93: Chapter 93 I'm Not Human Anymore!

Meanwhile, in another chaotic airspace dozens of kilometers away from the desperate chase involving Zhou An.

Inside the LV4 flagship control room of the Lone Wolves Alliance, Alliance Leader Wu Feng was roaring into the communicator, drenched in sweat.

"Quick! Cut all external towing cables! Preheat the main engines, and have the entire fleet retreat to the perimeter immediately! Forget about those crazed wanderers, and set the protective shields to maximum!"

Alliance Leader Wu Feng's heart pounded uncontrollably. Recalling the hellish, distorted scene at Lianqiao Square just moments ago, he still felt a lingering sense of terror.

Fortunately, he had fled quickly. As long as he took his core fleet far away from this contaminated central zone, he could still preserve the foundation of the Lone Wolves Alliance.

"Alliance Leader Wu... in such a hurry to leave? Won't you stay and help us build 'Sky City' together?"

Suddenly, a hoarse voice rang out abruptly within the sealed control room.

Alliance Leader Wu Feng's hair stood on end, and he whipped around, drawing the energy pistol from his waist.

"Who is it?!"

In the shadows of a corner of the control room, where there should have been nothing, the air began to ripple like water. Immediately after, a figure wrapped in a heavy black cloak slowly "squeezed" out of the shadows.

It was the Blood Blade Guild leader, Scar.

"You... how are you here?! My warship clearly activated the highest level of lockdown!"

Alliance Leader Wu Feng's hand holding the gun trembled slightly because he smelled a nauseating, fishy stench continuously emanating from Scar.

"Spatial lockdown? Hehehe... How could such a low-dimensional toy stop the footsteps of the 'Great Mother'?"

Scar let out a harsh, strange laugh and slowly pulled off the black hood covering his head.

The moment Alliance Leader Wu Feng saw Scar's true face, his pupils trembled violently, and he gasped a cold breath of air!

There was no complete skin left on Scar's face; dark red muscle fibers were exposed to the air, writhing constantly like living things.

His left eye was completely blinded, turned into a deep, bloody hole, and from that hole, a small tentacle covered in yellow mucus actually poked out!

"You... you've completely mutated! Was it you who caused the infections at the square just now?!"

Alliance Leader Wu Feng reacted instantly, roaring in terror, "Guards! Open fire! Kill him!"

However, the dozen or so elite guards in the control room stood there like wooden statues, motionless.

Alliance Leader Wu Feng turned to look, and his scalp instantly went numb.

At some point, a thick layer of purple flesh membrane had spread across the metal floor of the control room.

The gaps in the guards' armor were tightly wrapped by countless bloody tentacles thinner than a strand of hair. Their eyes were hollow, and black drool flowed uncontrollably from their mouths; their SAN values had long since silently hit zero.

"Too weak, Alliance Leader Wu. Your Lone Wolves Alliance is like a group of soulless plankton; living in this sky is just a waste of resources."

Scar opened his terrifying mouth, which had split to his ears. There were no teeth inside, only circles of dense, sharp fleshy spikes: "Instead of being annexed by others, why not... become the nourishment for my 'Ascension'?"

The moment the words fell, Scar's chest suddenly exploded!

"Splurt—!"

A crimson tentacle, as thick as a thigh and covered in barbs and suction cups, shot out at a terrifying speed exceeding the speed of sound, instantly piercing through Alliance Leader Wu Feng's chest!

"Ugh—!"

Alliance Leader Wu Feng's body went rigid, and his energy pistol fell to the floor.

He lowered his head, staring fixedly at the tentacle piercing his chest. No blood flowed out, because those tentacles piercing into his body were assimilating and devouring his internal organs, blood vessels, and cells like the greediest of viruses!

[Warning! Erosion by Abyss Origin detected!]

[Your SAN value has reached zero! Genetic chain is collapsing and restructuring!]

The blood-red warnings flashing on his retina made Alliance Leader Wu Feng seem to understand everything before he fell into complete madness and chaos.

He finally understood everything.

Scar's unbelievable 10.5 billion material score.

"10.5 billion... that wasn't any materials or blueprints at all..."

Alliance Leader Wu Feng's eyes leaked two lines of bloody tears, and his mouth twisted into a look of extreme sorrow and desolate, miserable laughter; his voice had become slurred.

"That was... the entire Blood Blade Guild... the weight of the flesh and blood... of tens of thousands of people..."

He had embraced the Abyss! He had sacrificed his entire guild as nourishment for the Abyss, thereby exchanging it for this terrifying score that crushed everything and the virus-like assimilation ability!

"Correct, but unfortunately, there is no prize."

Scar grinned maliciously and retracted the tentacle.

Alliance Leader Wu Feng's body collapsed to the ground, but just two seconds later, his back bulged high amidst a tooth-aching sound of bone fracturing, his limbs twisted eerily, and several glowing yellow eyeballs squeezed out from his neck.

The once-great overlord, the leader of the Lone Wolves Alliance, had thus become a puppet of the Abyss.

And this was only the beginning.

The infection of the Abyss was like an invisible superstorm. With the control room as the center, it spread crazily along the ventilation ducts and energy circuits of the flagship towards the entire fleet of the Lone Wolves Alliance.

"Aaaaaah!"

"Help! The cabin doors won't open! Chunks of meat are growing on the walls!"

"Fire the cannons! Blow us all up! We can't turn into these monsters!"

In the communication channels, the cries for help, screams, and the explosions of the Lone Wolves Alliance's subordinate warships merged into one. But these sounds were soon drowned out by waves of eerie tearing of flesh and fanatical murmurs.

In less than ten minutes.

This massive combined fleet's external armor was completely covered by layers of dark purple rotting flesh and tentacles.

The entire fleet seemed to have transformed into a giant multi-headed aberration floating above the sea of clouds, emitting a desperate aura of death, slowly turning its bow and baring its greedy fangs toward the survivor areas further away.

Inside the control room of the super flagship "Shenguo Ship", blinding red alarm lights flashed crazily, illuminating everyone's faces with a deathly pallor.

"Guild Leader! Over at Wu Feng's side... the Lone Wolves Alliance's base area has erupted with super-level contamination!"

Shadow rushed to the command console. The usually calm woman's voice now carried an undisguisable tremor, "The contamination level has directly pierced through our radar detection limit. That airspace... has completely turned into a hotbed for the Abyss!"

City Lord Zhao Tianyu furrowed his brows, his eyes cold: "What about the other old foxes? Where is Scar?"

"Guild Leader Qian Wanguan cut off communications the very first moment the Lianqiao anomaly occurred. The others, after issuing the kill order, also took their main forces and fled in different directions," Shadow reported quickly. "As for Scar of the [Blood Blade Guild]... his fleet signal has completely vanished, and his whereabouts are unknown."

Just then, the emergency forced communication on the command console was forcibly connected. The face of the commander of the second deputy fleet of Sky Engine, covered in blood, popped up on the screen.

"Guild Leader! Help!! The deputy fleet has been invaded by an unknown aberration! It's Scar... Scar has turned into a monster! He's slaughtering us! No, he's assimilating us! Aaaaaah—"

Accompanied by the commander's shrill screams, the video feed flipped violently.

On the screen, Scar's terrifying, skinless face appeared abruptly.

He was skewering the commander in mid-air with a thick crimson tentacle, and several murky eyeballs cast a malicious mockery toward City Lord Zhao Tianyu through the screen.

"Click."

The communication was completely cut off.

City Lord Zhao Tianyu stared at the screen, which had turned to static, all the clues in his mind closing the loop perfectly at this moment.

"10.5 billion material score... So that's how it is. He stopped being human a long time ago!"