Chapter 214
Chapter 214: Stage Three, the World Has Changed!
“Good!”
Li Mu also knew how serious the situation was.
It was already known that Eden guarded an Abyss entrance.
This pillar of light was clearly shooting out from the Abyss entrance.
If there had been only one, then it might have meant that there was a problem with Eden’s Abyss.
But there was also one in the direction of the Demon-Human Nation, which meant that something had most likely gone wrong with the Abyss as a whole.
Old Shui raised his hand and withdrew his power. All the martial artists wrapped in water balls gathered toward him, numbering more than a thousand.
At this moment, almost all the beasts in the park had already turned into flying ash.
The entire park was scorched black.
As for the border area between the park and the Demon-Human Nation, it had been destroyed by Old Shui’s water dragon until it resembled the ruins left behind by a meteor impact.
Almost everything within more than ten li had become rubble.
The two of them were just about to set off.
Li Mu suddenly said urgently, “Old Shui, wait for me!”
After saying that, Li Mu flipped down directly from the cloud and jumped into the park ruins.
With Fire-Eyes and Golden Gaze, he looked around and accurately found one “human-bone box” after another amid the pitch-black ruins.
Just now, after Li Mu had ascended on the cloud, he had looked down once with Fire-Eyes and Golden Gaze.
These human-bone boxes that collected pain and fear looked like thermal imaging in Li Mu’s eyes.
They were terrifyingly bright.
Clearly, more than two thousand people, including many Profound Rank experts, had died from having their Divine Souls burned.
The pain and fear released by the entire park had nearly filled these human-bone boxes to the point of explosion.
Although he did not know exactly what use they had, he would take them back first.
Li Mu moved extremely quickly, collecting a full sixty from the entire park.
Only then did he summon the Somersault Cloud and hurry back to Linyuan City together with Old Shui.
At the same time...Linyuan City.
At the Abyss entrance.
A pillar of light shot from the Abyss straight into the firmament.
The siren of a Level-One Alert resounded through heaven and earth.
The city residents began evacuating in panic toward the various war-shelter-level buildings.
Meanwhile, all independent martial artists rushed toward the area near the Abyss exit.
At this moment, the Liang Family had already taken their positions for the Blade-Ringing Grand Formation on the Fortress Plaza.
Liang Tianqiong was also covered in cold sweat.
Facing that dazzling white light, he plunged headfirst into the Abyss entrance.
Unfortunately, he could not see anything.
The light was so piercing that no one could open their eyes. Even with his eyes tightly shut, everything before him was still a vast expanse of white.
If one kept their eyes open for too long, there was probably even a risk of blindness.
All military districts treated the situation as if facing a great enemy.
But all military district commanders gave the same order.
“Evacuate!”
“Everyone evacuate to the surface!”
The soldiers held hands. Relying on their familiarity with the military district from the past, they felt their way toward the Abyss Elevator.
They began withdrawing from the Abyss in an orderly manner.
At a time like this...
If a large number of monsters truly invaded, retreating to the surface and blocking the Abyss entrance would still give them the strength to fight.
If they defended the military district’s outer walls to the death, or hid inside the military district buildings, then if war broke out below, they would almost certainly be throwing their lives away.
Even so, fewer than seventy percent of the soldiers managed to withdraw.
Some were isolated and directionless inside the military district buildings. Some were at the Death Row Base and had to guard the death row prisoners.
Others had just returned from carrying out various missions in the Abyss and were lying flat in panic inside the Teleportation Area, not daring to move recklessly.
And it was not only Linyuan City.
At this very moment...
Ironhand City.
Bloodpool City.
The entire nation.
The entire world.
Every Abyss entrance had become a scene like this.
Martial artists stood guard by the Abyss entrances as if facing a great enemy.
But the monster siege people feared still did not come.
Li Mu and Old Shui were eager to return home. Their speed on the way back was at least thirty percent faster than when they had gone.
When Li Mu returned to the sky above Linyuan City, the first thing he did was call his mother.
After learning that Ironhand City was the same, and that Yang Suying and Bai Tiewei were together and had already been placed under protection, he finally felt relieved.
After that, he called Wang Yinhuan.
Bai Shouheng happened to still be in Linyuan City, and Wang Yinhuan was currently with him.
Li Mu landed directly on the Fortress Plaza above the Abyss entrance.
At this moment, the entire Fortress Plaza was bathed in the pillar of light.
But the light came from below. Standing on the plaza, one could still see everything around them clearly, though it remained somewhat dazzling.
“Old Man An!”
Li Mu landed directly beside An Xing.
An Xing immediately let out a long breath.
“Where the hell did you go?”
“I will explain later. What is going on?”
Li Mu asked directly.
“I do not know. The entire Abyss suddenly filled with blinding white light. Nothing can be seen!”
“It has already lasted for more than an hour.”
“Twenty minutes ago, the Military Oversight Headquarters in Bloodpool City sent news.”
“The entire nation is like this.”
“The people from the Research Institute say there is an eighty percent chance that Stage Three of the Abyss is about to begin!”
“Because all real-time map exploration has already failed!”
An Xing said.
“Stage Three!?”
Li Mu was horrified.
He opened his Technological Watch.
Sure enough, the map had completely failed.
Stage Three was coming just like this?
When Li Mu thought back to the Green-Armored Giant now, he still could not help shivering.
The Green-Armored Giant’s strength remained fresh in his memory.
Even though he had now stepped into the Profound Rank, he still did not dare say he could fight a Green-Armored Giant one-on-one.
And who knew how many terrifying Earth Rank creatures like that would appear in Stage Three?
There was no need for many.
If more than four appeared in Linyuan City, it would be a catastrophic disaster.
At that moment...
The light in the Abyss seemed to have begun weakening.
Moreover, it weakened extremely quickly.
Only then could Li Mu come to the edge of the plaza and look down toward the Abyss entrance.
Just as everyone thought this blinding light was about to end...
The blinding light did indeed end.
Because the Abyss entrance...
Was sealed.
Shut.
Dead.
Right before Li Mu’s eyes, the Abyss entrance seemed like a hole being repaired by white light, slowly mending itself.
It disappeared.
The entire world seemed to fall silent for several seconds.
Then deafening noise erupted.
Countless screams and shouts rang through heaven and earth.
The Abyss entrance had been filled in?
Then what about the people below?
The military district buildings were still a small matter.
What about the people?
Had all of them been buried alive?
Just as this terrifying atmosphere began to spread, Li Mu felt the ground tremble slightly.
A rumbling sound seemed to come from the center of the earth.
Li Mu had an extremely ominous premonition.
Immediately afterward...
In a certain direction outside the distant city...
A beam of white light shot into the sky. But this white light was not circular.
It was long and narrow.
From Li Mu’s angle, it looked like a curtain of light.
Li Mu directly flipped onto the Somersault Cloud and rapidly rose into the air.
He flew swiftly toward the location of the light curtain.
At the same time, he activated Fire-Eyes and Golden Gaze and gazed into the distance.
He saw that the light curtain was emerging from underground.
The earth gradually cracked, stretched, and split open.
It split open without end.
Mountains, plants, monsters...
They surged continuously from the enormous crack that had opened.
Then they were horizontally spliced onto the surrounding ground.
They continued endlessly surging out and splicing together.
Even the military district buildings that Li Mu had just been worried about were lifted from the cracks onto the surface by some indescribable force.
Li Mu could even see many soldiers who had been lying on the ground in a daze standing up, then sprinting madly toward the city.
And the ground beneath their feet...
Seemed like the surface of a constantly expanding balloon.
Li Mu rose higher into the sky.
He flew farther away.
The Abyss entrance was indeed gone.
But Abyss cracks were everywhere.
The Abyss was no longer the Abyss beneath the ground.
It had descended into this world.
The world...Was stretching.