Li Yao's Predicament

The Black Spire transformed into a huge, bloated mass of flesh. Gales sharper than blades tore through it, chopping apart organ after organ on that multicolored, black, swollen heap.

Exploding lightning fell from the sky,

Blasting one bloody crater after another into the ground.

Amid this terrifying calamitous weather, the enormous flesh mass Morgan called the "Mother of Life" seemed like a drowning person trapped in the deep sea, as though it could not escape its current predicament no matter what it did. Yet in reality... the seemingly magnificent and explosive weather disaster had not caused the Mother of Life any substantial harm.

She was merely trying to turn the situation around.

Mouth after mouth grew from the surface of her pitch-black, soft-chitin-like shell. Those mouths were incomparably greedy, sucking in the gales and devouring the lightning.

Even more mouths let out silent screams toward the heavens, emitting low-frequency infrasonic waves beyond the range of human hearing.

Very soon,

The surviving modified citizens of the American Federation received the signal. They abandoned their hiding places and calmly, fearlessly walked into the raging wind disaster.

The savage gales carried countless tiny fragments as they swept across their bodies,

Taking away strips of flesh.

Yet they seemed incapable of feeling pain, merely staggering onward through the gale with unwavering determination.

Once they reached their designated positions, they spread their arms. Blazing white light burst from their eyes, ears, mouths, and noses, while the flesh on their bodies disintegrated as though it had developed a will of its own, as if their genes had collapsed.

But the disintegrating flesh did not drift away with the wind. It twisted through the gale, probing like snail tentacles. In the end, the flesh shed by each modified human tangled together like strips of cloth, forming a