110: First Alien Contact

Thirty-six figures descended from the high wall, each employing their own methods, surrounding the spatial node from all directions.

Those like Yang Dian, who primarily practiced martial arts, generally transformed into afterimages, moving at speeds too fast for the average person's eyes to follow.

Awakened individuals had many more techniques.

Some, upon landing from the city wall, were caught by a wave of earth that surged from the ground, then the earth surged like a tsunami towards the spatial node.

Some stood in the shadows, their bodies flickering, disappearing in the blink of an eye.

Others created wind from flat ground, soaring upwards as if floating immortally.

Taking three leaps to reach the top of the shopping mall, Yang Dian looked back at the path he had taken, observing the Awakened displaying their various abilities, and couldn't help but raise an eyebrow.

'Your talent is my talent.'

'Once I've accumulated enough energy, I'll take all of yours!'

Taking a small step back to dodge an X-slash from a Four-Armed Alien Planet creature that had climbed to the rooftop, Yang Dian was about to retaliate when the Alien Planet creature's other two hands, holding stone knives, made a horizontal slash from left to right.

Qi and blood emanated from his hands, forming a bloody smoke that blocked the stone knives.

Feeling the force of the impact, Yang Dian raised an eyebrow slightly.

"The Four-Armed Alien Planet creature's strength is not bad; it's much stronger than a muscular man who regularly works out at the gym."

"In terms of punching power, a single punch is between 600-630 jin, far exceeding that of an ordinary Earthling, but weaker than a Martial Artist who has cultivated Qi and blood."

"Coupled with its four arms and height advantage, if our side doesn't use hot weapons and the enemy is armored and armed, the Four-Armed Alien Planet creature is enough to form a slaughter-level advantage against ordinary people."

He took another step back to dodge an X-slash, then raised his hand to condense Qi and blood at his fingertips, flicking it casually to break the stone knife.

Looking at the Alien Planet creature's emotionless vertical pupils, Yang Dian frowned again and reported:

"The Alien Planet creature's weapons are primitive; the stone knives and wooden swords in their hands are merely sharpened stones and pieces of wood, without any extraordinary power."

He raised his hand and threw a punch at a wooden sword.

"Hiss~"

The Alien Planet creature's arm was bent 90 degrees, but it still held the wooden sword firmly.

His gaze lingered for a moment on the almost imperceptible punch mark on the wooden sword, then Yang Dian took a step forward before two horizontal slashes could reach him, closing in on the Four-Armed Alien Planet creature.

He spun his body, stomped his foot, and delivered a fierce Iron Mountain Lean directly into the Four-Armed creature's chest.

However, despite the fierceness of the lean, Yang Dian did not feel the impact of tearing through flesh and blood or shattering it into pieces.

The moment he leaned into the Four-Armed creature, the Four-Armed creature seemed to turn into a willow catkin in the wind, completely dissipating his strength.

In addition, the Four-Armed creature's chest was like mud, as if it wanted to swallow Yang Dian whole.

"This feeling."

Yang Dian's hair stood on end, and he fiercely punched away the Four-Armed Alien Planet creature's arm that was reaching for his throat, then stomped his foot to pull himself out of the Four-Armed Alien Planet creature's chest.

Before completely moving away, he also snatched the wooden sword from the Four-Armed creature's hand.

He weighed the wooden sword in his hand, feeling its heavy weight, and Yang Dian added:

"The wooden sword's density is extremely high, far exceeding steel, and its toughness is also good."

Turning back to look at the Four-Armed Alien Planet creature, Yang Dian instinctively took two steps back, sucking in a cold breath.

His Iron Mountain Lean was not entirely useless.

At least the Alien Planet creature's skin was broken by his lean.

As for the flesh and blood beneath the skin?

Beneath the skin, it wasn't flesh and blood at all!

It was clearly dense, spiderweb-like mycelium, spreading throughout the Alien Planet creature's body, constantly wriggling and twisting, extending towards the sunlight in the sky, yet continuously charring and emitting charred smoke under the sun's rays!

Swallowing, Yang Dian instinctively touched the Bluetooth earpiece hanging on his ear:

"The Four-Armed Alien Planet creature has no flesh and blood beneath its skin; it's mycelium!"

"They don't seem to be normal life forms; they seem to be parasitized by mycelium!"

"No, I can't confirm if they are parasitized by mycelium, or if the mycelium constructed a body!"

With that, Yang Dian flicked his right hand, and a two-meter-three-long star-light longsword appeared in his hand.

The Alien Planet creature was bizarre, and Yang Dian certainly wouldn't blindly approach it again.

Thinking about how he had just leaned into the Alien Planet creature's chest, and how its internal mycelium had already pressed against his skin through his clothes, even penetrating them, Yang Dian felt a chill down his spine.

"Damn it!"

Muttering, Yang Dian's right hand became an afterimage, making a diagonal slash, and the star-light longsword cut the Four-Armed Lizardmen in half as easily as a hot knife through butter.

But as soon as its upper and lower halves separated diagonally, the mycelium in its upper body began to grow frantically.

In a few blinks of an eye, the mycelium in the upper body dragged itself and rejoined the lower body.

"Mycelium has extreme resistance to blunt force trauma, almost no defense against piercing damage, and possesses rapid growth capabilities."

"When I cut its body in two, the mycelium in its lower body became dormant, while the mycelium in its upper body grew wildly, and the severed body rejoined after 3 seconds."

As he finished speaking, Yang Dian performed a vertical slash with his sword.

The Alien Planet creature, which had just raised its hands again to attack Yang Dian, stiffened and split into two halves, falling to the ground.

Using the longsword to poke at its two halves, Yang Dian discovered something different in its head area.

"The Alien Planet creature is entirely made of mycelium, except for the brain region."

Using the tip of his sword to pick out the blackish-brown hemispherical object, which had been split in two and whose surface was concave, resembling brain gyri, Yang Dian continued:

"In the brain, there's a blackish-brown, spherical object, which I don't know if it's an insect, an animal, or perhaps a plant or fungus."

"After splitting it in two, the Alien Planet creature lost its ability to move."

Noticing that the spherical object he had split in two trembled slightly, he added:

"It's not impossible for it to recover."

As he finished speaking, a clear female voice immediately came from the Bluetooth earpiece:

"The relevant information you collected has been reported to the Research Institute."

"Public Security Officer Yang, phase one information collection is complete. Please leave the vicinity of the spatial node as soon as possible; we will proceed with phase two testing."

"Received."

Upon receiving the instructions, Yang Dian ignored the Four-Armed Alien Planet creatures surrounding him, his body flickering as he turned back, arriving at the base of the city wall in an instant.

Not long after he stood at the base of the city wall, a section of the wall 3 meters to his left suddenly shook, revealing a circular passage two meters in diameter.

After entering the passage and undergoing a series of sterilization, disinfection, and inspection procedures, he was guided by an engineering robot to a temporary conference room inside the city wall.

As soon as he entered the conference room, an Awakened woman, about the same age as Yang Dian, with short hair, and a somewhat neutral appearance, build, and attire, approached him.

"That was awesome, brother~"

"When we go back, can you teach me martial arts?"

"Swoosh~" She mimicked Yang Dian's movement, flicking her hand back:

"Flick your arm, and a two-meter-long, gleaming longsword appears in your hand."

"Then two more swooshes, and you've taken out that Lizardmen."

"It's really too cool!"

Yang Dian glanced at the playful Su Qinglian, then at the combat footage looping on the wall, and instinctively touched his wrist:

"Sure."

"However, after the mission, I have to return to Fuzhou. If you want to learn from me, you'll have to come back with me."

Su Qinglian blinked her eyes and began to flirt with Yang Dian:

"Can't you stay in Chengdu for me?"

Yang Dian raised an eyebrow:

"If you're not willing to go to Fuzhou for me, how can I stay in Chengdu for you?"

"Besides, I'm unfamiliar with Chengdu; I wouldn't even know who to talk to if I wanted to confide in someone."

"How about you introduce your girlfriend to me?"

Su Qinglian's eyes widened:

"Our camaraderie as comrades in arms is not even comparable to my girlfriend's beauty?"

"Brother!"

"You need to pull yourself together; don't let your mind be filled with dirty thoughts..."

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