Given the sheer size and sturdiness of these gear sets, and the force they bear when rotating, Wang Lan believed that even the most powerful giant infected would absolutely not be able to withstand them.
So when the giant infected attacked again, Wang Lan quickly rolled backward. The giant infected followed immediately, and Wang Lan leaped high into the air.
But to everyone's surprise, the tentacles on the giant infected creature reached out and grabbed at him. Wang Lan was in mid-air, waving his Vajra Umbrella. He had even carefully controlled the distance, so the sharp tip of the Vajra Umbrella just happened to cut the tentacle. The tentacle immediately started to tremble, and Wang Lan landed on the rotating gears above.
Because the gears were still turning, Wang Lan almost tripped and fell when he landed, but he quickly regained his balance and looked down at the giant infected.
The giant infected creature missed its target and was counterattacked by Wang Lan. It roared and jumped up, charging towards Wang Lan. At this moment, Wang Lan's eyes were wide open, and his attention was highly focused.
When half of the giant infected had already passed the gears, Wang Lan suddenly made a move, raising the Vajra Umbrella and stabbing it towards the giant infected's shoulder.
The Vajra Umbrella pierced through the flesh of the giant infected creature, penetrated its collarbone, and emerged from its shoulder blade.
The giant infected screamed in agony.
The tentacles on his arm lashed out at Wang Lan.
The attack, which felt like a lashing blow, caused Wang Lan to tremble violently. He coughed up blood with a "whoosh," but the grip on the Vajra Umbrella tightened, and the giant infected's wails rose even higher.
Wang Lan spat out the blood in his mouth, gripped the Vajra Umbrella, and pulled backward. Although the giant infected was troublesome, the Vajra Umbrella inserted into his shoulder restricted his movement. Wang Lan gripped the Vajra Umbrella and pulled backward, his legs moving continuously with the rotation of the gears, forcibly pulling the giant infected closer to himself until his waist pressed against the groove of the gear.
The gears kept turning, rubbing against the flesh of the giant infected. Even though the giant infected had strong physical defenses, the pain it suffered from the sharp gear grooves was particularly intense.
Until there was a "ripping" sound!
The giant infected creature's flesh was shredded by the gears, and thick black blood stained the gears, yet they continued to turn.
The tentacles stopped attacking Wang Lan and began to wrap around the gears, attempting to stop the gears from turning. However, even the smallest gear in this core area was as huge as the giant infected, and the gears were interconnected, one after another. How could a few tentacles possibly hinder the operation of the gear set?
The tentacles wrapped around the gears were quickly shredded into pieces. At the same time, the gears around the giant infected's waist acted like saw blades, constantly cutting and devouring the flesh in his abdomen. The giant infected was also being pulled into the gears as they rotated, and he was as if he were squeezed between the gears.
The tentacles that kept growing from the laceration at the waist were also being shredded by the gears. However, as the giant infected's body was pulled closer to the center of the gears, the gears began to have difficulty turning due to the hardness of the flesh. The "crunching" sound was incessant, and the speed of all the gears slowed down.
The giant infected roared a few decibels, and the tentacles on its shoulders tried to attack Wang Lan again, but its movements were noticeably slower.
Wang Lan gripped the Vajra Umbrella tightly, not daring to relax for a moment. He remained unmoved by the tentacles reaching towards him, his legs rhythmically adjusting their pace to follow the rotation of the gears.
Until there was a loud "bang"!
The gear train completely crushed the flesh around the waist of the giant infected, splitting its body in two. Its legs, connected to the muscles of its waist, slumped downwards helplessly.
The tentacles reaching for Wang Lan also went limp. His upper body was caught between the gears, and his internal organs kept slipping out as they were crushed by the gears, turning into blood and flesh that fell downwards.
Wang Lan breathed a sigh of relief, pulled the Vajra Umbrella from the giant infected man's shoulder, and kicked half of his body down.
The giant infected finally died.
Wang Lan also jumped down, because the rotation of the gears required him to keep moving, which wouldn't allow him to rest. Wang Lan landed on the ground and sat down directly. The indescribable relaxation made Wang Lan feel more comfortable than ever before.
But he only rested for a short while before standing up again.
Sun Muchen and Lao Zhang were still by the reactor; he needed to rush over to discuss the next steps with them.
He still needs to keep fighting to survive and keep going.
Wang Lan stood up, tore off the clothes tied to her hands, threw them aside, glanced at the running gear assembly, and prepared to leave.
However, as soon as he moved, he heard a hissing sound behind him.
Wang Lan was stunned and quickly turned her head away.
Suddenly, countless tentacles sprouted from the broken ends of the giant infected creature's two bodies.
The hissing sound came from the tentacles, whose tips were intertwined and their spikes were pierced together, connecting the two parts of the body.
Countless tentacles also grew on the limbs of the giant infected creature, supporting its entire body and allowing it to stand up again little by little.
Looking at the tentacles on the waist of the giant infected creature, which now resembled a hideous maw, Wang Lan trembled and instinctively turned to run.
When the giant infected saw Wang Lan, it swung its arms around, and as it swung, countless tentacles grew out from under its flesh and intertwined with each other. Its arms grew thicker and thicker, like two giant spiked clubs, and slammed into the gear shaft.
The force directly bent and deformed the gear shaft, immediately affecting the operation of the gear set. As the saying goes, "pulling one hair affects the whole body," and a series of chaotic loud noises immediately followed.
"Bang bang!"
"Bang bang!"
Starting from the bent gear shaft, the entire gear set began to make loud, strange noises, and the gears were already running with great difficulty. Just then, the giant infected attacked the gear shaft again.
His arm broke instantly in the attack, but the gear shaft was also broken at the same time. Without the support of the shaft, the gear set immediately disintegrated, starting to crumble from the bottom up.
The gears spun and flew out, and without the support of the bottom gears and shafts, the upper gears gradually collapsed. More and more gears broke free from the shafts, and the rumbling of gear collisions echoed in our ears.
Wang Lan never expected that the giant infected that had been resurrected would be so troublesome, even so powerful. It was clearly determined to destroy the core area!
Wang Lan ran quickly.
At that moment, a sound different from the collision of metal gears was heard above the gear set.
That was like...
thunder!
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