Test Subject A001-Eye of Madness
Chi An lightly touched the ground with her toes and silently landed in the corner that the patrolling soldiers had just checked.
His dark gray hooded cape swayed gently, yet it didn't reveal the body hidden beneath.
With nimble and agile movements, Chi An easily bypassed the guards and slipped into the shelter.
Shortly after he entered the shelter, the patrolling soldiers left one by one.
It's as if they've completed a task and no longer need to come back.
Inside the underground Shahai Laboratory, the Mechanical Insects quickly circled the area three times but found no records related to the Laboratory.
The biggest surprise I've found here so far is the entrance plaque.
Far away in the city center Lu Qianyu's forehead began to bead with sweat; clearly, he was nearing his limit.
Just as Lu Qianyu was about to grit her teeth and search two more times, the Mechanical Insects guarding the entrance to the passage discovered the intruder.
What surprised Lu Qianyu the most was not this.
The Mechanical Insects only sensed the outsider when he got so close that he almost brushed past it.
Lu Qianyu was certain that if this passage hadn't been rather narrow and was the only way to enter the Shahai Laboratory,
These Mechanical Insects might not even be able to detect his presence.
The Mechanical Insects in the Laboratory quickly hid nearby.
Psychic Energy fluctuations are reduced to a minimum; surveillance and listening modes are activated.
The moment after all the Mechanical Insects had taken cover, a dark figure entered the Laboratory.
He didn't seem to intend to stay long and immediately began throwing things around the Laboratory.
The black cloak was like a bottomless pit; he spun around twice, and the falling objects kept coming.
One of Lu Qianyu's Mechanical Insects happened to be very close to a dropped item.
The compound eyes of the Mechanical Insects began to observe these things.
It's not too big or too small, and it looks somewhat familiar.
Concentrating on controlling the Mechanical Insects for an extended period of time Lu Qianyu's thinking somewhat sluggish.
A moment later, as the shadowy figure scattered the last item, Lu Qianhe remembered what it was.
That thing was clearly a civilian bomb used for blasting mountains and digging pits.
The moment they identified what it was, the Mechanical Insects immediately sprang into action.
It was too late to get out now, so most of the Mechanical Insects' stingers trembled slightly and began to burrow into the ground.
Creating these Mechanical Insects requires a great deal of effort, time, and money.
He really couldn't bear to see this entire batch of Mechanical Insects wiped out.
I left only a few Mechanical Insects, intending to try my luck and see if I could capture the appearance of this dark shadow.
As for hanging on the other person...
Given the fact that the other party has the capability to infiltrate this Laboratory, it's practically unrealistic.
Several Mechanical Insects hidden on the display shelf were now watching the dark figure that was beginning to walk out with predatory eyes.
The moment the dark figure stepped past them, the Mechanical Insects suddenly swarmed out.
The target was the face beneath the hood of the shadowy figure.
The Mechanical Insects moved with exceptional ease, and in the next moment they successfully flew under the hood.
However, this smooth sailing made Lu Qianyu feel extremely uneasy.
The other party seemed to have deliberately stopped next to the display shelf, waiting to be attacked.
Having figured this out, Lu Qianyu disregarded the possibility of being exposed and immediately controlled the Mechanical Insects to run in the opposite direction.
However, it was clear that Chi An had already discovered them and had no intention of letting these little insects go.
A strange energy fluctuation spread out.
This energy swept across the entire Laboratory, Lu Qianyu could sense that all the Mechanical Insects had become frozen in place.
The Mechanical Insects in front of the shadowy figure had no time to get away.
And so, it met the eyes of the figure beneath the hood.
His blood-red eyes were like a stormy sea, or a precipice leading to certain death.
Frenzy, chaos, and unfathomable depths.
This was Lu Qianyu's ambiguous feeling, which she finally observed through the Mechanical Insects.
The next moment, his connection with all the Mechanical Insects was forcibly severed, and bright red tears uncontrollably overflowed from his eyes.
Pain and madness surged into his brain through his vision.
He instinctively clutched his head and curled up, succumbing to a frenzy that engulfed his soul.
Yan Fei, who was dealing with other things nearby, was the first to notice that something was wrong with him.
"Qianyu? What's wrong?"
There was no response.
The impact on her soul was too fierce, triggering Lu Qianyu's body's instinctive self-preservation mode.
He fell into a coma.
On the other side, all the Mechanical Insects fell to the ground as if the power had been cut off, and then remained motionless.
Chi An continued walking outwards, continuously releasing strange and distorted Psychic Energy fluctuations.
The bombs that had misfired scattered everywhere trembled slightly, and the Psychic Energy injected into them began to boil.
Chi An emerged from the underground Laboratory, he was unsurprisingly greeted by the Demon Race army that surrounded the area.
They weren't the kind of garrison troops whose highest rank was only in the upper-middle range of the Profound Realm; they were regular troops with a per capita population of the entire Earth Realm.
The moment he appeared, the Demon Race army immediately began their perfunctory attempts to persuade him to surrender.
"Test Subject A001—Eye of Madness, you are surrounded. Please remove your cloak, raise your hands, and surrender!"
Chi An stood at the door of that familiar Laboratory.
His gaze upon the soldiers showed no fear, anger, or any other emotion typical of normal living beings.
That overwhelming, indescribable "emotion" overwhelmed all his perception of the outside world.
Madness and distortion dominated his eyes.
Chi An raised his hand and lifted the cloak that was covering his body.
Seeing this, the soldiers surrounding him assumed that Chi An was planning to surrender.
After all, surrounded by so many enemies, his mere strength at the Earth Realm Ninth Realm was indeed insufficient to withstand the combined attack.
However, just as the soldiers were secretly pleased, thinking their mission was accomplished...
Their gazes met those of the Chi An.
The blood-red color, like a burning flame, distorted and burned everything around it.
It not only exists under his eyebrows and in the middle of his face, but also covers his outstretched, dark wings.
The bizarre sight instinctively filled the soldiers with astonishment and fear.
But then, the normal emotions that they saw as belonging to ordinary creatures were suddenly dispelled by a powerful force.
Instead, a raging frenzy, like a tsunami, swept through the land.
No one knows who launched the first attack; perhaps it was out of fear, or perhaps it was the influence of those Red-Eyes.
In short, the Demon Race army was suddenly plunged into a chaotic melee.
Every soldier had lost their mind; they attacked any living creature around them with madness.
Regardless of whether the person in front of them is their comrade or not, they all become their targets.
Meanwhile, Chi An had already quietly slipped away amidst the chaos.
From the moment he made eye contact with the Mechanical Insects to the moment he successfully left, it took less than ten seconds.
It was as if he were merely Outsider passing through this madness, rather than the one who instigated it.
However, the melee did not last long.
Just as the Demon Race army was engulfed in a frenzied battle, the bomb left in the Laboratory suddenly exploded.
Boom!
The enormous explosion was deafening, and the towering flames illuminated the dark night sky.
The entire Shahai City was alarmed.
Meanwhile, in a forest somewhere between the south bank of the Kaiyang Continent and Yin City.
Hua Yixuan sped past and plunged into the fog-shrouded valley.
After crossing that distant mountain, it's another ten kilometers or so to reach Yin City.
Nothing unusual happened along the way, which put Hua Yixuan in a good mood.
However, what he didn't know was that his good mood was about to come to an end.