novelraw #638 - Chapter 636 Catch?
#638 - Chapter 636 Catch?
“Grandpa Hong, there's danger below!”
“I strike!”
Hong Wei held the umbrella sword, which had grown to five meters in size, and slashed straight down at the location below Xiaoyao Sword, creating a dazzling light.
This was already the eleventh danger that Qi Jing had sensed.
Hong Wei had dispersed six of them with a single strike, resolving the source of the crisis with one throw.
Hong Wei had blocked three others with his physical body, resolving the source of the crisis with one throw.
As for the remaining one, he resolved the source of the crisis with one throw.
That time, they had ridden their swords above a massive Mountain Cloud Jellyfish when suddenly, an extremely fast alien race shot out from within the giant jellyfish at a speed of several thousand meters per second, trying to kill Qi Jing.
But Hong Wei sensed it, and with a throw of the knife in his hand, he instantly solved it.
As for this time.
The opponents had learned to cooperate, with two alien beasts launching an attack together.
Hong Wei had just thrown his knife and had no weapon to use, so Qi Jing's umbrella sword came in handy.
However, without the embedded space-distorting stone, the umbrella sword couldn't unleash a hurricane, so he could only use its only attack method, "Light Beam," to meet the enemy.
As everyone knows.
Weapon skills' damage is divided into two types.
One is fixed damage, where the power of the skill is fixed regardless of how strong or weak the user is.
The other is variable damage, which changes in intensity with the user's strength.
Fortunately, the "Light Beam" skill of this Immortal Exile Umbrella is the second type.
If Qi Jing were to use it, it could only emit a highly penetrating, finger-thick pinpoint high-temperature light beam, which would only burn a tiny wound the size of a thumb on the enemy.
But when used by Hong Wei, it wouldn't be so simple.
This was the first time Qi Jing realized that the umbrella sword's "Light Beam" skill wasn't just a pinpoint shot.
With a forceful flick from Hong Wei, it unleashed a large swath of aurora!
That's right, the kind of continuous, widespread, streak-like aurora seen at the North and South Poles.
They cascaded down from the sky in waves, grand and majestic, the intangible light creating the aura of a滔天 giant wave.
The temperature released was so high that the air could be clearly seen distorting.
It directly evaporated the unknown attack that was about to strike into nothingness in this world.
Another throw!
The alien race lurking in the shadows was directly torn to dust by this cannonball-like thrown sword.
Qi Jing, who couldn't close his mouth in surprise, used his natal treasure's characteristic to retrieve the umbrella sword and asked:
“Grandpa Hong, when will I be as powerful as you?”
“Soon, time flies the fastest, or, why don't you try drawing on me? See if you can directly draw out my strength.”
Hong Wei took the Immortal Exile Umbrella from Qi Jing and said with a chuckle:
“If you draw it out, it's not impossible to beat me directly.”
“Forget it, forget it, I'm saving it to draw the Xinglong.”
Qi Jing didn't want to waste the luck he had been saving for so long just before touching the Xinglong.
Grandpa Hong is always around.
But the Xinglong is not necessarily.
“Grandpa Hong, after we crush all the alien races, what should we do with the Xinglong? Just release it directly?”
Qi Jing knew that [Origin] could be sacrificed.
Sacrificing it to the Source Star's will would grant a custom moon, with no worries about resources, which would be very comfortable.
He just didn't know how to sacrifice it.
Sacrifice it alive? Sacrifice it dead?
Sacrifice at a fixed location? Or can you sacrifice it by just bowing to the sky.
“Neither kill, nor release.”
Hong Wei gave an answer that Qi Jing had never expected:
“We're going to capture the Xinglong and transform it into a mobile city.”
“What?”
Qi Jing prepared to dig into his ears but was stopped by his helmet.
He asked in disbelief:
“The Xinglong is so big, can it be captured? Even if it's captured, can it be controlled? Moreover, that creature is so big, its combined size is bigger than the Earth's area, do we need it?”
Hearing Qi Jing's question, Hong Wei chuckled lightly:
“It's not for us to capture, it's for the later generations to capture.”
Saying that, he took out his phone and played a recording:
“[Star Devour] After the end, our entire Earth will be pulled into another world, from the master of a planet to a wanderer in another world, from the supreme first race to an ordinary tribe, competing with other lives on this vast land.
During this [Star Devour], each of us who occupy the initiative of the other-dimensional gate will have abilities and infinite possibilities.
It is because there are so many people with abilities that we can fight with these alien races who have lived for more than five hundred years, and be able to guard the other-dimensional gate under their hands.
But after the end of [Star Devour], we will no longer have other-dimensional gates, and future generations will no longer awaken abilities, they can only rely on us old antiques who live to the end to support them.
But even if we have the ability to extend our lives, we cannot live forever and cannot always protect mankind.
We will eventually be reduced to the alien races of the Giant Beast Mountains, the old people with abilities will gradually die, and the latecomers can only live in this cruel world relying on the legacy of their predecessors.
The alien races here are not wrong, they just want to become stronger, they just don't want to be occupied by us newcomers, and be driven out of this mountain range where they have lived for so long.
We will be the same in the future.
Our territory will also suddenly appear an other-dimensional gate, connecting another world, from which a large number of alien races with abilities will emerge to invade our territory.
Have we never talked to those alien races?
However, the world is cruel.
They will not believe that we are holding goodwill, they will not believe that we are willing to live in peace with them.
As long as we meet, either we die or they die, the opportunity to sit down and talk well can be said to be almost non-existent.
Therefore, we must plan for the future of mankind.
And Xinglong is a very good way.
As an [Origin], it possesses the top prestige of another world, ordinary creatures dare not provoke it at all, and ordinary ability users cannot break its defense.
As long as we control it and build our mobile city inside it, our descendants can have a territory that is almost impossible to break.
There is nothing safer than a large creature that can take our humans around the other world.”
After playing this recording, Hong Wei said:
“This is what Elder Li of the Strategic Department said, our goal is to capture the Xinglong.”
“Can't it be sacrificed?”
Hearing Qi Jing's question, Hong Wei clicked on another recording:
“Don't talk about sacrificing it for a resource-rich moon.
Anyone who has read novels knows, what good can sacrifice be?
What is the will of the Source Star? It's something that swallows our world, what are its thoughts when we sacrifice to it? Who would know?
Besides, who knows how to sacrifice?
Who can be sure that the resources on that moon will not run out? Xinglong can still take us around the other world to collect supplies, going to the sky will definitely be stopped by the interception membrane.
How will we survive if there are not enough supplies by then?
If you ask me, let the foreigners do the sacrifice, if they are okay, we will sacrifice later, anyway, we have more than two [Origin] intelligence in our hands, it doesn't matter to send them one.”