Chapter 155: The Fall of the Giant Beast
Suddenly, blood rain began to fall from the sky, and dense raindrops clattered onto Leviathan's body... But when Ke Lan took a closer look, he discovered that what fell from a higher place were not raindrops at all, but red flesh worms as thick as a little finger.
“After falling from such a high place… I didn’t turn into a meat paste?” Ke Lan subconsciously wanted to reach out and grab it, but he then reacted - in this state, he was just a "bystander" and could not have any substantial impact on anything in this video.
Like the monsters encountered deep in the mine tunnel, these fleshworms also have a set of fleshy tentacles shaped like sea anemones on their heads. They wriggled together and drilled into the Leviathan through the gaps between its scales...
Not long after, Leviathan suddenly began to emit bursts of mournful wails, and scarlet blood mist gushed out from the gaps between its scales. Even the inside of those inky black crystal columns turned a strange red.
As they got closer, these crystal columns suddenly exploded at the same time, and scales with a diameter of tens of meters fell off Leviathan's body and fell to the ground... Each scale was accompanied by a large piece of torn flesh, and if you look closely, you can see that the flesh is full of those flesh worms drilling in and out.
The wounds of Leviathan were densely covered with insects, which were gnawing at the body of the giant beast frantically. The acid they secreted could easily turn the flesh and blood, which was as hard as alloy, into paste-like minced meat. They laid off-white insect eggs in the minced meat, and then more flesh worms were hatched...
Ke Lan suddenly realized that the video he was seeing was fast-forwarded. In just a few tens of seconds, the brightness of the environment had changed four times. In other words, four days had passed since the "blood rain".
"I just don't know if I can see what's going on inside Leviathan..."
Ke Lan tried this idea, but nothing happened - it seems that this video also has its limitations: what can be presented to Ke Lan is only the scene recorded at that time, and as for those things outside the "lens", Ke Lan can't see them at all.
The altitude of Leviathan began to drop rapidly, and soon it had penetrated the clouds. Ke Lan controlled his perspective and moved it to the periphery. He saw that directly below Leviathan was a vast desert. No buildings related to the Alpha civilization could be seen, but in the center of the desert, there was an elliptical magic circle that was as big as a city!
"Offer a sacrifice to the great god, may his grace protect our people..." The sacrificial text recited in the Alpha language rang in Ke Lan's ears. At this time, several beams of light shot out from the center of the huge magic circle, and these beams of light accurately hit the falling Leviathan.
Wherever the light beam came into contact with, Leviathan's flesh and blood quickly melted, just like snow being poured by boiling water...
"Death ray...death ray cannon?!" Ke Lan was suddenly shocked. What was below was not a magic array at all, but a destructive array composed of multiple death ray cannons. Under the annihilation caused by the huge amount of antimatter, even a prehistoric behemoth like Leviathan could not escape.
The beast's body had been shattered, but its black skeleton was still intact. Ke Lan was shocked to discover that the texture of the beast's bones was exactly the same as the inky black crystals, except that the inside of these crystals now had a hint of bloody red, which looked indescribably weird.
That's not right! Ke Lan stared at the skeleton in a daze... This Leviathan had obviously been sacrificed by the Alphas to their so-called great gods, but the remains of the Leviathan in the real world were very complete... Could it be that this Leviathan was not the one discovered by humans?
"boom!!"
Even though only the skeleton was left, the sound of Leviathan crashing to the ground was still astonishing, and the smoke and dust it raised was hundreds of meters high and went straight into the sky.
However, because this video was fast-forwarded, the dust in the sky had dispersed in less than ten seconds. Ke Lan discovered that a layer of bright red flesh membrane had grown on the skeleton of Leviathan...
"It's not even completely dead?! Only a skeleton is left... and it can regenerate?"
Astonished, Ke Lan quickly zoomed in, and finally saw the horrifying truth - countless red flesh worms gathered from all around, they crowded together, squirming, entangled... sticky white secretions overflowed from their body surfaces, and after coming into contact with the air, they quickly turned into dark brown... and those brown secretions after oxidation seemed to have extremely strong solubility, and the flesh worms that came into contact with them were actually dissolved into pools of pus. Countless dissolved flesh worms merged together to form the bright red flesh membrane covering the Leviathan skeleton!
And what Ke Lan saw in the distance just now was this thing...
"Hiss..." Ke Lan took a breath of cold air. Even though he knew that the images before his eyes were all illusions, he still felt his scalp tingling and his whole body seemed to become extremely itchy.
Ke Lan felt that the scene in front of her was extremely strange: those insects devoured the flesh and blood of the giant beast, but at this moment they became "part" of the giant beast's body, as if it were some kind of continuous cycle...
Finally, the image ended, everything stopped, and Ke Lan's vision gradually became blurred... When it became clear again, he had returned to the real world.
In the headphones, Hound and Layton were constantly calling out his name.
"Ah... I'm here. I felt a little dizzy just now. It might be because the radiation is too strong..." Ke Lan replied quickly.
"You almost scared me to death! I thought something happened to you!" The Hound's voice not only sounded in the headset, but also came from behind Ke Lan. Ke Lan looked back and saw that the Hound had run to the square. He even had a six-barrel rocket launcher on his shoulder.
"The radiation near the giant cocoon is too strong. How long have I been distracted?" Ke Lan asked casually.
"Five full minutes!" The Hound had a stern face and stretched out five fingers towards Ke Lan.
Only five minutes? In Ke Lan's impression, in that virtual video, even if it was fast-forwarded, the whole process was at least more than half an hour... From this, it seems that in that state, his consciousness's perception of the speed of time will also change accordingly.
"Layton and I called you for a long time but there was no response. We were almost driven crazy! Uh... is this the thing you just mentioned?" The Hound asked, pointing at the blood pool.
It was a hexagonal crystal column that was as black as ink, with a hint of bloody red inside.