192: Chapter 192 Breaking the Armor and Taking the Shield

Lin Ye moved sideways, stepping on the edge of a branch.

The main threads of the Abyss Thorn crisscrossed between the giant trees, carrying him as he zipped rapidly around the Heavy Armor Scythe Rhino Bug.

The giant bug's dual sickles slammed down repeatedly.

Each strike shattered a thick branch, sending dark purple wood chips and corrosive fluids splattering everywhere.

Zhao Mengmeng stood behind a crack in the tree trunk, the Magnetic Rail Crossbow braced firmly against her shoulder.

The cracks on the crossbow's body widened with the vibrations.

If this single shot missed, she would have to use half a bronze rod to whack this giant bug.

Lin Ye landed on a slanted branch and tapped his horizontal saber against the bark.

The Heavy Armor Scythe Rhino Bug turned in response.

Its massive body snapped two parasitic vines as its dual sickles swept across in an X-pattern.

Lin Ye leaned backward, retracting the Nano-wire sharply, sliding right beneath the sickle blades.

The blades sheared off the branch behind him.

The branch fell, swallowed by the ant swarm before it even hit the ground.

Zhao Mengmeng clenched her back teeth.

"Lin Ye! The ants are coming up!"

At the base of the trunk, a black tide of ants climbed up along the grooves of split sap.

They moved with incredible speed, their mouthparts clattering against the bark in a dense, chattering sound.

Lin Ye swept a glance over them.

Twenty seconds at most.

The ant swarm would engulf this height.

He had to clear the one above first.

The Heavy Armor Scythe Rhino Bug raised its sickles again.

Lin Ye's Left Eye opened instantly.

A gap in the cartilage appeared.

The angle was off.

From Zhao Mengmeng's position, she could only hit the edge of the thick armor.

Lin Ye flicked his right arm, and three secondary threads entangled a hanging yellow vine in the distance.

He pulled back, tugging hard.

The broken end of the yellow vine sprayed out a dark yellow toxic mist, perfectly shrouding the giant bug's side profile.

Its compound eyes hit, the Heavy Armor Scythe Rhino Bug thrashed wildly.

Its mouthparts opened, and a glob of black-green corrosive fluid erupted.

The fluid struck a giant branch nearby.

The surface collapsed instantly, the bark burned through into a smoking black hole.

Zhao Mengmeng's face paled slightly.

"This thing can spit acid too?!"

Lin Ye landed on a swaying branch.

"That's why you shouldn't stand directly in front of it."

Zhao Mengmeng cursed under her breath, "Why didn't you say so earlier!"

The Heavy Armor Scythe Rhino Bug locked onto the approaching Lin Ye, raising its dual sickles high.

Its abdomen stretched to the limit.

The base of its third appendage was exposed.

In the Left Eye's vision, the green gap flared brightly.

Lin Ye roared, "Hit the third segment!"

Zhao Mengmeng pulled the trigger.

Hum!

The Magnetic Rail Crossbow erupted with a blinding blue arc.

The metal short arrow shot out of its groove, and the entire wooden crossbow burst open with two deep cracks.

The swaying of the giant tree caused the arrow's trajectory to shift by half an inch.

Lin Ye's right arm secondary threads shot out rapidly, entangling the tail of the short arrow in mid-air, forcibly dragging the trajectory back on course!

The short arrow grazed the edge of the giant bug's abdominal armor and drilled viciously into the cartilage gap.

Pfft!

The blue arc exploded.

The Heavy Armor Scythe Rhino Bug froze instantly.

Its raised dual sickles stopped in mid-air.

Lin Ye kicked off the broken branch with all his might, using the main threads to pull him as he dived down from above.

All six Nano-wires shot toward the wound.

The Heavy Armor Scythe Rhino Bug's abdomen contracted inward instinctively.

Lin Ye's left hand plunged his horizontal saber into the gap of the abdominal armor a step ahead, prying it open by half an inch.

"Open!"

The Nano-wires drilled into the bug's body along the blade gap.

Electromagnetic cutting, fully activated!

Deep blue electric arcs surged explosively inside the giant bug.

The extreme cold from the Frost Armor Core poured in along the Nano-wires, instantly sealing off the abdominal nerve bundles.

The massive body of the Heavy Armor Scythe Rhino Bug twisted frantically.

Lin Ye was dragged and slammed heavily against the bark, the burn on his shoulder tearing open again, blood seeping out.

He didn't let go.

His right arm's Abyss Thorn retracted tightly in reverse.

The Nano-wires churned wildly inside the bug's body.

The Heavy Armor Scythe Rhino Bug's dual sickles went out of control, slashing indiscriminately.

One blade severed the thick branch beside Zhao Mengmeng.

She was shaken half a meter away by the shockwave, her belt hanging tightly onto the bronze rod that was stuck into the bark.

She grabbed the remains of the scrapped Magnetic Rail Crossbow and smashed it hard against the giant bug's compound eye.

"Look over here!"

The wooden frame struck the edge of the compound eye.

The giant bug's head turned half an inch.

Seizing this half-inch gap, Lin Ye pulled his blade, turned, and stepped onto the bug's side armor.

His right arm's six main threads exerted force again.

Electromagnetic cutting pulled outward from the inside!

Crack.

The hard shell of the third abdominal segment split open in response.

Dark brown body fluid gushed out.

Zhao Mengmeng pulled out the bronze rod and rolled away to dodge the splashing fluid.

The fluid hit the bark, leaving scorched black pits everywhere.

Lin Ye's Left Eye opened and closed.

In his vision, a dense, dangerous red light was surging rapidly along the giant bug's thoracic cavity toward its mouthparts!

It was going to spew breath.

Lin Ye tugged the Nano-wires, leaping upward while pressed against the giant bug's dorsal armor, his right foot stomping hard onto the short horn on the bug's head.

He held his horizontal saber in a reverse grip, the tip stabbing straight into the base of the mouthparts.

"Shut up."

The blade pierced through the soft flesh.

The Abyss Thorn's secondary threads drove straight in along the blade path, instantly shredding the oral glands.

The Heavy Armor Scythe Rhino Bug's breath was forcibly blocked.

The black-green corrosive fluid exploded inside its mouth, and the back-surging strong acid burned through its own lower jaw.

The giant bug let out a dying hiss.

Its dual sickles slammed desperately into the tree trunk in front of it.

The giant tree, which required three people to embrace, was completely split, and the entire section of the trunk tilted with a boom.

The Shadow Poison Ants had already climbed to twenty meters below.

Zhao Mengmeng looked up and shouted, "The tree is going to collapse!"

Lin Ye retracted all the Nano-wires.

"Jump to the left branch!"

Zhao Mengmeng didn't hesitate for a second; she gripped her backpack tight and charged toward the left horizontal branch, stepping on the cracking bark.

Lin Ye leaped off the dorsal armor.

The main threads recoiled, entangling the broken bone plates inside the giant bug, and he yanked violently in the opposite direction.

The several-ton body of the Heavy Armor Scythe Rhino Bug was forcibly dragged off its angle.

The giant corpse that was originally going to smash their retreat path tilted to the other side.

Boom!

The giant bug slammed hard between two broken branches.

The Nano-wires were still connected inside the bug's body, holding tension, preventing it from falling into the abyss.

The army of Shadow Poison Ants rushed up close and was immediately attracted by the fresh bug meat, frantically gnawing on the bug's legs.

The surging black tide was forcibly blocked by the corpse.

Zhao Mengmeng panted heavily, looking back at Lin Ye.

"You're feeding it to the ants?"

Lin Ye landed beside her, the Nano-wires retracting into his bracers, bringing down a splash of charred black residue.

"To buy time."

The Great Xia Live Stream was flooded with a screen full of exclamation marks.

[How the hell did he kill that?!]

[A broken crossbow, and Brother Eye forcibly dragged the tail of the arrow to hit the bullseye! The mid-air micro-control is insane!]

[The heavy armor monster is invincible head-on, so Brother Eye just drilled into its belly and shredded it from the inside!]

[Using the bug corpse to block the road and feed the ants—this method of squeezing out value is even more ruthless than a capitalist!]

Lin Ye walked over to the giant bug's corpse and plunged his horizontal saber into the lower edge of the thoracic carapace.

In his Left Eye's vision, this thick armor glowed with a pure green light, with very faint gray spots.

Most of the bug's corpse was heavily contaminated, but only these two pieces of hard armor were usable.

The blade sliced through the connecting tendons bit by bit.

Zhao Mengmeng gripped the bronze rod, guarding the surroundings.

"How much longer?"

"Ten seconds."

Lin Ye used the Nano-wires to cut through the last ligament.

The first piece of thoracic carapace fell off, the size of half a door.

Next came the second piece.

The outer layer of the carapace was dark brown, while the inner layer had dark gold textures, and it was extremely heavy.

Lin Ye used the Nano-wires to quickly trim the edges and punch out four holes for arm loops.

He turned and tossed one piece to Zhao Mengmeng.

"Arm shield."

Zhao Mengmeng slipped it onto her arm, the heavy weight causing her shoulder to drop abruptly.

She swung it half a circle, and the carapace steadily protected more than half of her body.

"Tough enough."

Lin Ye fixed the other piece onto his left arm.

"Blocks acid, blocks bug legs, blocks everything you don't want to die from."

Zhao Mengmeng looked down.

The Shadow Poison Ants had already eaten the first hind leg raw; the corpse barrier wouldn't hold for long.

"Retreat?"

Lin Ye was just about to move when a dull vibration suddenly erupted from deep within the tree trunk beneath his feet.

It was completely different from the sound of the Scythe Rhino Bug breaking wood.

It was extremely low-pitched.

It carried an eerie, rhythmic pulsation.

Thump.

Thump.

Thump.

Zhao Mengmeng's scalp went numb.

"There's more?!"

Lin Ye's Left Eye opened silently.

Deep inside the bark, a large area of blinding red light was rhythmically contracting and expanding.

It wasn't an independent bug monster.

It was a massive biological cavity.

In the center of the cavity, a dark red life form that blocked out the sky was coiled, its pollution level extremely lethal.

At the edge of the red light, the area was densely packed with throbbing bug egg spots.

The bark couldn't withstand the terrifying biological pressure inside, emitting crisp cracking sounds.

Rumble!

A large area of the bark in front of the two collapsed.

A huge, dark red core opening was exposed to the air.

The cave walls were covered in viscous, bloody fluids, and a scorching, rotting-sweet stench surged into the sky.

Deep at the bottom of the cave, the heartbeat of the Mother Bug was heavy and clear.

Thump.

Thump.

Thump.

Zhao Mengmeng raised the heavy arm shield, her fingers gripping the edge tight.

"Lin Ye, I'm afraid it's not just one this time."

Lin Ye stared fixedly at the bottom of the cave, the blue light of the Abyss Thorn on his right arm glowing faintly.

"Yeah."

Beneath the deep cave, hundreds upon thousands of fluorescent green bug eggs lit up in unison in the darkness.