Chapter 127 Dulu River: First Half

The first half of the Dulu River.

A gray dome filled with smoke and fire. The main control boat, like a giant whale, smashed through the sky. Two rows of artillery fire constantly tore through the long sky, igniting the night and the thick fog. Countless gray shadows were shattered, exploding with blood, and then fell.

Under the powerful suppression of firepower.

The captains scattered throughout the river immediately knew the location of the "main boat" and understood Osmund's battle plan. Dozens of figures flew from both sides of the main river. These extremely elite transcendents broke through the encirclement of the bone-winged creatures under the bombardment of artillery fire, and soon some returned to the source energy boats!

Lin Lin, responsible for linking the fourteen source energy boats, immediately felt less pressure.

The fleet, maintaining standardized uniformity, quickly swept across the river. The scene of artillery fire was even more intense than the first crusade!

Because this time.

What they faced was not an ethereal "black hole," but transcendent creatures of flesh and blood!

"Damn it!"

The internal link between the main control boat and the captains was restored, and the real-time situation of the source energy boats appeared on the screen.

The hatch of a certain airship opened, and a blond man covered in blood roared like a lion.

His voice arrived before he did.

Then Zhong Yuan and Vice Captain Yuan Yuan, each supporting an action team member who had been seriously injured in the recent action, appeared on the screen.

Zhong Yuan, who had always been refined and gentle, looked at the two commanders of the main control boat with anger in his voice: "These things have intelligence! They understand commands!"

None of the blood on his body was his own.

Fourth-order transcendents can unleash their domains and completely crush these transcendent creatures.

But it's not quite the same for third-order transcendents.

They need to rely on their own reaction speed and ability to escape a path of survival under the siege of these bone-winged creatures.

Even if they are the best among the third-order transcendents, they will be in grave danger once surrounded.

Although the main boat provided a lot of fire support during the recent escape, there were still casualties.

This information was very important.

"Understands commands?" Osmund felt an ominous premonition in his heart.

"Deep Scale Team requests a link!"

Another airship also sent important information.

Behind the [door] they discovered, intelligent transcendent creatures appeared, severely injuring Fisher, the captain of the Deep Scale Team!

This news made Osmund's expression extremely solemn.

"Someone is commanding them?"

Lin Lin pondered.

At this moment, the link between the main control boat and the sub-boats gradually recovered. All the dispatched teams had returned, and his spiritual sea was able to relax, but he suddenly discovered a terrifying thing.

From the moment the main control boat was started, there was no turning back.

Originally, all the source energy boats were parked at the entrance of the Dulu River disaster zone... and from the moment they decided to take off to rescue the victims, countless bone-winged creatures, along with the main boat's advancement, continued to gather. They completely blocked the airship's return route, forming a "cloud" that could not be seen to the end. Although the artillery fire that was currently exploding in the gray dome was constantly tearing apart the encirclement of these creatures, the main boat actually had no choice.

Advance.

Only advance.

And the end of the advance... is Black Snow Mountain!

A shadow flashed across Lin Lin's eyes.

He looked at Osmund and said, word by word, "The real purpose of these things is not to directly kill us, but to force us to Black Snow Mountain..."

The Legion's Eye stood up silently.

Except for "Fisher," the other captains had already returned. After encountering these [Old World] creatures, the elite team members who restarted the mission were injured to varying degrees, but they did not die. At this moment, the fourteen sub-boats cooperated with the main boat, forming a seamless fire circle. The current advancement situation seemed very good.

Even if they advanced to Black Snow Mountain... what could they encounter?

He came to the edge of the porthole and looked at the rear of the main boat, the large chunks of "black lead clouds," tens of thousands of bone-winged creatures, densely stacked together, like a huge wave rolled up before a tsunami... you can only see the first one, and you can't see how many more are behind it. In this situation, firing artillery cannot tear open a retreat. There is only one ending for facing the tsunami head-on.

That is death.

And in this wave, Osmund saw a few particularly special existences, "tall creatures" that were no different from humans. Their eyes also seemed to contain anthropomorphic emotions, and the corners of their lips were slightly raised.

That was disdain, sarcasm, and mockery.

Obviously, they were the "intelligent transcendent creatures" that the Deep Scale Team encountered.

The only good news was that their numbers did not seem to be large. So far, only a few had been discovered.

Lin Lin turned his head and found that Osmund, who had been constantly urging him to calm down, was actually standing in front of the window, wiping his long sword alone.

"Commander?" He was startled and quickly called out.

"Don't worry, I'm not an impulsive person."

Osmund comforted him with a blank expression.

His single eye was scanning back and forth among those intelligent creatures in the dark cloud, and his voice was colder than ever: "I'm just looking for the bastard who seriously injured Fisher..."

His relationship with Fisher was very close.

[Living Fish] was spotted by Osmund when he was weak, and he personally brought him back to North Continent and carefully cultivated him. The two were like teacher and disciple, as well as father and son. Osmund watched this little fish grow up little by little and become the "giant shark" of North Continent.

But now, the captain of this Deep Scale Team had completely lost contact and was suspected of being swallowed by the bone-winged creatures.

This was actually an unbelievable piece of news—

Because Fisher's strength was outstanding even among the many team captains, and he was wearing a seventh-order source armor tailored for the title... The other team members in the restart mission had all returned perfectly, only suffering different degrees of attacks. He shouldn't have fallen like this.

"Your Excellency, perhaps Captain Fisher is still alive." Lin Lin comforted, "He is an Undying, not so easy to..."

"Crack!"

The broken signal jumped out again.

This time, it was a mental link initiated by Lu Zhe!

Logically speaking, Black Snow Mountain was an "unchained zone" where signals had not yet been laid, and there should be no signal.

Lin Lin and Osmund exchanged a look.

…

…

Lu Zhe stood on the top of the mountain, and beneath his feet was splattered blood.

This captain had completely unleashed his domain.

He stretched out his palm and gently grasped the communicator... to be precise, the communicator at the foot of the mountain. This palm spanned thousands of meters, grasping the frost-covered surface of the communicator.

Before Lu Zhe stepped into Black Snow Mountain, he had placed this communicator outside the unchained zone.

This behavior was actually a gamble, because no one knew what would happen in this unstable disaster zone. Perhaps black snow would surge, and the communicator would be directly covered, or perhaps the source quality would riot, and the area of the unchained zone would expand again.

But now it seemed.

His luck was pretty good.

This "little trick" successfully linked to the main control boat.

"I am Lu Zhe." Lu Zhe said concisely, transmitting intelligence: "The transcendent creature that knocked down Fisher has been solved by me... What is the situation with the main control boat?"

This message was transmitted back to the main boat.

Osmund, who was wiping his long sword, was slightly stunned.

No wonder he had not sensed the "person" he was looking for when he used his ability earlier. It turned out that he had died on Black Snow Mountain... He lowered his head slightly, put the long sword back on the sword rack, and said calmly: "The main control boat has the situation under control. All teams have completed their retrieval and are heading towards Black Snow Mountain. Is your mission completed?"

"If you are referring to the 'cleaner' job..."

Lu Zhe glanced at the mountain path covered in blood and said softly, "It's been completed. The transcendent aura of this Black Snow Mountain has been completely erased by me. The main control boat can enter at any time without encountering an attack, but I do not recommend that you enter."

"Do not recommend... what is the reason?"

Osmund looked at the endless bone-winged tide behind the main boat, which was still increasing.

At this moment, the main control boat, as well as all the team members, had no better choice.

"I have a premonition that on the back of Black Snow Mountain, in the second half of the Dulu River... there will be even more powerful existences descending."

Lu Zhe placed his hands on his suspended knees.

A strong wind blew past.

His temples fluttered, and his robes rustled.

Below the ridge of Black Snow Mountain was an endless black sea.

Even though the front of the mountain was torn apart by artillery fire and the gray dome was shattered, this side was still quiet, so quiet that it was chilling... The real terror was always born in silence.

"I intercepted the mental fluctuations of that intelligent creature before it died."

Lu Zhe said word by word, "They want to send a special gift into our world... I think that thing is there."

Where is there?

There is the end of the mountain, the end of the Dulu River.

There... perhaps is the [door] that Her Majesty the Queen is really looking for.

"If you turn around now, I will try to break through Black Snow Mountain within the specified time, complete the round trip, and retrieve Mu Wanqiu, Gu Shen, and the war criminal Meng Xiao in the second half of the 'Styx'..."

Lu Zhe said seriously, "Then we will escape together. As for those transcendent creatures blocking the main boat, I can handle it. I will kill as many as there are."

"Do you think you are Gu Changzhi?"

Osmund smiled, "Can you handle it if there are ten thousand?"

Lu Zhe was silent.

"Young man, I know you are strong, but don't overestimate yourself."

Osmund was still calm. He analyzed, "Even if you really summoned Gu Changzhi, it would be difficult for us to turn around. You simply cannot imagine how many of these ghostly things there are. The main boat is currently unable to move under the siege. If we fire at full power and make a round trip... we are likely to be trapped halfway."

"What worse things could there be on the other side of the mountain... than here?"

Osmund's rhetorical question made Lu Zhe completely silent.

He frowned and sighed.

At this moment, an unusually violent vibration came from the air of Black Snow Mountain.

The roar from beyond the distant mountains and seas suddenly increased tenfold, dozens of times.

A beam of scarlet heavenly light descended from the other side of the mountain!

The majestic and fierce power swept across a hundred miles, scouring the disaster zone!

"Whirr—"

Lu Zhe's cheeks were blown up, and he couldn't open his eyes.

On the other side of the mountain, the main boat shook violently.

Osmund, standing at the porthole, suddenly shrank his pupils. When the scarlet pillar of light descended from the distant sky, a turbulent shock wave swept over. After a few seconds, the porthole glass that he tried his best to smooth was directly shattered by the shock wave—

What a terrifying force this was!

And that beam of light was still expanding!

"Turn around! Retreat!"

At this moment, Osmund re-measured the degree of danger on both sides, and then angrily and aggrievedly issued the latest instructions: "Retreat now!"