198: Chapter 198 Is this the captain's trump card?

"Is… is this the Captain's trump card?"

Li Murou murmured to herself, her eyes filled with adoration: "This is… just too cool!!"

The cockpit door on the mecha's chest slowly opened.

Chen Xi leaped down from it and landed steadily.

Although his mental energy was heavily depleted and his face was somewhat pale, his gaze was sharper than ever.

He adjusted his slightly messy collar and cast his gaze toward the faceless captain who was already slumped on the ground on the viaduct.

A cold arc curved at the corner of his mouth: "Warm-up over."

"Now… it's time to clean house."

The underground factory was deathly silent.

The air was filled with the smell of burning and engine oil. The three once-arrogant Tier 6 Mechanical Vajra were now just debris in the ruins; one couldn't even find a single intact part.

On the viaduct, the four members of the Shadow Sect were huddled together, shivering.

The arrogant faceless captain had his mask half-fallen, revealing a pale face covered in cold sweat. His eyes were filled with terror, his legs were weak, and he couldn't stand up at all.

It's over.

It's all over.

Even the ultimate weapon had been insta-killed by that monster of a mecha; with what were they, these "pseudo-experts" propped up by drugs and equipment, supposed to fight back?

"Tap, tap, tap."

Clear footsteps echoed through the empty factory.

Chen Xi, with Su Xiaoxiao, Li Murou, and Ye Fei, walked up to the viaduct step by step.

Every step felt like it was crushing the heartbeats of the Shadow Sect members.

"Don't… don't come over!"

The faceless captain scrambled backward, trembling, clutching the useless remote control tightly in his hand, and roared with a show of false bravado: "We… we are participants in this operation! We are friendly forces!"

"If you dare to touch us, the Military Department won't let you off! This is infighting!"

"Friendly forces?"

Chen Xi stopped, and hearing this word, he couldn't help but laugh.

His smile was cold, without a trace of warmth.

"When you activated the jammer and caused Ye Fei's mental trauma, did you think about being friendly forces?"

"When you released the Mechanical Vajra, wanting to smash us into meat paste, did you think about being friendly forces?"

Murderous intent flared in Chen Xi's eyes: "Now that you've lost, you remember we're friendly forces?"

"Too late."

"Xiao Xiao."

Chen Xi tilted his head slightly.

"Here."

Su Xiaoxiao stepped forward, lightning dancing on her magic staff.

She hated traitors who backstabbed their teammates the most. The fall of Night Curtain back then was largely due to internal distrust.

Seeing this group of people now, she felt no pity at all.

"Except for that captain, the others…"

Chen Xi made a throat-slitting gesture: "Clean them up."

"Yes!"

Before the words faded, Su Xiaoxiao's figure had already vanished.

【Void · Lightning Sever】!

"Zzzzt—"

Purple lightning flashed through the narrow corridor.

"Ah!!"

"No—!!"

Three short screams rang out almost simultaneously, then abruptly ceased.

The three Shadow Sect members didn't even have a chance to beg for mercy; they were pierced through the heart by precise lightning blades and died on the spot.

Their corpses fell to the ground, the fear they felt before death still lingering in their eyes.

For these lackeys who had defected to the Men in Black and had blood on their hands, the Nirvana Battle Team felt no psychological burden.

In this cruel world, mercy to the enemy is cruelty to oneself.

Watching his teammates die instantly, the faceless captain's psychological defenses completely collapsed.

"Don't kill me! Don't kill me!"

He knelt on the ground, kowtowing frantically until his forehead bled: "I'll tell you everything! I was forced! They injected me with drugs and controlled me!"

"I'm innocent!"

Chen Xi walked up to him, stepped on his chest, and pinned him firmly to the ground.

"Whether you're innocent or not, go explain that to King Yama yourself."

"I only have a few questions for you now."

Chen Xi leaned down, his eyes like knives: "First, who is the person in charge here?"

"Second, how far has your so-called 'Mechanical Ascension' project actually progressed?"

"Third, where is the core laboratory?"

The faceless captain couldn't breathe under the pressure of the foot. Looking into Chen Xi's emotionless eyes, he knew that if he didn't tell the truth, he would be a corpse the next second.

"I'll talk! I'll talk!"

He gasped rapidly and spilled everything out like beans from a bamboo tube: "The person in charge… codename 'Mechanist'! He is a madman! I heard he also fell out of some space-time rift and possesses future technology!"

"The Ascension project… is to completely mechanize the flesh of ferocious beasts, then inject high-tier souls to create eternal weapons with god-level power!"

"Here… this is just an outer factory used for processing raw materials!"

Speaking to this point, the faceless captain became extremely terrified, as if recalling something extremely horrifying: "The real core laboratory… is on the third underground level of this factory! Inside that metal pyramid!"

"The 'Mechanist' is there! He is conducting the final experiment!"

"They say… he is creating a Tier 7… no, a 'Mechanical Beast King' that surpasses Tier 7!!"

"Tier 7?!"

Hearing this word, Wang Shan and Ye Fei nearby both gasped.

Tier 7, that is a terrifying existence corresponding to Lv.120 and above!

If a monster of this level were really created, the entire Southern District defense line would likely be flattened in an instant!

Chen Xi's expression also became grave.

Sure enough, things were even more serious than imagined.

The plot of the Black-Clothed Organization was far more complicated than just resurrecting one person.

They were mass-producing war machines!

"Very good."

Chen Xi nodded, loosening the pressure under his foot slightly.

The faceless captain thought he had escaped disaster, a flash of joy in his eyes: "I… I've told you everything, can you let me go? I promise I won't ever again…"

"Let you go?"

Chen Xi gave him a strange look: "When did I ever say I was going to let you go?"

"For traitors, I have always had only one principle."

Chen Xi looked up at Li Murou beside him: "Mu Rou, this person is yours."

"Make him shut up."

Although Li Murou usually seemed weak, after experiencing so much life and death, she was no longer the naive girl she once was.

She looked at the culprit who had almost killed Ye Fei just now, a flash of disgust in her eyes.

"This kind of scum really doesn't deserve to live."

She plucked the strings.

【Sonic Boom】!

"Bang!"

The faceless captain's head exploded like a watermelon.

The world became quiet.

Chen Xi didn't look at the corpse again; he turned around and looked at the huge gate leading underground deep in the factory.

According to the faceless captain's testimony, that was the entrance to the core area.

It was also the lair of that "Mechanist".

"Everyone heard that, right?"

Chen Xi scanned everyone, his tone serious: "There's a big guy down there, and a mad scientist."

"The upcoming battle might be tougher than the one just now."

"Are you afraid?"

"Afraid my ass!"