Chapter 706
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Chapter 706 Death Spirit Race!
Fang Yu turned his head to look at Violet.
At this moment, Violet’s eyes were also filled with confusion and bewilderment.
This was Dr. Gary’s power core collection base, which not many people knew about.
Who exactly had come here, killed everyone in the base, and taken away all the power core sources?
A moment later, Violet, Fang Yu, and Bai Ran, the three of them, arrived at the base’s monitoring room.
Violet approached one of the computers, operated it for a bit, and quickly pulled up the surveillance footage of the entire base.
“Rewind to forty minutes ago,” Fang Yu said.
Violet pressed the keyboard.
Soon, the surveillance footage from various positions in the base returned to forty minutes earlier, displayed on the monitor in a sixteen-grid format.
At this time point, workers appeared in all sixteen surveillance videos, clearly showing that the base was still operating normally with no incidents occurring.
Violet pressed fast-forward, and the footage sped up.
After fast-forwarding about five minutes, a strange large figure appeared in several frames!
Violet immediately pressed pause.
In the footage, three surveillance cameras aimed at the base entrance showed a person nearly three meters tall from three different angles.
He wore a black robe and kept his head down, making his face unclear.
However, the person walking beside this figure was very clear in both build and appearance.
It was Dr. Gary, whom both Fang Yu and Violet had met several times before.
Violet pressed play again, letting the video continue at normal speed.
In the footage, Dr. Gary could be seen smiling, talking with the giant figure beside him.
The two walked forward while conversing.
When passing through a corridor, they encountered four base personnel wearing white coats.
At this point, Gary and the figure beside him stopped, seemingly saying something.
Gary smiled and nodded.
Then, the two figures continued walking forward.
At this moment, only one surveillance camera could capture these two figures.
From this camera angle, the two could be seen walking straight ahead, passing by the four base personnel.
What happened next made Violet and Bai Ran’s expressions change.
As the giant figure approached, the four base personnel suddenly disappeared!
At least in the footage, these four conspicuously white-coated base personnel simply vanished into thin air!
What was going on!?
At this point, the recording continued.
Gary and the figure beside him continued walking forward as if nothing had happened.
But where the four base personnel had been standing, there was now a pool of fresh blood and several small fragments of remains.
“How could this…” Bai Ran’s eyes widened as he couldn’t help asking.
“Replay that scene again, slow down the footage,” Fang Yu said.
Violet complied.
A moment later, the recording was rewound to thirty seconds earlier.
Gary and the giant figure walked forward.
When passing the four base personnel, the speed was reduced to one-quarter of the original.
In the frame-by-frame footage, they could see the four base personnel… being pulled by some force in an instant, flying rapidly toward the giant figure.
Then, they flew into the giant figure’s abdomen… and disappeared.
As for the pool of blood on the ground, it was splattered when they flew into the figure’s abdomen…
“These people were sucked into that figure’s body?” Bai Ran asked, his eyes full of shock.
“To be precise, they were devoured,” Fang Yu said. “This monster is probably Gary’s latest research result.”
“No… that’s not it,” Violet stared intently at the screen, fear appearing in her purple eyes.
Seeing Violet’s expression, Fang Yu’s eyes flickered slightly and asked, “Do you know what this is?”
“This is… the Death Specter race!” Violet stared at the figure on the display, her tone extremely terrified.
“Death Specter race?”
Hearing this name, Fang Yu frowned.
He had seen descriptions of the Death Specter race in an ancient book introducing various alien races years ago.
In that book, the Death Specter race was described as an evil race that devoured flesh and blood to strengthen themselves. However, they had supposedly gone extinct long ago and no longer appeared.
Just from hearing about them, they seemed somewhat similar to the Immortal race that had recently attempted to occupy the surface.
However, the Immortal race killed people for conquest and to satisfy their bloodthirst. The Death Specter race devoured flesh and blood to strengthen themselves, to survive.
From this fundamental difference, the two were vastly different.
If the Death Specter race Violet mentioned was the same as the one recorded in that book…
“Do you know about the Death Specter race?” Fang Yu looked at Violet and asked.
Violet turned to look at Fang Yu, her face pale.
For a woman like Violet, Fang Yu found it hard to imagine expressions of fear and panic appearing on her face simultaneously.
But now, Violet looked exactly like that.
She breathed heavily, her eyes wide open, as if recalling something terrifying.
“The Death Specter race… in the Western Region, is historically the most notorious demonic race,” Violet said slowly. “About four hundred years ago was when the Death Specter race was most rampant. They killed people indiscriminately in various places, causing extreme panic in the Western Region… To fight against the Death Specter race, the various forces in the Western Region temporarily halted their conflicts with each other, united, and each sent their strongest powers to form the most powerful team in Western Region history to counterattack the Death Specter race.”
“This struggle lasted for nearly three hundred years. During this time, due to numerical advantage, the Western Region’s united team was generally able to achieve victory, but always at a heavy cost… In short, during these three hundred years, the Death Specter race was gradually weakened.”
“Until a hundred years ago, the team discovered the Death Specter race’s nest and launched a final attack. After that attack, the entire nest of the Death Specter race was destroyed. At that time, the entire Western Region celebrated, believing the Death Specter race had been exterminated.”
“Are you saying the Death Specter race didn’t actually go extinct!?” Bai Ran asked.
Violet glanced at Bai Ran, nodded, and said, “In the past hundred years, there have still been occasional reports of Death Specters appearing… and each time, teams were formed to eliminate them. In the last fifty years, the frequency of Death Specter appearances has decreased.”
“So it seems the Death Specter race can’t cause much trouble anymore,” Bai Ran said.
Fang Yu looked at Violet without speaking.
Since Violet appeared so frightened, it meant she must have personally encountered the Death Specter race.
“Twenty-two years ago, I was still in a mercenary guild in the Western Region… Once our guild received a mission and sent thirty guild elites to execute it… However, on the way to the mission location, we encountered two Death Specters.”
At this point, Violet took a deep breath and rubbed her forehead with her left hand.
What happened that day was her greatest nightmare… Even today, despite possessing extremely powerful abilities, she still couldn’t forget the fear she felt then.
At that time, she was very young and had not yet obtained that energy core.
But the guild leader saw great potential in her, so he let her participate in that mission which would otherwise have been beyond her reach.
In the evening of that day, the thirty-person team needed to pass through a forest.
Because the mission was time-sensitive, the team didn’t stop to rest but continued forward, wanting to get through the forest quickly.
But when the team entered deep into the forest, an accident occurred.
Two Death Specters suddenly jumped out from the dark gaps in the forest on both sides!
Violet still clearly remembered the appearance of these two Death Specters!
Faces formed of black energy like skeletons… dark, hollow eye sockets.
They had no limbs, their entire bodies floating in the air like ghosts.
Demons! The appearance of Death Specters was as hateful and horrible as the depictions of demons in many books!
After the Death Specters appeared, the thirty-person team immediately fell into chaos!
Because anyone who had lived in the Western Region for some time knew the terror of the Death Specter race!
