245: Chapter 245 Holy crap! Isn't that a honey badger?!

Entrance to the Abyss of Heavy Prison.

Su Ming walked through the hundred-meter-long alloy corridor and stepped into the true forbidden zone.

Boom!

A heavy pressure swept in from all directions.

Ten times standard gravity!

The ground beneath his feet was no longer soil, but a dark red Meteor Ore sand that had been compacted for countless years by ultra-high gravity, as hard as a steel plate.

Su Ming only paused for an imperceptible half-second.

"No big deal!"

His self-weight of five thousand tons meant he felt almost nothing from this external pressure; it was like putting a brick on someone who had been carrying a mountain on their back for years—they wouldn't even notice.

He moved his shoulders, and his joints made a faint grinding sound.

Upon sensing this powerful external pressure, the Star Core Embryo within him not only felt no discomfort but instead emitted a hum of joy and excitement.

It was like a fish returning to water.

Su Ming adapted for two seconds, feeling his body warm up.

Then, in front of the monitoring screens behind the outpost, under the dumbfounded gaze of the officers and soldiers, he took a step forward.

One step, two steps...

In front of the monitoring screens, Station Chief Xu Zheng and several sentries stared intently at the screen.

"Station Chief, he isn't wearing anti-gravity armor..."

"I see it..."

"That's ten times gravity! And he isn't even activating his Source Energy shield..."

"I see it..."

"Station Chief... he... he's running?!"

"Shut up!"

Station Chief Xu Zheng glared at the sentry beside him!

"This is fucking insane!"

He rubbed his eyes and muttered to himself.

An ordinary Fifth-Order entering a ten-times gravity zone for the first time can last at most a few minutes.

A Sixth-Order can move normally, but their speed will drop significantly.

A Seventh-Order needs to adapt to the physical load first without equipment assistance.

Yet on the screen, Su Ming only stood at the entrance for two seconds.

From a steady walk to a gradually accelerating jog, he finally transformed into an incredibly fast afterimage in the ten-times gravity environment, sprinting towards the depths of the forbidden zone!

Bang! Bang! Bang!

The sound of footsteps echoed back to the outpost along the mountainside!

The Meteor Ore sand on the ground was continuously kicked open, leaving footprints spaced more than ten meters apart.

The nearby gravity warning signs swayed from the airflow, their base bolts creaking.

On the right side of the monitor, the speed value rose rapidly.

Thirty kilometers per hour. Sixty. Ninety. One hundred and twenty.

The technician put the scanner on the table and turned around.

"Station Chief, he's still accelerating."

Station Chief Xu Zheng pressed his hands against the edge of the console, his scalp tingling!

The young man's stride frequency was ridiculously stable, like he was jogging on flat ground.

Was the ten-times gravity field not even a warm-up for him?

This kid... he wouldn't really treat an S-rank forbidden zone like his own backyard, right?!

...

Meanwhile, on the outskirts of the Abyss of Heavy Prison.

Su Ming had already run more than thirty kilometers.

The ten-times gravity field draped over him like a heavy coat, but it didn't cause him much substantial hindrance.

On the contrary, because of the increased gravity, every step he took became more solid, and the force feedback from the ground was incredibly clear.

That feeling of his soles firmly hitting the ground was like an iron ball finally falling into its rightful place.

Su Ming glanced at his wrist terminal.

[Current Location: Level 1 Outskirt Zone of the Abyss of Heavy Prison.] [Gravity Index: 11 G] [Distance to Outpost No. 3: 31.4 km.]

Still within the military's surveillance range, it wouldn't be good to push his speed to an absurd level.

A newly adult Major General being able to physically withstand ten times gravity was already shocking enough.

If he broke the sound barrier, those officers would probably question their lives, and he might even attract the top leaders of the Zhennan Military Region.

He controlled his speed and rhythm, carving a straight path across the dark red Meteor Ore sand.

"Station Chief... the target has entered the C-3 zone, and the speed... the speed is still increasing! Current speed is one hundred and thirty kilometers per hour!"

In the command room of Outpost No. 3, the voice of the technician in charge of monitoring was trembling.

On the big screen, a green dot representing Su Ming was steadily moving toward the depths of the forbidden zone at an incredible speed.

The red environmental parameters around the light spot were changing rapidly.

[Gravity Index: 15 G]

Station Chief Xu Zheng stared intently at the screen. Fifteen times gravity!

The light spot on the screen was like a heavy truck driving on a highway, ignoring all the ruggedness and resistance, pushing straight through.

"Report! Target has broken through to the B-7 zone!" [Gravity Index: 20 G]

"Report! The target is about to enter the B-9 zone!" [Gravity Index: 25 G]

In the command room, only the increasingly urgent reports from the technician remained.

The surrounding soldiers were speechless, just staring blankly at the speeding light spot on the screen, feeling that their past ten-plus years of military training and understanding of strength had been kicked into the trash can.

"Station Chief, should we continue reporting?" the adjutant leaned over and asked in a low voice.

"Report! Why wouldn't we?" Station Chief Xu Zheng came back to his senses, "Report every minute! Send all data to the General Staff exactly as it is!"

"I also want to know what expression Chief of Staff Jiang will have when he sees this report!"

He didn't believe he was the only one who would be too scared to sleep! Such a monster must make his superiors have a headache too!

Su Ming stopped.

As he went deeper, the surrounding air began to become viscous. The gravel scattered on the roadside did not roll, but was stuck firmly in the Ore sand.

Su Ming bent down and picked up a fist-sized dark red Ore; it weighed at least a hundred kilograms in his hand.

He rubbed it with his thumb. A layer of fine residue fell off the surface, revealing silver-gray metal inside.

Su Ming had a thought.

[Ding! Devoured low-density Meteor Ore, mass points + 12]

Although it weighed over two hundred jin, it was actually under the influence of twenty-five times gravity. Its True Mass was only a dozen kilograms.

But this wasn't bad! He would pack some dirt to take with him when he left; the System space had over a thousand spiders inside, but there was still some spare room.

Judging by the density of the Ore layer, the military's data wasn't wrong. There was indeed a large-scale Meteor Ore deposit buried beneath the Abyss of Heavy Prison.

It was just too difficult to mine. In a twenty-five times gravity environment, ordinary machinery would break down upon entering.

The cost for the Awakened to mine was even higher, and what they dug out might not even be enough to pay the commission.

To others, this was a useless mine. To him... that might not be the case!

Once his fourth life form stabilized, he could consider contracting it.

Didn't an Inspector have the power to temporarily suspend operations? I don't care who owns the rights; just stop for a moment, I'm going first...

Su Ming's mouth curled up.

Just then, his ears caught a faint rustling sound. "Rustle..."

The sound came from the front left. He didn't stop, letting his gravity perception spread along the ground first.

Three hundred meters away, behind a protruding rock wall, there was a downward-sloping cave.

The cave entrance was over six meters in diameter, with claw marks and large patches of gray-white fur left on the edges.

One hundred meters ahead, in a low cave, a huge head covered with layers of rock-like armor plates was slowly poking out.

It was a giant beast over fifteen meters long and nearly seven meters high at the shoulder.

Its whole body was covered in a thick shell the same color as the surrounding Meteor Ore rocks, and its small, dark red eyes revealed an inherent violence and madness.

A Sixth-Order Source Beast... a Heavy Rock Honey Badger weighing nearly eighty tons!

Su Ming recognized this thing at a glance.

"Holy crap?!" "Isn't this the Honey Badger?!"