Chapter 399 Awakening
"Scarlet..."
Just seeing the red color on the Gaia planet, Tian Xian felt a chill on his back.
He finally understood why Chen Ming wanted to completely block all space stations and planets in the Gaia and Siyuan galaxies, leaving no room for him to leave.
It is not to prevent the invasion of Leviathan or something from the outside, but to prevent the spread of scarlet matter that appears on a certain planet and protect everyone's safety.
Nothing would happen to him if he stayed on the space station.
But he chose to leave the space station and step into what is now arguably the most dangerous place in the entire empire.
This is his choice.
Tian Xiang had already seen Gaia with his own eyes at this time, but the anxiety in his heart did not subside. Instead, it became more intense with the rapid expansion of those scarlets.
But at this time, he already knew the reason why he was feeling like this, and how he should do things.
His thoughts remained unchanged, and he controlled the spacecraft to sail towards the gap left by Chaofan's forcible use of Chen Ming's spiritual energy.
The distance between the orbit of the planet and the planet itself is not that far.
The shuttle boat passed through the gap in the sky in a blink of an eye and entered the sky of the planet Gaia.
Tian Xiang could only see a corner of the Gaia planet from outside the sky, and he had already seen the crazily expanding scarlet.
And when he passed through the sky, he discovered that nearly one-third of the entire Gaia planet was covered in scarlet.
In contrast to the blue of Gaia, the extremely dazzling disease-like scarlet blood that can be observed with the naked eye is expanding crazily, making it impossible for Tian Xuan's eyes to stay there for a long time.
And just as the shuttle boat passed through the canopy, the originally opened passage was also closed.
The retreat was completely cut off.
There is no Yuhui who is close enough to Chen Ming and has mastered part of Chen Ming's psychic power, who can help Tian Xuan open the seal of the metal sky curtain.
If Scarlet really devours the entire planet, then he, who is under the same sky as the Gaia planet, will undoubtedly die.
Tian Xiang did not hesitate because of this.
He continued to control the spacecraft to slightly change its course, flying towards the still blue area of Gaia.
After arriving on Gaia, his anxiety was gradually stabilizing.
But the nervousness popped up again.
Although I have heard about the outbreak of dimensional infection several times before, this is the first time I have actually been exposed to a dimensional infection.
It was impossible to say that I wasn't nervous when facing a being that was said to be a creature worse than death just by looking at it.
But he came after all.
His heart was telling him that he had to come.
Because only he can keep Gaia alive in scarlet when Chen Ming is not around.
The spacecraft bypassed the large patch of scarlet and successfully entered the planet's atmosphere.
From the images detected by the spacecraft's sensors, Tian Xiang saw countless twisted flesh and blood piled up into mountains, squirming and spreading towards the normal areas.
Every flesh-and-blood mountain, every infected flesh-and-blood animal, and every flesh-and-blood plant are filled with eyeballs of different sizes. They tremble irregularly, exuding an aura that makes people feel panic.
This time the source of the scarlet infection is the eyes.
Tian Xuan knew something about the earliest dimensional infection that occurred in the empire.
The target of that dimensional infection was also the eyes, and it ultimately had a very significant impact on the empire.
It’s hard to say whether there is any connection between this scarlet infection and the previous infection.
Judging from the fact that Chen Ming has lost contact for unknown reasons and does not have any reinforcements from the empire, I am afraid it is best for him to think about the worst in everything.
Tian Xuan looked at the picture on the sensor for a while, and it was recorded from a very high altitude where he was now, a very far away place.
I felt obvious physical discomfort.
The scarlet color kept irritating his eyes, making him feel burning pain in his eye sockets.
He quickly turned off unnecessary sensors and continued to approach the location of the fairy tree,
As the height of the shuttle boat decreases.
Tian Zhang discovered that even in places where obvious scarlet could not be observed from space, scarlet things had already appeared.
Those were some scattered eyeballs suspended high in the sky.
The small one is more than ten centimeters, and the large one can be close to ten meters in diameter.
Curly threads of flesh and blood trailed behind each eyeball, dripping blood toward the ground.
Every eye was focused on the planet, and... on the ship he had just begun to lower its altitude.
When Tian Xian saw the eyeballs staring at him, he immediately felt that his own eyes became more painful, and the pain was not only limited to the eyes themselves, but also spread to the vicinity of the eye sockets.
He endured the pain in his eyes and avoided looking directly at these eyeballs. He also controlled the shuttle boat to avoid the large eyeballs that were heading towards the shuttle boat, and quickly lowered its altitude.
Doing this allowed him to get rid of those high-altitude eyeballs as quickly as possible, but it also forced him to get closer to the azure junction of scarlet and Gaia that he should have been unable to reach.
The situation here is even more appalling.
The scarlet creatures are in fierce conflict with the native creatures of the planet Gaia.
Ever since Chen Ming planted the fairy tree on the planet Gaia, allowing Gaia's consciousness to merge with the fairy tree.
The planet Gaia itself is no longer a purely unique life form, but a unique life form with spiritual energy.
Under the impression of its consciousness, all creatures belonging to Gaia will have some of the power of the leader like the Zerg, Machinery and Yuhui under Chen Ming.
This makes it possible for the planet's indigenous creatures to fight against Scarlet.
But the situation Tian Xian saw at this time was not too good.
All the creatures that are fighting the ever-expanding scarlet outbreak and want to suppress the scarlet within the scarlet area can survive.
During the battle, the eyeballs of some animals that were still tearing apart scarlet will pop out, and dozens of trembling eyeballs will suddenly grow on their bodies, and their flesh and blood will quickly turn into a pool of dead flesh.
And those aggressive plants were completely unable to digest scarlet. They could only be completely killed by the influence of scarlet, and then revived due to the growth of flesh and blood. Instead, they became plants that allowed scarlet to take root in the soil.
Even with the fairy tree as the source of spiritual energy, the planet Gaia itself is completely unable to fight against the invading scarlet.
It would be fine if it were just pure flesh and blood and eyeballs.
Seeing with one's own eyes the originally agile creatures turned into corrupted flesh and blood in the blink of an eye, the shock to people is far greater than the former.
Tian Zhang couldn't help but close his eyes and wiped away the tears secreted from the corners of his eyes due to dryness and pain.
He fully adjusted the opacity of the porthole on the spacecraft console, so that he could not see everything happening outside, and could only observe with sensors.
Although this is all very cruel.
But what matters is definitely not the places and creatures that are or have been affected by scarlet.
The only thing that really matters is the fairy tree that stands opposite the original location of the scarlet infection.
The shuttle is rapidly approaching the surface.
The number of eyeballs floating in the air is also decreasing.
But there are more and more scattered pieces of flesh and blood scattered on the normal land.
The source comes from some ear-shaped scarlet creatures.
They float quietly in the low sky, and each ear of wheat is a scarlet eyeball.
All living things where they looked were changing, causing scarlet to spread further.
The rate at which Scarlet expands will increase exponentially as more and more locations appear.
Tian Xian couldn't stop it, and couldn't continue watching.
His eyes were already bloodshot, and there was almost no white at all.
He could only completely turn off the sensor that receives visual information from the outside and use the thermal sensor to observe the outside world.
But when he just turned on the thermal sensor, he was horrified to find that above and behind the shuttle, there were transparent flesh-and-blood creatures that could not be seen by the naked eye swooping down.
It was a giant bird creature with a head full of eyeballs, and only a slender beak protruding from the pile of eyeballs.
At this close distance, the shuttle boat had no time to make any maneuvers, and the eyeball bird had already pounced on the shuttle boat.
The sharp beak violently pecked at the hull of the shuttle craft, and in just a few hits, it penetrated the hull directly and penetrated the middle section of the shuttle craft.
Fortunately, when Tian Zhang opened the boat, he had completely locked the doors of the driver's cab and the rear passenger compartment.
This strange bird couldn't harm him directly.
But this still caused the shuttle boat to jolt violently, and its flight was also affected.
Tian Zhang quickly buckled his seat belt and turned the joystick directly to one side.
The shuttle rolled wildly.
However, the eyeball bird clung to the shuttle craft with its sharp claws and sharp beak, and no matter how maneuvering Tian Xiang flew, he could not get rid of the guys on the spacecraft.
The continuous high-frequency maneuvers only made Tian Xuan's expression worse.
He could only forcefully stabilize the shuttle boat and reach his destination as quickly as possible before it was completely torn apart by the eyeball bird. Just as Tian Zhang stabilized the spacecraft, the eyeball bird tore open a huge cavity in the center of the spacecraft in a blink of an eye, and stuck its head full of eyeballs into the cabin.
Through the glass on the door between the passenger compartment and the driver's cab, it saw Tian Xiang, who was driving the shuttle boat.
The eyeball bird screamed strangely, and the harsh sound seemed to tear Tian Xian's eardrums apart.
When Tian Chuang stabilized the spacecraft with one hand and covered his ears with the other.
The eyeball bird suddenly flew to the top of the spacecraft's cab and smashed its head against the cab.
The front glass of the spacecraft was instantly covered with cracks where the beak pecked, and it might be broken directly by the next impact.
At this moment, Tian Xuan finally saw the fairy tree standing on a plain in the distance.
With a sudden heart, he pushed the operating lever forward all the way, and the spacecraft suddenly fell directly towards the fairy tree.
And it hit the ground about a hundred meters away from the fairy tree, making a loud noise, and slid all the way to the fairy tree.
The violent and successive impacts caused Tian Huan to immediately spit out a large mouthful of blood, which sprayed onto the console of the shuttle boat.
Mixed with the blood were countless tiny eyeballs.
Tian Xiang saw the pool of blood just after a quick glance, and panic spread in his heart.
But he still managed to use the tools provided in the cab to cut off the stuck seat belt and climbed out of the cab.
The eyeball bird that was still swooping on the shuttle boat reluctantly let out a sharp cry, which seemed to be made by someone drowning in the pile of eyeballs, and then flew away from the place.
Tian Xuan stood up with support and climbed to the fairy tree.
The pain in his eyes and in his chest left him barely able to stand.
His eyeballs were trembling, and two strands of blood with countless tiny eyeballs flowed from the corners of his eyes.
He had almost completely lost control of his eyes.
Once his eyeballs are completely infected by scarlet, death will come completely.
In this extreme pain.
In Tian Huan's brain, a nerve was trembling crazily, resisting the invasion from Scarlet.
In the soothing spiritual energy fluctuations released by the fairy tree that is integrated with Gaia's consciousness.
A weak spiritual energy wave belonging to Tian Huan was released from this nerve.
When a psionic person possesses psychic powers, it is usually accompanied by a major turning point in his life or an extreme outburst of some kind of emotion.
At this moment, Tian Xuan satisfied both of them at the same time.
Everything will fall into place.
Psychic awakening.
The psychic energy fluctuations released by Tian Huan at the moment of awakening his spiritual energy erased the scarlet substances that invaded his eyes... No, not erasing them, but converting all these scarlet substances into special substances that are harmless to humans.
He opened his eyes again and wiped away the blood and tears from the corners of his eyes.
All the tiny eyeballs were transformed at the moment of his spiritual awakening, and all the special substances transformed seeped into the ground and disappeared.
But when Tian Huan opened his eyes, he found that his eyes were not peaceful and peaceful, but full of scarlet.
Countless scarlet eyeballs surrounded the surroundings, all gathered outside a circle with the fairy tree as the core, watching eagerly.
The dripping blood was corrupting the ground, constantly affecting the environment, making scarlet almost all around the fairy tree.
But they themselves are not directly close.
This is not because the scarlet creature suddenly became rational or alert, but because the power of the fairy tree and the will of the planet is protecting this place.
Protecting the Fairy Tree, protecting the Fairy Tree's field bloom.
After awakening his spiritual power, Tian Xuan knew that the gaze of scarlet eyes was powerful.
Although they seem to be just staying there, in fact, they are in fierce conflict with Gaia's consciousness.
He already had the potential to awaken his psychic powers before he took leave some time ago.
After returning from his hometown, he was completely convinced that he would definitely have this power, but he lacked an opportunity.
The opportunity has now come and it has come true.
Then he should also report on the people, things, and things that provide opportunities.
Although Tian Xuan has just awakened to spiritual power, he is still protected by the fairy tree with little understanding of spiritual power.
But he knew what he should do.
Without any knowledge, he released psychic energy fluctuations into all the affected scarlet areas around him.
All scarlet things stained by his psychic energy are returning to their former appearance.
Even if the flesh and blood has been distorted, even if the vitality of the original creature has been cut off, Tian Zhang's spiritual energy can completely restore all the effects of Scarlet to the original.
And all the pure crimson creatures that were not transformed declined and died.
A large number of scarlet eyeballs gathered at the edge of the protective circle of Gaia's consciousness died almost instantly.
But immediately, another batch of scarlet eyeballs and scarlet eyes from other places arrived at the fairy tree.
All he can do is stick to this.
The psychic powers of the newly born psykers will not be very strong, and the psykers themselves will not have much mental power.
Except for the explosion at the moment when spiritual energy is just awakened, it will soon weaken afterward.
It was only because of the coordination of the planet's consciousness that Tian Zhang could barely block everything out.
Until his mental power was nearly exhausted.
After all, Tian Xian is just a newly awakened psyker.
When you come up, you have to face Scarlet, in which level 4 and 5 psykers may die.
The pressure is unimaginable.
He not only wants to try his best to destroy all scarlet, but also uses spiritual energy on himself and the fairy tree to protect the last hope of the planet Gaia.
Gradually, his eyeballs began to become bloodshot again.
Even if he closed his eyes tightly, the influence of the power of the Scarlet Eye continued to act on him.
At the moment when I feel that my eyes are losing control again.
Tian Zhang raised the broken window cone he had just taken with him when he climbed out of the spacecraft cab, and pointed it at his own eyes.
His hands trembled slightly, but he still thrust the awl into his own eyes without hesitation, blinding himself.
He reached out and tore off a piece of his sleeve, wrapping it around his eyes.
The blood stained the white sleeves and collar red, and the pain almost made him close to coma.
But the influence he received from the Scarlet Eye at this time was minimized.
After being implanted into the planet Gaia, the fairy tree has become the foundation of the planet's consciousness.
While most species on the planet Gaia can escape deep underground to temporarily avoid scarlet through past experience, the Fairy Tree cannot.
Countless eyeballs and countless gazes were focused on the fairy tree and him next to the fairy tree.
Almost only he and the Fairy Spirit Tree were left struggling to support themselves on the entire planet.
He knew that if the fairy tree was infected by scarlet, the consequences would be disastrous.
The consciousness of the entire planet may die or even be assimilated by Scarlet.
He must hold on.
His mental energy was exhausted, and his appearance was visibly decayed.
His cheeks suddenly became a little thinner, and his body began to collapse along with his mental breakdown.
Death seemed imminent.
……
Beyond the sky.
A meteor streaked through the sky that covered the planet and headed straight towards Gaia.
What accompanied the meteor was not a long and narrow tail flame, but a deep blue-purple trail.
“Well done.”
Tian Xuan's body swayed and fell towards the fairy tree beside him.
Before he fell into coma, he was using the psychic sensing method he had mastered due to the huge consumption of his mental energy.
The blue-purple light started from the figure in front of him and swept across the entire planet.
(End of chapter)