50: Chapter 50 Closing the Door and Beating the Dog

Boom—!!!

The entire Underworld Fortress suddenly shook violently, and bricks from the city walls fell in showers. The sky instantly turned blood-red, and a thick rain of blood poured down.

"What's going on?!" Zhang Hao rushed into the command room, scrambling on all fours, his pants wet once again.

Su Qingyu stared at the surveillance screen, her face pale. "Al-all the prisoners... are rioting at the same time!"

On the surveillance screen, the fifty thousand prisoners who were originally working at the construction site had gone berserk en masse. Their eyes turned pitch black, and eerie blood-colored runes surfaced on their skin as they lunged at the nearby Underworld Soldiers like rabid dogs.

Even more terrifying was that the strength of these rioters had surged several times over. A common Corpse Monster could actually tear an Underworld Soldier apart with its bare hands, and the power of the Thousand-Faced Cultists' incantations had increased more than tenfold!

"Master! The city walls won't hold!" Zhang Hao's voice was trembling as he watched the Underworld Soldiers retreat steadily.

Lin Chen, however, sat leisurely in front of the console, his fingers moving rapidly across the virtual keyboard.

"What's the rush? The good show is just beginning."

He pressed the final key.

[Ultimate Defense System Activated]

[Project Code: Beating the Dog Behind Closed Doors]

In an instant, the structure of the entire Fortress began to change.

Heavy alloy gates dropped down at all passage entrances, and countless dark cannon barrels extended from the surface of the city walls. Even more bizarrely, the ground suddenly split open, and hundreds of pools glowing with green light rose up—those were concentrated septic tanks.

"First wave, let's treat them to some shit," Lin Chen chuckled.

The septic tanks erupted like fountains, drenching the rioters' heads and faces in green sewage. Surprisingly, this sewage could actually corrode the blood-colored runes on their bodies!

"Ah! My power is disappearing!"

"This shit is poisonous!"

"Help! I can't open my eyes!"

The rioters screamed and rolled in the rain of filth, their recently surged power rapidly declining.

But the true killing move was only just beginning.

Lin Chen switched to the second program:

[Activate 'Creditor's Wrath' Mode]

The skeleton marks on all the rioters' wrists suddenly grew hot, emitting a piercing red light. They discovered in horror that their debts were skyrocketing:

[Participating in a Riot: Fine of 10,000,000 nether talismans]

[Damaging Public Property: Compensation at 10x actual loss]

[Attacking Staff: Fine of 50,000,000 nether talismans]

One Thousand-Faced Cultist saw his balance instantly turn negative and fainted on the spot from fright.

"Second wave, economic sanctions," Lin Chen whistled.

Even more ruthless was that the system began mandatory deductions. The rioters' equipment automatically decomposed into nether talismans; their clothes, weapons, and even false teeth turned into flows of light and were reclaimed by the system.

"My blade!"

"My pants!"

"Give me back my gold tooth!"

The rioters scurried through the rain of filth with bare buttocks; the scene was quite an eyesore.

But the crisis was not yet over.

A world-shaking roar suddenly came from deep within the Fortress. The Thousand-Faced Sect Leader had somehow broken free from his restraints; he had devoured hundreds of rioters, and his body had bloated into a twenty-meter-tall monster. His eight arms had turned into viscous tentacles, each covered in eyes and mouths.

"Lin Chen!!!" The monster's roar made the entire Fortress tremble. "I want you dead!!!"

With a sweep of one tentacle, an entire section of the city wall collapsed like building blocks. The Underworld Soldiers were like toys before it, crushed in swaths.

Zhang Hao peed himself: "Ma-master! We can't beat this thing!"

Su Qingyu gritted her teeth and raised her weapon: "I'll go lure it away!"

Lin Chen held her back: "Watch."

He opened the system mall and selected a seemingly ordinary item:

[Super Doubling Voucher]

Effect: Adds a Debt Transfer function to any attack.

Price: 100,000,000 nether talismans

"Bought."

Just as the monster was about to destroy the main city wall, Lin Chen ordered the Underworld Soldiers:

"Everyone, attack yourselves."

What?!

Under everyone's stunned gazes, the Underworld Soldiers turned their weapons and slashed at themselves. Even more bizarrely, for every strike that landed on them, the monster let out a scream of agony!

"What's going on?!" The monster discovered in horror that countless wounds were appearing on its body out of thin air.

Lin Chen explained with a smile, "Your debt is too high, so the system automatically set you as a 'Co-Debtor.' When they hit themselves, the damage is transferred to you."

The monster didn't believe it and slapped its own head with a tentacle.

Splat— Another of its tentacles suddenly exploded.

"Forgot to mention," Lin Chen added, "if you hit yourself, the damage is doubled."

The monster went completely mad. It didn't dare hit the enemy, it didn't dare hit itself, and even standing still resulted in deductions for 'Land Occupation Fees.'

"I'll take you down with me!!!" It burned its life force, preparing to perform an ultimate forbidden technique.

Lin Chen unhurriedly clicked on [Insurance Services]:

[Would you like to purchase 'Villain Self-Destruction Insurance'?]

[Premium: 1,000,000,000 nether talismans]

[Coverage: Includes all losses caused by self-destruction]

"Buy."

The monster's self-destruction sequence suddenly crashed. It crashed around the Fortress like a leaking balloon, splattering sewage everywhere it went.

"Third wave," Lin Chen smiled, "luring the tiger into the trap."

The final measure was activated.

All the septic tanks connected into a giant vortex, emitting a suffocating stench. The surviving rioters were sucked into the pits like dumplings, and even the monster could not escape.

"No! I don't want to die in shit!!!" These were the monster's final words.

When the last vortex settled, only Lin Chen's people and a mess remained in the Fortress.

Zhang Hao trembled as he tallied the losses: "Master... a third of the city walls collapsed, and over half of the Underworld Soldiers were lost..."

Lin Chen, however, looked at the system prompts, his smile growing brighter and brighter:

[Successfully defended against a super-large-scale riot]

[Reward: Construction permissions for a soul ferry boat]

[New Function Unlocked: Underworld Development Zone]

A blue blueprint appeared in his hand, depicting the design of a ghost ship.

"What's a little loss of building materials?" Lin Chen lightly stroked the blueprint. "With this, the entire Underworld is our development zone."

Su Qingyu suddenly pointed at the surveillance screen: "Wait! There's still a survivor there!"

At the edge of a sewage pit, a figure was crawling with difficulty. It was actually Qin Weiwei! She had somehow survived by luck and was currently dragging her heavily injured body toward a secret passage.

"Should we pursue?" Zhang Hao asked.

Lin Chen shook his head: "Let her run."

Under everyone's confused gazes, he explained with a smile:

"She has intelligence on the Underworld in her head."

"Once she has scouted out all the secrets of the Underworld..."

"We will go and 'close the net' on her."

Everyone suddenly understood.

It turned out that all of this was still within Lin Chen's calculations.

Watching Qin Weiwei disappear at the end of the passage, Lin Chen turned and ordered:

"Clean up the battlefield and prepare for reconstruction."

"In three days, we will begin building the soul ferry boat."

He looked toward the direction of the Underworld, a dangerous light flashing in his eyes:

"It's time to go and recruit our new employees."