18: Chapter 18: Eating at a buffet in front of them, and incidentally performing a dramatic splitting open.
In the abandoned chemical plant, the blood-red Formation was operating, emitting a humming sound.
The air was filled with a pungent smell of ozone.
Su Yun stirred his thoughts.
Countless purple-black illusory tentacles emerged from the soles of his feet, crawling up his calves, and soon wrapped him tightly from head to toe.
Now, he didn't look human, nor did he have facial features; his height was stretched high by the tentacles, resembling a writhing mass of flesh.
Su Yun strode forward, ignoring the older brother and sister who were locked in an intense battle in the center, and walked straight toward the edge of the Formation.
A dozen A-level Anomalies were pinned to the ground by blood-red chains.
Su Yun swallowed in his heart.
This was quite a feast.
Usually, one couldn't find so many high-level Strange Tales gathered together in the city.
He had hit the jackpot this time, and he could take the opportunity while eating to interrupt his older brother and sister's dangerous sparring session, which was basically demolition work.
Su Yun walked up to the nearest Strange Tale that he found quite pleasing to the eye.
That monster, usually fierce, was now trembling uncontrollably.
It felt a terrifying, absolute suppression, even at the level of its existence, from the dark shadow before it.
Su Yun raised his arm, composed of tentacles, and pressed it onto the monster's head.
A mouth full of sharp teeth split open in his palm.
Inhale.
Swallow.
The massive A-level Anomaly didn't even have time to scream before its body collapsed, turning into a stream of black liquid that was swallowed into Su Yun's stomach.
[Devoured A-level Anomaly residue, Growth +5]
[Current Growth: 60/100]
The air in the factory went quiet for a moment.
The black-clad subordinates responsible for extracting the Strange Tales froze, staring at the empty chains.
The sacrifice had vanished right under their noses.
The long spear in Su Yao's hand stopped in mid-air, her mind feeling a bit dazed.
Something had entered.
She held a top-tier detection Spiritual Artifact, but it showed no reaction at all, as if what stood in that position was not a physical entity, but pure nothingness.
Su Chen, in mid-air, had a very ugly expression beneath his mask.
With one sacrifice missing, the Formation began to shake, and the blood within it churned.
"Who is it!"
Su Chen shouted.
He closed his eyes and pushed his perception to the maximum.
In the darkness, a swirling vortex of black energy had appeared where there had previously been nothing.
That thing was eating his sacrifice.
Sacrifices could be caught again, but Su Chen's heart tightened violently at this moment.
No matter what this thing was, it was too close to Su Yao!
So close that if the monster just extended a tentacle, it could instantly pierce his sister's chest!
Su Chen, who had been holding back to avoid hurting his sister, completely unleashed his true S-level killing intent at this moment.
He stomped his foot.
The moisture in the air was compressed into a blue water blade dozens of meters long, which flew out with a shrill whistle.
"Die!"
The water blade sliced through the air, rushing straight toward Su Yun.
It was fast.
Su Yun had just swallowed a mouthful of food when he sensed danger.
The yellow paper talisman he kept in his inner pocket lit up.
This was what Su Yao had forced upon him.
Now, this protective talisman lit up, trying to help him block the attack.
"Damn, this thing can't be used right now!"
Su Yun immediately controlled his tentacles, tightly wrapping them around the talisman, forcing the light back down.
If this activated automatically, his older brother would be fine.
But his older sister would probably recognize him immediately.
Since he couldn't dodge, he wanted to test just how sturdy this body was.
Su Yun faced the water blade.
Hundreds of thick tentacles emerged from the Void Realm, their eyeballs opening in unison, piling up into a wall in front of him.
"Boom!!!"
A loud bang.
The water blade cut through the tentacle wall, purple-black fluid splattered, and dozens of tentacles were reduced to shreds.
The momentum of the blue light did not diminish at all.
The water blade sliced directly across Su Yun's body.
The shockwave continued forward, slicing the massive steel factory, along with the reinforced steel roof, cleanly in two from the middle.
A rumbling sound rang out.
The factory broke apart, dust filled the air, and sunlight shone in through the crack.
The purple-black fluid dripped into the Formation on the ground.
The S-level weapon 'black day', which was about to be born, touched these few drops of blood and actually emitted a sizzling sound like the scream of a living creature; the patterns representing S-level rules on it began to melt rapidly as if encountering strong acid.
Su Chen opened his eyes.
The feeling was wrong.
The full-force strike he had just delivered felt like hitting a pile of mud that felt no pain.
Su Yao and the subordinates looked over.
The dust cleared, and that dark shadow was still standing there.
But he had been sliced diagonally in half from the waist.
The upper half of his body slid halfway down the cut, blood and purple-black mucus gushing out.
Having suffered such an injury, even an S-level Psionic Martial Artist would have died on the spot.
But the humanoid monster didn't make a sound, nor did it even sway.
Immediately after, countless tiny, translucent tentacles emerged from the severed rotten flesh.
These tentacles pulled and knotted between the two halves of the body.
The crushed internal organs were replaced by tentacles, and the broken bones were forcibly pulled back into place.
A hair-raising, sticky friction sound rang out, and the body was forcibly stitched back together.
The whole process took less than three seconds.
The wound closed, and the outside was re-covered with a layer of writhing purple-black mucus.
The monster raised its head, showing no reaction, just quietly watching the people present.
Su Yun sighed in his heart.
Older brother's slash was really ruthless; it's a good thing I'm not human, otherwise I would have definitely died here today.
However, the moment his dead, emotionless eyes swept across the scene, a few lines of prompt text that only he could see popped up in the Void Realm.
[Target group subjected to an indescribable gaze, triggering mental corruption]
[Su Chen SAN value: -1...-2...]
[Su Yao SAN value: -1...-3...]
[Black-clad subordinate group SAN value: -10...]
Su Yun was stunned.
Wait?
What's going on?
I didn't say a word, just took a slash, how come the sanity values of my older brother and sister are plummeting?!
The temperature in the factory dropped completely to freezing point.
Several black-clad subordinates' legs went weak, and they knelt on the ground, covering their throats and retching frantically; the twisted scene of tentacles stitching the body together just now had directly destroyed their sanity defenses.
Su Chen's fingers froze in mid-air.
This thing isn't self-healing at all; its body structure... it completely lacks the logic of humans and existing Strange Tales!
On the other side, Su Yao bit her lip, the long spear held in her hands trembling so much she could barely hold it.
This aura.
This oppressive feeling that defies all logic.
It was supposed to appear five years from now; why has it arrived now?!
Su Yao stared fixedly at the twisted dark shadow, her voice changing pitch, carrying a despair on the verge of collapse.
"It's you!"
She slumped onto the bluestone floor covered in dust and blood, as if her spine had been removed.
The images she had been forcibly suppressing in her mind began to fight back wildly.
A blood-red sky.
A collapsing city.
And that purple-black mass of flesh, looming above the clouds, that had killed all her family members, wiped out all the Peak human powerhouses, and was so massive that it made the brain cease to function.
That was the terminator of the world.
Why?
I came to get this weapon to save Xiao Yun, so why, after only this much time, has this thing that ends everything arrived ahead of schedule?!