Xu Ruina took a metal rod from her bracelet and swung it a few times in the air.
Soon, a small spatial portal appeared before her. She quickly rushed into it, and the portal closed. kanδん
"Hold on, Zhang Chen, you are the key to ending the apocalypse. Don't have any problems at this critical moment!" reads.
Tang Houde looked at Zhang Chen, who was standing frozen, with great anxiety.
He knew that although Zhang Chen appeared calm on the surface, he was actually engaged in a final struggle.
If Zhang Chen lost, the berserk energy within him would sweep over everything. No ultimate creature, no technology, would be able to withstand it.
At that time, it wouldn't be an apocalyptic world, but the end of everything.
At this moment, the white light on Zhang Chen's skin began to seep out from his head little by little.
Each spot where the light seeped out represented the meteorite energy gradually occupying Zhang Chen's consciousness.
Reason was steadily retreating.
Indeed, how could a human possibly be a match for meteorite energy?
It was only because Zhang Chen had coexisted with the meteorite core for so long and had himself integrated a portion of the meteorite's energy that he had a slight ability to resist.
If it were just an unrelated person, they would probably be occupied in less than a tenth of a second, instantly overwhelmed.
"Zhang Chen's own strength is not enough to resist the invasion. If there was a powerful force to help him at this moment, or to weaken the meteorite's power, perhaps there would still be a turning point..."
"But... the entire world's control center has been destroyed to this extent. Those inside are either dead or have fled. Unless..."
Tang Houde muttered to himself for a while, then his eyes suddenly lit up!
Just as he thought of a solution, the little blob in Zhang Chen's pocket slowly extended a tentacle.
"Guji!"
Little Blob was accustomed to Zhang Chen's frequent battles, so it had also developed the skill of sleeping in his pocket. No matter how fierce the fight, it could still sleep.
Unless it had slept enough or was awakened by Zhang Chen, it spent most of its time sleeping.
Its awakening now was entirely due to the energy wave emitted when the world's control center was just destroyed.
Energy was food for Little Blob. If you placed food next to a sleeping Little Blob, how could it not wake up?
"Guji!"
Little Blob seemed to smell an even sweeter scent of food.
Two tentacles, three tentacles... finally, its entire body floated out of Zhang Chen's pocket.
"Gromos? I completely forgot Zhang Chen had this pet!"
Tang Houde exclaimed in pleasant surprise.
Little Blob floated around Zhang Chen a few times, seemingly considering whether it should absorb the energy on its master.
In theory, it shouldn't absorb it. If Zhang Chen had just activated [God·Soul Burn] and Little Blob directly absorbed it all, that would be terrible.
However, Little Blob clearly felt that the energy flowing through Zhang Chen now was similar to the energy Zhang Chen had operated before, but with significant differences.
The previous energy flowed according to Zhang Chen's will, in a regular and orderly manner.
The energy in Zhang Chen now, however, was berserk, disordered, and even destructive.
After a slight hesitation, Little Blob finally decided: devour them all!
Buzz!
Little Blob's large eyeball instantly opened, and its body enlarged to the size of a small car. Its eight tentacles slowly and gently wrapped around Zhang Chen's body.
Begin absorption!
As Little Blob's pupils dilated, a stream of pure white energy surged from Zhang Chen's head into Little Blob's large eyeball.
This energy was too powerful, too berserk, far exceeding Gromos's absorption capacity. It was like pouring the ocean into a reservoir instantly – the result could only be one: a breach!
*Puchi!*
Before Gromos could transfer the excess energy to a parallel world, its eyeball exploded due to absorbing too much energy in a short period. Blue fluid splattered all over Gromos's eyeball.
Its tentacles also became soft and limp, and its entire body slowly fell to the ground.
Little Blob had only just begun to absorb the energy when it died, which showed just how terrifying the energy within Zhang Chen was.
Little Blob's brief interference had caused a slight pause in the penetration process of the white light.
At this moment, the white energy continued to gather strength, launching another attack on the part of the brain that had not yet been occupied.
"Guji!"
In just a few seconds, Little Blob came back to life. Its color had become lighter, and it even seemed to carry a faint golden glimmer.
It had now advanced to a demigod-level mutated level VII creature!
"Guji, guji!!"
This time, Little Blob exerted all its strength, re-wrapped itself around Zhang Chen, and began to absorb the meteorite energy with all its might.
This time, it was much stronger than the last. It lasted for half a minute, then its eyeball exploded again, and it collapsed to the ground.
At this point, the meteorite core seemed to sense the interference and released even more intense energy, as if wanting to finish quickly.
Little Blob, on the other hand, became more courageous with each setback. The two sides struggled for five to six minutes.
Finally, Little Blob evolved into its ultimate form, and the berserk energy within Zhang Chen entered a stalemate.
With Little Blob's abilities, it was impossible to absorb all this energy. However, it could transfer energy.
It's just that many connected worlds could only withstand a limited amount of energy. It was impossible to continuously inject the meteorite energy into any single world.
Little Blob had no choice but to constantly switch worlds to disperse the surging, endless energy.
After a while, it suddenly discovered a strange world.
This world also possessed energy comparable to the current world, but the feeling of the two energies was completely different.
The energy in the world Little Blob was currently in was the same as the energy within Zhang Chen. The connected world, however, contained energy that was exactly the same as the energy Little Blob had incidentally felt while it was sleeping.
Little Blob had traversed so many worlds, and the energy in almost all of them was similar to the energy within Zhang Chen. It had never encountered that exceptionally sweet-smelling energy before.
So, Little Blob began to transfer Zhang Chen's energy unceasingly to the newly discovered world.
As the two world energies collided, Little Blob's burden was greatly reduced.
Suddenly, hurried footsteps could be heard from the doorway, along with the distinctive movement sounds of mutated creatures.
Following that, Tang Xiao'en, leading a team of fully armed indigenous troops, along with Xu Ruina and her zombie squad, rushed into the core area.
Their teleportation gate was located outside the base. Rushing in from the outside required passing through layers of checkpoints. Moreover, the previous battle between Zhang Chen and Xu Linna had caused many doors and defensive measures to malfunction, which delayed their entry considerably.
When Tang Xiao'en and the others followed Xu Ruina's gaze to Zhang Chen, they, along with their entire squad, froze on the spot.
"The... ultimate... form... of... Gromos?!"