"can."
"Is this your real body or an avatar?"
"Avatar, my real body is still on the ground..."
"How long can this last?"
"I can't guarantee an hour, but I can hold on for at least half an hour."
"Can you dig down with all your strength?"
"I can try."
"I have a question!" Aman interrupted.
He roughly understood what was said. In short, their current mission was to go deep into the central area of Oujin City to find the control room.
"We don't know the exact location of the control room!" he stressed. "It takes a lot of time to find it this way."
"I think I can solve this problem—"
The crowd parted, and a strange man walked out with these words.
"Who are you?" Xia Yibing looked at him with an unfriendly expression.
"Tucker Bellamore." The man bowed to her.
"I am here to help you on my grandfather's orders."
"Believe me, there is nothing I don't know about Oujin City."
Chapter 185 The Possibility of Victory
Tucker was indeed here to help.
His grandfather, Old Bemo, was also one of the Blood Oath bearers, and from his current speculation, most of the Blood Oath bearers knew some secrets about this "War of the Gods".
In fact, Tucker still didn't understand what the so-called "War of Gods" was all about. Time was too tight, and Old Bellamy couldn't tell him the whole cause. He just simply explained that an awakened evil god would come to attack, and the Bellamy family had to follow the example of the Blood Knights to resist foreign enemies.
Tucker himself has no fighting talent. Let alone imitating the knight's descendants, he can't even beat a mid-level blood mage.
So after briefly browsing the intelligence, he immediately discovered that there was a "team of foreigners" coming from overseas. Old Beimo emphasized that they were "reinforcements from the outside world." Thinking that he had no business in other places, he planned to curry favor with them.
Fortunately... from what I just heard, this move was the right one. They seemed to be very eager for a local guide, and the woman with the machete was incredibly strong. Following her could at least guarantee personal safety.
As his abacus clicked, Tucker imagined the following scene in his mind - these people would be ecstatic and sincerely invite him to join the team. He could gracefully make suggestions and carefully inquire about their backgrounds.
Well…if they went underground with bad intentions, he wouldn’t point them in the right direction.
He did think so, but the actual development was very different from what he thought.
Before he finished his dream, Xia Yibing reached out and grabbed his collar. Tucker didn't even feel his own weight. After a dizzy spin, he landed on his butt and found that he was thrown onto the big blood bone tree.
Just as he was about to curse, his eyes widened the next moment - right where he had just stood, the rotten blood on the ground surged up like a living thing, turning into a giant flesh membrane that covered everything and wrapped around more than a dozen people in one go.
This... If she hadn't pushed me away just now, I would definitely not have been able to avoid it...
“Ahhhhhh——!!!”
The membrane was very thin, and the people inside were obviously still alive. They kept struggling and resisting, leaving their handprints and expressions on the membrane.
The next thing Xia Yibing did after shaking off Tucker was to swing her knife at the membrane of flesh. The membrane had no resistance and was cut in half. Several soldiers hurried down to rescue people, but the first person they pulled out made their expressions freeze.
The reason is simple, that thing no longer looks like a human being.
His epidermis, where it had come into contact with the flesh membrane, had almost completely melted. A lot of blood and flesh tissue had grown out and was tightly attached to the flesh membrane. Trying to separate them was like skinning and tearing the flesh off an old cow. His entire face looked like a bloody devil.
"Ah!" Many refugees who were nearby were frightened by such a tragic scene. Some of them stepped back unconsciously, pushing away the crowd standing on the periphery, forcing them to step out of this relatively clean corner of the open space and step on the blood on the street with the edge of their shoes.
"Whoosh whoosh!"
As if a switch had been triggered, the dirty blood suddenly erupted. They turned into flesh membranes and covered and ate half of the people here. The prey was quickly transformed and absorbed in their bodies. Some of them opened their flesh membranes and turned into blood puppets, while others were completely sucked dry and a pile of sticky powdered bones were shaken off by the flesh membranes.
"Something seems to be wrong!" Cybert shouted, "I feel a terrible spirit gathering... We can't stay here!"
Gathering spirits?
Naturally everyone can see that something is wrong, but these words give an important hint as to why it is wrong.
Xia Yibing slashed out a few times, and with the help of the soldiers and companions' bullets, he temporarily cleared the area. He turned around and jumped to the top of the tree by stepping on the ancient branches. He stood at the highest point and looked into the distance.
Her pupils contracted as she saw a wave of blood puppets forming in the distance.
Countless blood puppets... their bodies were decomposed or semi-decomposed, and the blood lines on each individual were intertwined with each other, but they did not form a super-individual like the blood puppet giant. Instead, they were surging towards here in this strange posture.
They were melting, turning into a pure tide of rotten blood. It could be said that every second a blood puppet was completely decomposed in the flowing pus and blood. What was even more terrifying was that this blood tide was extremely aggressive. Xia Yibing saw with her own eyes that the small building in the distance came alive after being splashed with blood. The surface of the brick wall began to bulge like blood vessels and meridians, and the overall texture changed from lime solidification to more like flesh skin. The next moment, dozens of giant eyes suddenly opened on the wall, and human arms grew from all the top corners, scratching something randomly in mid-air.
Such scenes are everywhere. Nothing can escape the pollution under the blood tide. Xia Yibing can't help but feel puzzled and horrified - is it useless to freeze the blood puppets to death?
"Did the Lord mention before that Oujin City had long been contaminated by his corrupt blood?" At this time, the blood bone tree under her feet spoke, "Then it is probably not just the more than 100,000 residents that have been contaminated, but also the buildings and land here... The entire Oujin is covered in his blood mud disguise."
"You still have time to talk nonsense!" Xia Yibing punched him hard, "Dive down! Quickly!"
I no longer cared whether I knew the road or not. The most urgent thing was to escape quickly.
Without saying a word, Gu immediately pulled up the thick roots that were originally rooted in the ground. Part of them coiled up and dug a hole like a drill, while the other part turned into tentacles, rolled up Ethan and his companions, and fell into a huge pit and disappeared.
At the same time, at the top of the Blood Temple and outside the palace hall, people were looking up at the sky.
I don't know when, a thick fog came from the west again. It was rolling and surging, just like the dark clouds that once covered the sky. At first glance, it could condense into any outline, it could be an animal or a person, their corpses... their wronged souls... as if it was formed by the gathering of all the dead souls, but if you really pay attention and observe carefully, you will doubt that everything just now was an illusion.
Outside the hall, Hitzfeld had just spoken a few words to Alwin and was about to ask him how to help her share the pressure of Ji Yang, when he suddenly felt a palpitation and looked up to see this scene.
Unlike others, she did not think it was an illusion. Just as she was about to alert Alvin, she saw the dark clouds and gray fog being broken through with wide eyes.
It was something she had seen before - a floating city on the whirlpool.
The whole is a huge floating island with a palace built on it, and some small floating islands are towed around it by roads and chains.
This thing is much bigger than Xinoujin City. It appears at a higher altitude than Xinoujin is, so they can only look up and just meet its eyes.
Eyes - that's right! A narrow crack has appeared on the base island of this huge floating city! A terrifying giant eye with a golden center and dark gold edges is hidden in it, looking down through the crack! !
"How come it's here so fast?"
The Human King's tone suddenly changed, probably because Xina was in control again.
This really made her unexpected. The reason why Ji Yang could arrive so quickly was because the structure of this thing itself was very extreme. It had jet nozzles almost all over its body, and it was able to catch up because it was burning the divine blood explosion tank.
But what about Lao Oujin?
There was a divine corpse stuffed inside and a floating island being towed outside... With so many burdens and no divine blood... How was it possible for it to appear out of thin air across such a long distance?
"It's gray fog." Hitzfeld said softly.
"Through the gray fog, you can get from Namiia to the Sea of Blood. The gray fog can connect two different time and space."
This was trouble, and her heart sank.
Just now, I heard Xina explain the plan. They originally wanted to use Ji Yang to buy at least three hours to teach her how to control the fireball. That thing is very complicated to operate, and she must familiarize herself with it before she can use it.
After she gets the hang of it, she will assist Xina, and the two of them will work together to control Ji Yang, and then cooperate with the new Ou Jin controlled by Xia Yibing, and combine with the floating city of flesh and blood forged by all the surviving blood mages. Only when all their strength is added together will they have a chance to fight against the old Ou Jin.
But Lao Oujin is here now!
Not to mention Xi Yang, Xia had just got the Rubik's Cube and was still far from being able to control Xin Ou Jin!
She looked at Xina, wanting to ask her if there was any other way to kill Yin Seer, but suddenly a strong wind blew and she was blown away. She only managed to land safely thanks to her good balance.
……what?
When she looked up again, she was surprised to see that Lao Oujin had changed.
The crack on the huge floating island base was opening and expanding...and the giant golden eye embedded in it was finally revealing its full appearance bit by bit.
That's not "an eye" at all.
There were three giant eyes fused and inlaid together. Their outlines looked like overlapping circles of the "three primary colors". Countless pustular tumors grew on the periphery, and each tumor spontaneously grew into a pocket-sized eyeball.
The wind came from the top of its head, which was the side parallel to the floating island. There was a huge mouth filled with layers of flat human teeth, which was spewing storm air downwards.
And this was not even the full extent of Old Oujin's transformation. Just as Hitzfeld was braving the strong wind and could only observe it through the gap in his sleeves, its main body began to split, and the part with the giant mouth and giant eyes was divided into two, barely connected by some chains and blood.
Then there were the dragging floating islands, one of which shattered to reveal a huge nose, while others shattered to reveal ears, bones, fingers, and hearts.
All kinds of human organs, basically all the names that can be thought of, appeared. They were still wrapped by the floating island, with only a small part exposed. Their whole bodies were also connected to the main island by chains and blood threads, and slowly began to gather towards the center.
And it doesn’t stop. It still doesn’t stop.
In Xinoujin, the blood tide was rioting. The blood puppets turned into a rotten blood swamp, as if being pulled by a huge force, and giant blood bubbles of different sizes floated out from it, crowded and stacked together, and this stacking quickly formed a bunch of bizarre "blood bubble tree buds", which kept growing and growing infinitely, and were about to be sucked into the sky and merged with those huge organs.
Can’t put them together…!
Hitzfeld knew this very well, but she was powerless to do anything at this moment.
Just watching with her eyes, her heart felt like it was being squeezed tightly by a hand. As her organs and flesh and blood gathered more and more, she found that even breathing had become a difficult thing. Even if she didn't blink, she could always see a hazy illusion emerging in the sky with the heartbeat, and the content of the illusion was a huge human face - the face belonging to "Yin Seer" that she had seen in the videotape.
The light illuminated everything again, and she saw a huge fireball hit the center of the gathering point of these things.
It was made up of countless ring wheels, and each ring could rotate freely! The outermost part of each ring was inlaid with a row of large eye-shaped nozzles. At this moment, these rings were spinning madly and madly extracting energy from the core to spit out golden fire! At that moment, it was as if tens of thousands of light and fire pillars were ejected from the fireball. They also swung wildly with the rotation of the rings. At the most dense time, hundreds of golden fires formed a fan shape, like a sword light condensed from divine flames, chopping up all those floating islands!
So fierce!
Hitzfeld was stunned, his mouth slightly opened into an O shape.
Now she understood why Yinsel used Sheena as a trap to trap and control Elvin... So the fully-powered mechanical sun was so powerful? The mechanical sun that Charuni controlled at that time was not even one-tenth of its current power?
Charuni had controlled the Mechanical Yang to fight many times, but his fighting style... not only did he have to stay in the Mechanical Yang himself, he couldn't control it remotely like Alwin and Sina, and his method was basically just spitting molten steel, so there was no change whether he was fighting the Son of the Death Tree or the Death Tree itself.
If it was Alwin in his prime who came at that time, the Death Tree would have been chopped into strips in one encounter, and she wouldn't even have a chance to appear as a detective. When she woke up, the White Shadow Palace was already using the corpse of the Death Tree for its expansion.
This is indeed a war of gods...
With this scale and momentum, the aftermath of the battle and the air currents it creates are enough to blow people over and even change the celestial phenomena!
What else could this be but a war of gods?
Anyone who dares to set foot in such a battle must be prepared to die!
"Ha ha ha ha……!"
The light and fire were still erupting, but the frequency was obviously not as high as at the beginning. Hitzfeld suddenly heard a laugh coming from the thick smoke. It was the same familiar voice in the videotape: "If it was before, I really wouldn't dare to touch this thing... but now... haha!"
The air shook, and behind the thick smoke, a large area of scorched, burning giant floating island appeared. It was still able to speak wildly, and at the same time, it curled its lips and inhaled hard.
This is……
Hitzfeld was still maintaining a forward-pushing posture to fight against the violent airflow the previous second, but when he saw the shape it was about to make, he realized something was wrong, so he quickly changed formation and ran in the opposite direction.
Facts proved that she was right. She had just run a few meters and reached out to grab a lamppost when she felt a strong suction force from behind. A large number of rocks, floor tiles and various building debris in her sight all collapsed and floated upwards.
...She couldn't help but look back and found that there were not only fragments of the palace, but also roofs, trees, soldiers, civilians, and even a large number of blood bubbles and blood puppets. All these messy things were wrapped in golden fire and sucked into the stomach of the giant mouth!
Dare to eat fire? Isn't it afraid of indigestion?
The connection of the lamppost could not withstand the suction force and began to crack. Hitzfeld's face changed, and he controlled the dead bone ice needle to nail into the gap, completely freezing a large area of ground connected to the lamppost. Fortunately, he was not sucked up.
Then, the suction disappeared.
Her floating body was falling, but before her feet touched the ground, an extremely thick... huge pillar of fire with a diameter of nearly twenty meters fell obliquely from the upper left corner of her vision. This violent attack penetrated most of the palace in one breath and pierced through the ground. As it rotated and shifted, it cut the ground like a fire knife. It took seven or eight seconds for it to completely dissipate.
Was it this that did it…?
Slowly raising his head, Hitzfeld looked at the floating island in the sky.
Xiyang was no longer spitting fire. Xina stood a little further away from her, half-kneeling and catching her breath, maintaining a standoff with Fudao from a distance.
"Are you surprised?" The giant mouth spoke again, "An idiot is an idiot... Do you really think that I sealed myself in there for nothing? Besides, you don't have much divine blood yourself, so how pure can the so-called 'Sun God Fire' be?"
Purity? It should be temperature...
Hitzfeld quickly analyzed the key points of these words, keenly grasped a few key words, and his heart sank.
This was not the first time she had seen golden fire. She had even ignited it herself before. That was in the town of Elnak. When her life was hanging by a thread, her left eye spontaneously ignited a golden flame, helping her escape at the most dangerous moment.
That was definitely not an ordinary fire. Afterwards, she saw a similar flame on Xiyang. By looking up information and asking Alvin, Nianlun and others, she roughly knew that it was a "divine fire".
The divine fire is a flame that cannot be reproduced by existing human technology. The inability to reproduce here refers to the ultra-high temperature. The temperature of the divine fire is too high, even the mechanical Yang cannot use the divine fire recklessly.
But Yinsel, when he sealed himself inside the floating island and lived with the corpse of the god, he was not just trying to merge with the corpse of the god.
He is not that stupid. If that were the case, his fate would be no different from that of the Bloodborne Knight.
He was roasting and smelting the corpses of the gods at the same time - don't forget that there is still a seed of divine fire inside Lao Oujin. It is with the help of this thing that Lao Oujin can disguise himself as the sun and transmit such bright light from such a distance!
This kind of light and power is definitely not as good as that of Ji Yang, or as good as that of the divine blood carriers such as Alvin and Sina, but it must have made Yinsel and the divine corpse accustomed to the high temperature!
