Sky II
Lu Sheng had never done anything so foolish. Some might have worried about traps or the like, but he had long since thought through such trifles.
While still halfway there, his hands flashed through seals like lightning. At the same time, more than a dozen thin streams of air swirling around him rapidly wove together behind him, forming a smaller gray-white humanoid outline.
"Got it!!" Lu Sheng lunged forward and pressed both hands firmly against the surface of the enormous ball of flesh.
Puff!!
A mass of powerful gray-white airflow, accompanied by an immense amount of Gula Force, swiftly enveloped the entire flesh ball.
"Rise!!" Lu Sheng roared low, just about to exert his strength.
Bang!!
In an instant, the entire flesh ball suddenly swelled, then trembled once before exploding with a bang like an ordinary balloon.
The flesh ball, over two meters in diameter, abruptly burst apart right before Lu Sheng without the slightest warning. There was nothing inside but air.
"..." Lu Sheng stood there blankly, staring at the emptiness before him.
Beep!!
Beep!!! At the same time, a piercing, shrill alarm began echoing throughout the entire base.
"I..." Lu Sheng was somewhat dumbfounded.
He had already been dizzy and disoriented, nearly at the limit of what his body could endure. Success had been right before his eyes, yet this happened at the very last moment.
Suddenly, a red streak surged rapidly out of the ground, forming a blurry humanoid figure before Lu Sheng.
"Mm, no matter who you are, by the time you see this message, I will already have taken the Heart Core. Originally, if you hadn't punctured the illusion, you might have been able to rely on the remaining energy to keep the base running for a while longer.
"But unfortunately..." The red