CHAPTER 497: CHAPTER 280: THE CITY’S DEADLOCK! (13,000 CHARACTERS EXPLOSION!)

"Sorry, Captain Lin, thank you for being willing to entrust such an important item as the Hell Black Chrysanthemum to me, and please forgive me for using it for such a dangerous experiment without your permission. Although I placed it in the ejection seat of the co-pilot with added protection, I know this trip might be a one-way journey..."

"I don’t have the courage like General Zhang or Mr. Bai. I didn’t survive from a pile of corpses. When we evacuated from the Wei River, I was actually among the first batch transferred by Mr. Bai as a key scientific and technical personnel. At Yu Bei Airport, I witnessed your fearlessness, so I don’t want you to see me as a coward. I’m afraid of seeing too many people dying around me, which is why I made this risky decision. I know this is probably just my cowardice and escape..."

"It’s the end of the world, I don’t know if I will see the dawn again, but maybe you can. If you receive this recording, please convey my apologies to my teacher. I have never had his kind of courage as his disappointing student."

In the lab temporarily remodeled within the command center of Xilan Airport, a recording from Wei Kexue was playing on the computer. This recording was found on the protective device of the Hell Black Chrysanthemum, which was ejected and landed in the valley of Fenglan Mountain, eventually being retrieved by Ding Junyi and Lin Xian.

The atmosphere in the hall was heavy and oppressive.

Many members of the research team had red-rimmed eyes.

Guo Sicheng stood at the front of the crowd, looking as if he had aged several years.

Due to the emergency nature of the event, aside from Zhao Yu, He Zhen, Wen Zhuo, Xiao He, and other members of the Phoenix Society, only a few people from the west of the city, including Lin Xian and Shi Deyuan, were present to assist in the search effort.

Lin Xian sighed slightly in his heart at this moment. He didn’t expect that Wei Kexue, who had just been reminiscing with him two days ago, had departed like this. Lin Xian took out the iron box from his pocket and opened it; the three Blood Essences were still quietly placed inside. These were what Wei Kexue brought as ’compensation’ to borrow his Hell Black Chrysanthemum for research. In reality, Lin Xian had no thoughts of exchanging for any benefits. He simply knew that accepting this would make Wei Kexue feel a little better.

Perhaps Wei Kexue also wouldn’t have thought that he would die for this theory on the eve of evacuation.

The Hell Black Chrysanthemum was placed on the table, shining with a bright red light, while Yu Yuheng, looking disheveled, sat beside it.

This signified that he too had been marked with a Level 5 mark.

Zhao Yu’s face darkened slightly, "The current situation is that the experimental team found evidence of the Dark Mark but discovered other anomalies?"

Mr. Guo adjusted his glasses, nodded at this moment, and said, "The Super Pure Germanium Detector detected a type of weakly interacting massive particle. This particle forms some kind of dark matter bond with the human cell membrane, and the dark matter stream can penetrate any barrier, making the marked person a ’lighthouse in the darkness’. This is an unprecedented discovery. If given some time to specifically develop a sensor device, then everyone could detect their own marked status."

Starfire Leader Wen Zhuo at this moment looked at the still-frightened Yu Yuheng: "Leader Yu, could you describe in detail what happened? Why did you say that monster was just a Scout? What led to this judgment?"

All eyes were on Yu Yuheng, all very concerned about this question.

Yu Yuheng’s gaze was somewhat lost, and he looked up at the crowd, recalling the terrifying scene from two hours ago.

Two hours earlier.

Yu Yuheng’s flying device had just plunged out of a cloud layer, and the massive weightlessness nearly rendered his mind blank. Fortunately, the flying device’s automatic flight control system quickly stabilized.

At this moment, having no driving experience, he hurriedly checked the instruments and the situation outside the window.

But when he looked up, he found that within the hazy cloud layer on the right side of the flying device, a giant black shadow suddenly appeared, completely blocking the already dim moonlight.

It was a monster covered with countless giant legs, each leg perhaps over a hundred meters long, resembling a black sea urchin floating in the air, covered with numerous red compound eyes. The cilia on its legs swayed incessantly amid the blizzard. In front of it, the small flying device that Yu Yuheng and Wei Kexue were aboard seemed terrifyingly insignificant!

Beep, beep, beep, the flying device sounded an alarm.

"Professor Wei, it’s above us!!!" Yu Yuheng gasped.

"Ascend! Ascend!" came Wei Kexue’s exclamation from the communicator.

"Has the Disaster Plant lit up?!"

"No."

"How can that be!?"

Beep, beep, beep, at this moment, the instruments on the flying device started giving malfunction alarms.

"The detector is operational; this thing seems to be watching us!"

"It’s been hiding here all along!"

"No matter, just open fire on it directly and see what this monster is up to!" Wei Kexue gritted his teeth tightly, his adrenaline surging, suppressing the earlier fear and panic.

"Ah!!"

Crackle, hiss!

The combat missile on the flying device launched from the missile bay, trailing a streak of flame as it sped toward the floating compound eye in the sky.

Bang!

The explosion and firelight came, but the Big Strange Body appeared unharmed. As the missile approached, it seemed to collide with some invisible wall in the air, exploding with a roar. A semi-transparent halo rippled in front of the ’sea urchin’, then disappeared.

"What is that?!"

"Some kind of protective shield???"