216: Chapter 216 The Sixth-Tier Hunter King Gets His Face Blown On the Spot

The atmosphere had just been pulled back a little by Blood Rose, when suddenly, heavy thumping footsteps came from outside the door.

Su Xiaoqi rushed in, carrying a bowl the size of a washbasin.

"Brother!"

"Bathing consumes a lot of energy, drink this quickly!"

The pungent aroma of cumin, bone broth, and mechanical purification fluid mixed together, rushing directly into the hot spring area.

The tablet in Jiang Jiuyou's hand nearly fell into the water.

Blood Rose froze completely.

Jiang Yanxue finally let out a laugh.

"Good soup."

Mio floated over from the corridor, and upon seeing the contents of the bowl, her projection shuddered three times on the spot.

"What did you put in there again?"

Su Xiaoqi looked down at the bowl.

"Hound spine, Royal Court blood crystal powder, cumin, chili, and the de-contamination fluid that Uncle Butcher talked about."

Mio's voice sounded weak.

"De-contamination fluid is not a seasoning!"

Su Xiaoqi handed the bowl to Chen Chen.

"Brother, drink it first to replenish your body."

Blood Rose covered her nose.

"Xiaoqi, you really are the terminator of Shuraba."

Su Xiaoqi tilted her head.

"Can you stew a Shuraba too?"

Jiang Jiuyou closed her eyes.

"Take it out."

Chen Chen took the bowl and drank a mouthful.

It tasted very strange.

But it was full of energy.

[Su Xiaoqi's Gluttonous Feast Energy Feedback triggered.]

[Host has gained allocatable attribute points: 3.]

Chen Chen added all the attribute points to Spirit.

Shen Wanbing immediately synchronized the data on her end.

"Spirit is approaching three hundred."

"You can suppress the partial opening of the mine core shielding."

By the time the hot spring break ended, the Tier 6 Hunter King was only one hundred and fifty kilometers away.

Chen Chen dressed and stood back in front of the holographic console in the main control room.

Shen Wanbing pushed up her glasses.

"It is still accelerating."

"The Tier 6 pressure has already affected the perimeter of the lower deck."

The screen cut to the lower deck.

Several groups of mine slaves were kneeling in the ecological cabin corridor, and some wanted to rush toward the upper gate.

"Let us go up!"

"We'll be crushed by the Tier 6 down here!"

"Is the Lord going to abandon us?"

Iron Wall stood before the gate, carrying a heavy machine gun.

"Whoever takes one more step forward, their legs belong to me."

Yi Chang's projection immediately covered the entire lower deck.

Hundreds of crystal railgun bases rose from both sides, their barrels lowered.

She stood on the administrative platform, her white shirt buttoned to the top, her silver slit pupils scanning the crowd.

"Stay in line, and there will be soup and oxygen."

"Rush the gate, and you'll be treated as cannon fodder."

The troublemakers instantly went soft.

Iron Wall shouted at the top of his lungs, adding,

"Did you hear that? The Vice City Lord is in a bad mood today, don't dig your own graves!"

The commercial district was a different kind of lively.

The proprietress stood under the golden toilet wine barrel, her abacus clicking rapidly.

"The betting pool is open!"

"Lord repels the Tier 6 within three hours, one-to-one odds."

"Lord cripples the Tier 6, one-to-three odds."

"Lord kills the Tier 6, one-to-ten odds!"

Mine slaves and craftsmen gathered around, clutching their point tokens.

Yi Chang's figure appeared from behind the crowd.

The proprietress's fox ears stiffened.

"Vice City Lord, I am just stabilizing the public morale."

Yi Chang opened the ledger.

"Illegal gambling."

The proprietress immediately changed her tune.

"Crowdfunding for pre-battle confidence index."

Yi Chang turned the page.

"Thirty-five percent cut."

The proprietress bristled.

"Are you robbing me?"

Yi Chang looked up.

"Either that or shut it down."

The proprietress gritted her teeth and accepted the agreement.

"Thirty-five percent it is."

"When the Lord really kills that Tier 6, I'm throwing a victory banquet, and don't you think you're getting free drinks."

In the main control room, Qin Hongye's feed connected.

She stood at the highest sniper tower, high-grade repair bandages wrapped around her right shoulder, the Meteor sniper cannon mounted on a mechanical locking rack.

The newly installed weakness prediction scope was fitted onto the aiming rail, with red lines constantly flickering in the lens.

"Within one hundred kilometers, I can fire the first shot."

Chen Chen looked at the bloodstain on her shoulder.

"Only one shot."

Qin Hongye paused for a second.

"If it penetrates, it counts as the third merit."

"It counts."

Only then did she press the gunstock firmly.

Shen Wanbing turned to the mine core control interface.

"The trigger conditions for the Void Projection Barb are very strict."

"The Hunter King must actively scan the Star Core main mine core and insert the tracking chain into the layer where the silent coordinate spike is located."

"Relying only on the aura of the remnant scrolls is not enough."

Chen Chen picked up the sea-stabilizing needle and walked toward the dome of the City Lord Tower.

"Then we'll add some ingredients for it."

The dome opened.

The wind of the Level 3 wasteland poured in.

Chen Chen stood at the highest point and slammed the sea-stabilizing needle down at his feet.

He opened a corner of the shielding for the Star Core main mine core.

The next second.

The pseudo-artifact anchor fluctuations, the aura of the interstellar fortress remnant scrolls, the core heat source of the Sea Scale, and Chen Chen's own life force mixed into an extremely dense signal, shooting toward the sky.

Shen Wanbing stared at the Radar.

"It has slowed down."

Jiang Jiuyou stood in front of the auxiliary control console.

"It's not slowing down; it's preparing to pounce."

One hundred kilometers away.

A string of blood-red afterimages exploded at the end of the wasteland.

The Hunter King's voice smashed into the entire city through the Spirit channel.

"Chen Chen!"

"This time, the scent finally feels real!"

The lower deck was in an uproar.

In Qin Hongye's scope, the red line suddenly magnified.

Shen Wanbing raised her voice.

"Distance is one hundred and three kilometers."

"One hundred and two."

"One hundred and one."

Chen Chen stood on the edge of the dome and lifted his hand to open the mine core shielding by another half-inch.

The blood-red pressure crashed down.

The Hunter King's wild laughter did not stop.

"You cannot escape—!"

The next second.

The distance broke the one-hundred-kilometer mark.

On the main screen, blood-red Spirit tentacles suddenly expanded, stabbing fiercely into the exposed core layer of the Star Core main mine core.

Shen Wanbing slammed her palm onto the activation key.

"Void Projection Barb, contact!"

The next second, the entire main control room was flashed by a blinding red light.

Shen Wanbing's fingers tapped rapidly, her speed of speech as fast as gunfire.

"Target's Spirit chain has been connected."

"Mine core outer layer shielding reversed."

"Void Projection Barb, counter-bite."

Outside the northwest wasteland, at the one-hundred-kilometer mark.

The Hunter King's face, pieced together from flesh and machinery, had just revealed a sinister grin when he felt as if something had violently yanked him from inside his brain.

The blood-red slit pupil on his face dilated violently, and a shriek that did not sound human squeezed out of his throat.

"Argh—!"

There was no explosion.

There was no fire.

There was only an invisible circle of collapse rolling back from the root of his Spirit link.

The Hunter King's body in mid-air convulsed violently, black blood sprayed directly from his nasal cavity, and the grayish-white mechanical eye on his right side cracked on the spot, with blood vessels and cables bulging outward.

"It worked!"

Shen Wanxing huddled behind the sofa, her hands still covering her face, with only the tips of her fingers exposed.

She stared at the tall, crazily writhing figure on the screen, completely stunned.

"Did my hand... pull out a spike or a bomb?"

Su Xiaoqi crouched beside her, her eyes shining brightly.

"Sister Wanxing, can this brain that's been blown up be stewed?"

"Don't think about eating it yet."

Shen Wanxing's throat tightened.

"I'm just afraid it'll crawl back to settle scores with me."

Blood Rose leaned against the railing, the backlash on her wrist not yet faded, her face pale, yet she was still smiling.

"Why would it come for you? If it comes for anyone, it'll be Chen Chen first."

As soon as she finished speaking, Shen Wanbing looked up, the golden light in her eyes flickering intensely.

"Target's perception module is forty percent paralyzed."

"Radar locking ability is zeroed out."

"Right-side olfactory link severed."

"Chen Chen, fire."

Chen Chen stood before the main console without even a half-second pause.

"Jiang Jiuyou."

"Here."

Jiang Jiuyou had already walked to the auxiliary command console, her dark red cloak sweeping the floor, her hand pressed onto the Fleet Link master control.

"Mechanical Empress: Starport Resonance, at full load."

The next second, the entire bridge system of the Ghost Fortress lit up.

The city walls, turrets, convoys, mining rails, and city defense bases—all registered friendly weapons simultaneously popped out a layer of pale golden amplification light film.

Jiang Jiuyou's voice smashed down through the city-wide broadcast.

"All fire control online."

"Defensive shields fully engaged."

"True damage, maxed out."

In the lower industrial cabin, Copper Hammer, with red eyes, rushed to the main energy switch and pulled it down.

"Star Sea Composite Energy Furnace, spin for me!"

Dark golden light streams climbed along the main gun barrels, four types of energy collided into the furnace core simultaneously, and the power inside the entire fortress instantly surged.

Mio's projection flickered crazily beside him.

"It's overloading!"

"Are you people trying to burn the city like a gun barrel!"

"Furnace core temperature is skyrocketing!"

Copper Hammer wiped the sweat from his face and roared back.

"Stop yelling!"

"If it can still burn, it means it's not broken!"

The Sea Scale's main gun wells, the Void Annihilation Matrix on the roof of the Ghost Fortress, the city defense turrets, and the mobile artillery vehicles all aimed upward simultaneously.

Chen Chen raised his hand and pointed forward.

"Scour the ground."

"Boom!"

The first round of firepower slammed out.

One hundred and twenty mobile artillery vehicles fired in unison, sixty-four city defense cannons spat flames together, four Void Annihilation Matrix auxiliary cannons spread out a dark blue fan, and three main gun wells bombarded in succession.

Thousands of Gauss armor-piercing shells and energy beams directly tore the sky around the Hunter King until it turned white.

The Hunter King had just struggled out of the Spirit collapse when his chest was covered by a sea of fire.

"Boom—!"

His entire body was forcibly stopped in mid-air by the artillery fire, a piece of his shoulder armor was blown away, and half of the mechanical exoskeleton on his left arm was melted off.

Shen Wanxing hid behind the sofa, peeking through the gaps in her fingers.

"This... this still isn't dead?"

Su Xiaoqi lay beside her, commenting seriously.

"It has really thick skin."

"Don't learn this!"

Shen Wanxing was about to cry.

"This isn't a question of thick skin, this is a Tier 6!"

"Can you eat a Tier 6?"

"No!"

"Then it's not important."

Su Xiaoqi said it very naturally.

Shen Wanxing nearly couldn't catch her breath.