webnovelvip Chapter 240 Taibai Abyss
Chapter 240 Taibai Abyss
The Kunpeng landed in the heart of the Qinling Mountains.
The valley platform cleared by the military was blasted with sand and gravel by the exhaust blasts of three heavy transport planes.
The distance from here to the entrance of Taebaekyeon is marked as seventeen kilometers on the map.
There is no way.
On satellite images, this area appears as a completely black void.
Any electromagnetic signal that enters will be completely eliminated.
The first squad descended the gangway, while the heavy mech squadron of the 7th Detachment had already established an advance base at the entrance.
Alloy barricades and energy shields completely surrounded a sinkhole with a diameter of 300 meters.
The bottom of the sinkhole is the entrance to Taibaiyuan.
A vertical rock face is covered with ancient seal script.
Thirty years ago, these runes were radiant and dazzling.
Now, nearly a third of it has completely faded.
Even the parts that are still lit are losing light at a visible rate.
Every few seconds, a tiny crack would spread from the extinguished rune.
Low-frequency vibrations emanated from deep within the rock face.
It beats like an enormous heart.
The first squad and eight second-tier support Awakeners gathered at the edge of the sinkhole.
Lu Yan made the final task assignments.
"You eight, stay on the entrance level."
His voice was somewhat muffled by the wind.
"Cooperate with the Seventh Detachment to block the door."
"If anything inside tries to escape, stuff it back in at all costs."
He turned to his teammates.
"The seven of us, go down."
"Su Yunqing is in charge of sustaining power, Lin Chuxue is in charge of cleaning up, Zhao Lei is in charge of clearing the way, and Wen Yue is in charge of suppressing the enemy."
"Xiao Qianyu, Shen Xinglin, close-range cut."
"I act as the central strategist, deconstructing the objective."
A passage has been opened in the sealed rock wall.
The air inside is not right.
The temperature dropped sharply.
The white breath exhaled by each person condensed into ice crystals the instant it left their lips, and then fell to the ground.
The ice crystals are not white, but pale gold.
Zhao Leiguang placed the Taotie Shield in front of him, and golden ice crystals fell onto the shield's surface, instantly forming a thin layer of frost.
Su Yunqing raised her hand, and a few specks of golden dust landed on her tactical glove.
She glanced at the data.
"Dust from divine crystals."
"The entire passageway was filled with it."
Fragments of God floated in the air.
Pangu is being gnawed away bit by bit.
The passage extends two kilometers into the distance.
The view suddenly opened up at the end.
A huge underground cavity.
The scale exceeded everyone's expectations.
It covers an area of at least fifty kilometers and the dome is over three thousand meters high.
In the center of the cavity, a dark red sphere with a diameter of over one kilometer floats.
The surface of the sphere is covered with dense, constantly wriggling white tentacles.
A living giant cocoon.
The tentacles burrowed deep into the surrounding rock walls, pulsating rhythmically, drawing golden energy from the rocks and channeling it into the ball's interior.
That is the "stomach".
A high-dimensional digestive organ that parasitizes the body of the god Pangu.
In Lu Yan's field of vision, the data stream of the Void Disk was refreshing rapidly.
The sphere's structural laws consist of at least thirty-seven nested layers of high-dimensional barriers.
If you're going to break through with sheer force, Black Lotus needs to continuously output damage for more than four hours.
They didn't have four hours.
Wen Yue's voice rang out on the communication channel.
"The bottom of the sphere, at the six o'clock position."
"It has the lowest density of tentacles and a weak point with a diameter of about twenty meters."
Her scope magnified that area.
"The number of barrier layers is significantly less than in other locations."
"There are only seven floors."
But directly below that weak point, on the ground, lurked a large number of monsters that were devouring the golden dust.
Its body shape resembled a white leech magnified dozens of times, with its back covered in eyeballs.
The number, by visual estimation, exceeds three hundred.
"Zhao Leiguang charges head-on, drawing aggro."
Lu Yan's voice was unwavering.
"Lin Chuxue and Wen Yue, sweep the area thoroughly and clear paths."
"Xiao Qianyu, Shen Xinglin, escort me to the weak point directly below."
"Once I got to my position, I broke through all seven layers of barriers with all my might."
"time limit."
He paused.
"Ninety seconds."
After more than ninety seconds, the ball will initiate self-repair.
Zhao Leiguang grinned.
"Ninety seconds? That's too long."
He slammed his double shields into the ground, activating the Earth Pulse suit at full power.
A brutal collision.
He transformed into an out-of-control dump truck, crashing directly into the center of the leech swarm.
The effects of the war trampling were amplified by the terrain in this enclosed cavity, and the shockwaves sent more than a dozen leeches flying.
But the crushed flesh reformed in less than five seconds.
They are not independent living entities.
These are digestive cells that extend from the "stomach".
Unkillable.
The only option is to keep repelling them.
Lin Chuxue leaped out from behind Zhao Leiguang.
Blood Explosion Array.
The advantages of no cooling and no consumption are fully demonstrated on this meat grinder-like battlefield.
Dark red beams of light from the magic circle rose and fell.
Like a death forest that grows in an instant.
The leeches were blasted apart, charred, regenerated, and blasted apart again.
She single-handedly withstood the regeneration pressure of more than a hundred monsters facing her head.
The shield bar above her head slowly decreased from 10,000.
Eight thousand.
Six thousand.
Su Yunqing's healing light precisely locked onto her, and the tip of the staff of the Gift of Yao Guang shone brightly, barely managing to suppress the consumption of energy as the shield regenerated.
A passage was cleared.
Xiao Qianyu led the way, with Shen Xinglin following behind, protecting Lu Yan as they quickly passed through.
Fifty meters from the target.
The sphere reacted.
A giant tentacle, over ten meters in diameter, detached from the top of the sphere, resembling a white python, and lashed down at Lu Yan and his companions with a piercing shriek that tore through the air.
Shen Xinglin did not hesitate for a moment.
The lance can be transformed in countless ways.
The Knight Armor's engine roared to its limit.
He transformed into a streak of silver light and crashed into the tentacle.
The lance pierced the surface of the tentacle, but was immediately enveloped in a viscous liquid and remained motionless.
But he blocked it for a second with his own body.
That's enough for now.
Lu Yan arrived directly below the weak point.
Raise both hands.
The Void Disk is operating at full power.
The seven barriers in his field of vision were like seven fragile panes of glass.
Under the erosion of the Black Lotus Law, it shattered layer by layer.
First floor.
The second layer.
The third layer.
When the fourth layer shattered, the sphere emitted a piercing shriek.
All the attacking leeches stopped moving at the same time.
Turn your head.
More than three hundred heads, each covered in eyeballs, all stared at him.
The fifth floor shattered.
The sixth floor shattered.
A warm liquid gushed from Lu Yan's nostrils.
The depletion of mental energy has reached a critical point.
Xiao Qianyu stood in front of him, and the Dragon King Halberd danced to create a curtain of dragon shadows, severing all the leech tentacles that pounced at her.
Zhao Leiguang rushed back from a distance, slamming two Taotie shields heavily onto the ground to protect Lu Yan's back.
Wen Yue's World-Destroying Thunder Crossbow created a ring of fire around the perimeter.
The seventh floor.
Broken.
A black entrance with a diameter of three meters has been opened at the bottom of the sphere.
An aura of utter decay emanated from within.
And a sound.
It's very light.
It's very far.
But everyone on the tactical channel heard it.
"……who……"
"...Outside..."
The voice was old and weak, like someone who had been asleep for countless centuries and had just been awakened.
His voice carried a chilling sorrow that sent shivers down one's spine.
Lu Yan raised his hand and wiped away the blood from his nose.
He looked up at the black entrance.
"Go in."