169: Chapter 169 [Eternal Essence]

The search icon spun for longer and longer.

A two-slot item measuring one by two had made Chu Hong's eyes strain and dry out at this moment.

One second, three seconds, five seconds...

Accompanied by a ding, a dazzling red light made Chu Hong unable to help tilting his head back and letting out a howl of ecstasy like a wolf.

"Release! ! ! "

"Release me ~ the most mysterious wait ~ "

"Stars falling ~ the wind is blowing ~ "

[Item Name]: [eternal essence]

[Item Tier]: Red

[Value]: 2,021,000

[Type]: Source Energy Matter

[Weight]: 0.03 kg

[Backpack Slot Capacity]: 1 × 2

[Item Description]: A byproduct produced during Palino Bio-Group's research on the [flower of eternity]. According to gene laboratory deductions and theoretical verification, this injection can freeze the user's appearance and provide energy storage amplification for supernatural targets with special energy within their bodies. Note: Gene-bound to females, ineffective when injected by males.

Chu Hong, who was still excitedly belting out a song, caught a glimpse of the information about the red collectible container in his hand out of the corner of his eye, and the joy on his face instantly froze on the spot.

Especially after seeing the final description stating "Gene-bound to females, ineffective when injected by males."

Yanzu's heart instantly turned half cold.

A single-slot red item worth a fortune!

And yet you're telling me I can't use it?!

However, it was only for a split second before Chu Hong suddenly felt relieved.

If males could actually use it, then it should have dropped from Parino Vincent or boss Cliff Yang, right?

Wait!

Holy shit!

The emergence of this train of thought instantly made Chu Hong feel as though he had entered a brand-new dimension of thinking.

Right now, he had looted the [eternal essence] from this Research Laboratory No. 2, which was useless to both male NPCs.

And the boss Cliff Yang in this secret realm was himself a true supernatural being.

That meant within the backstory of the secret realm, the [eternal essence] usable by males already existed; it was just that boss Cliff Yang had already injected it!

Thinking of this,

hearing the intense boss collision coming from the direction of Huaxi Wharf outside, Chu Hong couldn't help feeling his heart burn with enthusiasm.

When he did Human Supremacy previously, he had looted the boss Lord of the Ape Clan: Codename Primitive One, but nothing valuable dropped.

However, he truly hadn't looted Cliff Yang yet.

"Brother Hong, Brother Hong... "

Amidst a flurry of shouts, Wang Suming and Song Jiaojiao, who had just finished searching the other side at that moment, found their way over here.

"Holy shit! Brother Hong, did you loot the room card for this key room?! "

Wang Suming looked shocked as he poked his head out and peered around inside.

The nutrient solution tanks, full of a sci-fi dreamlike feel, made him click his tongue in wonder.

However,

when Chu Hong saw the two of them, the sentence that slipped out of his mouth left them both stunned.

"Take advantage of the fact that the last squad outside should already be comparing the number of eliminated Pioneers squads on the map, I'll send you guys to the extraction point to evacuate! "

Song Jiaojiao frowned: "What do you mean by sending us to evacuate? You're not leaving? "

Chu Hong shook his head.

"There's something worth me taking a risk for... "

Not giving the two of them the chance to waste words saying things like "If you don't leave, we won't leave either," Chu Hong hoisted Song Jiaojiao onto his shoulder, instantly stimulated his source energy all over his body, and sprinted wildly toward the outside of the base.

Wang Suming hurried to keep up.

At this moment, in the direction of Huaxi Wharf, a large number of mutated monkeys had rushed onto the riverbank in scale.

At such close range, the threat of Palino's armed heavy artillery positions and even armored vehicles was greatly reduced. They could only watch helplessly as one armed robot after another was engulfed by the surrounding corpse-like tide, either detonating their self-destruction devices

or being torn apart into pieces of scrap metal on the spot.

"Roar——! "

The boss Lord of the Ape Clan let out a roar. With half of its body soaked in the river water, it looked exceptionally disheveled as it was being suppressed and beaten by Cliff Yang suspended in mid-air above.

Suddenly, with a terrifying speed that even Cliff Yang clearly didn't react to in time,

it abruptly stood up.

The sharp axe blade in its hand, shaped like an irregular blue-purple ore, instantly swung like a baseball bat.

With a boom, it blasted Cliff Yang from mid-air into the coastal shoreline of the east bank.

The huge deep crater was flooded with river water mixed with an obvious crimson color, swallowing Cliff Yang within it.

And right at that moment,

the boss Lord of the Ape Clan fiercely raised the giant axe in its hand once again.

"Roar——! "

A sharp, scorching crimson laser suddenly shot up into the sky from the deep crater, precisely hitting the stone axe that was cleaving down overhead as if carrying the impact power of a meteorite.

"Boom! "

Azure blue energy erupted on the giant axe, suppressing downwards.

The crimson laser beam below gradually grew more scorching and thicker as Cliff Yang increased his output.

However,

even so, under the roaring sounds of the boss Lord of the Ape Clan, the giant axe was still being suppressed downwards at a speed visible to the naked eye by an extremely terrifying brute force...

[Cobweb] brain-computer display cabinet scanning effect transmitted feedback.

Within perception, the figures of a five-person squad appeared.

Three people were at the Old Logging Camp, while two people were following the monkey hordes rushing ashore and heading toward the Transport Line Station.

Sure enough, at this time, nobody was camping the extraction point!

In front of the regular extraction point.

Having just rushed ashore from underwater, Chu Hong, amidst the astonished gazes of Song Jiaojiao and Wang Suming, quickly untied the backpack from his body and handed it to the two of them.

And from his embrace, amidst Song Jiaojiao's gaze full of shock,

he shoved the [eternal essence] into her hands.

The source energy space had to be emptied out.

Just in case items dropped, even if he died, it would only mean losing an assessment qualification, but the things looted from the boss would definitely still be inside the source energy space.

"Don't waste words. This is an assessment, I won't truly die. I might fight that boss, and even I have no certainty, but I still want to give it a try... "

Chu Hong spoke at an extremely fast pace, and as he spoke, he had already taken a step ahead to push the two directly into the range of the regular extraction point.

Looking at Song Jiaojiao, who stood there in shocked bewilderment with the [eternal essence] he had shoved into her hand still gripped tightly,

Chu Hong smiled helplessly.

"Alright, just take it since I'm giving it to you. We had to thank your lucky hands for that flower of eternity earlier. This thing can't be used by males, but for someone like you on the magic side, it should be quite useful. "

Song Jiaojiao widened her eyes, her pupils filled with massive shock at how Chu Hong casually gave away a red-quality collectible that was worth at least tens of millions of source energy points on the outside market.

A warm current in her heart made her so excited that she wanted nothing more than to throw herself into Chu Hong's arms.

Yet she saw Chu Hong take a step back,

stepping out of the extraction point's range.

White light bloomed, and the ten-second extraction countdown for Song Jiaojiao and Wang Suming ended.

"Next, it's my one-man stage... "

...

"Boom——! "

The terrifying energy tide,

after briefly echoing through the river valley with an earth-shaking roar, slowly subsided.

High up in the sky, like a broadcast across the entire secret realm, the panicked shouting of the NPC Parino Vincent echoed over.

"Yang! Yang! Dammit! Hurry up and stand up for me! "

"Fuck! "

"Dammit! Hurry up and start the helicopter for me! I want to leave this damn ghost place immediately! Shit! Damn stinky monkeys, these guys have caused me heavy losses! "

Looking far into the distance, Chu Hong saw that at some point, an armed helicopter had appeared on top of the main building of the Parino Valley Base. Its propellers were already spinning rapidly as the sound of this plot conclusion rang out.

The densely packed monkey hordes seemed to fill up the entire Palino Bio-Group area on the west bank.

Following the Transport Line Station, the armed personnel at the outlying outpost were also quickly submerged by the surging mutated monkeys with a loud bang.

The freshly closed gates of the Parino Valley Base were slammed open violently.

Wu Gang and the rest of the people rushed toward the main building of the base with excited and ecstatic expressions.

"Hurry! Hahaha, that Vincent's Private Collection Room is open! It didn't drop a red item after so many good tries, this time it definitely will! "

After checking the several spawn points on the west bank and roughly matching the number of Pioneers squads,

they never expected that someone from the squad closest to the boss and mutated monkey spawn points—the one that should have been hit and swallowed first by the benchmark quest—would still be alive.

At this moment, they had even dived into the river water,

swimming toward the corpse of the Palino Security Minister: Cliff Yang, which had already been reduced to remains...

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