340: Chapter 340 Arriving in Time, Launch!

Boom—

In the pitch-black world, a low rumble echoed.

Then, a second and a third followed in quick succession.

The light gradually brightened slightly, shining upon a massive black hole.

In the center of the black hole, strange energy swirled continuously.

Around the black hole, many soft-bodied monsters gathered in confusion.

Suddenly, a hoarse, low roar rang out.

These soft-bodied monsters immediately turned and set off in a certain direction.

When all the monsters had left, the interior of the black hole continued to swirl.

These monsters began to converge from all directions, jumping into a massive pit.

Inside the pit, countless chain-like black objects crackled and hissed.

Each soft-bodied monster grabbed a chain and pulled with all its might.

Looking up along the chains, a massive halo could actually be seen.

Densely packed black chains were tied to the halo.

As these black chains gradually tightened, a faint light projected from the ring, illuminating the chains.

Small suckers were attached to the chains.

It turned out that these "chains" were actually tentacles.

Where these tentacles connected, the halo gradually enlarged, eventually emitting a dazzling light.

The object locked down by the tentacles was actually the sun!

From a distance, the sun was fixed in a position where its light could perfectly cover this entire landmass.

As sunlight poured down, the clouds and mist gradually dispersed, revealing the pitch-black ground.

Densely packed soft-bodied monsters stood quietly in the pit, pulling at the tentacles binding the sun.

Once the darkness obscuring the sun had completely dissipated, the entire land became noisy again.

Just then, a massive shadow was cast onto the pitch-black land.

But after only a moment, it vanished completely.

Only a very few monsters noticed this.

They turned to look in the direction the shadow had been cast, and after finding nothing unusual, they withdrew their gazes.

"Phew... luckily, no one's there."

Jiu Jiu let out a long sigh of relief and carefully examined the land.

Chen Fan also gave a slight smile, but his attention remained tightly focused.

Before entering the vortex, he had already cast Thin Burial on everyone, but its duration was only five minutes.

And the positions of each Crew Member were almost all outside the casting range of Thin Burial.

So they could only return via the Teleportation Array every four minutes to refresh Thin Burial.

Fortunately, the war hadn't started yet, and other Crew Members were helping at their defensive positions, so no emergencies had occurred.

"The ground here is actually all black?"

Jiu Jiu scanned the surroundings and exclaimed.

Chen Fan nodded. "The ground here should be Mutated Tentacles, which is why it's black."

The landmass formed by the Mutated Tentacles was even larger than Chen Fan had imagined.

After all, he had only looked up from the ground before, and from such a distance, it was impossible to judge the exact size.

It wasn't until he stepped onto this land with the aerial aircraft carrier that he was truly shocked.

Logically, an aerial aircraft carrier with a diameter of over five thousand kilometers was already ridiculously large.

But the length of this landmass was estimated to be more than ten times that of the mothership.

No wonder it could completely block out the entire Night Instance.

"How do we destroy this thing?"

Jiu Jiu tilted her head, looking a bit troubled.

Did they have to conduct an indiscriminate attack and blow the entire land to pieces to destroy it?

That project would be far too massive!

Chen Fan shook his head. "Definitely not. There should be something like an energy center; destroying that should do it."

"I see."

Jiu Jiu nodded, her gaze sweeping toward the sun in the sky.

"Could it be the place where the sun is locked down?"

"I'm not sure. We'll know once we go and see."

Chen Fan gauged the distance and controlled the mothership to teleport repeatedly.

A five-kilometer teleportation distance for a five-thousand-kilometer diameter mothership was practically like taking a tiny step.

But there was no other way; the mothership's own movement speed was even slower, so they had to rely on teleportation to get around.

Fortunately, the teleportation cooldown was only one second.

With one teleportation after another, the mothership gradually approached the area where the sun was bound.

After some thought, Chen Fan released over fifty thousand Mechanical Dragons in advance to patrol invisibly at high altitudes within the domain's coverage.

After a long time, Chen Fan finally neared the target area.

And he could clearly see that massive pit.

"What is this? Is it the energy center?" Jiu Jiu's eyes lit up.

The shape of this pit was somewhat similar to the energy center of the aerial aircraft carrier.

Chen Fan observed carefully for a long time and finally shook his head:

"Probably not, but this is definitely an important place."

"What should we do then? Should we try blowing it up?"

"Of course."

Chen Fan's lips curled up. "We came here specifically to blow the hell out of it!"

"Alright! Let's blow the hell out of it!"

Jiu Jiu covered her mouth and giggled.

Chen Fan smiled and sent an order to Ruituocuipu.

He knew very well that as soon as they attacked, it would inevitably trigger a frenzied counterattack from the Mutated Tentacles.

Furthermore, the Mutated Tentacles likely possessed anti-stealth means.

In fact, when he used the tentacles to murder the Setting Sun before, the tentacles had launched an attack at him even while he was in the Spirit Realm.

In other words, the Mutated Tentacles could see not only invisible units but also units in the Spirit Realm.

But things had come to this point, and Chen Fan had no other choice.

After all, on such a vast landmass, this was the only place that looked suspicious at first glance.

The simplest way was to blow up this pit and then decide on the next move based on the Mutated Tentacles' reaction.

"One-hundred-thousand-yield nuclear missile, ready!"

Ruituocuipu gripped the daedalus lament tightly and said in a deep voice.

Chen Fan nodded slightly and waved his hand:

"Launch!"

Boom—

A massive nuclear missile appeared out of thin air and flew rapidly toward the pit.

In an instant, it drew the attention of all the monsters.

But before they could react, the nuclear missile plunged straight into the pit.

Rumble—

The tentacles extending from the pit were all blown to pieces.

Even the soft-bodied monsters inside the pit were instantly turned to ash.

The sun, freed from its bonds, rose rapidly as if it had been waiting for a long time.

Inside the pit, countless newly grown tentacles reached frantically toward the sun.

However, they were still a step too slow, and the sun escaped.

A moment later, the sun had risen directly overhead.

Its distance from this landmass was now so great that the tentacles could no longer reach it at all.

Tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands of tentacles, stood upright in the air, trembling continuously as if in impotent rage.

Suddenly.

A hoarse, low roar echoed through heaven and earth.

Chen Fan sensed something was wrong and barked, "Come here, refresh Thin Burial!"

In an instant, all the Crew Members quickly gathered via the Teleportation Array.

After refreshing Thin Burial, they quickly ran back.

At the same time, a burst of golden energy exploded in the sky.

Instantly, the entire world was enveloped in golden dust.

Under the cover of the golden dust, Chen Fan's aerial aircraft carrier gradually became visible.

"Screech—"

A soul-shaking screech resounded.