Those who had crawled out of the "cocoons" were clearly employees of the Black Dot Group who had originally worked on this space station—the "mutinous" defense troops and the researchers who had gone mad. Amid the writhing, flowing viscous shadows, one could still vaguely make out their original human silhouettes, clothing, and equipment. In some of the shadows' head regions, blurry human faces had even emerged.
However, these "people's" features did not make them look any more friendly or approachable. Instead, they only made them seem even more horrifying and bizarre.
A tall figure crawled out of the nearest "cocoon." It looked like the commander of the laboratory's security forces from earlier. He seemed to still be faithfully carrying out his mission of protecting the laboratory, directing the other shadows to attack Yu Sheng and his group. Under his command, the nearby Black Dot soldiers raised their guns, already warped and covered by shadows, and without hesitation pulled the triggers at their former master—Luo.
Their weapons looked as though they had been completely corroded by the shadows, mutating into things that were no longer guns. Yet when the triggers were pulled, those twisted, misshapen weapons actually still fired bullets and rays. Beams glowing with an eerie crimson light tore through the air, several of them barely skimming past Luo's body and making her hair stand on end.
But in the next second, she saw a long, silvery-white tail block her path. The tail held back the deadly barrage, and the protective spiritual energy around it flickered violently several times before suddenly erupting into a blazing thrust flame. It roared into the midst of the mutated "security forces," triggering a violent explosion.
She looked up again and saw several more fox tails flying through the air, pouring a barrage toward the