Meteor Fall Master in the 'Starry Abyss'
Chapter 90 - 072. Roche limit_2

Chapter 90: 072. Roche limit_2

She suddenly turned around, and Li Aozi’s speed had already surpassed her, beginning to drag her backward.

"—Are you crazy?!"

Not until this moment did the Professor truly feel the madness in this series of actions from Li Aozi.

Drifting toward the center of the storm, Li Aozi used gravity to pull himself, while the Scavenger’s coat, pressed against the ground, ignited into fiery red flames due to the high-speed friction.

The situation reversed.

Li Aozi and the Professor tugged at each other, but ultimately, it was the Professor’s strength that prevailed. Her legs buried into the earth, plowing deep furrows across sand dunes and snowdrifts.

At the same time, she rapidly unfolded her wing-like pulmonary lobes and internal fibrous membranes to maximize contact area and air resistance.

Li Aozi’s recovery rate for Arcane Energy was barely keeping up with the consumption, but then an opportunity arose—the distant storm was growing increasingly imminent!

The frigid frost storm, which hadn’t yet touched the ground, had already lifted dunes and glaciers, hurling them into the sky and shattering them into dust, ultimately becoming part of itself, growing more intense and turbulent, thundering and flashing across the barren, wailing land.

"Captain Nimotin, we should go now..."

The storm had become too significant to ignore, and Yawen immediately came forward to try to support Nimotin when she heard a loud shout from Li Aozi.

"Agent Yawen, shoot me twice!"

"—What?"

Yawen was taken aback.

"Stop talking, just shoot me twice, and make sure not to hit my head!"

Confused as Yawen was, Nimotin didn’t miss the chance. He immediately snatched the gun from Yawen’s hand, aimed at Li Aozi, and promptly pulled the trigger.

"As you wish!" Nimotin sneered.

Bang! Bang!

Li Aozi got shot in the abdomen and shoulder, blood spraying everywhere.

-25, -29!

Li Aozi’s health points plummeted rapidly, and together with limb dislocation injuries from earlier, his health had just dropped below ten percent.

Specialty·[Desperate Counterattack]activated.

Tenacity, output rate, and attack speed all increase by eighty percent!

Although attack speed and output rate had no substantial effect on Li Aozi’s [Gravity] Arcane Energy, the key lay in tenacity.

Tenacity, as it is known, is the ability to resist any control status.

Only [Destruction Type] professions possess the real dominance and ability to be immune to control, making high tenacity invaluable, a quality always difficult to enhance.

"There is a storm from the Outer World behind us; what are you doing? The storm will devour even you!"

The Professor’s tone grew increasingly grave:

"Li Aozi, you are seeking death!"

Li Aozi didn’t respond. Pulled by gravity and continuously accelerating, he was bearing a substantial overload. Even as a gravity manipulator, his body had been compressed by about five centimeters.

He was charging into the storm at speeds exceeding 400 kilometers per hour, a speed comparable to a high-speed rail, moving so fast that the snowflakes hitting his breathing mask and goggles felt as painful as bullets.

He was still accelerating.

The Professor’s body dragged along the ground, she spread her body wide, attempting to use the principle of the parachute to increase wind resistance, but soon the water in her body was depleted and drained dry.

Arcane Energy stems from the power in the genes, but the Biochemist’s body didn’t have that much water to spare.

She grabbed the chains and tried to electrocute Li Aozi into letting go; however, despite his ragged clothes having no damage-resistant armor attributes, his gloves were insulating.

"Fooled ya! I’ve smelted gold!" Li Aozi turned and flipped off the Professor.

Even though it was tough for him, 80% tenacity allowed him to almost unaffectedly adjust his posture and movements while swiftly sliding through the snowy field, timely dodging and bypassing those massive rock obstacles.

Li Aozi tilted his head, then suddenly straightened up, using his tenacity to forcefully flip over, hurling both the Professor and himself towards the storm clouds in the sky!

Before this, he had utilized a gravitational direction that provided an acceleration of up to 20G. The moment he flung the Professor, she experienced a positive-negative overload of 20G.

If it were just a momentary overload, it wouldn’t have been enough to cause her extraordinary physique any pain.

But the structure of the human body meant that the neck couldn’t be secured; her blood instantly dislodged from her head, causing instant black vision.

After breaking free from Li Aozi, she faced an even more severe problem—negative overload.

Compared to hypergravity, the reverse acceleration caused by instantaneous deceleration was also up to 20G, but organisms living under a gravitational system simply could not endure such negative pressure.

Her blood rushed back into her skull in an instant, and the blood vessels in her brain burst under this pressure. Even if her biochemically modified body continuously repaired itself, during this short period, the Professor’s will was interrupted, and she could no longer control the Infant Eater’s body.

Hum—

The Infant Eater’s mouth gaped open, spewing fresh blood from her mouth, nose, ears, and eyes.

Yet even so, it still wasn’t enough to kill her. The core in her chest continued to operate, its metabolism speed far surpassing the gravitational damage inflicted on her.

It still wasn’t enough, still couldn’t finish her off. This despairing gap, was there truly no way at all...?

Li Aozi’s clumsy brain spun rapidly. Thanks to the "higher education knowledge" snagged from Agent Yawen, university-level physics knowledge was included.

Knowledge is power!

Not only that, the Professor also had to endure gravity from two directions.

Li Aozi squeezed his hands forward.

Gravity retraction!

Firstly, from the gravitational field released by Aozi, which was closest to her, exerting a force of up to 40G.

Secondly, from the Earth’s core’s gravity of one G.

At that moment, relying on his tenacity, Li Aozi nullified Azure Star’s gravitational control on himself, steadying his form in midair.

During this brief hovering period, Li Aozi exported all his remaining Arcane Energy. The gravitational field, with him at the center, caused air, snowflakes, and dirt to lift off the ground, rapidly condensing into a semi-gaseous, semi-solid sphere.

"Attract, pull, shred!"

Under the force of two gravitational bodies, the Infant Eater’s body was instantly torn apart, ripped open, along with her skull and vertebrae carrying thin layers of organs and flesh, forming a ring of flesh and blood around the sphere with Li Aozi at its core.

Yet even so, the killing notification still didn’t come. The life force of a Beta Rank was too terrifying, and Li Aozi could still see her health bar rising rapidly, the human flesh ring around him sprouting fine meat buds and fluffy tentacles.

This was the terrifying aspect of the Biochemist—once any of those cells were breathed into the body, one could eventually be infected, possessed, slowly replaced.

So—

A streak of lightning tore through the sky; driven by gravity, Li Aozi brought the faux celestial body enveloping him to land, quietly waiting for the storm to pass.

"Speaking of which, Professor, as an unscrupulous materialist, and as a scientist, I reckon you don’t believe in divine retribution, do you?"

The flesh and blood ring had already lost its self-awareness, not understanding a word Li Aozi said, just focusing on repairing itself.

Li Aozi smiled, sitting cross-legged inside the false celestial body:

"Then let me personally bring the wrath of heaven down upon your head!"