novelsite Chapter 129 Breaking the Cocoon
Chapter 129 Breaking the Cocoon
Li Can and the others were quietly huddled in their respective corners inside the monster's body.
But with this overwhelming suction and exhaust force, he felt like he could be torn apart at any moment.
The little monster's body was also emitting clear pain in real time.
He was enduring the pain, his pupils turning blood red under the high pressure.
The entire fuselage appeared to be enveloped by semi-fluid black particles, remaining motionless high in the air.
All around was a vast expanse of darkness, with no landmarks to reference, making it impossible to distinguish east from west.
Only the robot data entity on the central control panel remained conscious, providing real-time audio alerts about the monster's current situation.
"Warning: The pilot's current physical stress tolerance has reached its limit. Please return to the original flight path immediately."
"Warning: Human experiment data acquisition failed; the patient is suspected of losing vital signs."
"Warning: ...beep beep beep..."
Before the robot could finish its warning, the entire instrument was completely overwhelmed.
The remaining fragments eventually cracked, disintegrated, and melted into black powder.
It died before the minions.
The little monster was already stuck in the quagmire and could hardly struggle, with excessive dark particles moving back and forth in his body.
He now looks like a human sieve riddled with the finest holes.
Neither steel nor glass could withstand such a high-intensity baptism.
The aircraft he had proudly built only carried him across the river to the scene before completing its life's mission and passing away peacefully at the age of 40.
Even the energy container mounted at the rear of the aircraft was melted away.
In the darkness, the golden energy he had already converted seemed to be ownerless, wandering aimlessly around.
It looks like a winding, vibrant little river.
"It still... failed..." The little monster looked back at the golden energy with a look of resentment and his eyes were bloodshot.
He had conducted numerous experiments with the dark particles, believing his machine to be foolproof, but it still couldn't withstand more than a few blows.
The overwhelming and violent darkness left him with no hope. He gradually lost consciousness, his body tattered like the skin of a punctured, weathered balloon.
But many particles were still transformed by him into tiny golden water droplets.
It appeared mysterious and dazzling in the deep darkness of the night.
Although they share the same origin, their forms are completely different.
Li Can: [Are you all alright?]
Not only was the little monster unable to withstand it, but the four people sharing the same body with him were also in no better condition.
The feeling was like a torrential downpour during the rainy season, with a scorching sensation, relentlessly crushing and rubbing you against the ground.
A barrage of notifications came frantically from Li Can's consciousness space:
[You are under deadly threat; your critical condition has increased by 1700 points.]
[Detection... Near-death value +5000 points.]
[...Near-death value +9300 points.]
【…】
Li Can endured the pain of having his bones removed, his nerves on the verge of collapsing along with the little monster.
My whole body felt like it had been stripped of its muscles and skin.
The near-death value hadn't been triggered in a long time. Ever since he found a way to level up by farming zombie golems on the wasteland planet Blue Star, he had almost forgotten that he even had such a thing.
Whenever the near-death value is triggered, it means that he is really about to die.
Last time, he was in dire straits, and he only managed to escape by drawing a new gashapon capsule with the help of a few points that suddenly appeared in his account.
But this time?
He was in the memory space within the [Mirror of Past Lives], and all his abilities were restricted.
Even with numerous gashapon items and special abilities, they cannot be used.
There's nothing we can do.
Unless he can get rid of the monster's body and crawl out of the membrane...
In the midst of extreme pain, a sudden thought struck like a thunderclap from a clear sky.
Li Can frantically gnawed on zombie crystals to replenish his health and fight off the threat of near death.
They were searching for the damaged parts inside the monster's body.
They cannot break free from the rules of the [Mirror of Past Lives] on their own, but they can fight poison with poison.
The dark particles here can disintegrate the monsters' bodies, and naturally they can also penetrate the placental membrane that imprisons them.
He hadn't had the chance to come into direct contact with this thing inside his body before, but now that the monster's torso had turned into a sieve, this was the perfect opportunity.
Everything happened in the blink of an eye, yet it seemed to take so long.
Li Can's text comments received no response.
He could only grit his teeth and persevere alone in his search for a way to survive.
This was something no one had anticipated.
They, who are living in the flashback story, will one day face the threat of death.
The biggest crisis didn't actually await them in the Q&A session at the end.
The minor monsters themselves are barely able to protect themselves, and they, just like those living in reality, are facing annihilation.
At first, Li Can was unsure whether this was simply an illusion.
Even if they experience abnormal pain, it is still just a physical sensation.
This includes stories of those changes that occurred as a result of their arrival.
Because, after all, there is solid evidence that they have arrived at the reality of the past.
They are simply like spectators watching a movie in a theater.
He wasn't truly certain until the near-death value triggered the warning.
"I can't die, and none of you can die..."
"Damn it, survive..."
He shouted in his heart, while all around him was silent.
Countless dark particles brushed past.
Li Can searched all the membranes around his body, and strangely, they were all indestructible.
Even though he had previously noticed a slight tear or gap, now they seemed to be healing.
Those tiny specks of golden energy were surging towards his location.
It seems that this is the thing that is constantly being repaired.
Li Can seized the opportunity, taking advantage of the moment when a hole was just blown open in the film, and quickly stretched out his fingers to tear it.
The golden droplet seemed somewhat surprised; it hesitated for a moment before finally clinging to Li Can's outstretched fingertip.
More and more energy gathered, entwining itself around the finger's connection to the outside world.
Li Can immediately felt a surge of spiritual energy empowering him, and he unleashed his full power, taking out a dagger from the gashapon he had assembled, and exerting force both internally and externally.
"Splash..."
It was the sound of flesh being torn apart after being gutted.
Li Can finally managed to crawl out of it, his body covered in a sticky liquid.
The monster's torso instantly bulged down.
The golden energy that was still transforming inside the little monster kept emerging, drop by drop, converging into a bay, and eventually forming a long river.
The moment Li Can emerged, they enveloped him again in a different way.
His body is now small, only a quarter the size of a normal adult.
It is exactly the composition ratio when it is inside the monster.
The near-death status notification no longer pops up.
Li Can drifted before the monster's broken body, her vision veiled in golden gauze.
"I can't die, I can't die..." he muttered obsessively, and hurriedly used the energy protecting him to pull the little monster and the three people inside him away, fleeing towards the outside world.