"How about down here?"

Lin Chen nodded, directly releasing the observation station, then casually casting a spell to fix the observation station in midair.

"Dr. Ning, is this altitude sufficient?"

Ning Xiuzhu looked at the light curtain in the observation station: "Yes, this altitude is already enough to see everything clearly."

Lin Chen nodded: "If that’s the case, let’s begin."

Lin Chen deployed the Linglong Tower, golden light dazzling, one by one Lin Chen’s avatars appeared before his eyes.

Ning Xiuzhu witnessed all this personally, his face quite astonished.

"Outer Body Incarnation, transforming into millions, this technique is really powerful. Even a warrior cannot have such a move."

Lin Chen said with a laugh: "Since I came to the Federation, this is the first time I’ve used it on this trip. This move often comes in handy, whether for pathfinding or escape, it’s super useful. I’ve relied on this move to survive numerous life-or-death crises."

Ning Xiuzhu naturally understood the usefulness of Outer Body Incarnation and comprehended the implication in Lin Chen’s words: "I will keep it a secret."

The avatars flew towards the planet’s ground, as their purpose this time was to act as bait, so their strength just needed to be sufficient. Thus, Lin Chen could casually create a large number of avatars.

As a Heaven Deity, Lin Chen, utilizing the Avatar Ability, already had the skill to transform one drop of Essence Blood into countless avatars.

The observation station was located in the sky at this time, with powerful observational abilities that could see even the slightest movements on the ground below, whether a small bird flying by could be seen clearly.

At such an altitude, if the avatars encountered any incidents, he could fully capture the entire process.

Numerous avatars descended to the ground, their task of being bait did not require them to hide, thus they swaggered around, even occasionally provoking the ground below.

No matter what might be hidden in this area, with so many people causing a ruckus, they must have been discovered.

Yesterday the first avatar got into trouble during the daytime, the second one during the dark night, so Lin Chen believed those hidden entities wouldn’t care about day or night; the key was whether an avatar ventured into a certain area.

The range of this planet is vast, even if there are dangerous entities, it certainly could not cover the whole planet but should be in a specific area.

When adventurers first came to this planet, it was natural for them to conduct a thorough exploration of the entire planet, and naturally, they stumbled into dangerous areas.

Similarly for later rescuers, if you want to save people, naturally you have to search the entire planet, so encountering dangerous zones becomes normal as well.

The avatars on the ground caused a commotion as they advanced, while Lin Chen and others floated in space, bringing the observation station, like a satellite above, synchronizing movements with these avatars, always maintaining the clearest and most direct observational state.

While advancing, Lin Chen suddenly sensed something in his mind, he widened his eyes and said in a low voice: "Something’s happened, my avatar disappeared."

"The number of disappearances is still increasing!"

"Quick, look below, what’s happening!"

A few seconds later, Lin Chen looked at the planet below, his eyesight shocked.

In just a few seconds, all the avatars released today lost contact.

To put it simply, they all died.

Not one transmitted any information!

Lin Chen felt a bit horror-struck.

So many avatars, though their strength was low, yet the quantity was considerable and distributed over a wide area, but they all were attacked at the same time, and annihilated in a short time.

For safety, they were quite far from the planet, so he couldn’t see what happened on the ground with the naked eye.

Lin Chen slipped into the observation station and saw Ning Xiuzhu looking at the screen with a shocked expression.

On the screen, an avatar was flying approximately two hundred meters above the ground, and below him on the Sand Sea, something resembling metallic reflection suddenly appeared, scattered like stars rising silently and tracelessly from the sea bottom to the water surface.

The flying avatar obviously noticed the disturbance below, yet before he could look down, his body suddenly stiffened, and as if a meteorite, plummeted towards the ground.

Simultaneously, things resembling chains flew up from the Sand Sea, at a speed invisible to the human eye, instantly entwining the falling avatar, pulling him directly into the Sand Sea, disappearing from sight, and those dots suddenly sank into the Sand Sea, vanishing without a trace.

"What tangled up the avatar?"

Ning Xiuzhu manipulated the screen, eventually pausing at a certain moment.

On the paused screen, an unknown substance over twenty centimeters thick shot explosively from the Sand Sea, swiftly entwining the avatar, wrapping it layer upon layer.

Lin Chen leaned closer and observed for a while: "What’s this, pitch black, tentacles? Tree root, vines?"

Ning Xiuzhu also carefully distinguished: "Not certain, but should be some life form’s body extension."

Lin Chen asked: "To silently and tracelessly kill so many, how did this guy manage it, without detecting its existence?"

Ning Xiuzhu’s face showed confusion: "Yes, it didn’t detect any life form’s movement, could it be this thing isn’t a life form?"

"If not a life form, then what?"

Lin Chen frowned, somewhat puzzled: "So this guy hunts people as survival instinct or for other reasons; he kills them and drags them into the Sand Sea, just to eat?"

Ning Xiuzhu examined images from other angles; other avatars faced almost identical experiences.

Dots emerged from the Sand Sea, the flying avatars suddenly lost control, plummeted, then something like tentacles shot up from below, entwined them, dragging them into the Sand Sea, disappearing from sight.

Lin Chen asked: "When exactly did they die, before being tangled up or after being tangled up?"

Ning Xiuzhu operated the equipment, referencing previous monitoring results.

These avatars were also under observation station’s monitoring, after cross-referencing the status of several deceased avatars, Ning Xiuzhu finally reached a conclusion.

"From the moment they fell, they already lacked life signs, their hearts had stopped beating."

Lin Chen widened his eyes: "Sudden death?"

Ning Xiuzhu nodded with aghast eyes: "Though this conclusion is strange, it is indeed the case, like some invisible thing attacked them, causing their instantaneous death."

For a moment, Lin Chen was numb.

This thing is so divine?

Why does it feel even more mysterious than something from the Cultivation World?

Isn’t this a scientific world?

How come science can’t explain this?

Is the end of science metaphysics?

Lin Chen pondered: "Regardless of what it is, since it’s confirmed something’s down there, I’ll go chop it a few times, see what exactly is below..."