Colonial Suit

Chapter 391: Is this considered a blessing in disguise?

What a terrifying body that was...

The entire body was damaged everywhere, with flesh and armor mixed together, presenting a dark and dull color. At the chest of this body, a deep pit the size of a basketball almost pierced through the entire body. The internal organs and bones were mixed together, as if they had been minced. But this was not the most terrifying thing. The most terrifying thing was that every part of this body was shriveled and withered, as if it had been air-dried for countless years. If it weren't still moving, no one would believe it was alive.

"Am I... still alive?"

In the dark space, a faint thought was flowing. Blood Pupil barely opened his eyes.

His vision was blurred, and he couldn't see anything. His mind was even more muddled. In this endless darkness, he could only feel his vitality was draining away, little by little, leading him into the abyss of death.

Blood Pupil wanted to stop all of this, but he was too weak. Even if he tried his best, he could only move his fingers a little. Feeling the exhaustion and severe pain in his body, the corner of Blood Pupil's mouth twitched, revealing a smile that was uglier than crying.

After this time, his mind had gradually cleared up, and he also remembered what happened before.

His reunion with Lier... Lier's amnesia and madness... He wanted to knock Lier unconscious... A suddenly appearing powerful enemy.

Meteor class!

The terrifying black shadow appeared in his mind again. Blood Pupil's pupils contracted slightly. Sure enough... very strong.

Terribly strong. That unparalleled destructive power, the grasp of timing, and the calm and cruel attack, were just like Blood Pupil's patriarch, Hensel, suppressing Blood Pupil to the extreme. If he hadn't made a desperate gamble and entered the anti-space at the end, he would probably have been killed by now, right?

But even so, Blood Pupil would not give up.

Silently, he gradually gathered his spirit and began to work hard for survival. The first thing to do was to check his physical condition. He was shocked when he saw it. A huge hole almost minced his internal organs. If it weren't for the fact that the tissues in his body had been mostly replaced by enhanced cells, this big hole alone would have killed him. Moreover, because of forcibly entering the anti-space, his bio-energy was absorbed by the anti-space, leaving only a little bit. The bio-energy pool was also stagnant due to excessive use.

Such serious injuries would have killed ordinary people a thousand times over. But Blood Pupil was still holding on because of the existence of enhanced cells. But it didn't look like he could hold on for much longer.

Now the only hope was to use the remaining bio-energy to restart the bio-energy pool. Only in this way could Blood Pupil obtain enough energy to rebuild the cell modules and pull himself back from the brink of death.

Blood Pupil couldn't do this with his own ability. He needed the core's help.

"Core, are you there?" In the darkness, Blood Pupil weakly called out to the core.

But to his surprise, the core, which always responded to his calls, did not respond this time, as if it had also died.

Blood Pupil was shocked. This was the first time he had encountered such a situation. Since he left x35, the core had gradually become a part of his body. Blood Pupil had become accustomed to the existence of the core, accustomed to it managing the colonization equipment for him, and accustomed to receiving support from it when he was confused.

But he never expected that one day the core would disappear. This feeling was like a normal person suddenly becoming blind, giving him a strong shock.

In the darkness, Blood Pupil felt that his breathing was a little rapid. The temporary replacement organs formed by the enhanced cells were failing. He had less and less time left. Feeling anxious, he called out to the core again.

The result was still silence.

Silent as death.

"Core... what's wrong with you? Answer me?"

"Core!"

"I need your help!"

Calling out constantly, Blood Pupil's emotions became more and more intense. He felt that life was leaving him, but the only core that could help him was still unresponsive. The will to survive drove him to keep working hard, and also burst out hidden potential. He didn't know when, but he actually moved a little bit, pulling his body with his only remaining right hand, and crawling to the side.

Blood Pupil didn't know what was there in the darkness, but he knew that if he didn't do this, he could only wait for death. He needed water, he needed food, he needed energy, he needed everything that could keep him alive. But these things would not come to him on their own. Unconsciously, he seemed to have returned to x35, back to that dirty sewer, struggling to survive, desperately trying to survive.

An inch, two inches... a meter, two meters...

Blood Pupil climbed desperately, leaving streaks of blood on the hard rocks with his shriveled body. The sharp rocks cut his skin and pierced into his tendons, but he never stopped. The endless darkness shielded his vision, so he used his sense of smell and hearing to find and identify the direction...

Time was passing, but this was meaningless to Blood Pupil. He just climbed... He didn't know how long it took, but he finally felt the aura of water droplets ahead. So he used his last strength to climb over... But as soon as he turned over a large rock, he felt his body sink, and suddenly fell into a winding downward rock crevice. He didn't know how long it had existed here, and he didn't know what caused it to form. But it was very deep. Blood Pupil fell all the way down, and he didn't know how many protruding rocks he hit, scattering the armor fragments of the colonization equipment everywhere.

Fortunately, there were the remains of the colonization equipment's armor, otherwise, with his current weakness, these impacts alone would have been enough to kill him.

This fall lasted for at least a thousand meters. When Blood Pupil was about to lose his last bit of strength, he finally felt his body lighten, and fell out of the rock crevice. Immediately afterwards, he fell into an underground river with a plop.

The underground river was icy cold, but for the current Blood Pupil, it was no different from heaven. He was swept away by the swift current while greedily swallowing the river water. The river water was cold, and it also contained some inexplicable minerals. Stimulated by this, the enhanced cells in his body seemed to wake up from hibernation, all sending out irrepressible thirst for information.

Without the core's control, the enhanced cells' desire to survive was astonishing. They frantically rushed to Blood Pupil's stomach sac, converting the river water into energy. The fresh energy stimulated Blood Pupil's bio-energy pool again. Finally, after Blood Pupil was swept away by the river for an unknown distance, his body shook slightly, and the bio-energy pool resumed operation.

Almost instantly, a trace of power returned to Blood Pupil's body. His eyes suddenly opened, and the next moment he rushed out of the underground river.

With a bang, the underground river, which had been silent for countless years, erupted into a towering water column. Blood Pupil staggered and landed on the river bank.

At this moment, his body was still broken, but new bio-energy was flowing to his entire body like a trickle. Vitality began to recover again. Leaning against a large rock by the river, Blood Pupil gasped for breath. Only then did he use his newly restored vision to pay attention to his surroundings.

At a glance, Blood Pupil was stunned.

He saw that his current location was actually a large underground cave. The whole body was in an irregular circle, like an inverted pot lid. This cave was huge and frighteningly empty. Only an underground river ran through the center of the cave. He escaped from there.

Blood Pupil didn't know where this underground river came from, but he knew that he was trapped. Because judging from the previous encounters, this huge cave must exist in the deep underground of Marie Holstein. There was no external road to reach it at all. And he was squeezed in by the displacement of anti-space.

Thinking of this, Blood Pupil couldn't help but rejoice. If his previous anti-space displacement was a little more biased, he would definitely not have fallen into this big cave, but would have merged with the surrounding rocks. That would really be a death without a burial place.

Leaning against the giant rock by the river, Blood Pupil slowly recovered. Although he couldn't rebuild the cell modules without the core, the good thing about enhanced cells was that their desire to survive was extremely strong. Even without management, they would spontaneously maintain the host's life. All they needed was energy.

Time passed little by little. There was no day and night in the big cave, so Blood Pupil didn't know how long he had been lying here. Finally, one day, he felt that his body had improved a lot. Then he turned over and got up, and began to look for a way out.

The big cave was very large, as empty as an underground wilderness. Blood Pupil was struggling to move forward in the darkness, while releasing his mind power to find a way to leave.

But at this time, he realized that his mind power was greatly restricted here, and it was blurred like a mist.

"Why is this...?"

Blood Pupil was suspicious, and was about to strengthen the intensity of his mind power again. Suddenly, a voice sounded in his mind.

"Master, please follow me..."

"Core!!!??"

Blood Pupil was stunned, and then overjoyed. He didn't expect that the core would suddenly react at this moment. He couldn't help but ask, "What happened to you before?"

"I was suppressed..." The core replied calmly, its tone as rigid as a machine. "Its power is stronger than mine, I can't get rid of its suppression, so I couldn't respond to your call. But now I have reached an agreement with it, so I can talk to you."

"It?" Blood Pupil was suddenly confused. "Who is it? Why did it suppress you, and... where is this...?"

As soon as he finished saying these words, a flash of inspiration suddenly flashed in Blood Pupil's mind. His whole body was stunned. He asked in an unbelievable tone.

"Are you saying, it!?"

"Yes. You guessed right." The core seemed to know what Blood Pupil was thinking, and replied readily. "It's it, the thing you came to the Realm of Spirits to find this time."

"The mist of the Realm of Spirits, the source of the blood spirits... Crodir's..."

"Ruins."

Boom... Blood Pupil only felt a huge shock in his mind, and was completely stunned in place.

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