Jiang Yan sank into his mind.
pearl of the abyss: 190/3200
Immediately after summoning, the progress was already at 190 and was rapidly increasing, rising at a rate of 100 points per minute.
This was the result of the King of the Deep Sea entering the urban area.
Jiang Yan took out his phone and messaged Li Yong and the other person at the door: "Follow Dong Guangjie and protect him at all costs. Don't worry about me."
"Received." After Li Yong replied, the roar of a car engine came from the doorway.
Jiang Yan walked toward the Cloud Ray in front of him, stepped onto its back, and commanded, "Go."
"Ooh!" The Cloud Ray let out a deep cry, its massive body slowly floated up, and white cloud vapor sprayed from its skin.
This vapor enveloped it and Jiang Yan, forming a white cloud mass dozens of meters in size. After rising two thousand meters into the air, the cloud mass flew away in the opposite direction from Liuyang City.
The Cloud Ray's speed increased rapidly, and the scenery below flashed past. Yet, Jiang Yan, inside the cloud mass, couldn't feel any fierce wind, and even standing on the Cloud Ray's back felt as steady as being on the ground.
On a street in the West District of Liuyang City, corpses lay scattered across the ground.
Among these corpses, the King of the Deep Sea was gnawing on a man.
Ooh!
Just then, a siren sounded in the distance. Three Inspector vehicles rushed over, flashing their lights, followed by two black anti-riot vehicles.
These vehicles stopped at the street entrance. Zeng Jianbai looked at the King of the Deep Sea, who was standing amidst the broken corpses, with disbelief: "Has this world gone mad? How can there be so many Monsters? Immediately inform headquarters that we have arrived."
"Yes!" An Inspector beside him immediately took out his phone to notify headquarters.
First, they saw several Monsters fighting the Xuanjian Division on surveillance, and now there was an even bigger one wantonly killing and eating people.
The Anti-riot Squad behind him quickly got out of their vehicles, aiming their rifles at the King of the Deep Sea.
Originally, he had received intelligence that a Monster killing incident had occurred here. He thought it was one of the Monsters that had fought the Xuanjian Division earlier, so he hurried over with his team—he had no choice unless he wanted to quit his job.
The King of the Deep Sea showed a look of mockery, turning to look at them: "A mere group of ordinary people dares to see me and not run away."
The King of the Deep Sea's footsteps made heavy thuds on the ground as it walked toward Zeng Jianbai and the others at the intersection. Its pace was neither fast nor slow, and a hideous smile appeared on its face: "Hehehe!"
Seeing this, Zeng Jianbai's expression slightly changed. He pulled out a small pistol and roared, "Shoot! Shoot! Don't let it get close."
Bang bang bang!
The surrounding Inspectors, armed with pistols, and the Anti-riot Squad, armed with rifles, fired directly at the King of the Deep Sea.
The firepower of over twenty people formed a continuous rain of bullets, shooting toward the King of the Deep Sea.
Bang bang bang!
The dense stream of bullets exploded in a series of sparks upon hitting the King of the Deep Sea's scales, failing to leave even a scratch.
Clang clang clang!
The bullet heads deformed immediately upon impact with the King of the Deep Sea and fell to the ground.
"Are you trying to tickle me?" The King of the Deep Sea had already walked dozens of meters away from Zeng Jianbai and the others, a look of contempt on its face.
Click! Click!
Zeng Jianbai, his face pale, pulled the trigger of his empty pistol. Seeing the Monster across from him completely unharmed, he already wanted to retreat. The Anti-riot Squad's firepower behind him also began to weaken.
"You're done shooting. Now it's my turn." The King of the Deep Sea tilted its head, smiling twistedly as it looked at the people across from it.
A bad feeling arose in Zeng Jianbai's heart. He saw the Monster across the street, thirty meters away, raise one foot and kick down hard onto the concrete pavement.
Bang! With that kick, the concrete pavement in front of the King of the Deep Sea exploded, and a large amount of rubble, carried by immense force, flew toward Zeng Jianbai and the others at the intersection.
Whoosh whoosh whoosh!
Seeing the whistling rubble approach, Zeng Jianbai instinctively ducked and hid beneath the hood of the Inspector vehicle.
Bang bang bang!
A series of dense impacts sounded, and the Inspector vehicles shook violently. Those who reacted slowly were instantly smashed by the rubble and died on the spot.
Splat! Splat!
"Ahhh!" Screams came from behind him. He turned his head and saw an Inspector one meter away whose head had been shattered by rubble, white brain matter splashing directly onto his face.
In just one move, most of the twenty-plus Inspectors and Anti-riot Squad members lay raggedly on the ground. Only Zeng Jianbai, who reacted quickly and hid behind the vehicle, managed to escape death.
"Hoo, hoo, hoo!" Zeng Jianbai looked at the corpses covering the ground. Some, having been standing in front of the car, were shattered by the rubble and plastered onto the vehicle; human tissue was everywhere. He breathed rapidly, trembling as he wiped the brain matter from his face.
The miserable deaths of his subordinates fiercely stimulated his nerves.
Thump thump thump!
A series of heavy footsteps approached him.
'I'm going to die! I'm going to die! Run now!' Zeng Jianbai completely lost his composure. The heavy footsteps behind him felt like a giant stone pressing down on his heart, making it impossible to breathe.
He tried hard to stand up, but his legs were weak and trembling. Zeng Jianbai was so anxious that tears nearly streamed down his face. He pounded his thighs with his fists and roared, "Dead legs, move! Move for me, ahhh!!!"
Under his efforts, his legs seemed to respond, taking trembling, difficult steps forward.
Behind him, the King of the Deep Sea watched the scene, laughing wildly, its blue tongue sticking out: "Hahaha! Hahahaha! Humans, live under my fear!"
It deliberately slowed its pace, following Zeng Jianbai, who walked forward step by step, trembling, tears on his face.
"Someone save me, someone save me." At this moment, he was utterly despairing, roaring as he looked at the deserted streets around him, the heavy footsteps constantly following him.
In the tall buildings lining the distant street, many people watched the scene below with terrified expressions.
Watching the man in the blue Inspector uniform being chased by the Monster, some women even cried tears of distress.
Others tried to record video to post online but found they had no network connection; it was as if the entire network of Liuyang City had been isolated.
Meanwhile, aboard the Group Six helicopter heading toward Liuyang City.
Fang Wenyu looked at the two laptops in front of him. One displayed real-time surveillance footage from Liuyang City, specifically a monitoring feed from an intersection.
The figure of a Monster was shown chasing an Inspector on the screen.
The other laptop showed a video call. A serious-faced elderly man in a Zhongshan suit spoke: "Wenyu, this Monster that suddenly appeared in Liuyang City has caused massive civilian casualties. The Anti-riot Squad deployed was annihilated without even stopping it for a few minutes."
"Elder Meng, I'm on my way. However, I suspect this Monster is also the work of the suddenly emerging Monster Association, and the incident in Wenqin City last time might be as well." Fang Wenyu pondered this as he stated his conjecture to the Governor of Lingzhou Prefecture standing before him.
He currently possessed general information about the Monster Association, which Tang Ling had investigated and uploaded to the Xuanjian Division internal network.
Meng Zhiyao's tone was serious when he heard this: "If that is the case, then the Monster Association is much deeper than it appears.
Based on the analysis from my think tank, the Monster that appeared in Liuyang City has strength equivalent to at least a Fourth-level Awakener, with an unknown upper limit. Furthermore, the three Monsters that previously fought Group Eight, Team Three, all reached Level Three in strength."