Wei Kexue glanced back at the Hell Black Chrysanthemum behind him, still motionless, and gritted his teeth, saying, "Group Leader Yu, I’ll get a little closer. According to Professor Ding’s research report, this Disaster Plant coverage is only 500 meters, maybe getting a bit closer will help."
"500 meters is too close!" Yu Yuheng shouted.
"There’s no other way, just this one chance!" Wei Kexue took a deep breath, abruptly turned the direction, and flew the device directly towards the monster.
"Don’t come over, maintain a safe distance to receive the captured signal. If I eject, remember to watch the Disaster Plant’s landing point. I promised Captain Lin to return it to him intact!!"
The turbine engine of the Star Communication Flight Device started to power up, and Wei Kexue pierced through the clouds, clenching his teeth as he flew straight towards that giant monster.
The detection signal on the radar kept beeping frantically.
At this moment, the countless red compound eyes in the sky turned toward the approaching device, a bizarre red light began to oscillate out, and in an instant, the sky turned crimson. Yu Yuheng felt a chill all over, looked up, and saw that the giant monster seemed to have turned completely red, like a blood moon in the sky, and Wei Kexue’s device charged forward heedlessly.
Yu Yuheng’s eyes nearly burst, countless eerie scenes flashed in front of him, scarlet ripples surged continuously, his pupils reflected shattered visions, tens of thousands of pale pupils coagulated into a giant compound eye in the void, surrounded by a storm eye formed by rolling black clouds.
He hurriedly took off his glasses, rubbed his eyes, trying to find the computational module on his device computer.
"Hurry hurry hurry hurry hurry!!!"
Yu Yuheng frantically refreshed the feedback signal from the detector.
"It’s lit!! The Disaster Plant is lit!!" At this moment, a sudden shout from Wei Kexue came through his ear.
Di, at the same time, the monitoring unit of the Super Pure Germanium Detector emitted a green light, indicating successful capture!
"Professor Wei, quickly..."
Before Yu Yuheng could finish speaking, a terrifying shockwave suddenly hit, all instruments on the flight device went dark, then he felt a massive sense of weightlessness rapidly engulf him.
In that instant, he looked up outside the porthole, seeing a small explosion like a cluster of fire in front of the blood moon-like Big Strange Body, which was Wei Kexue’s device!
Before Yu Yuheng could shout, a massive dizziness crashed over him, making him feel the world spinning, not knowing how long passed, ears began resounding with ongoing alarm sounds.
[Altitude alert, altitude alert.]
[Take control of flight program.]
[Mountain ahead, mountain ahead]
[Ascent failed, ascent failed.]
A groggy-headed Yu Yuheng suddenly came to his senses, grabbed the flight device’s control stick...
"That monster is different from anything we’ve seen before, regular weapons seem unable to harm it, and it possesses some sort of group attack method."
In the lab hall, Yu Yuheng recounted the earlier encounter in detail, taking off his glasses, pinching the bridge of his nose, and sighed, "In that instant, all the instruments malfunctioned, and in my mind, I seemed to see something terrifying, but that thing was different from this one. I have a feeling it seemed to be communicating, guiding something, the feeling was very strong..."
He Zhen frowned, "You mean there’s more than one S-Class monster?"
Zhao Yu mused, "If there’s such a subordinate relationship, it implies the other one might not just be S-Class."
Hearing this, everyone felt their hearts sink.
"No matter if it’s S-Class or not, to us, it represents a greater crisis." Zhao Yu exhaled deeply, then said to He Zhen and Wen Zhuo, "Since the Monster Tide has retreated, we organize an early evacuation, speed up, conduct all casualty statistics, and preparedness plans on the way. Xiao He, get Han Jun and Qin Xueming together to discuss ammunition supply issues."
"Wait." At this moment, Lin Xian, who hadn’t spoken, suddenly said, "Director Zhao, I know the evacuation plan is for tomorrow, but don’t you feel the situations we’ve encountered from yesterday to now are all very strange?"
"I have the same feeling, an S-Class monster just hiding, yet not attacking us, isn’t that a bit too strange?" Shi Deyuan couldn’t hold back his doubts and spoke up.
"Indeed." Wen Zhuo nodded, looked at Zhao Yu, and said, "Suppose this truly is a Scout, seeking prey for some Dark Creature, then why was I attacked by the Monster Tide tonight? If the entire city dies, what significance does this action have?"
"Because this was not an attack."
At this moment, a female voice sounded in the hall, everyone looked, seeing Ding Junyi stepping out from the crowd.
"Professor Ding, what do you mean it wasn’t an attack?" Zhao Yu frowned, looking at her.
Ding Junyi exchanged a glance with Yu Yuheng, then said,
"Professor Wei was right, that monster didn’t come solely for the Hell Black Chrysanthemum, discovering it was purely by chance. The reason the entire Xilan City has no markings is because all the Snow Demons and their kin ceased emitting Dark Marks, since only S-Class Abnormal Bodies can affix Level 5 marks, and that monster seems to have also realized we are studying the Dark Mark. That’s why it placed the mark on the Falcon Squad patrolling outside the city, triggering tonight’s siege."