Morrick said to Bai Li in a deep voice, "How long has it been, and there’s no sign of the Radiant City collapsing. Also, the other side isn’t taking the bait and isn’t deploying most of their forces."
"Wait! We’re hunting a very dangerous prey, so we must have enough patience, or else it’ll be us who end up dead."
Bai Li chuckled lightly.
...
Radiant City, D3 District, underground pipeline area.
After passing through a concrete-cast passage, Su Mo once again arrived at a pipeline area.
He cautiously ventured deeper, where the tal walls were dotted with protruding tal cell clusters everywhere.
Although these things seed harmless, Su Mo found them very unsettling and spoke in a low voice to the Creator, Swallower.
"Why are there exposed tal cell clusters everywhere? Just how much has this monster expanded?"
"Not sure, but I know that if given enough ti, it might grow as big as the Radiant City, and then it might really beco mature."
"Mature? You an it’s still in its juvenile form?"
"That’s right, it should be in its juvenile form now. According to my calculations, it was likely deployed when those two soldiers disappeared."
"Damn, it’s only been a few days and it’s grown this much?"
Su Mo did so quick calculations and felt a shiver down his spine.
"The innate ability of silicon-based life forms is tal devouring, nothing surprising about that."
The Creator, Swallower, replied in a low voice.
Just as Su Mo and the Creator, Swallower, were conversing, the Creator, Swallower suddenly said to Su Mo,
"Wait a second."
"What’s wrong?"
Su Mo abruptly stopped in his tracks.
"Sothing’s off ahead, there’s a large area that can’t be scanned."
The Creator, Swallower replied in a deep tone.
"Didn’t you say that a lot of isolation materials were used during the construction here? Could the blocked-off area ahead be deliberately made to store so important equipnt?"
Su Mo pondered for a few seconds and said.
"No, it doesn’t seem like it. Proceed cautiously and check it out."
The Creator, Swallower replied in a deep voice.
Upon hearing this, Su Mo held his breath and crept forward bit by bit.
As he moved further, he saw many tal tentacles extending from the surrounding pipes and walls.
Su Mo carefully maneuvered around, his nerves taut, fearing that the writhing tal tentacles might suddenly all move.
Monts later, Su Mo reached the end.
A vast Sky Pit appeared before his eyes, seemingly endless.
Inside the Sky Pit, a massive grey cellular tal cluster lood, its volu reaching a diater of nearly five kiloters.
On the tal walls surrounding the Sky Pit, countless grey tal tentacles clung, reminiscent of ivy.
Upon closer inspection, these grey tal tentacles differed from the black ones outside; they contained isolating substances capable of blocking all signals.
This ant that in just a few days, this life form had evolved ways to protect itself.
Seeing this scene, Su Mo couldn’t help but shiver, and with a solemn expression, he said,
"This should be its main body, right? It’s already five kiloters big."
The Creator, Swallower, said in a low voice to Su Mo, "Possibly."
Su Mo carefully observed the target, and the more he looked, the more appalled he beca; the writhing cellular tal clusters were proliferating at a pace visible to the naked eye.
This made him think of sothing similar: infinitely proliferating cancer cells.
This monstrosity was remarkably similar to that.
At this mont, above Su Mo’s head, a very thin grey tal tentacle erged silently.
"Xiao Shi, can you confirm this location?"
Su Mo stared at the monster’s body and conversed with the Creator, Swallower.
"No problem, I rember all the routes you’ve detected. I can determine the exact coordinates of this area on the map."
The Creator replied in a low voice.
"Great!"
Su Mo nodded.
Just then, the grey tal tentacle above plunged towards Su Mo’s head without warning.
Su Mo instinctively sensed the danger and dodged, but it was still too late.
Clang!
In an instant, the tentacle struck Su Mo’s head.
Luckily, the AT Stance Outerwear automatically materialized, forcefully deflecting the blow.
Even so, Su Mo was thoroughly frightened.
"We’ve been detected, run!"
The Creator, Swallower, warned.
At that mont, Su Mo turned and sprinted back at full speed!
Nurous tal tentacles extended from the cellular clusters and the grey tal tentacles wrapped around the walls also started moving.
These tal tentacles seed to have eyes, erging from all parts of the path Su Mo was using to escape.
In an instant, Su Mo’s whole world seed shrouded, with tentacles covering every corner.
"Surrounded like dumplings!"
"Break through!"
The Creator, Swallower, gathered energy and blasted a Decomposition Beam.
The shrouded world was imdiately blasted open with a hole, and Su Mo dashed through it.
Then, countless tal tentacles madly pursued from behind.
"Damn!"
Su Mo sprinted frantically.
...
Inside the battle command room.
Goli watched both the space situation and the exploration of the D3 area.
As ti passed, she beca increasingly tense.
Just then, the monitoring NCO, with delight, reported, "Colonel Kory and the exploration team have erged."
"Connect imdiately!"
Goli instructed.
Soon, Kory’s image appeared.
"Lady Goli, we found a kiloter-wide monster body in the lower area; it seems to be the main body."
"Well done, you’ve worked hard."
Goli said to Kory.
Xia Weiya turned to Goli, asking, "Should we act imdiately?"
"Let’s wait, see what the other teams discover first."
Though anxious to deal with the target, Goli wanted to be cautious since these special weapons were limited—only three in total.
"Yes."
Xia Weiya didn’t say more.
After about ten minutes, the artificial intelligence, Light and Shadow, reported,
"Sith’s team has erged."
"Establish communication."
Goli calmly said.
"Establishing communication."
The artificial intelligence, Light and Shadow, replied.
Soon, Sith’s image popped up, and the bedraggled Sith reported to Goli, "We found a roughly three-kiloter-wide monster body below, likely the main body."
Upon hearing Sith’s words, everyone’s faces grew more grim.
"Good job, get so rest first."
Goli nodded in response.
"Yes!"
Sith saluted.
At this mont, Bagley said with frustration, "What now, each body we find is larger than the last; who can guarantee there aren’t even bigger ones?"
"Wait a bit longer."
Goli replied calmly.
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