thefictionvixens Chapter 79 On the Eve of Civil War
Chapter 79 On the Eve of Civil War
Caul's heart skipped a beat; Reonics' instincts told him of an extreme danger. He immediately reached out and pulled the little girl away from the flowers, covering her mouth and nose with his hand.
"Hey! Wake up, little girl!" Caul gently patted the girl's cheek.
After a while, the emptiness in the girl's eyes gradually faded. She looked at Caul blankly, then suddenly burst into tears: "What are you doing! You shattered my dream! I just saw the happiest thing in the world in my dream! I want that flower! I want to smell that fragrance!"
The girl struggled violently; her almost pathological craving for pollen sent chills down Kaul's spine.
He looked up and glanced around.
Along this bustling street, these yellow flowers have sporadically appeared in corners, cracks in stone slabs, and even in flowerpots on rooftops, without anyone noticing.
Some passersby, after inadvertently inhaling the pollen, stopped in their tracks, their faces displaying the same eerie smiles as the little girl. Some even collapsed on the street, unable to extricate themselves from some kind of illusory, blissful dream.
"What the hell is this thing? A neurotoxin plant?" Kaul stood up and stomped the yellow flower in front of him to pieces.
But as his foot crushed the petals, a denser cloud of yellow powder rose into the air. Caul's Reiblood gene reacted instantly, and the dark golden energy within him automatically surfaced, preventing the powder from entering his respiratory tract.
Using the Eye of Ultra, Kaur probed downwards along the crushed plant roots.
This investigation made Kaul gasp in shock.
This seemingly delicate flower has an incredibly robust root system! Moreover, these roots do not linger in the shallow soil layer, but penetrate directly into the earth's crust with an extremely terrifying penetrating force, spreading and intertwining towards the deepest part of the earth!
"This is definitely not an ordinary Earth plant... its root system is practically rooted directly in the very source of life on Earth, drawing nourishment from it!"
Kaul's mind flashed back to his past life when he watched Ultraman Tiga.
Yellow flowers...draw one into a blissful dream...foreshadow the demise of civilization...human choices are beyond our control...
"Could it be..." Kaul's face turned deathly pale instantly, and a terrifying name buried deep in his memory was about to be revealed.
But just then, a clap of thunder suddenly sounded in the sky.
Kaul looked up.
The sky, which had been dyed red by the setting sun, was now being rapidly swallowed up by a thick layer of black clouds. At the highest point of those clouds, the Sky Sanctuary, which had always emitted a soft white light, was now flashing with extremely ominous purplish-black lightning!
"Those lunatics, Karfa and his gang, are about to make their move!"
The piercing air raid siren instantly resounded throughout the entire ancient city.
"Damn it!" Caul gritted his teeth.
Although the yellow flower made him feel extremely uneasy and eerie, at this moment, he had no extra time to delve into its origin and danger.
Above their heads hung hundreds of corrupted giants, ready to unleash a devastating rain of light at any moment! Those were real killing machines, ready to annihilate the city!
In Kaul's strategic priorities, the impending civil war among the Giants of Light is currently the only and most deadly physical threat. As for the hallucinogenic flower, Kaul can only tentatively classify it as some kind of mutated magical plant spawned by the leakage of dark energy from R'lyeh.
"Once we've dealt with those bastards in the sky, we'll completely eradicate these weeds!"
Kaul kicked a newly sprouted flower bud away, turned around and became a blur as he sprinted toward the monster infrastructure camp outside the city.
He didn't realize that it was this prioritization that caused him to miss the last chance to nip the destruction of the ancient civilization in the bud.
Because this demonic flower, known as "Chijera," doesn't require physical destruction. What it truly destroys is humanity's will to live!
When the Chijera blooms across the world and humanity becomes lost in the illusion and gives up resistance, even if the Giants of Light win the civil war, they will lose the object of their protection and ultimately be swallowed by darkness in despair.
But this is a terrible disaster that only occurs when the Qijiela fully blooms.
However, the panic and pressure of the Titans' civil war have not yet reached their peak, and humanity's despair has not yet nurtured its full eruption. It is still waiting, waiting for the moment when blood and war will completely crush the human spirit.
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Outside the city, at the Monster Infrastructure Department camp.
When Kaul arrived, Darram and Hitler, who had received a message from Tiga, had already stationed themselves there with an elite security force.
"Kaul! You've finally arrived!" Darram, shirtless, his muscles bulging with veins from the surge of battle intent, gripped a boulder in his hand, his eyes fixed on the dark, cloud-covered sky above. "Those beasts, Karfa, have truly fallen! The guard's detectors show that the energy fluctuations of the Sky Sanctuary have completely transformed into darkness!"
Hitler's expression was also grave, and the Hitler's Fork on his arm extended a sharp purple blade of light: "These self-righteous false gods actually dare to attack the ground! Kaul, how's your monster defense line coming along?"
"All set." Caul took a deep breath, forcibly suppressing the unease in his mind about the yellow flowers. He took off his foreman's hat and tossed it aside, then drew the Reonics Combat Device from his waist.
"Little Rock!" Kaul shouted angrily.
"roar!!!"
With a deafening roar, the ancient monster Xiao Yan, sixty meters tall and possessing the wings of Melba, burst out from a huge mine deep within the camp and crashed heavily in front of Kaul.
Besides Xiao Yan, around the camp, more than a dozen ancient wild monsters that Kaul had subdued and tamed in the past few months, including Gakuma, Telestone, and even two huge land-type Melba, all roared deafeningly at Kaul's command.
This is a heavily armored legion composed entirely of monsters.
For the past few months, they have been the hardest workers in building the city, but at this moment, under the absolute control of the Reonics, they will transform into the most terrifying weapons of war.
"Darram, Hitler," Kaul said, standing beside the small rock. "The Puritans in Kalfa probably number several hundred. If they launch an attack, the first wave will definitely be a large-scale orbital beam bombardment using their altitude advantage."
Kaul pointed his combat device at the sky: "Little Rock possesses Melba's extreme speed and Golza's ultrasonic beam. It will lead all the flying monsters to form the first line of air defense, disrupting their barrage!"
"Darram, you lead all the ground monsters and are responsible for protecting the city's energy shield generator! They absolutely cannot be allowed to destroy the shield, or the civilians will suffer heavy casualties!"
"Hitler, you're the fastest! I don't need you to participate in direct combat. I want you to lead guerrilla squads, specifically hunting down those corrupt giants who try to land on the ground to wreak havoc! Kill them one by one, show no mercy!"