189: Chapter 189 Aftermath and Gains

Three seconds.

All noise in the armory was sharply compressed.

The Glutton was stuck by the collapsed alloy shelves, its massive body writhing frantically.

The nuclear reactor deep in its throat glowed with a blinding light.

The highly polluted weapon fragments scattered on the ground were pulled by high-dimensional gravity, hovering half an inch and vibrating violently.

Zhao Mengmeng flipped up: "Run!"

Lin Ye didn't move.

His left hand reached directly into the animal skin pouch at his waist.

Three crudely made miniature source energy magnetic storm grenades were clutched in his palm.

Their stability was extremely poor, and the safety pins were rough.

Conventional throwing distance was nowhere near enough; the Glutton's inner throat wall was still churning. If there was even the slightest deviation, the grenades would be swallowed into its outer armor, rendering them unable to cause any effective damage.

Lin Ye's Left Eye stared straight into the center of the red light.

The reactor shell had no flaws.

Only at the moment the magnetic storm grenade broke the outer protective ring would a half-second green gap appear.

The grenades had to be delivered into the deepest part.

He raised his hand.

The first magnetic storm grenade left his hand.

The Abyss Thorn sub-filaments wrapped tightly around the tail of the grenade, forcibly pulling an arc in mid-air.

The magnetic storm grenade grazed the scattered rotting flesh teeth and adhered to the left side of the oral cavity.

The second.

The third.

The Glutton sensed something wrong, its massive flesh-mouth slamming shut downward.

Lin Ye's right arm's six sub-filaments exerted force and retracted simultaneously.

The three magnetic storm grenades were forcibly dragged into the depths of its oral cavity.

Snap!

Close-contact adhesion complete.

Zhao Mengmeng lunged at Lin Ye, grabbed the shoulder strap of his backpack, and dragged him back hard: "Detonate!"

"It's not over yet."

Lin Ye pressed his thumb hard on the homemade detonator.

Boom!

Three blinding blue-white electromagnetic rings exploded and overlapped deep within the Glutton's oral cavity.

The explosion of the crude grenades failed to tear through the monster's thick flesh armor.

But the powerful electromagnetic pulse surged along the esophagus, straight into the reactor shell!

The Glutton's massive body stiffened.

The tentacles waving all over the sky froze in mid-air.

The red light on the outer layer of the reactor extinguished for an instant.

In Lin Ye's Left Eye vision.

On the core protective ring, a tiny green gap cracked open.

Half a second.

Lin Ye shook off Zhao Mengmeng's hand, kicked the ground hard, and dashed straight toward the ruins of the collapsed shelves.

"Cover me!"

After throwing out those two words, Lin Ye's right arm shot the Abyss Thorn toward the highest crossbeam above.

The traction engine roared to full power.

He stepped on the tilted metal pillar and surged upward, his boot soles drawing a dazzling trail of sparks across the steel frame.

The Glutton began to reset.

Its oral cavity closed frantically.

The destructive red light reignited.

Zhao Mengmeng grabbed the empty Magnetic Rail Crossbow, scooped up a broken short alloy rod with one hand, and forced it into the magnetic rail slot.

The crossbow body immediately emitted a dangerous, high-pitched overload whine.

It could explode at any moment.

She didn't even frown, pulling the trigger directly.

Hum!

The crooked alloy rod flew out with violent blue arcs, nailing firmly into the Glutton's upper jaw.

It wasn't fatal.

But it caused its closing motion to stiffly pause for half a breath.

Lin Ye took advantage of this half-breath to vault to the highest point.

His left hand directly pulled out that fist-sized piece of star-flow gold blank.

No handle.

No blade.

He gripped the sharp edges of the metal with his palm.

Fresh blood dripped along the dark gold surface.

The star-flow gold had no pollution gray spots, its pure golden light blindingly bright.

Below.

The green gap on the Glutton's reactor was healing rapidly.

The burn on Lin Ye's shoulder split open, but his movements didn't pause for a fraction.

The Abyss Thorn sub-filaments wrapped around the tail of the star-flow gold.

His body plunged through the air.

Utilizing gravity and the violent acceleration of the electromagnetic sub-filaments, he threw it fiercely!

Boom!

The dark gold blank pulled out a golden afterimage.

Following the Glutton's half-closed oral cavity, it pierced through the protective layer that hadn't fully reset.

It nailed into that green gap without the slightest deviation.

Thud.

An extremely low-pitched impact sound.

Immediately after.

Ethereal blue high-dimensional flames erupted directly from inside the reactor!

The Glutton's flesh began to glow sharply from deep within its core, expanding frantically.

Lin Ye was still in mid-air with nowhere to leverage.

Zhao Mengmeng lunged over, grabbed Lin Ye's dangling nano-main filament, and threw her entire weight backward with all her might.

The Abyss Thorn retraction slot bore the force, forcibly pulling Lin Ye's falling trajectory off by half a meter.

Grazing the scorching flames, Lin Ye smashed into the blind spot of several rows of collapsed cabinets.

Zhao Mengmeng rolled in right after, using her body to shield the backpack and pinning him firmly under the metal ruins.

Rumble!

The ethereal blue flames engulfed the massive monster.

Polluted flesh, mechanical skeletons, stinking nerve bundles.

Instantly carbonized in the high-dimensional flames!

A terrifying giant crater was blasted into the waste liquid pool.

The shockwave, carrying temperatures of two thousand degrees, shattered swathes of discarded firearm wreckage against the walls on the spot.

The cabinet bunkers were shaken and shifted several meters backward.

After a dozen breaths, the aftermath subsided.

Only a patch of charred black remained in the center of the armory.

The Glutton turned to ash, leaving only flickering specks of ethereal blue sparks at the bottom of the crater.

The light screen finally stopped its blood-red warning.

[Relic Hub · Glutton Cleared]

Lin Ye sat up, bracing himself against the scrap iron beside him.

His first reaction was to pull over his backpack.

The dragon bone nail, grain seeds, fragments—all there.

He turned his head to look at Zhao Mengmeng.

Her face was covered in black ash, half her hair was singed and curled, and she was raising a hand to wipe the blood from her forehead.

"Next time you play such 'face-to-face food delivery' stunts, report it in advance so I can buy some insurance."

Lin Ye wiped the blood from the corner of his lips.

"Just write Great Xia as the beneficiary."

In the Great Xia Live Stream.

The entire screen was filled with three uniform words scrolling frantically.

[Badass!]

[Badass!!]

[Badass!!!]

[Hand-crafting magnetic storm grenades to force open the protective shell! Using out-of-print star-flow gold as a javelin! This is f*cking art!]

[I didn't even dare to breathe just now! This tactical coordination is amazing!]

[Any overseas trolls want to come out and step forward? Teach us how to build a nuke in a volcanic crater to beat up a hunk of iron!]

At the edge of the waste liquid pool.

Zhao Mengmeng peered into the giant crater.

"Such a big piece of star-flow gold, and not even a scrap left?"

Lin Ye walked down into the bottom of the crater along the wreckage.

Deep in the ashes, a few solidified dark gold metal beads were embedded in the charred iron plate.

He flicked them with the tip of his saber.

[Star-flow Gold Bead Fragments]

[Remnants of High Civilization Heritage]

Lin Ye took out a clean snake scale, wrapped the three bead fragments, and stuffed them into his side pocket.

"The whole alloy piece is shattered." Zhao Mengmeng grimaced at the sight.

"We're still alive; it's a solid profit."

Lin Ye walked back to the assembly table.

《Miniature Source Energy Magnetic Storm Grenade Construction Diagram》 was covered by wreckage from the cabinets; the edges were slightly curled, but the main body was intact.

He sealed it with a residual film of ice spring tree resin and tucked it into the shockproof layer of his backpack.

As long as this thing was transmitted back to Great Xia, even if Blue Star's technology was temporarily limited, it would be enough to forcefully propel their technological progress by decades.

Lin Ye casually picked out a few pieces of unpolluted shielding alloy.

Zhao Mengmeng retrieved the Magnetic Rail Crossbow from the ground.

After the forced firing of the broken rod, a conspicuous crack had appeared on the crossbow's magnetic rail.

Lin Ye glanced at it.

"It can still fire one shot."

"What about the second shot?"

"You'll go with the monster."

No more thumping sounds came from overhead.

The Glutton had swallowed a large number of Scavengers when it fell.

This explosion had sealed the entrance to the pipe shaft.

Temporarily safe.

Click.

Click, click.

A vertical slit suddenly cracked open in the dark silver wall at the end of the armory.

A faint white light shone out.

An elevator door slid open to both sides.

There were no heat sources or aberrations inside.

Only extremely steady, cold white light.

Lin Ye's Left Eye opened slightly for half a breath.

There was no red light or gray spots inside.

Only a line of dark gold characters that did not belong to Blue Star's language floated at the top.

[Relic Elevator Cabin]

[Permission Incomplete, Single Operation Possible]

Zhao Mengmeng carried the broken crossbow and walked over: "It even comes with a direct elevator?"

"A one-way ticket."

Lin Ye put away his horizontal saber and strode forward.

The two stepped over the scorched earth and wreckage, stepping into the cabin.

The silver doors closed silently behind them.

The ruins and the smell of blood in the armory were shut out.

A slight tremor beneath their feet.

The elevator cabin ascended rapidly.

[Underground Armory Passed]

[Connecting to New Level]