265: Should I avoid its edge?

No, it shouldn't be described as a collapse.

It should be said that subterranean creatures were excavating earth and rock, causing the soil on both sides of the sinkhole to fill towards its interior.

“They are building a passage from the bottom of the sinkhole to the surface,” Yang Dian said.

As soon as Yang Dian finished speaking, a circle of azure blue light emerged from within the sinkhole, expanding beyond the mountains in an instant.

The drone swarm in the sky crashed, one after another, and the few missile launchers on the ground all went silent.

The new wristband Yang Dian had just put on also emitted a scorched smell.

A dull thudding sound echoed from the sinkhole passage, and Yang Dian frowned, saying,

“Are all those guys underground so smart? They know to send out a pulse wave to clear high-tech weapons before showing themselves?”

Old Daoist Qingfeng also frowned and said,

“Is it possible that this blue pulse wave only represents a certain deterrent underground, and the stronger the Awakened, the stronger the pulse wave?”

“They themselves don't know that the pulse wave can destroy our technological weapons. Are they just habitually displaying their strength?”

Yang Dian nodded:

“That's possible.”

During their conversation, the dull thudding sound grew closer.

Amidst the dull thudding, Yang Dian also heard many nimble scuttling sounds.

“They're here.”

As his voice fell, creatures, each less than three meters tall, with colorful scales, colored bone spines growing behind their necks, and resembling late Jurassic Corythosaurus, rushed out of the sinkhole along the collapsed slope, roaring at the sky.

Yang Dian, who was the first to smell a sweet scent, his pupils constricted sharply:

“It's poisonous!”

As he spoke, Li Gu, whose Awakened ability was smell, was the first to collapse to the ground.

Looking at his colorful appearance, it was uncertain if he would survive.

Other City-Level Awakened quickly took out gas masks from their spatial wristbands and put them on.

However, the toxins emanating from the colorful Dragons seemed to penetrate everywhere.

Even with their gas masks on, their skin gradually began to turn colorful.

“Oh, my God!”

Uncle Lei shouted, waving his hand and unleashing a colorful lightning bolt, which instantly struck down more than twenty colorful Corythosaurus.

“My strength hasn't changed, my body doesn't feel abnormal, I haven't experienced hallucinations, and I don't feel any pain.”

After speaking, he took out another wristband, put it on his hand, tapped it a few times, and said,

“My heart rate, blood pressure, blood sugar, and everything else are completely normal, exactly the same as before I was poisoned.”

“Nothing has changed, so why did Li Gu faint?”

After listening to Uncle Lei's account, Yang Dian swallowed:

“But Uncle Lei, you smell so good.”

Uncle Lei's expression suddenly became extremely strange:

“No, what do you mean, kid?”

“A person shouldn't, at least, not have such thoughts!!!”

“But Uncle Lei, I'm not lying,” Yang Dian said seriously:

“You really smell good.”

“And it's not just you, all of you smell good.”

Old Daoist Qingfeng and Old Master Tang, who stood beside Yang Dian and had already used their Qi and blood to remove the ‘toxins,’ nodded.

They had the same thought.

Seeing the three nod, Uncle Lei and the others couldn't help but look at each other.

A fully armed soldier standing behind the anti-aircraft gun also spoke:

“Director Lei, you all indeed smell very good, literally.”

“Seeing you all, it's as if I'm seeing and smelling the most delicious food, and I want to take a bite.”

As soon as he finished speaking, birds flew up from the forest and landed on Uncle Lei, as if to peck him.

But before the sparrow could peck, its feathers also turned colorful.

Then, as if it had encountered something disappointing, it flapped its wings and flew away, completely uninspired.

However, it didn't fly far before it was caught on the spot by an eagle and bitten to death.

The eagle that killed the sparrow also became colorful in an instant.

Then more birds flew up from the forest, rushing straight towards the eagle… Seeing this scene, Uncle Lei couldn't help but swallow:

“So, that poison isn't poison, but seasoning?”

“Seasoning that transforms us into delicious food?”

Yang Dian glanced at the bird corpse that had fallen to the ground, losing its ‘fragrance,’ and shook his head slightly:

“It shouldn't be; it should be some kind of pheromone that can stimulate a creature's appetite.”

“Those birds lose that attraction after death.”

“It's simply a pheromone that can stimulate a creature's appetite, causing creatures to kill each other, ultimately leaving behind ‘ingredients.’”

The colorful Awakened looked at each other:

“How could such an absurd ability mutate?”

Yang Dian casually flicked out a surge of Qi and blood, paralyzing a colorful Dragon that had just emerged from the sinkhole, then used his Qi and blood to grab it and throw it into his spatial wristband:

“It might not be a mutation.”

“Mutation is accidental; it's impossible for dozens or hundreds of subterranean creatures to all mutate with the same ability.”

“They are more like evolving.”

As his voice fell, the dull thudding sound finally reached the bottom of the sinkhole, then gradually approached the surface.

Finally, under everyone's gaze, a blue Tyrannosaurus Rex, standing nearly 8 meters tall, almost 16 meters long, with skin shimmering in the sunlight, emerged from the sinkhole.

Its height and size were considered relatively small among the exaggeratedly large subterranean creatures.

However, the suffocating pressure emanating from it made Old Daoist Qingfeng, Uncle Lei, and others' hair stand on end.

After the Tyrannosaurus Rex emerged from the sinkhole, it first scanned Yang Dian and the others, then looked up at the scorching sun in the sky, and finally slowly walked to the dead giant chameleon and opened its mouth.

Then, streaks of ethereal blue light appeared from the chameleon and were absorbed into its mouth.

Yang Dian could perceive that as it devoured the ethereal blue light, the Tyrannosaurus Rex's Qi also began to increase at an imperceptible rate.

‘Is this how subterranean creatures increase their strength?’

As he pondered, a brilliant blue light suddenly appeared in the sky.

Uncle Lei had, at some point, mobilized a space-based satellite and projected a particle beam onto the Tyrannosaurus Rex.

However, what surprised everyone was that after the particle beam hit the Tyrannosaurus Rex's head, it failed to cause it any harm.

Instead, it seemed to be charging it, causing the pressure of its emanating Qi to increase at a speed that Yang Dian could not comprehend.

“Uncle Lei, turn off the particle beam!”

Uncle Lei, prompted by Yang Dian, turned off the particle beam.

Whether it was because its feeding was disturbed or its charging was interrupted, the Tyrannosaurus Rex arched its body, opened its massive mouth, and let out a roar that pierced the clouds and shattered rocks:

“Roar~~~”

Amidst the roar, countless scuttling sounds emanated from within the sinkhole.

A moment later, countless Velociraptors, each less than two meters tall, pitch black, with muscles like granite, surged out of the sinkhole like a tide, rushing directly towards the city wall.

“Da da da da da~~~”

“Ding ding ding ding ding~”

Countless machine guns and anti-aircraft guns on the city wall erupted in fierce gunfire.

But when they hit the Tyrannosaurus Rex, they only made clanging sounds.

Even when they hit its eyelids, they failed to cause it any harm.

Uncle Lei frowned and came to Yang Dian's side:

“This Tyrannosaurus Rex seems to be able to devour particle energy; the particle beam only charges it.”

“Do you have the confidence to deal with it?”

“Should we avoid its sharp edge first, let Scar come to restrict its movements, and then smash it with a tungsten cone?”

Yang Dian stretched his wrist and smiled.

Within his laughter, sanguine Qi and blood surged wildly from his body, soaring into the sky.

Then, in the blink of an eye, the Qi and blood transformed into brilliant gold, coiling back and adhering to Yang Dian's body, forming a layer of golden Dragon scales.

Flicking his fingers, which had transformed into golden Dragon claws, his pupils glowed golden, and Yang Dian, who had become a small Dragon-human, had an indifferent expression.

“I avoid its sharp edge?”