Cultivation towards immortality, starting from being a fisherman
Chapter 577 - 319: Shadow City!_2

Chapter 577: Chapter 319: Shadow City!_2

The club members could provide both manpower and resources.

The reward was, if the situation was resolved, the opportunity for a collaboration project or other transcendent resources from a transcendent force.

The Great Commander of Kangaroo Country had to share the relevant intelligence publicly and provide them with a priority collaboration opportunity.

The first batch of materials required was not difficult for Kangaroo Country.

In fact, it was quite simple.

In order to hasten the completion of the Sealing Array, they had received a transcendent revelation: using a large amount of Blood Food could delay the outbreak and spread of the anomaly.

As long as the Blood Food was living, livestock was best.

And as is well known,

Kangaroo Country is an agricultural powerhouse.

Besides the extensive cattle and sheep industries,

rabbits and kangaroos had long been proliferating to the point of being a plague.

To address the rabbit and kangaroo problem, Kangaroo Country strongly encouraged relevant economic sectors.

However, the results had always been poor.

Now, they could kill two birds with one stone.

Thus, organizations throughout Kangaroo Country started to buy live rabbits and kangaroos with money.

At the same time, most of the cattle and sheep that were ready or could be marketed were kept from being slaughtered.

Instead, after being compensated at market price, they were loaded onto trucks and taken away, sent into uninhabited areas.

The next morning,

a convoy consisting of hundreds of large trucks arrived at the destination along the highway of the uninhabited area.

Then, staff members in white overalls, with the help of exoskeletons and semi-automatic machinery of the vehicles,

moved the semi-conscious cattle and sheep out of the trucks and set them on the desert of the uninhabited area.

This work had just reached two-thirds completion,

when suddenly, whether it was the truck drivers or the workers, they all heard their team leader’s somewhat anxious voice through the communication device.

"Hurry up! The boss just relayed the message; this area is about to enter a dangerous period."

"You have five minutes left, five minutes after which you must evacuate!"

"Guys, push harder, the bonus this time will satisfy everyone!"

The convoy’s leader cheered with a megaphone and then watched the clock.

Although, according to the time given by the boss, they still had five minutes.

But... as three minutes passed, the team leader’s eyes widened as he saw in the distance between the desert and the sky,

what seemed to be a black line breaking through from the ground, shooting straight up into the sky.

This turned the originally clear sky instantly cloudy.

A chilling unease instantly crawled over the skin of every inch of the team leader.

He swallowed hard.

Compared to the bonus for perfectly completing the task,

the team leader ultimately succumbed to the fear in his heart.

He took a deep breath, picked up the megaphone, and issued the order to stop the transfer of targets and evacuate immediately.

Instantly, the workers in the trucks hurried aboard.

And ignored the remaining cattle, sheep, and other live animals on the trucks.

Some of these animals, drowsy, opened their eyes, unaware that just then, they had narrowly escaped a great disaster.

The convoy began to evacuate, and through the rearview mirrors, the drivers could see the growing abnormal black lines between the clouds and the earth in the distance.

This caused the drivers to involuntarily press the gas pedal harder.

In various locations of the uninhabited area, similar events were continuously happening.

The local transcendent beings stationed in Taoist temples, temples, and churches,

felt the immense evil and soul-shaking pressure emerging deep within the uninhabited area.

The higher their Cultivation, the more acutely they felt this pressure.

The more seriously they took their guardian mission.

They even felt a sense of mission regarding the matter,

making them believe that what they were doing now was of great significance to the whole world and all humanity!

...

As the allotted time arrived,

the Great Commander of Kangaroo Country and many others were sitting in the Transcendent Collaboration Monitoring Room,

watching the ultra-clear, ultra-wide-angle, real-time satellite images kindly provided by the Eastern Ancient Country.

They saw the anomalies starting to emerge in their own uninhabited area.

Soon, it covered a large part of the uninhabited area.

Based on estimates from the images, it was over ten thousand square kilometers!

Such an extent of coverage was as large as the largest city on Water Blue Star.

Even many countries and regions do not have this much area.

After observing through various observation equipment and building a model with a supercomputer,

as the anomaly ceased to change,

the projection model was successfully established and appeared before everyone.

It allowed them to see the true nature of the anomaly in the uninhabited area.

It looked like an inverted bowl placed on the desert of the uninhabited area.

The black semi-transparent membrane was filled with black fog.

As a result, even the best satellites and observation equipment could not clearly see what was inside the black fog.

Luckily,

when the Great Commander of Kangaroo Country arranged to provide live creatures, they often included observation equipment in those creatures.

Adding to this, both the Eastern Ancient Country and Huaqi Country also provided some of their equipment.

The exterior couldn’t observe it.

As the interior equipment was activated,

people outside breathed a sigh of relief.

Their greatest fears were that the transmission signals of their observation equipment would be restricted,

a common occurrence when they had encountered the transcendent before.

However, in this case, although most of the observation equipment malfunctioned,

a small fraction of the devices from major powers such as the Eastern Ancient Country and Huaqi Country, were still operating normally,

and had begun transmitting images for analysis through special means.

Soon, the curious people from the outside world saw the world inside the black fog.

It was a surveillance perspective mounted under a kangaroo’s neck.

In this perspective, everything was filled with dark gray tones.

It appeared as a world existing only in shades of black and gray.

In this world, there were countless twisted and blurred skyscrapers stretching infinitely high.

And quickly, slim, elongated shadows completely composed of black darted out from the ground and buildings all around.

A shadow approached the kangaroo that had just woken up and was still bewildered,

frightening the kangaroo into instinctively jumping up and throwing a punch.

But the punch went right through the shadow as if it were merely an illusion.

However!

As the shadow pounced abruptly,

the kangaroo’s surveillance equipment quickly broke with a crack, interrupting the transmission of images.

The last transmission was just a series of eerie crackling sounds...

"What’s going on?"

"Inside the black fog, is there a city?"

"Or is it a dark shadow city with countless tall skyscrapers!"

Although it was not clear what the skyscrapers, only visible in shades of black and gray and obscured by shadows, looked like,

or their details, as they were enveloped in thick darkness,

it didn’t prevent the viewers who watched the video from conceiving the idea that it was a city with a highly advanced civilization.

Due to limited viewpoints and few contents, and after being shadowed there were no details,

these people were mainly speculating whether it could be remnants of a lost civilization from Ancient Times.

They would not guess, however, that this Shadow City was actually a replica of the City of No Sleep from Water Blue Star.

Inside the Shadow City,

a grand banquet was underway.

After Su Ping completed setting up the Shadow Gems,

he activated the Shadow Domain and created the Shadow City as a pasture,

and then flew to mid-air, releasing his Divine Sense to observe the changes in the Shadow City.

At this moment in the Shadow City,

countless ghost shadows, transformed from human soul fragments encompassing all spectrums of emotions and desires,

were devouring the live creatures provided by the Great Commander of Kangaroo Country.

Millions of cattle, sheep, and an equal number of other creatures, were consumed in a short time.

Having fed on this blood food, the ghost shadows began to evolve.

Some of the ghost shadows started to consciously attack other ghost shadows,

initiating a new display of big fish eating smaller fish.

In this process, some ghost shadows evolved into the lowest level of shadow creatures,

and although they appeared grotesque, far beyond the aesthetic limits of ordinary people,

they began to have value for Su Ping’s use.