vncnus Chapter 167 The Southern City Defense Line is in Crisis! The Giant Beast Beneath the Crack!
Chapter 167 The Southern City Defense Line is in Crisis! The Giant Beast Beneath the Crack!
Jiang Ming looked at the images on the holographic projection.
The city walls of the southern defense line have been stained dark red.
Those mutated monsters with tentacles climbed frantically upwards, braving machine gun fire.
When their limbs are severed by bullets, they use their tentacles to cling to the walls and continue wriggling.
Ordinary flamethrowers, when used on them, did nothing to stop the rampant proliferation of those tentacles.
"Brigadier General Chu, it seems your conventional firepower is no match for these mutants." Jiang Ming pointed to a stitched-together monster in the screen that had half its body blown off by a shell but was still crawling forward.
Chu Tianfeng's face was ashen. He grabbed the communicator and roared, "Get the heavy combined arms battalion to the front! Replace all the incendiary bombs with white phosphorus bombs! Even if it costs us our lives, we have to stop this horde of zombies outside the defensive line!"
"It's useless." Jiang Ming interrupted Chu Tianfeng's command. "These monsters have already been infected by the spores of that flesh and blood mother tree. White phosphorus bombs can only burn the surface; the mutated crystals inside their bodies will quickly sprout new flesh buds. No matter how many people you put in, they will all eventually become their kind."
Chu Tianfeng suddenly turned his head and stared intently at Jiang Ming: "You have a way?"
"You saw the power of that cannon shot I just fired." Jiang Ming patted the tank's thick armor. "Perfect timing, my engine needs a lot of flesh and blood fuel. These 100,000 monsters are all mobile batteries."
"You're going to take on a horde of 100,000 zombies all by yourself?" Chu Tianfeng gasped.
"Don't think of me as some kind of saint." Jiang Ming rolled his eyes. "I went to buy some goods. But since I've helped you solve such a big problem, those things I picked out in that warehouse over there..."
"It's all yours! Also, take whatever you can from the armory on the south city defense line, as long as you need it!" Chu Tianfeng made the decision without hesitation.
"Deal." Jiang Ming turned and got into the car.
"Marlowe, coordinates: South City, Third Defense Line, Full Speed Ahead!"
boom!
The Flesh Furnace engine roared deafeningly, its exhaust pipe spewing out two dark red trails of flame.
The bronze-level heavy fortress smashed through the underground base's barriers and rushed towards the surface through the dedicated passage.
……
The third line of defense in the southern city.
The sound of gunfire was deafening.
The air was filled with the pungent smell of gunpowder and the strong stench of blood.
Company Commander Zhao Hu, holding a heavy machine gun, fired wildly at the area below the city wall.
The gun barrels were already red-hot, but the number of monsters surging up from below only increased with each kill.
"Company commander! Position number three has fallen! Those tentacle monsters have climbed up!" A soldier with a blood-covered face scrambled over.
Zhao Hu tossed aside the empty magazine of his heavy machine gun and drew his bayonet from his waist: "Brothers! Fix bayonets! Let's fight these bastards!"
Just then, a very muffled rumble came from the street behind the defensive line.
Even the ground was shaking violently.
Zhao Hu turned around and froze on the spot.
A steel behemoth, fifteen meters long and covered in matte black composite armor, was smashing over abandoned vehicles along the way in an extremely wild manner, heading straight for the breach in the city wall.
The twin-mounted machine guns on the top of the tank and the menacing dark purple main cannon exuded a chilling sense of oppression.
"It's Brother Jiang's chariot! He's come to our aid!" Zhao Hu shouted excitedly.
"Marlowe, block the gap with the vehicle! Chen Qi, clear the area with machine guns!" Jiang Ming stood in the command center, issuing orders methodically.
The chariot swerved, and its heavy bulldozer blade slammed into a section of the collapsed city wall, completely sealing the breach.
Before a dozen or so mutated ghouls that had just climbed the city wall could react, they were blown to pieces by the explosive reactive armor attached to the side skirts of the tank.
"Try my psionic armor-piercing chain cannon!" Chen Qi gripped the control lever tightly.
The dark blue flames instantly tore through the air.
Armor-piercing rounds with spirit-killing properties detonated inside the mutated monsters upon impact.
Large spurts of black blood gushed out, and severed limbs flew everywhere.
Dark red tentacles protruded wildly from under the chariot's chassis, greedily devouring the bits of flesh scattered on the ground.
The engine energy bar began to surge at a visible rate.
[Defeated a mutated ghoul (Lv.20) that is above your level, gaining 4500 experience points.]
[Defeated a mutated stitched monster (Lv.22) that is above your level, gaining 5200 experience points.]
System notifications were constantly ringing in Jiang Ming's ears.
"Boss, there are too many monsters outside! The machine gun barrel is overheating!" Chen Qi reported loudly.
Jiang Ming looked at the holographic radar screen.
The dense red dots representing monsters have completely submerged the area below the city wall.
At the very center of the red dot, at the entrance to the collapsed, abandoned subway station, even larger, higher-level mutants are constantly emerging.
"Marlow, main gun charging ready." Jiang Ming stared at the subway station entrance.
"Understood! Engines at full power! Main gun at 50% charge!" Marlowe roared in the cockpit.
The Thunder Roar main cannon on top of the tank began to emit an extremely piercing buzzing sound.
The Thunder Beast Crystal Core at the tail emitted a dazzling blue light, and rings of solidified electric arcs rapidly coiled around the cannon barrel.
The monsters below the city wall seemed to sense the danger and abandoned their climb, instead surging madly toward the location of the chariot.
Several massive armored rhinoceros monsters crashed directly into the chariot's thick armor.
boom! boom! boom!
The tank shook violently, but the bronze-grade composite armor withstood the impact.
"Charging complete! Target locked!" Chen Qi roared.
"Fire!" Jiang Ming slammed the launch button.
Sizzle—!
A beam of dark blue light, more than two meters in diameter, instantly pierced through the entire battlefield.
The air was compressed and torn apart, producing a piercing sonic boom.
The beam of light hit the collapsed subway station entrance precisely.
Boom!!!
A dazzling blue thunderstorm exploded in the area where the zombie horde was most densely packed.
The violent arcs of electricity spread wildly in all directions, instantly carbonizing all monsters within a radius of 100 meters into ashes.
Even the concrete on the ground was melted into dark red lava.
The entire southern city defense line fell into a brief silence.
The soldiers stared in disbelief at the enormous pit, more than a hundred meters in diameter, beneath the city wall.
The once densely packed horde of monsters has now been completely wiped out.
"What...what kind of weapon is this..." Company Commander Zhao Hu's mouth dropped open, and the military dagger in his hand fell to the ground.
Jiang Ming glanced at the system panel. That shot had directly leveled him up to Lv.22, and his strength attribute had soared once again.
"Don't just stand there! The monsters aren't all dead yet! Keep firing!" Jiang Ming shouted through the vehicle's loudspeaker.
The soldiers snapped out of their daze, raised their guns, and fired wildly at the surviving monsters that were paralyzed by lightning and still twitching.
"Boss, that was awesome! But it used up too much fuel!" Marlowe said, looking at the engine's energy bar, which had dropped significantly.
"There's plenty of fuel down there," Jiang Ming said, pointing to the huge crater that had been blown open.
At the bottom of the pit, the originally collapsed subway station entrance has been completely blown through, revealing a huge crack leading deep underground.
The edges of the crack were covered with dark red fleshy tissue, which was constantly oozing mucus.
Just then, an extremely terrifying pressure emanated from the depths of the crack.
The remaining mutated monsters around them stopped attacking and lay on the ground trembling.
"Something big is about to come out." Jiang Ming narrowed his eyes and gripped the [Hellfire Thunder Prison] greatsword beside him.
The ground began to tremble violently. Soldiers on the defensive line lost their footing and staggered.
"Everyone retreat! Get away from the edge of the city wall!" Company Commander Zhao Hu shouted at the top of his lungs.
boom!
A massive claw, covered in black scales and as thick as a heavy truck, suddenly emerged from a crack at the bottom of the pit and gripped the edge of the rock tightly.
Then, an enormous head slowly rose up.
It was a giant mutated earth dragon that was over twenty meters long.
Its scales were covered with dark red fleshy buds, its eyes had turned into golden vertical pupils, and it spewed out a pungent green poisonous mist from its mouth.
【Mutated Earth Dragon - Abyss Digger (Lv.38 - Warrior Level)】
[Danger Level: Extremely High]
【Features: Powerful acid etching, heavy armor plating, burrowing and attack, rapid regeneration.】
"A level 38 monster!" Chen Qi gasped. "Brother Ming, its scales are thicker than our tanks, aren't they?"
"Whether it's thick or not, we'll only know after we fight it," Jiang Ming sneered.
"Marlow, recharge the main guns! How long will that take?"
"That last shot drained the cache, it will take two minutes to recharge!" Marlowe was sweating profusely with anxiety.
Two minutes was enough for this earth dragon to overturn the entire section of the city wall along with the chariot.
"Chen Qi, aim all the chain guns and machine guns at its eyes! Disrupt its vision!" Jiang Ming pushed open the hatch. "I'll go down and hold it off!"
"Ming-ge! It's too dangerous!" Chen Qi shouted.
Jiang Ming ignored him completely and jumped off the chariot.
In mid-air, he casually took out the bottle of [Highly Effective Corrosive Liquid] and several [Netherfire Fragment Landmines] from his storage ring.
boom!
Jiang Ming landed steadily on the edge of the deep pit.
The terrifying power of 49 points shattered the rocks beneath his feet.
The mutated earth dragon sensed Jiang Ming's presence and let out a deafening roar.
Its enormous tail swept over fiercely, accompanied by a whistling sound.
Jiang Ming did not try to withstand the attack head-on. Instead, he used his legs to propel himself backward for more than ten meters, thus avoiding the fatal blow.
Its tail slammed into a nearby abandoned building, turning a three-story building into ruins.
"Big build, but quick moves." Jiang Ming steadied himself and swung his right hand sharply.
The Soul-Binding Black Iron Chains transformed into a black dragon, precisely binding one of the earth dragon's forelegs.
"Get down!" Jiang Ming roared, activating the "gravity drag" effect attached to the chains, and pressing all his strength onto the chains.
The earth dragon's massive body suddenly tilted to the side, its front legs being forcibly pulled down to its knees.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, Chen Qi unleashed a barrage of fire from his psionic armor-piercing chain gun.
The dense barrage of shells struck the earth dragon's head scales, exploding into a series of dazzling sparks.
Although the attack failed to penetrate the scales, the accompanying spiritual damage caused the earth dragon to roar in agony.
The earth dragon was completely enraged.
It opened its blood-red maw, and a thick, green acidic mist gushed out towards Jiang Ming.
Wherever the acid mist passes, rocks and steel are instantly corroded and pitted.
Jiang Ming quickly rolled to the side, simultaneously slamming the [Ultimate Corrosive Liquid] in his hand hard into the earth dragon's chin.
The glass bottle shattered, and the highly concentrated corrosive liquid reacted violently with the earthworm's own acid mist, burning a large hole directly into the scales on the earthworm's chin.
Dark red blood gushed out.
"Now!" Jiang Ming seized the opportunity and precisely threw a [Netherfire Fragment Landmine] into the hole.
boom!
The Netherfire, which had a soul-burning effect, exploded at the earth dragon's chin.
The earth dragon let out a mournful scream, its huge head suddenly jerking up to reveal its relatively soft neck.
"Boss! Main gun fully charged!" Marlowe's voice came through the communicator.
"Smash it in the neck!" Jiang Ming roared, simultaneously retracting the chains and sprinting backward.
The Thunder Roar main cannon on top of the tank emitted a piercing buzz once again.
Sizzle—!
The eerie blue beam of light instantly traversed a hundred meters and slammed into the exposed neck of the earth dragon.
There is no suspense.
The level 38 warrior monster's proud defense is rendered useless in the face of the epic electromagnetic main cannon.
The thick beam of light pierced straight through the earth dragon's neck, leaving a charred, transparent hole.
The violent lightning arcs raged wildly inside the earth dragon's body, instantly carbonizing its internal organs.
The massive body collapsed with a roar, crashing to the bottom of the deep pit and kicking up clouds of dust.
[First kill of a mutant earth dragon, Abyss Digger (Lv.38, Warrior level)]
[Gained 120000 experience points.]
[Gained 3 free attribute points.]
[Obtained Epic Material: Abyssal Earth Dragon's Acid-Etched Crystal Core.]
[Obtained rare equipment: Heavy Dragonscale Armguards.]
Jiang Ming glanced at the system panel and unhesitatingly added all three points of free attribute to Strength.
Strength attribute breakthrough of 52 points.
He felt an explosive power surging through his body.
The tank slowly drove to the edge of the deep pit.
The tentacles beneath the chassis emerged again, draining the earth dragon's enormous corpse dry.
The Flesh Engine's energy bar instantly filled up, and even overflowed.
"Ming-ge, what good stuff did this big guy drop?" Chen Qi poked his head out of the turret.
Jiang Ming stepped forward and picked up the green crystal core that emitted a strong sour smell, as well as a pair of heavy arm guards covered with black scales.
【Heavy Armor Dragon Scale Gauntlets (Blue - Rare): Defense +60, Strength +5. Comes with the special effect "Absolute Block" (When activated, grants immunity to all physical attacks with a strength attribute lower than the user's for three seconds).】
nice one.
Jiang Ming put on the arm guards and felt the steady power coming from his arms.
As for the epic-level crystal core, Jiang Ming glanced at the weapon interface of the chariot.
This thing, combined with the materials I took from the military warehouse, is enough to synthesize another powerful weapon.
However, now is not the time to synthesize.
The suffocating pressure in the cracks at the bottom of the pit did not dissipate with the death of the earth dragon; instead, it became even more intense.
The oozing dark red viscous fluid began to boil violently, and countless pairs of golden vertical pupils could be faintly seen opening within the fluid.
"Brother Jiang!" Chu Tianfeng arrived at the defensive line in an armored command vehicle. Looking at the strange sight at the bottom of the pit, his face turned pale. "What exactly is that?"
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