49: Chapter 49 Damn it! Who's the kind person who would plug a rift in the abyss with their mouth?!
The air at the bottom of the pump room stagnated instantly.
A pitch-black spatial rift opened silently in the Void Realm, and a thick smell of sulfur mixed with the fishy stench of blood surged out.
The accumulated water on the ground instantly condensed into black ice crystals, and dark red fungal mats exuding a rot-like aura crawled all over the broken load-bearing walls.
The Abyss Law descended.
Executive Jiang Xu knelt on one knee, the carbonized marks on his left arm having already spread to his shoulder.
He gripped the shaft of the Spear of the Firmament tightly, his knuckles clicking.
Even if his combat strength was exhausted, even if the opening of the abyss passage was a foregone conclusion, the instinct of an S-Class Executive drove him to face the despair head-on.
As long as that monster made a move, he would detonate his remaining spiritual energy to perish together with it.
Su Yao sat slumped in the pile of rubble, her eyes hollow, lacking even a shred of luster.
She looked at the continuously expanding rift, and memories of her past life cut through her mind like blades.
The blood-filled sky, the ruined Linhai City, her loved ones being devoured by Advanced Strange Tales—all these images became vivid once again at this moment.
It is over.
The end of the world.
However, the purple tentacle mass in mid-air did not launch an attack at them.
Su Yun had abandoned the physical limitations belonging to humans.
In order to welcome the upcoming gluttonous feast, that body prepared only for combat was clearly not enough.
An extreme tearing sound exploded at the top of the pump room.
The tentacles expanded rapidly.
Purple-black flesh proliferated, intertwined, and reorganized crazily.
The massive body expanded dozens of times in one second, directly filling the remaining space in the upper part of the pump room.
Ten meters, twenty meters, countless tentacles covered in hideous suckers twisted wantonly in the air, and countless scarlet eyeballs split open on the surface of the body, dripping with corrosive purple slime.
He had transformed into an extremely bloated, twisted, pollution aggregate exuding the aura of an ancient evil god.
Massive, indescribable.
Executive Jiang Xu looked up at that terrifying presence that blotted out the sky and held his breath.
Just by looking directly at that body, his rational defense line sent out a highest-level alert, and blood seeped from the corners of his eyes again.
"It is going to welcome its own kind..." Executive Jiang Xu gritted his teeth, performing rapid deductions in his mind, "When a high-intelligence Strange Tale opens a rift, the first step is inevitably to spread the abyss aura to pave the way for the army."
Executive Jiang Xu gripped his spear, preparing to welcome the first wave of Advanced Strange Tales rushing out from the rift.
Su Yao also closed her eyes in despair.
She knew that next, thousands of Strange Tales would pour out like a tide, tearing apart every living thing here.
Just as the two were waiting for death, the behemoth above moved.
The massive tentacle mass rolled in mid-air, and countless thick tentacles suddenly stretched out, directly gripping the Void Realm at the edge of the spatial rift.
Immediately after, at the very front of Su Yun's body, the flesh surged and split to both sides.
An abyss giant mouth, exaggerated to the extreme, was revealed.
There were no lips, only layers upon layers of pale, sharp teeth growing inward, and the deepest part was a profound darkness leading to nothingness.
The size of the giant mouth perfectly matched the spatial rift that was opening.
Su Yun manipulated his body and pressed down violently.
That abyss giant mouth filled with fangs was positioned with extreme precision, sealing the abyss rift tightly.
Hundreds of tentacles gripped the spatial barrier around the rift tightly, firmly fixing the mouth at the entrance.
The entire underground pump room suddenly fell into an extremely eerie, deathly silence.
The originally surging abyss aura disappeared.
The pungent sulfur smell was gone.
Even the whistling sound of the spatial rift tearing reality was blocked completely.
Executive Jiang Xu's tense muscles stiffened.
The tip of the Spear of the Firmament stopped in mid-air.
He stared with his blood-stained eyes, looking at the monster above that was lying in mid-air in an extremely ungraceful posture.
That huge mouthpart blocked the rift airtight; not even a trace of wind could leak out.
The S-Class Executive's brain completely crashed.
What kind of tactic is this?
Physically blocking a spatial passage?
An Advanced Strange Tale went to such lengths, braving the attacks of humanity's top powerhouses, struggling to shatter the Formation of the Sanctuary, just to personally use its mouth to plug this passage?
Could it be an undercover agent lurking within the Strange Tales, concerned for human safety?
Executive Jiang Xu's logic processing center burned out.
He had seen countless ferocious Strange Tales, seen countless weird rules, but he swore he had never seen a monster that would perform such an absurd act due to a missing brain stem.
Su Yao opened her eyes abruptly, staring blankly in the direction of the ceiling.
Despairing tears still hung on her chin, but the scene before her caused her brain to fall into even more extreme chaos.
In the memories of her past life, this monster should have been floating in mid-air at this time, using its terrifying status to dominate thousands of Strange Tales and letting out a roar that would destroy the world.
But now, it was actually sticking its huge body up and pressing its mouth against the rift?
"What is it doing?" Su Yao's lips trembled, and she spat out these words subconsciously.
No one could answer her.
Just as the two fell into extreme self-doubt, the answer was revealed.
On the other side of the abyss rift.
Thousands of Strange Tales felt the barrier of the real world being broken, and the scent of fresh flesh drove them into extreme madness.
Closest to the passage was a vanguard force of mixed B-level and A-level Anomalies.
A [Shadow Poison Spider] with a body length of over five meters took the lead.
It possessed A-level strength, and its eight long legs covered in poisonous steel bristles exerted force, rushing excitedly toward the light gate that symbolized freedom and food.
It broke through the spatial boundary.
It had even opened its fangs, preparing to drink human blood.
Then, everything went black before its eyes.
"Crunch!"
A crisp sound of carapace shattering rang out abruptly in the quiet underground pump room.
That sound was very familiar to Executive Jiang Xu; it was like the sound of him cutting iron wire with nail clippers.
Only, this sound was amplified several hundred times.
Immediately following was a hair-raising chewing sound.
"Crunch... slurp... gulp..."
Accompanied by the chewing sound, a large amount of dark green poisonous blood sprayed out from the gaps in Su Yun's giant mouth, turning into blood rain that fell on the floor of the pump room, corroding countless smoking deep pits into the hard concrete floor.
A severed spider leg that hadn't been swallowed yet fell out from the gaps in the sharp teeth, smashing onto the ground next to Executive Jiang Xu's feet with a "pat."
Executive Jiang Xu looked down at the severed leg.
That was the leg of an A-level Anomaly.
He looked up again at the massive monster that was smacking its lips.
His worldview collapsed instantly.
It was not blocking the rift.
It had treated this abyss passage capable of destroying a city as an automated assembly line cafeteria!
It grew its mouth at the delivery port and was eating a buffet!
The monsters on the other side of the abyss passage had no idea about the real situation here.
They only felt that the passage was open and the companions in front had rushed in, so the Strange Tales behind were squeezing forward even more crazily.
A B-level [Rotting Corpse Spirit] rushed in.
"Slurp." Without chewing, it was swallowed in one gulp.
Two A-level [Berserk Blood Demons] rushed in side by side.
"Crunch, crunch!" Together with their proud blood magic Laws, they were instantly bitten into minced meat by those jagged sharp teeth.
Purple-black blood exploded in Su Yun's mouth, dripping down from the corners of his mouth.
"The taste is not bad, the growth rate is increasing very quickly."
Su Yun made an extremely objective gourmet evaluation in his heart.
The spider had a hint of seafood sweetness, the Blood Demons tasted a bit spicy, and the Corpse Spirits were lacking, like expired yogurt.
This meal was extremely comfortable.
There was no need to look for Strange Tales everywhere; they would line up and drill into his mouth themselves.
His hundreds of tentacles waved excitedly in mid-air, and some even reached into the edge of his mouth to pick out Strange Tale bones stuck in his teeth and throw them to the ground.
As he devoured, the purple-black light on Su Yun's body became more and more intense, and the growth rate value was climbing crazily at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Executive Jiang Xu held the Spear of the Firmament, the whole person petrified in place.
He didn't even know what he should do now.
Attack it? It was helping Linhai City eat the vanguard of the abyss invasion.
Thank it? It was itself an indescribable thing capable of driving all of humanity into madness.
Su Yao knelt on the ground, holding her head with both hands, falling into severe cognitive dissonance.
"No... it shouldn't be like this..."
Su Yao muttered to herself, her eyes hollow.
This was completely different from the apocalypse she had experienced!
That Abyss Dominator who sat in a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood, making all the Awakened in the world tremble in fear, now not only had no majesty of destroying the world, but instead looked like a starving ghost eating conveyor belt sushi.
It even spat out bones because it ate a bad-tasting Strange Tale!
"What kind of world did I return to after my Rebirth?"
Su Yao's worldview suffered a destructive blow at this moment that was even more severe than mental pollution.
Just at this moment, on the other side of the abyss passage, the atmosphere changed.
The vanguard in front had no movement after entering, and the monsters behind finally sensed that something was wrong.
What permeated the air was not the fragrance of human flesh, but the terrifying death aura of their own kind being chewed into meat paste.
The charge behind the passage stopped suddenly.
An extremely oppressive, terrifying roar carrying ancient majesty rolled over from the very depths of the abyss.
That was an S-Class Peak, even a terrifying existence that had stepped half a foot into the King-level, finally angered by the changes occurring at the passage entrance.
That roar passed through the spatial rift, directly shattering the few remaining emergency lights in the pump room.
The rubble on the ground turned into dust under the sound waves.
Executive Jiang Xu only felt a tightness in his chest, and a mouthful of blood surged up his throat.
"The real calamity is coming out..."
Executive Jiang Xu gripped his spear again, facing a great enemy.
Once an existence of this level crossed the border, the entire Linhai City would cease to exist.
However.
Su Yun, who was lying on the rift, not only did not retreat.
In those countless scarlet eyeballs, a fanatical light called "extreme hunger" erupted instead.
"The main course has finally arrived."
Hundreds of tentacles contracted violently, and Su Yun stretched that abyss giant mouth to the limit, pressing hard against the spatial barrier.
He was waiting, waiting for that piece of the fattest meat to deliver itself to his door.
The grand feast had only just begun.