53: Chapter 53 Instantly Kills the Mother Fungus, A Hundred Cars Surround and Kill Her!

"Brother Chen Chen! Come look quickly!"

Shen Wanxing's crisp voice came from beside the elite monster's corpse.

She crouched on the ground, her small hands rummaging through a pile of loot emitting a faint purple glow, like a little squirrel searching for treasure in a pile of pinecones.

After finding the metallic box that looked the most valuable, she raised her fair, tender little hand and slapped it.

"Explode for me!"

A golden-purple radiance shot into the sky, brighter than all the fluorescent fungi on the cave walls combined.

[Advanced Ammunition Selection Module Box — Tenfold Reward Triggered! Obtained Advanced Ammunition Selection Module Box * 10!]

Chen Chen probed the box with his consciousness.

A virtual list popped up, listing dozens of options ranging from 9mm pistol rounds to 20mm anti-materiel sniper rifle ammunition.

He locked onto the model he craved the most.

"Materialize: 12.7mm Armor-Piercing Incendiary Rounds."

[Each module can materialize 500 rounds. Confirm?]

"Confirm all."

A white light flashed.

Five thousand sinister bullets, made entirely of brass with red-painted tips, were swept into the independent space of the [silver-grade storage ring] like a metallic torrent.

His fear of insufficient firepower was completely cured.

...

In the deepest part of the underground cave was a giant cavern comparable in size to a football field.

In the center of the cavern, a behemoth over thirty meters in diameter, formed by the entanglement of countless mycelia and flesh tissues, was slowly writhing.

The Mutant Fungus Mother.

From its surface, over a hundred tentacles as thick as buckets extended, dancing wildly in the air like giant pythons, whipping the top of the cavern until gravel flew everywhere.

Opposite the Fungus Mother, a joint elite group composed of over a hundred survivors was being driven into a desperate situation.

They wore two types of standard equipment—one was leather armor engraved with a falcon emblem, the Southern Border Hunter Guild; the other was chainmail embroidered with a cross holy emblem, the Holy Light Church.

But at this moment, these so-called "elites" were in a wretched state.

Every time a tentacle swept across, it would send three or five players flying, crashing into the cave walls and turning into a puddle of flesh.

Their formation had long since collapsed.

Chen Chen walked out of the dark passage with the three women and one little girl.

Ignoring the guild players caught in the bitter battle, he walked straight toward the center of the battlefield.

"Stop! Ahead is the BOSS's core attack range! You're just going to your death if you go over there!"

A Holy Light Church Paladin holding a knight sword, with a holy emblem still glowing on his chest, saw Chen Chen and shouted sternly.

Chen Chen did not stop his pace.

He simply raised his right hand and tapped his index finger lightly in the air.

[Absolute Control: Gravity Field].

Boom—

A formless, immense force heavy enough to crush steel descended with a roar!

With Chen Chen as the center, the physical rules within a ten-meter radius were forcibly rewritten.

Those dozen or so bucket-thick, tough tentacles that were whipping toward him couldn't even hold on for half a second under the crushing weight of tenfold gravity.

"Splat—"

It was like a tomato being crushed by a giant's foot.

The dozen tentacles were pressed into a puddle of flesh and liquid all over the ground!

The whole scene fell into dead silence.

The Paladin who had just been shouting loudly had his mouth open wide enough to fit an egg, and the knight sword in his hand dropped to the ground with a "clatter."

All the guild players who had been fighting bitterly stopped their movements, looking at the man walking toward the Fungus Mother with a leisurely stroll, as if looking at a god.

Chen Chen drew the Armor-Piercing Military Dagger from his outer thigh.

His 38-point Agility attribute exploded fully, and his entire body left a blurry afterimage.

Three strikes.

Only three strikes!

The first strike, following the gaps in the Fungus Mother's carapace, severed the main fascia of energy transmission.

The second strike, the military spike plunged into the core, shredding its nerve center.

The third strike, he exerted force from his wrist, using the momentum to perform a backflip, avoiding the energy explosion before the Fungus Mother's death.

The entire process was fluid, violent, and elegant.

Less than ten seconds.

That Mutant Fungus Mother, which over a hundred guild elites couldn't break the defense of after half an hour, saw its massive body collapse with a roar.

Chen Chen landed steadily, plunged one hand into the still-twitching flesh of the Fungus Mother, and forcibly extracted a basketball-sized, giant "Fungus Heart" that emitted rich life energy and pulsed like a heart.

"Sir... this Fungus Heart is the target item for our joint mission between the Southern Border Hunter Guild and the Holy Light Church."

A middle-aged man wearing falcon leather armor walked over; he was the vice-president of the Hunter Guild.

His eyes were fixed on the Fungus Heart in Chen Chen's hand, his greed almost overflowing.

"How about this, you hand over the Fungus Heart to our guild for 'unified distribution,' and afterwards, we will definitely have a generous reward."

While speaking polite words, he quietly made a gesture.

The dozens of surviving guild members surrounded them without making a sound, faintly sealing off Chen Chen's retreat.

Chen Chen didn't even pay attention to him.

He turned around and tossed the Fungus Heart to Su Xiaoqi behind him.

"Snack."

Su Xiaoqi's eyes lit up, and she took a bite with an "Awoo."

"Crunch, crunch."

The crisp chewing sound seemed exceptionally harsh in the silent cavern.

The Hunter Guild vice-president's face instantly turned the color of a pig's liver.

"You... you are provoking our two great guilds!"

The dozens of guild members behind him angrily drew the firearms at their waists.

Black, hollow gun barrels were all aimed at Chen Chen.

Chen Chen finally turned his head and coldly swept a glance at that vice-president.

He didn't speak.

But a formless, tangible killing intent erupted from his body with a roar!

The dozen or so guild elites in the front row holding guns suddenly stiffened.

The system-determined "Stiff State" made them lose even the strength to pull the trigger.

Chen Chen snorted coldly.

Taking the grease-smeared Su Xiaoqi and the three women who had been watching the show from beginning to end, he departed calmly under the gaze of dozens of gun barrels.

It wasn't until their backs disappeared into the darkness of the passage that those guild elites recovered from their stiffness, collapsing to the ground one by one, soaked in cold sweat.

...

Returning to the surface.

The Pig-Faced Butcher looked at the mission scroll Chen Chen handed over, and the two balls of ghost fire in his hollow eye sockets flickered violently.

Using his fan-like large hand, he pushed open the huge gate behind him that was emitting an eerie chill.

"My... private meat locker."

A cold air mixed with blood and extreme cold rushed toward his face.

Inside the meat locker, it was filled with various legendary biological remains that Chen Chen had never seen before.

Chen Chen directly activated the [silver-grade storage ring], looting the [Icefield Mammoth Tenderloin] that was emitting a light blue chill and was the size of a truck tire, the several [Deep Sea Giant Octopus Tentacles] that were still slightly writhing, and various other rare ingredients.

Before leaving, the Pig-Faced Butcher handed Chen Chen a black card also composed of special energy circuits.

"Next time... have fresh 'ingredients'... I'll find you."

Returning fully loaded.

Chen Chen drove the Lv.10 mobile heavy fortress, preparing to leave Gluttony Town.

However, a sudden change occurred!

At the exit of the town, over a hundred modified off-road vehicles and heavy pickup trucks welded with steel plates surrounded the exit tightly, like a school of sharks that had smelled blood!

Mounted on the roofs were heavy machine guns, their black, hollow barrels exuding an aura of death.

In the underground cave, the people from the Hunter Guild had sent a signal after all.

"People in the vehicle, listen up!"

On top of a heavy truck modified like a steel hedgehog, a bald, burly man held a megaphone and shouted arrogantly.

"Hand over that little girl who can eat things, and all your supplies!"

His gaze greedily swept over the huge one-way bulletproof glass on the second floor of the RV, as if he could penetrate the glass and see the beauties inside.

"And those chicks on your vehicle! Leave them too, to have some fun with our brothers!"

"Don't think about resisting! We have thousands of brothers; one spit from each of us could drown you all!"

The bald man's words touched Chen Chen's reverse scale.

Stopping the vehicle, there was no expression on his face.

He simply reached out and tapped the red physical button on the left side of the dashboard lightly.

On the roof, the two hemispherical weapon hatches at the front and back opened smoothly.

Mechanical arms lifted two brand-new, sinister [c-class twin vehicle-mounted heavy machine guns], which slowly rose out of the roof hatches.

The four 12.7mm caliber barrels began to emit the humming sound of electric-driven rotation.

This time.

The chambers were stuffed with a full five thousand armor-piercing incendiary rounds.