Chapter 480: Earth Eclipse
"Goodbye." Bai Mo looked back at the Earth-Moon System behind him, then stepped into the wormhole passage, leaving only his back to the world.
He paid no mind to the Void Worm, which was already dizzy and disoriented, for Bai Mo never expected it to carry him across to another spatial layer.
A single dugout canoe simply couldn't carry a ten-thousand-ton boulder.
Forcing it to bear his power and traverse the wormhole passage would lead to no other outcome than it exploding midway.
"That madman... he just walked straight into the passage like that."
"Without the Void Worm's protection, is he trying to withstand the spatial inversion and distortion within the passage head-on?!"
Most of the people, still struggling under immense pressure, stared in shock at the scene unfolding before them.
Especially those few who had participated in the core research of the Void Worm; they had the deepest understanding of the distorting force Bai Mo was about to endure, and knew most clearly how terrifying such a power was.
"He's different from us. The Void Worm, this tiny boat, simply cannot carry a giant like him."
"I want to rebuild the Main God Temple!" It seemed he wasn't the only one with such "sickness."
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However, it was precisely this crazy group of people who would abandon their comfortable lives on the Moon to participate in the project led by Tang Na De.
The lowest rank among those selected for the project were Fourth Tier transcendent beings; even if they had simply followed the main group of immigrants to the Moon, they would still have been part of society's upper echelon.
If they hadn't possessed a spirit so obsessive it bordered on madness, they wouldn't have risked their lives like this at all.
"What's going on? Why are we being sucked in too!"
"Aren't wormhole passages only supposed to be entered voluntarily?! There shouldn't be this kind of black hole-like gravitational pull!"
"It's him..."
"That person's gravitational fluctuations are too strong, pulling us into the passage as well. It seems we'll all be traversing to the other side."
"Originally, the plan was for all of us to traverse to that world anyway, so there's no real difference in the outcome. After all, we only have the precise coordinates for one spatial layer."
"Voluntarily entering and being forced to enter are two different things!"
"Earth is already unreachable, and our final objective has been successfully completed. Let's begin the traversal!" an excited voice exclaimed.
Within the Void Worm's team, there were quite a few individuals with divergent neural pathways; even in the most perilous moments, they could still talk to themselves as if nothing was amiss.
"How about we name our small team the Lingao Group? My hometown is in Lingao County in the Huaxia Federation..." the captain of a small group, once entirely composed of Huaxia citizens, proposed enthusiastically.
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After Bai Mo's figure entered the wormhole, a considerable portion of the white mist also surged into the opening.
This white mist was, in essence, the material form of his Xuanhua. For Bai Mo, who had reached the Myriad Forms Realm, Xuanhua was an intrinsic part of his very existence.
The white mist he took with him would serve as his investment for this traversal.
With everything settled, the last wisp of mist smoothly closed the "door," leaving only a faint, almost imperceptible connection after crossing space.
Within the passage, the rising and falling of spatial dimensions created unimaginable spatial distortions. The traversers, who had still possessed physical bodies half a day ago, subconsciously assumed Bai Mo had walked in to endure the distorting force with his flesh.
In reality, for Bai Mo, who had transformed into an indeterminate existence after entering the Myriad Forms Realm, the twisting and stretching of space didn't affect him nearly as much.
So, even though he was pulled and torn apart like modeling clay by the chaotic space shortly after entering, he could still advance effortlessly toward that distant point of light.
At first, Bai Mo could still perceive the arguments within the Void Worm, but after losing the immense external pressure, the outcome of this group of eccentric and strange individuals gathering together was nothing but chaos.
After an unknown duration of travel, their communication fluctuations gradually faded away. In this dazzling and bizarre passage, the concept of distance itself seemed to blur.
No matter how far he walked, the distance between him and that point of light appeared unchanged, but Bai Mo didn't care, for a considerable portion of the discouragement he felt had already dissipated.
He didn't care about persistence, nor did he care about giving up; he simply roamed quietly alone within this peculiar passage space.
His indeterminate body incurred no great cost in resisting the spatial distortion, so Bai Mo's power was entirely sufficient to sustain him until the end of time.
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"Look, Earth has turned black!"
"Mommy, is Earth molding?"
"My heavens, what in the world is happening!"
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On the Moon, people living on the side facing Earth were once again shocked by the spectacle of the white sphere turning black, after having just been astonished to discover Earth had become a white sphere.
Thousands of pictures of the "spotted" Earth, just like the huge news of the planet turning white hours earlier, flooded the entire internet via social media.
As an almost indispensable part of daily life, the internet on the Moon had been established during the colonization period and had now developed to a point where it was in no way inferior to its peak on Earth.
The moment the wormhole passage's "door" closed, Earth, completely enveloped by the white mist, began to blacken.
Initially, black spots continuously emerged across the planet's surface, like mold on bread, and then, centered around these spots, the blackness began to spread outwards.
Just fifteen minutes later, over two-thirds of the side of Earth facing the Moon had been completely swallowed by darkness.
From the Moon's perspective, Earth's current state wasn't much different from how lunar eclipses used to appear when viewed from Earth.
The only difference between an "Earth eclipse" and a lunar eclipse was that the Earth, gradually plunging into darkness, wouldn't reappear later...
Witnessing this scene, many who were moved by the sight shed tears.
Of course, the public's emotional outpourings were one thing, but internally, the Federation was once again in a state of chaos because of this incident.
The scientists who had originally been studying Earth's white mist hastily formed another special task force to investigate whether the blackened Earth would have a destructive impact on the Moon, following its sudden transformation from white to black.
After all, the Moon was ultimately just Earth's satellite; even a slight change in their gravitational forces would be enough to cause an ecological impact.
"Fortunately, it was just a false alarm... He didn't 'eat' Earth." In a special meeting of the Federation's high-level officials, the assembled council members, holding the analysis report, finally let out a temporary sigh of relief.
According to the report's conclusion, Earth's surface had turned completely black simply because the unknown white mist covering it had absorbed all light indiscriminately.
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