39: Where do the experience points come from in Chapter 39?

After shaking off Bai Li, Lu Yuan drove the Red Wolf Tank, speeding wildly along the ruined highways of Atlantis.

He now had only one thought in his head: find some blind, unlucky bastard to test the power of his new main cannon.

However, after speeding for a full half-hour, he hadn't seen even a shadow of a monster, only dilapidated deep-sea buildings and giant rocks covered in seaweed.

"Whatever happened to 'danger lurking at every turn'? Where are the monsters? Where are the BOSSes?"

Lu Yuan leaned back in the driver's seat and gave a bored yawn.

Just as he was beginning to think this road was an absolutely safe passage, a dull sound of an explosion suddenly came from several kilometers ahead.

Rolling billows of thick smoke rose up, instantly catching Lu Yuan's attention.

He stepped on the accelerator, and the tank's engine let out a low roar as it quickly closed the distance.

From quite a distance away, Lu Yuan saw that the highway ahead was completely blocked off.

A large number of vehicles painted in eye-catching red were mixed together with various multi-colored vehicles, all squeezed into a cluster.

The army of red vehicles was the exclusive symbol of the "Red Wolf Guild" from District C-72.

Lu Yuan frowned.

Could it be that people from his own guild were being blocked and robbed by forces from another district?

With this thought, the Red Wolf Tank rumbled toward the edge of the crowd of vehicles with a suffocating sense of pressure.

However, the expected firefight did not occur.

The people in the convoy ahead heard the familiar, violent roar of the engine and turned their heads one after another.

When they clearly saw that blood-colored heavy armored tank, a carnival-like cheer of survival broke out among the crowd.

"Holy crap! Boss Red Wolf!"

"It really is the Guild Leader! Brothers, we're saved!"

"Waaaah, we don't have to die! The Boss has come to save the day!"

Dozens of players from District C-72 were trembling with excitement, running out of their cars and waving frantically at the approaching tank.

Lu Yuan slowed down and looked ahead through the periscope, finally seeing the true face of what was blocking the road.

At the very front of the vehicle cluster, a mutated deep-sea crab with a body size comparable to a large shipping container was perched formidably.

The monster was covered in indestructible dark-grey barnacle armor, and its two massive claws were covered in barbs.

At that moment, one of its claws was tightly gripping a scrapped off-road vehicle, crushing it as easily as a crumpled ball of paper.

Meanwhile, the behemoth was advancing toward the vehicles on its eight thick legs, dripping disgusting slime.

The mounted machine guns of ordinary players hit its body, but aside from sparking a few times, they couldn't break through its defense at all.

Upon getting closer, Lu Yuan noticed that those blocked here weren't just people from his own guild, but also a bunch of white-named players with the District C-1 prefix.

Most of them were female players.

At this time, several survivors from District C-72 were pulling the girls from District C-1 aside, bragging frantically with faces full of pride.

"Don't shake, girls! We're telling you, our Boss is here, this is in the bag!"

"Exactly! Don't look at how big that crab is; in front of our Boss's tank, it's just a plate of seafood!"

Inside the tank, Lu Yuan heard these conversations through the external audio equipment and couldn't help but shake his head, a bitter smile touching the corner of his mouth.

These guys... how long has it been since they landed? How did they get so chummy with the people from District C-1 already?

To be able to shoot the breeze even at a life-or-death moment like this.

Regardless, it was time to get down to business.

The Red Wolf Tank gave a low rumble.

The people ahead were very sensible; they immediately moved their vehicles to both sides in excitement, clearing a wide attack path for this true steel beast.

Lu Yuan pushed down the control lever.

The dark red Explosive Flame Collapse Cannon on the roof turned slowly, precisely locking onto the swaggering Crab King ahead.

"Let's start with a ten-thousand-damage shot just to hear the bang."

Lu Yuan directly activated the main cannon's charging module.

"Vrrr—!"

As energy was frantically injected, the air around the barrel was instantly compressed to the limit.

An aura of destruction that made one's scalp tingle spread out.

Players standing within dozens of meters of the tank instantly felt a tightness in their chests; the surrounding air seemed to have been sucked dry, making even breathing incredibly difficult.

Inside the cabin, cold system notifications sounded one after another.

[Ding! Charge successful, attack increased by 1x!]

[Ding! Charge successful, attack increased by 2x!]

[Ding! Charge successful...]

[Ding! Charge reached limit, attack power increased by 5x!]

[Current Attack Power: 10,000!]

"Fire."

Lu Yuan pressed the fire button without hesitation.

“BOOM—!!!”

An earth-shattering explosion rang out, enough to shatter eardrums.

From the barrel of the Red Wolf Tank, a sphere of destruction intertwined with black and white light violently erupted.

The speed of that light sphere was extreme, trailing a dazzling afterimage in the air as it whistled out with a pressure that could tear through anything.

At the same time, the sixty-five-ton tank shuddered violently.

Even though Lu Yuan had slammed on the brakes in advance, that extreme recoil still pushed the tank backward on the highway for dozens of meters, the tracks leaving two trails of pungent, charred black smoke on the ground.

If he hadn't stepped on the brakes, that kick probably would have sent the entire tank flying.

And ahead...

That Mutated Crab King, with a body like a small mountain, didn't even have time to let out a scream.

The black-and-white collapse light sphere pierced through the heavy armor it was so proud of with unstoppable force, meeting no resistance!

There was no earth-shakingly violent explosion.

The powerful impact directly penetrated the Crab King's massive body, and then, without losing momentum, it turned into a shooting star, continuing to fly toward the distant horizon behind it.

Until it completely disappeared at the end of everyone's line of sight.

The entire scene was dead silent.

Everyone's eyes were wide as they stared at the scalp-tingling scene before them.

That Crab King, which had been so insufferably arrogant just a moment ago, was now as dead as could be.

A massive hollow, three meters in diameter and visible from front to back, had appeared in its chest.

At the edges of the hollow, strange black-and-white flames were quietly burning.

[Ding! Killed Mutated Crab King x1, Experience +1,000!]

[Obtained: Contaminated Alloy Machete x1]

Looking at the system notification, Lu Yuan frowned.

"Good grief, where's the explosion?"

Lu Yuan muttered with some dissatisfaction, "Wasn't it supposed to form a vacuum black hole after hitting the target? What about the collapse explosion? It didn't even make a sound..."

Just as Lu Yuan was feeling a bit disappointed by this "dud" shot...

The silent system panel suddenly began to refresh frantically.

[Ding! Killed Mutated Murloc x1, Experience +100!]

[Ding! Killed Mutated Murloc x1, Experience +100!]

[Ding! Killed Elite Merman x1, Experience +500!]

[Ding! Killed Elite Mage x1, Experience +500!]

[Ding! Killed Merman Leader x1, Experience +10,000!]

...

Dense kill notifications scrolled frantically before Lu Yuan's eyes like a waterfall.

Sitting in the driver's cab, Lu Yuan was completely stunned as he watched his experience bar soar.

"Huh?"

Lu Yuan looked at the Crab King, which was now just an empty shell, and then at the distant horizon where the shell had flown, his face full of confusion.

"What's the situation here?"