Apocalypse Forecast

Chapter 319: Chapter 278: Once the Line is Pulled, I Run_2

An endless stream of questions flickered through his heart, and in the end, they crystalized into an indescribable understanding and realization. He understood what nothingness was. This was the true essence of nothingness...

From his daze, he suddenly felt the Death Perception skill tapping on the mirror’s surface like an iron hammer, without warning or clue.

From the brief stillness of time, he saw everything deemed ’illusory’ in the mirror of nothingness begin to move on its own.

Huai Shi fell from mid-air. First, he was riddled with holes by the radiance of the Ten Divine Treasures. Then, the colossal hand completely crushed the Dark Good Brother standing beside him, flattening him into a lump of flesh.

In the end, he was torn apart and devoured by the surrounding demons and monsters.

It was too horrific to behold.

The incomprehensible scene transformed into one he could understand in that lightning-fast moment.

In just an instant, he felt a wave of weakness. A large portion of the vast and mixed vitality within him had been violently pulled out by the mirror as the price for this prophecy.

Finally, before the image completely dimmed, a fluctuating path emerged from the mirror.

It was his only way out.

The next instant, frozen time began its mighty rush.

Huai Shi roared. Heedless of the sharp, whistling cold lights around him, his Long Spear lashed out, stabbing downwards with all his might. The steel spear shaft bent into an arc instantly. His body shot up as if pole vaulting, his nose grazing past dozens of sharp lights that could have shredded him. He soared into the air, recklessly heading towards the descending colossal hand.

With his left hand, he threw The Sorrow of Index, embedding it deep into a broken pillar. With a sudden contraction, the chain pulled his body, flinging him to the side.

Like a nimble fly, he flew out from between the fingers of a dying child.

A hair’s breadth difference would have left him in pieces.

However, he hadn’t expected that as they crossed paths, the snake-like maggots on the back of the colossal hand would suddenly leap. Several bit firmly onto his shoulder and thigh, injecting potent venom.

The colossal hand slammed down thunderously.

A terrifying blast of air erupted from the collision. A hurricane swept through, instantly tearing apart the nearby monsters and shadows. Half of Huai Shi’s body immediately went numb, followed by a shockwave that resonated with Source Substance, reverberating through the wind.

It was just a simple blow, yet it seemed determined to kill him.

Huai Shi had no strength to resist at all.

He only felt darkness before his eyes, and then he fell into unconsciousness.

In the last moment, he instinctively drew his Longsword and slashed down.

”Big Brother, save me!”

The hanging curtain shattered under the trampling of iron hooves.

Big Brother had arrived!

Suddenly, a neigh echoed in the void. A noble White Horse leaped out of the darkness, bit the collar of the unconscious Huai Shi, and tossed the young man onto its back.

Then, its iron hooves struck fiercely, trampling and stepping on the faces of the monsters before it. The horse soared into the air, turned sharply at a right angle, and defied gravity as it galloped along the walls and pillars.

The monsters inside the main hall shrieked mournfully, reaching out to grab the White Horse but unable to touch even the edge of the white blur.

In an instant, it had burst out of the great hall, breaking free from the invisible restraints!

It neighed loudly.

A heart-wrenching, sharp scream echoed from the Sky Dome.

The Sun Witch Embryo convulsed in pain, covering her rotting face. On her face, the previously beautiful left eye that resembled the bright moon had vanished, leaving only a pitch-black, oozing pit of blood.

Without the suppression of the Bronze Mirror in the shrine, the film over the Imperial Palace fractured into countless crevices, instantly riddled with holes.

Within the collapsing main hall, all the monsters’ movements simultaneously froze. Wailing, they melted into pools of blood. After eking out a desperate existence for so long with the help of the Bronze Mirror’s fragments, they finally met their end.

Perished utterly within this cold, relentless Hell.

Ignoring the giant, rotten hand that fumbled, searched, and destroyed in its fury, the shadows of the Department of Justice in the ruins quietly watched the White Horse depart until it vanished into the depths of darkness.

On the torii, the lawyer’s letter finally burned out, and all the shadows disappeared in an instant, as if they had never been there.

Only a hand in a puppet sleeve stretched out from the darkness. It rummaged through the debris for the Border Relic, swiftly scooping up everything before retracting just as the enraged colossal hand slapped down.

Slipped away.

The Sun Witch Embryo looked up and roared furiously. Countless toxic flames coalesced into a backlight of three sun-like discs emerging from behind her. She madly scattered a vast swath of annihilating rays toward some distant direction.

The rays instantly traversed the vast distance, arriving above Little Cat Paradise and transforming into a deadly downpour from the sky.

Suddenly, a rainbow rose from the castle in Paradise, enveloping the sky above. It stoutly withstood the wrathful strike of the Sun Witch Embryo. Shortly thereafter, Little Cat’s smug laughter could be heard.

”After being neighbors for so many years, to be so passionate upon departure, how can one not feel flattered?”

Little Cat, cigarette dangling from their mouth, waved to the furious Sun Witch Embryo.

”Then, I shall take my leave first. Do take care of yourself.”

Following the cold plucking of a pipa, an ox cart entered the park in the final moments. Then, the gates of Paradise slammed shut.

Then came a thunderous roar.

The massive Paradise shook violently. It jumped in place a trifling three inches before falling back down. During that brief gap, an unbelievably huge corrugated cardboard box materialized in the surrounding void, completely enclosing the entire Paradise.

As the top flaps of the box closed, a giant roll of duct tape materialized from the void, sealing it shut.

Subsequently, the corrugated box began to shrink rapidly—smaller and smaller. At last, from a huge gaping fissure in the ground, nothing remained but a box less than two meters in length, width, and height.

The ’Yesterday Express’ logo materialized on the box.

[Your booked packing service has been completed.]

All that was missing was a driver.

Outside the rift in the blood-red sky, that lingering speck of light suddenly pulsed.

The light rapidly expanded, expanded, and expanded, until at last, it transformed into a massive, pure-gold chariot bathed in corona-like flames, bursting through the rift in the Sky Dome.

In an instant, it whooshed past the battle between the Sun Witch Embryo and Ye Xueya, completely ignoring them, as if indifferent to all around.

Like the relentless sun on its ordained path.

Carrying a brutal and piercing aura.

If the Sun Witch was still merely an embryo, then this resplendent chariot appeared as the very embodiment of the true sun—majestic, mighty, and peerless!

——The Fifth Stage Stigmata Relic: Helios Chariot!

No, it should be called ’Helios Workshop.’

Nobody had expected this perennially mysterious and aloof Alchemy Workshop to barge into Xiematai so abruptly. Seizing the opportunity while both sides were distracted, it directly threw out a Lock Chain. It snatched up the Paradise package, weighing hundreds of millions of tons, lifted it into the air, and then executed a Space Break to depart.

Never to return.

”Is that it? Leaving just like that?”

Outside Xiematai, under the light of countless stars, the elusive Xuan Niao lowered its gaze and saw Little Cat waving goodbye from the massive chariot.

”Well, if you’re going to leave, then farewell.”

The elder dismissively averted his gaze. He lifted a feather of his immense wings just enough to open a passageway, allowing the sun-like chariot to escape and disappear into the endless Hell.

Vanished forever.