newbobooks Chapter 254 The Third Force, the Underground Hunting Ground?
Chapter 254 The Third Force, the Underground Hunting Ground?
Below the crack lies a bottomless vertical passage.
The artificial chisel marks on the rock face are so smooth that they can reflect the outline of a tactical helmet.
"Walk."
Without wasting any words, Lu Yan was the first to jump down.
The remaining five members of the first squad followed closely behind.
The tactical boots, with their built-in magnetic function, locked onto the rock face, and the six men plummeted at high speed like geckos.
The deeper you go, the fainter the ancient and desolate aura of the Kunlun Mountains becomes.
Instead, there was the smell of cold metal and engine oil.
The ancient bronze mural was forcibly pierced by a thick steel pipe. The surface of the pipe was covered with a layer of white frost, and a dark blue energy band pulsed regularly inside the pipe, emitting a low hum.
This is not some secret realm at all; it is a massive, cold, and efficient slaughterhouse built deep within the dragon veins of China.
We landed on a slightly wider platform, and the sound of mechanical gears grinding came from around the corner ahead.
A patrol team of five monsters is approaching along a fixed route.
These things are half flesh and blood, and half metal.
The torso is the skeleton of some kind of strange beast, covered with bulging muscle tissue, but the limbs have been replaced with gleaming mechanical hydraulic legs, and the head is replaced by a constantly rotating compound eye made up of countless cameras.
They are not creations of the Western Church, and they do not possess that nauseating parasitic aura of holy light.
This is a completely unfamiliar enemy.
Zhao Leiguang stretched his shoulders, and the Earth Pulse Twin Shields collided in front of him.
"She looks really casual."
"Leave it to me." Xiao Qianyu's voice rang out, and she darted out of the shadows.
Flash Strike.
The dark golden light of the Dragon King's Halberd aimed directly at the neck joint of the foremost mechanical mutant.
stab-
A series of blinding sparks exploded.
The Dragon King's Halberd left only a faint white mark on the opponent's metal shell.
The monster's camera-like compound eyes instantly turned towards Xiao Qianyu.
A semi-transparent energy field appeared on its surface.
Using the momentum, Xiao Qianyu retreated and landed back at the front of the group, her brows furrowed beneath her mask.
"High physical resistance, with an energy shield."
"Then try this."
Lin Chuxue took a step forward, biting the plastic stick of the lollipop between her teeth.
Blood Pool Howl raised the staff.
A dark red blood explosion magic circle instantly formed beneath the monster's feet.
The magical energy surged into the sky.
However, the expected explosion did not occur.
The translucent energy field absorbed all the magical energy the moment it came into contact with the Blood Explosion Array, and then suddenly surged.
An identical surge of magical energy was reflected back, striking Lin Chuxue directly at her.
"Holy crap!" Zhao Leiguang cursed, taking a step to the side and placing his Taotie Twin Shields in front of Lin Chuxue.
boom!
The blood explosion magic circle exploded on the shield.
Zhao Leiguang was jolted back half a step by the enormous impact, and his arm went numb.
"Spell reflection?" Su Yunqing asked with surprise. "This doesn't comply with the law of conservation of energy."
This is the first time since the formation of the first squad that they have suffered a setback in terms of output.
These monsters are immune to their two strongest damage dealers.
"It's not a rebound."
Lu Yan's voice rang out on the channel, calm and without a trace of emotion.
He remained standing still, the data stream from the deconstruction of the Void Disk already filling the screen of the tactical terminal.
"It involves formatting and then recoding."
"They are stealing our attack patterns."
On the data panel, a line of scarlet code was forcibly parsed out.
[Warning: Third-party high-dimensional code structure detected, not a sanctified sequence.]
[Target Analysis: 'Hunter' Type III, experimental living weapon.]
[Core Ability: Law Field, capable of absorbing, analyzing, and replicating attacks with energy levels lower than its own.]
"They are using us as experiments."
Lu Yan's gaze swept over the few cold killing machines.
"Use our techniques to test their armor."
He shut down his tactical terminal and looked up.
"Since you enjoy stealing so much, then you can steal as much as you want."
Lu Yan walked towards the group of monsters.
"Captain!" Zhao Leiguang tried to stop him.
Lu Yan's orders have been issued.
"All personnel cease attacking and defend in place."
All members of the first squad instinctively carried out the order.
Lu Yan walked step by step to a place less than ten meters away from the monster.
All five "Hunter" cameras were locked onto him.
Lu Yan extended his right hand.
Palms facing upwards.
The materialized projection of the Void Disc spun in his palm.
A twelve-petaled, jet-black lotus slowly unfolds.
Destroy the Black Lotus.
This time, he didn't throw it.
Instead, it reveals the power of the Black Lotus's laws to its enemies without reservation or reservation.
The core processors of those five Hunters were instantly overloaded.
A massive amount of data on the laws of destruction, which they had never seen before and could not even comprehend, swept away their rudimentary firewalls like a torrent.
Their "law force field" was activated to its limit.
The translucent shield began to flash wildly, its color changing from blue to red, and then from red to purple.
They want to decipher the laws of the Black Lotus.
They want to replicate this power.
It's like a computer from the last century trying to force a 4K high-definition movie to run.
There is only one result.
"Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!"
Five crisp popping sounds rang out in succession.
It wasn't an explosion.
The core processors of those five Hunter machines burned out due to computational overload.
The energy field on their bodies disappeared instantly.
The five monsters stood frozen in place, their compound eyes, composed of cameras, losing all their luster and turning into a pile of junk.
"Now, it's our turn." Lu Yan turned to the side.
"Tear them down."
"Okay!"
Zhao Leiguang had been holding back his anger for a long time.
A brutal collision!
Like a bull in heat, he charged straight into the monster formation.
Without its shield, the mechanical body is as fragile as paper.
The first machine was smashed to pieces by him, with parts scattered all over the ground.
Xiao Qianyu's figure turned into a blur.
The Dragon King's Halberd weaves through the monster horde.
Instead of attacking the hard outer shell, she targeted the exposed hydraulic joints and wiring interfaces.
With a swift movement, the halberd fell.
One Hunter was dismantled into eight pieces on the spot.
Wen Yue switched to armor-piercing rounds.
Each shot from the World-Destroying Thunderbolt crossbow creates a hole in the compound eye of a hunter's camera.
Lin Chuxue learned her lesson this time; she didn't throw the magic circle directly.
Instead, it compresses magical energy into tiny, blood-red energy needles, precisely piercing the monster's energy channels.
It caused an internal short circuit and spontaneously combusted.
A crushing massacre.
When the battle ended, Zhao Leiguang kicked a pile of scrap metal at his feet.
"That's it? You think you can copy us?"
The Taotie belt around his waist suddenly glowed faintly.
A unique stream of data drifted out from the mechanical wreckage and entered the belt.
[The Gluttonous Belt absorbs the special attribute: Adaptive Resistance (Basic)]
[Effect: Grants 10% temporary damage reduction when receiving attacks of the same type of energy.]
"Hey, this thing is pretty smart." Zhao Lei patted his belt and chuckled.
Lu Yan walked up to the wrecked remains of a Hunter.
He pulled a still-flickering storage chip from the other man's chest cavity.
Chip insertion into tactical terminal.
A tattered experimental log was forcibly deciphered.
[...The adaptability test of the "Hunter" Type III to the energy of the Chinese Awakened has been completed, and the data has been uploaded.]
[...The sample still showed a strong rejection reaction to "Pangu's blood and bones," and it is recommended to adjust the gene mix for the next batch.]
[...The first phase of the "Europa Incubation Pool" project is nearing completion, and more high-level divine samples are urgently needed to stabilize the fusion reaction between "Holy Light" and "Earth Veins"...]
Europa.
It's Europe again.
This third-party force, hidden deep within Kunlun Xu, has countless connections with the Western false gods.
They might even be the real manipulators behind the false gods.
Lu Yan put away the terminal.
It seems that Europe is even more bustling than I imagined.
He looked into the depths of the passage.
The noise from the machinery there grew even louder.
The first squad continued forward.
The further you go in, the more complete the bronze murals on both sides become.
In the air, the coldness of machinery intertwines with the ancient, mysterious murals, creating an eerie balance.
At the end of the passage was a heavy, round metal partition door.
Two characters are engraved on the isolation door in ancient Chinese seal script.
"Kunlun".
The moment they approached, the isolation door detected the copper coin code on Lu Yan's waist.
The heavy sound of gears meshing filled the air.
The metal doors slid open slowly to both sides.
Inside the gate was an ancient bronze palace suspended in mid-air.
In front of the main gate of the ancient temple, a skeleton dressed in an old-fashioned Chinese military overcoat sat quietly on the steps.
The bones had long since dried out.
But one of his hands was gripping a copper coin tightly.
A rusty copper coin, exactly the same as the one Lu Yan wore at his waist.