bookbashuk Chapter 1352 - 521: Appetizer Before the Meal (3)
Chapter 1352 - 521: Appetizer Before the Meal (3)
"There’s another explanation, and that is: not enough energy.""Not enough energy?"
"Yes. For a large predator, every hunt consumes an enormous amount of heat and energy. If the calories it gains from its prey aren’t enough to make up for the cost of the hunt, then there’s no need for it to make a move," Jiang Yun said.
"You’re saying that to this thing, the few million of us here aren’t even worth a shot?" KIKI spoke up.
"I’m only guessing, I can’t be absolutely sure. But as things stand, driving the Crimson Tide to devour us might be the most cost‑effective option for it."
"So it dug out a canyon just to completely cut off the route. This bastard’s really smart."
"It’s not necessarily that it’s smart," Chu Yan said. "Some of the guidance here can’t be separated from the Foundation."
Listening to their conversation, Lin Xian’s expression grew heavier; that feeling from before washed over him again.
"Jiang Yun, just now you said it consumes heat. When this Monster attacked the Dawn Center before, was the situation different from now?"
"Completely different," Jiang Yun said at once. "Back then, what we were up against were almost all Special Level and S-Class super‑large Monsters. The Crimson Tide was nowhere near as threatening as this. That thing just launching an attack from underground cost us half an Iron Guard Brigade and dozens of convoys!"
Lin Xian’s pupils contracted sharply at that. He immediately contacted Grace.
"Grace, is there a big difference between the distribution of Crimson concentration in this region and that of other intercontinental regions?"
[Yes. In the current North American Continent region, a total of five storm zones with extremely high Crimson concentration have appeared, located in Nevada, Arizona, Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico. Their behavior is similar to tropical cyclonic storms, and the concentration is on an upward trend.]
Chu Yan heard Grace’s reply as well, and looked toward Lin Xian. "What did you figure out?"
But at that moment, Lin Xian suddenly stopped Flying, his whole body hanging in midair, a vacant look in his eyes.
"Lin Xian, what’s wrong with you?!"
"Wait."
"Hold back the Monster Tide!"
"Lin Xian."
Whoosh~
Whoosh~
Right now Lin Xian could seemingly hear only his own breathing inside the Power Armor Mask. Cold sweat kept seeping from his forehead. In that instant, he finally understood.
He recalled the images he had seen inside the Civilization Preview Ball.
The light‑streams of the information age flooded everything in an instant, data torrents surging through invisible networks. Huge Starships broke free of planetary gravity and sailed into the boundless deep space. One after another, sky‑piercing towers of perfect geometric form and material neither metal nor stone rose from alien planets, stabbing straight into the cosmic vacuum, receiving the Energy transformed by the Heavenly Veil from Constant Stars and then transmitted to the surface by microwaves—this was the starting point of the High Tower Civilization.
"High Tower Civilization..."
Countless image fragments flashed madly before Lin Xian’s eyes: the Floating Giant Corpses in the atmosphere, the Giant Ocean God that devoured the heat of the planetary core, the Earthquake Catfish lurking in Underground City No. 9, the crustal creatures in Siberia, Chaos...
At the end of the vision was that Metal Dice, flickering over and over, and the line of text displayed by the signal code it transmitted.
P——O——W——E——R
"Those aren’t five Crimson storms. Those are five High Towers..."
Lin Xian’s expression trembled as he muttered under his breath.
"The Heavenly Veil isn’t meant to block humanity at all. It’s the High Tower Civilization’s ’Dimensional Dyson Sphere,’ used to absorb all forms of cosmic Energy and channel it. Crimson is just the form that Energy takes."
Lin Xian’s words exploded in the channel like Thunder.
"They’re going to elevate Blue Star—to a higher dimension!"
"Higher dimension?" Jiang Yun said in shock. "Transform it?"
"After the transformation, the Angels will descend," Chu Yan said in a low voice. She wasn’t surprised by this conclusion.
"It’s all happening in parallel. These five ’High Towers’ have already appeared. If I’m right, it won’t be long before five world‑class disasters manifest here."
Lin Xian looked toward the terrifying giant eye in the sky.
"We were never its real target—or rather, we’re not any important prey at all. It’s waiting for the other world‑class beings to arrive, to complete the Devouring, for the Angels to descend. And we..."
"Might be nothing more than..."
"An appetizer before the main course!"