Chapter 58 Run!

"No!!!"

When she saw that black "ghost" on the screen, like a tragic knight launching a suicide charge, unhesitatingly rushing toward that terrifying "Stitched Monster", Li Na let out a shrill scream in the Command Center.

Everyone's heart stopped beating at this moment.

It's over.

This was the only thought that popped into everyone's mind.

They couldn't understand why Lin Yuan would do such a crazy thing.

In their view, this was no different from actively jumping into a meat grinder.

However, the next second.

What happened exceeded everyone's expectations.

That "Stitched Monster" didn't seem to expect that this little "snack", instead of running away, would dare to rush towards it.

In its huge blood-red eye, a flash of… human-like, "astonished" emotion flickered.

Its countless blue tentacles, which were dancing wildly, subconsciously wanted to intercept the incoming "ghost".

But the "ghost"'s speed was too fast!

Under the dual superposition of suction and thrust, its speed had already broken through conventional limits!

Those tentacles couldn't react in time!

"Puchi—!"

A dull, disgusting sound, as if something had been punctured, was clearly transmitted to Lin Yuan's consciousness through the vibrations sent back from the "ghost"'s fuselage.

He felt like he was driving a high-speed sports car, crashing head-on into a huge, warm, elastic… jelly.

Then the entire world before his eyes turned into a… blood-red.

He succeeded.

He really plunged head-on into that huge, blood-red eye!

"Roar—!!!"

A roar, not belonging to this dimension and filled with endless pain and madness, exploded across the entire space instantly!

That sound was no longer a simple sound wave.

It was a… a terrifying mental storm capable of tearing the soul apart!

"Boom—!"

In the Command Center, all the electronic devices' screens flashed violently at this moment! Then, with a "pop", they all went black!

Countless sparks erupted from the gaps in the control console!

"Ah—!"

All the staff wearing headsets screamed, threw their headsets away in pain, and clutched their heads with both hands.

Bright red blood flowed from their ears and noses!

Even Academician Wang and Chen Weiguo felt as if their brains had been fiercely stabbed by a red-hot iron rod, causing their vision to go black from the pain, nearly fainting on the spot.

Only Lin Yuan, under the protection of that "Mental Barrier", although he felt splitting pain in his head, managed to maintain a sliver of consciousness.

He "saw".

The moment he stabbed into that blood-colored eye.

The entire body of that "Stitched Monster" twitched violently!

The black vortex in its center had its rotation speed instantly become chaotic and disordered!

That terrifying suction also disappeared along with it.

And those blue tentacles that were originally dancing wildly, as if splashed with concentrated sulfuric acid, began to dissolve and collapse violently, turning into pools of disgusting blue mucus!

Most shockingly, that blood-red eye he had pierced!

It was losing its luster and dimming at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Like a popped balloon, it collapsed inward!

A burst of energy, even more violent and chaotic than the previous suction, poured back out from that collapsed "wound"!

"Oh no! It's going to explode!"

Alarm bells rang in Lin Yuan's heart!

He knew this was an energy counter-shock caused by the biological energy and void energy inside the "Stitched Monster" losing the balance of their "binding point"!

There was only one outcome for this kind of counter-shock—an explosion!

A terrifying explosion capable of completely destroying this pipeline, which was dozens of kilometers in diameter!

"Damn it! So unlucky!"

Lin Yuan cursed in his heart, and without thinking, immediately turned the engine power to the maximum!

"Get out for me…!"

He controlled the "ghost", using all his strength to pull himself out from that rapidly collapsing, increasingly viscous "eyeball jelly"!

Then, without looking back, he fled frantically in the other direction of the pipeline!

"Boom—!!!"

Almost the next second after he escaped.

A silent, yet earth-shaking, violent explosion occurred behind him!

It wasn't light, nor was it fire.

It was a… carnival of energy, black and red!

The black void energy and the red biological energy, like two giant dragons biting each other, were frantically entangled, colliding, and annihilating!

Everywhere it passed, whether it was the hard inner wall of the pipeline or those disgusting hyperplastic tissues, they were instantly torn into basic particles!

The entire interior of the "giant beast skeleton" experienced a terrifying "earthquake" because of this violent explosion!

Lin Yuan felt like a small boat, tossing and turning frantically in a magnitude twelve tsunami.

The "ghost"'s alarm system was already ringing non-stop!

[Warning! High-intensity energy impact detected! "Kinetic Deflection Field" activated!]

[Warning! Fuselage under impact! Left Adaptive Lattice Armor damaged by 15%! Self-repair in progress!]

[Warning! Rear energy pipeline ruptured! Energy reserves dropped to 87%!]

"Damn! Damn! Damn!"

Lin Yuan was scared out of his wits; he only had one thought now—run!

Run as fast as possible!

He didn't even have time to look at the map, just relying on intuition, diving into whatever hole he saw!

He didn't know how long he had been flying.

It might have been one minute, or it might have been ten minutes.

Until the terrifying energy storm behind him finally gradually subsided.

He dared to stop in a cavity that looked like the remains of some huge organ.

"Hoo… hoo… hoo…"

Lin Yuan panted heavily, feeling like he had just finished a marathon, his whole body almost exhausted.

He controlled the "ghost" to check its own condition.

Fortunately.

Except for a large piece of "skin" scraped off the left side by the aftermath of the explosion, and a slight drop in energy reserves, the core components were basically intact.

"Adaptive Lattice Armor", awesome!

"Kinetic Deflection Field", awesome!

He felt full of gratitude towards those scientists who had gone bald from overwork to build the "ghost".

If he had come in the previous "scavenger no. 2", he would probably be nothing but slag after that last hit.

"Command Center? Academician Wang? Chief Chen? Is anyone there? Can you hear me?"

He tried to contact the Command Center.

In the communication channel, there was only static "buzzing" noise.

Communication… interrupted.

That mental storm just now not only destroyed the Command Center's equipment but also temporarily severed the fragile consciousness connection between him and Earth.

"Now I've really messed up."

Lin Yuan's heart sank.

He was now truly alone, trapped inside this huge corpse with a diameter of three thousand kilometers, filled with monsters.

He didn't know the way.

He didn't know the direction.

And he didn't even know if the "Fire Seed" signal he was supposed to rescue was still there.

A deep, cold loneliness and fear surged up like a tide.

Just when he was about to be swallowed by this fear.

He saw something.

Something… that had been blown out from the core of the "Stitched Monster"'s explosion, rolled all the way along, and happened to land at the entrance of the cavity he was in… something.

It was… a piece of flesh only the size of a basketball, entirely presenting a weird, black-and-red color, still beating slightly like a heart…

And in the center of the flesh, embedded was a… pigeon-egg-sized, pure black crystal that seemed to absorb all light…

Lin Yuan stared at that thing, stunned.

He had a hunch.

This was the… core of that "Stitched Monster" just now!

It was the… concentration of all its essence!