Phew——!
The blade broke through the tough cuticle and sank deep into the monster's body! A stream of sticky, boiling hot, dark purple blood with a strong corrosive stench spurted out like a high-pressure water gun!
"Roar!!" The monster roared even more violently! Its huge arm, carrying a terrifying wind pressure, swept towards Lu Cheneng beside it like a hammer!
Lu Chen's pupils shrank suddenly! The magic blade was stuck in the monster's body, unable to be pulled out instantly! Mithril's left arm suddenly raised to block!
Bang--!!!
There was a loud, dull thud, like a hammer hitting an anvil!
Lu Cheneng felt an unimaginable force slam into his Mithril arm! The tiny energy cracks on his arm instantly expanded and spread! He felt like he was hit by a high-speed train, his feet off the ground, and he flew backwards! He slammed heavily into a huge, rusted water pump casing behind him! A noticeable dent was left on the hard metal casing!
"Brother Lu!" Ah Jie's eyes were bloodshot as he fired wildly at the monster's head with his shotgun! Bang, bang, bang! The bullets hit its thick stratum corneum and rock-like skin, only splashing sparks and debris, causing no real damage at all!
Wen Shifei also endured the mental shock, and the beam shot from the laser pistol accurately hit the monster's eyes! But the dark purple eyeball seemed to be covered with a layer of energy membrane. The beam only made it close its eyes slightly, which further angered it!
The monster ignored the two's attacks, its dark purple eyes fixed on the knocked-away Lu Cheneng. Its massive paws crushed the ground as it charged forward again! It was determined to crush the insect that had injured it!
Lu Cheneng struggled to his feet from the sunken pump casing. A sharp, bone-shattering energy backlash rippled through his mithril left arm. The mercury lines on the surface flickered, and the cracks became more pronounced. The demonic blade remained lodged in the monster's abdomen. He stared at the monster, crushing him like a mountain. His eyes held no trace of fear, but instead burned with a cold, almost frenzied fire! He needed a weapon! He needed... more power!
At this critical moment!
The gray rat, who had been hiding in the corner, trying to sneak away, suddenly had a glint of cunning and ruthlessness in his eyes! He suddenly pulled out a palm-sized, disc-shaped object from his arms, flashing with an unstable red light, and smashed it hard into the monster's back!
"Try this, you beast!"
boom--!!!
The moment the disc made contact with the monster's back, it exploded! A fiery fireball, laced with countless high-speed fragments, instantly engulfed the monster's back! The shockwave from the explosion sent the unsuspecting monster stumbling!
"Roar!!" The monster roared in agony and fury! The cuticle on its back was charred and shattered, and dark purple blood gushed out! It turned abruptly, and its dark purple eyes instantly locked onto the gray rat that threw the bomb!
Now is the time!
A fierce light flashed in Lu Chen's eyes! His Mithril left arm suddenly grasped through the air! The magic blade inserted into the monster's abdomen seemed to be summoned by an invisible force, humming and vibrating violently!
Swish——!
The magic blade flew out of the monster's body with a puff of dirty blood, turned into a stream of light, and fell accurately into Lu Chenen's mithril palm!
As the blade touched, the mercury luster instantly surged! Lu Cheneng's body shot up like a spring at full power! The mithril arm and the magic blade merged into one, drawing a poignant yet deadly silver arc through the air! His target—the monster's relatively vulnerable neck, injured by the explosion!
"die--!!!"
The cold roar was accompanied by the blade light that tore through space!
puff--!!!
A massive, hideous head covered in a grayish-white keratin layer shot up into the sky amidst a gushing, sticky, dark purple fountain of blood! The monster's massive body crashed to the ground, sending up a cloud of dirty water and dust!
The pump station instantly fell silent, leaving only the thick smell of blood, gunpowder smoke, and the burning smell of overloaded energy.
Lu Cheneng landed steadily, his mithril arm drooping slightly, the tip of his magic blade pointed diagonally at the ground, and sticky, dirty blood slowly dripped down the mercury-like blade. He gasped violently, the energy cracks on his mithril arm becoming more and more clearly visible, and the burning pain from the chip in his brain was like a maggot attached to his bones.
Wen Shifei and Ajie glanced around warily. Gray Rat had vanished! Only the remains of the exploding disc remained on the ground.
"Let him get away!" Ajie cursed unwillingly.
Wen Shifei quickly walked over to the scattered lead boxes and carefully picked up an injection with tweezers, which was glowing with an eerie purple fluorescence. That glow... and the residual forced awakening signal fluctuations on her detector... were surprisingly similar!
"These reagents..." her voice was chilling, "can not only create monsters... but also forcibly stimulate the chip in Qingyi's body! The chaebol... they want to use these reagents... to remotely control Qingyi?!" This inference made her shudder!
Lu Chen entropy walked over to the headless monster's corpse, his mithril arm groping its chest, which was covered with dark purple energy veins. His fingertips touched a hard metal object embedded in the flesh. He pulled hard!
A small, silver metal recorder, stained with sticky blood, was pulled out. On the surface of the device, a tiny "beehive" logo of the chaebol was clearly visible!
He wiped the blood off the recorder and clutched it tightly in his mithril hand. The cold metal edges conveyed the weight of the truth. Behind the black market transactions lay a darker plot and a covetous desire for Lu Qingyi's life.
Deep within the pumping station, the whimpering sound of sewage continued, as if mocking this bloody transaction. Meanwhile, the true hunter had already vanished into the dark maze of sewers.
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