Chapter 182 - An Inch Away (2/2)

This abnormal ball was located fairly close to the skyships coming their way. Yan Zaizen noted that they wouldn't come into contact with it. However, his instincts told him something would happen.

Just like he imagined, the skyships were hundreds of thousands of il away, but the moment they broke past it, a faint swooshing sound resounded. He trembled slightly at this sound.

Bai Lufeng abruptly said, ”That sound, I heard it before...” When he said this, Yan Zaizen looked at him with curiosity. Just as he was about to ask a question, the small hairy mouth ball trembled. Its mouth opened wider than all the others and then, with a speed that left Yan Zaizen absolutely terrified, shot towards the four skyships.

In a second, it closed the distance.

In another second, it was already beside one pursuing skyships. In the eyes of everyone else, they just saw a skyship's light disappear. However, Yan Zaizen's eyes revealed a different reality. The disbelief and shock were mounting to intense levels.

”It...how?” The abnormal mouth-ball ate one of the skyships. Not only that, it's black tongue licked its lips in delight afterward as if it just enjoyed a delicious meal.

Afterward, the mouth-ball trembled and turned into a normal mouth-ball the size of a planet and lost its redness. This transformation happened in the time it takes to snap one's finger. Then, it started to playfully circle around the remaining skyships like the others.

Just then, another mouth-ball appeared out of nowhere and gulped another skyship. This time, it was the fleeing one. Yan Zaizen trembled. He didn't even notice the other one approaching!

He heavily gulped. It must've been quite a distance away when it started its pursuit. Considering they were chasing and fleeing, they could've met another one.

For some odd reason, he felt a sensation of someone or something breathing down his neck.

”What? Two disappeared?” Tao said in disbelief. The other ships noticed this and stopped. Then, a third odd mouth-ball appeared, but it stopped before consuming another. It just waited there, silently, patiently, as if waiting for its prey to move before taking action. The chills that ran across Yan Zaizen's spine when he saw the odd mouth-ball just linger left him feeling insecure.

Wait.

”It...stopped...when the ships stopped?” Yan Zaizen's mind was far more efficient at picking up information and piecing them together. Tao and Bai Lufeng turned towards him with questioning gazes, but they also had a deep fear in their eyes at the sudden disappearance of the two skyships. After all, the Border Expanse was a mystery to many.

Yan Zaizen recalled the events thus far.

The skyships passed the odd mouth-ball.

A weird sound resonated, resembling swooshing.

It chased after them, consumed a ship, and transformed.

Another appeared, consuming another one.

A third appeared but didn't consume the others when they stopped moving.

Yan Zaizen was thinking...he recalled Bai Lufeng's mention of hearing the sound before. The sensation of having something or someone breathing down his neck.

With widened eyes, he had an itchy desire to turn around. Slowly, very slowly, he turned. As he did, his pupils constricted to its absolute limit as, an inch away from their ship, there was a squirming hair as thick as trees and purple skin with a tinge of redness. Upwards, a set of teeth the size of mountains were frozen.

He didn't know how long it had been there, but from the distance, it stopped from the others…

It's possible...it was right next to them just as they stopped. A split second, maybe far, far less away.

”Escape...” his voice came out as an inaudible whisper. He was calm, but his heart was filled with intense, dreadful fear.

Bai Lufeng and Tao was ignorant, they both asked, ”What?”

”ESCAPE!” Yan Zaizen slammed his palm on the skyship. His true-essence erupted with everything he had, covering the skyship completely and thoroughly. With a popping sound, the skyship merged into chaotic space.

While in chaotic space, Yan Zaizen's shock didn't cease as his eyes flickered with silver light. Observing outside, the mouth-ball released a vast, thunderous, swooshing sound from its mouth. Instantly, the planet-sized balls went absolutely batshit crazy suffused with intense madness. It released an odd screech that sounded like rushing water and widened its mouth to seemingly impossible limits.

A split second later, the two skyships vanished in the bellies of two planet-sized mouth-balls nearby. Even the smaller mouth-balls were consumed. Before long, the planet-sized mouth-balls seemed like they were given the signal to commit mass cannibalism and self-genocide.

With powerful chomps, they started to devour each other. After several minutes, there was one left...and it was the size of a small mountain. Yan Zaizen looked at the ball for a second, but before he could get a good look, it vanished.

He didn't know if it traveled at a speed he couldn't see or if it entered a different dimension. Regardless, there was no longer any mouth-balls in sight.

”Such...abnormal...creatures…” In his complete confusion, he said weakly. Death was so close yet they didn't even know. Actually, he wasn't sure getting eaten lead to death, but he knew it wasn't good.

At least, they survived this.

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