129: Commander Gao, S-rank talent Blazing Flame

The Calamity Beast, specifically the Corrupted Beast, is one of the three major Calamity Beasts currently.

The ability of this Calamity Beast is too obvious: it Corrupts all matter.

The most terrifying thing is not just corruption, but also Regression! It Regresses all non-living forms of matter.

The places where Corrupted Beasts are most frequently born are high-tech factories, military bases, water conservancy facilities, power facilities, and so on.

In just one day, a Level 1 Corrupted Beast can completely paralyze these areas.

And here, there was actually a Corrupted Beast. Although Tang Ping had no particular impression of this place, he knew that there didn't seem to be any high-tech industries here, nor any large-scale water conservancy or power facilities. Simple thermal power generation and small factories were highly unlikely to give birth to a Corrupted Beast.

The only possibility, then, was that there was a Military Region Base nearby, and within that base, there were likely large-scale destructive weapons like missiles.

Only in such a situation would there be a very high probability of a Corrupted Beast appearing nearby.

Moreover, Tang Ping could clearly feel that this Corrupted Beast was very strong.

These Calamity Beasts grow extremely fast, and if they devour players, their growth rate will skyrocket like a rocket.

This thing can be said to be the bane of players; it seems to have been born just to devour them.

However, when players kill Calamity Beasts, at the same level, except for those with S-rank Talent or higher, they can directly gain one-tenth of the experience points!

Tang Ping felt that this Calamity Beast was very likely a Level Four Calamity Beast.

If he killed it, his Flame Blaze Talent could directly gain ten thousand experience points!

Fiery red lotuses bloomed in his pupils, emitting an aura that firmly resisted the external corruption power, as if casting an indestructible wall.

He followed the source and hadn't gone far when he heard the sound of battle.

It was gunshots!

This was the first time he had heard gunshots in the Doomsday Game...

"Quick! Concentrate fire!" a man in military uniform shouted from the front, casually loading another shell into a rocket launcher, but when he fired it, it didn't explode.

"Damn it! Another dud! What kind of monster is this?!" The man's face was grim. He fired a few more shells, and only the fourth one successfully exploded, but for that monster...

"Regiment Commander! This is bad, many of our brothers' guns are unusable!" a soldier ran over anxiously.

"Regiment Commander! More and more shells are duds! At this rate, our firepower won't be enough!"

"Regiment Commander! The Corrupted Beast has broken through the first line of defense! All our firearms will be subjected to even more severe Regression effects!"

"Regiment Commander! This is bad, the electronic information equipment inside the base has stopped working! The missiles have completely lost their launch capability!"

"Damn it! Damn it!" The Regiment Commander slammed his fist on the ground, roaring in anger, "Damn it! What is this thing! Why is it like this!"

The surrounding soldiers looked mournful; they were already powerless.

The Regiment Commander's eyes were bloodshot as he stared fixedly at the huge, pulsating mass of rotten flesh a kilometer away.

Wherever the mass of flesh passed, everything decayed and Regressed, as if decades had passed in an instant.

What was that thing?

A Calamity Beast?

"A Calamity Beast..." Regiment Commander Gao slumped to the ground powerlessly, smiling bitterly, "Is this the Calamity, this is the Calamity!"

When the Doomsday Game descended, they were ordered to establish an official Survivor Base and rescue as many survivors as possible, but the Infected changed too quickly. In just a few days, they were completely transformed. The army suffered heavy losses in rescue operations, and soon after, the order was changed: they were to guard the base well and simply receive incoming survivors.

However, just as everyone breathed a sigh of relief, a strange creature abruptly appeared.

It appeared in the laser weapon underground research institute. As soon as it emerged, its terrifying, shudder-inducing power of corruption and Regression, like the power of a god, instantly caused the entire research institute to collapse!

It was also very strong, despairingly strong, almost impossible to kill with firepower. As long as a piece of its flesh remained, it could make a comeback in less than two days.

Through repeated confrontations, the Military Region Base grew weaker and weaker, but the monster grew stronger and stronger.

At this moment, this monster, the Calamity Beast – Corrupted Beast, was only a thousand meters away from the last missile silo.

Even though it hadn't arrived yet, the missile silo was already waste (useless).

Was there still a need to guard it?

"Why? Why is it like this?"

"Doomsday Game... Haha, is this a joke the gods are playing on us humans?"

Regiment Commander Gao looked up at the clear sky. Just half a month ago, the sky was covered in sandstorms. Although the sandstorms had disappeared now, he had a premonition that the world was becoming increasingly dangerous and abnormal.

For example, for some unknown reason, survivors in the base suddenly turned into Infected.

To this day, they still haven't figured out how people who had never been in contact with Infected, and were even perfectly healthy a second ago, suddenly became Infected.

"Regiment Commander, do we need to evacuate?" someone asked.

"Evacuate, everyone evacuate!" Regiment Commander Gao stood up, looking at the missile silo, his bloodshot eyes filled with determination: "Everyone, you all retreat!"

The soldiers nearby seemed to notice something was off: "Regiment Commander, what about you?"

Regiment Commander Gao stared fixedly at the three-story-high mass of flesh: "Damn it, if I can't kill it, I refuse to believe I can't kill this thing! All of you, get out of here quickly!"

"Regiment Commander, we can't defeat this Calamity Beast, come with us!" a soldier urged anxiously.

"Yes, Regiment Commander, the base can't be without you!"

"Can't defeat it, hahaha!" Regiment Commander Gao's face was filled with madness as he pointed at the missile silo: "Aren't there still missiles in there!"

The surrounding soldiers fell into a deathly silence, looking at their Regiment Commander with horror.

"Regiment, Regiment Commander, are you going to..."

"All of you get out, hurry up! If you get blown up later, I won't be responsible!"

"No, you can't, Regiment Commander, let me do it, I'll go!"

"You go my ass! Do you think a missile is a firecracker?! No one can do it except me with my Exploding Flame Talent!" Regiment Commander Gao cursed and grumbled as he headed towards the missile silo, "All of you, hurry up and go!"

"Regiment Commander!"

All the soldiers clenched their fists and saluted Regiment Commander Gao, "Regiment Commander, we will guard the base well!"

"Damn it!" A leather boot came flying over, "Stop dawdling, aren't you going to leave, waiting to be blown up?!"

"Hurry up and go, we still have to guard the base."

"Damn it, why has the world become like this!"

"Who, who created the Doomsday Game, is it the gods! Damn it, the gods really deserve to die!"

Regiment Commander Gao stood outside a hypersonic missile. Inside this missile was a tactical nuclear warhead. Once it exploded, all buildings within a two-kilometer radius would be instantly destroyed. He refused to believe he couldn't kill that mass of rotten flesh.

His S-rank Exploding Flame Talent began to envelop the tactical nuclear warhead. Yes, he had an S-rank Talent, but what good was it? s-rank experience stones were too rare. He was already very lucky to reach Level 3, and to reach Level 4, on par with that Corrupted Beast, he needed a thousand s-rank experience stones... As for relying on his superiors, he was just a small Regiment Commander... he wasn't qualified. He only reached Level 3 because his teacher fought hard for it...

Regiment Commander Gao sat quietly on the missile. He had known for a long time, ever since the Corrupted Beast appeared, that they had been abandoned. After all, compared to those places and those people, what was his place here?

But he was unwilling to give up on himself. Wasn't it just a Corrupted Beast? What was so great about it!

Today, he would kill it for those people to see!

An indigo flame erupted from Regiment Commander Gao. It looked like a very gentle flame, but those who knew it well understood how terrifying this flame was.

The indigo flame gradually enveloped the tactical nuclear warhead.