186: Chapter 186 Wasteland Craftsmen

Zhao Mengmeng sat up, leaning against the wall.

Her gaze moved from the scavenger remains on the ground to Lin Ye's right arm.

The Dark Weaver · Abyss Sting was fastened tightly to Lin Ye's forearm.

Its matte black shell was interwoven with dark gold patterns.

A translucent ear bone was embedded in the side of the wrist.

Tiny blue lights flowed silently along the gaps in the armor.

All six lethal Nano-wires had been retracted.

A freezing white mist still lingered in the air.

Lin Ye raised his right arm.

He clenched his five fingers one by one.

The bracer feedback had zero latency.

It was equipped with a Frost Armor core, which came with a frost-slow effect.

Fused with relic technology, it possessed electromagnetic cutting capabilities.

He turned and walked over to the scavenger's corpse.

The horizontal saber cut into the metal chest cavity, and he pried it open with force.

Inside, there were only half-rotted nerve bundles and a cracked gray-blue core.

Lin Ye's Left Eye flashed open and closed instantly.

The core was dense with gray spots; the pollution was extremely severe.

But he focused on a few metal components at the edge of the core.

They were glowing with a faint green light.

With a flick of the horizontal saber, several clean magnetic slide rail pieces fell into his hand.

He then took the opportunity to cut off the elastic guide rail from the back of the scavenger's left arm scythe.

Zhao Mengmeng watched him dismantle the parts.

"Repairing the crossbow?"

"You can't just shoot with your mouth."

Lin Ye threw the parts on the ground.

Zhao Mengmeng didn't waste any words; she dragged over the old crossbow that had broken into two pieces.

This wooden crossbow had been ruined by the boiling spring.

The wooden stock was carbonized, the bronze mechanism was twisted, and the bowstring had snapped.

Lin Ye laid out the broken crossbow, red-scaled snake bones, sand spider tendon bundle, magnetic slide rails, and guide rail pieces in order.

He used the horizontal saber to slice open the snake ribs and carved out the straightest section.

Heat-resistant and highly resilient.

It would serve as the skeleton for the new crossbow arms.

The old mechanism was discarded.

The scavenger guide rail pieces and magnetic slide rails were embedded directly into both sides of the arrow groove.

Zhao Mengmeng quickly took over the sand spider tendon bundle.

She straightened it and removed impurities.

She used the residual high heat from the base of the recasting instrument to forcefully soften it.

Their coordination was flawless.

One dismantling, one assembling.

One fixing, one tightening.

Outside the preparation room, the strange noises in the corridor were intensifying.

Gurgle.

A large amount of preservative fluid was draining rapidly.

Zhao Mengmeng twisted the last tendon bundle into the crossbow arm groove.

The mechanism locked into place.

Lin Ye tossed a bent bronze arrowhead over.

Zhao Mengmeng pressed the arrowhead into the magnetic rail groove.

This crossbow didn't have a conventional bowstring.

It relied entirely on the magnetic slide rails for power.

She lifted the new crossbow.

Its weight had doubled.

Two black guide rails protruded from the front, and the dark red snake bone crossbow arms exuded a murderous aura.

A light screen popped up at the edge of her retina.

[Magnetic Rail crossbow]

Lin Ye pointed his horizontal saber at the discarded alloy plate in the corner.

"Test the accuracy."

Zhao Mengmeng didn't hesitate and pulled the trigger.

Hum!

The crossbow body vibrated slightly.

The magnetic rail's blue light lit up, and the bronze arrowhead tore through the air.

Bang!

The half-inch thick alloy plate was pierced through.

The arrowhead nailed into the concrete wall behind it, creating a circle of radial cracks.

The Great Xia Live Stream chat exploded.

[F***! Hand-crafting an electromagnetic weapon?!]

[Where are those trolls on foreign sites? Who was saying you couldn't make weapons without a machine tool? Our Brother Eye doesn't even look at blueprints and just swings the hammer!]

[Pierced a half-inch alloy plate! This power is fiercer than most conventional firearms, right?!]

Zhao Mengmeng stared at the shattered hole in the wall.

"If that Scarface from India was still here, this arrow would have punched straight through him from front to back."

Lin Ye hooked his foot.

He kicked up a few fragments of the scavenger chest armor.

With the horizontal saber acting as a chisel, he forcefully polished them into several short metal bolts.

The magnetic rail crossbow didn't rely on a traditional arrow shaft; as long as the metal texture could fit into the slide rail, it could fire.

Zhao Mengmeng quickly took stock of the ammunition.

Two bent arrows, three bronze arrowheads, six short metal bolts.

The quantity was extremely small.

But all of them were high-damage.

Lin Ye pressed the bracer mechanism with his left hand, confirming the Nano-wires of the Abyss Sting had returned.

Six main wires, twelve auxiliary wires.

Effective lethal radius: thirty meters.

Zhao Mengmeng suddenly stopped moving.

The strange sounds from the direction of the corridor had changed.

The sound of slow drainage had turned into a harsh suction sound.

In the rows of incubation pods, the preservative fluid was rapidly bottoming out.

The mechanical spines and half-body aberrations soaking in the liquid were exposed to the air.

Nutrient lines peeled off one after another.

The cold blue lighting on both sides of the corridor switched to a piercing crimson.

The full release program was activated.

Lin Ye strode to the door.

His Left Eye opened silently.

In True Vision, the pods on both sides of the corridor were already filled with crimson light.

Red lights burst out one after another.

The number was terrifying.

His gaze penetrated the walls.

Deep in the corridor, hundreds of hidden compartments were simultaneously disengaging their energy locks.

Once the gates opened, this place would become a deathtrap.

Lin Ye's gaze rapidly shifted downward.

The ground at the end of the corridor.

An inspection hatch pressed down by a discarded alloy plate was leaking a very thin green line.

The green light led straight underground.

The light screen flickered.

[Underground Armory Wiring Channel]

Lin Ye closed his eyes, cutting off the agonizing optic nerves.

"The corridor is sealed off, we're going underground."

Bang!

The first glass pod outside the door shattered.

An aberration with only its upper body remaining crashed onto the ground.

Its metal spine dragged blackened ribs as it crawled forward frantically, with a rusty bone saw welded directly onto its forelimb.

It had just lifted its head.

Zhao Mengmeng raised her arm and fired.

Hum!

A blue light flashed.

The short metal bolt pierced directly through its skull, pinning it to the steel plate of the incubation pod's base.

The bone plate shattered, its forelimb twitched twice, and it was paralyzed on the spot.

Zhao Mengmeng pulled the magnetic rail backhanded, reloading again.

Lin Ye didn't pause at all and strode out of the preparation room.

He whipped his right arm.

The Abyss Sting shot out three main wires, nailing them into the inspection gap in the alloy floor ahead.

The electromagnetic cutting module erupted with blue arcs.

Hiss!

The half-inch thick inspection cover was forcibly cut with three scorched marks.

Lin Ye inserted the horizontal saber into the crack and used his waist strength to pry it upward.

The heavy alloy cover plate was flipped away.

A cold draft mixed with the smell of rust and stale machine oil rushed towards them.

Below was a vertical pipe shaft.

It was extremely narrow.

Old metal ladders were welded to the inner wall, leading straight into the depths of the darkness.

The pod glass deep in the corridor shattered over a large area.

The dense cracking sounds merged into one.

Lin Ye grabbed the backpack with one hand.

This bag contained the lifeline of Great Xia's national destiny.

It must not be bumped in the slightest.

He used the Nano-wire auxiliary wires to tie the handle tightly and lowered the backpack vertically to the bottom of the shaft.

Zhao Mengmeng took the opportunity to hang her own backpack on it.

"Lower it together with the Purified Body Crystal Core."

The auxiliary wires were retracted to the bottom, and both backpacks landed steadily.

Lin Ye drew his horizontal saber and stood guard at the edge of the pipe shaft.

"You go down first."

Zhao Mengmeng hung the new crossbow on her back and jumped directly into the pipe shaft.

Using both hands and feet, she slid down rapidly, clinging to the metal ladder.

Above.

A giant aberration smashed the glass and rushed into the passageway.

Four sharp mechanical articulated limbs dug into the floor tiles.

The blackened heart exposed in its chest cavity was beating frantically.

The monster leaped into the air, lunging straight at Lin Ye's face.

Lin Ye didn't even blink.

He pulled his right arm horizontally to meet it.

The six main wires of the Abyss Sting crisscrossed into a blue light net.

The aberration crashed headfirst into the net.

Blue arcs flashed explosively.

The hard mechanical forelimbs were cleanly severed by the electromagnetic light net.

The freezing air invaded its central nervous system, and the movements of its chest cavity stalled.

Lin Ye held the horizontal saber in reverse and brought the back of the blade down heavily onto the monster's bone plate.

The immense force sent it flying, smashing it into the horde of corpses surging from behind.

The corridor was already filled with deformed mechanical monsters.

Lin Ye retreated and jumped into the pipe shaft.

He fired his right arm at the top.

Two Nano-wires wrapped tightly around the metal scrap box nearby, and two hooked onto the fragments of the flipped cover plate.

The traction engine whirred frantically.

Bang!

The hundreds of pounds of metal box were violently pulled over and pressed onto the pipe shaft opening.

The cover plate fragments followed, covering it and locking it into the slide rail groove.

Lin Ye flipped his wrist again.

Several Nano-wire auxiliary wires sealed the edge of the shaft opening.

He slid down the ladder at full speed.

The echoes in his ears were extremely oppressive.

The first dull thud came from the sealed pipe shaft opening above.

The immense force caused the entire metal pipe to hum.

The scrap box above the shaft opening emitted a harsh sound of metal twisting.

More and more aberrations gathered at the shaft opening, tearing at it frantically.

Lin Ye's feet touched the ground.

At the bottom of the shaft was a dim horizontal maintenance passage.

At the end of what his Left Eye feedback showed, a faint green light of survival was hidden.

He took the undamaged backpack from Zhao Mengmeng and tightened the shoulder straps again.

Bang!

The manhole cover above the pipe shaft emitted a second explosive sound.

A thick alloy fastener was forcibly snapped off.

The seal wouldn't hold for too long.

The monsters in the corridor were using brute force to destroy everything in their way.

The Great Xia Live Stream chat was filled with tense and fanatical comments.

[It won't hold! Those half-mechanical monsters are too crazy!]

[It's just a layer of sheet metal; it'll be torn apart any second!]

[Run forward! Brother Eye pointed the way, there's definitely something good ahead!]

A third loud bang came from above.

Accompanied by the sound of glass collapsing from hundreds of shattered incubation pods.

A horde of monsters mixed with steel and flesh erupted above their heads.