53: Chapter 53 Catalytic Mystery Sequence

Inside the underground pump room, only the monotonous sound of dripping water remained.

The teeth-gritting sound of bones shattering finally ceased. The massive, purplish-black body in mid-air writhed slowly. Dozens of tentacles contracted inward simultaneously, pulling the last leg bone, stained with dark golden ghostly fire, into its abyss-like maw.

Su Yun tightly shut his mouthparts, which were filled with sharp teeth, clamping his upper and lower jaws together with force.

"Crack."

A crisp sound rang out.

Su Yun opened his mouth and spat out a pale wolf skull, covered in cracks and completely drained of its Psionic energy. The skull hit the uneven concrete floor and rolled all the way to Executive Jiang Xu's feet.

This skull of a Half-step King Level entity, which just half an hour ago could have plunged all of Linhai City into a dead end, now had only empty eye sockets left, its internal Origin Law having been scraped clean.

Su Yun's main body emitted low, muffled sounds in mid-air.

Countless lumps bulged beneath his skin, and a purplish-black light flickered at an extremely rapid frequency.

Having devoured a Half-step King Level Strange Tales entity, along with the vanguard troops from before, a massive and complex surge of energy was frantically deconstructing and reorganizing within his stomach sac.

An unprecedented sense of fullness welled up in his heart.

This was the first time he had experienced such a feeling.

Although his growth had only increased by a little over 100 points, he was truly full.

He rotated his hundreds of scarlet eyeballs, his gaze falling once again upon that pitch-black spatial rift.

After the World-Swallowing Prison Wolf was eaten, the monster army on the other side of the abyss fell into a brief, deathly silence.

But just a few seconds later, the thick scent of blood once again stimulated the instincts of the low-level Strange Tales.

A dozen or so [Abominable Grudge Demons] covered in bone spurs crowded at the edge of the rift, poking out their grayish-white heads in an attempt to observe the situation in the current world.

As soon as they poked their heads out, they saw the indescribable mass dripping with purple slime in mid-air, as well as the pile of broken bones on the ground that had belonged to the Half-step King Level overlord.

The Grudge Demons shuddered, letting out terrified wails from their throats, and scrambled backward, desperate to squeeze back into the depths of the abyss.

"Since you've already come, why are you running?"

Su Yun's intent shifted slightly.

The five tentacles closest to the rift shot out instantly, precisely piercing the chests of those few Grudge Demons.

The tentacles retracted violently, pulling them straight out of the passage, shredding them into a mass of minced meat and blood rain in mid-air before tossing them into his abyss-like maw once again.

Cleaned out.

Su Yun controlled his massive body to shift forward.

Hundreds of tentacles pressed simultaneously against the spatial barrier at the edge of the rift.

Purplish-black abyss blood gushed out along the tentacles, weaving into an airtight, blood-colored giant net in mid-air.

The giant net covered the torn spatial passage directly.

Su Yun released the [Void Realm Gnawing] Law he had just absorbed, forcibly bonding the giant net with the Laws of the current world.

The spatial rift let out a groan of unbearable strain.

Under the absolute, violent pressure, the black opening closed toward the center bit by bit, until the very last gap was sealed.

After finishing all this, Su Yun evaluated it with great satisfaction in his heart.

The door was locked.

From now on, this would be his private cafeteria with one-way supply.

Without his permission, the food inside couldn't come out, and the stray dogs outside couldn't even think about getting in to steal a bite.

The broken, ragged anchor point from the Sanctuary that only functioned at a fixed frequency had now been replaced with a top-level status Seal.

Linhai City hadn't turned into a wasteland; instead, it had become an iron barrel with the most solid spatial structure in the world.

A series of fine sounds of brick and stone grinding broke the dead silence.

At the edge of the ruins, Ye Zhiwei supported Executive Jiang Xu as they walked out with difficulty.

The bandages over the blind woman's eyes had long been soaked with blood, and her Omni-dimensional Vision had completely overloaded and shut down under the devastation of the abyss's pressure.

Her frail body swayed violently; she could only lean against the wall to barely support Executive Jiang Xu's weight.

Executive Jiang Xu walked very slowly.

His white trench coat had turned into tattered rags, his left arm was completely carbonized, and deep within the cracked skin, one could even see the pale arm bone.

Yet, his right hand still clutched the dim Spear of the Firmament, holding it upside down.

The spear tip dragged across the uneven concrete floor, creating a series of blinding sparks.

The S-Class Executive's spine remained straight.

He raised his head, his face covered in blood and dust, and looked forward.

In the center of the pump room, there was no abyssal rift, no black passage tearing through the sky.

There was only an extremely massive, airtight, purplish-black giant net of flesh.

The giant net was interwoven from hundreds of twisted tentacles, its edges lined with barbs, nailed firmly to the barrier of the spatial fault.

Within those fleshy gaps, scarlet eyeballs and viscous fluids surged from time to time, completely severing the connection between the two worlds.

The golden Sanctuary Formation originally used to stabilize reality hadn't even left behind ashes.

Replacing it was this patch, welded shut by pure abyssal flesh.

In mid-air, that bloated, indescribable, and massive body floated silently, exuding an extremely high status that made one's Soul tremble.

Executive Jiang Xu stared at that giant net of flesh.

His breathing was rapid.

The excruciating pain from his carbonized left arm made the muscles at the corner of his eyes twitch.

"What did you do to the anchor point?"

Executive Jiang Xu asked coldly. His voice was hoarse and rough.

Su Yun looked down from above at this broken man.

Hundreds of scarlet eyeballs rotated slowly, finally fixing on Executive Jiang Xu.

He did not answer.

Gods do not need to explain the steps of feeding to Mortals.

Su Yun's intent shifted slightly, and a tentacle extended from his main body, pointing toward Su Yao, who was slumped in the pile of rubble below.

A layered, reverberating demonic voice echoed throughout the pump room.

"Tell him."

Su Yao gripped the remains of the crushed communicator tightly with both hands and looked up at Executive Jiang Xu.

The strongest shield of the Great Xia in her past life was currently in a pathetic state.

That Battle Intent, ready to face death, appeared extremely absurd and tragic in Su Yao's eyes.

"Executive Jiang," Su Yao took a deep breath, her words coming out with extreme difficulty, "there's no need to fight. It closed the passage."

Executive Jiang Xu gripped the spear tightly.

"It sealed the passage? That's impossible. Strange Tales from the abyss could never protect the current world."

"It isn't protecting the current world." Su Yao pulled at the corners of her mouth, revealing a miserable smile uglier than crying, "It's just staking out its cafeteria. It ate all the high-level Strange Tales that descended in the first wave, along with that Half-step King Level giant wolf. Not even the bones were left. This net is a door lock it installed itself to prevent other monsters from coming in to steal a bite."

Executive Jiang Xu's movements froze.

His pupils constricted, filled with shock.

Using the abyssal rift as a buffet serving window? Locking the door voluntarily after getting full? This completely shattered the Investigation Bureau's logic library on Strange Tales behavior built over the past hundred years.

Ye Zhiwei lowered her head, her lips turning pale.

Su Yao didn't stop; she continued to say the words that destroyed everyone's defenses.

"It won't destroy Linhai City. Because it said human emotions are the hotbed for breeding Strange Tales. All of us are chives it keeps in a greenhouse. It keeps us alive to provide a continuous supply of food for it."

The air in the pump room froze instantly.

Executive Jiang Xu stood dazed in place.

He turned his head, staring fixedly at the monster in mid-air dripping with purple slime.

A farm. Chives. Captivity.

These words turned into sharp blades, stabbing fiercely into his Sea of Consciousness.

Generations of human pioneers had shed their blood and sacrificed their lives, with countless investigators dying one after another on the battlefield against the abyss.

They thought they were waging a great war to defend their survival.

But in the eyes of this dimensional existence, it was just a group of livestock on a farm struggling to maintain the fermentation process of their feed.

This felt more humiliating to him than being killed outright.

Anger. Extreme, raging fury.

Executive Jiang Xu pushed Ye Zhiwei away.

The blind woman fell to the ground, letting out a low cry of pain.

Executive Jiang Xu didn't notice at all; he knelt on one knee and drove the Spear of the Firmament fiercely into the ground before him.

"Capturing humans?"

Executive Jiang Xu bit through the tip of his tongue.

His essence blood sprayed onto the pure white spear.

His already exhausted Psionic energy boiled instantly.

This was an extremely brutal forbidden technique, igniting all his remaining lifespan and Soul to trade for the Peak strike of his life.

Pure white flames of light soared into the sky.

The gravity field of the entire underground pump room collapsed crazily once again, this time with twice the power of before.

Support columns began to bend, and large areas of the ceiling peeled off.

Executive Jiang Xu stood up.

The carbonized stones on his left arm shattered inch by inch under this outburst of Psionic energy, blood spraying wildly.

"Great Xia cannot be humiliated! Humanity will never be livestock!"

Executive Jiang Xu let out a roar.

He pulled out the Spear of the Firmament, and his entire body transformed into a blinding white meteor, charging straight toward the purplish-black shell in mid-air.

He did not seek to kill the enemy; he only sought to blow this monster and that net of flesh into smithereens together. To perish together.

Su Yun watched that white light burning with life quietly.

He made an extremely rational evaluation in his heart: This man's bones are truly hard; he is a top-tier beast of burden. If he just died like this, who would manage this field of chives for me in the future? A free S-Class thug—even a capitalist wouldn't be willing to bury him.

"You want to die."

Su Yun's reverberating sound waves pressed down like a physical substance.

"Did I give you permission?"

There was no dodging, no defense deployed.

The moment Su Yun's intent locked on, from the center of his massive body, an extremely thick tentacle covered in ring-shaped flesh blades shot out violently.

Its speed completely tore through the Laws of physics.

"Bang!"

The white flames of light collided with the tentacle, but the expected violent explosion did not occur.

The tip of the tentacle extremely precisely avoided the sharpness of the spearhead, swept along the shaft of the spear, and finally smashed directly through the Psionic shield on Executive Jiang Xu's body.

In the instant before Executive Jiang Xu could even react, the tentacle, like a cannonball, pierced directly into his chest.

The tremendous penetrating force pushed Executive Jiang Xu's body flying backward, finally pinning him tightly against the hardest main support column of the reservoir.

Executive Jiang Xu's feet left the ground.

The spear fell from his hand.

A sense of suffocation erupted instantly, accompanied by terrifying pollution.

"If I don't take you, you have to live."

Su Yun spoke indifferently.

His main body began to transmit energy.

A thread of the core Law obtained just now from devouring the World-Swallowing Prison Wolf, mixed with the purest, blind, and idiotic pollution, flowed along this tentacle, forcing its way into Executive Jiang Xu's body like a dam bursting.

This was an unreasonable, forced transformation.

Executive Jiang Xu's eyes widened.

The whites of his eyes disappeared completely, occupied by a dense purplish-black.

The veins all over his body bulged, presenting an extremely eerie dark gold color.

Tearing. Reorganizing. Tearing again.

Those abyssal Laws that were originally meant to destroy his vitality, under the suppression of Su Yun's absolute status, turned into the most efficient repair agent.

Executive Jiang Xu's completely carbonized and ruined left arm emitted a teeth-gritting sound of bones popping.

Beneath the falling stone powder, muscle fibers grew frantically.

Countless dark golden wolf hairs broke through his skin, and several sharp barbs grew out by forcibly piercing through the skin at his elbow joints.

Partial physical characteristics of the World-Swallowing Prison Wolf were forcibly stitched onto this human.

Executive Jiang Xu's original pure Psionic Martial Artist system suffered a devastating blow.

But that thread of abyssal Law quickly took root, reshaping the core in his shattered Qi Sea.

One black, one white.

Psionic energy and the power of the Strange Talk Sequence formed an extremely eerie yin-yang vortex in his Qi Sea.

Repelling, devouring, and finally reaching a perfect balance.

The sequence weapon [Spear of the Firmament] that had fallen to the ground also sensed its master's mutation.

The pure white spear body trembled violently.

Dense abyssal inscriptions emerged on the surface of the shaft.

The dazzling flames of light quickly turned black, and the extremely heavy gravity collapse Law was polluted and mutated.

The spear blade turned a dark golden color.

The once sacred Spear of the Firmament was completely alienated at this moment.

It was no longer bound by order, advancing into a top-tier forbidden item exuding an aura of devouring.

Only ten seconds had passed.

"Pfft."

Su Yun withdrew his tentacle, bringing out a spray of blood.

Executive Jiang Xu crashed heavily onto the ground, splashing a large amount of water.

He lay on the ground, gasping for air in large gulps.

Each breath exhaled a high-temperature airflow mixed with dark golden ghostly fire.

He did not die.

His life Origin was not only replenished, but the power within him had even more than doubled.

He raised that left hand covered in dark golden bone spurs and clenched his fist violently.

"Boom!"

The air was directly crushed in his palm.

The Awakened and the Strange Talk Sequence coexisted.

A human body wielding abyssal Laws.

Executive Jiang Xu looked up at that mutated left arm, his worldview suffering another heavy blow.

The human potential experiments that the Great Xia Supreme Command had spent hundreds of billions on hadn't been able to solve the repulsion problem between the two types of power.

Today, it was solved by a tentacle forcibly "feeding" him.

Ye Zhiwei lay not far away.

Her Omni-dimensional Vision was passively activated for a split second, and she "saw" the dual cores within Executive Jiang Xu.

The blind woman covered her mouth.

The ceiling of Great Xia's combat power had been transformed by a monster into a hybrid mutant.

Su Yun controlled his tentacles to shake off the slime, looking down at Executive Jiang Xu, who was kneeling in the water.

He was very satisfied with this masterpiece of his.

"Go back and get to work. Keep an eye on this farm."

The reverberating voice was layered.

The massive, purplish-black body began to turn transparent without warning.

Accompanying this emotionless command, Su Yun, along with the tentacles dancing wildly across the sky, completely merged into the air.

Not even a trace of Psionic fluctuation was left behind.

On the spatial fault, only the net of flesh that sealed the passage remained, rising and falling rhythmically.

The underground pump room fell into a dead silence.

Executive Jiang Xu reached out and grabbed the dark golden forbidden spear on the ground.

The moment the spear was in his hand, a resonance connected by blood reached his mind.

He stood up, feeling the vast, sea-like new power within him, his eyes filled with extreme complexity.

He had won; he had survived.

The passage was also closed.

But he felt that he had lost completely.

Human dignity had been trampled underfoot, and he had become a high-level security guard personally created by a monster.

Su Yao sat slumped in the pile of rubble, looking at the brand-new Executive Jiang Xu, her mind a tangled mess.

The experience of a Rebirth-er had completely become a joke at this moment.

Suddenly, an extremely shrill air-raid siren pierced through layers of concrete defenses and reached the lowest level of the reservoir.

It was the highest-level red alert of the Great Xia.

Executive Jiang Xu turned his head abruptly, looking outside the passage.

The abyssal crisis had been resolved, but the city-wide lockdown and investigation had not stopped.

The official follow-up troops were closing in on the reservoir.

A more realistic problem lay before him: how was he supposed to explain this abyssal monster-like mutation of his to the Supreme Command?