bioinnovel Chapter 234 The Devouring Abyss Beast!
Chapter 234 The Devouring Abyss Beast!
Zhang Yan patted the white tiger's leg and stood up.
The white tiger lowered its head and nuzzled his shoulder.
The mechanical tiger's movement looked unusually docile.
Like a giant cat begging for petting.
"Walk."
The man and the beast continued their southward advance.
The density of the jungle began to change.
The trees grew taller and taller, their roots becoming intertwined and the ground becoming rugged.
The rotten, sweet smell in the air grew even stronger.
On the tactical watch's energy tracking interface, the dark red trajectory began to fork.
It is no longer a line.
It is a net.
Zhang Yan stopped and looked at the spreading red network.
The energy of the Ruins penetrated deeper than he had anticipated.
This is more than just a base.
It's more like a... nest.
Just as he was about to adjust his route, his tactical watch vibrated again.
[WARNING! Large energy reaction detected ahead!]
Distance: 400 meters.
Quantity: 1.
[Energy Trait: Clan of Ruins - High-Tier Type (Rank A)]
Threat assessment: Regional level.
[Note: This target's level is higher than all previously encountered Ruins Familiars.]
Grade A.
Zhang Yan's steps finally came to a stop.
A B-grade Hellhound can be dealt with by White Tiger in one minute.
Grade A...
The system used the term "regional level".
This means that this thing is destructive enough to destroy a small town.
The white tiger's electronic eyes have already locked onto what's ahead.
Something was moving slowly deep in that dense forest.
The ground began to shake.
This is not an ordinary vibration.
It was a regular, heavy vibration that made the soles of my feet go numb with every step.
The trees are falling to both sides.
Trees over ten meters tall were uprooted and felled, the sound of them crashing echoing through the jungle like dominoes.
then……
Zhang Yan saw it.
A massive silhouette emerged from the gaps in the uprooted tree canopy.
Shoulder height exceeds five meters.
No, six meters.
It is almost three times the size of a hellhound.
Its form is no longer canine.
It is closer to a bear walking upright.
Or rather, a nightmare that has been distorted, magnified, and redefined with black shells and dark red patterns.
It has no eyes.
Its head consists of only one enormous mouth that takes up half of its face, filled with countless irregular sharp teeth.
On the raised carapace on its back, there is a row of dark red protrusions that look like vertebrae, which are slowly glowing.
Each flash increases the concentration of void energy in the air by an order of magnitude.
[Ding! Target scan complete.]
[Classification: Ruins' Relatives - High-Tier Type (Rank A)]
[Suggested codename: Maw Eater.]
[Carapace hardness: Surpasses titanium alloy, approaches that of meteorite iron.]
Attack methods: Physical impact (extremely high), energy pulse (mid-range area damage), regeneration (weak, but continuous).
[Weakness: The spinal protrusions on the back are energy core conduits; destroying them will significantly reduce the target's combat effectiveness.]
[Recommendation: After severing the energy conduit using a high-frequency oscillation weapon, concentrate firepower on the core on the back.]
Zhang Yan's gaze fell on the last line.
Back core.
That row of dark red protrusions.
He glanced at the white tiger's energy panel.
71%.
Not a lot, but enough for one game.
The premise is that it must be a quick and decisive battle.
The Abyss Beasts have already discovered them.
The giant, eyeless face slowly turned toward the white tiger.
The giant mouth opened.
The sound that came from deep in the throat was not a roar.
It is a low-frequency oscillation wave.
Sound waves are invisible to the naked eye, but Zhang Yan felt them—his heart inside his chest was tugged by the vibration.
The white tiger's electronic system flickered for a moment.
[WARNING: Infrasound attack detected, frequency 18Hz, may cause resonance damage to electronic components.]
Anti-resonance protocol activated.
Zhang Yan climbed onto the back of the white tiger and crawled into the cockpit.
The hatch closed.
The holographic interface lights up.
He placed his hands on the control panel.
Neural synchronization rate: 97%.
"start."
The white tiger roared.
The roar of the mechanical tiger and the infrasound of the Abyss Beast collided in the air.
The leaves were shattered, like a green blizzard.
The White Tiger takes the initiative.
The particle claws were activated at full power, and the four mechanical legs propelled the beast forward with an initial acceleration close to the speed of sound, hurtling towards the Devourer.
The Maw Beasts reacted much faster than the Cerberus.
Its forearm swept across... that forearm was thicker than the entire body of the white tiger.
It was shot with brute force, capable of destroying everything.
Zhang Yan maneuvered the White Tiger to sidestep in the final tenth of a second.
The giant arm grazed the back armor of the white tiger, and the shockwave sent the surrounding soil flying five meters high.
The white tiger slipped under the Abyss Beast's armpit, its particle claws leaving a sparkling mark on its side.
The shell is too hard.
Only a shallow burn mark remained.
It did not penetrate.
Zhang Yan narrowed his eyes slightly.
He adjusted his attack strategy.
Don't hit the side, hit the joint.
The white tiger circled behind the Devouring Beast and unleashed a series of slashes at its knees with its particle claws.
The high-frequency oscillations produced a piercing metallic hiss at the contact surface.
The first claw... the shell cracked.
The second claw... the crack widened.
The third claw...
The carapace of the Maw Beast's knee joint shattered, exposing the grayish-black muscle tissue beneath.
It was in pain and knelt down on one knee.
The entire jungle trembled under its kneeling weight.
But its counterattack came even faster...
The row of vertebral protrusions on its back simultaneously emitted a dazzling dark red light.
A circular energy pulse spreads outwards from its center.
Area-of-effect damage.
Zhang Yan had no time to dodge.
The White Tiger's energy shield unfolded the instant the pulse arrived, forming a honeycomb-shaped light curtain in front of it.
The pulse collided with the shield.
The shield trembled violently.
Energy level dropped by 15% in three seconds.
[White Tiger - Energy Reserves: 53%]
Zhang Yan gritted his teeth.
It's being consumed too quickly.
He can't afford to fight a war of attrition with this thing.
It must be resolved in one fell swoop.
Target – Back Core.
The white tiger exerted its strength during the intervals between pulses, leaping up from the side and using its four claws to grab the back shell of the Devouring Beast and climb upwards.
The Devourer frantically thrashed its body, trying to shake the White Tiger off.
Zhang Yan's teeth clashed together.
The vibrations in the cockpit were so intense that even the screws on the control panel were buzzing.
But the white tiger's particle claws remained firmly embedded in the gaps in its carapace, refusing to let go.
three seconds.
It only takes him three seconds.
The white tiger climbed onto the back of the Devouring Abyss Beast.
The row of dark red vertebrae is right below.
It is building up for the next pulse.
Zhang Yan did not use a particle claw.
He activated the electromagnetic railgun.
Zero distance.
The muzzle was pressed against the center of the spinal protrusion.
"broken."
Fire.
A blue-white beam of light shot out from the cannon muzzle, piercing through the entire spinal energy duct of the Devourer Beast at point-blank range.
The dark red protrusions burst one by one like light bulbs.
The energy loop was completely destroyed.
The Abyss Beast's body convulsed violently, and its giant mouth opened, letting out a silent roar.
The sound wave frequency was so high that it exceeded the range of human hearing, but Zhang Yan felt that the metal walls of the cockpit were slightly deforming.
Then, it fell over.