sinovels Chapter 342 should be the end, right?
Chapter 342 should be the end, right?
"Were you acting against me from the beginning?"
Lin Fan stared at the ever-growing crater, his voice turning cold.
What do you mean "dying soon"? What do you mean "seven-day deadline"?
What do you mean by "split up and out of control"?
How many of those statements are true?
The red root system is still spreading.
It has already covered an area of twenty meters around the crater. And it's still accelerating.
Several thin roots had already extended to a position five meters above Lin Fan's feet.
Seeing this, he took a few steps back.
Whether you were acting or not, you're out now.
Lin Fan cracked his knuckles, and the black scales that had faded away covered his entire body again. "Then don't blame me for continuing to dismantle you."
He didn't act immediately, but instead looked at the opening of the pit.
As time went by, he vaguely saw something rising from the pit.
Soon, a huge, bare, pulsating thing rose up.
And with each pulsation of that thing, the ground would shake.
That rhythm... it's like a heartbeat.
"This thing even has a heart?"
Lin Fan stared into the depths of the pit.
The mass was getting closer and closer to the surface.
The red roots are spreading faster and faster, and have begun to spread to the hillsides on both sides of the valley floor.
Wherever they went, the corpses of those mutated beasts were devoured one by one.
"Is this the real thing behind the scenes...?"
Lin Fan muttered to himself.
Then he made a decision.
I can't wait any longer.
Whatever that thing is, it will definitely be more difficult to deal with once it fully emerges.
Then I'll do it before it fully emerges...
Kill it.
Thinking of this, Lin Fan immediately took a deep breath, and the next second, the previously normal number of notifications surged again.
Without hesitation, he pushed off the ground with both legs and charged towards the center of the pit.
As if sensing danger, the red roots that were originally attached to the ground suddenly surged towards him and tried to entangle his legs.
Lin Fan ignored this completely and kept walking.
Even when his legs were entangled by those roots, he still managed to tear them off.
He quickly reached the edge of the pit and instinctively looked inside.
The pulsating mass had risen to a position less than ten meters above the ground.
Now he saw it clearly.
That's not a heart.
It is a huge... spherical object.
It is about fifteen or sixteen meters in diameter.
The surface is covered with dense red roots and vascular-like veins.
The entire sphere is rhythmically contracting and expanding.
It's like breathing.
And all those red roots that covered the bottom of the valley were connected to this sphere.
"..."
Lin Fan looked at it for three seconds.
"No matter who you are."
With that, he jumped into the pit.
The wind howled.
The ten-meter distance was covered in the blink of an eye.
His right fist had gathered its strength during the descent, and the muscles beneath the black scales bulged to their limit.
Aim at that pulsating sphere...
One punch lands!!
A punch descended from the sky, slamming down fiercely.
But the moment his fist touched the surface of the sphere, his expression changed.
It was hard, much harder than he had imagined.
Even his fist, covered in black scales, felt a faint pain the moment it made contact.
The sudden touch made his heart skip a beat.
It should be noted that his Black Scale Defense is so strong that even nuclear bombs cannot break through it.
And now, this little ball of flesh can actually make him feel pain.
Although the sphere is very hard, a dent was still punched into its surface.
Red liquid spurted out of the crack.
The splashed liquid made Lin Fan feel an extremely hot sensation.
While he was surprised, he didn't hesitate and immediately raised his fist again.
"I'll see how tough you really are."
boom--
As he spoke, the second punch landed.
With a dull thud, the dent on the sphere deepened even further.
Immediately following, the third punch.
With Lin Fan's tireless punches, the dent grew larger and larger.
The red roots attached to the sphere began to converge on him.
They converged from all directions, swarming in densely packed crowds.
Some wrapped their arms around his waist, some around his legs, and others tried to stop his fist from falling.
And as time goes on, these roots tighten even more.
"open--!!"
Upon seeing this, he let out a roar, and the next second, his scales exploded, forcefully severing most of his whiskers.
But the next moment, even more roots wrapped around it.
The more it's broken, the more it spreads.
A continuous stream.
"Hold……"
The endless root system was incredibly annoying; he looked down at the cracks he had created on the sphere.
There is light inside the crack.
Dark red light.
There's something else moving inside.
Lin Fan no longer hesitated.
Taking advantage of the gap before a new wave of roots could entangle him, he forcefully inserted his right hand into the crack.
The arm was submerged.
The scalding liquid enveloped his forearm, as if he had plunged his hand into a boiling pool of blood.
pain.
I could feel a burning sensation on the skin beneath the scales.
But he didn't pull his hand out.
Instead, I touched something inside.
Hard.
光滑的。
The size of a fist.
"Found it."
Lin Fan gritted his teeth, gripped the thing with his five fingers, and pulled it out sharply—
"Get out here, you son of a bitch!!"
puff!
His arm, along with the object, was pulled out.
Red liquid sprayed all over his face.
I looked down.
He was clutching a dark red sphere in his hand.
It was slightly larger than the amber seed in that giant golden tree, its surface covered with dense red veins, and something inside was flashing wildly.
It's like a heart that's been ripped out and is still beating in your hand.
Once. Twice. Three times.
Boom, boom, boom.
At this moment, the red roots that had been binding him stopped moving as he pulled this thing out.
It's not loosened, it's frozen.
It's like a machine that has lost its commands.
The entire pit became quiet.
"Is this the core?"
Looking at the pulsating object in his hand, Lin Fan couldn't help but speculate.
The dark red sphere pulsed slower and slower in his palm.
Lin Fan clenched his fists.
"Stop it."
He began to exert force, trying to crush the thing.
Soon, cracks began to appear on the surface of the sphere. At the same time, the pulsation became more violent, as if it were struggling.
At that instant, the frozen red roots seemed to receive some kind of signal, suddenly resumed their activity, and surged towards him even more frantically than before.
But it was already too late.
Click.
The crack runs through the entire sphere.
Click, click, click—
Broken.
Dark red fragments fell from between Lin Fan's fingers.
The fragments turned into red specks of light and scattered before they even hit the ground.
At the same time...
Those wild, red roots withered instantly.
It turned from bright red to grayish-white, and then to powder, as if all the moisture had been drained away.
The roots that were wrapped around him broke off.
The roots on the pit walls are disintegrating.
Those that had spread across the ground were also turning to ashes inch by inch.
In just a moment, the entire valley floor returned to complete silence.
The red color disappeared.
The root system has disappeared.
The huge, pulsating sphere deflated, turning into a dry, gray shell, like a punctured balloon.
Lin Fan stood at the bottom of the pit, his whole body covered in red liquid.
He looked up at the sky above the pit.
Blue sky and white clouds.
It was so quiet it was as if nothing had happened.
"This time... he must really be dead, right?"
He glanced at the shriveled, gray shell.
There was no pulse.
There is no light.
There's nothing left.