While it was still safe, Ling took the initiative to ask the captain of the defense force.

"That's right." The team leader nodded. "There are a total of thirty teams dispatched together, and there are more reinforcements coming later."

"But most teams quickly lost contact with each other and the rear after entering the cave."

"Going this deep is already our limit. If we go any further, our etheric adaptability won't be able to withstand it."

After looking around and hesitating for a moment, the team leader leaned over and whispered, "Since you saved our people, I'll share some information with you. It's not true, I just heard some rumors."

"It's said that all the Voids have experienced problems. Using unknown methods, the Idols from other Voids have also appeared in Void Zero. There are signs that all the Idols are converging towards the depths of Void Zero, preparing to welcome an Idol Emperor."

"My seventh aunt's eighth aunt's brother-in-law's boyfriend told me that, except for Void Zero, all other Voids are shrinking due to the large number of corpses leaving!"

Inexplicably, Ling thought of the ancestor who was always on the lips of the praise society.

However, before she could think any further, Nicole's warning came: "Everyone be careful! Another Yi Hai has appeared!"

Not far away, another large group of corpses appeared in sight.

"Oh no! These skeletons are blocking the retreat route I just calculated!"

Ling's face changed drastically. She quickly recalculated and then ran to the side: "This way! There's another one here - wow, why is there one here too!"

"It probably came from somewhere else. We can use the cracks to leave, and the other party can also use these cracks to appear."

Nicole took the lead and jumped onto the container on the side of the road.

"Everyone, come this way! No matter what, we must get rid of these corpses first!"

So, the people who had just finished resting began their journey of escape again.

"Ahhh why do I have to run for my life like this every time I enter a hollow these days!"

While running wildly, Billy did not forget to complain about the current situation.

"It wasn't so dangerous when we messed around in the cave before!"

A commander who is making trouble in the void: Guess?

"Boss Nicole, I'm applying for a raise!"

"Nicole, I want to double the burger supply..."

"Give it to me, give it to me, give it to me!" Nicole threw a box over the Yi Hai that was blocking her way. A lot of debris spilled from the box, and Dinny had no time to pick it up. "Damn it! I've never been this embarrassed in all my years since my debut—and it's all Anti-Aircraft Section 6's fault!"

Then, Nicole stopped.

She found that all the roads were blocked.

Grabbing the bell next to her, Nicole shook her shoulders and urged, "Rope maker, rope maker! Use your invincible brain to think of a solution!"

"There's no way out..." Ling laughed dryly, "You're right, we can use the Rift, and we can also use the Skeleton."

"All the rifts we could evacuate through are occupied by the corpses."

"What should we do now?"

Ling thought about it and suggested seriously: "Pray? Maybe it will help?"

Ambi immediately clasped his hands together and muttered, "God of Hamburgers, please bless us..."

"It can only guarantee that you will have a bloated belly, but it cannot protect you from killing enemies."

As soon as Nicole finished speaking, a whistling sound breaking through the air was heard above her head.

Everyone looked up subconsciously, and Ling's pupils suddenly shrank.

Three huge planes with extremely gorgeous shapes - of course, the aviation mother can control whether the small planes she releases are in the form of small toys or complete normal size - roared past the heads of the crowd.

It was completely unclear how those unidentified aircraft 4.0 did it. When they flew over the heads of the group of corpses, everyone only saw countless beams of blazing white light falling.

After the continuous explosions, a large number of the zombies that had surrounded them just now disappeared from the ground.

It's like someone is using an eraser to erase a white mark on a piece of paper that's covered with drawings.

"Amby, I've decided to eat hamburgers with you from now on!" Billy said blankly, "The Hamburger God is really useful!"

In the silence, only Ling was stunned for a moment, and then the corners of her mouth suddenly raised.

Others didn't know it, but she saw familiar logos on the fuselages of the three departing planes.

(Isn’t that the emblem of Brother Jiang’s army…)

Turning back, Ling looked deeper into the void and vaguely understood something.

Chapter 213: The Ancestor is Reclaiming Ether!

This was a scene that no one had ever imagined before, as they had fought against Ikai and various other enemies in New Eridu.

Countless and overwhelming numbers of skeletons, covering all categories of the Wistar Association, appeared collectively in sight.

Those high-ranking Isaiahs who theoretically had a strong sense of territory and would not allow other Isaiahs of the same level to appear in their sphere of influence have now completely changed their past habits.

They are each distributed somewhere within sight, surrounded by a large number of intermediate-level skeletons, and further out, there are tides of low-level skeletons, the number of which is unknown.

The monsters gathered into an ocean, covering every inch of land within sight, and in the distance, one could see an endless stream of corpses appearing.

The lead-gray clouds in the sky became thicker and thicker, and purple lightning flashed continuously among the clouds.

The rain poured down, but it couldn't touch the ground at all.

Because after the rainwater approaches the earth, it will be distorted and evaporated due to the excessive etheric energy brought by the gathering of a large number of skeletons - and even turn into strange-shaped skeletons and join this wave.

Tens of thousands?

Or is 03 still hundreds of thousands?

Numbers have lost their meaning. No matter how large the number is, it is just an insignificant base number on the battlefield at this moment. The intermediate-level corpses that used to cost an elite defense team a heavy price to eliminate have now become consumables that can be discarded at any time on the battlefield.

However, this wave of corpses, which was enough to defeat the defense of New Elidu with one impact, was unable to advance an inch in front of a seemingly extremely weak line of defense.

Hans led the heavy marines to form a long line of defense, with each soldier several kilometers away from each other.

And the width of the battlefield at such a distance only requires one soldier to defend it!

At this moment, Jiang Lianqiu finally saw the scene of elite marines in full gear, firing at full power, which he had only seen in documents and video archives in the past.

The soldiers, who originally looked no different from humans, first turned their bodies into nothingness after entering their combat positions, and then transformed into countless blue hexagonal luminous bodies.

The equipment taken out from their tactical space was quickly unfolded, and the hexagonal luminous bodies that scattered after the body disintegrated covered it.

Finally, when their bodies reappeared in the form of data light streams, real war weapons had already successfully materialized on their left, right, behind, and even above their heads.

These monsters, like gigantic war fortresses, stand on the ground every few kilometers.

Conventional artillery, ferocious siege artillery, floating cannons flying all over the sky, and even missile launch matrices emerging from the void...

When the power of individual weapons is enhanced to a level that humans cannot understand, the mode of war will naturally be beyond their imagination.

The overwhelming energy beams, coupled with the impenetrable physical ammunition, were unleashed upon the swarm of zombies that resembled a zombie attack on a city.

The small missiles took off straight from the missile launch matrix, drew an arc in the sky, and rushed to the rear of the Israeli group with tail flames.

Their targets were high-ranking officials, each of whom was of the same rank as Nineveh.

Balls of light as bright as the sun kept flashing on the earth, and the circular shock waves could clear a large area of ​​land each time.

From time to time, explosive spherical lightning surged among the enemy waves. These were plasma bombs fired by heavy individual cannons.

The continuous explosions made the strong wind become scorching hot, blowing sparks across the sky and even burning the frightened Ju Fu Fu so much that he felt pain.

"Master, Master, Master, Master, Master..."

The little girl clutched Yixuan's sleeve tightly and could not speak coherently.

In her eyes, the Yihai were like crazy - although they were originally irrational, at least Ju Fufu thought so - they rushed towards the monstrous soldiers under Brother Jiang's command regardless of casualties.

The corpses were like solidified butter, pushing forward.

The defense line formed by the mecha soldiers was like boiling hot oil. No matter how the skeletons advanced - whether from the ground, the sky, or even underground - they would be melted the moment they touched the defense line.

Melted, this is the adjective that Ju Fu Fu suddenly thought of.

"Even when the old capital fell, it didn't reach this level..."

Yixuan was breathing rapidly. She lowered her eyes awkwardly to look at the Qingming Sword tightly held in her hand and smiled bitterly.

"I thought I'd protect you even if it cost me everything, but it turns out you don't need me at all?"

Even if it was her, if she were trapped in such a large group of corpses, she would be drowned and swallowed silently, right?

When Yixuan brought Ju Fufu to Jiang Lianqiu, he saw that he was frowning.

"What's wrong, Lianqiu?" Yixuan was a little confused.

"That's not quite right." Jiang Lianqiu held his chin and pondered, "Tell me, what reason does the other side have to fight us to the death?"

Yixuan: “…Huh?”

Tachibana Fufu whispered, "Isn't it normal for the corpse to launch an indiscriminate attack on uncorrupted life?"

"That's generally true, but clearly not." Jiang Lianqiu shook his head. "These 357 skeletons were clearly summoned here by the so-called ancestor—so the question is, does that ancestor have any reason to fight us to the death?"

"Even if it's a monster rated as the highest-level Ikushi by the Wistar Association, one missile isn't enough. We can just fire a few more. If we keep going like this, even if all the Ikushi in the holes of New Elidu are gone, we still won't be able to break our defenses."

"Without Yi Hai, the void will inevitably shrink or even disappear. What good will this do to the ancestor?"

"In fact, Von Neumeow has already sent me a message. Aside from Hole Zero, all other Holes in New Eridu are now only two-thirds of their original size."

"This……"

Yixuan couldn't figure out the reason for this in a short time.

There was silence until the sound of a trigger was heard.

"Commander, I discovered something..."

Holding the sniper rifle, he quietly pulled the trigger and came behind Jiang Lianqiu.

"I saw that after a large number of skeletons were destroyed, the dissipated etheric energy disappeared into thin air."

"Energy doesn't disappear, it just moves... huh? Moves?"

Jiang Lianqiu raised his eyebrows and subconsciously looked up at the sky.

"-Are you using this method to recycle the ether energy on the ground?"

Chapter 214: Ju Fufu: So we are the villains?

In an instant, Jiang Lianqiu thought of a lot.

That ancestor had never taken any obvious action in the past and had only existed in the mouths of the Praise Society.

Combining the information provided by Carlos, Jiang Lianqiu believed that the ancestor was most likely in a trapped state. Even in the era when the nest master's cavity was still there and the cavity on the ground and the moon could be connected, its degree of freedom was definitely not high.

Otherwise, he wouldn't have just watched Ms. Wan Zhou kill the nest master Kong Kong and done nothing.

But when he brought Carlos out of the phase space, the ancestor became manic as if he had gone crazy.

Even though Carlos was sent out of the void by him, the ancestor continued to gather a large number of skeletons and attack him.

Combined with the phenomenon described by Trigger, Jiang Lianqiu guessed that the ancestor should be using this method to recycle the ether energy on the earth.

"...It seems like it wants to act independently, but its current capabilities don't allow it to do so. So it needs to recycle the ether energy on the ground first?"

"So it seems that this ancestor's control over the void and the ether isn't as strong as we thought. It can't even drain the ether energy contained in the monsters that have already turned into skeletons. How can it drain energy from them?"

Regardless of whether this lack of control was pre-existing or caused by the destruction of the Nest Master's Hollow, it made Jiang Lianqiu's assessment of the Ancestor's ability three points more accurate.

"But isn't the void filled with ownerless etheric energy?" Yi Xuan was a little confused. "If the ancestor couldn't seize Yi Hai's energy, couldn't he just absorb it directly from the void? Just like that tower of yours, Lian Qiu, which can recycle etheric energy."

Because ether energy exists in two states: usable and unusable.

Feng Nuoymiao's projection suddenly appeared beside Jiang Lianqiu.

Think about it, if you humans want to utilize etheric energy, you have to rely on the Shiyu Tower to transform the etheric energy in some way, perform a series of processes, and then store it in etheric storage tanks. Etheric energy extracted completely from the air cannot be used directly.

The way the Shiyu Tower transforms etheric energy is essentially similar to the way things are corroded by etheric energy and then transformed into skeletons, except that this process is safe and controllable.

When the skeletons are destroyed, the transformed and usable safe ether energy will not return to its previous disordered state in a short period of time, so the ancestor can recycle it in this way.

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