77: Strong rival? Crush!

PX-3 let out a piercing shriek, its wings suddenly folded, turning into a bloody meteor as it dove down.

The bone blades on its wing edges glinted with a cold light in the sun, and the air was torn with a sharp boom.

The twisted human face was terrifyingly ferocious, its mouth almost splitting to its ears, revealing pale fangs.

"Die!"

Amidst a hoarse roar, its wings, like blades, brought down a bloody lightning bolt towards Su Lei's head!

Su Lei, who was running at full speed, suddenly stopped.

He slowly turned his head to look behind him, his eyes extremely cold.

"Seeking death."

The moment his right hand pressed against the saber hilt at his waist, the surrounding sand grains floated silently, defying gravity.

Clang—

A brilliant saber light shot into the sky.

This saber strike was so fast it transcended the concept of time, as if even space itself was cleaved open!

Wherever the Saber Qi passed, the bloody lightning silently annihilated.

The entire desert trembled violently, and sand waves rose like a tsunami!

PX-3's massive body suddenly froze in mid-air.

The next moment,

"Boom—!!!"

Its bio-armor shattered inch by inch, and dark red blood gushed out like a spring.

The corpse, neatly cut into two halves, heavily crashed onto the sand.

The head, embedded with a human face, struggled to lift, the data stream in its compound eyes gradually dimming.

"Target..."

"Threat Rank..."

"Re-evaluating..."

"Error..."

"Invincible..."

Su Lei sheathed his saber, not even sparing a glance at the corpse behind him.

His boot soles stepped through the pool of blood, leaving a trail of crimson footprints on the yellow sand.

He continued walking forward... The underground base fell into a deathly silence.

Everyone gaped, staring blankly at the PX-3, cut in half on the screen.

This earth-shattering strike seemed to pierce through heaven and earth; even through the screen, one could feel an indescribable palpitation.

Someone's coffee cup clattered to the ground, but they were oblivious, just staring blankly at the scene on the screen.

"This... this is impossible..."

A researcher's voice trembled, "PX-3's bio-armor should theoretically be able to withstand missiles without a scratch..."

"Shut up!"

Lin Qingcang's face was extremely grim.

He stared intently at Su Lei's figure, then suddenly slammed his fist onto the control panel, causing the metal surface to dent.

A researcher suddenly noticed something and shouted:

"Sir!" A technician suddenly exclaimed, "Detecting a sharp drop in the target's Qi and Mental Energy field strength! Currently, it's only 50% of his Peak state!"

Hearing this, Lin Qingcang's grim expression finally softened slightly.

"So that's it... a high burst that can't be sustained?"

He turned and pressed the communicator.

"Initiate B-7 contingency plan. Release all stored experimental subjects, and security forces hold the final line of defense."

A piercing alarm blared through the base.

The ground in the outer defense zone suddenly collapsed, revealing a giant sinkhole nearly a hundred meters in diameter.

Amidst the roar of hydraulic gates slowly opening, hundreds of Vicious Beast experimental subjects surged out like a black tide.

They varied in form: some were covered in scales, some had multiple compound eyes, some had limbs mutated into sharp bone blades... all were products of the Seventh Research Institute's genetic modification.

The control chips implanted in their brains flashed wildly with red light, continuously transmitting the same command—

"Kill target—Su Lei!"

In the desert, Su Lei's steps finally halted.

Ahead of him, a sandstorm was forming.

It wasn't a natural wind and sand, but a death wave stirred up by countless stampeding Vicious Beasts!

The ground was shaking, the air was screaming, and the distant horizon was obscured by a dense black horde of beasts, as if the end of the world had arrived.

"Human wave tactics, huh..."

Su Lei's lips curved slightly, and he charged forward at an even faster speed!

In less than a minute, the first wave of beasts arrived!

Three "Earth Spike Sand Lizards" burst out of the ground.

They were five meters long, their backs covered in sharp bone spikes, and they spat corrosive venom from their mouths!

Su Lei's figure flashed, and saber light swept like a new moon!

"Puff! Puff! Puff!"

Three lizard heads shot into the sky; before the venom even hit the ground, their bodies had already crashed down!

But more Vicious Beasts were already pouncing—

Shadow Blade wolf packs ambushed from the side; their shadows could detach from their bodies, transforming into black sharp blades to cut enemies!

Corrosive Poison Locusts flapped their wings and rose into the air, spraying dark green poisonous mist from their tails, obscuring vision!

Steel Bone Giant Elephants charged head-on, their ten-ton bodies crushing forward like battle tanks!

...Su Lei's eyes turned cold, and his saber momentum suddenly changed!

"Ten Steps, One Kill · Thousandfold Waves!"

Nine layers of Saber Qi stacked, sweeping out like raging waves!

"Boom—!!!"

Dozens of Vicious Beasts in the front row were instantly torn into shredded meat, and a blood mist exploded in the desert!

But the beast horde was endless.

More experimental subjects rushed over, stepping on the corpses of their companions; there was no fear in their eyes, only the killing instinct controlled by their chips!

Su Lei's saber became faster and faster, his figure weaving through the beast horde, severed limbs flying wherever he passed.

But the number of Vicious Beasts was truly too many, and his Qi and Mental Energy were rapidly depleting... In the underground base, the data stream on the monitoring screens refreshed like a waterfall.

"Target's Qi has dropped below the 40% critical point!"

"Mental Energy fluctuations continue to decline!"

"Muscle fatigue has reached the alert threshold!"

"At the current consumption rate, he is expected to enter a weakened state in ten minutes!"

Looking at the scene of corpses strewn across the field, the researchers' faces were extremely grim.

Each Vicious Beast was a masterpiece they had painstakingly created,

Yet now they were being casually killed like stray dogs.

They couldn't even make the opponent stop.

After sacrificing more than a dozen Rank 4 Vicious Beasts, the opponent's condition had only dropped by a few percentage points... Lin Qingcang sat in the command chair, his fingers gently tapping the armrest, his eyes glinting with calculation.

Meeting the gazes cast upon him, he took a deep breath.

"Immediately release the Nest Guardian, experimental subject PX-2."

The researchers' faces suddenly changed.

"General! The Nest Guardian's control is still unstable; if it goes berserk..."

"Execute the order."

"...Yes."

As the triple-encrypted command was entered,

In the deepest part of the gate, some colossal creature opened its crimson eyes... On the desert battlefield, Su Lei's blade had just cleaved the head of the last Blade Armored Rhino when his figure suddenly paused.

He felt the ground tremble violently!

"Rumble—"

The sand a hundred meters away suddenly collapsed, and a giant pit over thirty meters in diameter appeared out of nowhere!

Amidst the swirling yellow sand, eight dark purple tentacles covered in suckers emerged from the pit.

Each was as thick as a giant oil pipeline, with corrosive mucus flowing on its surface; where the mucus dripped, the sand instantly crystallized.

"Another Yao Beast?"

Su Lei's pupils contracted slightly.

In the center of the tentacles, a mountain-like mass of flesh slowly rose.

It had no distinct eyes or mouthparts; its entire body was a pulsating mass of flesh, its surface covered with dense rows of fangs and eyeballs!

"Nest Guardian" PX-2.

The ultimate war weapon, developed by the Western Military Region over three years at a cost of five hundred billion, using the corpse of the Yao Beast Titan Demonic Beast as a blueprint and synthesized with the genes of two hundred and thirty-one Vicious Beasts!

It emitted a low-frequency hum, and all Vicious Beast experimental subjects suddenly stopped attacking, retreating like a tide.

This was a Rank suppression etched into their genes.

They were clearing the hunting ground for their "King"!