bioinnovel Chapter 236 The Slit Mouth!
Chapter 236 The Slit Mouth!
He flipped through it.
Xingtian's energy was replenished once after the battle at He Zhengde Manor, and its current reserves are at 82%.
Three mechs.
In addition, the energy of the Heart of Heaven's Craftsmanship.
His eyes changed.
It's not hesitation.
It is a calm sharpness unique to when a plan is taking shape.
Zhang Yan stood up from the cockpit and jumped to the ground.
Space distortion.
The black scorpion fell from the void.
Eight mechanical legs plunged into the ground covered by a dark red substance, and the enormous pincers slowly opened.
The particle cannon barrel glowed with a ghostly blue light.
Immediately afterwards—
The second spatial distortion.
Xingtian.
The dark red, heavily armored giant crashed down next to the Black Scorpion, kneeling on one knee like a battle-hardened knight awaiting orders.
The chainsaw sword pops out automatically, and the six-barrel rotary cannon rotates into place.
Three mechs lined up in front of the nest.
In the darkness opposite the open space, the first pair of dark red eyes lit up.
Then came the second pair.
The third pair.
……
Sixteen dark red dots of light emerged from behind the trees surrounding the open space.
Six hellhounds.
Two...
Zhang Yan looked at the last two silhouettes that appeared.
They are a size larger than hellhounds, but their appearance is completely different.
It has no head.
Or rather, the entire upper body is just a mouth.
The body resembles a humanoid creature that has been split vertically and then reassembled, with deformed, elongated arms that end not as hands but as bony, blade-like structures.
Its back was covered with dark red protrusions that looked like eyeballs, all of them rotating, all staring at him.
[Scanning of B+ Rank Ruins' Familiars complete.]
[Suggested codename: The Slit-Mouthed One.]
[Attack methods: High-speed melee cutting (extremely high), all-around vision (no blind spots), self-destruct capability (triggered when near death).]
[Weakness: The suture points along the body's central axis have lower structural strength than other areas.]
Zhang Yan put away his watch.
He stood in the very center of the three mechs, looking at the enemy horde in front of him.
Six Class B.
Two B+ grade.
There were also an unknown number of soldiers inside the cave.
And his total energy reserves will most likely drop to a very low level after this battle.
But so what?
He didn't come here to settle accounts.
He came to pull out the nails.
"White Tiger".
The mechanical tiger growled.
"The three hellhounds on the left wing, you clear them out."
"Save your firepower, focus on particle claws, and don't fire the cannons."
The white tiger obeyed the order, its silvery-white figure silently circling to the left.
"Black Scorpion".
The eight-legged giant scorpion raised its tail cannon barrel.
"Three hellhounds on the right flank, fire particle cannons freely, hold your ground, do not pursue."
The Black Scorpion's electronic eyes flickered and slowly turned to the right wing.
"Xingtian".
The dark red heavy mech stood up, and the high-frequency vibrations of the chainsaw sword emitted a piercing hiss.
Zhang Yan looked at the two split-mouthed beings directly in front of him.
"Follow me."
He flipped over and jumped into Xing Tian's cockpit.
The hatch closed.
Neural synchronization.
His consciousness merged with Xing Tian's.
I could feel the weight of the steel, the power of the hydraulic system, and the slight vibration of the ammunition chain.
Xingtian's six-barreled rotary cannon began to rotate.
The chainsaw sword's rotation speed soared to 12,000 revolutions per minute.
Zhang Yan's voice rang out in the shared channel of the three mechs.
There is only one word.
"kill."
The White Tiger and the Black Scorpion launched simultaneously.
Two figures entered the battlefield from the left and right flanks.
The white tiger's particle claws traced pale blue arcs in the moonlight, severing the forelimb of a hellhound with its first strike.
Xuanxie's particle cannon exploded with a series of blue flashes on the right flank, suppressing the three hellhounds and preventing them from advancing.
front--
The two cleavage-covered creatures charged at the same time.
Extremely fast.
It's at least twice as fast as the Hellhound.
Their blade-like arms left afterimages in the air, their intersecting cutting patterns weaving a dense, impenetrable web of death.
Xing Tian charged forward head-on.
The rotary cannon opened fire.
The tungsten-core bullet exploded in a shower of sparks on the surface of the lacerated creature, but did not penetrate—their bony outer shell was more resilient than the carapace of a hellhound, and the bullet only left a dent.
Zhang Yan didn't fight much.
The machine gun is for interference, not a killing move.
Xing Tian raised his chainsaw sword with his left arm and slashed down at the first cleaved creature's bladed arm.
A high-frequency oscillating chainsaw strikes a bone-like blade.
The sound of metal colliding with bone was so sharp it pierced the eardrum.
Sparks and fragments flew everywhere.
The chainsaw cut into the lacerator's blade arm.
One inch.
Two inches.
Three inches—
Disconnect.
The man with the split arm broke off at the elbow, flew out, hit the ground, and bounced twice.
But the second Cracked One had already circled around to Xing Tian's back.
Zhang Yan felt a violent vibration coming from the back armor—the blade arm was frantically cutting through Xing Tian's back armor.
[Xingtian - Back Armor Damage: 7%]
He did not turn around.
Xingtian's right shoulder armor plate snapped open, and a miniature guided missile was launched, striking the chest cavity of the second Split-Mouthed at a distance of less than two meters.
explosion.
Even at such close range, the shockwave caused Xing Tian to stagger.
But the ripped creature was blasted open with a hole the size of a washbasin.
Its legs were still moving mechanically, and the seam along the central axis of its body was completely ruptured in the explosion.
Dark red liquid gushed from the crack.
Zhang Yan manipulated Xing Tian to turn around, and the chainsaw sword swept horizontally.
A knife.
The upper and lower body of the person with the lacerations are separated.
He fell to the ground.
He turned back to face the first one—a cleavage creature with one arm missing, which was launching a frenzied attack with its remaining right arm.
The blade arm moves so fast that it leaves a buzzing sound as it cuts through the air.
Xing Tian used the chainsaw sword on his left arm to parry, while the rotary cannon on his right arm slammed into the Slit-Mouthed Man's abdomen.
All the bullets were unleashed.
Zero distance.
At this distance, the tungsten-core bullet finally penetrated the bone-like outer shell.
The man with the lacerations had his abdomen riddled with holes.
Its body began to tremble violently—the eye-like protrusions on its back opened to their maximum size, then quickly turned dark red.
Warning signs of impending self-destruction.
Zhang Yan reacted within 0.5 seconds.
Xing Tian kicked the man with the split mouth away.
At the same time, the shield module on the right arm deploys.
explosion.
The Rift-Breaking One exploded in mid-air, sending dark red energy fragments flying in all directions.
Xingtian's shield withstood the frontal impact.
The energy level dropped again.
[Xingtian - Energy Reserves: 64%]
The battle between the left and right flanks is also nearing its end.
The White Tiger used its particle claws to defeat three hellhounds, at the cost of reducing its energy consumption from 35% to 22%.
The Black Scorpion used its particle cannon and pincers to take down three on the right flank, reducing its energy from 100% to 81%.
Zhang Yan stood up from Xing Tian's cockpit and looked around the battlefield.
Eight corpses were scattered on the dark red open ground.
The battle lasted less than three minutes from start to finish.
But the cost is not small.
White Tiger 22%.
Xingtian: 64%.
Black scorpion 81%.
He walked to the edge of the cave entrance.
A low-frequency heartbeat came from deep within, making my feet go numb.
The opening is about ten meters in diameter, and the inner walls are covered with a dark red, membranous substance, resembling a giant esophagus.
Looking down, it was so dark you couldn't see anything.
Only those heartbeats, one after another.
Along with a gust of hot wind rising from the ground, carrying the smell of rust.
Zhang Yan squatted by the cave entrance and watched for a long time.
He took out his phone.
I sent Nie Qingcheng my third message of the day.
"Good night."
The reply came very quickly.
"It's not evening yet."
"Sent in advance."
"..."
"I'm afraid I'll be busy at night."
There was a pause over there for a few seconds.
"What are you going to do?"
Zhang Yan looked into the darkness of the cave entrance.
"Work overtime."
"...Zhang Yan."
"Um?"
"You promised me."
"I remember."
He put his phone away.
stand up.
Three mechs stood silently behind him.
Silver-white, deep blue, dark red.
Three colors reflected on the earth, which was dyed red by the energy of the ruins.
Zhang Yan turned around and took one last look at the jungle behind him.
The moon is rising through the gaps in the tree canopy.
It's very bright.
He thought of the moonlight on the balcony of the Jinghai villa, and the weight of Nie Qingcheng wrapped in a blanket leaning on his shoulder.
I thought of the phrase, "When we get back, let's go eat oden."
Then he absorbed all those thoughts into his mind and locked them away.
"White Tiger remains at the cave entrance to keep watch, in power-saving mode."
The white tiger lay down quietly, and the brightness of the electronic eye was reduced to the minimum.
"Xuanxie, Xingtian, come down with me."
He leaped into the darkness.
Behind them, two massive steel shadows followed closely.
Above the cave entrance, the moonlight was cut off.
Only the heartbeats, one after another, grew closer and closer in the endless darkness.