The Scorching-Sun Battleship seemed to be sailing slowly in the dark universe, but it was actually traveling at an astonishing speed.
It was a pity that there was still a warped black hole ahead of them, and a seven-day voyage. It was a long journey.
Could the Full-Moon Planet hold out for seven days? Nobody had any hope for that habitable planet with poor productivity and weak organization. However, the people on that planet had given them a pleasant surprise.
"The space crack has expanded, and it's confirmed to be a Class II crack. Some monsters have already appeared, but the speed of infection is much slower than expected."
This was the first official report of the military computer system. Many staff officers, including Jiang Zhixing, were puzzled.
Ceng Ju knew that the Merry Monk must have been suppressing the space crack at the risk of his life, just like he had done on the Huangyu II Planet.
The second report was even more gratifying.
"Due to the lockdown period, all the large aircrafts on the planet are under control, and none of them can take off. But all 9.6 million residents have been evacuated to the underground base, and only three hundred citizens are left outside. "
"Why are there so many people outside? The central computer can't be wrong. "
"Most of these people are former pirates, and their forged simple bracelets can't pass the triple inspection of the base."
"So these idiots would rather take risks outside. Do they really think those monsters are easier to talk to than us?"
The space crack had been suppressed for the time being. The Merry Monk had the situation under control, and the monsters didn't flood. Upon hearing the good news, Ceng Ju felt a bit relieved. Looking at the dark universe outside the window, he calculated that the success rate of this rescue mission was over ten percent.
He contacted Chen Ya, who had just arrived at the Scorpion Tail Nebula, and expressed his opinion.
Chen Ya agreed with his judgment. Without hesitation, he ordered dozens of nearest battleships to set off for the Full-Moon Planet.
But it didn't take long for the situation on the Full-Moon Planet to change greatly. The space crack had expanded for the second time, and the satellites had detected the energy waves generated when the mother nests were killed, and the living beings on the surface of the planet were infected at a high speed.
If the situation went out of control, all the living beings on the Full-Moon Planet would turn into monsters in a short time. What could the Scorching-Sun Battleship do when it arrived at the Full-Moon Planet seven days later? Since they couldn't use the saturation bombardment of the super-limited polyphase nuclear bombs, would they have to dispatch the ground troops?
Compared to the dark torrents all over the planet, the thousands of soldiers on the Scorching-Sun Battleship couldn't even make a ripple.
According to military regulations, under such circumstances, the only option was to retreat and seal off the warped tunnel ahead. By then, the nine million humans hiding in the Base would have no choice but to struggle at the bottom of the Sea of Dark Matter and die ten years later due to the exhaustion of resources.
What kind of despair would that be?
After a few hours of silence, a shrill alarm suddenly rang out on the Scorching-Sun Battleship, accompanied by the startled shouts and even curses of the officers and soldiers.
The crack in space swelled up again. Dark clouds gathered densely, and the atmosphere was extremely chaotic. Gales whistled about.
Nine black hole-like giant hives that could absorb energy slowly appeared on the surface of the planet and then floated above the atmosphere.
Countless amounts of light, heat, and energy were absorbed by those giant mother nests. Although they were unable to see a more precise image, they were able to judge how powerful they were.
"What's going on?!"
"Why are these nests so big?"
"It's over."
"Full Moon Planet is finished! It's all over! "
Ceng Ju's expression was very ugly.
A true Saint's heart would not be disturbed in the face of a great calamity, but at this time, even he had already lost all hope.
Though the regular officers and soldiers on the Scorching-Sun Battleship didn't know what those giant mother nests were and what they meant, Jing Jiu was well aware of it.
Since the rebirth of the human civilization, they had never seen two Virgins appear at the same time.
Yet, there were nine Virgins that day.
If it were in the space, a medium-sized fleet and a few ascendants would be able to kill one Virgins.
But when two Virgins appeared at the same time, the humans had to use twice the force to deal with them; it was not a matter of increasing the number of Virgins.
The seemingly solid dark energy from the deep end of the Sea of Dark Matter was beyond the comprehension of the humans once it was gathered together.
The central computer had come up with a conjecture based on the observation and analysis over this period of time. When the Virgins appeared at the same time, they would probably form a black region similar to the gravitational field. Theoretically, it would take a high number of energy torrents to break through the black region.
They might be able to defeat the nine Black Suns if they gathered the forces of the three major fleets and the ascendants and the native swordsmen. However, it was impossible for more than one hundred thousand battleships to appear in the same galaxy at the same time.
Ceng Ju sighed all of a sudden while looking at the scene on the light screen in Silence.
Lying in the medical cabin, the Fairy Swordsman En Sheng pulled back the mechanical hand and swore.
After a moment of silence, Chen Ya ordered the dozens of battleships to abandon the rescue plan and return to the Scorpion Tail Nebula immediately.
Looking at the milky-like steam, the young woman in the bathrobe by the hot spring blinked her eyes a few times, blinking the scenes in the distant space in her pupils. The green data dropped down like a waterfall. She began calculating the data needed to seal off the warped passage, in order to isolate the planet from the Federation of the Milky Way.
The old man by the seashore inserted the fishing rod into the muddy ground by his side, motioning for Zhuo Rusui to start reciting; he didn't take another look at the planet on the light screen.
No one believed that the planet could survive.
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The Full Moon Planet was hovering in the space in Silence, rotating slowly. The light of the permanent star illuminated the longitude of Foggy City.
The nine Virgins broke through the clouds and arrived at the high altitude of the atmosphere. They looked like nine black dots forming a straight line in the images transmitted back by the satellites on the high orbit.
Innumerable monsters of the Sea of Dark Matter gushed out from the cracks in the space, like the brushes in the game, smearing the black color on the surface at a high speed.
Seeing the scene, all the officers and soldiers were speechless. The Scorching-Sun Battleship was as quiet as a graveyard.
Even though they didn't know what those huge Mother Hives exuding the dark energy were, they could guess what would happen next.
All the lifeforms on the planet would die.
If the nine Mother Hives left the planet and came to another galaxy, how many humans would die?
Could the human civilization withstand such a blow?
"What's going on then?"
A voice suddenly broke the deathly silence on the battleship.
Countless gazes followed the direction of the adviser's finger and landed on a spot on the light screen.
It was the northern suburb of Foggy City, where there were two abandoned farms and a cluster of dormitories that used to be factories. The monsters, like the black tide, flooded this cluster of buildings as if they had flooded other places; but they changed their direction at the remotest building in the lower left corner and took a detour.
In the middle of the horde of monsters, the ordinary residential building was like an indestructible reef. No matter what happened, it would not be swallowed up, and it would not shatter into pieces.
The computer command system of the battleship was connected to the central computer of the Federation at the highest level. Soon, the number of the building was displayed on the light screen.
It was as ordinary as the building, and the number was also ordinary — 720.
The nine Secret Agents were located seventy kilometers to the north of Foggy City. If there was a swordsman in the Inherited Night State in this building, there was no need to fear these ordinary monsters. However, the Full Moon Planet was a remote and backward planet. The Joyous Monk happened to be there; but how could there be a swordsman in the Inherited Night State?
As Ceng Ju was thinking of all this, a sudden change occurred. For some reason, the monster tide that had taken a detour suddenly rushed toward that building … and then disappeared from the screen, replaced by a huge rising fireball.
The person in the building was not a swordsman in the Inherited Night State, but someone more powerful.
Ceng Ju arched his eyebrows slightly and ordered a satellite and the few remaining unmanned drones in the sky above Foggy City to observe that building.
The tranquility of the building didn't last long. The monsters of the Sea of Dark Matter gathered again and rushed over, and the fireball rose again.
The same thing happened four times. At least tens of thousands of monsters had died around that building.
It was then that the Scorching-Sun Battleship had finally received a close-up observation screen.
The powerful computer system on the battleship had preprocessed all the information captured by the satellite and the unmanned drones, and then reconstructed the images with an algorithm.
As the images became clearer, many straight lines could be vaguely seen, on which the flames looked like countless small flags.
The powder around the residential building was piled up, looking like the dark gray snow. Thinking that these were the corpses of the monsters of the Sea of Dark Matter, a peculiar death energy arose spontaneously. However, a piece of music could be vaguely heard in such an environment.
"It's a piano piece." Jiang Zhixing didn't know why he said so at the moment.
"It's Jingyang," Ceng Ju thought. "Who has heard this piece of music before?" he suddenly asked.
The officers and soldiers in the command hall of the Scorching-Sun Battleship eyed each other speechlessly, as they were certain that none of them had heard of this piano piece, which was exceedingly gentle and even a bit lazy.
In the living quarters at the far end of the battleship, a researcher wearing a gray checkered shirt looked at the burning lines on the light screen while holding a cup of jasmine tea in his hand. A hint of excitement showed in the deep end of his eyes, and he had forgotten to drink the tea.
In the next moment, the excitement in his eyes turned into bewilderment, as he wondered who was playing the piano?
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The residential building named 720 had attracted and killed many monsters of the Sea of Dark Matter, but it was impossible to attract all the monsters there. It was because those monsters had no intelligence and no strategy; more importantly, it was because the Snow Girl wasn't willing to do so.
A great number of monsters came out from the cracks in the space. After passing through the mountains and fields, they were infected by even more life forms. They spread out on the surface of the planet like a raging tide. Some of them headed toward the distant cities; some of them had already entered Foggy City. They advanced along the roads, the subway tunnels and the green belts between the tall buildings. Their numbers increased, and their momentum grew more and more formidable.
More terrifyingly, the nine Dark Ones in the upper atmosphere had begun to move slowly.
The black sun had arrived and would destroy this world completely. Boom!!!
Boom!!!
The heavy alloy door was constantly being hit.
The monsters of the Sea of Dark Matter had already occupied an obvious area on the surface of the planet. A few thousand of the fastest monsters, the Dai Xu and the Half Tail, were on the verge of reaching other cities. Foggy City, which was the closest to the space crack, had been completely submerged by the black tide.
This underground base was located in the northern suburb of Foggy City. It was mainly responsible for the shelter of the residents in the dormitories of the factories. It was the closest to the base, and it was also the first to be discovered.
It was unclear how many monsters were bumping into the alloy door at the moment. Those spores would try to penetrate the alloy door until they were smashed into pieces.
The people in the base couldn't see the scene outside the door, but they could hear the banging sounds, which made them feel even more terrified. The smoke and dusts were falling down from above. Those monsters couldn't break open the alloy door, and the spores couldn't penetrate the door either. Yet, thinking that they were so close to the door, who wouldn't feel scared?
There was no one on the semi-circular square with the stairs. Four thousand humans had already retreated to the living quarters at the back of the passageway. The cries could be heard once in a while.
The faint blue glow grew thicker, and the device that generated the gravitational field was activated.
Whoosh!!!
The living quarters were completely isolated from the outside world.
Many people lifted their heads reflexively to look at the outside, but they couldn't see the huge light screen on the square anymore; all they could see was the empty space.
Mistress Eve, who was preparing the housing allocation, lowered her head and looked at the images on her bracelet. Her face was a bit pale, showing a rare feeble expression.
She didn't know if she and these people would be able to leave this place one day.
The humans here and on this planet had no choice but to wait for death or a miracle.
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Seventy kilometers to the north of Foggy City, half of the large mountain had collapsed.
Some life forms hiding in the deep end of the mountain were soon infected by the shapeless dark energy and turned into monsters, heading toward the collapsed rocks.
As the golden glow flashed, those monsters turned into green smoke and disappeared into the empty space.
The Joyous Monk sat up slowly amid the rubble.
The monk robe was already in tatters, so he didn't bother to take another one from the Grand Nirvana.
There were a dozen wounds on the surface of his seemingly thin body. The wounds were not deep, but the golden glow inside could be vaguely seen.
It wasn't the paint of the Golden Buddha that had peeled off, but the clothes of the Physical Buddha were gone, exposing his true golden body.
He was one of the most powerful ascendants in the history of Chaotian. It must be the Mother Nest of the highest state, the Virgin One, that could inflict such a severe wound on him.
Six black suns were drifting to various places on the planet, and the other three surrounded him.
The Virgin One who drifted out from the crack in the space first had many broken tentacles.
One of the protrusions that looked like a small wing under the abdomen of the second Virgin One was broken.
The collapsed mountain was like the factory ruins in the distance, shrouded in a powerful energy that was gloomy and deathly still, full of violent and murderous intent.
According to what was said in Chaotian, this part of heaven and earth was already filled with the surging demonic flames.
The Joyous Monk turned his head to look at Foggy City, which had been flooded by the dark tide. Looking at the indistinct residential building, he thought it was time for the Emperor to strike.
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The time had come.
It wasn't because the universe had sensed something, or the stars were arranged in a certain shape from a certain distance of a certain number of light years. It was because Jing Jiu couldn't think of a better piece to play when the piano tune he had casually played had come to an end, and he suddenly didn't want to play it anymore.
His right hand left the black and white keys, and his left hand left the windowsill.
The sword strings in the sky by the 720th building returned to his body.
The remnant flames hanging on the sword strings fell down like countless small flags; it was a beautiful sight to behold.
The loose blue tracksuit became more fitting, and his childish eyes and brows grew a bit more mature, or in other words, a bit more rigid. Jing Jiu had become a youth again.
Then, he shot a glance at the Snow Girl.
The Snow Girl didn't look at him, nor did she look at a spot in the void like she had done a few days ago, nor did she look at a spot in the north like she had last night.
She suddenly reached out her cute round hand and pointed to the bedroom.
In the bedroom, there was a luggage bag that had been tidied up yesterday and rummaged through today. There were Hua Xi's clothes and some other things.
Hua Xi suddenly became smart. She threw the crumbled bread back onto the table, wiped her hands on her clothes, and ran back to the bedroom. After rummaging through the messy luggage bag for a long time, she found a piece of red cloth.
They had bought this red cloth from the middle-aged and elderly clothing counter on the second floor of the shopping mall in Fog City.
There was a light snap.
The Snow Girl stepped on a frozen pear on the windowsill and jumped back to the sofa.
The frozen pear suddenly turned into mush, and the juice that had a bit of a rancid smell burst out everywhere, and then was instantly frozen into ice.
Jing Jiu looked at the frozen juice and felt that he had seen something similar somewhere.
He had forgotten a lot of things.
There was a blue swimming pool in the modern art gallery under the southern ice cap of the Main Planet, and the oil that represented dark energy kept flowing into it.
That was where the sense of familiarity came from.
For some reason, the temperature in the room dropped sharply. The dripping pipe in the kitchen quieted down, the sea of flowers next door had become an ice sculpture, and the whole residential building had become extremely cold. The chill had even spread to further places.
Hua Xi slept in ice every night — although she didn't know it herself — so her resistance to the cold was very strong. Rubbing her hands that had turned red from the cold, she put on the thickest, self-heating, faux velvet coat and walked to the sofa with the red cloth. She spread her arms and held Xue Gie in her arms.
Jing Jiu picked up his luggage and walked out. Before he went out, he habitually looked at the kitchen to see if the fire was on.
Suddenly there was a cat's meow in the dark corner of the room. It turned out that the pregnant tabby cat was hiding there.
Jing Jiu looked at the slightly bulging belly of the tabby cat and thought of the pregnant woman that Teacher Eve had brought to the base. He hesitated for a moment, walked to the corner, and reached out to pick it up and take it away.
The tabby cat howled, stretched out its sharp claws, and scratched the back of his hand twice as fast as lightning.
Of course, Jing Jiu wouldn't be hurt, but if he left the cat at home like this, he was afraid that it would freeze to death later.
He thought for a moment, and imitated Snow Girl's previous method. He patted his left shoulder with his right hand and released a sword fire.
The sword fire floated in the air of the living room, and the warmth it emitted reduced a lot of the chill.
After doing these things, he picked up his luggage again, held Hua Xi's hand with his other hand, and walked out of the house.
With a squeak, the door was pushed open.
With another squeak, the iron door of Unit One was also pushed open.
After a while, the little tabby cat cautiously walked out of the dark corner of the kitchen. After confirming that there was no danger, it walked into the living room and jumped onto the sofa. It lay down on the spot where Xue Gie usually leaned against. Looking at the ball of sword fire in the air, feeling the warmth, it comfortably closed its eyes.
The squeak could be heard not only from the door, but also from the soles of shoes stepping on the ice and snow.
Jing Jiu and Hua Xi walked out of the door of the unit and came to the flower bed.
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