Silicon Invasion

The fatty's exclamation drew the attention of the other students. As they followed his gaze to look out the window, a chorus of gasps erupted.

"It's a spatial rift!"

Just four or five hundred meters to the right of the road, a meter or so above the ground, the space was unnaturally distorted. Flecks of ghostly light outlined an irregular circle of a hundred or so square meters, from which one could see strange and bizarre scenes that definitely didn't belong to Blue Star.

However, it wasn't beautiful. It was like a landscape painting with a piece cut out and replaced with a picture of a tropical rainforest, utterly incongruous, making Luo Rui feel deeply uncomfortable.

Fear began to mix with the exclamations. Everyone was familiar with spatial rifts. These things had suddenly appeared more than fifty years ago, connecting Blue Star to another world.

To date, humanity hadn't discovered any traces of civilization there, but the other world possessed even more fantastical creatures.

Silicon-based beasts, a product of the combination of silicon and carbon bases. Researchers still haven't figured out how they were born, and ultimately can only attribute it to a unique element of the other world—the Z element.

The Z element isn't scarce in the other world. It's widely present in the ecological cycle. Under its influence, carbon-based organisms have undergone wondrous mutations.

Those with lower degrees of mutation have only added simple structures like metal armor, while those with higher degrees have had their entire bodies basically replaced by metal structures, even evolving powerful ranged weapons.

It was these guys who once caused enormous damage to Blue Star.

Even now, due to the randomness of the appearance of spatial rifts, they still pose a threat to people.

The spatial rift before Luo Rui and the others was clearly newly formed. In the time before the military arrived, it was at its most threatening.

Fortunately, spatial rifts also appear randomly in the other world. If it connects to a place where silicon-based beasts are rare, then even if it closes directly, probably no silicon-based beasts will come out.

But if it's the opposite…

Everyone's understanding of spatial rifts had always been confined to books and movies. This was the first time they'd encountered one in reality, and at such close range.

This was not an experience they wanted.

The teachers and students in front and behind also seemed to have noticed the anomaly. The convoy became somewhat chaotic, but quickly stabilized again.

The special living environment and the related drills that the school's teachers and students did every year came into play at this time.

"Everyone, don't worry, the principal has already reported the situation to the garrison."

"Yeah, this spatial rift just formed, silicon-based beasts won't come out so quickly."

Speak of the devil, and he shall appear. Before the person finished speaking, a giant beast suddenly leaped out of the ghostly circle.

"It's a Black Wolf!"

The crowd erupted into another chorus of gasps.

Black Wolves are a type of silicon-based beast that are extremely numerous and widely distributed in the other world. They are usually 4-6 meters long, with a shoulder height of 1.5-2 meters. They are hairless, with black bodies that gleam slightly, long snouts, narrow faces, pointed ears, and hooked, sharp claws, full of metallic texture. Their necks and limbs are extremely thick, full of power. In addition, they have a tail that is equally thick, accounting for one-third of their body length.

Most notably, their foreheads, cheeks, mandibles, necks, chests, backs, and shoulders are covered with naturally grown, ghostly green metal plates, giving them a hint of eerie technology.

The metal plates increase their weight, reaching 3-5 tons. In addition, Blue Star's gravity is much higher than that of the other world, so the Black Wolf stumbled as soon as it leaped out of the rift.

However, its strong physical qualities and low center of gravity allowed it to quickly adapt.

The Black Wolf shook its head, and its attention was immediately drawn to the convoy driving not far away.

The buses were large, gleaming with metallic light. The Black Wolf whimpered, took two steps back. Its intelligence wasn't low, and it maintained due caution towards this behemoth it had never seen before.

However, the bus was square and without any aggressive structures, making the Black Wolf realize that this might be extremely delicious food, but it still didn't act rashly, instead turning its head and roaring loudly several times.

The sound was obscure and unpleasant, but it was quickly answered. Accompanied by more roars, the second and third Black Wolves leaped out of the spatial rift, and the number continued to increase.

"It's a pack of Black Wolves!"

"Speed up!"

"Woo woo woo…"

"Honk the horn!"

Faced with the threat, the crowd became somewhat chaotic. Black Wolves are fierce predators with extremely strong aggression. With the human body, being brushed by this size of silicon-based beast would cause injury, and being touched would mean death.

Before long, the number of Black Wolves had reached eleven, and there were still roars coming from within the rift, indicating that this number was far from their limit.

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Their numbers emboldened them, and they began to run towards the road. They were very fast, constantly closing the distance between them, but at this time the buses honked their horns together.

The sound was deafening. Normally, hearing it nearby would cause many people to curse, but at this time it was like heavenly music.

The Black Wolves were indeed deterred, maintaining a cautious distance, trailing the convoy.

Seeing this scene, everyone breathed a sigh of relief. Don't look at how happily the Black Wolves are running now, but that's because their explosive power is strong. Without evolving an energy core, they can't maintain a long period of eruption.

At this speed, they can only run for a minute, while the buses can run until they run out of gas.

But at this moment, a private car suddenly drove up on the oncoming lane. There were several young people in the car, and heavy metal music came back through the car windows.

The few people were having a great time, suddenly disturbed by the buses honking their horns as they passed by. The driver opened the car window and was about to curse when he suddenly saw the pack of Black Wolves running alongside the road.

His body acted before his brain. The driver instinctively braked and slammed the steering wheel, trying to turn around, but the current road conditions didn't support him doing so.

The out-of-control car slammed into a bus, the front window of the bus with a foam board with the number 7 clipped to it.

The impact caused the speeding bus to lose control. Luo Rui, who was staring at the pack of Black Wolves in front of the window, experienced the dangers of not wearing a seat belt. Before he could react, he was thrown out of the window by the rapidly spinning bus.

Luo Rui felt dizzy. He tumbled more than a dozen times before stopping. Although the weeds on the side of the road alleviated his impact and he was lucky not to twist his neck.

But his brain still suffered a slight concussion. He got up in a daze, looking at the pack of Black Wolves close at hand, and couldn't help but think of the three philosophical questions.

Who am I?

Where do I come from?

Where am I going?

But before Luo Rui could find the answer, a faint light that no one noticed flew out of the rift and struck his body at an unimaginable speed.

Strangely, Luo Rui wasn't pierced by this thing, but instead, his eyes rolled back and he fainted.