28: Chapter 28: Unbelievable Value for Money Exposed, Top Conglomerates Rush to Snatch Him!

The third defense zone of the Shattered Continent was filled with gray mist.

The dark red soil on the ground was gradually being covered by a layer of pale white slime.

Translucent spider silk, as thick as an arm, was wrapped around the black, withered trees standing all around.

Lin Yuan hovered in mid-air, looking down at the scene below.

Fifty thousand Abyssal Blood Obsidian Goblins stepped on the sticky spider webs, the friction of their bone armor creating a teeth-grinding sound.

The powered chainswords in their hands remained at a low idle, ready to rev to full throttle at any moment.

The Tyrant walked at the very front of the formation.

It stopped in its tracks and raised its left arm, which was covered by a heavy shield.

The army of fifty thousand came to a simultaneous halt.

"Hiss—hiss—"

Dense, sharp screeches erupted from the withered forests in all directions.

Countless dark red compound eyes lit up in the gray mist.

Abyssal Spider Demons.

Twenty thousand Bronze-tier Spider Demons, each the size of an adult water buffalo, surged out from the treetops, the ground, and the crevices of rocks.

They waved their sharp, barbed limbs, their abdomens contracting violently.

Behind the swarm of Spider Demons, three Silver-tier Spider Demon leaders, each the size of a heavy truck with eerie human-face patterns on their backs, stared coldly at these intruders who had broken into their territory.

The twenty thousand Spider Demons raised their abdomens in unison.

"Pfft, pfft, pfft!"

A sky full of pale green poison nets shot up, weaving into a massive screen that blotted out the sky as it descended upon the Goblin legion.

This was the signature strangulation formation of the Abyssal Spider Demons.

The poison nets possessed extreme stickiness and corrosiveness.

For the followers of ordinary gods, just a single touch would cause their skin and muscles to melt into a puddle of bloody water within seconds.

When encountering a poison net coverage of this scale, even the legions of noble families equipped with fine enchanted armor would have to avoid the brunt of the attack and rely on long-range magic to exchange fire.

Lin Yuan remained expressionless, not even blinking an eyelid.

"Engage."

The brief divine oracle exploded in the Tyrant's mind.

"Roar—!"

The Tyrant let out a wild roar toward the sky, slamming its chainsword heavily into the ground.

The intricate Scarlet pattern on its chest suddenly flared with light.

The patterns on the chests of the fifty thousand Goblins resonated simultaneously.

Visible threads of blood-colored energy wove and crisscrossed through the phalanx.

[Scarlet Link] was fully activated.

The life magnetic fields of fifty thousand independent individuals were stitched together into a single, cohesive mass of flesh and blood.

The pale green poison nets fell head-on, covering the bone armor of the several thousand Goblins in the front row.

"Sizzle, sizzle—"

A harsh, corrosive sound rang out as white smoke rose.

The expected screams of melting flesh did not occur.

The terrifying corrosive damage brought by the poison nets, upon contacting the Goblins' bodies, was distributed across all fifty thousand Goblins along the energy threads of the [Scarlet Link].

The damage landing on each individual could not even breach the lower limit of the Black Blood Bone Armor's defense.

The thousands of Goblins covered by the poison nets only trembled slightly, tearing off the spider silk without a scratch.

The Tyrant raised its chainsword high and pulled the engine starter.

"Boom—!"

Fifty thousand individual powered chainswords erupted in a deafening roar simultaneously.

The high-speed rotating saw teeth churned the air, kicking up brutal sparks.

"Crush them." Lin Yuan issued the command.

The fifty thousand Goblins, shielding themselves with battered alloy tower shields, marched with uniform steps and charged directly into the swarm of Spider Demons.

A Bronze-tier Spider Demon screeched and pounced on a Goblin, its front limb stabbing fiercely toward the Goblin's eye socket.

The Goblin did not dodge or evade, instead raising its left-hand alloy tower shield.

"Clang!"

Sparks flew everywhere, and the spider leg was forcibly jammed into a corrosion pit on the tower shield.

The Goblin flipped its right wrist, and the roaring chainsword sliced upward, cutting deeply into the Spider Demon's soft abdomen.

"Squelch!"

Acid-green body fluids mixed with internal organs sprayed out wildly.

The Goblin took a step forward, sweeping the chainsword horizontally, slicing the Spider Demon in two.

There was no tactical maneuvering, no flashy magical support.

There was only primitive hand-to-hand combat and brutal trading of blows.

The Abyssal Spider Demon's fangs bit through the Goblin's arm, injecting lethal venom.

However, the toxin resistance engraved in the Goblins' genes immunized them against this level of poison.

Not only that, the bitten Goblin hugged the Spider Demon's head, opened its blood-stained maw, and bit the Spider Demon's poison gland until it exploded.

They swallowed the Spider Demon's flesh in big gulps.

The high-energy monster flesh went down their throats, quickly converting into stamina to repair their damaged bodies.

Fight! Kill! Eat!

As the battle line pushed deeper, the three Silver-tier Spider Demon leaders could no longer hold back.

Their bodies crushed the trees along the way as they charged into the Goblin phalanx.

One Silver-tier Spider Demon leader swung its three-meter-long front limb, easily bisecting a dozen Goblins.

But this only incited the Goblins' ferocity.

Hundreds of Goblins, too heavily wounded and on the verge of death even with the link sharing the damage, erupted with Scarlet fanaticism in their eyes.

They actively severed their [Scarlet Link] with the main force.

[Boiling Blood] frenzy activated.

Pain was lost, and strength surged.

This group of low-health Goblins discarded their shields, gripped their chainswords tightly with both hands, and trampled over their companions' corpses to charge at the three Silver-tier Spider Demon leaders.

They did not defend at all, allowing the Silver-tier Spider Demons' limbs to pierce through their bodies.

Then, they latched onto the Spider Demons' legs, abdomens, and even heads.

"Bang! Bang! Bang!"

A series of violent explosions detonated at the heart of the battlefield.

[Acid Self-Destruct]!

Hundreds of high-Bronze-tier Goblins self-destructed simultaneously.

Their internal organs underwent a violent reaction, and the large-scale corrosive acid turned into a pale green rainstorm, completely engulfing the three Silver-tier Spider Demon leaders.

The strong acid melted the Silver-tier Spider Demons' proud carapaces and corroded their flesh.

"Roar—!!"

The Tyrant seized the opportunity and leaped high into the air.

Its giant chainsword slammed down hard on the head of a Silver-tier Spider Demon that had been riddled with holes by the acid.

"Crack."

The skull shattered, and dark green brain matter splattered everywhere.

...

At the Starport Plaza, on the high platform, in front of the holographic projection screen.

The military bigwigs and executives who had been exchanging pleasantries and commenting on the performance of the various corporate heirs fell collectively silent.

Everyone stared intensely at the 47th feed, which had been magnified to the center of the screen.

That extremely savage, bloody, and sanity-draining slaughter shocked the nerves of everyone present.

"Hiss—"

The observer responsible for recording data gasped, their voice dry: "This battle formation... requires extremely high willpower from the believers."

"Even regular troops who have undergone strict training would show instinctive fear and formation collapse when facing heavy casualties and poison net coverage."

He pointed to the Goblins in the footage who were frenziedly gnawing on Spider Demon flesh and voluntarily launching suicide attacks.

"He can actually make a group of inherently chaotic Mutant Goblins act like an extension of his own arm? Even the timing of the self-destruct was calculated so precisely!"

A Starsea Biotechnology executive stepped forward, hands gripping the railing, his eyes erupting with intense light.

"It's more than just control." He stared fixedly at the blood-colored patterns flashing on the Goblins' chests on the screen.

"That is the E-rank skill card [Blood Link] distributed by the military!"

"But this kid actually modified it into some kind of biological array that can be severed and reorganized at any time!"

"Using cheap materials, combined with the trash rules of the Wasteland, he forcibly smashed out a frenzy-filled legion with individual combat quality rivaling heavy-armored elites, and they fear no death!"

The Starsea executive turned to look at General Raymond, his tone urgent: "General Raymond, the cost-effectiveness of this army is too terrifying."

"If we can crack the formula for how he modified his followers, the annual military expenditure on the front lines could be reduced by at least thirty percent!"

Beside him, a white-haired professor from a top university slapped his thigh, his beard trembling with excitement.

"It's Wasteland Flesh Alchemy!"

The professor pointed at the screen, his voice high and excited: "You only see the cost-effectiveness, but what I see is an extremely terrifying talent for deduction!"

"The Wasteland rules are a dead end, but he didn't give up; instead, he used the extremely harsh environment to forcibly compel his followers to undergo genetic mutation!"

"He utilized the toxins and radiation of the Abyss, and even used the gu-poison mechanism of cannibalism, to complete a perfect closed loop of species evolution!"

The more the professor spoke, the more excited he became, as if he had already seen through Lin Yuan's trump card.

"This kid is a monster of biological deduction! Relying on extremely low costs, he forcibly smashed out a combat power chain that spans classes!"

"This kind of unconstrained imagination and execution is absolutely the rarest talent in the last decade!"

For a moment, the bigwigs on the high platform began to fill in the gaps with their own imaginations.

Lin Yuan's cheat-like behavior of using his SSS-rank talent [Creation Extraction] to rigidly stitch together traits was perfectly rationalized in the eyes of these bigwigs, who possessed high-end knowledge, as "extreme wisdom and deduction talent."

After all, who could imagine that someone could directly ignore the rules and extract concepts?

"With this kind of deductive insight, if given high-level resources, what kind of monster could he create?"

The Starsea executive's breathing became rapid; he tapped his wrist terminal and quickly sent an encrypted message:

"Immediately retrieve all background information on Lin Yuan from Jiangcheng No. 3 Middle School."

"Notify the headquarters to prepare the highest-spec recruitment contract. We must sign him before this poor kid gets locked in by the military!"

It wasn't just the Starsea corporation.

The observers from several other top universities and the commander of the Thunder Legion, who had been watching coldly from the sidelines, all tacitly sent instructions in secret.

A commoner god with heaven-defying deduction talent.

No background, no backing.

This was a perfect piece of uncut jade.

General Raymond watched the little movements of the people below and snorted coldly, not stopping them.

He looked up at Lin Yuan on the big screen, a flash of appreciation in his eyes.

"The lives of commoners are cheaper than grass, but also harder than iron. Survive, kid."

...

In the Abyss Shattered Continent, third defense zone.

On the battlefield, Lin Yuan did not yet know that the high platform in the outside world had fallen into a frenzy because of him.

He also did not know that he had been forcibly crowned with the title of "Deduction Genius" by several bigwigs.

He was currently hovering in mid-air, directing the Goblins to clean up the battlefield.

"Be quick with your hands and feet; dig out all the magic cores above Tier 2."

"Cut out the intact poison sacs and spider silk glands as well, and stack them in categorized piles."

Lin Yuan's voice was cold and hard, just like a ruthless construction foreman.

Below, the blood-soaked Goblins hurriedly took action upon hearing this.

They used their chainswords to break open the skulls and pick out the dark red crystals from the Spider Demons' brains.

The battle losses were tallied.

In this hard-fought battle, over a thousand out of the fifty thousand Goblins had died.

Most of the losses were caused by those who actively severed the link and self-destructed during the final push to kill the Silver-tier Spider Demons.

Lin Yuan glanced at the limbs and broken bodies covering the ground, raised his wrist, and tapped on the terminal's point leaderboard.

[Current Kills: Bronze-tier Spider Demon x21400, Silver-tier Spider Demon Leader x3.]

[Points conversion complete.]

[Current Total Points: 229,000.]

[Ranking: 27th.]

"Over twenty thousand Tier 2 magic cores, I've broken directly into the top thirty."

Lin Yuan smiled slightly as he looked at the children of noble families on the list who were now beneath his feet.

Su Yueying and Chu Yunxuan still firmly held the top two spots, with their points having already broken the 500,000 mark.

Due to the characteristics of their followers, sweeping through low-tier monsters was completely like mowing grass.

Lin Yuan was not in a hurry.

He looked up and gazed toward the deeper parts of the Shattered Continent.

The sky over there had completely turned dark purple.

Space rifts were extremely dense, and the demonic energy was so thick it seemed as if it were about to drip water.