Chapter 293: The ...... of the Present World
Reverse sky lightning night thunder ring, instant shadow spirit song extreme sky dance.
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Lightning, the word often gives the first impression of the kind of white zigzag flash that connects the sky clouds and the earth, it is formed by the clouds and the earth at the same time gathering too much charge and breaking through the air, it seems to always cleave down from the clouds, but few people know that there is also a kind of naturally occurring lightning that is diametrically opposite, a strange lightning that extends from the clouds at high altitude all the way upward.
People call this lightning lightning elven lightning.
However, the so-called elven lightning is only a rare case that can only occur at extremely high altitudes, and this kind of event that lasts less than a thirtieth of a second, also known as transient luminescence, cannot be witnessed from the ground by the naked eye. At this moment, although it was still far from the height of the legendary elven lightning infested, the tide junction had indeed witnessed the dazzling electric light extending from the clouds in reverse to the sky.
The moment the dazzling white ball of light exploded, it was already revealed that it was not the first thing to appear, but a strange sight called the "Night Thunder Ring" that had existed on the Arashi Star for many years. The veins of electricity that spread in all directions like ripples on the surface of the water seemed so clear at this moment that the tidal knot overlooking the vast sea of clouds on the Eclipse Hive couldn't help but have a very bizarre surreal feeling.
It was not a purely accidental lightning bolt, she seemed to have thought of it, for the blinding light that burst upwards like a fountain in reverse enveloped the great white bird flying from above, and the latter let out a piercing chirp, but was unexpectedly not scorched on the spot...... The feathers on its surface appear to be very insulating, so it is only briefly paralyzed.
Unbeknownst to Shioyuki, this white-feathered giant bird is the messenger of the gods depicted in the mythology of the Moon Prayer People, with an extremely fast flight speed, and the legend is that it can fly all the way to the end of the heavens and the earth to the abode of the gods. Of course, in reality, it can't really fly all the way to the moon, but the legendary deeds are not entirely fictional.
This attack wasn't necessarily deliberate, as it could have been due to the Polar Bird's effect on the electrical charges in the clouds, but the tide knot always felt wrong, as if something was deliberately using lightning to attack...... But it definitely wouldn't be Xinglan's doing, because if Xinglan was going to use lightning to attack, it wouldn't be so troublesome at all, and there was something hidden in the thick clouds.
The Polar Bird had obviously anticipated the attack, and after a short period of paralysis, it quickly recovered and quickly rose in height, vigilantly staring at the tumbling dark clouds below, but even if it had evolved a certain degree of resistance to electricity, it did not dare to rush into the thunderstorm clouds that did not know how many charges had gathered.
Zizizi......
Like the chirping of insects in the middle of summer, or like the scales of a poisoned snake in a cave, the indescribable sound of strange electricity continued to echo in the world above the clouds, and Xijie and the Xin Yu man couldn't help but cover their heads and show some pain...... The strong electromagnetic waves were like a high-decibel roar in their ears, which shook their entire brains with mild dizziness and a little blurred consciousness.
If it is an ordinary creature that does not have the ability to perceive electromagnetic waves, it will not feel anything when exposed to this environment.
The next moment, a dazzling white ball of light appeared from the dark clouds again, and then burst violently, and with the white arc spreading outward, it was no longer a white zigzag lightning gushing out from the core, but a strange arc of red and blue, which spewed out from the clouds like a fountain, heading straight for the Polar Bird.
Faced with this crisis, the giant bird with white feathers dodged most of the arc with an incredible evasive movement, and then, with a loud chirp, it no longer flapped its heavy wings, but spread its wings so straight, but instead of entering a gliding position, it continued to accelerate, flying faster and faster into the distance.
Is it planning to flee here? After adapting to the chaotic electromagnetic environment a little, Xijie noticed that the figure of the Polar Bird was gradually moving away, it did not have any movement of flapping wings, but it still got a continuous acceleration, but soon, Xijie no longer had the spare energy to pay attention to the distant Polar Bird, because the nest of the Eclipse Bee no longer seemed to be in the position of onlookers. More and more white balls of light flashed from the clouds below, and looking at the Night Thunder Ring from above was a completely different feeling from below.
When you look up from below, you can only see the ripples that seem to be the rocks falling into the pond, but when you look down at the clouds below from above, the currents that rush upwards are more than just visual illusions. Luckily, the bottom of the Eclipse Hive is made up of a non-conductive mineral shell, and even the constant arcing attacks on it don't have much effect.
[Watch out for the back!] The reminder from Xin Yuren's companion was a little indistinct in this thunderous environment, but the strange paralysis from her back had made Xi Yu react faster, and she quickly rolled to the side and looked back, only to see what seemed to be a flash of light in the air, and nothing else was wrong.
However, when she looked at her companion, she finally saw that something seemed to appear in the air behind the other party, as if it was a thin air mass that constantly flashed with electric arcs, and her attention also made the Xin Yu man instantly realize that something was wrong, and he was equally agile enough to dodge the few thin lines that the air mass suddenly stretched out. The moment he turned around, the hazy air mass suddenly lit up, and then directly turned into a streamer of light and disappeared in place at an incredible speed.
[That thing moves very fast!] That Xin Yu and her glanced at each other, and suddenly understood that they had encountered the same thing.
Xijie raised his head and saw the hazy light cluster again, which was floating in the sky not far above them at this moment, and then seemed to be stretched by some unknown external force, and suddenly moved forward a distance of dozens of meters at an incredible speed, as if teleporting.
What's more terrifying than encountering such a spooky creature? That is, when Shiojie looked back at the thunderous clouds, she found hundreds of similar strange air masses flying upwards from the clouds with the explosion of white balls of light, they seemed to be making a continuous short-distance spatial leap in a flickering way, but this was not a real spatial jump, Xijie could vaguely capture the afterimage left by their high-speed movement. These unidentified creatures are merely able to move in a fixed direction at an incredibly fast speed, and of course, they are also called ...... because their eyesight often does not have time to catch their movements Fleeting Shadow Bugs.
Shioyu didn't know what she was feeling at the time, but she felt a hint of despair when the hundreds of Shadow Worms appeared together, if these extremely strange creatures attacked them, they obviously had no chance of winning, but these Shadow Worms didn't seem to be particularly interested in them. Even the original Celestial Worm ignored them, the flickering air masses flying around the Eclipse Hive at a rapid pace, while the black-pressed Eclipse Swarm was completely faceless.
Then, a sudden hiss even drowned out the loud roar of the thunder.
What kind of hiss is that...... It's hard to describe in exact, the eerie tone, which seemed to come from every corner of the clouds, and even resounded through the sky, making people shudder.
It lasted only a few seconds, and after this unnatural, eerie hiss, the tide saw the clouds change. Slowly peeking out of the thick clouds, there was some kind of misty "limb" that was so twisted that it was almost impossible to describe in words. It makes a series of strange movements in the air, as if sensing and trying to capture something.
The translucent limb was like a slender tentacle that stretched upwards for nearly fifty meters, turning slowly in place, and even the howling wind in the air could not blow away its vague outline. The Instant Shadow Worms surrounded the past at this time, flying around the huge limbs, and from time to time they were connected to each other by electricity.
It was like a frenzied dance, accompanied by flashes of electricity and flashes of color, and above this cloud-obscured sky, it was a magnificent landscape that could not be seen by Nether creatures, and it was breathtakingly beautiful.
[Listen closely, they're singing......]
The Xin Yu man gently grabbed Xijie's somewhat trembling hand and said, and Xijie quickly realized what he meant, these instantaneous insects were indeed singing, but they were using the changing magnetic field pulses to perform a song that could not be heard directly, but the changing waveform did follow some unknown law when carefully analyzed.
Until she suddenly saw the white dot in the distance, it was the polar bird that appeared before, it flew towards this side from a long distance, its wings spread straight out without flapping, but the speed was constantly accelerating, the clouds below were cut in half as if they had been cut in half by a sharp blade, and they could not hear the sound of flight at all now, which only meant one thing...... The Polar Bird is approaching this side at supersonic speed!
She suddenly realized what was going to happen next.
Without much time to think, Xijie just instinctively grabbed Xin Yuren, who was still trying to look around, and pulled him to the ground together. The next moment, at least Mach 1, the Polar Bird was whistling by, and the huge air currents brought by the flight swept through the Eclipse Bee's nest like a tsunami, exposing its back to make Shioyu feel a pain as if it had been cut by a knife, and she only had time to make out the direction in which the Polar Bird was moving was the position of the huge limb sticking out of the clouds, and she had to close her eyes because of the strong wind.
Quietly closed their eyes on the ground for more than ten seconds before they raised their heads again. When Shioyu looked at the place before, there were still translucent slender limbs and flying shadow insects, and even the thunder in the clouds below had disappeared cleanly, a thunderstorm of incredible scale as if it had never existed, and when she noticed the gap in the clouds that had been torn open by the polar bird with the air current, she finally discovered a shocking reality.
Beneath the thick dark clouds, there was no longer the boundless ocean that had existed before, but a solid land, a truly vast continent.
When the clouds cleared, a new world unfolded before them.
(Thanks to the book friend "Bad Star" for providing the source of the idea for the Shadow Worm.) )