188: Chapter 188 A Sudden Monster Attraction

The ceiling was melted through.

Thick black blood, mixed with shattered steel plates, crashed into the armory, stirring up a pungent stench of decay.

A colossal mountain of flesh slammed down.

The entire underground armory trembled violently.

Rows of storage lockers collapsed one after another; high-pollution firearms fell to the ground, their casings shattering and spewing out thick plumes of grey-black smoke.

Zhao Mengmeng was sent sliding backward by the shockwave, her back slamming heavily against a metal locker, and the Magnetic Rail Crossbow nearly slipped from her grasp.

Lin Ye raised his right arm.

The Abyss Thorn shot out two auxiliary wires that firmly latched onto cracks in the floor, forcibly stabilizing his body against the strong wind.

That mountain of flesh writhed and pushed itself up amidst the scrap metal.

It stood seven meters tall, its width nearly filling the passage between two rows of shelves.

Its surface was covered with a mass of mechanical arms, severed metal skulls, and blackened, deformed spines.

There was no complete head.

Only a gigantic maw of flesh and blood, opening and closing.

The Glutton's epidermis curled outward, and dozens of sensory tentacles dripping with corrosive fluid emerged from the flesh.

The tentacles flailed wildly against the ground and in the air.

It had no eyeballs, yet the tips of its tentacles pointed with extreme precision toward their location.

Zhao Mengmeng lowered her voice, her fingers gripping the crossbow stock tightly: "Does it listen for heartbeats?"

"Heat sources and heartbeats."

The Glutton moved.

The colossal mountain of flesh charged over, crushing three rows of metal lockers along the way, and the high-pollution parts were ground into iron sludge.

Lin Ye raised his hand and pushed Zhao Mengmeng aside.

The two of them split to the left and right, hugging the ground.

The Glutton scraped through the middle, its edge of rotting flesh sweeping into a waist-high alloy box.

The box was swallowed into the wall of flesh in the blink of an eye.

Three breaths later.

The remains were excreted from the other side; the thick alloy armor had already been corroded into pitted iron sludge.

The Great Xia Live Stream was filled with terror.

[It swallows metal without any effort!]

[The pollution is still skyrocketing! We can't fight a war of attrition; where is the grenade Brother Eye just made? Throw it quickly!]

[How can we throw it? This monster doesn't even have eyes. If it doesn't kill it when thrown inside, all this toxic pollution gas will spread!]

Zhao Mengmeng flipped over and stood steady, raising the Magnetic Rail Crossbow and leveling it.

Hum!

A short metal bolt shot into the base of the Glutton's side tentacles.

The bolt pierced half a foot deep, and the surrounding flesh immediately squeezed in.

Pfft.

The bolt was completely engulfed by the wall of flesh.

The Glutton's surface writhed violently twice, and the wound healed rapidly.

Zhao Mengmeng pulled the magnetic rail forcefully: "The crossbow was just upgraded; does it have self-healing and health lock?"

The Glutton turned toward her.

A dozen sensory tentacles rose simultaneously, poised to strike.

Lin Ye swung his right arm horizontally.

The Abyss Thorn shot out six main wires, accurately wrapping around the top of a distant shelf.

The traction engine erupted.

He swung through the air, his boots landing on the side wall of another row of shelves.

He drew his horizontal saber and struck the metal frame heavily.

Clang!

The Glutton turned suddenly.

Its massive body smashed directly through the shelves blocking its path, the impact shaking the dome so hard that rust flakes rained down.

Lin Ye's Left Eye opened silently.

Crimson filled his field of vision.

The Glutton's outer layer of flesh armor was astonishingly thick; discarded armor plates and mechanical skeletons were embedded within the flesh, forming a perfect defense.

His gaze bored straight into the depths of the mountain of flesh.

Behind two meters of biological armor, an old nuclear energy reactor was wedged.

The reactor casing was covered in dense protective rings.

The core area with the most intense red light represented a devastating high-dimensional self-detonation.

There were no external flaws.

Lin Ye closed his eye, and a sharp pain shot through his left temple.

"Mengmeng, get on the high shelf."

"Hit its peripheral tentacles, don't touch the main body."

Zhao Mengmeng quickly increased the distance: "Chipping away for interference?"

"Make it turn half a beat slower."

"Received."

Zhao Mengmeng stepped on the collapsed lockers and climbed onto the highest shelf beam.

She braced the Magnetic Rail Crossbow firmly, aiming at the tentacles flailing wildly on the Glutton's surface.

Lin Ye landed lightly and sprinted at full speed toward the waste liquid pool.

He had already noticed it while scavenging earlier.

In the center of the waste liquid pool, a high-dimensional energy leak was hidden.

The red light in that area was so deep it was almost black, and even the strong acid waste at the bottom of the pool avoided it automatically.

The Glutton itself was an aggregate of pollution.

Only by pinning it to death there could he force out the weakness of the internal reactor.

But the monster's own weight was staggering, and its outer armor was extremely thick.

Pushing it by force was impossible.

Lin Ye raised his hand and fired.

Three auxiliary wires latched onto the shelf on the left, and three nailed into the top of the locker on the right.

He pulled back with both arms, his body lifted, and he swept past at high speed directly in front of the Glutton.

The tentacles on its surface suddenly shot up.

A two-meter-long tentacle brushed against the soles of Lin Ye's boots.

The specially made soles were immediately corroded, leaving a smoking black mark.

Zhao Mengmeng opened fire from high up.

Hum!

The bronze arrowhead accurately pierced through that long tentacle.

The tentacle snapped.

The monster let out a murky roar, and its turning motion stiffened for half a breath.

Lin Ye moved laterally along the outer edge of the shelves.

The Glutton crushed everything in its path.

Metal lockers snapped in rows, and toxic grey smoke swirled everywhere.

Lin Ye tightened the Nano-wire in the last half-breath.

His body surged upward at an angle.

The Glutton crashed through the bottom of the shelf, but a large chunk of rotting flesh was scraped off by the heavy beam at the top.

The fallen rotting flesh was still writhing wildly on the ground.

Lin Ye did not slow down.

He approached the waste liquid pool in a straight line.

Zhao Mengmeng's ammunition was depleting rapidly.

One.

Two.

Three.

The metal short bolts were emptied, and only the last two bronze arrowheads remained.

Zhao Mengmeng bit her lower lip, forcibly stabilizing her wavering aim.

"Lin Ye, ammunition is bottoming out!"

"If we drag this lump of meat any longer, it's going to crash into the edge of the waste liquid pool!"

"Lure it into the pool!" Lin Ye's voice was devoid of emotion.

The Glutton stopped suddenly.

All the sensory tentacles on its surface simultaneously pressed against the ground.

And then.

It gave up on Lin Ye and suddenly turned toward the shelf where Zhao Mengmeng was.

It locked onto the closer heartbeat source.

The maw of flesh and blood opened wide in rage.

A ball of violent dark red energy rapidly condensed deep within its maw, and the surrounding air deformed due to the intense heat.

"Dodge!"

Lin Ye swung his right arm.

The Abyss Thorn's main wire burst through the air, tightly wrapping around the outer ring of Zhao Mengmeng's belt.

The engine roared at full speed.

Zhao Mengmeng used the momentum to jump directly from the high shelf.

Boom!

The dark red energy beam blasted past the top of the shelf.

The entire row of shelves was instantly melted, leaving a huge hole with blackened edges, and molten iron dripped down.

Zhao Mengmeng was pulled through the air and rolled on the ground to hide behind a ruined locker.

She propped herself up with one hand and raised the crossbow, her knuckles turning white from the effort: "Energy cannon?"

Lin Ye landed beside her.

"Reactor leak."

Zhao Mengmeng caught a glimpse of blood seeping from the corner of Lin Ye's eye, her voice dropping very low.

"Can your eye still hold up?"

"It's enough."

"Nonsense."

Lin Ye didn't say anything more and grabbed a heavy alloy pillar that had broken off from the shelf.

The Abyss Thorn's auxiliary wires ejected, firmly wrapping around both ends of the pillar.

The waste liquid pool was twenty meters ahead.

Between the Glutton and the waste liquid pool, only four rows of load-bearing shelves remained.

Lin Ye's Left Eye field of vision locked onto the bottom of the third row of shelves; there was a conspicuous green stress point on the load-bearing pillar.

Cut that spot.

The hundreds of tons of steel frame would collapse in a direction that would land exactly in the center of the waste liquid pool.

"Mengmeng, the last two arrows."

"Hit its two thickest main tentacles on the left."

Zhao Mengmeng raised the crossbow: "After I shoot these, I'll only have a stick left!"

"Run after you shoot."

Zhao Mengmeng pressed against the crossbow stock.

Hum!

The bronze arrowhead shot out with blue light, directly nailing through the base of the thickest tentacle on the left.

The Glutton's massive mountain of flesh contracted violently.

Hum!

The second arrow followed closely.

The second main tentacle on the left was blown off on the spot.

The intense pain caused the Glutton's perception to become completely unbalanced, and its entire body uncontrollably shifted wildly to the right.

Lin Ye rushed out at full speed.

His boot soles slid rapidly across the oil-stained floor.

His right arm aimed at the third row of shelves.

Six main wires shot out simultaneously, tightly wrapping around the alloy load-bearing pillar.

The electromagnetic module operated at full load.

Blue arcs flashed wildly, and the Nano-wire bit fiercely into the depths of the alloy, bursting with a piercing screech of cutting.

The alloy pillar was extremely thick.

Cutting would take time.

But the Glutton had already stabilized its body, turned that maw of flesh and blood, and aimed it at Lin Ye on the ground.

Zhao Mengmeng erupted from behind the locker.

She swung the broken stock of her discarded crossbow with all her might, smashing it fiercely against a tentacle on the monster's right side.

"Hey, you jerk! Look over here!"

The broken crossbow shattered.

The Glutton's maw shifted half an inch toward her.

That was just half an inch.

Lin Ye drew his horizontal saber with his left hand.

The blade inserted perfectly into the deep groove already cut into the load-bearing pillar.

He exerted force from his waist and abdomen.

His entire body weight pressed down wildly.

Crack!

The thick load-bearing pillar emitted a piercing cracking sound and snapped on the spot.

The entire row of shelves, eight meters high, lost its support.

Along with the three rows of storage lockers connected to the side, it toppled over.

Rumble!

Dozens of tons of super-hard alloy steel frames poured down, pressing heavily onto the Glutton's back.

The massive mountain of flesh was smashed, sinking violently.

Lin Ye flicked his right hand again.

The Nano-wire crossed over the monster and directly latched onto the heavy anchor post at the edge of the waste liquid pool.

"Retract!"

The traction was pulled to the max.

The collapsed steel shelves were forcibly dragged off-angle by the Nano-wire, pushing the Glutton toward the center of the waste liquid pool with overwhelming force.

The Glutton struggled madly.

Large chunks of rotting flesh rose up, forcibly swallowing two thick shelf steel beams.

The massive physical inertia pushed it, and it could not stop.

The massive mountain of flesh was ground into the waste liquid pool.

Black-green waste liquid rolled and surged backward.

The monster's thick bottom pressed exactly onto the high-dimensional energy leak point.

Sizzle!

Two types of deadly pollution suddenly collided.

The flesh at the bottom of the Glutton began to wither and char over a large area.

This aberration let out a dull roar, its voice filled with unprecedented pain.

In an instant.

The Glutton's maw of flesh and blood stretched to its limit.

Deep within its maw.

The reactor, wrapped in layers of flesh armor, lit up with a dark red death light bright enough to blind the eyes.

All the lights in the underground armory flickered and died at the same time.

Zhao Mengmeng's expression changed drastically, and she shouted: "It's going to explode!"

Lin Ye stared intently at that ball of red light.

On his right eye's retina, the light screen was blood red.

[High-energy reactor overload]

[Estimated detonation: three seconds]