234: Please let them eat at a buffet.

Chapter 234: Treating Them to a Buffet. "Got you."

That voice rang out from the roof of the car, carrying a hint of innocent joy.

"Fire if you don't want to die!"

Chen Mo roared, slamming on the brakes.

Inertia sent whatever was on the roof flying forward.

But he knew he couldn't shake it off.

Su Qingxue reacted extremely quickly; she flipped over between the two front seats, raised the pulse pistol in her hand, and fired a burst at that hand.

Bang bang bang!

Blue energy bolts hit the hand, splashing a string of sparks.

The hand retracted.

But in the next second.

Crash!

A large chunk of the roof was ripped open.

Torrential rain poured in.

Ruan Qiushui hung upside down from the edge of the large hole in the roof, her long hair fluttering in the rain. There was no expression on her exquisite face, only her eyes burning with a frenzied appetite.

She looked at Chen Mo as if looking at a piece of cake.

"I want to eat."

She reached out, grabbing for Chen Mo's heart.

"Eat shit!"

Ninth Master, finding courage from who knows where, pressed a red button on the dashboard.

That was the firing button for the roof-mounted autocannon.

Da da da da da da!

The large-caliber autocannon fired right where Ruan Qiushui's face was pressed.

Tongues of fire spat out.

At such close range, even a steel plate would be turned into a sieve.

Ruan Qiushui was blasted backward and flew out.

"Hit!" Ninth Master shouted excitedly.

"She's not dead!"

Chen Mo didn't even look at the result; taking advantage of this momentary gap, he accelerated again.

In the rearview mirror.

Ruan Qiushui hovered in mid-air, her white qipao riddled with several holes, revealing the unscathed skin beneath.

The bullets had only pushed her away, failing to leave even a single scratch.

She looked down at her clothes, her brow furrowing slightly.

She seemed to be angry.

Rumble—

The dark clouds in the sky began to swirl, forming a massive vortex directly above the fleeing armored vehicle.

"She's going to use her ultimate move!"

Su Qingxue shouted, "Get into the tunnel! The river-crossing tunnel is just ahead!"

Chen Mo glanced at the pitch-black tunnel entrance ahead.

That was the necessary path to the Old City District.

And the only cover.

"Hold on tight!"

Chen Mo gripped the steering wheel tightly, veins bulging on the back of his hands.

Just as the front of the car rushed into the tunnel.

A bolt of white lightning, ten times thicker than before and carrying the momentum of world-ending destruction, slammed heavily onto the top of the tunnel entrance.

Boom!!!

The tunnel entrance collapsed.

Countless boulders fell, sealing off the retreat and blocking that terrifying figure.

Darkness enveloped everything.

Only the two beams of light from the headlights remained, illuminating the deep unknown ahead.

"Safe... for now?" Ninth Master slumped in his seat, drenched in cold sweat.

"Not exactly."

Chen Mo looked ahead.

From deep within the tunnel, the faint sound of dense footsteps echoed.

It was the sound of a group of biological creatures moving.

"Down here..." Chen Mo tightened his grip on the steering wheel, "it has never been a safe place."

"Those are the rat swarms of the Old City District," Ninth Master's face was pale, "the man-eating kind."

...Squeak squeak squeak.

The sound wasn't from one or two, but from thousands of teeth grinding against each other.

The pale beams of the headlights pierced the darkness, illuminating not a road, but a wall.

A living wall built of gray fur, rotten flesh, and rusted mechanical limbs.

"My god..." Ninth Master's throat felt like it was blocked by a dead rat, his voice high and thin, "did these things grow up eating fertilizer?"

Each of those things was as big as a stray dog.

Half their bodies were bald, revealing red, festering sores and the metal skeletons beneath their implants.

The front row had eyes glowing with a murky green light, and sticky drool dripped from the corners of their mouths; they were clearly crazed with hunger.

"Sit tight."

Chen Mo's voice was very light, devoid of emotion.

He didn't step on the brakes; instead, he pressed the accelerator down another inch.

"You're going to ram them?!" Ninth Master gripped the roof handle tightly, his knuckles turning white. "This density will wreck the front of the car!"

"If it breaks, we'll fix it."

Chen Mo stared at the writhing wall of flesh, that murky green light reflected deep in his pupils. "It's a good time to add some lubricant to this car."

Boom!

The modified V12 engine let out a death-defying roar.

The steel beast, traveling at two hundred kilometers per hour, plunged into that block of gray butter like a red-hot dining knife.

Bang! Squish—

The first wave of impact brought not the sound of metal clashing, but that dull, wet sound of flesh bursting.

The windshield was instantly covered in black-red blood plasma.

The wipers couldn't even move the thick scraps of meat and internal organs.

The car body vibrated violently, as if driving on a washboard road paved with corpses.

The crisp sound of tires crushing bones intensified into a single noise, making one's skin crawl.

"Squeak squeak squeak squeak!!!"

The rat swarm exploded.

They didn't scatter; instead, as if their ferocity was stimulated by the smell of blood, they frantically pounced on the invading steel behemoth.

The large hole in the roof became a fatal opening.

Plop.

A mutant rat with only half a head fell in, landing right on Ninth Master's thigh.

Its two large buck teeth, like shovels, bit down toward Ninth Master's crotch.

"Fuck!"

Ninth Master shrieked, slamming the pipe wrench in his hand onto the thing's head.

Brain matter splattered.

But this was only the beginning.

Plop, plop, plop.

Like dumplings being dropped into a pot, more and more rats squeezed in through that opening.

They bit indiscriminately at anything—leather seats, dashboard wiring, even the half-bottle of water Ninth Master had left over.

"Clear them out!"

Chen Mo roared, turning the steering wheel sharply.

The massive centrifugal force threw several rats that had just fallen in against the car walls, smashing them into a pulp.

Su Qingxue had already stood up.

In this cabin that was shaking like a tumble dryer, she stood as steady as a mountain.

The pulse pistol in her hand seemed to have eyes; with every flash of blue light, a rat's head exploded mid-air.

"There are too many!"

Su Qingxue's hand speed while changing magazines was so fast it was just a blur. "They're gnawing on the drive shaft!"

A tooth-grating sound of metal friction came from beneath the floor.

It was the sound of teeth gnawing on steel.

These beasts' teeth were mixed with emery; even armor plates couldn't stop them.

"We're getting out soon."

Chen Mo didn't care at all about the things crawling to his feet.

A rat bit through his combat boot, its teeth embedding into the flesh of his ankle.

He didn't even twitch an eyebrow, simply lifting his other foot and crushing the thing into a meat pie.

Pain?

What was that?

Compared to the burning sensation in his heart that felt like the pump was about to explode, this little bit of pain wasn't even worth a scratch.

Moreover, he felt it.

That terrifying chill behind him was approaching.

Ruan Qiushui hadn't left.

She was tearing the tunnel apart.

Boom—

A loud explosion came from behind, and the rock layer at the top of the tunnel shattered like a cracker.

A beam of white light shot in through the dust, causing the rats that were originally attacking frantically to freeze.

That was the aura of a high-level predator.

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