“Boom!!”

As the seabed trembled, the water in the entire sea area began to stir.

The thick, towering horn pierced through the base from below, and then destroyed each floor of the base with great ease.

A loud bang accompanied by countless broken buildings exploded in all directions, splashing out hollow tracks in the sea water.

At this moment, a golden-red light shot out from the wreckage of the building and in the blink of an eye reached the sea water about a hundred meters above the base. It was Li Yun who flew out of the base with Lu Ying and Dr. Schmidt.

In the turbulent deep sea water, Li Yun grabbed Lu Ying and Dr. Schmidt, and a golden-red shield with a diameter of three meters was erected on his body. He frowned as he looked at the constantly collapsing base below and the steel horn that pierced the entire base.

As one of the most important bases of the Ninth Category Affairs Company, Base No. 3 is naturally quite large in scale.

The part of the base above the seabed alone is 500 meters high, comparable to the second tallest building in the world.

But such a magnificent building can only barely exceed the horn and is completely incomparable to the body of the giant beast below the horn.

At the same time, on the way out of the base, Li Yun discovered that the horn not only pierced the base, but was also constantly absorbing the walls of the base, making the horn even thicker.

"What the hell is this?"

Li Yun couldn't help but ask.

Dr. Schmidt looked down and said with a blank expression: "1-017, codename [Iron Gnawer]..."

The name is taken from the Chinese book Shen Yi Jing Zhong Huang Jing: "In the south there is a beast, with horns and feet as big as a buffalo, with fur as black as lacquer, eating iron and drinking water, and its feces can be used as weapons, and its sharpness is like steel, so it is called Nitie Tie."

Although 1-017 is not a true iron-eating beast, it does have the ability to eat iron.

"…To be exact, 1-017 can absorb all types of metals. Any metal that touches its body will be absorbed by it and completely turned into a part of its body."

"This guy is the first anomaly contained by Base 3, and is also one of the fundamental reasons why Base 3 was built on the seabed."

Hearing Dr. Schmidt's slightly numb words, Li Yun couldn't help but frown.

"You mean, there's been something like this sleeping under Base No. 3?"

"Yes."

Dr. Schmidt sighed and said, “When we first discovered it, it had already been hiding in the mountains and absorbed a huge amount of mineral veins, turning into a giant beast with a body length of more than 3,000 meters.”

"Such a huge monster, coupled with its ability to absorb metal, cannot be contained by any conventional human means."

"So, we used a mind containment device to put it into a permanent sleep. Then, the company chose the bottom of the deep sea as its containment place, and built a base where it could monitor 1-017's mental activity level."

"This is the predecessor of Base No. 3..."

Li Yun was so upset that he couldn't help but complain: "You guys are so careless!"

Dr. Schmidt smiled bitterly and said, "1-017's mental state has been very stable. The organization has been sending people to monitor it. The psychic anomaly that contained it was placed next door, ready to comfort it at any time."

"To be honest, I have no idea how it managed to break through containment..."

Li Yun frowned and said, "Crimson Demon?"

Dr. Schmidt said without hesitation: "Impossible. The depth of that abnormal containment object is far greater than that of the Crimson Demon. The mental dormancy caused by it is absolutely impossible for the Crimson Demon to awaken it."

"Then I am a little confused..."

Li Yun complained: "In the final analysis, you shouldn't have expanded the base, let alone transferred so many anomalies here."

Dr. Schmidt shook his head and said, "You don't know that this sea area itself is an anomaly. With the No. 3 base as the center, the sea area within a radius of 30 kilometers has a similar effect to 'weak water'."

The "Classic of Mountains and Seas" says: There is water in the north of Kunlun, its power is not enough to defeat mustard, so it is named Weak Water.

Not even a feather can float on the Weak Water, and it is impossible to cross it.

In the eyes of the Ninth Category Affairs Company, this sea area is a natural containment measure and suppression area. Even if there are anomalies that break through the containment, they cannot escape from the sea surface.

Hearing this, Li Yun couldn't help but frown.

"Since this sea area has a weak water effect, what is the current situation of the base personnel who left through the emergency exit?"

"You are worried about Li An." Dr. Schmidt glanced at him and shook his head. "Don't worry, all non-combat personnel below the supervisor level will be placed in 4-367."

"It's a crystal ball with snow falling inside. There's a miniature continent inside. That's the shelter of Base No. 3."

"If I remember correctly, you have also taken out something similar?"

Li Yun nodded and finally found out where Li An and others were.

No wonder they didn't see any researchers along the way...

Li Yun asked, "What about non-combatants above the supervisor level?"

Dr. Schmidt said calmly, "Except for me, the other eight people should have been killed in the commotion just now."

Li Yun: “…”

"You two, stop chatting. The most urgent thing is to think about how to deal with this guy!"

Lu Ying couldn't help but speak, interrupting their conversation.

Li Yun came to his senses and looked down at the huge beast that had destroyed the entire base.

Just as Dr. Schmidt said, this steel monster is over three kilometers long and is covered with metal all over its body. It looks like a bull with a single horn, but its limbs are more sturdy and look more solid and majestic.

After breaking through containment, the steel behemoth's horn grew another three points longer.

The metal absorbed from the base flowed through its body like water and spread throughout its body at an extremely fast speed, causing the width and thickness of its entire body to increase by three points at the same time.

At the same time, Li Yun also discovered that the many metal containment rooms that were swallowed by the iron-gnawing beast did not disappear, but were attached to various parts of the iron-gnawing beast's body surface as the metal flowed.

In other words, the current Iron Gnat is the walking Base No. 3!

Li Yun immediately told Dr. Schmidt about his discovery.

Dr. Schmidt couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief after hearing this.

"Fortunately, most of Base No. 3 is made of metal. At least we don't have to worry about more anomalies breaking out of containment. As long as we find that mental containment object, we can..."

"Why bother?"

Li Yun interrupted Dr. Schmidt and asked with a smile, "Are you sure that the Iron Gnawer has no other abilities besides absorbing metal?"

Dr. Schmidt nodded in confusion. "Of course. At least in the decades since we have contained it, we have not discovered any other characteristics."

"However, even just the fact that it absorbs metal and is huge is enough to make it the most difficult anomaly to contain."

"With an exaggerated size of over two thousand meters and the ability to continue growing by absorbing metal, its mere existence will become a natural disaster that humans cannot ignore. Its breathing is a hurricane, and its walking is an earthquake..."

Before Dr. Schmidt finished speaking, Li Yun couldn't help laughing.

Dr. Schmidt was slightly startled, then seemed to remember something and looked at Li Yun with wide eyes.

He almost forgot that the one in front of him was a powerful humanoid anomaly with the title of [World-Destroying Demon King]!

The previous battle scene where he was restrained by the flame-eating vines made him subconsciously misjudge Li Yun's strength.

Looking back now, for Li Yun, the simple and powerful characteristics of the Iron Gnawer make it the easiest character for him to deal with!

“Leave it to me!”

Li Yun raised his hand and patted Dr. Schmidt on the shoulder, leaving him and Lu Ying in the energy shield, and then leaped towards the giant beast on the seabed.

During the flight, his whole body was energized with hot energy, which continuously evaporated the surrounding sea water and squeezed out huge bubbles.

At the same time, dazzling blue-green light continued to gather in his palm, and finally, after evaporating countless amounts of sea water, it turned into a long blue-green streak over three kilometers long.

"Immortality—Nuclear Light!"

The next moment, Li Yun swung out the blue-green silk in his hand.

The steel monster, which was over three thousand meters long, seemed to sense the crisis. It immediately stirred the sea water, raised its head, and roared at Li Yun.

As soon as the horrifying sound wave came out, it turned into a violent deep-sea whirlpool, and like a compressed air cannon, it shot towards the blue-green stream hanging above the head.

"Bang——"

In just a moment, a streak of blue-green light easily shattered the vortex and fell from the sky carrying terrifying energy.

The more than 400-meter-long steel horn was instantly cut off diagonally by the blue-green silk thread.

The subsequent blue-green streak continued to move forward, like a hot knife cutting through butter, silently penetrating into the thousand-meter-thick iron mountain and splitting the entire body in half from head to toe.

On the way of chopping down, Li Yun carefully avoided the containment rooms and only attacked the body of the iron-gnawing beast.

Looking at the huge steel beast below that was easily split in half, Li Yun couldn't help but let out a heartfelt sigh.

"Damn it, I finally met a normal opponent!"

…

…

On the other side, in the wreckage of Base No. 3 inside the body of the Iron-Gnawing Beast.

The crimson demon had a happy smile on his face. He held a pink gem in his hand and tossed it around while humming a little tune. He seemed to be extremely happy.

Soon, he passed several metal corridors and came to a thick metal door.

Looking at the project number [2-088] on the metal door, the smile on the Crimson Demon's face suddenly became wider.

"……finally found you!"

The crimson demon sighed, then hummed a little tune and pushed open the closed metal door.

Then, two figures, one big and one small, one tall and one short, appeared in his sight.

Among them, the tall man seemed to have heard the sound of him pushing the door. He turned his head slightly and looked at the crimson devil at the door with a smile full of evil taste.

Seeing that familiar face, the smile on the Crimson Demon's face froze.

"Coming, bro?"

Li Yun said regretfully: "Unfortunately, you are late!"