Chapter 339: Temptation to Go to Outer Space

Translator: Atlas Studios  Editor: Atlas Studios

What exactly was the ‘enemy’ testing?

Chen Yiming flipped through all the information he had gathered and repeated this question in his heart.

He compared the various abnormal events that had happened inside and outside the city and came up with several possible answers.

For example: Collect enough blood essence and set up some kind of evil ritual? Or develop a large number of spies in the human world and work together to attack the cities?

Or was it because the current black tide was too weak on the blue planet and they did not dare to confront the native factions on the plane head-on?

He thought about it a lot, but none of the answers were convincing enough.

“Sigh! Sometimes, asking for help is more useful than relying on yourself.” Chen Yiming sighed to himself.

He helplessly sent a message into the ring in his hand.

10 seconds passed.

A minute passed.

10 minutes passed.

The ring showed no reaction.

“As expected, it’s better to rely on oneself than on others,” Chen Yiming cursed under his breath.

Of course, he only dared to curse in his heart. It was unnecessary and stupid for him to anger the female spirit and cause a conflict between them.

At this moment, “Knock! Knock! Knock!” A knock on the door interrupted Chen Yiming’s thoughts.

“Please…”

As he spoke, Chen Yiming suddenly recalled that the female secretary, Xiao Min, was sleeping in the lounge. The person who came looking for her was usually the head of the department.

Without waiting for his reminder, Xiao Min jumped up from the bed reflexively. She had a panicked expression as she met the gaze of the person outside the door.

Then, she tidied herself up and walked out of the lounge, appearing in front of Chen Yiming.

She had a good figure, and all of it was real. Her curves were definitely not padded.

“It should be your department head. Go and open the door!”

Chen Yiming said in a low voice, as though he didn’t notice the blush on her face.

The female secretary, Xiao Min, touched her hot face and took a few deep breaths before opening the door.

Outside the door was the head of the department, Liao Yongquan.

Liao Yongquan raised an eyebrow and retracted his gaze from Xiao Min’s face before entering the room.

If it was any other time, he would have given her a good scolding when he caught her slacking off at work. However, the situation now was different, so he pretended not to have noticed it.

“Is there bad news again?” Chen Yiming asked.

Department head Liao’s expression was filled with panic, conflicting emotions, and urgency.

Liao Yongquan nodded and said, “More than 10 kilometers outside Sanjiang City, dense black shadows have appeared in the forest. We’ll surround them and refrain from making a move for the time being.”

“Okay, what else is there?”

Seeing that the other party was about to say something, Chen Yiming knew that he hadn’t finished delivering the news.

Liao Yongquan paused for a moment before continuing, “The situation in Chuan province is currently very chaotic. Almost all of our high-level combatants have been held back and can’t leave. Outside of Chengdu City, a large number of people have started to escape towards Jiangnan province.”

Chen Yiming nodded his head.

This was indeed a problem. Everyone knew that Jiangnan province would definitely be the last bastion of peace.

In the situation where there was a nationwide crisis, it did not matter even if they could not enter Jiangnan province. The surrounding provinces were also much better than the other provinces that were far away.

They would use their feet to vote, unless they were forcefully stopped. However, no one would dare to give such an order.

Wait a minute.

“Chaos?”

A thought flashed across his mind.

Chen Yiming suddenly grasped the crux of the black tide.

He quickly recalled all the information he had gathered, from the sneak attack on the martial master, Elder Zhang, in the no man’s land in the southwest to the series of abnormal events.

Everything that had happened resulted in chaos.

“Chaos is only what is on the surface. The enemy definitely has something from the chaos.”

Chen Yiming raised his hand to signal for silence. This was a critical moment for his thoughts.

Seeing this, Liao Yongquan and Xiaomin held their breaths and stood rooted to the ground, waiting.

“Let’s ignore all the distractions for the time being. Analyzing the problem from the basics, the ‘black tide’ is undoubtedly far stronger than the blue planet’s creatures. If I put myself in the shoes of the ‘black tide’ and look at the mentality of ordinary people, what will I think?”

“It’s like looking down from the clouds. I won’t care about them at all and will just do things my own way.”

Chen Yiming thought it through. He put aside the interference from the abnormal events, which were just different forms of creating chaos.

“In Old Wang’s house, the goat head pulled everyone into the red world. Everyone entered a meditative state on the spot. This is the result of all their emotions being absorbed in a short period of time.”

Chen Yiming’s eyes lit up.

Emotions.

The more chaotic the human world was, the more they would be unable to suppress the negative emotions such as fear, panic, and despair.

“The female spirit mentioned that the black tide is about to arrive, and asked me to leave the blue planet and enter outer space with my physical body.

It also mentioned that those in the inscription realm can fuse with the power of nature and rely on constantly fusing with the power of nature to move through outer space in this form.”

Chen Yiming recalled the female spirit’s words and realized that he had overlooked some important information.

“If one’s body enters outer space, they can avoid the black tide. On the other hand, doesn’t it mean that the black tide isn’t traveling through outer space in its physical form?”

Chaos, emotions, and arrival.

Chen Yiming could roughly confirm that this was the general flow of the black tide’s actions.

The clouds parted and he could see the sky again. He felt indescribably relaxed. The problem had returned to a path with a solution. The Daxia Kingdom needed someone to step forward.

Or rather, they needed a savior to give most people the confidence to defeat the black tide.

Chen Yiming quickly sent department head Liao and Xiao Min away.

He thought quietly in the room for a while and decided on his plan for the future.

Being a savior was not something that could be achieved overnight. It was not something that could be achieved just by talking about it. One needed to win many battles to obtain the recognition of most people.

…

In Sanjiang City, the black shadows in the forest outside the city did not surround the city from all directions. Instead, they surrounded one particular area.

The streets of the city were in a mess, and there were small items abandoned everywhere. An atmosphere as though the city was about to fall shrouded the sky above it.

Chen Yiming walked along the empty street and witnessed the current situation with his own eyes. It was even more serious than what department head Liao had said.

Not long after,

the sound of something being smashed came from a small alley.

Chen Yiming stopped at the intersection and turned around to see a strange human figure. His body clearly had some abnormalities.

His right arm was badly mangled, and a tentacle covered in barbs had grown out of it. It was three to five meters long.

This tentacle, which was clearly a foreign object, had tubes sticking out of it, piercing through half of his body at the chest, shoulder, head, and neck.

“Come out! Old Man Huang, I know your granddaughter is still there.”

The man used the tentacle to break the metal door. He was not in a hurry to enter, but shouted loudly at the door instead.

The house was quiet. The hall was filled with abandoned items that could not be easily packed away. It seemed to indicate that Old Huang and his family had already left.

“Old Man Huang, you didn’t expect this to happen, did you? When I bought buns at your breakfast shop, I only took a few more glances at your granddaughter. I still remember that look,”

the man waved the long tentacle and muttered to himself.

In the hidden basement of the house, the voice of the man could be heard through the air vent. Old Man Huang was so angry that he was shaking.

Disaster really fell from the sky. He did not expect that a hooligan would now become a demon that was after the lives of his family.

Old Man Huang’s granddaughter’s mouth was covered by her mother to prevent her from crying out loud.

Tears flowed from the corners of her eyes. Her face was filled with fear, and her entire body was trembling. Her hands gripped the corners of her clothes tightly.

She was a young girl of 16 or 17 years old. At her age, she was like a flower that was in bloom. She had a delicate face and a tall and thin figure.

The reason why Old Man Huang’s family had stayed in the city was because his granddaughter had lost her father when she was young, and there was only one old man left in the family. It was unrealistic for them to make the long journey to Jiangnan province.

Chen Yiming sized up the tentacle on the man’s right arm as he walked over.

The methods of the enemies related to the ‘black tide’ were indeed strange. They gave a human the ability to control flames, caused another to improve in their cultivation by leaps and bounds overnight, and even caused a human to grow an abnormal body part.

The supernatural power of internal force that was mainstream on the blue planet was very dull in comparison.

“Kid, are you trying to be a busybody?”

When the man saw a young man walking over, he raised the tentacle and took an offensive stance.

“How did you obtain such an ability?”

Chen Yiming wasn’t in a hurry. He tried to get some useful information from him. After all, he was sure that he was stronger than the other party. If he didn’t tell him the truth, he would beat him up.

“You’re courting death!”

When the man heard this, his expression turned sinister.

Regardless of what type of power it was, everyone definitely wanted to keep its source a secret. How could they tell others so easily?

“You’re not going to tell me?”

As soon as he finished speaking, the young man’s figure appeared in front of him.

Before the man could react, he was sent flying and crashed into a stone block at the end of the street, causing a large amount of rubble to explode.

“Bang!”

He spat out a mouthful of blood.

The man’s face was filled with fear.

Before he could react, the tentacle on his right arm suddenly squirmed and sucked the man dry, leaving only his painful cries echoing through the street.

Immediately after, the tubes broke off in unison and retracted into the tentacle. With another wriggle, the tentacle turned into a humanoid monster.

It retained a small portion of the characteristics of the man. Its entire body was covered in an ugly layer of cuticle, and tubes protruded from its body and waved around in the air.

“It’s a living creature?”

Chen Yiming was surprised.

A living creature had suddenly appeared in a person’s body, just like a parasite.

Taking advantage of Chen Yiming’s momentary daze, the humanoid monster charged into another alley without hesitation.

“Uh…”

Did it just escape?

Chen Yiming snapped out of his daze.

This meant that the humanoid monster was not a brainless idiot, but an intelligent creature.

Knowing how to escape when facing an opponent it could not defeat was the right choice.

However, this also depended on who it was facing. In this situation, whatever choice it made did not matter.

A second later, with a loud bang, the entire street shook.

Chen Yiming crushed the humanoid monster into a pulp.

Its disgusting flesh and blood splattered on the houses on both sides of the street, leaving behind small holes that emitted sizzling sounds.

“Forget it. Research is not my forte,”

Chen Yiming said as he looked at the remains before turning to leave the city.

…

More than 10 kilometers outside the city, the dense black shadows flashing through the forest put an overwhelming pressure on Sanjiang City.

The reason was that the martial master, Elder Zhang, had yet to recover to a level where he could make a move. Some of the half-step martial masters under him were monitoring the situation in the no man’s land in place of the sentries, and some were carrying out missions to capture people who had shown abnormalities…

Chuan province was in chaos. There were too many things to deal with, and their hands and feet were tied down. Department head Liao could only look for Chen Yiming.

At this moment, a young man walked fearlessly into the forest.

The black shadows started to get restless. They spread out and assumed a siege stance, then gathered at the center.

From the looks of it, the gathered power seemed to be able to combine into one, making it suitable for dealing with a single powerful enemy.

“Is it another ability similar to splitting up?”

Chen Yiming suspected that the splitting ability of the powerful creatures from the otherworld came from the black tide.

Dust flew everywhere as the ground shook, raising waves of yellow sand that covered the sky.

When the dust settled, a huge creature hundreds of meters tall flattened a huge mountain and landed on the ground.

Its entire body was covered in shadow energy. It had a pair of huge wings, eight strong arms, and a long tail.

What made Chen Yiming’s expression turn solemn was that each arm was holding a different weapon. There was a huge spear, a huge sword, a huge axe, and so on.

These weapons were not formed from simple shadow energy, but were made from a special material with mysterious symbols written on them.

“F*ck! Compared to him, I’m just a poor country bumpkin.”

He could not help but curse.

His gaze remained fixed on the weapons. He felt like an employee who had just received his salary and was looking jealously at his boss who was driving a sports car.

“The strongest human, surrender! Join us, and I can give you a chance to go to outer space.”

Suddenly, a thought appeared in his mind.

“How did you know that I’m the strongest human?”

Chen Yiming also sent a thought back while keeping his guard up.

As expected, after destroying the mysterious symbol fragment in Elder Zhang’s body that day, the other party knew of his existence. The various plans he had made previously could be said to be a waste of time.

In the end, he had to deal with the enemy openly and rely solely on his strength.

“That’s too simple. You’ll know if you join us.

I can tell you that in this dark forest, your planet is just one of many resources in our countless territories. We are a large faction that can be ranked among the top in the entire universe.

On this planet, you are the only one who barely meets the requirements to join us. However, remember that you only have one chance. If you let it go, you will become our enemy.”

Another thought was transmitted over.

Dark forest?

This seemed to be what the humans on the blue planet referred to as the otherworld.

Chen Yiming thought to himself, “I don’t believe you.”

Under normal circumstances, the 10,000-meter-long corpse he had dug out would definitely have been more qualified while it was alive, but it still ended up like that.

The more they expressed that they were a large faction in the universe, the more one would doubt it. Were they trying to trick him, thinking that he was a fool?

At the same time, while it was unknown whether the dark forest was controlled by the black tide, Chen Yiming could roughly confirm that it had been invaded before by the black tide.

Clearly, the ‘black tide’ was not a kind faction. With the strength of the blue planet, negotiating with the other party was pretty much impossible, and he would just be sending himself to his death.

On the surface, Chen Yiming pretended to be interested and asked, “If I agree to join you, can I go to the galaxy beyond the dark forest?”