49: Chapter 49 The Three Illusory Gods of the Experimental Building! High-Risk, High-Value Area!

3 × 3!

Seeing that familiar 3 × 3 grid, which he had brushed past once and never encountered again.

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Chu Hong's breath practically stagnated right at that moment.

He squeezed the excited two words "Holy shit" from between his teeth.

Just the second before, because he had pulled a red card, his posture had become relaxed and even defiant; but the instant the 3 × 3 grid appeared, his body standing in front of the freezer almost instinctively curled up slightly.

Inside the black searching frame, the icon spun continuously.

With every rotation, Chu Hong's heart thudded violently in response.

"Fast, fast, fast…"

Chu Hong felt a little anxious to pee.

His toes tapped anxiously on the ground.

At this moment, time seemed exceptionally prolonged; saying that a day felt like a year was an understatement, and Chu Hong felt as though every single second was dragging on like an entire year…

Finally!

Ding!

A red light bloomed within the black frame!

[Item Name]: heart of the overlord

[Item Grade]: Red

[Type]: Source Energy Substance

[Weight]: 20kg

[Inventory Slot Capacity Occupied]: 3 × 3

[Item Description]: The core research substance of the "Dominator Project" which Cliffside Epidemic Hospital was forced to abandon and terminate. It was extracted from the body of a powerful exotic beast codenamed "Dominator" whose body had suffered irreversible death, and was secretly stored using top-tier cryopreservation and biological preservation technology, waiting for a true dominator capable of subduing it. Through the fusion of blood and source energy, it can stimulate the corresponding supernatural ability.

This was a spherical deep blue crystal named a heart, yet it was the size of a soccer ball. Its interior could not be clearly seen, but the light it emitted seemed as though a universe was contained within it.

Right now, in this dark second underground level, it actually radiated a massive brilliance.

Beneath his mask, Chu Hong's face flushed completely red.

"Holy shit, it actually dropped good loot!"

He was both excited and shocked, but even more so, he was panicked about the surrounding environment.

Leave!

Leave immediately!

Leave right now!

Do not hesitate!

Inside his brain, a voice seemed to be screaming at his eardrums at the top of its lungs.

Chu Hong instantly stowed the item into his backpack. The thought he had just had—of wanting to check out the Core Laboratory on the same floor and test the keycard he had just acquired—was thrown straight to the back of his mind, casting away that greedy and foolish idea.

"F*ck the Core Laboratory!"

"I'm heading back to the Special Service Department!"

Snatching up Ba Xiaoying, who was still on the ground peering into the empty freezer.

Chu Hong hurriedly executed the Goblin Assassination Technique, sprinting rapidly toward the stairs he had just come down from.

However.

Just as he ran to the entrance of the stairs, a sticky, creepy sensation that made his hair stand on end instantly—resembling the sound of a serpentine creature crawling—suddenly came from the stairway ahead.

Before he could react.

A terrifying tentacle, thicker than an adult man's waist and covered with suction cups and a ferocious mouthparts, abruptly ripped open half of the staircase door in front of him.

Cold sweat instantly broke out on Chu Hong's forehead.

He saw that at the stairway leading to the third underground level, a gigantic, terrifying octopus-like monster was struggling its way up from the third floor.

The information for this monster appeared before his eyes.

[Project Kraken Matrix]...

"Holy shit! Is this Cliffside Epidemic Hospital map fucking poisoned?!"

He didn't dare harbor the slightest thought of fighting it. The propulsion turbine behind his armor fired up instantly, carrying him past the sweeping giant tentacle as he charged straight up the stairs.

"Boom!"

Beneath his feet, the stairs emitted a violent tremor, as if a drill had pierced straight through from below, scaring Chu Hong so much that he didn't dare look back even for a second.

Casting Water Magic, his physical speed increased by another notch.

Rushing to the broken elevator shaft opening on the first underground level, he leaped instantly.

Behind him, the octopus tentacles were like a flexible yet terrifying shield tunneling machine. Wherever the crab-claw-shaped mouthparts on those suction cups swept past, the reinforced concrete walls shattered instantly like tofu dregs.

Chu Hong sprinted wildly, while the tentacles behind him pursued crazily, seeming to have no limit to their length.

When Chu Hong climbed up the rope to the first above-ground floor, the floor of the public area in front of him was suddenly pierced straight through by several thick tentacles.

If not for his instinctive realization at the critical moment that something was wrong beneath his feet, followed by a backward thruster retreat.

Those sharp, terrifying tentacles would have definitely easily torn apart the armor on his body.

"Run!"

He couldn't care about anything else.

Chu Hong suddenly flung two magnetic bombs from his hand, tossing them directly toward the terrifying tentacles rushing toward him.

"Beep, beep, beep!"

"Boom, boom!"

As two massive explosions kicked up a wave of air within the Exotic Beast Research Laboratory, Chu Hong's figure had already turned around, running toward the window on the side of the second floor.

"Hiss!"

Thruster propulsion drove him crashing through the window of a meeting room.

Chu Hong instantly and accurately landed on a streetlamp by the roadside outside the building. With another stomp of his foot, source energy surged, and Water Magic was unleashed.

In an instant.

Chu Hong seemed as if he could fly.

In the blink of an eye, he had arrived a hundred meters away from the building.

However, with a roar, a deafening, angry roar suddenly came from the direction of the parking lot, pushing Chu Hong's already taut nerves to the absolute limit in an instant.

He pulled out a remote control from his hand.

Pressing it with a "beep".

A "rumbling" explosion immediately echoed from the direction of the parking lot again.

However.

Within his acute perception, the distinct and clear feeling of some terrifying entity smashing through the air and treading apart stairwell walls as it charged at full speed was drawing closer and closer.

"Shit!"

Chu Hong cursed under his breath. The propulsion turbine behind him had just finished charging when he immediately activated it.

The speed of his sprint toward the entrance of the Underground Dissection Center increased once more.

But as he finally lifted his head, he caught sight of that terrifying figure charging from mid-air toward the Exotic Beast Research Laboratory.

[Project Dominator Clone]

Seeing the format of this name.

How could Chu Hong not understand now?!

In this map, there wasn't just a single boss at all!

There were fucking three of them!

"Holy shit! Which bastard came up with such a disgusting map?! Having zombies all over the map is one thing, but you actually have the Three Phantom Gods too?!"

From behind came the sound of the Project Dominator Clone crashing into the Exotic Beast Research Laboratory building. Immediately afterward, Chu Hong heard an angry roar clearly coming from behind, directed at him.

"magnetic bomb thrown out!"

"magnetic bomb thrown out!"

"Magnetic…"

Chu Hong was like a lamb running and dropping "chocolate beans" along the way; facing the madly pursuing predator behind him, he didn't dare harbor the slightest thought of resistance.

He could only muster all his strength to sprint toward the entrance of the Underground Dissection Center, which was already close at hand.

On his shoulder, Ba Xiaoying didn't dare "chatter" at the monster behind them anymore.

At this moment, her small hands were tightly clutching the armor on Chu Hong's shoulder.

Rumbling explosions came from behind. Amidst the massive air current, Chu Hong heard an even angrier roar from the monster behind him, but not a single bit of pain from injury.

Just at the split second before entering the entrance, he glanced back.

Chu Hong almost leaked a couple of drops in his pants.

He saw.

The dozen or so magnetic bombs he had dropped all along the way hadn't caused any damage to the monster at all; furthermore… even the crimson skin on the opponent's body, and those dense limb tissues resembling tentacles or feelers, didn't have the slightest trace of injury.

"Swish!"

Amidst the sound of a sharp weapon piercing through the air, Chu Hong's pupils sharply constricted.

He instinctively tilted his head.

A crimson, flesh-like spike instantly pierced through and pinned into the entrance wall beside his cheek.

Cement and rock debris splattered everywhere.

Frightened, Chu Hong instantly unleashed another burst of thrusters, dumping all the magnetic bombs on his body right at the doorway.

He instantly rushed to the cliffside cableway.

[10, 9, 8...]

Watching the evacuation countdown rapidly ticking down, Chu Hong's forehead beneath his mask was already covered in nervous sweat.

"Rrip!"

The side door leading to the Underground Dissection Center area was suddenly ripped open by a brute force.

Amidst heavy footsteps, a towering, dark, terrifying zombie figure wielding a bone cleaver appeared. It stood over three meters, approaching four meters tall, with a fat, ferocious, and horrifying face.

It made Chu Hong despair on the spot.

"Are, are you fucking kidding me, is this endless?!" Chu Hong put on a mask of pure agony.

Mutant Zombie [Blood Fiend Butcher]

[5, 4...]

Watching the countdown about to end, this sudden interloper suddenly let out a roar and charged toward Chu Hong, its pitch-black cleaver measuring over two meters long slashing straight down at Chu Hong's head.

"Ah! Fuck your mother!"

Chu Hong roared, not daring to move an inch of his feet. Facing the heavy chop coming straight down at him, he could only raise the longsword in his hand to block.

"Boom!"

The massive force directly snapped one of Chu Hong's arms on the spot, and his entire body instantly collapsed onto the ground as alarms blared continuously inside his armor.

The power of stage four Qiyuan Realm was actually as powerless as a toddler in front of this butcher.

Chu Hong spat a mouthful of blood inside his helmet.

The butcher grinned viciously and raised its bone cleaver once more. Suddenly.

"Boom!"

A sharp sound of something piercing through the air whistled over from the entrance.

Grazing past the helmet of Chu Hong, who was lying flat on the ground...

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