29: Chapter 29: First kill in the entire region, obtaining the unique title!

Chen Chen's right hand pulled out a high-explosive ammunition module from the inside of his tactical vest, plunging his entire arm into the Tyrant's unclosed abdominal rift.

Scalding internal tissue squeezed his forearm, sharp teeth sliced through his tactical gloves, and fresh blood poured out mixed with dark purple slime.

He shoved the explosives into the deepest part.

His fingertips touched a hard, violently pulsating spherical mass.

The core.

He withdrew his arm.

With his left hand, Chen Chen pulled out the Armor-Piercing Military Dagger from his leg strap. In the final fractions of a second of freefall, he slammed the blade deep into the Tyrant's calcified carapace.

The blade sank into the flesh, and most of the downward momentum was dissipated.

Using this pivot point, Chen Chen swung away, his body tracing an arc in the air as he escaped the Tyrant's attack range.

He landed.

Knees bent, one hand braced against the ground, he rolled to shed the impact.

The Tyrant's rift finally closed completely, and several remaining arms swung frantically toward Chen Chen.

Chen Chen drew the silenced pistol from his waist.

Three shots.

"Puh."

"Puh."

"Puh."

Three 9mm rounds passed through the gaps in the Tyrant's body, accurately hitting the detonator of the ammunition module tucked next to the core.

A muffled explosion echoed from within the Tyrant's body.

It wasn't the kind of external explosion that blew a hole outward.

It was an implosion that expanded, tore, and pulverized from the deepest, most fragile parts of the internal organs.

The Tyrant's body first swelled up like an inflated ball of flesh. Then—

Boom!

Dark purple flesh burst from the abdomen, spraying bone fragments and internal organs across every inch of the ground within a thirty-meter radius.

The Rank 2 Evolution Core was directly shattered by the shockwave of the high-explosive ammunition. The residual energy turned into a visible purple shockwave, kicking up a circle of waist-high dust.

The Tyrant wasn't completely dead.

The mountain of flesh, having lost its core, was still moving.

Its remaining arms lashed out wildly at the ground, snapping bridge piers.

An entire section of the concrete bridge deck collapsed, with rebar and rubble falling like rain.

Chen Chen pressed his intercom: "Run it over."

Three kilometers away.

Shen Wanxing's hands were still shaking when she heard those words, but she did something she hadn't even expected of herself—she let go of the heavy machine gun controls, rushed to the driver's seat, and turned the key.

The roar of the C-rank turbocharged engine shook the entire highway.

The eleven-ton mobile heavy fortress catapulted forward.

The B-rank self-healing tires gripped the road, and the speed broke one hundred and twenty within eight seconds.

The three-kilometer distance was swallowed up completely.

The reinforced heavy serrated bull bar, carrying eleven tons of mass at a speed of one hundred and forty kilometers per hour, sliced into the Tyrant's ruptured abdominal wound.

Steel bit into flesh.

The serrated edges ground through the remaining bone armor. The armored vehicle's body pierced through the Tyrant's interior, completely tearing the Tyrant-class monster in half and pinning it into the ruins.

The wheels rolled over the Tyrant's remains, and shredded meat was squeezed out from both sides of the chassis.

The RV surged forward more than twenty meters before stopping, the tires dragging two deep black brake marks onto the road.

It went quiet.

The wind blew through the wreckage of the abandoned overpass, kicking up dust and a foul stench.

Shen Wanxing slumped over the steering wheel, her strength completely spent.

The system notification sound exploded in everyone's minds.

[Tyrant-class monster killed: Suture Tyrant (Rank 2 Fringe)!]

[Regional First Kill!]

Immediately following that, a dark-gold server-wide announcement forced its way onto the retinas of all 860,000 players in District 069.

[Server Announcement: Congratulations to player 'Chen Chen' for completing the first Tyrant-class monster kill in District 069! Combat power value has significantly refreshed the regional rankings!]

[Chen Chen's level has increased by two, reaching Lv.7!]

[Obtained Unique Title: Tyrant Terminator—Exerts bloodline pressure on all Rank 1 and below monsters, weakening all enemy attributes by 10%.]

Chen Chen walked back to the RV.

His tactical vest was covered in dark purple blood and his own blood. His right forearm had three gashes from the sharp teeth; the bone wasn't damaged, but the flesh was torn open.

He took out a roll of hemostatic bandage, bit one end with his teeth, and wrapped it tight in a few quick motions.

"Loot the corpse."

Shen Wanxing walked to the Tyrant's remains in her high heels.

In the center of that pile of shredded meat, a golden orb of light was suspended in mid-air, its brilliance so intense it was hard to keep one's eyes open.

She pressed her hand onto it.

[Lucky Critical] triggered.

[Killing Feast] took effect simultaneously—fixed drop items +1.

A gold-and-purple pillar of light shot into the sky, dyeing half the heavens in flowing gold.

System notifications popped out one after another, so dense they formed a continuous line.

[B-rank RV External Armor Blueprint—Triggered reward advancement probability! Obtained A-rank RV External Armor Blueprint *1!]

[Rank 2 Mutation Core—Triggered double reward probability! Obtained *2!]

[Item: Traction Chain—Triggered reward advancement probability! Obtained Spatial Traction Chain *1!]

[Unique Item: Spatial Traction Chain—Can forcibly drag a designated target within a 3-meter range, cooldown time 24 hours.]

Shen Wanxing's legs went weak, and she plopped onto the ground.

She looked down at the chain in her palm that glowed with a faint blue light, her lips trembling.

The regional chat channel.

There was a dead silence for five full seconds.

Then it exploded.

"Tyrant-class??? Fucking Tyrant-class! The game only started three days ago!"

"I can't even beat elite monsters, and this guy is skipping levels to kill a Tyrant? A solo player? Is he really a solo player??"

"What kind of vehicle is Chen Chen driving?! A nuclear-powered aircraft carrier?!"

"The rankings have refreshed! Look! Chen Chen jumped straight from second to first! He stepped right over Iron Wall from the military!"

The speed at which the channel was being spammed was so fast it was impossible to read.

Then, a message pinned by the system appeared.

[Iron Wall (North China Military Region 7th Mechanized Infantry Brigade): Brother Chen Chen, the military shelters always have their doors open for you. Humanity needs a sharp blade like you. Hope for a reply.]

Before anyone could even comment on this message.

A second pinned message followed immediately.

[Jiang Jiuyou (Jiang Consortium · Hidden Department): Chen Chen, join me. The Vice-Captain position, the Jiang Consortium's core resources—even I myself, can be your bargaining chips.]

The regional channel fell into dead silence again for three seconds.

Then it went completely insane.

"Who is Jiang Jiuyou? Jiang Consortium Hidden Department? That woman rumored to be even more ruthless than Shen Wanbing?!"

"Holy shit, 'even I myself'—what does that mean? Sister, you're saying this in front of the whole server, does your family know?"

"She's eighth on the rankings, brothers! This woman herself is eighth! And she's actually throwing herself at a solo player!"

"What kind of incense did this kid Chen Chen burn in his past life???"

Inside the vehicle.

Shen Wanxing, Shen Wanbing, and Jiang Yanxue stared at that message in the channel with varying expressions.

Shen Wanxing swiped down on the virtual panel, swiping very hard.

Shen Wanbing closed the channel expressionlessly.

Jiang Yanxue leaned against the armored wall, wiping blood stains off her repeating crossbow with a cloth. She didn't look up, but her movements in cleaning the weapon were noticeably heavier.