76: Chapter 76 The Fully Automatic Crossbow Shows Its Power!

"Whether we succeed today depends entirely on you!" Chen Ze took a deep breath and turned to look at Fatty.

"Give me the two E-grade beast cores you got as upgrade rewards!"

Seeing Chen Ze's grave expression, Fatty understood immediately how critical the situation was. Without a moment's hesitation, he pulled out two E-grade beast cores, glowing with a faint cyan light, and handed them both to Chen Ze.

"Brother Ze, here they are!"

Chen Ze nodded, selected the materials, and clicked build.

[Ding! Do you wish to consume 20 units of E-grade wood, 2 units of E-grade beast tendon, and 2 E-grade beast cores to build 2 E-grade fully automatic crossbows?]

"Confirm!"

With a low hum, a burst of cyan light erupted from the forging table. The wood, beast tendons, and the two beast cores merged into one, with two forming light patterns swirling and intertwining.

After just a few seconds, two fierce-looking, cyan-glowing fully automatic crossbows rested quietly in the inventory.

[Ding! E-grade fully automatic crossbow construction complete!]

[Item Description: This is a large, living crossbow that can lock onto any enemy according to the user's will!]

Chen Ze took one out, and suddenly, a large crossbow over two meters long appeared before them.

The entire crossbow was pitch black, with wide crossbow arms paired with multi-layered beast tendon bowstrings. The middle section featured a large-capacity automatic magazine fully loaded with thirty bolts, and the body was etched with flowing, vivid, and agile cyan patterns refined from the beast cores.

"Holy crap! This is a siege crossbow, isn't it!"

Fatty, standing to the side, widened his eyes and instinctively took half a step back, full of shock.

Standing on the other side, Wang Yalan also lightly covered her mouth, exclaiming softly.

"No wonder it required so many materials; it even comes pre-loaded with spare arrows!"

Chen Ze looked at the giant crossbow, forged from quite a few rare materials, and felt exceptionally satisfied.

He reached out to try pulling the string manually. He had assumed that with his total attribute score of 41, he could pull it easily, but to his surprise, he had to use almost all his strength to steadily pull the bowstring back to its full draw position.

"Good bow!"

Chen Ze praised it, finally feeling completely confident.

With such a powerful weapon, he didn't believe those Ant Swarms could withstand it.

"Brother Ze! These two heavy crossbows are too valuable. Should you establish a subordinate relationship with the other party first before sending the weapons over?"

Fatty was already Chen Ze's subordinate survivor, and he had no selfish motives at all, so he spoke directly without needing to hide anything.

Chen Ze shook his head slightly upon hearing this.

"The system has a rental function. I'll just rent it to them for zero compensation!"

"Oh right, how did I forget about that!"

Over at Duan Linhai's side.

In the short time it took for Chen Ze to forge the E-grade fully automatic crossbows, he had already consumed another emergency repair kit.

He stared intently at the chat window with Chen Ze, muttering to himself over and over again.

"The Big Boss must have a way, he definitely has a way!"

Suddenly, his eyes lit up; it was a message from Chen Ze.

Shanghai Li Yunlong: "I will rent the weapons to you in a moment. You can access them directly through the system page, equip them to the top of the Fortress, and then just give them commands in your mind. The crossbows will automatically lock onto the Ant Swarms and attack!"

"Automatically lock onto enemies?"

Duan Linhai thought he was seeing things due to his anxiety. He stared at the text and reread it three or four times before confirming that every word was correct.

Before he could dwell on it, a system pop-up appeared with a rental transaction notification. The heavy fully automatic crossbows, glowing with a cyan light, had already arrived in his inventory. He was overjoyed.

He hurriedly opened the system deployment interface to confirm the installation. With a flash of white light, the two black heavy crossbows, each over two meters long, appeared out of thin air and were installed on the left and right sides of the top of the durian fortress.

"Lock onto the Mutant Ant, attack!"

In his urgency, Duan Linhai forgot what Chen Ze had said about mental control and shouted the command out loud.

The next moment, the cyan patterns on the bodies of the two giant crossbows suddenly flared brightly. Internal mechanical gears clicked and rotated rapidly, the wide crossbow arms adjusted their angles simultaneously, and the automatic magazines quickly loaded the arrows.

"Thwack! Thwack!"

The heavy bowstrings vibrated in succession, and the arrows, wrapped in cyan light, shot out instantly.

"Whoosh!"

Both arrows were fired almost simultaneously, emitting a piercing sound as they broke through the air.

"Squelch!"

The two arrows pierced through two giant soldier ants crawling on the wall. Their hard carapaces were easily punctured, and dark green blood splattered everywhere. The two giant ants' limbs twitched for a moment before they fell heavily to the ground.

Having hit their targets, the two heavy crossbows quickly rotated their heads to lock onto the next batch of targets. The entire process of turning, cocking, and readying took less than three seconds—it was no less impressive than modern warfare weapons on Earth!

"One arrow for one E-grade Mutated Ant? This... this is too powerful!"

Duan Linhai swallowed hard, his throat dry, his eyes filled with shock.

The Ant Swarm that had been crushing him until he couldn't breathe was now completely helpless before the two heavy crossbows.

The cyan light streaked across the air again and again; every vibration of the bowstring meant another fearless giant soldier ant had fallen.

Dark green ant blood flowed down the outer wall of the Fortress, and a thick layer of insect corpses had already piled up outside.

His fifteen-year-old son watched with rapt attention. Previously full of fear, his eyes were now filled only with excitement. He tugged on Duan Linhai's sleeve and shouted aloud.

"Big Brother Li Yunlong's crossbow is amazing! It's even more powerful than the Demon King's Guard!"

Damn! I was so happy I forgot to tell my savior about the current situation.

Duan Linhai cursed himself under his breath and hurriedly sent a message to Chen Ze.

40-year-old Uncle with two kids: "Big Boss, the crossbows are too powerful! One arrow for one E-grade ant. In just this short amount of time, over twenty Mutant Ant have already been shot dead!"

Seeing the uncle's message, even Chen Ze found his breathing becoming somewhat rapid from the shock.

Previously, in order to save time, he had only tested some of the strength settings and had no idea that the efficiency of the E-grade fully automatic crossbows was so terrifying.

"It seems I underestimated its value!"

Chen Ze muttered to himself, a flash of excitement in his eyes.

Shanghai Li Yunlong: "Observe the state of the Ant Swarm. Have they started to retreat or flee directly?"

At Chen Ze's reminder, Duan Linhai hurriedly looked out at the insect swarm.

At this moment, the ground beneath the Fortress was covered in corpses, and the entire area was soaked in dark green ant blood. The two heavy crossbows continued to fire in turns, methodically. Every time an arrow broke through the air, it precisely reaped one of the Mutant Ant that rushed forward.

The Ant Swarm, which had originally been fearless, had already shown obvious changes.

The giant soldier ants in the front row all stopped their charge. Their thick limbs paced around in place, their antennae trembling in panic, and they dared not approach the Fortress wall any further.

The subsequent swarms of ants also blocked the perimeter, giving up their mindless charges and only lingering in the distance of the streets to watch.

Seeing this scene, Duan Linhai was so excited he almost jumped up. He hurriedly typed quickly to send a private message to Chen Ze about the Ant Swarm's reluctance to fight.

On the other end, receiving the feedback, Chen Ze finally relaxed his tight nerves and let out a long sigh of relief.

"It's a good thing these bugs aren't truly fearless. If they had kept charging blindly, by the time the arrows were completely exhausted, not only would the uncle's family have died, but everything I invested would have gone down the drain!"