Interstellar boss, she doesn't talk about martial arts

Chapter 1736 Rank (Second Update)

The golden-purple energy beam once again struck the second energy core of the fleshy creation at the center of the altar with unparalleled precision!

The moment they made contact, time seemed to freeze for a single frame.

Then comes annihilation!

All the tentacles stopped wriggling at the same time, lying haphazardly on the muddy ground like elephant trunks.

The area directly hit by the beam of light revealed writhing, pulsating tumors, a slippery yet resilient gelatinous membrane, and a dark purple, viscous fluid...

All matter is directly carbonized into ash!
No combustion is needed; only complete, molecular-level disintegration!

Soon, two huge holes, each nearly five meters in diameter, appeared on the left and right sides of the fleshy creation that had already split in two!

That was a hole that had been punched through.

The material at the edge of the cavity was carbonizing, emitting a terrifying hissing sound. The extremely strong, acrid stench of burnt protein instantly drowned out all other smells!

The fleshy creature, which had already been divided into two pieces by Xia Chujian, was still expanding and contracting violently and spasmodically, emitting an indescribable, sharp scream that was sharp enough to pierce the eardrums!
The shriek was filled with incomprehensible rage and chaotic, violent madness!

Soon, the carbonization at the edge of the cavity stopped, and evaporation began.

The fleshy tissue at the edges of the evaporated cavity transformed into dark red, scalding steam clouds, which mixed with rainwater and spread under the city dome, covering the black mist with a dark red, fleshy membrane-like shell!

"We finally took him down!" Xia Xiong roared from afar, as if he had survived a catastrophe.

Xia Chujian stared intently at the two enormous, bubbling holes at their edges.

Did they really kill it?

Can her plasma sniper rifle end this nightmare from the abyss?
This thing is even harder to kill than Brod's real body!

However, Qilu also said that all of this was caused by Ursus.

Ursus is an ancient god several levels higher than Brod, so it's understandable that he's harder to kill than Brod.

Xia Chujian perked up and checked his plasma sniper rifle. It was fully charged and ready to fire another 50 energy beams.

However, she did not continue firing because she noticed that the two cavities that had appeared after she pierced the two energy cores of the fleshy creation were somewhat strange.

Because the opposite side of that hollow was not the altar surface that had been exposed after being scorched and evaporated by the high temperature, as expected.

Instead, it was a... bottomless abyss!

It's as if a layer of flesh has been burned through, revealing a terrifying truth hidden beneath that layer, a truth that doesn't belong to this world at all.

Xia Chujian spat and said angrily, "What kind of hellish place is this?!"

"This is definitely not my home!"

Xia Xiong, Xia Yu, and Xia Xi all wished they had already fainted, just like Xia Chao and Xia Rao.

Because they really didn't want to see this situation.

With each glance, indelible impurities enter their mental realm, slowing their movements, dulling their reactions, and even clouding their conscious awareness.

Xia Chujian ordered them: "Close your eyes! You'd better shut down your senses!"

Xia Xiong, Xia Yu, and Xia Xi quickly did as instructed.

At this moment, only Xia Chujian was able to remain conscious.

She stared intently at the hole that seemed to be the entrance to an abyss.

It wasn't completely empty there.

From her angle, one could see a deep, soul-chilling dark void, where countless enormous chunks of flesh, like decaying stars, slowly rotated and emitted a foul light!
Xia Chujian couldn't help but think of the "primordial flesh and blood" that Qi Lu had mentioned. Was this what it was?
She raised her mechanical right arm, set up her plasma sniper rifle, and expressionlessly aimed it at the abyss-like dark starry sky, and the countless "primordial flesh and blood" floating and obscuring it.

Just then, a crack suddenly appeared in the pieces of meat.

Inside the gap were rows of huge, barbed teeth.

It's as if these chunks of meat have turned into gaping mouths, wanting only to devour everything and turn it into their own food.

Each of the large mouths seemed to have its own consciousness, staring at her coldly and emotionlessly.

Even each of its barbed teeth exudes undisguised malice!
Xia Xiong, Xia Yu, and Xia Xi painfully discovered that even though they had closed their eyes, they could still see everything!
An extreme fear, stemming from the instinct for survival, of the cold vastness of the universe and their own insignificance as dust, instantly overwhelmed their hearts like ice water!

"What...what is that?" Xia Xi's voice was like a dream, filled with bewilderment and uncontrollable horror.

At this moment, another change occurred!
The fleshy creature, torn in two by Xia Chujian's plasma energy beam, seemed to gain new power and vitality from the remaining parts that hadn't yet carbonized and evaporated, especially the parts from the abyss of the two holes in its body.

The steam that had been boiling at the edge of the huge wound suddenly stopped evaporating.

Countless thick, python-like tentacles, now a deeper, almost deep purple, sprouted like wildly growing vines from the edges of the boiling wounds and other parts of the mountain of flesh! They were even more aggressive than before.

Countless tiny, constantly opening and closing mouthparts emerged from the surface of the tentacles, emitting a ferocious sound like the hungry howl of jackals, overlapping billions of them!
This sound coalesced into an immense torrent of mental pollution, ten or even a hundred times stronger than before!
"Ughhhhh—!" Xia Xiong was the first to be hit. He suddenly clutched his head and let out a scream that was not human. The railgun in his hand fell to the ground.

He removed his helmet, his eyes rolled back, his body convulsed violently, and white foam dripped from the corner of his mouth. Clearly, his mental defenses had been completely shattered in an instant.

Xia Chujian strode forward, put the helmet back on Xia Xiong, and then knocked him unconscious with the butt of his rifle.

"General Xia! Look at Xia Xi!" Xia Yu struggled to sit up and shouted in a hoarse voice.

Xia Chujian suddenly turned her head.

Xia Xi, the young man who was trembling with fear just moments before, has now undergone a chilling transformation.

He also removed his helmet, and the shock and fear from his face were gone, replaced by an extreme, empty calm.

The corners of his mouth even curled upwards, forming a stiff and eerie smile.

His eyes were wide open, but his pupils were unfocused and lifeless, as if they had lost their focus.

His gaze pierced through the city walls, seemingly glimpsing some distant and "wonderful" place.

“Home…” Xia Xi’s voice was as soft as a murmur, carrying a chilling obsession and satisfaction.

"I see home... It's so bright... So warm... Mom is waiting for me to eat..."

His tone was unusually clear, yet filled with an inhuman chill.

Under the watchful eyes of Xia Chujian and Xia Yu, Xia Xi slowly, stiffly yet resolutely raised the assault rifle in her hand.

Instead of aiming at the terrifying mass of flesh that was frantically regenerating and howling like jackals, he... steadily and precisely pointed the dark muzzle of his gun at Xia Yu, who had just struggled to his feet and was trying to cover him again!
On Xia Xi's face, the eerie smile became even brighter, as if she was about to embrace not death, but a long-lost hometown.

"No! Xia Xi! Wake up!" Xia Yu roared in disbelief, trying to rouse the other person.

But Xia Xi's finger was already firmly on the trigger!
Xia Chujian's blood almost froze at that moment.

Without hesitation, she switched to a small pistol, aimed it at Xia Xi's finger, and fired three shots.

Xia Xi's fingers were still covered by the second-generation mecha. Xia Chujian's bullet accurately hit his finger as he tried to pull the trigger, catching him off guard.

His hand slipped, and instead of pulling the trigger, he dropped the assault rifle.

Xia Yu escaped unscathed.

He was panting heavily, looked at Xia Xi, and then at Xia Chujian.

He was even struggling to make a decision for a moment.

Was it Xia Xi's sudden shooting that terrified him more, or was it General Xia's superb marksmanship that made him even more scared?
Xia Chujian strode forward, first pulling Xia Yu away, then kicking Xia Xi in the chest, knocking him to the ground.

She stepped on him and said coldly, "Xia Xi! Pull yourself together! Is this little bit of mental pollution enough to break you down?!"

"What about the honor of being a member of the Special Security Bureau's local team?! You don't want it anymore?!"

Xia Xi shuddered, her body convulsing violently.

Xia Chujian took out another Crimson Flame Dew, put it in his mouth, and then picked up his fully enclosed helmet and put it on him.

Xia Xi still struggled.

Suddenly, a more penetrating and despairing "sound" came from the abyss-like opening, drowning out the howls of the jackals emanating from the fleshy creatures, and also drowning out the torrential rain outside!
That was... the sound of crying.

It wasn't Xia Xi's delirious murmur, nor was it the sharp, overlapping wolf howls of the past.

The sound was sharp and fragile, yet boundless, like the ultimate cry of billions of newborn lives, thrown into a boiling oil cauldron at the same time, a cry that gathered all the pain of the entire race in their last moments!

The crying did not travel through the air, but rather, like quantum superposition and entanglement, it attacked the realm of human consciousness almost simultaneously, moving from one side to the other.

It violently shook the earth beneath its feet, causing the entire city's ground, walls, and remaining steel skeleton to begin to pulsate synchronously and intensely!
The entire space transformed into a gigantic, beating heart!

A pale white bolt of lightning, like the dying spasm of the universe, suddenly tore through the inky black curtain of the rainy night sky!

In that instant when the world was illuminated, Xia Chujian looked away and gazed at the distant horizon.

There was nothing there, just chaos.

Xia Chujian froze.

A bone-chilling cold, more deadly than any tentacle attack, shot from her tailbone to the top of her head in an instant, threatening to freeze every drop of her blood.

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　　(End of this chapter)