RBCT Chapter 503 Hunger
Chapter 503 Hunger
"So the World Tree provided us with shelter?"
"If what you say is true, then what about the other teams right now...?" Fu Xiaojian dared not imagine.
It's easy to guess what kind of changes will occur in Sky City.
"The most urgent task is to verify whether the contract you mentioned has truly been terminated," Fu Xiaojian said with a serious expression.
If the contract has indeed been dissolved, then he will have no choice but to reveal the coordinates of the City of Fire.
As fellow human beings, he would save as many as he could.
"I'll take the Throat of Stars to find the answer. If I confirm it, I'll inform you immediately, and you can notify the entire city to prepare accordingly." Xu Si arrived quickly and left quickly.
Fu Xiaojian glanced at him but didn't try to persuade him. In fact, he would prefer Xu Si to stay in the city.
However, responding haphazardly and responding clearly are completely different.
Xu Si left again.
Star analysis cannot definitively predict which direction will lead to unusual high-level events.
But with the blood-red sun as a mirror, the star mirror gave him a vague feeling that what he wanted was in the East.
Following the direction in which the blood-red sun rose, Xu Si searched all the way.
Xu Si's figure disappeared into the eastern horizon.
Fu Xiaojian stood at the entrance of the city lord's mansion, watching the star-gray light merge into the light of the blood sun, without moving for a long time.
"Old Fu?" Shao Bing's voice came from beside him.
"Notify everyone to attend a meeting at the City Lord's Mansion in one hour."
Fu Xiaojian turned around, his voice calm, but Shao Bing could hear the undercurrent beneath that calm.
"Everyone?"
If he were still in the military, he would never have asked that question.
"Everyone, highest level."
Without further hesitation, Shao Bing turned and quickly left.
Fu Xiaojian walked back to the city lord's mansion, sat down on the hard white jade chair, and looked at the unfinished "Five-Year Plan for the City of Fire" on the table.
He reached out and picked up the paper, looked at it for a while, and then crumpled it into a ball.
The next five years?
If the news Xu Si brought back is true, then they may not even be able to survive the next five months.
He spread out a new sheet of paper, picked up a pen, and wrote a few words: "Emergency Plan".
The brushstrokes are heavy, penetrating the paper.
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Xu Si flew eastward for an hour, maintaining his maximum speed. His Star Vein was fully activated, and his perception range covered an area of dozens of miles.
Occasionally, hills, wastelands, dried-up riverbeds, and collapsed villages flash by.
The blood-red sun shone down from behind, making him look even more like a lonely bird.
His gaze swept over every suspicious trace, but he still couldn't detect any strange aura emanating from the high position.
After flying for a long time without seeing the strange figure at high altitude, Xu Si had no choice but to stop at a high altitude and re-determine the direction.
Wanliuchun floated out of the dark building, her bare feet hovering beside Xu Si.
"Are we going in the right direction?" she asked.
"Do you have a better option?"
"What an oblivious man!" Wan Liuchun and Xu Si had become much more familiar with each other.
"There are too many unforeseen events in this divine selection, you must succeed!" Wan Liuchun suddenly became serious.
"I've never encountered a god prematurely terminating a contract before in the previous selections of gods," Wan Liuchun said with a rare solemnity.
"If that's the case, then this selection of the gods is completely different from the past. The most likely outcome is that the probability of success for this selection is very high."
"How tall?" Xu Si asked.
"At least one deity must be in place!" Wanliuchun said.
"Can a single divine selection give birth to multiple gods?"
"Although there's no precedent for this, we can't rule out the possibility!"
"Perhaps the gods discovered something, which is why the selection of gods has become more difficult."
"Or perhaps it's for a reason we don't know."
……
After flying for about half an hour, Xu Si's star pulse suddenly detected a strange fluctuation.
His star-like pupils suddenly contracted.
He was all too familiar with that kind of fluctuation.
A strange, unique psychic pulse, like the beating of a heart, emanated from the northeast, carrying an unsettling aura.
"Found it." Xu Si's voice was very soft, and he had already turned around.
Wanliuchun didn't speak, but her bare feet lightly stepped in the air, and she floated beside him like a petal blown by the wind.
The distance was closer than Xu Si had expected.
In just over ten breaths, his star-like eyes caught sight of the dark flame on the horizon.
It was a colossal creature over twenty meters long, resembling some kind of stretched and deformed giant wolf. Its entire body was covered in jet-black, cracked skin, with faint dark red light flowing between the cracks, like magma from underground.
It moved slowly across the wasteland, and with each step it took, the ground beneath its feet would sink, crack, and char, leaving behind a trail of smoky footprints.
What Xu Si cared about most was—
It walked very casually.
There is no fixed route, no fixed territory, and not even a fixed direction.
By this point, Xu Si already had the answer in his heart.
"The contract... has really been dissolved." Wanliuchun's voice came from beside him.
Xu Si did not answer, but simply stared at the strange creature wandering in the wasteland.
Within the star's pupils, the psionic structure within that dark, luminous flame was clearly visible.
It was an extremely chaotic and unstable vortex of energy, like a nuclear reactor that could go out of control at any moment.
"Its condition seems a bit off; it looks like it's about to get out of control," Xu Si said.
Wanliuchun floated to his side, her gaze falling on the eerie, wolf-like creature, her eyebrows slightly raised.
"It's not out of control, it's 'hunger'," Wan Liuchun said softly.
"Higher beings no longer need food for energy. After the contract is broken, they will be subjected to special spells by the gods and must maintain their spiritual energy balance by devouring. The more they eat, the hungrier they become; the hungrier they become, the more they eat."
"So the ultimate fate of God's chosen ones is to devour each other!"
"Is this how the gods accelerate the selection of gods?" Xu Si was angry but helpless.
"Probably." Wan Liuchun's lips twitched slightly, as if she was recalling some unpleasant memories.
"Turn all the high-ranking monsters into hungry ghosts, and all the chosen races into prey. Then, sift through the chaos to find the final one."
Xu Si fell silent.
He watched as the giant wolf turned strangely and walked towards a dilapidated town.
The town was deserted, but inevitably a few eerie creatures huddled in corners, trembling.
The giant wolf gave the lower-ranking monsters no chance.
It didn't even open its mouth.
Its pitch-black body undulated slightly, and the dark red light between the cracks suddenly shone brightly for a moment.
Those few low-level, strange energies were as if they were being sucked away, peeling off from the body and turning into a murky stream of light that disappeared into the giant wolf's eerie body.
The entire process of swallowing takes only a few seconds.
Those eerie creatures in the lower positions didn't even have time to scream before they turned into a pile of grayish-white powder and were scattered by the wind.
"This is just the beginning," Wan Liuchun said, her voice carrying a weariness that Xu Si had never heard before.
"Once they are completely freed from their restraints, once their hunger reaches its peak, let alone these, even level five, level six, or even high-level monsters will devour each other."
She was still shaken by the thought of losing Chun, but thankfully, the hunger didn't overwhelm her.
Right now, they might be satisfied with devouring some low-level anomalies, but the further they go...