Chapter 244: The beginning of the feast
"...You'd better not be lying to me!"
Caroline hesitated for a moment, but ultimately decided to take the gamble... because it wasn't confident about escaping alone.
"Stop wasting time! Who do you think summoned the Parasitic Gate? We're running out of time if you keep talking!"
Lin Ye actually wasn't confident either, but he still had Simulation Attempts remaining, allowing him to attempt some relatively dangerous operations.
Caroline closed its eyes and controlled the flesh space to change shape, stretching one corner upward to extend toward the jeep's trunk.
The flesh limb opened the trunk and swallowed all the weapons inside into the flesh space.
"Thanks."
Lin Ye picked up a scrapped High-Energy Piercing Blade and began modifying its internal structure. These weapons were indeed damaged, but the essential components inside hadn't diminished.
"What are you doing? These weapons become extremely dangerous after being scrapped. Randomly touching them might trigger the compressed spiritual energy inside."
From Jessica's perspective, Lin Ye's current actions were like disassembling a scrapped bomb at close range, and she couldn't even leave the explosion center. "Don't worry, I've researched this type of weapon."
Lin Ye used runes to focus on modifying the core structure of the High-Energy Piercing Blade. He couldn't mass-produce stable weapons like the organization did, but maintaining temporary stability wasn't difficult for him.
"What type of weapon is that? Do you need to call Caroline out to help you?"
Caroline moved backward, watching the sphere in Lin Ye's hand, feeling vaguely uneasy.
"That's a High-Energy Piercing Blade. Close-range activation can deal with mid-tier spiritual energy creatures. No need to call her out - she's a researcher, not a battlefield bomb disposal expert. With her psychological resilience, one trembling hand could kill us all."
Jessica stared at the sphere in Lin Ye's hand that was undergoing some transformation, quietly gathering spiritual energy from her body into her right hand.
"Damn! So that's basically a Compressed Spiritual Energy Bomb?!"
Caroline quickly retreated to the edge of the space and controlled the flesh wall to block in front of itself.
"No, it has structures to prevent direct explosion, so you just need to be careful not to get stabbed."
Jessica had already prepared to withstand spiritual energy piercing.
"Oh, so that thing was actually a safety mechanism. No wonder it was so difficult to remove."
Lin Ye had just been wondering what purpose that very obstructive structure served.
"...Now you should be careful about explosions."
Jessica sighed - she couldn't withstand a compressed spiritual energy explosion at this distance either.
Lin Ye put the modified High-Energy Piercing Blade into his pocket, then continued modifying other weapons containing compressed spiritual energy. Jessica had prepared very thoroughly, bringing five High-Energy Piercing Blades alone.
"Are you planning to go up and self-destruct? But this weapon's power can't harm that Parasitic Gate at all. Things are almost finished up there, and no matter what you want to do, you're running out of time."
Caroline looked outside, where most of the Dangerous Entity's body had already been pulled inside the Parasitic Gate. Those pitch-black flesh threads hung down weakly, like the hands of a dying person.
"I'm almost ready, but this is just preparation. If it eats that Dangerous Entity and leaves directly, you can take Caroline back to the organization to complete your mission, and I can return to where I belong. Everyone gets a bright future."
Lin Ye hoped the other party would do him this favor.
"What if it doesn't leave?"
Caroline felt those Parasitic Gates wouldn't be that friendly.
"Then everyone's future won't be so bright."
Lin Ye's movements gradually accelerated - he had become proficient at modifying the organization's various tools.
At first, Lin Ye thought these tools would be affected by the Abnormal Restricted Zone, with less than ten percent of their power remaining. But since the Abnormal Restricted Zone originated from the organization, they had likely considered this situation. The Abnormal Restricted Zone didn't affect the core structures of these tools.
As for why these tools were scrapped, it was probably related to that Dangerous Entity.
"...Why do I feel you're more dangerous than the Parasitic Gate?"
Caroline didn't know why it was having such an absurd feeling.
"Danger level and strength aren't necessarily correlated. Unfortunately, it doesn't understand this principle."
The Parasitic Gate finished eating the Dangerous Entity, but it didn't leave directly. A tendril archway appeared above the flesh space.
"I'm going out. You'd better hide deeper. If I'm in decent condition later, help me one more time and pull me back. If I'm in bad condition, just forget it."
Lin Ye placed various weapons in easily accessible positions - these were his means of fighting desperately.
"What exactly are you planning to do?"
Jessica couldn't help but ask.
"Have you heard of risk hedging?"
There was no longer any distinction between inner and Outer Space outside. Lin Ye squeezed through a crack to exit the flesh space.
This time, Lin Ye didn't need to climb out of the ground. The flesh space changed shape, and a flesh platform appeared under Lin Ye's feet, lifting him through ground fissures back to the surface.
Numerous Silhouettes charged toward Lin Ye, with black parasitic threads connected to their backs.
"Don't rush. None of us can escape."
Lin Ye jumped onto a rooftop and directly threw the modified High-Energy Piercing Blade toward the area with the most Silhouettes.
Boom!
Frenzied spiritual energy exploded among the Silhouettes, instantly clearing all of them within the blast radius.
Unlike those villagers who weren't even spiritual energy users, these Silhouettes were all excellent special sacrificial offerings. The special ability Sacrificial Rite was directly triggered.
Countless parasitic threads shot toward Lin Ye like a rain of black arrows. But before they could touch him, a giant creature with tens of thousands of arms suddenly occupied the entire sky behind Lin Ye. Those arms varied in length, with the longest stretching over a thousand meters and the shortest too small to see.
In the center of those arms was an alien creature that Lin Ye had never seen before. Its shape was extremely irregular, forming a sharp contrast with regular creatures. Any normal person looking at it would immediately become infected, with their body undergoing Alienation and their mind becoming twisted.
Near the giant creature floated numerous irregular beings the size of adults, their bodies also covered with arms of varying lengths. These arms were important components of that irregularity.
Lin Ye certainly wouldn't hold back. He directly threw a modified High-Energy Piercing Blade near the new arrivals, then launched another one toward the distant Silhouettes.
The Sacrificial Rite triggered again, and a strange phantom occupied the entire sky. The moment it appeared, Lin Ye felt like his Fate was out of control and he could die at any moment.
But he didn't stop, continuing to throw the organization's compressed spiritual energy weapons around him. He still had ammunition - the battle wasn't over yet.
The fourth Sacrificial Rite summoned a middle-aged man wearing luxurious formal attire.
He appeared directly less than a meter in front of Lin Ye. Just when Lin Ye thought this simulation was ending, the man handed Lin Ye a fist-sized glass sphere.
Under the man's influence, Lin Ye crushed the glass sphere, triggering the fifth Sacrificial Rite.