Chapter 39: Starship (4)

Tender goose-yellow flowers swayed in the dead ruins, dwarf trees and vines were scattered on cracked concrete floors and walls, and the occasional cat or dog with extra limbs ran through the shadows, no longer lifeless.

This is the site of the city of Lautna, a bustling place that has been completely destroyed by anomalous creatures. It was once the economic center of more than a dozen surrounding cities, with a permanent population of millions. But now all that remains is the ruins of reinforced concrete, with an average height of no more than three meters.

About a year ago, the anomalous creature 'Chopper Rifle' and 'Poison Snail', which appeared on this planet unexpectedly, teamed up to attack this important city with a strong military force. Faced with these two monstrous beasts born purely for war, the proud army of the Aldrians held out for only twenty-one minutes.

That was not enough time for the residents to evacuate, and a full four million residents who did not have time to leave disappeared into the catastrophe.

This is just one of the many tragedies caused by anomalous creatures when they first invaded Aldlan.

After that, tragedies like these continued until the Alders organized an effective counterattack.

By the time the ultra-ancient ruins were excavated, more than a billion lives had disappeared from the hands of more than a dozen giant beasts.

Viewed from above, the cities of Inglange and Lotna are separated by a thin ribbon of gray-black rivers, and the river is in shambles for hundreds of meters on both sides.

This is another effect of the invasion of anomalous organisms: the mutation of native organisms.

The Lorna River, which separates the two cities, used to be extremely beautiful, but unfortunately it is no longer beautiful. Monsters mutated from fish and rodents have taken over the river and created a delicate balance with humans.

Any body component of an anomalous organism, even a small drop of blood or a small piece of skin debris, is filled with unscientific radiation that breaks down all biologists and physicists. Under the influence of this unknown radiation, various small creatures are mutating at an incredible rate.

Thankfully, the radiation only affected smaller creatures, not humans—well, it's a strange situation that can't be explained—and they managed to survive the situation.

It's hard to imagine how long Alderan would be able to hold out if humanity had also mutated. This is a problem that everyone is unwilling and afraid to face.

......

At this moment, on this side of the Lorna River near the city of Lotna, a group of fish-headed human monsters that seemed to have been forcibly put together were dancing around the mouth of a sewer pipe, engaged in some kind of argument.

Naturally, the content of their argument is meaningless, and this new species that has been forcibly matured has little research value, so the development of the future is logical.

At the moment when Mosculos made his wish, the two fishmen raised their pickaxes high and smashed them into the block of cement that was blocking their path.

Again and again, the most direct collision between the alloy ore pickaxe and the cement block occurred, and the sound spread far away, all the way to the depths of the sewer.

Something woke up.

Deep underground, dark, and lightless, a cavern the size of dozens of football fields exists silently without anyone knowing.

And if an Aldran saw the behemoth sleeping in the cave, his first instinct would have been to faint straight away.

Because, it was the most notorious of the anomalous creatures that descended on Aldlan, and of course, the most powerful, the 'Lord of Death'.

This is a rather 'beautiful' creature in Su Xing's eyes. It is not at all bloated and ugly like the rest of the anomalous creatures, on the contrary, it can feel the ultimate embodiment of life and power. It's a pure, unadulterated beauty.

The streamlined body is covered with translucent scales with a faint shimmer, with graceful and soft curves. Three pairs of slightly curved horns arranged symmetrically on either side of its head, like a crown, set off the haughty and majestic appearance of the behemoth.

Just looking at its appearance, it is closer to the mythical beasts that only exist in myths and legends, rather than the monsters that destroy everything.

However, it was this behemoth with a beautiful appearance that killed seven of its own kind and devoured their corpses as soon as it first came to Aldran.

No one knew it would lie beneath the city.

The sound that echoed in the empty cavern finally woke the beautiful and brutal beast, and it opened eleven pairs of amber eyes, and gently shook its head, its slender neck curled in a beautiful arc. Its every move was so pleasing to the eye that Su Xing was ready to catch it as a pet.

However, it is always bad to ruin the game process, and in Zhen Zejun's contemptuous eyes, he had to withdraw the evil hand that reached out to the poor little thing.

A long, loud chirp began to sound from its chest, and the massive underground cavern shook violently, and the earth and rocks poured down, and the behemoth-man rose to its feet with its wings outstretched, the thick layers of rock, soil, and building debris above its head as fragile as biscuits.

It emerged from the darkness and roared with a heaven-shaking roar from the once central square of the city of Lautna.

Well...... It's the kind of getting up angry.

The chopper rifle that was rapidly approaching the city of Inglang stopped its progress in an instant, and although these anomalous creatures had no brains, they still had basic reactions.

For example, when faced with this kind of kind that may shoot themselves to death at any time, they will naturally choose to escape.

However, before escaping, the chopper still has to go up and get up close and personal with the Lord of Death, after all, this is also its 'territory', or rather, the hunting area. Declare sovereignty or something, it will still be.

The battle between the behemoths was both short and fierce, and in just a dozen seconds, the chopper lost more than twenty percent of its body, and in the process, the Lord of Death did not even move half a step.

It just opened its mouth rather leisurely and bit it, and everything settled down.

Watching the chopper wail away, it yawned heavily, flapped its wings, and quickly disappeared into the blue sky.

A crisis has come to an end.

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After enjoying this absurd skit from beginning to end, Mosculos suddenly felt a strong sense of unreality.

He said to himself, as if with emotion, and a little incredulous, "Is this what it feels like to save the world?"

"No, of course not. The flat tone of the artificial intelligence sounded closely, "Precisely converted, this can only be regarded as saving two communities at most." ”

"According to the assessment, even without your involvement, they can still drive this little guy away after paying a price roughly equivalent to 12 billion alain coins. It's just that the development after that is not very easy to say. ”

It is completely unknown whether the behemoth sleeping underground will wake up as a result of this battle, after all, the fishmen also struck the sound of waking the behemoth by coincidence.

"Now that the teleportation cooldown is complete, is Your Excellency the Commander returning to the starting point now?"

After a moment's hesitation, he raised his hand and asked, "Can I bring something back?" ”

"The Guardian Type 27 life support device can restore you to your original state even if you are crushed to pieces, even if there is only one cell left. ”

The small and delicate badge appeared in his hand, and Mosculos stared, this is a second life, no matter how much attention is paid to it, it can't be overstated!

"Also, please call up a sufficient number of members of the organization as soon as possible, and the new starship will arrive at the fortress soon. Next month, the debut of the third-party organization is about to begin, so hurry up. "I want to talk about "Data Biological Observation Diary" with more like-minded people, and pay attention to "Youyue Literature" on WeChat, talk about life, and find confidants~