Chapter 68: Life or Death
After receiving the early warning from his companions, Charlif, a non-commissioned officer of the special forces of the 'High Civilization Planet' and who had really wandered on the verge of death, did not hesitate to fight because of anger at all, and after paddling a slight arc across the fishing boat on the waves, he stimulated his full potential, his speed increased by more than ten times, and his facial features oozed blood and fled into the distance.
But they didn't see that their enemies were rapidly aging over time, and every second seemed to be losing two or three years of life.
At the same time, at the cost of overdrawing their vitality, the young Asian Americans who used their magical powers to get out of danger were unable to reverse the process of stimulating the 'power of thunder', although they saw the strong enemy fleeing and escaped from their field of vision in just a few seconds.
In the clouds pressed down from the sky, the thin old man's face had taken shape, and he had already changed from a young man with firm skin and black hair to an old man with goosebumps.
The only thought in his subconscious mind was that he must conquer the Nautilus, so in a trance, he changed the target of the attack from Charlif, who fled, to a freighter thousands of kilometers away.
So, as the Asian young man's mind turned, the huge cloud of human heads above the sky, which was unknown how many square kilometers wide, suddenly opened the staggered and jumping mouths of countless 'electric snakes', and made an angry expression towards the 'Nautilus'.
In an instant, a stream of lightning that could be seen with the naked eye was red and white inside, and it fell through the sky and directly hit the towering cabin in the center of the freighter.
The high-voltage current, which I don't know if it was thousands or tens of thousands of degrees, was not guided away by the hull made of steel, but directly burned the ship into two in a terrifying way.
The hot iron flowed into the sea, re-solidified in the billowing smoke, and slowly sank with the broken hull, while the young Asian man on the fishing boat thousands of miles away could no longer support his aging body, and fell stiffly, being separated by the side of the ship, and also fell into the sea.
Stimulated by the icy seawater, he choked on a blood-soaked bubble in his mouth, and his whole body was full of excitement, which stimulated the last bit of life potential, and his mind was clear.
Hurriedly enduring the feeling of suffocation, trying to hold his breath, he remotely controlled several sea monsters to swim to his side, dragged his body and continued to dive, and put his body on the 'gray paste' hidden in the bottom of the sea.
The weakness of his hands drooping, touching the hollow surface of the 'gray paste', and feeling the oxygen and nutrients penetrating into the body through the pores of the skin, the Asian young man suddenly felt much more comfortable, but unfortunately the lost life could not be remade in this way, and the fire of his life was still gradually extinguished.
However, the Asian young man, who was once again in a desperate situation, still did not have the slightest intention of giving up the struggle, and as soon as he solved the disaster that he almost drowned in the sea, he immediately controlled the sea monster and rushed towards the sunken Nautilus, apparently still wanting to grab the precious animal he needed to prolong his life.
This can be called a game of life as a gamble and a race against death.
The newly created sea monsters swam thousands of miles away in a short time, searching for the 'interstellar animals' in the fully deformed cabin, and then quickly transported back to the mother body to devour them.
When he remotely controlled hundreds of sea monsters to rush to the sinking wreckage of the Nautilus, he was surprised to find that more than a dozen of them were shining red on the edges, with a volume of about five meters by five meters, as if made of transparent glass, and the cube containing strange animals could be clearly seen inside, which was falling to the bottom of the sea with the wreck.
These huge 'glass boxes' are obviously the cages used by the 'Starfire Circus' to transport interstellar animals by high-tech means unknown to the earthlings.
The dying and cerebral sequelae of summoning powerful gods, the Asian young man, who was running faster than ever, guessed the purpose of the 'cube' at once, and began to drive the monster to search for the sunken ship in ecstasy.
It was a very simple matter to search for luminous objects in the pitch-black water, and in just three or two minutes, hundreds of sea monsters had found nearly 100 'large glass boxes' from the wreckage of the Nautilus.
Most of the animals imprisoned in these boxes have been sleeping for unknown reasons, except in a seemingly empty 'glass box', where an illusory shadow can be seen in the flickering light at the edges.
And when the phantom is flying, crawling, jumping, or climbing, the body posture is faintly changing, and when it flies, fleshy wings grow on its back, and when it climbs, suckers grow on the center of its feet, which is really amazing.
The moment the image of this strange animal appeared in his mind, the Asian young man who was thousands of kilometers away from the shipwreck was shocked, and his eyes once again showed a look of ecstasy, and he hurriedly drove the sea monster to slowly push hundreds of 'cubes' towards the 'gray paste'.
And the accident happened again on the way, there were three or two I don't know whether it was because of the lightning attack, or the sinking ship collision, the surface cracked some fine lines of the 'box', with the increase of pressure when diving, the crack began to gradually extend, suddenly, the original transparent six walls at the same time appeared blood red strange symbols.
After the symbol appeared, it began to change constantly, if it was an ordinary earthling, they might not understand the meaning at all, but because the Asian youth was particularly obsessed with a star navigation movie series filmed by an alien advanced civilization, all the symbols that appeared on the 'cube' seemed mysterious, but in fact they were just equivalent to Arabic numerals on the earth, and the constantly changing symbols meant a countdown.
As for why this mark appears on the cage that transports interstellar animals, it is actually easy to understand.
After all, the invasion of any alien species could lead to a complete change or even collapse of the local biosphere, and hundreds of years ago, when Europa travelers landed in the 'New World', several cabins with plague bacteria on wooden ships killed tens of millions of indigenous people in Rice;
In the past few decades, the koi fish, which was originally just a pleasure for Chinese traders to express friendship, were released into the lake by Australian merchants, and the local freshwater fish species were almost wiped out.
Therefore, the 'Interstellar Circus' that cruises to various planets for performances is equipped with an automatic destruction device to prevent species from escaping and invading the local biosphere when the equipment is accidentally damaged and cannot be recovered in time.
The young Asian man living in the 'poor countryside' of the vast sea of stars naturally did not know the existence of this 'convention', but he instinctively felt that something was not good, and hurriedly urged the sea monsters to swim harder, but unfortunately because the speed had already reached the limit, it was in vain.
Time passed slowly, and the anxious Asian youth finally ran out of oil by the time the sea monsters pushed the 'glass box' to their side.
Feeling his consciousness blurry again, his brain feeling more and more thirsty, he desperately bit his only lip that could still move, and with severe pain, he lifted the last bit of energy, and controlled the sea monster to stuff hundreds of 'cubes' into the body of 'gray paste' that was still about one square kilometer in size after a fierce battle.
After doing everything he could, the Asian youth slowly closed his eyes and quietly waited for the verdict of fate.
A minute or two later, the countdown to the cracked giant 'box' self-destruct device loaded with the interstellar animals came to an end, and it exploded with a loud noise that was inaudible at the bottom of the sea, pushing the mountain-like 'gray paste' into a huge bulge.
Immediately afterwards, the other 'cubes' that were shattered by the powerful shock wave caused by the explosion began to explode one by one like a chain reaction, and all of them were destroyed in just a dozen seconds, almost blowing up the back of the 'gray paste' close to the bottom of the sea into a mess of rotten meat, and also making hundreds of interstellar animals that were instantly turned into meat sauce and bone residue by the explosion were swallowed up by the 'gray paste'.
Lying on the 'Roshan', the Asian young man who was in a state of dying was completely unaware of the strange situation around him at this time, but he clearly felt that the conditions for the maturity of the 'gray paste' had been fully met.
"Did you win the bet?" a thought flashed through his mind, and he finally gave the 'Roshan' under his body with his mind, "Complete the growth." The pupils began to dilate, and he finally lost consciousness completely.
At the same time, the surface of the 'gray paste' began to vibrate violently, and the solid body turned into a liquid state like flowing water, and began to flow into the body of the Asian youth through all the orifices of the eyes, mouth, nose, etc.
It is naturally impossible to completely fit a 'mountain of meat' into the skin of a normal-sized earthling, and after a while, the body of the Asian youth is so swollen that the clothes of the whole body are torn apart, and the limit of accommodation is reached, and the slightest increase in the amount will be fried into meat sauce.
At this moment, from the millions of pores around him, countless thin filaments of meat were squeezed out, and after the filaments appeared, they continued to elongate rapidly with the fluctuations of the seawater, and when they encountered swimming fish, shrimp and other sea creatures, they gently wound them and digested them in an instant.
After a while, the entire sea area within a radius of dozens of kilometers turned out to be a forbidden area for life, filled with countless terrifying 'shreds' that were still extending, while the body of the Asian young man had now returned to its normal human size, but it looked like the core of some kind of huge 'fungus', floating and sinking in the sea, which made people shudder.
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