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Chapter 27: The Landing of the Hope!

Translator: Lonelytree, _Dark_Angel_ Editor: Lucas

Just what kind of monstrosity was this?

A creature like this didn’t feel like it belonged to reality, it waswas as flat as paper and noticeably lacked eyes as well as any other external organs which could be used to indicate its front and rear The only thing that differentiated it frorew out its periphery These needles were exceptionally thin but nowhere near as fragile as a hypoderh a heavily-padded space suit like it was nothing

The eleh was its "children," the rownTheir incredible speed as well as their s theh half of these creatures were taken down by the party’s unceasing fire, around seven or eight of theed to survive the hail of bullets and ended up attacking Ebon and a few other soldiers that were at the forefront

At thisIt was as if the world had imploded upon itself Every sound and diversion around him was drained with the exception of his own heartbeat and a visceral surge of hunger that was flying towards hier that could only be felt after years of starvation It was an undisguised and unfettered feeling of hungering ht then With a mind that was not his own, he dropped his assault rifle to swap for his pistol He heard a voice telling hie shooting The rifle would have shaken toohis aim

Launching forward like a bullet, the shly trained scouts were able to catch their movements To be able to spot the able to stop them The creatures were already several meters away fro, bang, bang!

In the next instance, Ebon unloaded three rounds and three creatures burst ina moment to breath, Ebon took a leap backwards, and not a moment sooner, a creature landed before his feet Before it could recollect itself, Ebon gave it a relentless stoerous as it as a newborn after all, so its shell hadn’t had the tiht, it was easily squished into a pulp

The other four soldiers were not as lucky as Ebon Their rifles were too unwieldy to take down the creatures that were closing in, so in a blink of an eye, the creatures latched onto the men’s suits and deployed their needles Amidst the men’s helpless cries, the creatures bloo as a car tire, and they showed no observable signs of slowing down Theno ti shouted his commands "Retreat! Everyone, retreat back into the shuttle! That includes you, Ebon! Get back in here!"

Further away, the big creature’s body ballooned up once more Another dozen of its "babies" scurried out from underneath its belly as it deflated The newborns floated across the sand towards the retreating party Abandoning their victims that had already been completely sucked dry, the first batch of the creatures joined in the pursuit Even though all of them were paper thin, the difference in size between the two batches was obvious; the newborns were still palroup was already one h the party was retreating, they had never ceased shooting as they orking to clear a path for their co screa that he had used to sto It seemed like the creature’s bodily fluids were incredibly corrosive The toxin did a quick work on Ebon; before the round, his left calf had been wholly eaten away

At the sa towards the party Ying and Liu Bai exchanged a look and then instinctivelyfelt an overbearing silence subround Within that silence, time slowed to a crawl and he found hireater clarity Training his eyes on the big creature furthest away, he found himself with a clear vision of it, down to the patterns it had on its brown shell He had a complete visual of the panorama around him; from the sand lifted off Liu Bai’s boots, to the bedlam behind him as people stu on his ar as paddles to glide rapidly over the sand

He was presented with a clear picture of everything around him with the option to zoom in at any location at will Subconsciously, he dropped his assault rifle in exchange for the sniper rifle on his back Without the aid of a scope, he unloaded nu at could be counfire ca Ebon’s led towards the shuttle