Chapter 399 Awakening

"Scarlet..."

Just seeing the red on Gaia, Tian Zhan felt a chill on his back.

He finally understood why Chen Ming completely blocked all the space stations and planets in Gaia and Origin, leaving no space for leaving.

It was not to prevent the invasion of Leviathan from the outside world, but to prevent the spread of scarlet matter that appeared on a certain planet and protect the safety of everyone.

If he stayed on the space station, nothing would happen.

But he chose to leave the space station and stepped into what is now the most dangerous place in the entire empire.

This is his choice.

Tian Zhan had seen Gaia with his own eyes, but his anxiety did not subside. Instead, it became more intense with the rapid expansion of the scarlet.

But at this time, he already knew the reason why he had such emotions and how he should do things.

His thoughts remained unchanged, and he controlled the spacecraft to drive towards the gap left by Chaofan's forced use of Chen Ming's psychic power.

The distance between the orbit of the planet and the planet itself is not far away.

The shuttle passed through the gap in the sky in a blink of an eye and entered the sky of Gaia.

Tian Zhan could only see a corner of Gaia from outside the sky, and he could see the crimson that was expanding wildly.

And when he passed through the sky, he found that nearly one-third of the surface of Gaia was covered with crimson.

The scarlet blood color that was extremely dazzling and could be observed with the naked eye, which was like an epidemic, was expanding wildly, making it impossible for Tian Zhan's eyes to stay on it for a long time.

And just after the shuttle passed through the sky, the originally opened channel was also closed.

The retreat was completely cut off.

There was no Yuhui who was close enough to Chen Ming and had mastered some of Chen Ming's spiritual power to help Tian Zhan open the blockade of the metal sky.

If the scarlet really swallowed the entire planet, then he, who was under the same sky as Gaia, would definitely die.

Tian Zhan did not hesitate.

He continued to control the spacecraft to slightly change its course and fly towards the still blue area of ​​Gaia.

After arriving at Gaia, his anxiety was gradually stabilizing.

But the tension suddenly emerged again.

Although he had heard about the outbreak of dimensional infection several times before, it was the first time he really came into contact with dimensional infection.

Facing the legendary existence that could lead to a life worse than death just by looking at it, it was impossible not to be nervous.

But he came after all.

His heart told him that he had to come.

Because only he could keep Gaia alive in the scarlet when Chen Ming was not around.

The spacecraft bypassed the large area of ​​scarlet and successfully entered the atmosphere of the planet.

From the images detected by the spacecraft's sensors, Tian Zhan saw countless twisted flesh piled up into mountains, wriggling and spreading towards the normal area.

Every mountain of flesh, every infected flesh animal, and every flesh plant was filled with eyeballs of different sizes, which trembled irregularly and exuded a panic-inducing atmosphere.

The source of this scarlet infection was the eyes.

Tian Zhan knew something about the earliest dimensional infection in the empire.

The target of the dimensional infection that time was also the eyes, and it eventually had a very significant impact on the empire.

It is hard to say whether there is a connection between this scarlet infection and the previous infection.

Since Chen Ming has lost contact for some reason and there is no reinforcement from the empire, I am afraid he should think the worst of everything.

Tian Zhan looked at the picture on the sensor for a while, and it was recorded from his current high altitude, very far away.

He felt obvious physical discomfort.

The scarlet color constantly stimulated his eyes, making him feel a burning pain in his eye sockets.

He quickly turned off the unnecessary sensors and continued to approach the location of the fairy tree.

As the shuttle descended in altitude.

Tian Zhan found that even in places where scarlet could not be observed from space, scarlet objects had appeared.

They were some scattered eyeballs suspended in the sky.

The small ones were more than ten centimeters, and the large ones were close to ten meters in diameter.

Behind each eyeball was a curl of flesh and blood, dripping blood to the ground.

Every eyeball was looking at this planet, and... at the spaceship that had just begun to lower its altitude.

When Tian Zhan saw the eyeballs looking at him, he suddenly felt that his eyes became more painful, and the pain was not only limited to the eyes themselves, but also spread to the vicinity of the eye sockets.

He endured the pain in his eyes, avoided looking directly at these eyeballs, and controlled the shuttle to avoid the large eyeballs that were rushing towards the shuttle, and quickly lowered the altitude.

Doing so would allow him to get rid of those high-altitude eyeballs as soon as possible, but it also forced him to get close to the blue junction of the scarlet and Gaia, which he should not have been able to touch.

The situation here was even more horrifying.

The scarlet creatures were in fierce conflict with the native creatures of Gaia.

Ever since Chen Ming planted the fairy tree on Gaia and merged Gaia's consciousness with the fairy tree.

Gaia itself was no longer a pure unique life form, but a unique life form with spiritual energy.

Under the impression of its consciousness, all creatures belonging to Gaia will have some of the leader's power, just like the Zerg, Mechanoids and Yuhui under Chen Ming.

This makes it possible for the native creatures of the planet to fight against the Scarlet.

But the situation that Tian Zhan saw at this time was not very good.

All the creatures that were fighting with the ever-expanding Scarlet and trying to suppress the Scarlet in the Scarlet area could not survive.

In the process of fighting, the eyeballs of some animals that were originally tearing the Scarlet apart would bulge out, and dozens of trembling eyeballs would suddenly grow on their bodies, and the flesh and blood would roll up, quickly becoming a pool of dead meat.

And those aggressive plants were completely unable to digest the Scarlet, and could only be completely affected by the Scarlet and die, and then revived because of the growth of flesh and blood, and instead became plants that allowed the Scarlet to take root in the soil.

Even with the Fairy Tree as the source of spiritual energy, the Gaia planet itself was completely unable to fight against the invading Scarlet.

If it was just pure flesh and blood and eyeballs, it would be fine.

Seeing with one's own eyes that the originally lively creatures turned into corrupted flesh and blood in the blink of an eye, the shock brought to people was far greater than the former.

Tian Zhan couldn't help but close his eyes and wiped away the tears secreted from the corners of his eyes due to dry eyes and pain.

He turned up the opacity of the porthole on the spacecraft console to the maximum, so that he could not see everything happening outside at all, and he could only observe with sensors.

Although all this was cruel.

But the important thing was definitely not the places and creatures that were being or had been affected by the scarlet.

The only thing that really mattered was the fairy tree standing opposite the original location of the scarlet infection.

The shuttle was approaching the surface at a rapid speed.

The number of eyeballs suspended in the air was also decreasing.

But the scattered pieces of flesh and blood distributed on the normal land were increasing.

The source came from some scarlet creatures in the shape of wheat ears.

They were quietly suspended in the low sky, and each wheat ear was a scarlet eyeball.

All creatures were changing and spreading the scarlet further in the places they were looking at.

As more and more places appeared scarlet, the speed of the scarlet expansion would increase exponentially.

Tian Zhan had no way to stop it, nor could he continue to watch.

His eyes were already full of bloodshot, and there was almost no white in them.

He could only completely turn off the sensor that received visual information from the outside, and use the thermal sensor to observe the outside world.

But when he just turned on the thermal sensor, he was horrified to find that above and behind the shuttle, there was a transparent flesh-and-blood creature that could not be seen by the naked eye swooping down.

It was a giant bird creature, with eyeballs all over its head, and only a slender beak sticking out from the eyeballs.

At this almost close distance, the shuttle had no time to make any maneuvers, and the eyeball bird had already pounced on the shuttle.

The sharp beak pecked at the hull of the shuttle fiercely, and it penetrated the hull directly with just a few pecks, piercing the middle section of the shuttle.

Fortunately, Tian Zhan had completely locked the doors of the cab and the passenger room at the back when he drove the boat.

This strange bird could not hurt him directly.

But this still caused the shuttle to shake violently, and the flight was also affected.

Tian Zhan quickly fastened his seat belt and turned the joystick to one side.

The shuttle rolled wildly.

However, the eyeball bird locked its claws and beak on the shuttle tightly, and no matter how Tian Zhan maneuvered, he could not get rid of the guy on the spaceship.

The continuous high-frequency maneuvers made Tian Zhan's face worse.

He could only stabilize the shuttle by force and reach his destination as quickly as possible before it was completely torn apart by the eyeball bird.

Tian Zhan had just stabilized the spaceship, and the eyeball bird tore a huge cavity in the center of the spaceship in an instant, and poked its head full of eyeballs into the cabin.

Through the glass on the door between the passenger room and the driver's room, it saw Tian Zhan who was driving the shuttle.

The eyeball bird screamed strangely, and the piercing sound seemed to tear Tian Zhan's eardrums.

When Tian Zhan stabilized the spaceship with one hand and covered his ears with the other hand.

The eyeball bird suddenly flew to the top of the cabin of the spacecraft and smashed its head against the cabin.

The front glass of the spacecraft was instantly covered with cracks at the place where the beak pecked, and perhaps it would shatter directly with the next impact.

At this moment, Tian Zhan finally saw the fairy tree standing on a plain in the distance.

He made up his mind and pushed the control lever forward to the bottom, and the spacecraft immediately fell directly in the direction of the fairy tree.

It hit the ground about a hundred meters away from the fairy tree, making a loud noise, and slid all the way to the fairy tree.

The violent and continuous impact made Tian Zhan immediately spit out a large mouthful of blood, which sprayed on the shuttle control console.

There were countless tiny eyeballs mixed in the blood.

Tian Zhan saw the pool of blood just after a glance, and panic spread in his heart.

But he still tried his best to cut off the stuck seat belt with the tools prepared in the cabin and climbed out of the cabin.

The eyeball bird that was still hovering on the shuttlecraft gave a sharp cry unwillingly, as if it was made by a person drowning in a pile of eyeballs, and then flew away from this place.

Tian Zhan supported himself and stood up, crawling to the fairy tree.

The pain in his eyes and chest made it almost impossible for him to stand.

His eyeballs were trembling, and two strands of blood with countless tiny eyeballs flowed from the corners of his eyes.

He had almost completely lost control of his eyes.

Once his eyeballs were completely infected by the scarlet, death would come completely.

In this extreme pain.

In Tian Zhan's brain, a nerve was trembling wildly, resisting the invasion from the scarlet.

In the soothing psychic wave released by the fairy tree that merged with Gaia's consciousness.

A weak psychic wave belonging to Tian Zhan was released from this nerve.

When a psychic has psychic power, it is usually accompanied by a major turning point in life or an extreme outburst of some kind of emotion.

And at this moment, Tian Zhan met two of them at the same time.

It's a natural outcome.

Psychic awakening.

The psychic wave released by Tian Zhan when he awakened his psychic power erased the scarlet substance that invaded his eyes... No, not erased, but converted all of these scarlet substances into special substances that are harmless to people.

He opened his eyes again and wiped away the blood and tears from the corners of his eyes.

All the tiny eyeballs were transformed at the moment of his spiritual awakening, and all the special substances transformed were all seeped into the ground and disappeared.

But as Tian Zhan opened his eyes, he found that what he saw was not a peaceful and quiet scene, but a scene full of scarlet.

Countless scarlet eyeballs surrounded the surroundings, all of which were surrounded by a circle with the fairy tree as the core, staring at them covetously.

The dripping blood was corrupting the ground, constantly affecting the environment, and the scarlet was almost all around the fairy tree.

But they did not approach directly.

This was not that the scarlet creatures suddenly became rational or alert, but that the power of the fairy tree and the will of the planet was protecting this place.

Protecting the fairy tree, protecting Tian Zhan of the fairy tree.

After awakening his spiritual power, Tian Zhan knew that the gaze of the scarlet eyes was powerful.

Although they seemed to be just staying there, in fact, they were in fierce conflict with Gaia's consciousness.

He had already had the potential to awaken his spiritual power before he took leave some time ago.

After returning from his hometown, he was completely convinced that he would definitely have this power, but he just lacked an opportunity.

The opportunity has now come and it has come true.

Then he should also report to the people, things, and objects that provided the opportunity.

Although Tian Zhan had just awakened his psychic power, he was still protected by the fairy tree without knowing much about psychic power.

But he knew what he should do.

He released the psychic power fluctuations to all the affected scarlet areas around him without any guidance.

All the scarlet things that were contaminated by his psychic power were recovering their former appearance.

Even if the flesh and blood had been distorted, even if the vitality of the original creatures had been cut off, Tian Zhan's psychic power could completely restore all the effects of the scarlet.

And all the pure scarlet creatures that were not transformed all decayed and died.

A large number of scarlet eyeballs gathered at the edge of the protection circle of Gaia's consciousness died almost instantly.

But immediately, another batch of scarlet eyeballs and scarlet eyes from other places arrived at the fairy tree.

All he could do was to hold on.

The psychic power of a newly born psychic would not be too strong, and the psychic itself would not have too much mental power.

Except for the burst of psychic power when it just awakened, it would soon weaken.

Tian Zhan could only barely block everything out because of the coordination of the planet's consciousness.

Until his mental power was almost exhausted.

Tian Zhan was just a newly awakened psychic after all.

He had to face the scarlet that psychic power level 4 and 5 might die in.

The pressure was unimaginable.

He had to try his best to destroy all the scarlets, and at the same time, he had to use his psychic power on himself and the fairy tree to protect the last hope of Gaia.

Gradually, his eyeballs began to become bloodshot again.

Even if he closed his eyes tightly, the influence of the power of the Scarlet Eye continued to act on him.

When he felt that his eyes were losing control again.

Tian Zhan raised the window-breaking cone he had taken with him when he climbed out of the cockpit of the spacecraft and pointed it at his eyes.

His hands trembled slightly, but he still resolutely stabbed the awl into his eyes, blinding his eyes.

He reached out and tore off a piece of his sleeve and wrapped it in front of his eyes.

Blood stained the white sleeves and collar red, and the pain almost made him close to coma.

But the influence of the Scarlet Eye on him at this time was reduced to the minimum.

After being implanted in the Gaia planet, the Fairy Tree has become the foundation of the planet's consciousness.

While most species on the Gaia planet can escape deep underground to temporarily avoid the scarlet through past experience, the Fairy Tree cannot.

Countless eyes focused on the Fairy Tree and him next to the Fairy Tree.

Almost only he and the Fairy Tree were left on the entire planet struggling to support it.

He knew that if the Fairy Tree was infected by the scarlet, the consequences would be disastrous.

The consciousness of the entire planet might die, or even be assimilated by the scarlet.

He had to hold on.

His mental strength was exhausted, and his expression was visibly decayed.

His cheeks suddenly became a little thin, and his body began to collapse along with his spirit.

Death seemed imminent.

…

Outside the sky.

A meteor streaked across the sky that covered the planet and headed straight for Gaia.

The meteor was not accompanied by a narrow tail flame, but a deep blue-purple trail.

"Well done."

Tian Zhan's body shook and fell towards the fairy tree beside him.

Before he fainted, he was using the psychic sensing method he had mastered due to the huge consumption of mental power.

The blue-purple light started from the figure in front of him and swept across the entire planet.