140: Chapter 140 The Awakening Aberration

4th Floor Above Ground, Biochemical Laboratory.

Crack.

The sound of shattering glass was piercing in the dead silence.

The humanoid monster with a rusty chainsaw replacing its right arm suddenly opened its tightly closed eyes.

There were no pupils, only whites of the eyes.

It opened its fanged mouth in the murky nutrient solution.

Rip.

Its left hand violently yanked backward, tearing out the black tube inserted into its spine. Dark green blood sprayed instantly.

Immediately after, it swung its chainsaw right arm and slammed it fiercely against the inner glass wall.

Bang!

The container, already fragile due to air pressure imbalance, exploded.

Green nutrient solution mixed with broken glass poured out.

The monster slammed heavily onto the metal floor.

It scrambled up on all fours like a beast. The rusty chainsaw dragged along the floor, creating eye-piercing sparks.

A violent aura comparable to a Peak Tier 1 Yao Beast erupted from its body. Its pale eyes were locked onto Gu Shen standing at the entrance.

This was just the beginning.

Crack! Crack! Crack!

It was like knocking over dominoes. Hundreds of giant glass containers in the hall cracked simultaneously.

Green liquid flowed everywhere.

Aberrations, forcibly stitched together with machinery and flesh, tore off life-support lines and smashed through their cages.

A giant with scrap gears embedded in its chest.

A half-bodied monster whose lower half had been completely replaced by treads.

A variant covered in bone spikes, resembling a giant spider.

They were densely packed, numbering in the hundreds and thousands.

They had no intelligence, only the killing instinct twisted by extreme experiments.

Thousands of cold gazes, like ghost fires in the gloom, converged simultaneously in the same direction.

The smell of formalin in the air was instantly masked by violence and blood.

"Master, microwave radar scan complete."

Crab's electronic voice was extremely steady.

"Total targets ahead: four hundred and twenty-seven. Energy level assessment: most are Tier 1, a very small portion have reached Tier 2. No higher-level super lifeforms detected yet."

"A bunch of failed, defective products."

Gu Shen stood at the entrance of the hall.

He watched the Aberrations surging like a tide, expressionless.

He did not retreat. His left hand slowly raised, pointing forward gently.

"Leave none alive."

Boom!

The blue light in the eye sockets of the twelve Cyber Iron Corpses instantly flared.

There was no roaring.

The fusion batteries in the Puppets' chests outputted wildly; they charged into the Aberration frenzy like twelve completely out-of-control heavy armored vehicles, stepping over the green liquid covering the floor.

The physical meat grinder had officially started.

The first to bear the brunt was the chainsaw monster.

With the motor roaring, the high-speed rotating chainsaw kicked up a spray of foul-smelling liquid, violently sawing toward the neck of the Iron Corpse in the lead.

Screech!

Sparks flew everywhere.

The sharp teeth scraped crazily against the dark gold skin of the Iron Corpse, but only left a shallow white mark.

The skeleton reshaped from refined iron and the body strengthened by mutated wood marrow made this level of physical cutting completely ineffective.

A trace of instinctive astonishment flashed in the chainsaw monster's pale eyes.

Half a breath later, the Iron Corpse moved.

Its right fist, covered in high-frequency particle shockwaves, punched out with a speed that tore the air.

Bang!

A dull explosion.

The Iron Corpse's iron fist pierced through the chainsaw monster's chest without any obstruction. High-frequency shockwaves erupted.

The gears, metal organs, and blackened flesh stitched inside the monster instantly turned into a cloud of blood mist mixed with iron filings under tens of thousands of resonances, spraying out from its back.

Instant kill.

"Kill." Gu Shen commanded coldly.

The twelve Iron Corpses were like sharp blades, pushing crazily through the pile of monsters.

A tread monster tried to crush them with its tonnage.

Two Iron Corpses approached from left and right. Their hands locked onto the rusty chassis, and their fusion battery power erupted.

Crack!

The monster, weighing several tons, was lifted over their heads and torn in half with bare hands. Engine oil and organs splashed everywhere.

A spider variant lunged down viciously from the dome.

The Iron Corpse didn't look up; it threw it to the ground with a back suplex. The shockwave passed through its body, directly shattering its carapace into a puddle of meat.

A one-sided massacre.

Gu Shen didn't need to expend a sliver of magic power; the micro-fusion batteries granted them endless kinetic energy. Wherever the high-frequency vibration fists passed, severed limbs flew all over the sky.

Roar——!

Just as the center of the hall fell into a meat-grinding battle.

Five massive Peak Tier 2 Aberrations, covered in heavy black alloy armor, rushed out from the deepest shadows.

They avoided the sharp-edged Iron Corpse army.

Their highly developed sense of smell locked onto Gu Shen, who was standing in the back watching the battle.

They stepped on the glass on the ground with all four limbs, lunging straight at Gu Shen.

"Finally, a few that are worth cutting."

The corners of Gu Shen's mouth curled up slightly.

He did not summon the Iron Corpses back for defense. Having just broken through to the Peak of the Qi Refining 9th Layer, he needed a whetstone.

Clang!

The thunder pattern gold-slaying blade was unsheathed.

Dark blue thunder danced on the blade edge. The black light on Gu Shen's shadow shoes swirled, and he advanced instead of retreating.

His figure was like a ghost, instantly cutting into the encirclement of the five monsters.

Head-on, one monster swung an alloy iron fist the size of a millstone, bringing with it a piercing whistle of wind, smashing fiercely toward Gu Shen's head.

Gu Shen did not dodge.

His left hand clenched into a fist. The dark gold Thunder Bone erupted with a low hum beneath his skin.

Head-on collision.

Boom!

The two fists, one large and one small, collided fiercely in mid-air.

A teeth-aching sound of metal twisting rang out.

The alloy iron fist that the Peak Tier 2 monster was so proud of was actually severely dented by Gu Shen's punch. The violent thunder power rolled back along its arm, instantly short-circuiting and smoking its internal mechanical circuits.

The monster's massive body stiffened suddenly.

Swish!

Gu Shen's right hand slashed out with the gold-severing saber smoothly.

Dark green magic power poured into the blade.

Swoosh.

The monster's head, along with the alloy armor on its neck, was sliced off cleanly as if it were tofu.

A fatal blow.

The death of their companion incited the remaining four monsters to violence.

They lunged at him from four directions with extreme tacit understanding.

Gu Shen's eyes were dark.

"Soul-Shocking Spike."

His Divine Sense instantly turned into four invisible spikes, stabbing fiercely into the minds of the four monsters.

Although these monsters were mechanically modified, their brains were still biological tissue.

Under the suppression of his Peak Qi Refining 9th Layer Divine Sense.

The four monsters let out shrill screams simultaneously, black blood flowed from their seven orifices, and their movements suffered a fatal pause.

Half a breath.

For Gu Shen, that was enough.

He turned his figure again, his blade light like a waterfall.

There was no fancy sword technique, only thousand-times-tempered hacking and slashing.

Swoosh! Swoosh!

Two consecutive slashes.

The bodies of the two monsters were cleanly split in two. The wounds were instantly charred by thunder fire, and not a drop of blood splashed out.

The third monster broke free from the stiffness and retreated in terror.

Gu Shen slightly spread the ten fingers of his left hand.

A transparent dark thread shot out like a venomous snake, tightly wrapping around its neck. "Soul-Pulling Threads".

He yanked his fingers backward.

Puff!

The extremely yin thread severed the neck, and the head rolled off.

The last remaining monster turned and fled.

Gu Shen held the gold-severing saber high, with Geng Metal Sword Qi attached to it.

"Die."

A piercing gold-blue blade light left the blade, crossing a distance of ten zhang, and directly split it in half from behind.

The battle ended.

The entire fourth-floor hall returned to dead silence.

Four hundred and twenty-seven Aberrations.

None survived.

The floor was covered in broken metal parts and dark green remains.

The twelve Cyber Iron Corpses stood quietly in the pool of blood.

They had a few more scratches on them, but with the escort of the micro-batteries, their combat power had not been damaged in the slightest.

"Master, vital signs in the hall have been completely cleared."

Crab's voice sounded at the right time.

"However, these Aberrations have no extraction value. Their metal components are extremely inferior, far below standard strength."

"As expected."

Gu Shen sheathed his long saber.

A group of defective products abandoned in the surface laboratory naturally had no oil to squeeze.

His purpose for coming here was to investigate the truth of this laboratory.

Gu Shen stepped on the viscous fluid and, with the Iron Corpses, walked steadily toward the deepest part of the hall.

There, there was an extremely massive, dust-covered central console.

"Crab, prepare to access the mainframe."

Gu Shen's gaze was cold, staring at those pitch-black glass panels.

"Let me see what this so-called Ascension Project really is."