"The upper limit of the Heavenly Eye count is one hundred thousand, and it has already exploded."
Yang Jian's words hit Magic Formation. Zhao Gongming, who was at the bow of the ship, turned back and glanced in the direction of the command platform. The black pupils in the whites of his yellow eyes bulged out half a minute.
More than 100,000.
The wave of Abyssal Beast had more than seventy heads at its peak, and he killed one head with Sea of Bitterness and scared away the rest.
More than 100,000.
Tongtian suppressed the propulsion speed of Formation Ship to the minimum at the position of Main Battle Core.
"Yang Jian, what about your body shape?"
"Smaller than Abyssal Beast, the single body is about between a hundred and three hundred miles away, and the shell..." Yang Jian's Heavenly Eye turned an angle, "The shell is not a crystal, it is a scale, a layered structure, similar to fish scales but much higher density."
The voice of Kelān came out of Magic Formation.
"That's Tide-Devouring Insect."
Zhao Gongming's hand pressed back to the box mouth.
"What bug?"
"Tide-Devouring Insect, Boundary Sea Origin are parasitic species that live in groups and live on the tide of Origin that eats Boundary Sea. They have very low intelligence and rely on instinct to act, but once their numbers gather to a certain scale, they will form a tide of insects."
"How's the bug wave?"
"The insect tide passes through, and nothing remains."
Kelān's tone was similar to that of a weather report. Nezha was listening on the right wing, and Fire-Tipped Spear's rifle tassel was ruffled by him.
"Thief Race Have you ever encountered an insect wave?"
"I encountered it once, and the record in the channel log was only half a sentence."
"Which half sentence?"
"Total destruction, no survivors."
Nezha curled his lips and looked towards the podium.
Gu Changqing did not stand up, but sat there with his right hand on the armrest and his left hand on Xiaotian Dog's head.
Xiaotian Dog's state is completely different from when he met Road Watchers just now.
It didn't whimper or be afraid.
It's drooling.
A transparent strand of saliva was pulled from the corner of his mouth and dripped on the deck of the command podium with a splat.
Nezha looked down at the drop of saliva, then looked up at Xiaotian Dog's expression.
The dog's nose is sniffing hard in the direction of the over 100,000 biological signals ahead, its ears are erect, its tail is flicking, its mouth is opening and closing, and its tongue is sticking out from between the teeth and then retracting.
Nezha knows this expression.
Last time at Heavenly Net Star Domain's supply station, a rack of Spirit Beast ribs was grilled in the kitchen, and Xiaotian Dog looked like this lying at the door of the kitchen.
"Master, your dog... is he hungry?"
Gu Changqing looked down at Xiaotian Dog.
Xiaotian Dog raised his head and snarled at him. It was not a fierce squeal, but a greedy one. His tail swung so hard that the tea bowl on the podium was tilted.
"Yang Jian."
"Here."
"How high level of attack can Tide-Devouring Insect's scale armor withstand?"
Yang Jian's Heavenly Eye scanned it again.
"The hardness of a single scale armor is not very high. Quasi-Immortal Emperor can break it open with a full blow, but when they are stacked together, the scales will resonate and form a composite defense layer. The hardness in the resonance state... I can't estimate."
"How many heads are needed to achieve resonance?"
"Visual inspection requires at least a thousand heads to be triggered."
Gu Changqing's fingers scratched Xiaotian Dog's head twice, reaching the base of the ears.
Xiaotian Dog was so happy that he narrowed his eyes, but his mouth was still drooling in front of him.
"Tongtian, Formation Ship There is an opening in the outer wall."
Tongtian was stunned for a moment at Main Battle Core.
"Open? How old?"
"Big enough for a dog to go outside."
Nezha's Wind-Fire Wheels almost went short.
"Master, do you want to let the dog out?"
Gu Changqing ignored him and patted Xiaotian Dog on the head.
"Go ahead and don't eat too much."
Xiaotian Dog's four legs kicked off the deck, and his whole body bounced up, running out from the command platform at such a speed that Nezha could only see a black shadow.
Tongtian made a three-foot-wide opening in the outer wall of Formation Ship, and the wall of Sea of Bitterness also made a gap at the same time.
The black shadow got out of the gap and plunged into the Boundary Sea's Chaos.
Nezha lay on the side of Formation Ship and looked out.
Nothing could be seen clearly in Chaos, the black shadow disappeared and was swallowed up in the first breath, and even the direction could not be discerned.
"Yang Jian, can you track it?"
Yang Jian's Heavenly Eye is locked on the disappearing black shadow.
"Traced, speed..." His voice broke again.
"What happened to the speed?"
"It's accelerating, and my Heavenly Eye can't keep up with its acceleration curve."
Zhao Gongming turned around at the bow of the ship, and the wrinkles on his face that had not changed in nine thousand years revealed confusion that A Trace had never seen before.
"A dog?"
No one responded to his words, everyone's attention was drawn away by the picture on the Magic Formation screen.
Although Heavenly Eye of Yang Jian couldn't keep up with the speed, Transformation on the other side of Tide-Devouring Insect Swarm could see clearly.
The insect swarm 80,000 miles ahead began to stir.
It's not an overall commotion, it's starting from the outermost individuals and disappearing one by one.
The way it disappeared was very strange. It wasn't crushed to pieces or torn apart. The entire insect, including its scales and body, shrank in an instant, shrinking to a point, and then the point was gone.
It's like being sucked in by something.
Three heads disappeared in the first breath.
Eleven heads disappeared in the second breath.
Forty-seven heads disappeared in the third breath.
The numbers are still rising.
Zhao Gongming took his hand away from the mouth of the box. He no longer needed to maintain defense, because the disappearing Tide-Devouring Insect outside were not coming in the direction of Formation Ship at all.
They are running.
More than 100,000 Tide-Devouring Insect, each of which is between a hundred and three hundred miles in size, are running away in the Boundary Sea's Chaos.
But can't run away.
Yang Jian's Heavenly Eye finally caught up with the source.
Magic Formation A black mass appeared on the screen.
It's not the black of Sea of Bitterness. The black of Sea of Bitterness is thick and flowing, like ink.
This black mass is so empty that even the light of Chaos cannot penetrate it. It is so empty that when you stare at it, you will feel that your sight is being sucked away.
Black Hole.
A black vortex with an ever-expanding diameter hangs in the chaotic center of the boundary sea. The chaotic material on the edge is torn into threads and rolled in. The scales of the woodworm are no different from pieces of paper in front of the suction of the vortex.
In the center of the whirlpool squatted a dog.
Xiaotian Dog's body shape has changed.
It was not the size of Ruined Temple squatting at the foot of the chair in the yard, but it had grown to the size of a mountain, with four legs stepping on the edge of the black whirlpool, and a layer of black air that was deeper than Boundary Sea Chaos.
Its mouth is open.
The mouth was opened in such a wide arc that the head almost split in half. Deep in the throat was an even darker blackness, so black that the black vortex outside seemed like its appetizer.
Tide-Devouring Insect was sucked into that mouth one after another.
The hundred-mile-long body of the insect was pulled into a noodle shape under the suction force. The scales were peeled off piece by piece, and the flesh was twisted and compressed, turning into a light-like filament that sank deep into the dog's mouth.
There is no sound of chewing, no digestion process.
If you swallow it, you swallow it, cleanly, like throwing a stone into a bottomless pit.
Nezha was lying on the side of the ship looking at the screen of Magic Formation. The fruit core in his mouth fell out at some point, and there was still half a drop of juice hanging on his chin.
"When did this dog become so edible?"
Gu Changqing is sitting on the podium, tapping his fingers on the armrest, the rhythm is very even, as if he is beating time.
"Black Emperor Scripture is the third level, swallowing Dharma Form. After successful cultivation, it can evolve a miniature swallowing Black Hole in the body. Theoretically, there is no upper limit on the capacity."
Nezha's neck turned around.
"No upper limit?"
"How much it can eat depends on how big its Cultivation can support Dharma Form. It has nothing to do with the stomach."
Zhao Gongming listened to this at the bow of the ship, with his hands behind his back, staring at the growing black vortex on the screen of Magic Formation.
"Who taught this dog Black Emperor Scripture?"
"I realized it myself."
Zhao Gongming's back molars began to grind again.
Yang Jian's Heavenly Eye are still counting, but the count is not how much Tide-Devouring Insect is left, but how much Xiaotian Dog has eaten.
"Three thousand heads, five thousand heads, eight thousand heads..."
Every time the number jumps, Tongtian's expression on Main Battle Core becomes stiffer.
The original body of Kong Xuan was squatting in the middle of the hull, and Five-Colored Divine Light was retracted, its colorful tail feathers drooping, and a pair of bird's eyes staring at the picture on the screen.
It has lived for countless thousands of years and has seen countless strange beasts. This is the first time it has seen a dog eating a buffet in the Boundary Sea.
Three quarters of an hour.
In a total of three quarters of an hour, the Tide-Devouring Insect signal within the Heavenly Eye scanning range of Yang Jian dropped from more than 100,000 to less than 1,000. The remaining signal has escaped the detection limit of Heavenly Eye.
The black vortex is shrinking.
Xiaotian Dog's body size is also shrinking, retracting from the size of a mountain, and gradually returning to its original appearance. Four legs are kicking on the void of Chaos, his mouth is closed, and his tongue licks his lips.
Hiccups.
The sound of belching passed through the wall of the Sea of Bitterness pipe and entered the Formation Ship. It was a muffled sound with an indescribable fishy smell.
Tongtian's nose wrinkled.
Xiaotian Dog crawled back from the gap in the pipe wall, ran all the way on the deck with four legs, ran to the command platform, and lay down at the feet of Gu Changqing, with his belly pressed against the deck, making a circle.
Its tail swept lazily twice, its eyelids sank, and it was ready to sleep.
Nezha came over and squatted next to it, and poked its belly with Fire-Tipped Spear's gun barrel.
It was so hard, like being poked on an iron plate, that the gun barrel bounced back and almost hit me in the face.
"One hundred thousand worms can fit into such a small belly, how can it not hold it?"
Gu Changqing reached out and pushed Nezha's gun barrel away.
"Don't poke it, let it digest."
"How long does it take to digest one hundred thousand Boundary Sea giant worms?"
"A stick of incense."
Nezha retracted the barrel of the gun, looked at Xiaotian Dog lying on the ground and snored, and squeezed out a sentence.
"Master, I also want to be reincarnated as your dog in my next life."
"Not accepted."
Zhao Gongming let out a roar from the bow of the ship. It was a laugh, but also like a sigh.
"Tongtian, keep walking."
The Sea of Bitterness channel speeded up again, and the Formation Ship propulsion speed returned to normal levels.
After sailing for two quarters of an hour, everything was calm.
Yang Jian and Heavenly Eye maintain the maximum range of scanning, and the signal source in front is clear and refreshing.
Then I felt unhappy.
"Thirty thousand miles ahead, single signal."
Zhao Gongming just took his hand away from the box mouth and pressed it back again.
"Tide-Devouring Insect again?"
"No." Yang Jian's voice changed its tone, "Single body, only one, size..."
He stopped.
"How big is your body size?" Tongtian asked.
"Four thousand miles in diameter."
Great Hall Communication Array Everyone's breathing stopped for a moment.
Four thousand miles.
Something four thousand miles away is blocking the front.
Kelān's voice came from the cubicle, and this time even the dull weather forecast could not be maintained.
"That's Insect King."