Chapter 159: Frozen Shattered Stars
The five thousand people moved with extreme speed. Even while scaling the mountain, they managed to leave the flat ground established by Qin Hao within just a few seconds.
By the time Qin Hao turned back, the very last evolver had already cleared the trap zone.
Qin Hao’s telekinetic power surged into the earth, and the next moment, towering walls rose along the perimeter of the ground.
Standing on the hillside, the evolvers were still able to observe the battle unfolding below.
Positioned on the slopes, they could clearly see the spatial black holes.
The spatial black holes were never planar; instead, they were three-dimensional spheres.
Predatory creatures could leap out from every direction inside them.
Among the five thousand people, four thousand eight hundred were Tier 2 evolvers, and nearly two hundred were Tier 3 evolvers. Consequently, the predatory creatures they faced numbered 100,000 Tier 2 predators and 16,000 Tier 3 predators.
This quantity was quite horrifying.
Opening five thousand spatial black holes in one breath covered the entire valley in sheer surface area alone.
The pitch-black spatial black holes made one's hair stand on end. Dense and multitudinous, they struck terror into the hearts of the observers. Viewed from above the valley, it was truly a terrifying spectacle.
Once the spatial black holes expanded to a certain degree, they practically merged into a single piece, and at that moment, the predatory creatures swarmed out of the spatial black holes.
Simultaneously, the first batch of creatures appeared, numbering around 100,000.
It was truly a landscape swarming with monsters, densely packed to the point where Qin Hao’s human form was completely submerged beneath a sea of zerg.
Just at that moment, the temperature in the valley plummeted drastically.
To preserve the corpses of these zerg, Qin Hao decided that the best method was freezing.
In an instant, the earth turned pale white. The Tier 3 evolvers felt the surrounding air grow biting cold, shivering uncontrollably, while the Tier 2 evolvers felt a bone-chilling frost and dared not linger to watch the spectacle, retreating further back to maintain their body heat.
The valley was instantly locked in ice.
More and more predatory creatures descended, but before even touching the ground, they were frosted over by the freezing air currents. Under this frigid aura, they turned into blocks of ice one after another, crashing down onto the frozen zerg corpses below and shattering with loud bangs.
"Thud!"
The massive body of a giant snail plummeted, crushing the corpses of several iron-eating bugs.
Elephant beetles dropped down, each striking the earth like a meteor impact.
Phantom butterflies, laden with hallucinogenic toxins, appeared. Before they could even flap their wings or scatter their powder, they were frozen solid into specimens.
Only two types of creatures were still barely surviving.
One of them was the blue bug, the strongest among the Tier 2 predatory creatures dispatched by the Shattered Star Civilization. They possessed an innate mastery of ice, and wherever they passed was like the dead of winter. Their freezing aura could freeze Tier 2 evolvers solid, allowing the creatures to devour them bite by bite.
Their feeding speed was slow, but they liked to hoard food, continuously hunting humans and building nests—a creature with a terrifying level of threat.
Yet, whatever terrifying feats such creatures might commit, none of it could be witnessed in China.
Because here stood the Hero Base, and here were people capable of slaughtering these creatures with ease.
Among the 100,000 predatory creatures, there were only a dozen or so blue bugs. With a few waves of Qin Hao's wind blades, the bodies of these dozen blue bugs were sliced in half, resulting in their utter demise.
The only creature still standing on the scene was the most terrifying one of all.
The Chariot Ladybug.
This creature was actually the size of a large truck, even more colossal than the elephant bugs.
As it landed amidst the swarm of elephant bugs, the intense cold seemed unable to pierce its armor. Even with frost coating its body, the creature rampaged forward unchecked.
The corpses of the elephant bugs in its path were sent flying by its charge, carving out a wide path. It produced thunderous vibrations even heavier than before, and its speed was shockingly fast.
The Chariot Ladybug charged straight toward Qin Hao.
In the blink of an eye, it was right in front of Qin Hao, seemingly moments away from sending him flying.
Yet Qin Hao stood motionless, his telekinetic power still maintaining the frost. Seeing the terrifying Chariot Ladybug close in, Qin Hao finally raised his fist.
Star energy poured into his fist, amplifying his strength, yet his movement did not appear rushed in the least—he merely lifted a single punch.
One fast and one slow, one charging forward with unstoppable momentum and the other casual and effortless.
The two formed a stark contrast.
The Chariot Ladybug finally collided with Qin Hao. In an instant, a wave of star energy erupted, and the body of the Chariot Ladybug, right where it met Qin Hao’s fist, instantly caved inward.
Following that, a colossal force blasted the Chariot Ladybug backward through the air.
The body of the Chariot Ladybug was unimaginably massive, yet even so, it was batted away by Qin Hao, creating a breathtaking spectacle.
The remaining two hundred Tier 3 evolvers watched with surging emotions, shouting out loud, utterly at a loss for how to express their feelings.
"Holy crap!"
"God, are you kidding me? Since when are these invading monsters this weak?"
"Is the Chariot Ladybug made of paper?"
"It's not that the enemy is too weak; it's that our side is too strong."
These evolvers, living amidst the apocalypse, experienced a lighthearted urge to banter for the very first time.
Even while enduring the bitter frost of Qin Hao’s telekinesis and the overwhelming pressure of Tier 3 predatory creatures, they were still able to laugh and chat.
In this exact moment, they felt the overwhelming sensation of being carried to victory by a supreme master.
In less than five minutes from start to finish, the spatial black holes spat out predatory creatures, and Qin Hao slaughtered them all.
No bloodshed, no brutality, no frantic slaughter.
A powerful chill brought the battle to an end just like that.
The monsters' corpses piled up like mountains, especially creatures like the elephant bugs, each the size of an elephant. With the spatial black holes opening twenty meters up in the air, the piles nearly reached that height.
Once the dust settled and the snowstorm ceased, Qin Hao pulled back his ice energy, though the creatures remained trapped in a frozen state.
Qin Hao swept up the scattered star energy drills, emanating his telekinetic power.
"Come back now to collect your star energy drills."
Only then did the Tier 2 heroes dare to climb back up the mountain. Upon seeing the ice-sealed valley below, they found themselves completely devoid of adjectives to describe their feelings.
Qin Hao quickly distributed the star energy drills, and soon after, five hundred ordinary evolvers were led over by Ling Bo. These Tier 1 evolvers had previously been unable to keep up with the speed of Qin Hao and the others, and given their strength, they couldn't even withstand the pressure, remaining all the while on the other side of the mountain.
Under Ling Bo’s guidance, these people quickly set about transporting the corpses back.
"Remember to drain the blood; leave the blood for me," Qin Hao instructed.
"Understood."
When Ling Bo and Qin Hao were building the light energy generator, they had once witnessed Qin Hao using the gene devouring technique, knowing that he could consume blood to strengthen himself, so they naturally wouldn't forget.
Qin Hao led the group back to the Hero Base. Although other heroes also returned with their teams around that time, none of their teams carried the sheer, awe-inspiring impact of Qin Hao's group.
The number one expert truly lived up to his name as the number one expert.