However, in the chaotic moment when smoke rose and explosion fragments flew!
A figure, like a silver lightning tearing through the smoke, rushed towards the Eradicator captain with the Crown of Obliteration branded on his chest with an indomitable and determined killing intent!
It’s Pei Du!
He abandoned all defense, pouring all his strength, all his rage, all the pain of being burned by the crown into the long sword in his hand! The shadow of the crown of thorns between his eyebrows erupted with an unprecedented blazing light, even overwhelming the charging light ball of the Eradicator machine gun! The dark golden thorn pattern on the blade seemed to come alive, wrapped in the cold blade light, and emitted a high-frequency vibration!
“Get out of here!!!” A beast-like roar accompanied by a blade that tore through the air!
Clang——!!!!
The long sword was wrapped in a dark golden energy flow, like falling thunder, and it slashed fiercely on the chainsaw sword on the right arm of the Eradicator captain who hastily raised it to block!
The piercing sound of metal clashing, sharp enough to shatter eardrums, rang out! A violent energy shockwave exploded in a circular pattern, instantly clearing a large area of the surrounding thick smoke!
The Eradicator Captain's immensely heavy frame was unexpectedly sent stumbling backward by this blow, embodying the power of the crown and Pei Du's utter fury! The chainsaw sword on his right arm groaned under the weight, several of the rapidly spinning teeth snapping violently! Dark red, sticky "blood"—actually highly activated mycelial energy fluid—spurted from the cracks in his armor!
"Threat level reassessed: Alpha carrier energy peak is abnormal! Prioritize fire!" The Eradicator captain's electronic voice showed rapid fluctuations for the first time!
The remaining eleven Eradicators reacted with ghostly speed! Ignoring Xu Shuangyao, who was temporarily obscured by the smoke, they instantly turned all their weapons towards Pei Du! The charged beams of their multi-barrel pulse cannons connected into a dark blue web of death! The shrieking sound of high-frequency chainsaw swords tearing through the air echoed from all directions!
"Pei Du!" Xu Shuangyao let out a heart-wrenching cry at the edge of the smoke, his heart almost stopping!
At this critical moment!
The phantom of the crown between Pei Du's brows suddenly shrank inward! Far from retreating, he used the recoil from his strike against the Eradicator captain to perform a strange, extreme backward twist like a ghost! He narrowly avoided three intersecting, deadly pulse beams! The scorching energy stream brushed past his battle suit, leaving a charred mark!
At the same time, the long sword in his hand drew an arc like an antelope's horns, and the dark gold energy remaining on the blade coiled and extended like a living snake!
Swish!
The blade flashed across the knee joint of an Eradicator who was raising his chainsaw sword to chop down! There was a relatively fragile gap in the armor!
Dark gold energy eroded in like potent acid! The Eradicator's massive body suddenly stiffened, its right leg's mechanical structure below the knee instantly covered, corroded, and disintegrated by dark gold thorns! It lost its balance, and its massive body tumbled forward with a crash!
The encirclement was torn into a tiny gap by this desperate knife!
"This way!" Pei Du roared, not wanting to fight any longer. Like an arrow shot from a bow, he rushed desperately towards the gap! His movements were as fast as lightning. Before the eradicators could readjust their firepower, he had already rushed into a denser shadow area at the edge of the depression, composed of giant fungus fossils and metal ruins!
"Target escaped! Pursuit protocol activated! Sky Dome provides coordinates!" The Eradicator Captain's electronic voice was filled with cold anger. The Crown of Obliteration symbol on its chest lit up with a glaring red light.
The eleven remaining Eradicators, like the most sophisticated killing machines, instantly activated, their heavy footsteps crushing the rocks as they chased after Pei Du in the direction he had disappeared. The hum of the pulse cannons charging and the shrieking of the chainsaw swords tore through the air once again.
In the smoke-filled depression, all that was left were the overturned and burning wreckage of the RV, the broken mechanical legs of the Eradicator, and large amounts of dark red bacterial blood sprayed on the ground, wriggling slightly like a living thing.
Xu Shuangyao struggled to crawl out from behind a collapsed metal plate. Blood mixed with sweat from her forehead flowed into her eyes, causing a blurry, stinging sensation. She looked in the direction Pei Du had disappeared, at the terrifying figures pursuing her, at the burning RV, and at the broken Eradicator's mechanical leg on the ground, covered in golden thorn patterns...
The brand of a false god, the pursuit of extinction, the shattered vehicle, the seriously injured companions, the ever-increasing 167-hour countdown, and the slowly creeping blood-red fungus network covering everything overhead...
From this moment on, every step on the road of escape is on blood-stained thorns.
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