Chapter 715 - 448: Void Creatures (1)
Rain poured from a lead-gray sky, weaving a web of Chaos between the glass curtain walls of the skyscrapers.
The glow of neon lights blurred across the slick, wet streets.
A dark figure darted through the fractured light and shadows between the tall buildings.
It was a bald man in a hoodie.
Strangely,
his arms were not like a human’s.
From the elbows down, they had transformed into two long, narrow blades, their cold metallic luster glinting menacingly in the rain.
"Stop running, rd-199."
His voice, mingled with the rain, carried a taunt like a cat playing with a mouse.
He kicked his foot out.
A piece of stone shot forward.
At that moment, a dark figure was leaping rapidly ahead of him.
It was moving so fast that only an afterimage was visible.
Just as the stone was about to hit it...
WHOOSH.
An afterimage flickered.
The stone exploded into dust in mid-air, sending fragments flying.
However, this brief delay...
...caused the afterimage to pause for a moment, revealing its form.
It was a strange, rabbit-like creature, pure white with crimson eyes.
Unlike an ordinary rabbit, it walked upright on its hind legs and was abnormally large, standing a full two meters tall.
Corded muscles bulged beneath its white fur, brimming with explosive power.
Most striking were its massive rabbit ears, which hung down to its waist and swayed slightly with its movements.
And where its forelimbs should have been, there was instead a Mutation of dozens of writhing, dark-red tentacles that twisted and stretched in the air, their tips periodically dripping a viscous fluid.
It was one of these tentacles that had just shattered the stone.
BANG!
Seeing his opponent had stopped,
the man let out a savage grin.
He stomped hard, and in the instant the water exploded around his feet, his body shot forward like a bullet.
The blade on his right arm sliced through the rain curtain, slashing straight for the rabbit.
POOF!
Just as the Sword Light drew near,
the strange rabbit’s body suddenly shrank, as if it were a deflating leather pouch.
It dodged the attack.
The blade sliced into the wall, carving a clean, smooth gash in the concrete as if it were tofu.
The Alien Rabbit took the opportunity to launch itself toward another building.
Its body left an afterimage in its wake.
Seeing this,
the man sneered. The blade on his left arm suddenly split, melting and re-forming into three grappling hooks.
The hooks shot out, embedding themselves directly into the glass curtain wall of the opposite building.
He was then yanked through the air by the mechanical cables, shattering the rain curtain as he gave chase.
"You can’t escape! Stay put!"
He muttered, his eyes radiating a cold chill.
He held his right arm up before him.
The blade-arm began to vibrate at high speed, emitting a low hum.
Raindrops striking the edge were atomized into a fine mist.
A high-frequency vibrating blade.
A method of cutting that utilized high-frequency oscillations of the blade.
It was a technique that caused the blade to reciprocate rapidly, enhancing its lethality by cutting into objects with high-speed vibrations.
Perhaps sensing the danger,
the rabbit-shaped Alien Origin Body let out a shriek that belonged to no known creature.
But it had nowhere left to run.
In an instant,
the dozens of tentacles on its arms shot out toward the man.
𝚏𝗿𝗲𝐞𝚠𝕖𝐛𝗻𝗼𝐯𝕖𝚕.𝚌𝗼𝗺
Faced with this situation,
the man didn’t dodge or evade.
He swung his arm.
The sharpness of the high-frequency vibrating blade was terrifying.
The moment they made contact,
it sliced the tentacles in two as easily as a hot knife through butter.
The same fate befell the rabbit-shaped Alien Origin Body itself.
Its body, nearly split in half, fell from the sky and slammed onto the concrete ground.
However, as an Alien Origin Body, it could not be killed so easily.
The bloody tendrils at the wound’s edge moved like living things, reaching for each other, about to heal.
THUNK!
Suddenly, in the next moment,
a blade brutally pinned the rabbit-shaped Alien Origin Body to the wet ground.
Dark red fluid oozed from the wound, only to be washed into a pale pink by the rain, creating strange patterns as it snaked across the asphalt.
"Celestial Mandate, contain!"
the man said in a cold voice.
The instant his words rang out,
the rabbit-shaped Alien Origin Body on the ground, which had been trying to regenerate, suddenly twisted, transforming as if being pulled into another dimension by some invisible force.
It vanished on the spot.
Raindrops fell on the suddenly empty patch of ground, the resulting splashes appearing exceptionally stark.
Just then, accompanied by a clap of thunder, the downpour intensified.
Fat raindrops hammered down on the man’s shiny, bald head.
The corners of his mouth tilted up slightly.
He looked toward a certain spot.
He pointed to the tornado logo on the chest of his hoodie.
And shouted.
"When you’re buying a hoodie, make sure it’s Stormwind Brand! With our exclusive nano-waterproofing technology, you’ll stay dry and comfortable no matter how bad the storm. Ready for any situation..."
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CRACK!
Before the ad could finish, with a loud bang, a heavy fist smashed into the computer monitor, and spiderweb-like cracks instantly exploded across the screen.
Tiny sparks of electricity danced and sizzled between the cracks, followed by wisps of acrid, black smoke seeping out.
The image on the computer cut out abruptly, and the screen went completely dark.
Inside the room,
Wu Yang sat at his desk.
The veins on his forehead were throbbing.
His gaze shifted from the computer to a black sketchbook lying on the desk.
The sketchbook was currently open.
But compared to before,
the pages representing the Alien Origin Bodies were now continuously disappearing from the book.
Upon closer inspection,
one would notice that the sketchbook was now less than half as thick as it used to be.
Watching this happen,
his eyes were completely bloodshot.
"Damn this thing!"
He slammed a fist on the desk.
「Half a month ago.」
The sky had turned crimson.
Countless white specks of light fell from high above.
Anyone who came into contact with them
would be bound to something called the ’Celestial Destiny System’.