bioinnovel Chapter 281 Facing the Challenge!
Chapter 281 Facing the Challenge!
Zhou Jian was the first to come to his senses.
He spent many years living on the edge overseas, developing a mental fortitude far beyond that of ordinary people.
After a brief moment of extreme shock, he quickly regained his composure.
Although they didn't know what kind of amazing skills this young man possessed, the fact that he was the boss's man and had just saved their lives was enough.
"Evacuate! Everyone, take the geological data and spare sample boxes, and immediately evacuate with these... mechs!"
Zhou Jian roared and grabbed the teammate who was still in a daze next to him.
For the exploration team, although the three mechanical tigers in front of them did not directly show hostility, the oppressive feeling of steel designed purely for killing was still too much for them to bear.
The Tiger mechs automatically formed a triangular defensive formation around them, and without any prompting, their cold mechanical eyes guided them toward the outside of the mine.
At the last moment before leaving the natural bend, Zhou Jian couldn't help but look back.
He saw the young man named Zhang Yan standing alone in front of the dark rift leading to the center of the earth.
It is lonely and desolate, like an insurmountable mountain pass.
"Please don't die here..."
Zhou Jian silently recited a phrase to himself, then turned around and followed the team to retreat as quickly as possible.
The sound of the exploration team's footsteps completely disappeared outside the cave.
The darkness before Zhang Yan was finally shattered completely.
The first batch of monsters finally broke out of the rift.
This is an extremely deformed creature. It is no bigger than a domestic dog, but its body is covered with a keratinous layer similar to a carapace. Its six sharp, razor-like limbs make a screeching sound as they scratch the rocks.
Most disturbingly, their heads still retain the outline of some kind of primate, except that the facial features have been completely melted away, leaving only a mouthpart that constantly oozes corrosive mucus.
There are too many.
Densely packed, like ants swarming out of their nest, they instantly filled the ground and stone walls dozens of meters ahead, rapidly covering Zhang Yan like a black carpet.
"The low-level cannon fodder produced by the Ruins are always so disgusting."
Zhang Yan raised his right hand and quickly tapped on the miniature tactical panel.
This was accompanied by enormous spatial energy fluctuations.
A massive, dark red mech, standing six meters tall, and a giant, silver-white mechanical tiger simultaneously crashed onto the open ground!
Heavy firepower suppression platform – "Xingtian".
Ultimate hunting form – "White Tiger".
The moment the two enormous machines appeared, the space inside the mine suddenly became extremely narrow.
Xing Tian's heavy armor almost scraped against the rock wall at the top of the mine, while Bai Hu stood like a small silver hill in front of Zhang Yan.
Instead of entering the relatively flexible White Tiger cockpit, Zhang Yan issued the purest destruction command directly through the neural communication system.
"Clear the area."
"Boom—!"
Xing Tian's terrifying six-barreled rotary cannon on his right arm instantly completed its preheating, and the dark red barrels spun into a phantom.
The next second, a blinding orange-red metallic storm, accompanied by an ear-splitting roar, poured directly into the dense black wave in front.
Under such firepower, equivalent to that of a shipborne close-in weapon system, no flesh and blood body can remain intact.
The carapace mutants didn't even have time to scream before they were instantly shredded into blood mist and fragments by the 3,000-degree Celsius tracer warhead the moment they came into contact with the fire line.
The spent cartridge cases poured out of Xingtian's machine gun ejection port like a golden waterfall, crashing to the ground with crisp, dense thuds.
In just three seconds, the ground in front of them was covered with a thick layer of severed limbs.
But there are too many monsters.
The monsters in the back row, stepping over the corpses of their comrades and braving the barrage of machine gun fire, continued to climb up the walls and the cave ceiling on both sides, attempting to cross the line of fire.
"Whoosh!"
The white tiger moved.
Its enormous silver body moved with a graceful agility in the narrow space without seeming out of place.
Instead of using the electromagnetic railgun on its back, it transformed into a meat grinder with its polymer particle claws fully extended.
Any monster attempting to cross the defensive line from the sides or top will be instantly sliced into pieces by the giant claws wielding blue particle light blades once it enters within five meters of the White Tiger.
With each swing of its claws, the white tiger left a deadly blue trail in the dimly lit mine.
The roar of machine guns, the tearing sound of flesh being shredded, the screams of monsters.
In less than a minute, the entire mine was completely transformed into a slaughterhouse of carnage.
Zhang Yan stood behind the two mechs, his eyes showing no emotion.
He used the detectors of Xing Tian and Bai Hu to keep a close eye on the rift from which monsters were still pouring out.
Something's not right.
Zhang Yan keenly sensed the anomaly.
Although these low-ranking cannon fodder lack fear and pain, their behavior patterns exhibit a clear direction.
They weren't out foraging for food, but rather... trying to escape.
It was as if they were being driven by something even more terrifying.
"Thump—"
"Thump—"
An extremely heavy impact came from deep underground.
Each time the sound rang out, the entire mountain shook violently.
Large chunks of rock began to fall from the cave ceiling, and spiderweb-like cracks appeared on the ground of the once spacious sulfur mine transfer area.
On the holographic panel, the environmental detector's warning turned a glaring deep red.
"High-dimensional energy reactions continue to surge... 91% similarity... rating surpasses A grade."
The system's mechanical voice rang in Zhang Yan's ears.
The cracks are collapsing.
A thick, dark red tentacle, as thick as a tree that would take several people to encircle, suddenly emerged from the crack!
The tentacles were covered with tumor-like heart-like structures, and with each beat, they sprayed out large amounts of corrosive, high-pressure concentrated acid.
Those low-level carapace monsters that couldn't dodge in time would instantly melt into a puddle of green water if they came into contact with just a drop of concentrated acid.
Then came the second one, the third one...
It is forcibly pushing aside the barriers of the strata, trying to break through the surface!
"Boom!"
A rock weighing several tons crashed down from the cave ceiling, striking Xing Tian directly on his left shoulder armor.
Although no substantial damage was caused, Zhang Yan was well aware that the terrain here was on the verge of complete collapse.
If that behemoth were to emerge from the ground, the narrow mine shaft would not only restrict the mechs' movement, but could also cause the entire mountain to collapse, burying them alive hundreds of meters below the rock.
Even if the mecha could withstand the pressure equivalent to the movement of the earth's crust, Zhang Yan's slightly enhanced flesh and blood body would have no chance of escaping unscathed.
"retreat."
Zhang Yan made a decisive decision.
Without the slightest hesitation.
With a slight twitch of his fingertips, Xing Tian, who was unleashing a torrent of firepower, was instantly absorbed into the system space.
At the same time, Zhang Yan bent his legs, his miniature energy skeleton exploded, and he leaped high into the air, landing with extreme precision in the tactical mounting position reserved above the broad neck and back of the white tiger.
"Switch to driving mode and sprint at full speed!"
The white tiger let out a low, metallic roar.
Four thick mechanical legs unleashed high-frequency hydraulic power that was difficult to detect with the naked eye. It didn't even turn around, but instead did a backward roll and forcefully propelled itself out of the cave using the angle of the cave wall.
"roar!!!"
Behind them, the terrifying behemoth, whose form had not yet been fully revealed, let out a roar that shattered the rock wall. Several tentacles lashed out like whips at the spot where the white tiger had just stood, carving deep trenches into the rock strata.
The white tiger, like a silver meteor flying close to the ground, carried Zhang Yan at breakneck speed toward the outside of the mine.
The mountain wall behind them collapsed inch by inch, and the low-level monster horde, which was like a tsunami, was no longer suppressed by the mechs. Driven by the giant beasts, it surged and gushed towards the cave entrance like a flood breaking its banks.