194: Chapter 194 Stop kneeling, demolish the city first.

Shi Yan was helped up by his personal guards. Blood streamed endlessly down his left cheek, and his yellow crystal prosthetic eye was nothing but a charred socket.

Just as he was about to reorganize his firepower, the hatch in front opened.

Su Xiaoqi jumped down.

Three times gravity pressed upon her. As she landed, her knees bent slightly, and her alloy boot soles stomped two pits into the wasteland.

She lifted her head, her twin tails swaying.

"Brother said he wants live captives."

"Then I won't eat people."

After saying this, she charged toward the nearest Crystal Rail Tank.

The tank driver had just crawled out of the broken hatch when he saw a girl just over 1.6 meters tall charge to the front of the tank.

He froze for a moment.

Su Xiaoqi clenched her fist.

Boom!

The crystal armor on the front of the vehicle was punched through.

She reached inside and hauled the Tier 5 driver out.

The driver's face was full of terror.

Su Xiaoqi looked at him earnestly.

"Are you edible?"

The driver was so scared he passed out on the spot.

Mio collapsed in the channel.

"Who taught her to interrogate like that?"

Blood Rose replied languidly.

"It's quite effective; his psychological defense has collapsed."

Jiang Yanxue also entered the fray.

She didn't charge the front; her black high ponytail was pressed behind her shoulder by the wind, and the Shadow Instant-Kill Blade sliced into the flank of the Crystal Rail Tank.

Whoever tried to run, she cut their legs.

Whoever tried to fire, she chopped their hands.

Blood Rose stood on the side platform of the Sea Scale, releasing a weakening succubus poison mist.

The pink mist pressed down on the remnants of the enforcement team.

But this time, the effect wasn't as exaggerated as before.

The filter layers on the crystal-armored warriors lit up with brown-gold light; the poison mist only slowed their movements slightly, without causing them to collapse directly.

Blood Rose's expression changed.

"Resistance is this high?"

She raised her hand to increase the output of her poison body.

The aphrodisiac fragrance mixed with the poison mist pressed down again, and several crystal-armored warriors finally began to sway, but they could still barely raise their guns.

Jiang Yanxue swept past from the side, slicing open the person's neck guard with one blade.

"Level 3 map, not used to it?"

Blood Rose gritted her teeth.

"Stop mocking me."

"I just haven't leveled up enough."

Jiang Yanxue sheathed her blade, her voice carrying a wild edge.

"Then level up faster."

"Don't hold us back."

Blood Rose stared at her back, not retorting.

For the first time, she truly felt that the poison body technique that allowed her to run rampant in the Level 2 map was starting to fall short here.

Shi Yan watched the twelve Crystal Rail Tanks being dismantled into scrap metal, and he finally panicked.

He pulled a brown-gold crystal core from his chest and shoved it directly into his exoskeleton's core slot.

"You lowly outsiders!"

"Meteor Crystal City will not let you go!"

The crystal core overloaded.

His exoskeleton swelled by a circle, and his broken left cheek was wrapped again by crystals.

He charged toward the direction where Chen Chen was, dragging a brown-gold tail flame behind him.

Shen Wanbing reminded them immediately.

"Crystal core overload."

"Energy is unstable."

"He wants to self-destruct."

Chen Chen walked out from the bottom of the fortress, holding only the sea-stabilizing needle in his hand.

Shi Yan rushed within a hundred meters, the crystal core in his chest already expanded to its limit.

"Die!"

Chen Chen raised his hand.

A twenty-five times Gravity Domain descended.

Shi Yan's knees smashed into the wasteland, and his crystal exoskeleton cracked on the spot.

He wanted to detonate the crystal core.

Chen Chen tapped his chest lightly with the sea-stabilizing needle.

Blue-gold patterns lit up.

The restless crystal core instantly went quiet.

Shi Yan froze in place, only heavy panting left in his mouth.

Chen Chen looked toward the back.

"Wanbing."

Shen Wanbing had already walked over with a data needle.

She wore a black coat over a white shirt, the collar slightly loose, her long black curly hair blown behind her shoulder by the wind.

She knelt down and stabbed the data needle into the chip slot on the back of Shi Yan's neck.

Shi Yan struggled.

"You dare to read Meteor Crystal City's tactical chip?!"

Chen Chen stepped on his wrist.

Crack.

The bone shattered.

"I dare to now."

Golden light swirled in Shen Wanbing's eyes as panel data unfolded rapidly.

At first, it was just the hunting ground route map.

Then, it was Meteor Crystal City's population records.

Going deeper, a set of Gray-White Mechanical Holy Court encryption protocols appeared.

Shen Wanbing's fingers stopped.

Jiang Jiuyou noticed the abnormality from the channel.

"What's the situation?"

Shen Wanbing forcibly peeled back the encryption layer.

A gray-white gear.

An inverted cross.

Mio's projection popped out suddenly.

"Gray-White Mechanical Holy Court!"

Chen Chen looked at Shi Yan.

The arrogance on Shi Yan's face finally shattered.

"You… how do you know about the Holy Court?"

Shen Wanbing continued reading.

"Meteor Crystal City is an outer resource agency point for the Gray-White Mechanical Holy Court on the Level 3 map."

"They collect high-purity crystal cores for the Mechanical Holy Court."

"The purpose is to carry the fluctuations of the Interstellar Fortress fragments."

She enlarged a task record.

[Target: Capture the holder of the first fragment fluctuation.]

[Priority: Extremely high.]

[Agency point: Meteor Crystal City.]

[Authorization: Enable city-state level cleansing when necessary.]

Mio's voice lowered.

"They set up a point in advance."

Jiang Jiuyou's face also darkened.

"In other words, as soon as we landed, we landed near their agency point."

Shen Wanxing shrank at the door of the carriage, hugging a blanket, her small face pale.

"This is too unlucky…"

Shen Wanbing glanced at her.

"It could also be that your luck is working in reverse."

Shen Wanxing was so aggrieved she almost cried.

"Sister, don't say that about me…"

Chen Chen raised his hand and rubbed her head.

"Don't cry."

"You'll be busy in a moment."

Shen Wanxing immediately stopped feeling aggrieved and went straight to being scared.

"Can I cry now?"

In the distance.

That Tier 5 peak giant vehicle finally stopped.

It was massive, with a brown-gold crystal flag standing on the roof.

After the flag unfurled, an elderly voice connected to the public channel.

"Outsiders."

"Release Shi Yan."

"Hand over the Interstellar Fortress fragments."

"Hand over the pseudo-artifact anchor."

"Meteor Crystal City can give you a chance to live as slaves."

The crowd in the bottom hold, which had just stabilized, became restless again.

Iron Wall picked up the loudspeaker.

"Shut up, all of you!"

"Whoever mistakes the word 'slave' for a 'way to live' again, I'll find them a way to die!"

Yi Chang quickly issued orders before the main control console.

"Lock down all the forced laborers in the bottom hold."

"Technical personnel return to the inner ring."

"Prepare to deploy the city defense turrets."

Jiang Jiuyou raised her hand to take over fire control.

"Chen Chen, Tier 5 peak vehicle."

"Disable it or blow it up?"

Chen Chen looked at the brown-gold crystal flag in the distance, then at the half-dead Shi Yan on the ground.

"Let it finish speaking first."

The elderly voice came again.

"You just crossed the boundary, energy is insufficient, shields are damaged."

"Stop pretending."

"Meteor Crystal City can tell."

Mio laughed in anger.

"It actually believed it?"

Copper Hammer was outside carrying a large piece of crystal armor, shouting excitedly.

"Lord! This shell is usable! A few more would be better!"

The elderly voice paused for a moment.

It seemed not to have expected that the engineers here were already coveting the materials.

Chen Chen raised his hand and turned off the camouflage shield.

The surface light screen of the Sea-Air Composite Fortress lit up again.

The three main weapon wells of the Sea Scale slowly rotated.

The Ghost Fortress's Void Annihilation Matrix warmed up.

The secondary cannons at the bottom lifted row by row.

The interface that was just smoking was casually patched with a temporary steel plate by Copper Hammer, and the smoke stopped.

Mio added a finishing blow in the channel.

"Pretending to be weak is over."

"Now we aren't even bothering to pretend."

The elderly voice changed tone.

"You…"

Chen Chen looked at Shen Wanxing.

Shen Wanxing shrank behind Shen Wanbing.

"Don't, right?"

Chen Chen patted her head.

"Get ready to loot the bodies."

"Tonight, we'll start by operating on this city."