Zhao Mai stepped out of the edge of the soil and stepped on the solid and barren ground again, a feeling of suffocation immediately choking his throat. Since transforming into a Z-worm, he has always been able to get enough replenishment from the matter and energy around him to support everything he needs for physical activity. No matter how bad the situation, even if he was trapped in a "space that doesn't exist", he would not feel suffocated.

He hurriedly took a step back and regained his footing. Through the fiber-like pipes in the polych, he was rehydrated, and the suffocation was gone. Zhao Mai gasped vigorously, like a whale that had fought to the death with a giant squid in the deep sea, and finally resurfaced.

The dividing line beneath your feet is made of purple polyphonic soil, which is unusually clear on the gray-white ground. On one side of the dividing line is life, and on the other side is death. Even if it's a Z bug, it can't go any further. On the side of the line, not only will they not be able to get any replenishment from their surroundings, but their own energy will also be quickly lost. Just one step would deplete the energy of a light-year flight under normal circumstances.

Zhao Mai concentrated, and found that it was difficult to open the psychic ability space, and at most he could only tear open a hole the size of an egg and take out the blue crystal from it. While munching on your food, you get information from the surrounding soil. The surrounding environment is too energy-consuming, and the soil can only barely maintain its own shape, and there is no spare energy to form nerve signals and transmit back information, so Zhao Mai is also the first time to understand this "boundary between life and death".

"It's amazing that you've come here," the Shadow Dragon took advantage of Zhao Mai's weakness to break free from the blue flames, slowly drifting to the other side of the restless soil, and then began to expand rapidly. It is completely unaffected by such extreme conditions, and the speed of recovery is no different than anywhere else. "You're the second creature in the multiverse to come here after me. From the perspective of adapting to the environment, I am inferior to you, but unfortunately there is only one position that can adapt to this environment, so only I can succeed, and you have no chance. Zhao Mai, welcome to the wilderness of the multiverse, which I call the Void Boundary. ”

Zhao Mai raised his head with difficulty, his skin kept wriggling, and the Z worm essentia continued to deform. He received the information held in the polyphonic soil and tried to adapt to the environment by changing his form. The Shadow Dragon looked at him with interest, one encouraging, one sneering, and the other silent. It had returned to half of its normal size, from levitating in the air to landing on the ground, its four paws raking and scratching across the gray-white wilderness.

"There's nothing you can use here, there's no substance in the ordinary sense. Your barren land is full of neutron dust, and there is no even the smallest amount of hydrogen, let alone other matter. The Shadow Dragon pointed to the distant horizon: "Over there, the situation is even worse, everything will disappear, and the most basic state of 'existence' will be completely lost. Do you know what true nothingness and destruction are?"

Zhao Mai didn't answer, in addition to maintaining a vigilance, he focused on adjusting the state of Z worm cells. Those black shadows at the end of the horizon are undoubtedly the basic materials of the Shadow Dragon's body, or Nagus substance. The space where the Ring Alliance's headquarters is located, surrounded by Naegus, has never been discovered—or never mentioned.

"Don't try in vain. You are a living being, no matter how powerful you are, you will only be a living creature - you will always need your surroundings to support you. The shadow dragon was almost recovered, and its six wings had spread out, slowly flapping in the air. "The Ring Alliance must die, but you don't. Whether it's nature or the multiverse, isn't the rule all along that the strong join forces and eat the weak? You can't destroy me, so why waste your energy on me?"

"Because I'm going to overtake you. Zhao Mai raised his head, blue light flashing in his eyes. He took a deep breath, took a step back, exhaled slowly, and extinguished the blue flames on his body.

His hair hung down, and there was no longer psionic lightning around, and the wriggling of his skin stopped, and he was like an ordinary human. "Creatures, nothingness, these are not contradictory! Even Nakusi is a part of the natural world, why can't I do it?" Zhao Mai snorted, transforming himself into a strange state first.

The pale skin that represented the frost was full of folds, and the sky-blue pupils and milk-white eyeballs rolled in the dehydrated eye sockets. Starting from his fingertips, the black began to spread, and the energy mass composed of shadows replaced the blue flames that could grasp the black spectrum, Zhao Mai's body gradually transformed into a black shadow, and spread along the palm of his hand.

"There is indeed another layer of this world, which can only be seen with the gaze of Nakus. Zhao Mai grabbed it in the void, and the black spectrum was directly pulled out by him like a ribbon. "You're constantly regrouping with this kind of thing, aren't you?

The shadow dragon's eyes widened, and the three heads roared together, "How is this possible!How did you take this step?!You are a creature, how could the Force of Nature become Nakuth?"

"Hey, it's so amazing!" Zhao Mai said with a hippie smile as he leaped backwards sharply, widening the distance between himself and the Shadow Dragon to more than fifty meters, and then beckoned: "I said I was much better than you, and I did what I said." Your state of Naysis is not very difficult to learn, but it is just the opposite of creation and an application of the black spectrum, and I will fully grasp it. Of course, that's not now. ”

Zhao Mai took a deep breath, his arm broke off from his elbow, and the two shadowed forearms fell to the ground and turned into a black sludge-like substance. He quickly relieved the stranger of necromancy and regenerated new arms, as the sludge on the ground had corroded the surrounding soil.

"This thing is still too dangerous. I can take it, but my family is choking. Zhao Mai looked at the Shadow Dragon, then nodded vigorously, "Yes, I think you are a ready-made example." If I become like you, I won't be able to die, but I guess I won't be able to change back. ”

The Shadow Dragon looked hesitant, standing on the edge of the earth and swinging its head. It looked at Zhao Mai for a while, and then at the oil sludge material on the ground, its wings drooping down, and its tail hanging on the ground. After a while, it tentatively walked onto the ground.

Lacking Zhao Mai's strong immunity, the Silly Soil quickly withered and died under the contact of the Shadow Dragon. Zhao Mai waved his hand, and the soil kept squirming, separating to both sides, making way for a passage. "They won't hinder you, and they won't be able to hinder you. Whatever direction you go, they get out of the way. Of course, if you're bored and want to destroy them, I don't care. You can walk slowly from here, and I'll go back and continue to study the secrets of this blackened state. Until next time. ”

After speaking, Zhao Mai stretched out his bone wings from his back, and the crystal-like spikes poked in the air, but there were no spatial cracks. He sighed and shook his head: "This broken place can't even use the rules of space, so it can only rely on two legs." It's good that I'm far faster than you, so bye-bye!"

He said as he stepped back, and the Shadow Dragon spread its four legs and continued to walk forward, as fast as ever. It could be seen that the Shadow Dragon was still immersed in shock, and he had not yet made up his mind about what he was going to do next. It stopped and stopped, and then stopped for a long time in front of the sludge material that Zhao Mai's broken arm had turned into.

Zhao Mai farther and farther away, gradually flew up, and then tore open the space when the space rules were basically restored, jumped in and left. After he left, some slender eye stalks gradually grew on the soil, about the same thickness and length as the little finger, and an eyeball the size of a fingernail at the top. They secretly stare at the shadow dragon in the distance, and pass on the information through the rest of the soil at any time.

Everyone at the alliance headquarters had been watching the battle broadcast, and when Zhao Mai flew into the distance with the spherical shadow dragon wreckage, the scene erupted in huge cheers. "His Majesty the Dragon Emperor is as strong as ever, this alliance is really iron!" "The shadow dragon moves very slowly, no matter what it wants to do, as long as it hits far away!"

Angel Sokha clapped as everyone cheered, a shallow smile on her brow, but deep down she didn't feel any "victory" or "joy" at all. As an Elder of the Alliance, Device Zero does not reset her memories when backtracking, so she is the only person on the scene who has watched the entire battle.

Zhao Mai was knocked away again and again, and every time he was traumatized physically, he was not mentally well-healed. If calculated according to the score, Zhao Mai's 20,000 defeats for one defeat of the giant dragon are not a victory at all; the shock wave of the battle destroyed the alliance headquarters thousands of times, which is not a victory at all; the alliance has not been able to find out the information of the shadow dragon so far, so it is not a victory at all; and the shadow dragon seems to be able to recover indefinitely, and it will eventually make a comeback, which is definitely not a victory.

"Check the situation at the headquarters and treat the possible wounded outside. Soka said to the people around him: "Let the reconnaissance ship move in the direction that Zhao Mai left, try to find him, see the situation over there, and report back at any time." And then...... Evacuate the people of the alliance headquarters as much as possible, it is better to leave only the fighters and the most basic service personnel here. ”

One sentence made the warm atmosphere in the war room quickly cool down, and everyone seemed to smell something unusual. In the history of the Ring Alliance, there has never been such a thing as evacuating the headquarters, even if the army of Nakus besieged the headquarters millions of years ago, the situation was hundreds of times more critical than the Z Worm Five Hundred Years War, it never happened. "Why?" someone asked.

"We have not achieved victory, the enemy will definitely return, and our only hope is Zhao Mai? Once hit by the black aura of the Shadow Dragon, the power of Nakuth will completely annihilate a person's existence, and he can't even save him from going back. Soka frowned, and said in a stern tone: "Don't you understand what a state of war means? Unless it is confirmed that the Shadow Dragon of Nakkoth has been completely destroyed, we will always maintain the highest combat readiness!"

With that, she turned her head and walked towards the first department, preparing to personally supervise the search for information on the Nakusi Shadow Dragon. How did that monster get to the space of the alliance headquarters, only by figuring out this can we better guard against it. Zhao Mai actually figured out this truth in an instant, and he had to be reminded by him in hindsight.

When these phenomena are brought together, it is much easier to find clues from them than before. Theories such as the dark web do appear to be smoke bombs released by the Templars, theoretical time bombs hidden in the Coalition's research department. These false "tech tree branches", like signposts to the wrong places, are pre-arranged to mislead the Coalition and waste their energy. And all of this, I'm afraid, is to buy time for that shadow dragon.

"If it weren't for Zhao Mai, the alliance headquarters would definitely not be able to withstand it this time. Soka muttered to himself. She knew very well in her heart that although with the power of Device Zero and backtracking, it might be possible to keep the headquarters alive, but it would definitely not be able to organize the Shadow Dragon to control and isolate the space passage to the outside of the Alliance Headquarters. Neither the elemental traversal network nor the internal network could be used in the face of the power of Nakuth, and it was bound to be a dead silence.

Device Zero is not a panacea, and it is unlikely to remain effective forever. Poor Norton has been at the heart of Unit Zero for maintenance, and if necessary, to act as a hub and command. It has repeatedly and covertly warned Sokka that continued frequent use of Device Zero could cause irreversible damage. Over time, Unit Zero may also be damaged. "This is a last, most critical moment of insurance, not a ready-to-use conventional weapon – it was not designed for this purpose!"

In short, the situation is very unoptimistic, and Soka can only hold this situation in his heart for the time being. She came to the first department and watched without saying a word as the staff busied, searching for pinpoint-sized clues in the sea of data. The silent pressure of the angel elders has obviously improved work efficiency and also stimulated the "enthusiasm" of the staff. Soon after, people from the research department joined in, using the latest filtering algorithms to aggregate the information.

A report was handed to Soka with eight possible origins of the Shadow Dragon. "This is already the ultimate algorithm, and the next step is to investigate in the field. "I would suggest starting with the most recent time to at least have a better chance of drawing conclusions, whether right or wrong," one researcher said. There are two calculated possibilities that are far too far away from the present day for no one in the multiverse to be able to time travel that far. ”

"Then do what you can first, and prioritize all the resources to this project. Soka clenched his fists and commanded, "The Shadow Dragon is our greatest threat, and it can be regarded as the only real threat at the moment. We have reached the critical point of life and death, and behind us is the entire multiverse, we have no way back, and we will not retreat!"

As she spoke, a spatial crack tore open behind her, and the Queen of Blades poked her head out of it, poked the angel's shoulder with her bone wings, and hooked her fingers: "There is something very important that needs to be held, you can come with me." Don't worry, if anything happens to the Alliance, I'll send you back in a second. ”

Soka nodded, she wanted to know Zhao Mai's situation, so it took three seconds to arrange it, and she followed the Blade Queen.

"Zhao Mai is not in good condition, and the old man and Iluvita are taking care of him. The detached can't go far or away, so you have to move your position. The Queen of Blades dragged Sokka out of the spatial rift and led her up the hillside on an old mossy stone staircase. The bottom of the stone steps is in the clouds, and there is a wooden door with white nails on a black background not far from the upper part, and the word "Eight Scenes" is written on it.

"What the hell happened to him, can he still fight?

"Let's talk when we see him—if he's not already cooked. ”