207: Chapter 207 Desperate Rampage, Giant Maw Devouring the Sky

Chen Du looked up, staring at the massive blood-red eye in the sky.

He flipped his wrist.

The bone gold cleaver let out a crisp, ringing hum.

Shadow Power boiled beneath his feet, looking as if it were ready to slash the firmament to pieces.

In that very second.

A sudden, tearing pain shot through the depths of his mind.

On the cover of the sacrifice notebook, that grotesque mouth stretched to its limit.

Large surges of thick, pitch-black blood gushed from the mouth, instantly staining Chen Du's vision black.

[Run! You idiot! That's a True God lock-on! Rule-level erasure!]

[If you keep acting cool, we're all going to die! I don't want to be buried with you!]

The blood-red writing pulsed frantically, the lines dripping with exasperated panic.

The Heavenly Dao System's countdown flashed in sync, its red light blinding.

09:58!

09:57!

Chen Du's eye twitched.

His Tyrant Aura vanished completely.

"The old geezer doesn't play by the rules."

He turned around without the slightest hesitation.

"Everyone! We're retreating!"

This sudden change of face left Lin Keke, who was standing nearby, completely stunned.

"Great Captain, weren't you just about to go head-to-head with it?"

Chen Du ignored the chuunibyou girl.

Right then.

A dramatic change occurred at the horizon ahead.

The originally calm black ocean surface suddenly bulged upward into a massive mound of water.

It was as large as two football fields.

Rumble—!

The seawater exploded!

Black water filled the sky, pouring down like a torrential rainstorm!

A dark tentacle, over a hundred meters in diameter, pierced straight through the sea surface.

It was an Abyssal Devourer!

But this one was several times larger than the one Chen Du had encountered in the Novice Sea!

The thick skin of the tentacle was covered in rotting flesh and massive, pale white skulls.

With every squirm, it dripped strong acid mucus.

Sizzle—

As the acid hit the sea, it evaporated into a vast cloud of ghastly white toxic mist.

The blood-red eye in the sky cast down a beam of red light, shining directly onto this giant tentacle.

Countless small mouths filled with sharp teeth split open at the end of the tentacle.

An ear-piercing screech rang out, the sound waves causing the surrounding seawater to churn and boil.

"It's an Abyssal Devourer! Peak Overlord Rank!"

Wang Zhen knelt on the deck, clutching his head tightly with both hands.

This S-rank councilman of the Sleepless City had already wet his pants.

"Master... we're dead! We can't escape!"

Chen Du strode forward.

He raised his leg and delivered a heavy kick.

Thump!

Wang Zhen screamed as he was sent flying over ten meters away.

His entire body traced a parabola in mid-air before smashing into one of the speedboats that hadn't been destroyed yet.

"Old Wang, your usefulness hasn't ended yet."

Chen Du leaned his hands on the ship's railing, looking down at Wang Zhen, who was spitting blood.

"Take your remaining broken ships and get back to the Sleepless City immediately!"

"Inventory all the resources for me and wait for me to take possession!"

Hearing this, Wang Zhen couldn't even care about the sharp pain in his chest.

He scrambled toward the speedboat's cockpit, desperately starting the engine.

"Yes! Master! I'm leaving right now!"

The few remaining destroyers and speedboats followed Wang Zhen, turning around frantically to flee in all directions.

Chen Du stood up straight, a cold sneer curling at the corner of his mouth.

The best bait had already been cast.

Even if these scattering warships could only delay the Abyssal Devourer for ten seconds, it would be enough for No. 0819 to pull away.

"Chen Du, they've run away. What about us?"

Xia Mo walked over carrying the sword name, the cold air on the blade biting.

"Us? We're going to sprint!"

Without looking back, Chen Du rushed toward the bridge's cockpit.

He pushed open the alloy door.

He grabbed the seat and sat down with a domineering air.

He pushed the power throttle all the way to the bottom!

"Xia Lai! Light all the boilers! Lock down the pressure valves for me!"

Chen Du grabbed the communicator and roared into the ship-wide broadcast.

Xia Lai's scream immediately came from the bottom deck: "Copy that, Captain! The fuel is topped off! We're ready to go anytime!"

"Keke, go to the stern! Hold it back!"

"Nuonuo, coordinate with the naval guns to clear the waves ahead!"

"Xia Mo, Tang Ran! Stand by!"

Orders were fired off like a machine gun, without any hesitation.

This Metal Fortress, upgraded through warp-jumping, let out a deafening roar.

Boom—!!!

From the bottom of the stern, two thick plumes of black exhaust gushed out.

The propellers beneath the waterline spun frantically, churning the seawater.

36 knots!

Maximum speed!

A massive surge of acceleration pushed them back into their seats.

Chen Du gripped the steering wheel tightly, veins bulging on the back of his hands.

The Pitch-black Ram at the bow sliced directly through the ten-meter-high waves crashing toward them.

The steel fortress jolted violently amidst the wind and rain.

The twin-mounted heavy naval guns on both sides of the deck automatically charged.

Eerie blue beams of light suddenly blasted toward the sea surface to the rear-flanks.

Amidst the deafening explosions, the powerful recoil provided another surge of forward thrust to the fortress.

No. 0819 pulled an incredibly exaggerated white wake across the black sea.

The great escape had officially begun!

Chen Du glanced at the rear-view radar on the console.

The Sleepless City fleet serving as bait were fleeing in all directions.

As the Abyssal Devourer passed by, it didn't even give them a glance.

Its massive tentacles crushed two frigates that were in its way.

The tentacles slapped the sea surface, whipping up a black tsunami hundreds of meters high!

No matter how No. 0819 maneuvered, the Abyssal Devourer's direction remained locked onto the bridge.

This monster wasn't hunting blindly.

The blood-red eye in the sky had completely locked onto No. 0819.

To the god of fear.

S-rank experts and Sleepless City fleets were all just nutrient-free trash.

Only the notebook in Chen Du's head was the true ultimate tonic!

"Staring me down, are you? You really think you've got me?"

Chen Du jerked the steering wheel.

The fortress's hull tilted violently to the left.

It narrowly avoided a jet of strong acid water shot from behind.

The water jet grazed the right-side armor, causing the half-meter-thick special alloy to sizzle as it corroded.

The countdown continued to tick away ruthlessly.

07:15.

Seven minutes remained until the Heavenly Dao erasure.

The entire world was reduced to the screeches of the sea monster, the roar of the engines, and the sound of twisting metal.

A sense of oppression filled every inch of air in the cockpit.

Suddenly.

The radar screen emitted a sharp alarm.

Beep! Beep! Beep!

In the center of the screen.

The massive red dot's flashing frequency grew faster and faster, illuminating the side of Chen Du's face.

In the next second.

A long tone sounded.

Beeeeeeep—

That red dot disappeared from the radar screen without any warning!

Chen Du's pupils shrank.

His hands on the steering wheel suddenly froze.

The sound of the sea wind outside eerily stopped at this moment.

"Captain... the... why has the sky gone dark?" An Nuonuo's trembling voice came from the deck.

Chen Du looked up sharply at the glass atop the cockpit.

The blood-red eye that had been hanging in the sky was gone.

The surroundings fell into an absolute, suffocating darkness.

The sunlight was completely blocked out.

An incredibly pungent stench, like the rot of ten million corpses, pressed down from directly above.

Following it was an abyssal maw so large that its boundaries could not be measured by the naked eye.

Inside, it was lined with layer upon layer of pale white fangs, like a meat grinder.

It was opening silently.

Dripping with black mucus, it descended from the sky, closing in directly over the entire No. 0819 fortress!

This monster could perform Space Warps!

"Everyone, hold on tight!!!"

In the next second.

Chen Du's roar was drowned out by the terrifying shadow of the closing maw.