Chapter 210: Lightning
The grenade didn't explode violently as others might have imagined; it merely popped open gently, releasing a small rune shield with a radius of less than five meters.
To enhance its effect, the shield began to continuously compress, and the runes within it grew denser.
Enveloped within the runes, Sarcasky's speed was once again severely suppressed, allowing the now-breathing combatants to swiftly discuss their next move.
Considering the enemy possessed almost crushing speed and terrifying immortality, the vanguard unit arranged for this reconnaissance mission had no intention of annihilating the target.
The offensive equipment they carried was primarily designed to suppress the enemy's speed, ensuring their complete withdrawal after gathering intelligence.
"How could these primitive runes possibly trap me!" Sarcasky didn't even bother to use the more intricate solutions from his memories; he simply used brute force to smash through everything that hindered him, as the latter method was, in fact, even less time-consuming.
"Everyone, you should have gathered most of the intelligence by now, right?" Yue Yu, leading the Huaxia team, inquired.
"Fortunately, this terrifying alien creature doesn't possess a 'Life Field' like existence. Our equipment has completed a 3D model of it; it's time to prepare for withdrawal."
"I still wanted to hack off a few pieces of its flesh..." The martial artist named Hei Yue licked the blade in his hand.
"In that case, let us handle the final cover attack. You, the tattooed man with the grenades, yes, you! Hand all your rune grenades to me; I'll personally hold it back." Yue Yu pointed at A'Ye Si and said.
"Reason."
"My ability is teleportation."
"These three are all for slowing." With A'Ye Si's consent, the two instantly completed the handover.
Aided by the rapid exchange of mental fluctuations, the group completed all their arrangements in less than five seconds, poised to begin their retreat.
"Rip!" The next second, Sarcasky had already torn apart the rune net with sheer brute force and stepped out of the opening.
"Little insect, I must say..." Mid-sentence, another rune grenade was thrust onto its chest. The group began to rapidly depart, leaving only Yue Yu and another of Bai Mo's avatars behind, taking over from the previous decoy avatar.
"Aren't you leaving?" Yue Yu asked the avatar that remained.
Over two years had passed, and her reaction speed, honed by her special training, had become terrifyingly fast. She flashed around Sarcasky, who served as the atomic nucleus, like an electron orbiting a core, appearing almost randomly at any point around it, then slicing at the opponent with a plasma blade condensed from Spirit Arts.
"The show has only just begun; where would I go?" Bai Mo watched the performance of both sides from the sidelines.
"BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM!!!" Faced with such elusive and unpredictable attacks, Sarcasky swiftly adopted the correct countermeasure – transforming back into a sea urchin and launching a carpet-bombing attack!
"Lightning Strike!" The daring Yue Yu, with her superb skill, simultaneously used a shield to withstand the saturated laser assault while continuing to unleash her offensive Spirit Arts, conjuring a high-voltage electric arc to strike the enemy.
"Playing with lightning against me?" Sarcasky transmitted a disdainful mental fluctuation. Its body once again transformed from a sea urchin shape into a large central sphere surrounded by four smaller ones, resembling an octopus.
"Hmm?" Watching the sky around them gradually become shrouded in dark clouds, Yue Yu, sensing an inexplicable unease, ceased her attack.
The sense of dread in her heart intensified, every cell urging her to flee this place rather than remain motionless.
Electrical arcs began to ripple across the surface of the large sphere and four smaller spheres that Sarcasky had transformed into, and lightning flashed and thunder rumbled within the dark clouds. At this moment, both Yue Yu and Bai Mo guessed what the opponent's attack truly was...
"Utilizing high-power, unknown fluctuations, combined with its own electrical energy as a catalyst, to create artificial lightning attacks." Bai Mo's avatar stood to the side, continuously scanning Sarcasky with his divine sense, while his main body in the laboratory began to mimic its principles.
Losing an avatar that only consumed one-tenth of his Spirit Energy was nothing to him. Such Spirit Energy avatars also felt no pain, and with such a rare opportunity to get up close and personal with alien black tech, he naturally wouldn't let it slip by.
Yue Yu, however, clearly began to panic. She never would have imagined that the opponent possessed such a terrifying ability to summon lightning. If she had known earlier, she definitely wouldn't have chosen to be the rear guard. Her smooth sailing all along had made her overly confident.
"Looks like a pretentious mystic."
"Runes are even appearing abroad?"
"But it's useless, still getting thrashed."
...
While the group was previously testing Sarcasky, Bai Mo was also live-streaming the entire event via satellite. Currently, the number of people watching this broadcast worldwide had exceeded five hundred million, with countless individuals curious about alien life forms flooding into the live stream room.
The enormous traffic caused the live streaming platform's servers to lag, necessitating the temporary addition of equipment.
"Lightning Storm?!"
"Weather Control Device?!"
The massive dark clouds obscured the spy satellite's view. Within the visible range, there was only a sudden, screen-filling expanse of dark clouds and frequent flashes of lightning across them. Many imaginative netizens, recalling Sarcasky's previous transformations, immediately conjured these concepts in their minds.
"As you wished, I'm completely 'hot' now." Chen Xi turned off her microphone for the live stream, looking at the constantly scrolling bullet comments on the screen, and helplessly spread her hands.
"Isn't that great? So many people would kill for that." Bai Mo casually split off a thought to chat with his assistant.
"Chasing fame is what people who are crazy about getting rich and famous do. I'm not short on money at all; there's no need for me to act like those in the entertainment industry, turning myself into a consumable product to generate news and headlines just to stay relevant." Chen Xi wore a look of utter resignation.
"I'd forgotten you're a 'second-gen'... quite handy to use, actually."
"What do you mean by that? This old lady here forgot you're even human! You just hole up in the basement all day, either cooped up reading or doing those terrifying experiments, completely devoid of any concept of 'socializing'." She threw caution to the wind and retorted, completely abandoning her usual elegance, knowing full well her boss in front of her didn't care for such things anyway.
"Is there a necessary connection between socializing and the concept of being human? You want me to waste my time with a bunch of idiots whose brains operate at less than one-tenth the speed of my own?" Bai Mo was thoroughly perplexed.
"Communicating with Ability Users via mental fluctuations is relatively less uncomfortable. But interacting with ordinary people is too painful for me. For me, their information output is too slow, and I have to cautiously control my own information output to avoid them failing to keep up with my thoughts." He continued to add.
"Humans are social creatures..."
"Forget it. Whether I'm human or not doesn't matter; what's most important is living comfortably." He dropped the topic.
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