Otherworldly Desert Dust

Chapter 301 - 256: Tyrant Tiger Armor Legion

"The number of alien insects is decreasing, and what is now emerging from the white wormhole are the Red Zhe insects!" Shen Wenhai discovered this through the life-detection device and spoke gravely to Wu Hen.

This life-detection device was an improvement on the formerly used combat power detector.

According to the previous statements, a Heavenly Brilliance Level combat power was one hundred million.

The current life-detection device can now identify creatures with combat power exceeding one hundred million.

Wu Hen was not clear about the specific principles, but he knew that Shen Wenhai and his team had created an instrument similar to a mercury thermometer that could detect the Crown Radiance intensity of powerful creatures.

When the Crown Radiance intensity exceeded a certain level, this mercury would show a clear reaction, allowing them to understand how many powerful creatures were hiding in various caves and lairs.

Of course, this kind of test was only an approximation and could not be extremely precise.

For instance, when the life-detection device was used to measure Cai Huang, it showed that his combat power was roughly 10 billion.

But everyone knew that Cai Huang’s true combat power was definitely more than 10 billion. Humans could only test for a life’s basic Crown Radiance; as for the destructive power that a life with this Crown Radiance could exhibit, that was another concept altogether.

The strength of the alien insects was all below one hundred million, averaging from one million to ten million.

With the current level of evolution reached by humanity’s Spirit Awakeners, dealing with them wasn’t too difficult anymore.

As for the once-perceived "ceiling" of the Heavenly Light, as humanity progressed and evolved, it gradually became the standard for a master, rather than the ultimate and rare level.

However, from Sixth-class Heavenly Brilliance to First-class Heavenly Brilliance, there lay a vast oceanic gulf, where terrifying whale sharks to small shrimps and coral fish, all resided within this realm...

Cai Huang and Wu Hen were both at the First-class Heavenly Brilliance level, the strongest existences in terms of combat power in Red Port, while the majority of Silver Winged Mantises were at the Sixth-class and Fifth-class Heavenly Brilliance levels.

But if both of them took action, the Silver-winged Mantis Matrix would be annihilated in a very short time.

Unfortunately, the greatest enemy in this battle was time.

How many Red Zhe insects would pour in remained an unknown number, and whether there were any First-class Heavenly Brilliance among the Red Zhe insects was still unclear. In such a situation, Wu Hen wouldn’t waste his Qi on these weaker Heavenly Brilliance insects.

Shen Wenhai’s eyes were fixed on the "combat power detector" in his hand, the screen about the size of a tablet was now filled with numerous red dots.

Each red dot represented a life form that had surpassed one hundred million in combat power. Initially, these red dots were like stars dotted by a child, but as the white miasma grew thicker, these red dots became denser, and eventually, even merged into red patches. The patches overlapped, covering the entire screen!

"It’s the tyrant tiger beetles; I can already smell them," Wu Hen patted Shen Wenhai, signaling him not to rely too much on the device anymore.

Shen Wenhai’s face looked extremely grim as he could no longer count the number of red dots on his screen.

The most frightening part was that the combat power tested for each of these red dots reached 10 billion!

Ten times the strength of a Silver Winged Mantis!

Yet until the day the truth is utterly unraveled, who would know that the mature Red Zhe insects dwelling near Red Port are as numerous as rocks, that the small Red Port is not some precious human sanctuary, but merely ants living in a sandbox, provided for these high-dimensional insects’ enjoyment, observation, and experimentation!

The might of the mature insects resides above the Heavenly Brilliance Level.

But to the high-dimensional insects, mature insects are merely toy soldiers, endlessly producible at will!

There was a time when Wu Hen, facing ten tirant tiger beetle armors, already felt immense pressure, and could not help marveling at the mystery and majesty of the Red Palace; the subsequent appearance of a thousand such tyrant tiger beetle armors gave Wu Hen an utterly surreal feeling, as if the Red Palace were a virtual game, with the deviously challenging tyrant tiger beetle armors merely being a bunch of programmable entities, easily replicated and pasted to create an ample number of these lifeforms...

In actuality, it was indeed a game, the pastime of high-dimensional insects.

The entire Red Port was filled with dread, the very mention of tyrant tiger armor caused panic; yet these insects were not at all rare in the eyes of high-dimensional insects – they were as common to them as unmanned drones are to humans. Given enough materials, they could produce limitless numbers!

The white Insect Mountain, as the fog slowly dissipated, a vast army of tyrant tiger beetle armors stepped onto these lands. The shock delivered to all of humanity was indescribable in words.

Merely at the base of the mountain, in the valleys, the skies, and atop the peaks, there were more than three thousand tyrant tiger armors; even more terrifying was that from within the white miasmic air, more of these armies continued to pour out.

Three thousand and then another three thousand, three thousand and then another three thousand...

Even though these tyrant tiger armors did not form any formation, not in unison, they simply, casually, and calmly pressed forward; the entire Lun Mountain City seemed as if it was crushed into ashes by this momentum!!

In the urban areas, countless people inexplicably fainted, collapsing in droves, frothing at the mouth.

A bizarre, bloody wind swept across the globe, every one of the tyrant tiger armor’s auras compounded together, turning into a force even more immense and torrential than a black hurricane, altering the climate of the whole world.

Billions of creatures fell into deathly silence; even the Ocean inexplicably stilled, with marine life even forgetting to swim.

Trees for thousands of kilometers around Lun Mountain City withered, oxygen mysteriously disappeared, and the black tyrant tiger armor hurricane that formed effectively turned this battlefield into a vacuum zone. The reason ordinary citizens collapsed was due to severe hypoxia.

If not for the Nuwa Law, the entire homeland would have instantly become a vacuum zone, and all life would have perished in a flash!

This is the same tyrant tiger armor that once greatly pressured Wu Hen. If these were in the outside world, in numbers exceeding tens of thousands, they would be utterly invincible.

The gathered human elites inside the fortress were already feeling dizzy; they had never imagined that the tyrant tiger armors, which would normally require the assembly of countless human elites to even have a chance of defeating, would surge in like soldiers – all despite being restricted by the narrowness of the wormhole. If this wormhole were to be hollowed out even wider, could hundreds of thousands of tyrant tiger armors step through??

"Activate the Flowing Oxygen Sky Layer!!"

Shen Wenhai issued the command.

In the heart of Lun Mountain City, nine structures like the cyber tower suddenly erupted with pure blue energy; energy beams shot into the sky, forming an oxygen-rich canopy high above resembling an atmospheric layer, with oxygen cascading down through the canopy, cleansing this dire vacuum of death...

Shen Wenhai had always been collecting data on the alien insects while also referencing the valuable combat information from Wu Hen, knowing that the wings of the tyrant tiger armor possessed air valves that could create vacuum zones, instantly depriving other oxygen-reliant lifeforms of their fighting capability.

Over the past year, the wormhole at Lun Mountain City also provided humanity with vast amounts of information. From this data, they extrapolated the various abilities of the alien insects, a responsibility entirely shouldered by Shen Wenhai.

One could say that in this battle, humanity exhausted all its wisdom and resources just for the chance to break free from the control of high-dimensional insects!@@@@