Chapter 844: Land of Eternal Night

Outside the porthole, the purple-black sand sea surged like a solidified blood scab, and every grain of sand was sucking the halo of the searchlight.

Lin Yi's knuckles tapped the control panel unconsciously, and the index on the dial was jumping at a strange frequency - this was the third time that the spacecraft had a gravity field disorder.

Looking far away, a dark area appeared faintly on the distant horizon.

It was not like ordinary darkness. Once the light approached, it would be ruthlessly swallowed and disappeared without a trace.

"Is that where the ancient god is?"

Teresa's fingers slid quickly on the control panel, and the course of the spacecraft shifted slightly, heading towards the area shrouded in darkness.

"Yes, that area is called the 'Land of Eternal Night', and it is one of the most dangerous forbidden areas in the Chikong Continent."

"Forbidden area?" A trace of doubt flashed in Lin Yi's eyes, "If I remember correctly, the northern part of the continent should be the territory of the Chiming Clan. Since it is your clan's land, why did it become a forbidden area?"

Daphne clenched the staff in her hand, and a trace of sadness flashed in her eyes: "I have heard the elders in the clan mention this place. She said that the Land of Eternal Night was the richest treasure land on this continent a long time ago. It is rich in products and prosperous, and it is the pride of the Chiming Clan. However... after the invasion of the ancient gods, everything changed."

"The Queen of the Chiming Clan, Twenmi Li, returned here after resurrection. But she... is no longer the same as before. She became extremely crazy. As a fifth-level polluted body, she is so powerful that it makes people despair. Under her influence, this land of the tribe that once nurtured hope has gradually become the land of eternal night, a terrifying place full of despair and death. "

"Prepare to enter the land of eternal night." Teresa's voice sounded in the cabin, "Start the protection system, and the energy shield is running at full power."

According to her instructions, the lines on the surface of the spacecraft lit up again, and the light blue light flowed on the fuselage, and finally condensed into a thick and solid energy shield, tightly wrapping the spacecraft.

The spacecraft entered the range of the land of eternal night, and the surrounding scene changed instantly.

The originally bright sky seemed to be torn apart by an invisible big hand, and the endless darkness came like a tide, swallowing up all the light.

The darkness was as thick as substance, as if even the air was compressed into a heavy lead block, which made people almost breathless.

Under the oppression of this darkness, the lights of the spacecraft were like candles in the wind, which could go out at any time.

The strong light that was originally enough to illuminate a range of thousands of meters was now suppressed to the minimum, and could only barely illuminate a small area in front.

Beyond the light, there was endless darkness, like a huge mouth, waiting to swallow everything.

Lin Yi could feel that a malicious force was coming from all directions, trying to erode his will.

He originally thought that the changes in this area were only due to the influence of the power of the ancient gods. Now it seems that the power of the ancient gods may just be a fuse that caused the changes in this area.

[Hint: The hunter has entered the high-risk area, the Land of Eternal Night. ]

[The Land of Eternal Night is one of the extremely dangerous areas in this world. It is recommended that more than ten fifth-level contractors cooperate to enter. ]

[The hunter has triggered the following task, yes/no to accept it. ]

[Side quest: Undertaker, kill the fifth-level pollution queen Twain Millie. Quest reward: 2 random epic gems. ]

"So that's it..." Lin Yi murmured in a low voice, with a flash of enlightenment in his eyes.

He finally understood why the ancient god Tyne Zakaria fled to this haunted place called "Land of Eternal Night".

This place is not only the tribe of the Chiming tribe, but also the nest of the fifth-level pollutant.

Twain Millie, who has been promoted to the fifth-level pollutant, is no longer an ordinary life form.

Her blood has mutated, and she can almost be regarded as half of the ancient god's offspring.

For an ancient god like Tyne Zakaria, the existence of Twain Millie is simply a perfect tonic.

As long as she is devoured, Tyne Zakaria's power can be greatly restored, and it is even possible to break through the shackles of the Phoenix Seal and completely revive.

Lin Yi looked at the task prompt that appeared in front of him, and quickly thought about the countermeasures in his heart.

Although the reward for this task is rich, the difficulty of the task is also ridiculously high.

The fifth-level pollution queen Twain Millie is an extremely difficult existence in itself, not to mention there is an ancient god Tyne Zakaria.

If you are not careful, let alone completing the task, even leaving here alive will become a problem.

"What's wrong, Mr. Lin?" Daphne asked when she saw Lin Yi's serious expression.

"Nothing, I'm thinking about something."

[Hunter has accepted the side quest: Undertaker. Mission objective: Kill the fifth-level pollution queen Tween Millie. Mission reward: 2 random epic gems. ]

Just then, a sharp roar suddenly came from outside the spaceship, and a group of black shadows rushed out of the darkness and pounced on the spaceship.

"Enemy attack!" Teresa's voice suddenly sounded, her fingers slid rapidly on the control panel, and the spaceship's defense system was activated instantly.

This group of black shadows was extremely fast, and they approached the spaceship almost in the blink of an eye. The sharp claws flashed cold light in the dark, pointing directly at the energy shield of the spaceship.

"Start the laser cannon!" Teresa ordered coldly, and the weapon system on the surface of the spaceship quickly unfolded, and several laser beams shot out from the muzzle, leaving dazzling light marks in the darkness.

The laser beam hit the dark shadows accurately, splashing black sparks.

Surprisingly, these shadows were not completely defeated by the lasers. Their bodies just trembled slightly, and then continued to rush towards the spaceship.

"Their defense is stronger than expected, and ordinary laser attacks are not effective." Teresa frowned and quickly adjusted her defensive weapons.

Ten seconds later, dozens of long tubes suddenly stretched out from the periphery of the spaceship, and the tube mouths flashed with light blue light.

Countless light blue flames gushed out of the long tubes, and the flames were like roaring fire dragons, instantly engulfing the shadows.

The moment the flames touched the shadows, a "sizzling" sound was made, as if burning some kind of sticky substance.

The shadows screamed miserably, and their bodies quickly twisted and melted in the flames, and finally turned into black smoke, drifting in the darkness.

At this moment, Lin Yi noticed that a large number of dense red dots appeared on the detection instruments of the spaceship, and the number of these red dots far exceeded the detection limit of the radar.

"Warning! Warning! A large number of high-energy reactions have been detected, the number cannot be estimated!" The alarm system of the spacecraft sounded, and the harsh sound echoed in the cabin.

Almost at the same time, the spacecraft shook violently, and Lin Yi's body was tilted forward by inertia. He quickly stabilized his body and looked through the porthole into the depths of darkness.

I saw a huge figure gradually appearing in the darkness. It was a giant beast with a body as big as a mountain, covered with black scales.

Its head was shaped like a huge crocodile, but its mouth was full of sharp fangs. Each fang was more than one person tall and emitted a cold cold light.

Lin Yi detected the other party's intelligence and found that this ghost thing was not a contaminated body.

According to the detection results, this giant beast was not directly born by the power of the ancient gods, but was a follower of ordinary animals catalyzed by Twain Millie through the mutated power of the ancient gods.

Unlike those contaminated bodies that have completely lost their minds, these followers still retain a certain degree of consciousness and even have extremely high fighting instincts.

After hundreds of years of cultivation, these things have become the dominant creatures in this territory, responsible for the safety of the Land of Eternal Night.

"This... this is too big." Daphne's face was very ugly. From the panel attributes, the gap between the two sides may not be too big, but when she really faced a monster of this size, she deeply felt the suffocating oppression.

At this moment, Teresa has entered the overclocking state. Her fingers slid rapidly on the control panel, almost turning into a residual image.

Fine beads of sweat oozed from her forehead, her face was red, and white smoke even faintly came out of her head, like an overloaded machine.

Now Teresa not only has to control the spacecraft to evade flexibly in the dense attacks, but also has to lock the surrounding enemies through the weapon system to counterattack.

This kind of multitasking operation is a huge burden even for the Honghu tribe, a race known for its brain development.

Teresa's condition has reached the limit. If it weren't for the talent of the Honghu tribe that allowed her brain to be developed far beyond that of ordinary people, she would have fainted on the ground due to overload.

If Daphne poured a bottle of water on Teresa's head at this moment, it would probably be evaporated into a ball of water vapor by the high temperature in an instant.

In this situation, Lin Yi could not go out to fight at all. The darkness outside and the threat of the giant beast made any behavior of leaving the spaceship tantamount to suicide.

He just tried to summon several soldiers of the Giant Bat Regiment to prepare for an air battle with these monsters.

The soldiers were just summoned and were torn to pieces by the giant beasts before they deployed their formations, without even a chance to resist.

Teresa quickly activated the flame weapon of the spacecraft, and countless light blue flames gushed out of the long tube and sprayed towards the scales of the giant beast.

The flames touched the scales of the giant beast and burst into dazzling light, but the giant beast did not seem to be afraid of this kind of flame. It just let out a low roar and rushed towards the flames.

"Not good, keep your distance!"

Teresa quickly controlled the spacecraft to retreat, but the giant beast was extremely fast. It opened its huge mouth and a black energy beam shot out of its mouth, with destructive power, directly pointing at the spacecraft.

"Evade quickly!"

Teresa's hands almost turned into afterimages, and the instructions on the control panel were issued one by one at a time.

"Fengming" suddenly turned sideways, and the energy shield was adjusted to maximum power in an instant.

The black energy beam shot past the edge of the spacecraft, drawing a strange trajectory in the darkness, and then hit a mountain in the distance.

Boom--!

A strong energy fluctuation broke out, and the mountain was blasted into pieces under the impact of the black beam.

A huge shock wave swept over, and the energy shield of the spacecraft flickered violently, and it could collapse at any time.

"The shield energy is 40% remaining!" There was a hint of anxiety in Teresa's voice, "If it withstands another attack, the shield will not be able to hold on!"

"Not good, it's going to attack again!" Daphne raised her head and noticed that the giant beast was about to attack again.

Teresa's face also turned extremely ugly. She looked at the monsters outside that were frantically attacking the protective shield, and she had an ominous premonition in her heart.

Some of these monsters were pure pollution and had no reason at all, but some of them had normal minds.

Logically speaking, they shouldn't launch such crazy suicide attacks.

"I know! After the ancient god arrived here, he must have done something to make the creatures here extremely hostile to outsiders. We are implicated." Teresa's brain was working rapidly. In just a few seconds, she figured out the reason for the current bad situation.

"Ah? Why?" Daphne's brain almost burned when she heard Teresa's words.

In her cognition, the ancient god should be the lord of these polluted bodies and the top existence of their bloodline.

Why did the arrival of the ancient god make these creatures so hostile to outsiders?

"It's very simple. The purpose of the ancient god coming here is to devour the fifth-level polluted body to restore its own strength. For these creatures, although the ancient god is the top of their bloodline, they are truly loyal to Tween Millie." After hearing Teresa's words, Lin Yi also figured out the ins and outs of this matter.

"That is to say... the ancient god not only did not become their protector, but became their enemy?" Daphne's voice was full of disbelief.

"That's right."

"The arrival of the ancient god broke the balance of this area. Twain Millie's power was completely disintegrated, and these creatures attacked us so frantically in order to protect their territory or for revenge."

The fact is indeed as the three guessed. The ancient god came a day ago and broke into the land of eternal night to kidnap Twain Millie.

Even though the blood suppression of the ancient god made these giant beasts instinctively feel fear, they still chose to resist.

At the moment when the ancient god kidnapped Twain Millie, countless giant beasts surged out of the darkness and attacked the ancient god.

Under the suppression of blood, the ancient god killed most of the attacking giant beasts with just one move.

"So, we are now regarded as accomplices of the ancient god." Daphne said helplessly.

"It is likely to be the case, but it also means that the ancient god is nearby and we are not far from the target."

Hearing Teresa's words, Daphne closed her eyes and sensed the location of the mark, and found that the location of the mark was in a castle not far from the group.

But unfortunately, the castle was surrounded by densely packed giant beasts. These giant beasts were scared by the ancient gods and could only circle around the castle.

Lin Yi and the other two broke into the beasts' field of vision under this circumstance and naturally became the target of their attack.

"The shield of the spacecraft can't hold out for much longer!" Teresa stared at the energy shield value, and the number that kept jumping and falling was like the countdown of the Grim Reaper's sickle.

"Can you think of a way to attract the attention of these monsters?"

"Yes, this spacecraft has a phantom function, but it consumes a lot of energy. Once this function is enabled, the shield of the spacecraft may not last for a minute."

"Prepare the escape device. If you continue to stay on this spacecraft, you will be besieged and killed by these giant beasts sooner or later." Lin Yi was a little helpless. As a human being, his biggest headache was to fight air battles with such huge creatures. The disadvantage was too great.

Teresa gritted her teeth and used the last energy of the spacecraft to activate the phantom device.

In an instant, several phantoms emitting golden light appeared out of thin air around the spaceship, and the light was particularly dazzling in the dark land of eternal night.

These phantoms were lifelike, as if several real spaceships were moving at high speed in different directions at the same time.

This trick really worked, and the giant beasts that were attacking frantically were instantly attracted, and their attention became scattered all of a sudden.

Their originally neat attack rhythm was disrupted, becoming more chaotic, and there was a hint of confusion in their roars.

Some giant beasts pounced on this phantom, while others rushed in another direction, and even collided with each other.

Just as the giant beasts were attracted by the phantom, Lin Yi, Teresa and Daphne quickly entered the escape device.

After the escape device was ejected, it was like a small meteor, wrapped in tail flames, falling rapidly towards the ground, drawing bright tracks in the darkness, and disappearing from the sight of the giant beasts in an instant.

"I hope these phantoms can last a little longer." Daphne looked at the phantoms that kept flashing above and prayed silently in her heart.

"Take care of ourselves first and prepare for landing." Teresa held the joystick of the escape device tightly, staring at the ground in the darkness below.

As they got closer and closer to the ground, the three finally saw the horrifying scene below.

There were strange rocks on the ground, like ferocious animal teeth, sticking out of the ground wantonly.

There were also some black liquids emitting strange light, flowing on the ground as if they were alive.

"Be careful of those liquids, I don't know if they are corrosive." Teresa reminded.

Lin Yi controlled the escape device and avoided a black liquid area at the critical moment, and successfully landed on a relatively flat rock.

Although the escape device made a loud noise when it fell to the ground, dozens of giant beasts in the sky were frantically besieging the spaceship they had just left. The noisy roars and collisions covered the movement of the escape device landing.

After a few seconds, the shield emitting a light blue light on the outside of the spaceship began to flash violently, and the light flickered.

As the three watched, the shield's light gradually extinguished, like a candle flame swallowed by darkness.

As the shield disappeared, the entire spacecraft was exposed to these ferocious beasts without any defense.

The beasts that discovered the disappearance of the spaceship's shield were like sharks that smelled blood. Several furious beasts instantly pounced in front of the spaceship like hungry tigers.

In just a few seconds, the originally huge spaceship was torn into several pieces like a toy torn apart by a naughty child, and fell from the sky.

After the falling spaceship collided with the ground, a shocking explosion occurred.

The dazzling flames shot up into the sky, and the huge roar shook the ground. The light instantly dispelled the darkness in this area like the sun.

Not long after, the darkness extinguished the brief light again, and everything fell into the dead silence again.

Watching the spaceship being dismantled, falling, exploding, and quickly swallowed by the darkness, Theresa felt a deep regret in her heart.

As if disliking the noise of these giant beasts, in the gloomy castle in the distance, a huge bone spear was formed in the sky out of thin air. The spear was as black as ink, and the surface was covered with strange patterns, as if it was made of countless bones.

The bone spear shot out suddenly, and the speed was so fast that it was difficult to catch, and instantly pierced through the body of a giant beast.

The giant beast let out a whine, and its body began to struggle, trying to get rid of the restraint of the bone spear, but the power of the bone spear was far beyond its imagination.

A dark light lit up on the surface of the bone spear, and the body of the giant beast began to wither at a speed visible to the naked eye.

The originally strong muscles quickly shrank, and the breath of life quickly passed away like sand in an hourglass.

Its blood power was continuously absorbed by the bone spear, and finally turned into a black smoke and dissipated in the air.

Seeing this, the remaining giant beasts were immediately frightened and scattered, flying back to the sky, not daring to get close to the castle.

Although they were angry, they instinctively chose to retreat in the face of absolute power.

Inside the castle, the ancient god Tyne Zakaria did not pay much attention to the situation outside.

"You are so noisy. If you were not useful, I would have wiped you out long ago."

During this period, these giant beasts would attack the castle madly at any time, trying to rescue Tween Millie.

Although their attacks did not pose any threat to Tyne Zakaria, the frequent harassment still annoyed him.

If it were not for the fact that these giant beasts could still block external enemies, he would have taken action to completely eliminate them.

Tyne Zakaria turned around and his eyes fell on the cage hanging in the middle of the ceiling.

In the cage, Tween Millie was sitting quietly with her legs hugged.

Unlike other distorted polluted bodies, her appearance looked almost the same as that of a normal person.

She had a beautiful face and a graceful figure, like a noble queen.

"Unfortunately, this world is still too small after all." There was a trace of regret in Tyne Zakaria's voice, "If I give you a little more time, maybe you can really break free from my restraints. Unfortunately, now you are just the nourishment for me to restore my strength." (End of this chapter)