25: Chapter 25 Head-on Confrontation! The Mutated Ice-Armored Giant Rhinoceros

The terrain within the Ice Valley continuously narrowed, with steep ice walls dozens of meters high on both sides.

Sunlight never reached this place, and the temperature was several degrees lower than the plains outside.

Cold winds echoed through the valley, emitting shrill screams like ghosts and wolves.

Polaris suppressed its engine noise to the lowest idle state.

Lu Chen gripped the steering wheel tightly, his gaze sharp as he scanned every dark corner ahead inch by inch.

Suddenly, a hair-raising crunching sound came from behind a massive block of black ice a kilometer ahead.

Lu Chen slammed on the brakes.

The vehicle stopped behind a protruding ice rock, and he peered out through the periscope.

The moment he saw the target's true form, even Lu Chen, with his calm and unruffled demeanor, couldn't help but twitch.

It was a mountain of flesh.

A terrifying giant beast with a size comparable to a Lv.2 camp-level Mobile City.

It was lying among a pile of rubble and ice debris, head buried while gnawing on something.

[Mutated Ice-Armored Giant Rhino]

[Status: Feeding, extremely dangerous.]

[Threat Level: Lethal (poses a devastating blow to primary defense lines).]

[Characteristics: Extremely terrifying strength, skin mutated into a heavy, keratinized composite ice armor dozens of centimeters thick. Ignores small and medium-caliber firearm shots. Head features a three-meter-long spiral armor-piercing horn, capable of piercing ordinary reinforced concrete fortresses.]

The previous Mutated Ice-Rock Pig was practically a newborn pet dog in front of this monster.

Its body was covered in layers of gray-black keratinized composite ice armor.

That was a product generated by mutation after long-term exposure to extreme cold.

These ice armors were like the plates of ancient heavy armor, fitting seamlessly against its muscles.

"There are no obvious weak points."

Lu Chen's gaze swept back and forth over the Mutated Ice-Armored Giant Rhino.

The previous Snow Bear did not have a keratin layer on its brow.

For the Mutated Ice-Rock Pig, the abdomen was a weak point.

But this Mutated Ice-Armored Giant Rhino was armed to the teeth, with even the area above its eyes covered by thick brow ice armor.

This was definitely not prey that could be solved by a sneak attack.

This was a life-and-death battle that required a head-on clash to test armor and explosive power.

"This is the top-tier prey worthy of me recasting my harpoon."

Lu Chen's facial muscles twitched slightly, and fanaticism burned in his eyes.

He did not choose to hide in place and wait for an opportunity.

Facing a monster of this level, any static defense was just waiting to die.

Once struck by that three-meter-long spiral horn, even ten-centimeter-thick composite scrap steel would be forcibly gouged through.

He had to kite it, exhaust its stamina, and find the right opportunity for a one-hit kill.

Lu Chen grabbed the control handle of the steam repeating crossbow on his right.

Simultaneously, his left hand tightly gripped the black and yellow striped supercharger push rod.

"System, open the fire doors fully and wake it up for me."

Hiss!

Boom!

A thick, pure steel crossbow bolt brought up a shrill sonic boom cloud, shooting out fiercely from the shooting port of Polaris.

Clang!

The crossbow bolt hit the side of the Mutated Ice-Armored Giant Rhino's abdomen without missing a beat.

Lu Chen's eye twitched.

This was a steam-powered crossbow bolt capable of instantly killing a Snow Bear and piercing the skull of an Icefield Wolf.

Upon colliding with that layer of heavy keratinized composite ice armor, it only sparked a dazzling burst of flames.

The arrowhead was forcibly snapped off, falling powerlessly onto the snow.

Only a shallow white mark was left on the ice armor.

It didn't break through the defense.

But this highly provocative strike completely enraged this king at the top of the food chain.

ROAR!

The Mutated Ice-Armored Giant Rhino suddenly raised its massive head, emitting a terrifying roar that shattered eardrums.

Two blood-red giant eyes, as big as red lanterns, locked onto the Polaris that had driven out from behind the cover.

Its food was disturbed, its dignity provoked.

The Mutated Ice-Armored Giant Rhino didn't need to think at all.

Four thick giant legs, comparable to pillars of heaven, stomped heavily on the ground.

BOOM!

The floor of the entire Ice Valley trembled violently.

That moving mountain of flesh, with its spiral horn, turned into an unstoppable heavy pile driver, launching a lethal charge toward Polaris.

Four hundred meters!

Three hundred meters!

Two hundred meters!

The Mutated Ice-Armored Giant Rhino's sprinting speed was incredibly fast.

The swirling ice and snow formed a dozen-meter-high snow tornado, pressing down overwhelmingly.

That overwhelming kinetic energy was enough to crush anything blocking its path into powder.

Inside the vehicle, Lin Wan had already collapsed to the ground, terrified by this terrifying pressure.

She covered her ears tightly with both hands, lacking even the strength to scream.

"Well come!"

Lu Chen stared fixedly ahead, his fighting spirit completely ignited.

The Mutated Ice-Armored Giant Rhino closed in to within fifty meters of Polaris.

That spiral horn was about to pierce the front armor.

A moment of life and death.

Lu Chen's left hand pushed the push rod with black and yellow warning stripes all the way to the top.

[Warning! Crude coal-fired supercharger activated! Power burst at 150%!]

BANG!

The Primary Efficiency Boiler inside Polaris let out a violent, extreme roar.

The supercharger cylinders ran wildly, and the extreme steam pressure slammed hard onto the tracks along the drive shaft.

This black iron turtle, weighing several tons, instantly erupted with a push-back sensation like a sports car.

The massive vehicle body performed a fierce, jaw-dropping Z-shaped maneuver on the ice.

The tracks ground furiously against the ice, sending sparks flying everywhere.

Polaris forcibly shifted four meters to the right.

Swoosh!

The Mutated Ice-Armored Giant Rhino's terrifying spiral horn grazed past the left scrap steel skirt of Polaris.

The tip of the horn dragged a long, blinding spark across the surface of the scrap steel, and the sound of metal breaking echoed through the Ice Valley.

The Mutated Ice-Armored Giant Rhino's massive body couldn't stop due to inertia.

Relying on its unstoppable, violent kinetic energy, it slammed head-on into the thick ice wall behind Polaris.

BANG!

The earth shook and the mountains swayed.

The entire ice wall was smashed into a terrifying crater over a dozen meters in diameter.

Countless tons of giant ice blocks fell like rain, burying most of the Mutated Ice-Armored Giant Rhino's body.

"Now's the chance!"

Lu Chen did not hesitate at all.

The moment the evasion was completed, his hands had already skillfully pulled down the switch for the high-pressure spray gun.

Hiss!

The hidden spray nozzle at the rear of Polaris popped out.

Two-hundred-degree boiling water sprayed out like a waterfall, completely shrouding the broken ice along with the hindquarters of the Mutated Ice-Armored Giant Rhino.

ROAR!

The two-hundred-degree boiling water encountered the sub-zero black ice and keratin layers, producing a reaction of thermal expansion and contraction that was violently abnormal.

The boiling water couldn't scald through that abnormal ice armor, but the terrifying temperature difference caused the scales on the Mutated Ice-Armored Giant Rhino's skin to crackle and shatter.

The searing pain caused this giant beast to struggle to rise from the pile of crushed ice like a madman, shaking its head frantically.

The first wave of kiting was a perfect success.

This was a battle.

It was also the most rigorous violent test Lu Chen had conducted on this war machine he had built with his own hands.