bioinnovel Chapter 332, time to fix it!
Chapter 332, time to fix it!
Zhang Yan did not walk towards the guesthouse.
He walked in the opposite direction, turned into the port area, and headed south along the old railway tracks by the dock.
This area is an abandoned cargo terminal, with only a few scattered streetlights, most of which are not lit. It is open and spacious, with a wide view and hardened cement ground.
If you're going to fight, this place is better than the alley.
On the system map, Ito's signal is four kilometers away, his speed is stable, and the convoy is moving.
The last non-human henchman followed behind him, very close, as if they were sitting in the same car.
Zhang Yan stopped on an open space at the dock. To his left was the sea, to his right was a row of rusted shipping containers, and behind him was an escape route leading directly into the sea.
He reactivated the summoning command for the Black Scorpion. The White Tiger was set to emergency mode, ready to be summoned within one second.
Then he took out his phone and sent a message to Qin Xiao: "Don't worry about it, I'll handle it. If there's no follow-up news within half an hour, have the military intelligence department closely monitor the situation inside Yokosuka base."
Qin Xiao replied with only one word: "Receive."
He glanced at the voice message Nie Qingcheng had sent earlier and pressed play.
Her voice came through the earphones, very soft, sleepy but still awake.
"...Don't stay up too late, go to sleep after you're done."
He said five words, then paused for a second or two, as if hesitating whether to say anything more, but in the end he didn't say anything and the voice message ended.
Zhang Yan took off his earphones, silenced his phone, and put it in his inside pocket.
On the system map, it's two kilometers.
The convoy stopped.
Then the signal from the non-human subordinate got out of the car and started walking.
It moves very fast, far exceeding the speed of a normal human.
Ito's signal remained in the car and did not move.
Zhang Yan stood still, facing north.
The sea breeze blew from behind, making the hem of his coat flutter.
A minute later, he heard a sound.
It wasn't footsteps.
It's a low-pitched, buzzing vibration, like a large transformer running, with a very low frequency; you can feel your bones resonating along with it.
That thing appeared at the edge of the container area.
Zhang Yan paused when he saw it.
It is not humanoid.
The first two are humanoid, but this one is not.
It is at least twice the size of the previous two, nearly three meters tall, and its shape is more like an upright lizard.
Its forelimbs are thick and strong, its hind limbs are bent and covered with dense dark armor plates, and a row of serrated bone spurs stand upright on its back.
Its head is flat, with no obvious eye sockets; instead, its entire face emits a dark red glow, like a mask that has been set on fire.
A system evaluation popped up.
Grade A.
Zhang Yan's judgment was proven correct—the strongest one Ito kept by his side was not B+, but A-rank.
It did not attack immediately.
Standing there, the dark red light on his face flickered slowly, as if scanning.
Zhang Yan didn't move. He was calculating.
Grade A, its physical strength far exceeds that of the previous B+.
The Thousand-Arm's close-combat purification strategy was no longer viable; his physical body couldn't withstand a direct impact from an A-level opponent.
We must use mechs.
But he didn’t summon it immediately, because Ito was still in the car 400 meters behind it.
If he summons the White Tiger now, Ito might see it and turn tail and run.
Ito is a military commander; he won't stay put after seeing his strongest subordinates get crushed.
Zhang Yan needs to deal with this A-level issue first. Quickly.
He spread out the Thousand-Machine Arm with his right hand, grasped the Heart of Heavenly Craftsmanship with his left hand, and placed his fingers on the trigger position of the purification pulse.
The A-grade lizard suddenly moved.
The speed is unreasonably fast.
Standing three meters tall and weighing at least two tons, his explosive power at the start is like a spring-loaded knife.
As it pounced, cracks appeared in the ground, and concrete fragments flew everywhere.
Zhang Yan rolled to the left, summoning the Black Scorpion at the same time.
The black scorpion sprang out of the storage space, directly blocking him and the lizard, and the hydraulic clamps clamped down on them.
The lizard's forepaws collided with the black scorpion's pincers, making a sound like two steel plates hitting each other.
The black scorpion was pushed back a meter, its limbs carving grooves in the cement ground.
The power of A-level is indeed on a different level.
Zhang Yan retreated fifteen meters away and directed the Black Scorpion to engage in combat.
The Black Scorpion's advantage lies not in strength, but in agility and its venomous stinger.
Its eight segments attack in alternating shifts, while its particle cannon fires intermittently, not aiming to inflict damage, but only to control its range of movement.
The lizard reacted quickly, dodging each shot from the particle cannon by sidestepping the core, with only the edge plates of its armor being shattered.
Then it did one thing—it opened its mouth.
Zhang Yan's pupils contracted, and the black scorpion shifted sharply to the side.
A dark red energy beam shot out from the lizard's mouth, nearly half a meter in diameter, sweeping across the spot where the black scorpion had just been, and slicing the shipping container more than ten meters behind it in two.
The edges of the molten metal emitted a dazzling orange-red light.
Long-range firepower.
Zhang Yan immediately changed his strategy.
The Black Scorpion cannot withstand A-level attacks alone—it lacks sufficient energy shields to withstand this level of damage, and dragging it out will only result in it being worn down.
He made a decision.
"White Tiger".
The white tiger leaped out of the storage space.
The moment it landed, the dock floor trembled, and the sound of steel colliding with cement drowned out the sea breeze.
The lizard's face flashed with light—it sensed a new threat.
Without pausing, the white tiger cut in from the side, its particle claws striking the lizard's hind legs.
The lizard turned to block, its forepaws colliding with the particle claws, and the burst of energy illuminated the surroundings as if it were daytime.
Taking advantage of the opening, the black scorpion circled around to the lizard's back from the other side, its venomous tail barb precisely piercing the gap between the spines on the lizard's back.
Enraged, the lizard spun around, its tail sweeping across, sending the black scorpion flying.
The black scorpion tumbled in the air, and when it landed, three of its limbs broke off. It rolled to its side on the ground and barely managed to stay upright.
But the poison begins to take effect at the site where the stinger was inserted.
Black liquid seeped from the crevice, and the lizard's movements became slightly sluggish.
The white tiger seized the moment, its particle claws cutting into the lizard's shoulder joint at full power.
This time the cut was deep, penetrating two layers of armor and revealing the dark red tissue inside.
The lizard opened its mouth again—
Zhang Yan manipulated the white tiger to dodge to the side a second before the energy ray was emitted.
The ray grazed the white tiger's shoulder armor, completely scorching the area ten meters behind it into charred earth.
As it dodged, the white tiger's jaw collided head-on with the lizard's head, the physical impact forcefully turning the lizard's head ninety degrees.
Zhang Yan didn't give it a chance to recover.
The white tiger pounced, its particle claws locking onto the lizard's shoulders, its hind legs pushing off the ground, pressing down with its full weight.
The lizard struggled, its strength still astonishing, while the white tiger's forelimb hydraulic system issued an overload alarm.
Zhang Yan rushed up from behind, jumped onto the lizard's back, and climbed upwards on the bone spurs, with the Heart of Heavenly Craftsmanship already fully activated in his hand.
He found the crevice where the black scorpion's stinger had pierced—the only spot not covered by armor plates.
The Heart of Heaven's Craftsmanship was pressed on.
Full-power purification pulse.
The lizard's body trembled violently, emitting a sickening metallic, twisting sound, and the dark red light on its face flickered wildly.
It tried to shake off Zhang Yan on its back, but the white tiger held its shoulder firmly, and the black scorpion dragged its broken body over and locked its tail with its remaining pincers.
Eight seconds. Ten seconds. Fifteen seconds.
It takes longer than the B+ one.
Twenty seconds.
The lizard's dark red glow finally began to fade.
It resembles a deflated balloon, shrinking in size, with its scales falling off in pieces.
Twenty-five seconds.
ended.
System notification: The absorption of the Heavenly Craftsman's Heart's energy is complete, with a completeness increase of 1.2%, currently at 97.6%.
Zhang Yan jumped off the lizard's remains, his knees buckling as he landed—the strain on his body was considerable.
He glanced at his palm; the heat from the Heart of Heaven had turned a large area of his skin red, but there was no burn.
He took the black scorpion back.
Three limbs are broken; they need to be repaired when I get back.
The white tiger retracted into its storage space.
The dock was in a mess.
The container was cut into pieces, and the ground was covered with cracks and scorch marks.
Zhang Yan looked up and gazed northward.
On the system map, Ito's signal was 400 meters away, and the car was still parked.
But he was no longer alone.
The heat map showed that Ito's body temperature was rising rapidly—at least eight degrees higher than normal.
His entire body is changing.
The mark between the eyebrows has been fully activated.