.
It was even more terrifying than solidification. It was the phenomenon that Sublimators feared the most.
After leaving the Silver Sea, the Sublimator's Origin Substance transformed from a dissipated state into a soul. While they were resistant to the Abyss, they also lost the protection of the Silver Sea. It was like water vapor evaporating from the sea forming clouds, unable to control themselves in front of the fierce wind. Even with the protection of the Sacred Mark, the disasters that could be seen everywhere in Hell were sometimes still unable to protect themselves.
Compared to solidification, which was one in a million, assimilation was often the outcome of most Explorers.
Eroded by the precipitation of Hell, their consciousness and souls were eternally bound in Hell, gradually becoming shapes and forms that even they themselves could not understand. They wailed day and night, but no one listened. They looked forward to death, but death was far away …
Most Explorers were very happy when they killed, whether it was the enemy or themselves. Compared to those endings that were worse than death, death was simply as beautiful as a dream.
"Condra was with me at that time."
Ogyust suddenly spoke in the fierce wind. Huai Shi turned around and only heard his calm voice. "I was luckier than him. Otherwise, there might have been two people welcoming you there today."
"…"
Huai Shi did not speak.
He stepped on the roof of the car, hanging on to the rope by the safety buckle. He lowered his head and looked at the ground sweeping past in the fierce wind below. Whether it was the desert or the dense forest, between layers of ruins, their faces were revealed.
Roars could be vaguely heard one after another.
It was as if the time to hunt had arrived. Those mutants that had been lurking for a long time were madly fighting in one place. As far as the eye could see, there were traces of fierce hunting and fighting everywhere.
Fierce, cold, and efficient. Once they succeeded, they quickly dragged their prey back to the ruins of their habitat.
It was as if they didn't want to stay outside for even a second.
The world went from static to boiling in just a few minutes. It could be foreseen that after the boiling ended, it would probably return to dead silence.
"Dusk … I mean, is dusk like this every day?" Huai Shi asked.
"Although there are some differences, it's almost the same," Ogyust answered. "Only at this time does this place look like hell."
"What about other times?"
"It's like the basement of hell."
Ogyust thought for quite a while, then seriously told a lame joke. However, Huai Shi didn't laugh at all.
However, Huai Shi suddenly realized something as he looked at the tragic scene below him. "Wait a minute. Are we going to be alright if we just fly across the sky like this?"
He turned his head and looked behind him at the flock of birds that were faintly chasing after them. They looked like falcons or something else, but their bodies were covered in layers of mold and various malformed organs of unknown purpose.
They followed closely behind the ornithopter from afar, but soon, they changed their direction and pounced on the insects below.
"Don't worry, those things won't follow us."
Augustine shrugged calmly. "Because there are things in the sky that are even more terrifying than them …"
What the hell?
Before Huai Shi could ask for more details, she saw the tower in the center of the city tremble. Dozens of chaotic red light beams shot out from the giant sphere at the top of the tower and landed on the ornithopter, retracting as soon as they touched it.
Then, in the sphere that was glowing with sunlight, a cold eye slowly opened.
It looked at them.
The earth rumbled.
The silent ruins trembled. Then, countless buildings flipped over, revealing a dense forest of … anti-aircraft artillery positions.
Damn, how could there be such a thing in hell?
Did they break into a military base?
Huai Shi's eyes almost popped out. He only had time to take a breath of cold air. It added a negligible amount of carbon emissions to this place.
Thunder roared and soared into the sky.
Countless terrifying flames burst out like flowers. With Huai Shi's dynamic vision, after focusing, he could even see how the air was turbulent like water and how the flames spread. In the darkness, cannonballs that were shaped like crossbows and engraved with countless alchemy runes soared into the sky.
Wrapped in a terrifying and vicious curse, those cannonballs left behind green traces that looked like thousands of hands reaching out from the ground and grabbing at them from all directions.
The ornithopter suddenly rose in altitude.
The huge skeleton seemed to be roaring and crying, and rose hundreds of meters in an instant. Huai Shi's vision turned dark. But it was useless. It only increased the distance between them and the ornithopter, which delayed them for less than half a second.
And in this half a second, along with the movement of the earth, a ferocious silhouette suddenly appeared in the approaching sandstorm in the distance.
The storm shook.
Then, a stream of light rushed toward them, blocking the countless cannonballs and the ornithopter. It quickly disintegrated, causing the gray fog to expand and spread in the storm, forming a lead-black cloud.
In the midst of it, a miracle from hell was triggered. Countless alchemy reactions that made Huai Shi dizzy collided one after another, causing a qualitative change, forming a phenomenon that Huai Shi could not understand at all.
Once all the cannonballs flew into it, they quickly disappeared.
They were melted.
Like salt falling into the sea.
In just a few seconds, all the cannonballs disappeared. And under the decay, the gray clouds also began to degrade rapidly, turning into a pungent mottled rain that fell to the ground.
A rusty greenish-bronze color spread from where the rain fell. Among it, plants cast in bronze grew rapidly, with sharp edges and corners, reflecting the iron light.
At this point, how could Huai Shi not know that it was the Grand Master who had made a move?
When he raised his head and looked at the gradually opening sandstorm, he finally caught a glimpse of the Iron Crystal Constellation.
It was on an undulating sand dune, like a blade falling from the sky, from the top of the ruins of a building to the middle, and was stuck.
And the other end was tilted in the air in a way that did not conform to the laws of gravity. Relying on a precarious point, it was tilted high in the air.
That was … a submarine?
The corner of Huai Shi's eyes twitched. He narrowed his eyes and looked carefully. No matter how he looked, he felt that this thing was a f * cking submarine!
It fell from the sky like a traffic accident, smashed into the ruins, and maintained an abnormal tilted position.
The entire Iron Crystal Constellation was a giant submarine …
And on the submarine's body, there were countless layers of alchemy arrays. The arrays extended in the air, intertwined with each other, and gradually disappeared. But the air became viscous, like the sea.
Everything around was forced into a low-gravity environment like the bottom of the sea.
Occasionally, some sand and dust would slowly rise into the air, and then slowly fall to the ground. However, all the birds and other insects that were accidentally sucked into it were instantly crushed by the terrifying pressure hidden within.
The place where it was located had turned into the deep sea.
Now, as the ornithopter rapidly approached, it began to "float" rapidly. As the outermost layer of the array made contact, a huge gap opened in the middle of the submarine. Dozens of workers climbed out and skillfully put the train into the submarine under the command of the radio. Then, the huge ornithopter folded its wings, contracted and folded inwards.
Finally, when it slid down the rails, it had shrunk into a solid iron cabinet more than four meters long.
At the entrance of the Iron Crystal Constellation, Andrea landed and said to Raymond, "You're in charge of the inventory and docking of the supplies. Then let Martin contact the people here and settle the students."
Huai Shi frowned.
"Am I not the one who's going?"
He did not suspect that Martin would seize the opportunity to seize power or make trouble for his students. He was just a little worried that Martin would mess things up.
"Don't you have two students to help you?"
Andrea waved her hand and said, "This is hell. There are no underage protection laws. Even children should come in handy. Besides, Martin just doesn't like to communicate with people. As an approved member of the teaching and research office, he can handle these things."
"What about me?" Huai Shi asked.
Andrea's footsteps paused for a moment, and she turned back to look at him.
"You're going to meet the grandmaster with me."
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The interior of the Iron Crystal Constellation was not as cramped as the outside thought. Although the space was still limited after the expansion of alchemy and could not be wasted, at least it was not so cramped that people could not straighten their backs.
As a mobile branch of the research institute, there was basically no lack of equipment and protection inside.
Even in hell, it was enough to ensure safety.
After passing the verification and inspection and entering the Iron Crystal Constellation, everyone breathed a sigh of relief. Thinking back to the long period of fear, they once again felt the danger of hell.
While the others were relaxing and preparing to eat, take a shower and go to sleep, Huai Shi had already followed Andrea into the core of the Iron Crystal Constellation. They went up the inclined elevator and went straight to the ship's bridge.
In the internal test of the Iron Crystal Constellation, there seemed to be a constant level of gravity. Even though they could see the slanted scenery outside through the porthole, inside, they still felt that they were standing firmly on the ground. There was no abnormality at all.
Huai Shi suspected that there was already a prototype of a mobile border inside the Iron Crystal Constellation. It looked like a submarine was just a layer of shell. The inside and outside were two completely different places.
The Ivory Tower had the money and the ability to do this.
As long as they were in the Iron Crystal Constellation, it was equivalent to being protected by the framework of the Creator. All the corrosion and strange phenomena of hell could not invade. Even if they were in hell that was constantly changing, they could still ensure the basic safety.
And in the heavy internal defense and tight security, there were also countless laboratories and production lines that could respond appropriately to any changes.
Not to mention, there was a grandmaster guarding here.
If he was not afraid of his Crow's mouth, Huai Shi would have said that this time, they could definitely win without any worries.
But how could that old bastard Russell be so kind?
There were definitely more problems waiting for him.
The final door opened in front of him.
He walked into the ship's bridge.
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