309: Chapter 310 White Ghost

Da Heibi's hands holding the Bolter were trembling slightly.

Having killed so many monsters in the game, he had never experienced such a real sense of terror.

But facing this mass of white mist, his subconscious was screaming alarms, urging him to flee immediately.

"Don't panic!"

Dragon Strike gritted his teeth and slammed the riot shield heavily onto the ground,

"No matter what kind of Boss it is, as long as its health bar lights up, it can be killed! I'll take the first wave of damage, you guys find an opportunity to deal damage!"

As the main tank of the team, Dragon Strike fulfilled his duty conscientiously.

He activated the maximum output of the Power Armor, and a faint shimmer of the deflector force field lit up on the surface of the shield.

The white mist seemed to sense Dragon Strike's hostility.

It made no extra movements, merely floating forward lightly by half a meter.

The speed was extremely slow, like a falling leaf.

Dragon Strike stared fixedly at the white mist and roared, "Come on! Grandson!"

The white mist touched the adamantine riot shield.

There was no sound of impact.

There was no energy explosion.

That mass of hazy white substance, like passing through a layer of illusion, penetrated the heavy adamantine shield without any obstruction.

Immediately following that, it penetrated the deflector force field on Dragon Strike's body and pierced through the armor plating.

The white mist sank directly into Dragon Strike's chest cavity.

In the team voice chat, not even a single scream was heard.

Dragon Strike's stalwart, heavily armored body instantly stiffened in place.

The next frame.

On Nobi Dahniao and Da Heibi's party panel, Dragon Strike's full health bar was instantly cleared to zero.

The green ID representing survival directly turned into a gray dead state.

Instant kill.

A true instant kill.

There was no damage judgment, no defensive gear damage reduction calculation.

It was just like using an eraser to directly wipe a character off a canvas.

"Holy shit!"

Fear instantly transformed into the fury of The Fourth Calamity.

Da Heibi pulled the Bolter's trigger all the way down.

"Bang bang bang bang—"

The thick muzzle spat out dazzling tongues of fire.

Large-caliber Bolter rounds poured out like a rainstorm.

At such a close distance, aiming was completely unnecessary.

Dozens of Bolter rounds accurately struck into that mass of white mist.

However.

There was no physical tearing brought by an explosion.

Those Bolter rounds entering the white mist vanished completely like clay oxen entering the sea.

Not even a single ripple was stirred up before they completely vanished without a trace.

Even the bullet casings did not pierce out from the other side of the white mist.

It swallowed all physical kinetic energy.

"Physical attacks are ineffective! Use energy weapons!"

Nobi Dahniao quickly made a judgment.

He pulled Da Heibi behind him and raised a plasma rifle himself.

The blinding blue plasma beam erupted instantly.

The high-temperature beam bombarded straight into the center of the white mist.

The white mist was hit by the high-temperature beam.

But it only twisted slightly, like a gust of wind blowing across the surface of water.

The beam pierced straight through the white mist, burning out a huge charred melting hole on the metal bulkhead behind.

As for the white mist itself, it was completely unharmed.

"Fuck!" Nobi Dahniao cursed.

Energy attacks were also ineffective!

What kind of monster is this anyway? It has no collision volume and is immune to both physical and energy damage!

After devouring Dragon Strike's life, the white mist seemed to become a bit denser.

It slowly turned its body, and although it had no eyes, the two distinctly felt that terrifying sense of gaze locked onto them.

"Melee! Try melee enchanted weapons!"

Da Heibi threw away the empty-magazined Bolter and backhanded the high-frequency oscillation sword from his back.

"Die for your grandpa!"

Da Heibi roared and leaped high into the air.

The auxiliary engines of the Power Armor spewed tail flames, and he gripped the sword with both hands, hacking fiercely toward the mass of white mist.

The blade slashed through the void.

"Whoosh."

Da Heibi pierced right through the white mist.

There was no sense of resistance from striking a physical entity.

It was just like hacking into the air with a full-strength sword strike.

Due to using too much force, Da Heibi staggered and almost fell.

He turned his head back, looking at the power sword in his hand in disbelief.

And then looked at the white mist still floating in place.

A complete sense of powerlessness surged into his heart.

Firearms are ineffective,

plasma is ineffective,

melee weapons are ineffective.

This is simply not a boss that can be raided.

This is a scripted-kill monster that transcends the game's existing rules.

It does not exist in the physical dimension, yet it can easily obliterate life in the physical dimension.

The white mist began to expand.

It seemed to have absorbed some kind of energy around it, and its volume became larger and larger.

Soon, it occupied half the space of the metal cabin.

That suffocating, oppressive terror reached its peak.

Vision became blurred, and the ears were filled with meaningless, piercing shrieks and static noise.

It was just like being in the deepest nightmare.

You clearly knew the monster was right in front of you, and you used all means to attack it, but all attacks were like illusions, and it only needed to touch you lightly for you to be doomed eternally.

The expanding white mist began to undergo morphological changes.

Right in front of it, the mist caved inward.

Forming a huge, bottomless whirlpool.

At the edge of the whirlpool, the mist twisted and condensed, transforming into shapes resembling countless sharp teeth.

That was a giant mouth.

An indescribable abyss giant mouth composed of pure unknown energy.

The giant mouth slowly opened.

The target was not only the two remaining players.

But also the transparent hibernation chamber standing in the center, holding Dr. Jinren.

It intended to swallow all existence here in one bite.

Facing this giant mouth of white mist that was enough to swallow everything.

After experiencing the despairing attacks just now that yielded zero feedback, The Fourth Calamity's tense nerves finally chose to lie flat.

"Daniao."

"This is definitely an irresistible scripted kill."

Da Heibi glanced at the approaching giant mouth,

"The damn planners didn't plan on letting us go back alive. This monster has no health bar at all, nor does it have hit judgment."

"No choice, it's the penalty mechanism for decryption failure."

Nobi Dahniao spread his hands, somewhat helpless,

"Forced destruction, releasing an over-spec scripted monster, and forcing a party-wide execution—I'm familiar with this routine."

The two sat on the ground, watching that terrifying giant mouth getting closer and closer, occupying their entire vision.

There was no longer any meaning in resisting.

"What a pity."

Da Heibi looked at the perfect man inside the hibernation chamber with a pang of heartache,

"We were just about to get him, and now it's all down the drain."

"Get ready for the resurrection casting bar, we'll come again next time."

The white giant mouth closed silently.

At that very instant.

Inside the hibernation chamber, that boiling light blue gel suddenly stopped moving.

Not only did the gel stop, but all matter in the surrounding vacuum, and even the concept of the passage of time, experienced a bizarre pause at this moment.

The perfect man suspended in the center of the gel slowly opened his eyes.

Those were a pair of eyes that looked very ordinary.

But even having just awakened, his gaze remained terrifyingly clear.

The very first moment he opened his eyes, his gaze penetrated the transparent bulkhead and landed on that hazy white monster that was about to swallow everything.

"You're still not dead."

"It seems II's experiment succeeded?"

Not a trace of surprise could be heard in the man's tone, as he was merely stating an objective fact.

This sentence came out of nowhere.

But that mass of white monster, which had always been formless and intangible, actually trembled violently in the vacuum.

That was fear.

An absolute fear a thousand times more intense than what the players had felt before.

The white giant mouth collapsed abruptly, the mist contracting frantically backward; it wanted to run away.

But it was too late.

Golden Men did not make any fancy movements, did not raise his hands, did not form hand seals, nor did he chant any blood-pumping combat lines.

He simply floated quietly in the gel, using those cold eyes to calmly glance at the fleeing white mist.

Just a single glance.

The void area where the white mist was located suddenly underwent a bizarre change.

Space itself, like a piece of white paper torn from a picture book, developed visible wrinkles to the naked eye.

The white mist monster didn't even have room to struggle; it was directly twisted and folded together with those spatial wrinkles.

The three-dimensional volumetric monster was forcibly flattened into a two-dimensional planar image within fractions of a second.

Immediately after, the two-dimensional image collapsed inward again, turning into a thin line with only length.

Finally, the thin line connected head to tail, shrinking into an infinitely small point.

"Snap."

A soft sound.

The singularity disappeared.

The monster was gone.

There was no earth-shattering explosion, no deafening roar.

Not even a trace of the aftermath of energy leakage remained.

It was just like a programmer typing a line of deletion code in the backend.

That terrifying existence which players exhausted all means to cause not a shred of damage to was directly and completely obliterated from the physical universe.

Absolute dimensional reduction strike, clean and neat, leaving no trace behind.

Inside the metal cabin, dead silence was restored once again.

Nobi Dahniao and Da Heibi, sitting on the ground, still maintained the posture of closing their eyes and waiting for death.

Two seconds later.

"Daniao..."

Da Heibi tentatively spoke out in the party channel, "I seem to... not have logged off yet."

Nobi Dahniao opened his eyes abruptly.

The scene before him made him gasp a breath of cold air.

That white giant mouth was gone, the surroundings were empty, not even a single hair of the monster was left.

If not for the fact that in the party list, Dragon Strike's avatar was still in a gray dead state, they would have even thought that everything just now was merely an illusion.

"Where is the monster?"

Da Heibi also opened his eyes, holding the Bolter in his hand and looking around,

"Where did that huge mass of white mist from just now go? Did it bug out of the map?"

"It didn't bug out of the map."

Nobi Dahniao swallowed a mouthful of saliva.

He slowly turned his head to look at the transparent hibernation chamber right in the center.

"The NPC made a move."

Da Heibi looked along Nobi Dahniao's gaze, and his entire person was struck by lightning as if thunderstruck.

Inside the hibernation chamber.

The perfect man who was originally sleeping was now opening his eyes.

With Dr. Jinren's awakening, the mechanical structure at the bottom of the hibernation chamber began to operate automatically.

"Hiss—"

A series of dense internal decompression sounds rang out.

The drainage valve at the base of the hibernation chamber opened automatically, and the light blue gel liquid filling the cabin was quickly sucked away.

The man's feet touched the ground, standing steadily at the bottom of the hibernation chamber.

"Holy shit!"

Da Heibi jumped straight up from the ground, throwing the Bolter aside.

He pointed at the hibernation chamber, his voice cracking from shock.

"That monster was killed by him?"