SWDnovel Chapter 641 Isn't this cunning?
Chapter 641 Isn't this cunning?
Chapter 641 Isn't this cunning?
Just as the gigantic maw formed from a monster of pure filth and negative energy was about to devour the falling stuttering girl.
Chang Lei's figure was like a ghost tearing through the night. His deceptive cloak rippled silently as he moved at high speed. He precisely cut into the deadly gap between the girl and the monster. With a wave of his arm, the wide deceptive cloak, like a closing curtain of night, instantly enveloped the small, trembling figure.
The girl felt an irresistible, gentle force pull her violently, a desperate scream of impending death stuck in her throat, and her vision was suddenly enveloped in deep darkness. Time seemed to be compressed and stretched, and a strange sense of weightlessness came over her. She did not feel the pain of being torn apart by sharp teeth, but rather as if she had been thrown into a short, silent bubble that isolated her from all noise and malice.
The cloak of deception is put on and taken off in an instant.
The stuttering girl stumbled to Chang Lei's side, several meters away from where she had been standing.
She was still in shock, her body trembling violently, her pale face devoid of color, and her large eyes, half-hidden by the shadow of her hood, were unfocused and unfocused with extreme fear as she stared blankly and bewilderedly at the strange man who had suddenly appeared beside her and pulled her back from the brink of death.
Chang Lei's blood-red pupils did not fall on the girl's terrified face at all.
His gaze was drawn to her like a magnet, instantly fixing on her chest.
The tattered cloak had opened slightly during the tug-of-war, revealing equally tattered clothing underneath. And in the very center of her thin chest, a square box, roughly the size of a basketball, completely black and without any reflection, was firmly bound and fixed there by several tight straps, seemingly woven from some kind of biological fiber.
The box was made of an unknown material, neither gold nor stone, with no patterns or joints on its surface, as smooth as the deepest glass. But the moment Chang Lei's gaze locked onto it, he keenly sensed and clearly captured an extremely faint yet inhumanly rhythmic pulse emanating from the core of the box.
This pulse wasn't a heartbeat; it was more like the regular oscillation of some kind of... precise energy core. What was even stranger was that this pulse had a feeling that he was very familiar with.
"Hey! This box of yours..." Chang Lei blurted out in surprise, his voice filled with unprecedented seriousness and curiosity.
However, he only uttered half a sentence!
"roar--!!!"
The monster, having missed its target, instantly transformed from extreme greed into a furious rage at being toyed with. Its body, composed of pure negative energy, suddenly swelled and twisted, emitting a silent yet soul-piercing shriek, and directly devoured several white doves around it.
In his attempt to rescue the girl, Chang Lei's instantaneous physical contact and energy fluctuations completely exposed his existence. At this moment, in the monster's perception driven by pure malice, Chang Lei was no longer nothingness, but an intruder radiating powerful energy that had to be torn apart.
A dark purple energy cone, condensed to its extreme and possessing both soul-corroding and spatial-distorting properties, shot out from the monster's head like a venomous dragon emerging from its lair, ignoring the physical distance and aiming straight for Chang Lei's face.
Its speed was incredible, its angle unpredictable, and it carried an inescapable threat.
"Trouble..." Chang Lei was forced to stop his questioning. A fierce light flashed in his blood-red eyes, and the deception cloak instantly contracted and condensed in front of him. The dark red power of greed directly transformed into a giant playing card in front of him.
laugh-!!
The dark purple spike pierced the playing card, and the two extremely filthy and powerful energies collided and annihilated violently, emitting a piercing melting sound. The huge impact made Chang Lei's burly body sway slightly, and the writhing flesh and tissue under his feet was trampled and splattered with juice.
It was this brief interval of less than a second during which the attack halted our defense.
The stuttering girl, who had just been rescued by Chang Lei and was still in shock with a dazed look in her eyes, suddenly had a fleeting moment of clarity and determination that was completely different from before.
She didn't even glance at Chang Lei, nor at the terrifying monster. Her pale, slender hands, covered with tiny wounds and stains, suddenly gripped the black box bound to her chest with an almost instinctive agility that was completely different from her previous clumsy dodging.
Immediately, like a startled rabbit, she pushed off the slippery ground and, using the shockwave from the collision of Chang Lei's energy with the monster, launched herself into the air with an agility and speed that almost defied the laws of physics. Her cloak fluttered in the wind, and without looking back, she fled desperately towards a more secluded area, churning with chaotic spatial currents, in the exact opposite direction of the battlefield.
The speed was astonishing, as if the weakness and fear he had just displayed were merely a facade.
"Wait!" Chang Lei was both surprised and anxious. Just as he was about to give chase, the enraged monster, like a leech, gathered an even more powerful attack and roared as it pounced.
Its pure negative energy form blended perfectly into this distorted environment, and its attack trajectory was unpredictable. In an instant, it entangled Chang Lei tightly, and he could only watch helplessly as the thin figure holding the mysterious black box disappeared into the depths of the churning purple-black spacetime turbulence in the blink of an eye.
"Tang Zijun! The box! She ran away with a strange box!" Chang Lei shouted anxiously towards Tang Zijun, wielding dark red energy as if it were a burning giant blade, temporarily splitting the attacking monster. His voice sounded unusually urgent amidst the chaotic energy explosions and monster roars.
Tang Zijun had just broken free from those entangled energy beams when she heard the sound and turned her head sharply.
He only saw the last glimpse of the stuttering girl's cloak disappearing into the turbulent currents, and the scene of Chang Lei being held back by that troublesome pure energy monster. Immediately afterward, his eyes sharpened instantly.
Faced with several distorted energy beams attacking from different time and space angles, he not only did not dodge, but instead advanced instead of retreating.
He stomped his foot hard on the writhing ground, and the energy of spacetime erupted from beneath his feet like raging vines, forcibly creating a temporary haven and annihilating all the incoming energy beams.
Using this recoil, Tang Zijun's figure was like a dark blue lightning bolt tearing through space, ignoring the twisted creations that were frantically tearing and the constantly flashing afterimages of time and space along the way, and instantly rushed to the area where Chang Lei was fighting the painful monster.
"Get out of the way!" Tang Zijun's low shout was concise and powerful.
Chang Lei almost instinctively dodged to the side, and in that instant, Tang Zijun pointed her fingers like a sword, and a spacetime sword aura condensed to its extreme slashed down from the sky.
The sword light did not strike the hound's physical form, but rather precisely struck the most viscous and malicious negative energy node at its core.
scoff!
Like a scalding blade cutting into solidified grease, a piercing sound of annihilation rang out. The monster that was clinging to Chang Lei let out a venomous shriek. Its massive body of negative energy collapsed and dissipated violently like a punctured balloon, eventually turning into a wisp of foul blue smoke, which was completely torn apart by the chaotic energy vortex.
Chang Lei had just caught his breath and hadn't even had a chance to complain about Tang Zijun's rough support when he saw Tang Zijun's movements without the slightest pause. His left hand swiftly reached into a strangely shaped card box on his waist, and his fingers had already pinched a blue card that shimmered with a cold metallic luster.
The card's surface is covered with intricate and mysterious silver patterns, while the center features an abstract, shattering hourglass design.
Buzz!
The card was precisely inserted into a slot in the center of his belt that shimmered with a ghostly blue light. In an instant, a dazzling, pure blue light, like a supernova explosion, burst forth from the belt. The light was not blinding, but it carried a peculiar spatial-temporal fluctuation.
At the center of the light, two humanoid silhouettes outlined by pure blue light instantly coalesced, and the silhouettes quickly became clear and solid, revealing themselves to be another Tang Zijun and another Chang Lei.
They seemed to have stepped out of a shattered mirror of time; their appearance, equipment, and the energy fluctuations emanating from them were exactly the same as the original!
The moment the two "clones" appeared, without the slightest hesitation, the new Tang Zijun stepped forward, and the energy barrier of spacetime instantly unfolded, precisely blocking several corrosive beams of light that attacked from the side. The new Chang Lei let out a familiar low growl, his body disappearing from his original spot in the blink of an eye, reappearing atop the head of a giant monster nearby, composed of half a starship engine and tentacles. "This..." Chang Lei stared at the two clones, which resembled his own mirror images but possessed substantial energy, his bloodshot eyes flashing with astonishment. He subconsciously looked at Tang Zijun. "What kind of technique is this? Energy projection or..."
"The illusory timeline's afterimage materializes." Tang Zijun's voice was quick and clear as she vigilantly scanned the battlefield, her gaze never leaving the direction where the stuttering girl had disappeared. "Using the spacetime power contained within the cards, we briefly anchor an illusory timeline from the ocean of possibilities that perfectly matches our current state," and then briefly project and solidify it into reality. These illusory timelines possess all our current combat power and characteristics, but their existence is finite; they are purely combat tools."
"Tsk, such a convenient thug, and you've been holding back until now to use him?"
Watching the two clones, like tireless, precise, and efficient fighting machines, quickly take over their original positions, firmly blocking the attacks from the swarming monsters and time-space afterimages, and even faintly forming a solid defensive line, Chang Lei's lips twitched, and he let out a sigh.
Tang Zijun glanced at him.
"Do you think it's easy to do this in such a chaotic time and space? They can't hold out for long. We need to catch up now."
Before she finished speaking, Tang Zijun's true form had already transformed into a stream of dark blue light, rushing headlong into the chaotic spacetime current that even distorted creations and spacetime afterimages instinctively avoided, a current that represented absolute chaos and annihilation.
Chang Lei looked at Tang Zijun's back, then at himself and Tang Zijun, who were fighting fiercely on the battlefield and maintaining the defensive line.
"Isn't this sinister? Alright, alright, wait for me."
He complained, but his actions didn't slow down at all.
The cloak of deception once again covered his entire body, transforming him into an elusive shadow. He followed closely behind Tang Zijun, plunging headlong into the turbulent, unknown, and dangerous purple-black abyss that devoured everything.
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