novelraw Chapter 707 [125] Star Alignment
Chapter 707 [125] Star Alignment
Chapter 707 [125] Ten Stars Align
The giant, shadowy beasts fought each other fiercely, indiscriminately, friend or foe.
Qin Jiandan stood atop the sand dune, continuously controlling the scene with her "clothes-bursting whirlwind" technique.
Suddenly, I felt a low-frequency vibration coming from deep beneath my feet.
He suddenly turned around.
The sand dune where the police car was located was collapsing, and the sand surface was sinking into a funnel shape at a visible speed.
The funnel's edge expanded at an alarming rate, reaching diameters of fifty meters, eighty meters, one hundred meters...
The police car tilted. Mu Yue grabbed Rui Shuang by the back of her collar and pulled her away from the car.
Her black hair flowed freely, and her cat ears lay flat.
She used her Furian sense of balance to fight the quicksand beneath her feet, but the quicksand had no fixed point, and the entire sandpit was sucking her down.
A mouth opened at the bottom of the sandpit.
To be precise, it has four mandibles, with barbed chitinous teeth arranged on the inside, and human bone fragments stuck in the gaps between the teeth.
The edges of the palatal flaps are densely covered with tiny cilia. The cilia vibrate at high speed, creating an inward vortex that draws air in.
The sand grains slide down the funnel wall and into the four-lobed mandibles of the insect. The entire sand pit becomes its prey trap.
It was buried under the sand, so its entirety could not be seen, but its mouth alone was enough to swallow an armored bus.
Giant antlion shadow beast.
Whoosh!Whoosh!
Clumps of dark shadows shot out from the sporangia on both sides of the jaw.
Those things spread their limbs in the air, revealing human shapes.
But they are not human, but small shadow beasts. They have mummified bodies, and their limbs are not hands and feet, but shovel-shaped horny structures, which are naturally adapted to move on quicksand.
Leaping Corpse Shadow Beasts. At least 30 of them.
The protective canopy of the Bright Sky was still lit, but the creatures seemed undaunted. The silver light shone on the skin of the hopping corpses, causing wisps of smoke to rise and dispel the black mist, but it couldn't kill them directly.
They endured the pain as they crossed the edge of the light shield, leaping and bounding toward the tilted police car.
Mu Yue blew the head off the most recent zombie with one shot, sending it crashing into the quicksand. Her second shot shattered the knee of another zombie, slowing it down.
More zombies surged up.
"Who dares to come near Mom!"
Sharp Frost's voice drowned out the roar of the sandstorm.
The silver glint of the dagger wove a web of death before her, slicing every leaping corpse that stepped into its range into pieces. The mummified remains floated on the quicksand for a moment before being swept into the giant jaws at the bottom of the sand pit by a whirlpool.
Mu Yue fired her gun with one hand, while gripping the tilted police car door frame with the other. She stepped onto a rock in the quicksand that hadn't completely sunk in, using it for leverage to adjust her posture. Her cat tail swung straight to maintain her balance.
When she ran out of bullets, she kicked a jumping zombie that lunged at her from the side. The revolver magazine popped out, and six spent cartridges fell into the sand. She reached for the quick-load device on her waist.
Qin Jiandan ran quickly toward the antlion, focusing all her attention on the enormous creature buried underground.
There were indeed ten Shadow Beasts. Ibash hadn't exaggerated.
"Nine Heavens Thunderfire!"
Blue-purple lightning bolts shot from his fingertips, striking the left spore sac that the antlion had emerged from the sand. The spore sac exploded, spraying out a mixture of black mist and unformed leviathan embryos.
The antlion let out a low hiss, and the vortex in the sand pit paused for a moment. Then, its four-lobed mandibles suddenly turned from the bottom of the sand pit, and the direction of its cilia trembling changed from inhalation to locking.
All the jumping corpses simultaneously stopped attacking Mu Yue and turned towards Qin Jiandan.
Qin Jiandan immediately turned around and sprinted towards the chaotic battleground of the nine Yin Beasts.
Behind it, the antlion emerged from the sand—its abdomen was thirty meters long, with six segmented limbs, each ending in a shovel-shaped digging foot.
It emerged completely from under the sand, and sand poured out like a waterfall from the cracks in its shell. The horde of leaping corpses followed closely at its feet, hopping and bounding.
Qin Jiandan was nearing the edge of the chaotic battle.
He calculated the angle. The antlion was behind him, the melee circle in front of him. Just one position, just one angle…
He stepped onto the back of the fallen beetle-like creature and leaped into the air. No words were needed.
Mu Yue activated her super vision; even amidst the swirling yellow sand, the positions of all the Yin beasts were still reflected in her Yi Eyes.
The nine fighting each other, along with the ant-lion Yin beasts chasing Qin Jiandan... she saw that line.
The moment Qin Jiandan leaped up, all the Yin Beasts lined up in a straight line, stretching from the edge of the sandpit all the way to the deepest part of the battle zone.
"Moonlight Justice!"
A massive beam of light tore through the night, and a silvery torrent followed the trajectory Qin Jiandan had cleared, piercing the antlion's back.
In the moonlight, the antlion's torso was peeled away layer by layer. Carapace, muscles, internal organs, and finally, even the hopping corpse embryos within the spore cysts, were all burned to ashes.
The beam of light continued to penetrate. Gel-like Yin Beasts, Spiked Yin Beasts, Two-Headed Monsters, Centipede Yin Beasts, Winged Yin Beasts, Beetle Yin Beasts, Giant Bull Yin Beasts, Giant Elephant Yin Beasts—
Within the trajectory of the moonbeam cannon, they are indistinguishable.
The black mist armor instantly disintegrated, exposing its core, which then vaporized. The nine wisps of black mist exploded almost simultaneously, but before they could spread, the moonlight itself completely purified them.
Nine progenitor-level Yin beasts, plus an ant lion buried underground, were wiped out in one strike!
This was not without cost. Mu Yue exhausted herself, and the revolver slipped from her fingertips and stuck into the sand.
A few jutsu remained. After the antlion was eliminated, they lost their leader, circled around for a moment, and then locked onto the nearest humans—Muyue and Ruishuang.
Qin Jiandan ran back from the direction of the chaotic battle and cleanly eliminated the remaining jumping corpses.
He knelt down on one knee in front of Mu Yue and helped her up.
Mu Yue's cat ears lifted slightly, then drooped down again.
"I'm afraid I won't be able to participate in the battle anymore..."
"You've done enough," Qin Jiandan comforted her.
At this moment, Rui Shuang jumped to their side, her face still covered in the ashes of the dried corpse, but her eyes shone with an astonishing light.
"Daddy! Ruishuang protected Mommy! Mommy is super~~~~~ amazing!"
"Well, I see it."
The wind blew from afar, carrying away the last trace of the black mist.
However, dawn was still far away, and the darkness was not over.
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Just as Qin Jiandan and Mu Yue were stopping the Yin Beast—
Night Dragon Society Headquarters. Central Garden.
The last mechanical ninja had its head blown off by a guard with a charged rifle.
Ram was using a hammer to sift through the pile of corpses for any stragglers. Jacques leaned against the wall, twirling a golden scalpel between her fingers before tucking it inside her corset.
"There shouldn't be any more." A guard put down his submachine gun, its barrel still hot, his voice hoarse. "The ninjas outside have all been cleared out as well."
Another guard was bent over, supporting himself on his knees, panting heavily, his gas mask filled with white mist.
"Thanks to Miss Ruishuang... and those two little ones..." He glanced at Ram, who was turning over the corpse, and didn't dare to finish his sentence.
Tiger stood among the guards, scanning the courtyard to confirm that there were no new subspace fluctuations.
"Don't let your guard down. With the young master away, the enemy could launch a second wave of attacks at any moment. We must keep a close watch on the intelligence department and the medical clinic—"
His words were cut off by a burst of white light.
A figure suddenly appeared on the stone slabs of the central garden.
The alarm bracelet did not vibrate, and no purplish-black particles appeared in sight, indicating that the other party did not come through subspace.
The other person was wearing a white suit. His face was obscured, not because it was hidden, but because the light itself refused to reflect onto it. His entire being resembled a frozen bolt of lightning forcibly crammed into a human silhouette.
Six wings of light fluttered in the wind behind him.
(End of this chapter)