Chapter 448: Inevitable War! VI (2/2)

Of the 50 people who went in, only one came out alive. It was a grave statistic. The Sang Tribe members had always been close to each other. Sang Ling's eyes were already red with tears. The rest of them went silent.

Ye Chong took a sweeping glance of the people around him, and said, ”Let's have a look.”

The Sang Tribe members lifted their heads. Their lives back in Archipelago had always been dangerous. Battling for life was an integral part of their lives. The death of comrades was not uncommon. With their sorrows momentarily suppressed, everyone looked to the holographic screen. They were also curious about the horrors in the purple gas cloud that left only one of the 50 Collision mechs alive!

As the recording began to show, they all saw an endless stretch of the purple gas cloud.

The purple gas cloud was dense, and visibility was low. Nevertheless, the mech pilot had quickly switched on the sodium lamps at the front of the mech.

As holographic scanning became mainstream, few mechs would be equipped with lighting systems like this. Strangely, the more advanced mechs and starships would often be found equipped with them. Ye Chong had installed sodium lamps for the Collision mechs to help the Sang Tribe travel across the Red Sea. The lamps were not big, and they came at a low price.

Who would have thought that the sodium lamps would actually be put to good use!

Despite the bright sodium lamps, however, visibility did not extend beyond a kilometer. As a precaution, the mech pilot had slow down his Collision mech.

The Collision mech drifted slowly in the vast, purple gas cloud. This went on for about half a minute without incident.

Everyone in the meeting room as holding their breath, watching the recording as though it was happening to them right now.

Only Ye Chong kept his calm as he watched the recording silently.

Just then, the scene on the holographic screen changed. Something came into view in front, but the dense purple gas cloud made it hard to make out what it was.

The mech pilot noticed immediately. He dimmed the sodium lamps and slowed down his mech even further. The Collision mech cruised forward warily.

As he inched closer towards the object, the view became clearer. However, whatever it was had such a strange shape that it looked like nothing at all.

Suspense grew in the meeting room.

Getting closer now, and clearer still. The Collision mech approached the thing in front of it, and now they finally saw what it was.

Thick columns of flesh in a dark, purplish shade were growing in a frenzy, spreading outwards like tendrils. The dark purple columns were so thick that even the thinnest parts were larger than the cross section of a Collision mech. The soft bodied creature had tendril-like columns for its body, in a dark purplish colour that was even more intense than the color of the purple gas cloud. The columns looked like part liquid, part solid. As they expanded outwards in all directions, any column that got into the way of another would merge with its counterpart like liquid.

There were many dark colored spots on the skin of the soft bodied creature. The spots seemed to be connected to the black threads that ran inside and along the columns, vaguely visible from the outside. Like a primitive forest expanding its territory, the soft bodied creature grew into a forest of fleshy columns. On these columns were many purplish black clumps. It was from these clumps that purple gas was released.

This was such a otherworldly spectacle that even the Sang Tribe members with their numerous encounters with all kinds of animals were dumbfounded. They stared in amazement at the holographic screen.

The mech pilot the Collision mech was lost in the moment for a while, before quickly snapping back to attention. He flew the mech carefully, creeping up to the rapidly expanding soft bodied creature.

The soft bodied creature was so huge that the spaces between the irregularly growing columns was enough to let the Collision mech pass.

The mech pilot hesitated for a moment, before choosing one of the larger spaces to pass through.

It was like entering a forest. The flesh columns extended here and there like vines and branches in an irregular pattern. The Collision mech had to slow down even more to avoid the unevenly thick columns.

As he flew further in, the flesh columns became thicker and thicker.

The mech pilot flew well, dodging all the obstacles as he maneuvered his Collision mech onwards without delay.

Ye Chong estimated his speed to be at about Mach 7.

After two minutes of uneventful flight, the only thing that changed was the thickening of the surrounding soft bodied columns. However, this made the spaces between the columns wider, allowing the Collision mech smoother passage.

Suddenly, the annoying purple gas cloud disappeared, and the view cleared up.