novelraw Chapter 553: Splashing Filth
Chapter 553: Splashing Filth
Chapter 553: Splashing Filth
Jie Ming rushed out of the laboratory, and the scene before his eyes made his pupils contract sharply.
The entire ship plane had fallen into chaos.
The protective barriers in the sky flickered madly like someone suffering from malaria—blindingly bright one moment, then dimming until they nearly vanished the next.
From the direction of the large elemental pool in the distance came a piercing buzzing sound. The energy output fluctuated violently, distorting the air around the pool. Even worse were the people.
Jie Ming saw at least dozens of wizards already collapsed on the ground.
Their eyes were vacant, pupils unfocused. Their breathing continued, but they showed no reaction to any external stimuli… exactly the same as the silenced ones from before.
Around them, other wizards were anxiously trying to wake them.
“They’ve been hit.”
Jie Ming instantly understood what had happened. Among the wizards who had sent out cannon fodder units, someone had been reverse-invaded by the enemy through the connection and their defenses had been breached.
Then, the creatures from the Information Plane had used that wizard as a springboard to begin attacking the core facilities of the entire ship plane.
He looked up at the fissure in the sky.
The pure white plane remained deathly silent, but Jie Ming could sense that something was continuously pouring over from the other side.
“Quick! Stabilize the formation!”
An angry roar came from nearby.
Several formation masters in robes were desperately pouring spiritual power into the rune arrays on the ground, trying to stabilize the energy circuits that had already begun to fall into disarray.
But their expressions grew increasingly ugly.
“It’s no good! I just repaired this section, and that side collapsed again!”
“They’re parsing the runes faster than we can inscribe them!”
Jie Ming could see clearly from the side. Every time the formation masters added a new rune stroke on the ground, the invading information stream on the other side would instantly parse the function of that rune and create new destruction elsewhere at an even faster speed.
The weakness of the rune system was fully exposed at this moment.
As long as you could understand it, you could counter it.
Jie Ming did not hesitate.
His figure flashed and he directly appeared among the dozens of fallen wizards.
The other wizards around were still in a panic and no one noticed him.
Jie Ming squatted down and reached out to press his hand against one of their foreheads.
Spiritual power extended outward, actively connecting to that wizard’s spirit sea.
In the next instant, the world before his eyes changed.
Countless information streams surged toward him like towering waves.
The information had no color or shape, yet Jie Ming could “see” them.
They were madly eroding every corner of this wizard’s spirit sea, attempting to penetrate the entire ship plane’s energy network through here.
Golden light flashed at Jie Ming’s glabella.
The Fate Subsystem operated at full power.
His consciousness transformed into a barrier, precisely cutting off the path of that information stream. Then it began to parse, decompose, suppress, and even counterattack.
At first, it went smoothly.
The invading information streams were wiped out piece by piece. Jie Ming could even follow the opponent’s path in reverse to sense the situation on the other side.
A lot.
An absurdly large number.
The number of natives on the other side was shockingly high!
Among the fallen wizards here, some unlucky bastard had probably stumbled directly into a gathering place of the natives!
Moreover, it felt as though even more natives were continuously rushing over from deeper within the Information Plane.
Upon detecting that the invasion on this side was being obstructed, they immediately joined the computational network.
Each native contributed a portion of their computational power, converging into an ever-growing torrent of information.
Jie Ming’s advantage was rapidly shrinking.
Then he began to be suppressed.
“So many…”
Jie Ming gritted his teeth. The load rate of the Fate Subsystem was soaring.
68%, 74%, 81%…
The other side seemed endless.
At that moment, powerful auras suddenly descended.
From the direction of the core camp in the distance, more than a dozen figures were flying over at high speed.
Every one of them emitted an oppressive aura. The weakest were sixth-ring, and several caused even Jie Ming to feel a palpitation—seventh-ring wizards.
The high-ranking wizards had arrived.
Seeing the situation before them, they wasted no words.
The dozen or so figures landed simultaneously. Each found a fallen wizard, pressed their palms down, and brazenly connected their spiritual power.
Jie Ming immediately felt the pressure drop sharply.
The computational power of those high-ranking wizards crashed into the battlefield like more than a dozen massive mountains. The originally surging enemy information stream was instantly crushed and forced into retreat step by step. Even though the other side continued to send reinforcements without end, there was no suspense under the absolute crushing force of superior computation.
“They’re going to run again.”
Jie Ming almost instinctively made the judgment.
Having experienced the previous clash, he was all too familiar with these enemies’ style.
Once they sensed they could not win, they would cut off the connection and flee without hesitation.
But this time, Jie Ming did not want to let them retreat unscathed.
With a thought, he made a grasping motion with his right hand.
A clump of mist appeared out of thin air in his palm.
The mist’s color was gorgeously eerie, as if countless hues had been forcibly blended together, twisting, intertwining, and permeating one another.
Merely looking at it gave one a sense of mental daze.
Incense Fire Poison.
An inevitable byproduct produced during the Incense Fire Divine Dao’s generation of incense power.
It was condensed from the distracting thoughts, obsessions, and resentments within the beliefs of countless believers, possessing extremely strong contaminating effects on the spirits of most living beings.
When he had heard that this plane was mainly related to information, Jie Ming had specifically brought some with him.
He had not expected it to come in handy so quickly.
Without hesitation, he slapped the clump of mist into his own glabella.
The Fate Subsystem instantly took control of the Incense Fire Poison, breaking it down into countless tiny information fragments and sending them all at once through the spiritual channel that Jie Ming was still connected to.
The other side had originally been retreating.
After sensing the terrifying computational power of the high-ranking wizards, the natives had already begun rapidly severing connections and contracting their defenses.
Their retreat was orderly, like a well-trained army.
Then the Incense Fire Poison arrived.
Jie Ming could not “see” exactly what happened on the other side, but he could sense it…
Over there, it had exploded.
The originally orderly retreating information streams instantly fell into chaos.
Countless noisy, twisted, and frenzied distracting thoughts spread madly through their computational network like a virus.
The natives’ reactions were extremely intense, so intense that Jie Ming could feel their “pain” through the spiritual channel, if they even possessed such an emotion.
The other side did not even bother retrieving the other scattered information. The connections were brutally severed in an instant.
Jie Ming withdrew his spiritual power and rubbed his slightly swollen glabella.
He looked down at his hand. A faint wisp of gorgeous mist lingered around his fingertips, trying to burrow into his skin. Just from coming into slight contact, Jie Ming could feel as though the frenzied whispers of thousands upon thousands of people were swirling around his ears.
“Tch.”
Jie Ming could not help but frown in discomfort. The Fate Subsystem operated, quickly sorting out the wisp of mist and expelling it from his body.
Although he had been disgusted himself, still…
He raised his head and looked toward the fissure in the sky.
The other side must be feeling even more disgusted right now.
Thinking of this, the corners of Jie Ming’s mouth curved into a wicked smile.
“They were lucky to run fast. Consider this collecting a little bit of interest for now.”
The high-ranking wizards around him had already stood up and were conversing in low voices.
Someone noticed Jie Ming’s earlier actions and gave him an extra glance, but out of the caution wizards held toward knowledge, they did not ask further.
The alarm finally stopped.
The flickering of the protective barriers gradually stabilized as well.
Jie Ming withdrew his gaze and patted off nonexistent dust from his hands.
“We’ll play with you again next time.”