The wasteland raced by beneath the wheels, and outside the car window was an eternal, despairing landscape stained red by fungus. An oppressive silence permeated the car, with only the roar of the engine and the heavy breathing of the two people.

Xu Shuangyao's fingers tapped rapidly on the dusty console, pulling up a crude map of the area heavily obstructed by the Sky Curtain system. "The Sky Curtain system isn't just blocking... it's scanning! Any energy fluctuations exceeding the threshold will be locked!" Her expression darkened as she watched the red ripples representing the scanning pulses that continuously appeared around the dot on the screen representing their location. "We're like beacons in the darkness! The Eradicators... they could..."

Before he finished speaking!

The piercing sound of breaking through the air was like the scream of death, tearing through the dull air!

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Three rockets with scarlet tails, like spears thrown from hell, hit the front and flanks of the speeding RV with incredible precision from three different tricky angles!

"Hold on tight!!!" Pei Du's pupils shrank suddenly, and he roared as he turned the steering wheel to the limit! He slammed the brake and clutch!

The RV twisted and drifted like a drunk in the flames and shockwaves of the explosion! The two right tires were blown off by the blast! The heavy car lost its balance and tilted violently sideways, the metal body rubbing violently against the gravel-covered Gobi Desert, emitting a teeth-grinding sound of metal twisting and tearing! Dazzling sparks mixed with broken parts flew everywhere!

The immense force of the impact flung the two people inside the car violently upward! Xu Shuangyao's head slammed heavily against the metal wall of the car, his vision blacking out as warm liquid flowed down his forehead. Pei Du used his body to firmly support the deformed driver's seat, preventing himself from being thrown out.

Creak——!

The RV dragged a long, smoking trail of sparks and eventually landed on its side in a relatively flat depression in an extremely twisted posture, with thick smoke billowing up and flames coming out from under the hood.

"Cough... cough cough..." Xu Shuangyao struggled to climb out of the deformed car. The wound on her forehead burned with pain, and her vision was a little blurry. She saw Pei Du also struggling from the wreckage of the driver's seat. His movements were a little unsteady, and the shadow of the crown between his eyebrows flickered from the extreme maneuvering and impact.

However, there was no time to breathe.

Tick…tick…tick…

Heavy, orderly footsteps drumming on the ground like drumbeats came from far away, with a cold metallic texture, coming from the smoke and dust raised by the explosion.

The smoke and dust gradually dissipated.

Twelve figures, like killing machines forged from the furnace of hell, silently appeared around the overturned RV, forming a perfect, no-dead-angle encirclement.

They stood nearly three meters tall, their bodies covered in thick, dark-red armor resembling insect chitin. Its surface was covered in twisted, thorn-like reliefs and pulsating mycelial veins. Their heads were smooth hemispheres, devoid of facial features, save for a central, constantly rotating composite electronic eye emitting a cold red glow. Their arms, far from limbs, had transformed into two hideous, heavy weapons of terrifying caliber. The left arm housed a multi-barreled pulse cannon, constantly rotating and preheating, emitting a low humming sound, its muzzle flashing with a destructive blue light. The right arm housed an immense, high-frequency chainsaw sword, oozing with dark-red mycelial fluid. Its teeth whirred at high speed, slicing through the air with a piercing shriek.

No words, no warnings. Only absolute, icy murderous intent, like a physical cold wave that instantly froze the very air in the depression. They were the "Eradicators" mentioned in the notice. The purest and most efficient tools of extermination wielded by the Fungal Dome's will.

The leading Eradicator, upon his heavy chest armor, bore the mark of a Crown of Thorns, larger and clearer than any of his kind, though this mark was pierced by a scarlet slash, symbolizing annihilation! The red light of its electronic eye locked onto the phantom of the crown between Pei Du's brows, its cold spectral scanning lines moving up and down.

"Target confirmed: Alpha carrier, Crown of Thorns." A cold electronic synthesized voice emanated from its head, devoid of any emotion. "Execution: Physical decontamination."

Buzz——!!!

The multi-barrel pulse cannon on his left arm instantly charged, and the dazzling blue energy light gathered at the muzzle into a blazing ball of light! The destructive energy fluctuations caused the surrounding air to begin to distort!

Almost at the same time!

Xu Shuangyao endured the dizziness and severe pain, and suddenly pulled out the special Peregrine Gland Pistol from his waist. However, the muzzle was not aimed at the Eradicator, but at a huge rusty server chassis wreckage that was half buried in the ground outside the encirclement without hesitation!

Bang!

High-energy biological pulses hit the wreckage accurately!

Boom!!!

The violent explosion wasn't caused by the impact, but by the ancient coolant and energy pipes remaining within the server wreckage, instantly activated by the pulse energy! Scorching air waves and metal fragments swept in all directions like a storm!

The impact of the explosion and the smoke that obscured the vision created a brief opportunity!

"Go!" Xu Shuangyao shouted hoarsely, and at the same time smashed a small cylinder emitting faint blue light to the ground!

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A thick, pungent gray smoke erupted instantly, spreading rapidly like a living thing, enveloping the entire depression! This was a powerful neural interference and optical obstruction smoke bomb!

"Target disruption protocol activated. Switching to thermal imaging and life field tracking mode." The Eradicators' cold electronic voice echoed through the smoke, without any panic. The electronic eyes on their helmets instantly switched to the dark green night vision and deep red thermal imaging modes. The humming sound of the multi-barreled machine gun charging continued!

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