215: Chapter 215 Biohazard Island

Da Biao gripped the walkie-talkie, his knuckles cracking.

"Clear the team. Scrub the ground clean. Move fast." Da Biao roared at the squad leader beside him, then turned and sprinted toward the off-road vehicle parked on the side of the road.

He kicked the car door open and slammed the accelerator to the floor. The off-road vehicle drifted wildly through the mud and water, heading straight for the Chenguang Factory control room.

Ten minutes later.

The iron door of the control room was kicked open by Da Biao.

The main lights in the room were off. More than a dozen large screens flickered with blinding static.

Wu Dong's eyes were bloodshot, his hands smashing frantically against the keyboard.

Lu Chen stood in front of the main screen, biting down on half an unlit double happiness, his expression chillingly cold.

"Boss. What's the situation in the Pacific Ocean?" Da Biao walked forward, breathing heavily.

Lu Chen didn't turn his head, staring at the screen full of static: "Zhang Qiang disobeyed orders."

"How is that possible?" Da Biao's eyes widened, "That kid Zhang Qiang is absolutely obedient to your commands."

Wu Dong wiped the cold sweat from his forehead: "It's not Zhang Qiang's fault. The geomagnetic field in that sea area is completely chaotic. When I transmitted the deep-dive command, there was a three-minute delay. In those three minutes, viper-2 and viper-3 had already entered the shallow water zone."

"Then where are the people now?" Da Biao was anxious.

"The last encrypted message just came back, they have already initiated high-pressure ejection." Wu Dong's hands didn't stop moving, "Two hundred newly equipped Death Squad Soldiers have already landed on the beach of the isolated island."

Da Biao gasped. He had heard Wu Dong say that the island was densely packed with high-dimensional mutant monsters, numbering in the thousands. Zhang Qiang taking only two hundred people was equivalent to falling into a wolf's den.

"Old Wu. Hurry and switch the Sky Eye satellite feed for me. I need to see them alive or see their corpses." Da Biao slammed his hand on the console.

"I'm trying to crack the strong magnetic interference network. Those bastards installed an energy shield layer over the entire island." Wu Dong cursed anxiously.

Lu Chen spat the cigarette butt into the trash can.

"Connect to the submarine's sonar probe. Reverse-link it to the Death Squad Soldiers' tactical helmets." Lu Chen ordered, "Project the live feed."

"Understood." Wu Dong's fingers flew.

With a crackle, the static on the main screen disappeared.

The image shook violently, accompanied by the sound of heavy rain and deafening roars.

This was the first-person view recording from Zhang Qiang's helmet.

"Damn. Boss. We're surrounded." Zhang Qiang's hoarse roar came through the communication channel.

In the image, on the beach of the dim Pacific Ocean island, there was a dense mass of wriggling, gigantic black shadows.

Lightning tore through the night sky.

The three people in front of the screen clearly saw the true appearance of those things.

Two two-story-high double-headed scaled monsters were opening their bloodthirsty maws and lunging at the camera. In mid-air, dozens of gliding monsters with huge bone spikes were circling.

Further away, red eyes kept lighting up in the dense forest, so numerous they made one's scalp numb.

"Old Wu wasn't wrong. This place is basically a monster nest." Da Biao swallowed hard.

In the video, Zhang Qiang swung his high-frequency oscillating alloy combat blade, slicing through a lunging scaled monster with one strike. The blue high-temperature plasma beam was dazzling in the night rain.

"Boss. Communications restored. We landed right in the middle of a monster pile. The brothers have formed a formation, but there are too many of them." Zhang Qiang's voice was accompanied by heavy hydraulic roars, "Requesting the nuclear submarine to launch torpedoes to wash the ground. We can withstand the first wave of explosions."

Da Biao shouted anxiously: "Zhang Qiang, are you crazy? If you wash the ground with torpedoes, you'll be flattened into iron pancakes too. Retreat into the water with your men. Let the submarine support you."

Just then, Wu Dong stared at the data analysis column next to the screen, his eyes widening.

"Boss. Look at these spectral analysis data." Wu Dong pointed at the frantically jumping data stream, his voice trembling.

Lu Chen narrowed his eyes, his gaze shifting from Zhang Qiang's combat footage to the data column.

After just one glance, the coldness in Lu Chen's eyes vanished instantly. It was replaced by a fanatical gleam.

He grabbed the red communication microphone on the table.

"Zhang Qiang. This is Lu Chen."

The sound of a combat blade shredding bone came from the other end of the communication channel: "Boss. I'm here. Ready to take a few down with me at any time."

"Who told you to take anyone down with you? Open your eyes and look clearly at those things in front of you." Lu Chen's voice echoed in the hall.

"Seen clearly. It's a bunch of thick-skinned monsters. Really tough to hack." Zhang Qiang answered, breathing heavily.

"You idiot." Lu Chen slammed his palm on the table, "Those are all top-tier high-dimensional biological skeletons. They are the energy matrix fuel we desperately need. Wei Jianguo is worrying about having no raw materials to refine biological active dissolving fluid."

Lu Chen stared intently at the dense mass of monsters on the screen, as if looking at an open-pit gold mine.

"Zhang Qiang. Listen well to my new order." Lu Chen spoke very fast.

"Received. Please speak, Boss."

"No retreating. No using torpedoes." Lu Chen's voice was filled with chilling excitement, "Two hundred heavy-duty Death Squad Soldiers, let loose completely. Chop up all those with bone spikes and thick scales. I only want the bones. Throw all the meat into the sea to feed the fish."

The control room fell into a deathly silence.

Da Biao was stunned. Wu Dong was also stunned.

On the other end of the walkie-talkie, Zhang Qiang was silent for two seconds.

Then, a burst of manic laughter erupted.

"Understood, Boss. The brothers were just feeling frustrated from hacking. So these are all treasures." Zhang Qiang roared at the top of his lungs.

In the communication channel, the cheers of two hundred Death Squad Soldiers instantly drowned out the roar of the rain and the monsters.

"Brothers. Did you hear the Boss? The Boss wants to make bone soup. Get your blades out. Today, we're having a Pacific Ocean bone-chopping contest." Zhang Qiang kicked a small monster away.

The nature of the battle had completely changed.

A moment ago, it was a desperate breakout battle. Now, it had turned into a one-sided resource harvest.

On the big screen, two hundred dark gray titanium alloy Exoskeletons spread out in formation.

The five-ton thrust hydraulic pumps let out a deafening roar.

Zhang Qiang took the lead and charged into the densest part of the monster group.

A double-headed scaled monster opened its mouth to bite down.

Zhang Qiang didn't dodge at all. He raised his left hand directly. The half-ton titanium alloy arm was jammed straight into the monster's mouth.

Snap.

The monster's fangs bit onto the magnetic fluid defense module and shattered instantly.

Zhang Qiang gripped the oscillating combat blade with his right hand and slashed upward violently.

A high-temperature blue light flashed. The monster's massive head flew into the sky. The cut was charred black.

"This one has high bone density. It's mine." Zhang Qiang kicked the huge headless corpse over, "Logistics team. Come over and dismantle the bones."

On the other side, a dozen heavy-duty Death Squad Soldiers surrounded a gliding bone-spike monster in mid-air.

They activated the hydraulic shock absorbers on their legs and leaped over ten meters high. Dozens of mechanical palms grabbed the monster's bone spikes, dragging it down from the sky.

The monster crashed into the mud, struggling frantically.

"Hold it down. Don't break the bones. These are all money." A squad leader shouted.

Five Exoskeleton Warriors pounced on it, their five-ton thrust holding the monster's limbs down tightly. Another soldier pulled out a combat blade and cut along the monster's spine.

This scene completely defied common sense. It was an assembly-line-level industrial slaughter.

The ultimate biochemical weapons that Freemasons had spent tens of billions of dollars to cultivate had become livestock waiting to be slaughtered in front of the Chenguang Factory's steel legion.

The monster's sharp claws couldn't even scratch the Exoskeleton's face mask. Their vaunted defenses were useless in front of the high-frequency oscillating combat blades.

Lu Chen stood in front of the big screen with a calm expression.

"Old Wu. Notify viper-2 and viper-3. Clear out all daily supplies and spare ammunition. Free up all cargo space. Come back after filling them with bones." Lu Chen ordered.

Wu Dong wiped his cold sweat: "Boss. Looking at this, there are at least thousands of monsters on the island. Two submarines might not be able to hold them all."

"If you can't fit them, hang them on the submarine hulls too." Lu Chen's tone was firm, "Bring these skeletons back. The refined dissolving fluid will be enough to push the anti-gravity engine's power to the limit. Our Aerospace Carrier will be able to completely break free from Earth's gravitational bonds."

Da Biao grinned on the side: "If those old fogies from Freemasons knew that the monsters they worked so hard to raise were all being used as our fuel, they'd probably vomit blood collectively."

Time passed second by second.

A full two hours passed. The roaring on the Pacific Ocean island grew weaker and weaker.

The hot-spot red dots on the radar screen were wiped out in large patches.

The rain was still falling, and the soil on the island had been completely soaked with black, foul-smelling blood.

"Boss. Cleanup complete." Zhang Qiang's panting voice came through the walkie-talkie.

In the image, a high, pale-white bone mountain had piled up on the beach. All the mutant monsters had been stripped of their flesh, leaving only pure skeletons.

Two hundred Death Squad Soldiers stood beside the bone mountain, their titanium alloy armor covered in black stains, but their eyes were terrifyingly bright.

"Well done." Lu Chen nodded, "Have the submarines dock. Load everything into the holds. Get back here immediately."

"Understood. The brothers are starting to move the bricks." Zhang Qiang waved his hand.

Two hundred Exoskeletons began to transport the bones, each time lifting several tons of skeletons and throwing them directly into the submarine cargo holds.

Lu Chen turned around, just about to go back to his desk for a drink of water.

In his mind, a sharp system notification sound exploded.

This sound was higher-pitched than any previous time, even carrying a strange resonance.

"Ding. Detected that the host's armed forces have wiped out a high-dimensional mutant creature group across the ocean."

"Determined that the enemy's ultimate biochemical strategic reserve base has been completely destroyed."

"Hidden conditions met. Unlocking cross-level settlement channel."

The hand holding the plastic water cup stopped in mid-air.

The system's pale blue virtual panel popped up instantly, directly covering his entire field of vision.

The data stream on the panel poured down like a waterfall, and the golden progress bar was filled directly.

Lu Chen looked at the glaring large characters on it, his eye twitching slightly. The reward given by the system this time completely exceeded his original expectations.

"Old Wu. Da Biao. Prepare the car." Lu Chen slammed the water cup onto the table.

"Where to, Boss?" Da Biao hurriedly turned back.

Lu Chen stared at the blue panel that only he could see in the air, smirking.

"To Underground Level 3. To welcome the real good stuff." Lu Chen strode toward the control room door.

He couldn't wait to see just how much this so-called cross-level reward could arm that two-hundred-meter inverted triangle chassis.

Wu Dong and Da Biao looked at each other and immediately followed.

At this moment, in the core clean room on Underground Level 3, the final pouring process of the Aerospace Carrier's keel had just been completed.