108: Chapter 108 The Annihilation Battle Inside the Abandoned Building

The moment the giant man stepped between the two load-bearing pillars, Lin Ye's foot slipped.

Half his shoulder slammed into the crumbling wall, and the Fire Axe slipped from his hand, clattering noisily onto the ground.

Zhao Mengmeng's eyelid twitched as her finger pressed against the trigger.

The giant man burst into wild laughter.

"Got you!"

His face, frozen a bruised purple, twisted as he fixed his gaze on Lin Ye.

The thick wolf skin, the crossbow, the stuffed backpack, and that metal bracer that allowed him to scale walls.

As long as he killed him and took those supplies, he could survive!

The steel pipe swept across with a shrill whistle.

The giant man threw his entire weight forward, his shoulders, waist, and knees exerting force simultaneously to pin Lin Ye into the corner and crush him.

Zhao Mengmeng cursed coldly, "Idiot."

The giant man didn't care at all.

His foot had already stepped over the first Nano-wire.

The second one was right against his waist.

The third one was stretched across the back of his knees.

Lin Ye fell back against the wall, raising his right arm slightly.

Inside the bracer, the High-frequency Engine suddenly engaged.

Buzz!

The Three-dimensional Cutting Array tightened instantly.

The wild laugh on the giant man's face froze.

His forward momentum didn't stop, but his body was caught by invisible thin lines from all directions.

A mist of blood exploded.

Both arms were forcibly severed from the shoulders and elbows; the steel pipe, still held by his severed palms, flew out and hit a nearby stone pillar with a clang.

The Nano-wires at the back of his knees retracted at the same time.

The giant man's legs were displaced, his massive body losing support and crashing heavily to the ground.

Only then did the intense pain surge through his nerves into his brain.

"AAAAAHHH—"

The scream exploded within the seven-story abandoned building.

Blood from the severed limbs splashed onto the gray-white stone slabs, trickling down through the cracks.

Lin Ye stood up straight and kicked the Fire Axe back to his side.

"Quite strong."

He looked down at the twitching giant on the ground.

"But your brain is out of service."

Zhao Mengmeng held her crossbow, a cold sneer tugging at the corner of her mouth.

"This top-up failed."

The remaining attackers were all frozen in place.

Warm blood splashed across their faces, and the fanatical desire to steal food was instantly extinguished by the shocking sight of the meat grinder.

The Kangaroo Country man was the first to break.

He turned and ran wildly toward the stairwell.

"I'm not stealing anymore! Don't kill me!"

The man from France dragged his injured foot behind him, even throwing away the dagger he had used for courage.

The Monkey Country Challenger's face turned green, and he turned around, slamming his head into the doorframe in his panic.

The man from Cactus Country, his Achilles tendon severed, crawled desperately backward on the ground.

"Don't kill me! I just followed them! I didn't do anything!"

Zhao Mengmeng raised the tip of her crossbow slightly.

"You already had your knife raised. Why act like a bystander now?"

A wooden arrow left the string.

It pierced straight through the Kangaroo Country man's back, the tip bursting out from his sternum.

He stumbled forward two steps and fell to his knees, his forehead slamming hard against the rubble.

Zhao Mengmeng didn't stop.

A second arrow was notched, the sights locking onto the Frenchman's back.

The Frenchman was scared out of his wits; he reached back and pulled his Monkey Country companion behind him, attempting to use a living person as a shield.

Zhao Mengmeng's eyes turned cold.

"Truly disgusting."

The trigger was pulled.

The wooden arrow pierced through the Frenchman's ribs at an angle, pinning directly into his lungs.

He crashed into the stairwell entrance, coughing up large mouthfuls of bloody foam, unable to scream a single word.

Seeing the stairwell blocked by bodies, the Monkey Country Challenger turned and lunged toward a hole in the outer wall.

Half a leg was already over the edge of the sixth floor.

Lin Ye raised his right arm.

A Nano-wire shot through the air, accurately wrapping around his waist.

The Monkey Country Challenger was yanked back in mid-air.

"I surrender! I'll be your lackey! I'll give you all my resources!"

Lin Ye was expressionless.

"When you came here, you didn't plan on letting me live."

The bracer engine retracted to its limit.

The Nano-wire tightened.

The Monkey Country Challenger's abdomen was forcibly sliced open, his body folding in mid-air.

A rain of blood drifted out through the broken wall.

The mangled remains fell, landing right on top of a Small Pale One climbing up the outer wall.

Stimulated by the scent of blood, that Pale Species let out an excited, eerie shriek.

Lin Ye raised his hand and fired a horizontal Nano-wire.

Two Small Pale Ones outside the window ledge were sliced into several pieces and tumbled to the bottom of the building.

The man from Cactus Country was still crawling.

His one remaining good leg left a startling blood trail in the dust.

"I really didn't want to kill you! Please!"

Lin Ye walked over and picked up the short knife he had dropped.

On the sharp tip of the blade, a thread of fabric just cut from the bottom of Zhao Mengmeng's backpack was still hanging.

He casually tossed the short knife in front of the man from Cactus Country.

"You want to live."

Lin Ye raised his hand.

A Nano-wire wrapped around the man's neck.

"So do I."

A faint cutting sound passed.

The Cactus Country man's pleas for mercy came to an abrupt halt.

Zhao Mengmeng walked over with her crossbow, glanced at the bodies strewn across the floor, and her gaze fell back on the giant.

Due to excessive blood loss, the giant was twitching unconsciously on the ground, muttering incoherent words.

"You... Great Xia... devil..."

Lin Ye looked down at him.

"When a robbery fails, don't make it about nationality."

Zhao Mengmeng raised her crossbow and pinned an arrow into the giant's throat.

His eyes bulged; he was dead.

The interior of the seven-story abandoned building finally fell silent.

Outside, the roars of giant beasts, the lashing of the Blood Vine, and the vibration of the building filled their ears once more.

The Great Xia Live Stream chat was spamming frantically.

[Satisfying! They should all be wiped out!]

[When those five or six people rushed them just now, my heart was in my throat.]

[Brother Eye's methods are incredible. If you're a bandit in the Void Sea, you have to be prepared to be shredded.]

[Mengmeng's archery is so steady. She picks them off one by one, connecting the dots into a line!]

The cursing comments from overseas viewers were quickly suppressed by the Great Xia netizens.

Everyone could see clearly through the livestream that these people had come with the intent to kill and loot.

Zhao Mengmeng put away her crossbow, stepped forward to kick aside the bodies at the stairwell, and scanned the area behind them.

"Monsters are climbing the outer walls downstairs. The scent of blood everywhere can't be hidden."

Lin Ye nodded.

"Make it quick."

The two of them quickly split up.

Zhao Mengmeng was responsible for looting the bodies, while Lin Ye stood guard and handled the scattered weapons.

After searching for a while, they only found two small pieces of frozen meat and a few daggers.

Zhao Mengmeng cursed under her breath.

"A bunch of paupers, yet they have quite the nerve."

Lin Ye gathered the usable weapons into a corner.

The slanted-mouth steel pipe was too heavy to take, so he jammed it across the collapsed doorframe of the stairwell and dragged several bodies to the edge of the hole as bait.

After finishing the cleanup, he sat down against a stone pillar.

His arms were still aching from taking that hit from the giant earlier.

If he hadn't set a trap and instead fought that starving bear head-on, he would have surely suffered a great loss.

Zhao Mengmeng crouched down beside him.

"Are your hands okay?"

"I can still move them."

"Translation: they hurt like hell."

Lin Ye didn't argue and lowered his bracer.

"Two minutes' rest."

Zhao Mengmeng immediately stood up, her crossbow leveled to cover their blind spot.

"You rest. If anyone else dares to show their head, I'll make sure they don't even make it to their next life in time for a hot meal."

Lin Ye leaned against the cold concrete pillar.

Outside, the battle in the center of the ruins was growing more intense.

Three Giant Pale Species had already surrounded the main Blood Vine.

Half of the Thick-armored Giant Beast's shoulder plate had been eaten through by acid, but its forelimbs still pinned several thick vines to the ground.

The Slender Giant Beast's two bone blades slashed repeatedly, cutting through large sections of the vine array.

The Bloated Giant Beast, topped with a massive bone crest, launched one brute-force ram after another.

The main Blood Vine was retreating step by step.

The protective thick vines coiled back frantically, tightly binding the trunks and joints of the three giant beasts.

Dark red acid sprayed like a rainstorm.

The concrete road was corroded into smoking pits, and Small Pale Ones hissed and tore at each other in the white mist.

Zhao Mengmeng's throat felt dry.

"Brother Lin, the battle down there... I'm afraid it won't be over anytime soon."

Lin Ye pushed himself up by his knees and walked to the edge of the broken wall to look down.

The ruined street had become a swamp of interwoven gray-white and dark red.

The Main Vine's defensive line was being torn open by the three giant beasts working together.