Chapter 243: Blood Race
The tube monster transformed from Matsumoto Gin let out a roar that was no longer within the human vocal range, making a twisted attack in a manner elusive to humans, with part of his body splitting off into tubes that wrapped toward the Ushi-Oni crying in the sky.
In response, the Ushi-Oni merely let out a roar, and those tubes coming at her face turned into rotten wood one after another, shattering into charcoal-like particles, which were then completely dispersed by the wind created by flapping wings.
The terrifying demonic wind was filled with strange power; wherever it passed, all objects seemed to be forcibly shaved into tiny particles, scattering with the wind.
“Does the Ushi-Oni still have such ability?” He Jia’an’s heart pounded; this Ushi-Oni was completely different from any he had seen before—at least in terms of ability, it was the most eerie and powerful he had ever encountered.
While the Ushi-Oni and Matsumoto Gin were fighting, He Jia’an caught sight of a humanoid figure slipping into the street corner, and he immediately shouted “Stop,” then quickly chased after.
“Matsumoto Gin couldn’t have been invaded by blessing power for no reason; it must be those guys hiding in the darkness who are using blessing power to spread curses.” He Jia’an bypassed the street, chasing fiercely, running over a hundred meters to another straight street, where he finally saw the mysterious person who had just walked out from the corner.
He Jia’an pulled a fruit knife from his pocket; though it might be useless, it could at least bolster his courage. He blocked the other’s path and coldly questioned, “Who are you?”
The other did not answer him, merely staring at him with that stiff smiling face, then slowly opened his eyes, revealing ink-green eyes even colder than an iceberg and murkier than a swamp…
No, in He Jia’an’s view, those were not ordinary eyes, but more like a cluster of gathered semi-transparent biological eggs, like dragonfly eggs aggregated into a sphere; in one eye, it seemed as if thousands of tiny eyes were hidden, madly gazing at him.
This thing is not human!
He Jia’an thought so clearly; that indifferent gaze as if standing in a dimension higher than humans was all too familiar to him—it was typically the kind of look revealed by a group of abnormal race possessing civilization far surpassing that of humans; those eyes held no emotion whatsoever, only utmost rationality and indifference.
Just from being stared at for an instant, He Jia’an felt the hallucination of being peeped at by countless eyes return; the hairs all over his body trembled, his brain uncontrollably imagining an eye like that mysterious person’s sprouting from every pore, imagining those eyes filling his entire body, turning him into a hideous monster.
“Is the power of blessing what you collected?” He Jia’an steeled himself and continued shouting.
The mysterious person said nothing, merely lightly raising that arm with almost no body hair, flipping his wrist and extending his index finger to point virtually at He Jia’an.
The next moment, He Jia’an felt an unknown voice pouring into his mind, but miraculously, he could understand this unfamiliar language; he soon realized the mysterious person was communicating with him through a manner incomprehensible to humans, like telepathy or brainwaves.
The other answered his question, admitting it was he and his kind behind it.
“What do you want to do?” He Jia’an said in a deep voice.
And soon, He Jia’an received the other’s reply; he repeated in shock and confusion what the other had just said in his mind: “Invade and occupy this planet; an adaptive environment is needed, and only He can provide it.”
Just as the words fell, He Jia’an felt his head struck heavily; a large amount of alien memory scenes surged into his mind, as if looping a realistic movie in his eyes.
Those scenes depicted a planet with an adverse living environment, yet inhabited by a race incomprehensible to Earth humans; in human language, it could barely be translated as Blood Race.
However, this Blood Race was completely different from the blood-sucking biological race in human literature; the Blood Race did not need to suck blood to survive— it was called Blood Race because their very form of existence resembled blood, with blood-like fluid bodies constantly fissioning structures similar to Earth biological eggs, but those were not eyes, rather their unformed embryos.
Yes, the Blood Race was a group of abnormal race capable of self-reproduction with extremely high quantity per instance; on their planet, they created a unique Flesh and Blood Civilization— from the perspective of human technology civilization, their civilization was twisted yet primitive, but also an incomprehensible being.
On their planet, natural disasters comparable to super-large nuclear bomb explosions erupted frequently everywhere at all times, yet they stubbornly endured catastrophe after catastrophe with their strange “flesh and blood bodies,” developing a brilliant civilization.
But even the resilient Blood Race could not evolve the ability to survive and travel in the universe; their strange Flesh and Blood Civilization made it even harder to develop to that stage—logically, completing interstellar travel on their civilization path would be an exceedingly long development process.
But things took a turn; until one day, an unidentified flying object from outer space crashed onto their planet, and in that eerie craft, they discovered various bizarrely shaped yet definitely rule-bound biological entities, including the dark, sleazy creature leading those strange beings, which in human eyes looked like a group of standing rats.
Later, the Blood Race learned those rat people were a race from outer space called Huo Gu; they formed interstellar fleets with the biological weapons they manufactured, intending to invade a planet, but encountered their mortal enemy race en route through space, leading to an unimaginable fierce battle between the two in space— this ship that intruded into the Blood Race’s planetary realm was merely a rescue ship in the massive starship fleet; in short, during Huo Gu and his enemies’ fight, this rescue ship carrying massive biological weapons and “Huo Gu refugees” suffered an attack, and after an accident, accidentally fell into Blood Race territory.
All this was recounted by a Blood Race later revered by the Blood Race as the “Great Pioneer”; he was the first among the Blood Race bold enough to try consuming and digesting the biological weapons and Huo Gu as food— the Blood Race’s strange physiological structure allowed them, while digesting food, to read the genetic information and brain information of that “food.”
The rat race Huo Gu never dreamed that their brilliant biotechnology civilization, developed over countless ages, would be so easily digested, deciphered, absorbed, and ultimately devoured by a group of strange lifeforms, as if making wedding clothes for others.
However, what no one expected was that while obtaining Huo Gu’s genetic and civilization information, the Blood Race also found the mysterious faith of Thousand Illusions Moon in that ship.
