69: Chapter 69 Chen Chen's First Meeting with the Second-Ranked Student!

Chen Chen released the steering wheel with one hand.

Distance: one hundred meters.

He stared at that scarlet mark, and the mental power that had just solidified in his sea of consciousness instantly boiled.

A-grade skill, "Soul Pierce"!

An invisible mental blade spanned the hundred-meter distance, followed the scarlet weak point mark, and plunged into the Venomous Giant Frog's brain.

The behemoth, comparable to a heavy truck, stopped in its tracks.

Its pair of all-white eyes lost the last glimmer of life.

Its massive mental body was directly obliterated in the physical sense at this moment.

"Boom—"

The giant frog's body crashed into the toxic mud.

It was dead as a doornail.

The Ghost Fortress drove directly over its twitching remains and sped forward.

One strike.

Instant kill of a Tier 1 monster.

Jiang Yanxue sat in the back row, fiddling with the Shadow Instant-Kill Blade in her hand.

The blade dropped to the floor.

She stared blankly at the massive, intact corpse outside the car window.

That was a Tier 1!

Not a stray dog on the side of the road!

Chen Chen didn't even lift a finger, and that monster died?

"What are you spacing out for?" Chen Chen said. "Shen Wanxing, get ready to work."

With a thought, the towing chain at the back of the vehicle flew out, directly hooking the giant frog's corpse, and dragged it along the way.

Shen Wanxing lifted her skirt and ran to the back of the vehicle.

She was now very familiar with this process.

Her fair, delicate little hand patted the giant frog's corpse.

"Explode."

God-tier talent, [Lucky Critical], activated.

Purple and golden light intertwined and shot into the sky, scattering the surrounding green toxic fog.

[Triggered a 10x critical reward!]

[Obtained: Primary Group Anti-Venom Serum Finished Product * 100 units!]

[Triggered rare item drop!]

[Obtained: Purple Venom Gland Engine Boost Module * 1!]

Chen Chen glanced at the panel.

The serum would solve the anti-venom problem for Seven Blades' fleet.

As for that purple module...

Under his mental control, the Purple Venom Gland Engine Boost Module turned into a stream of light and drilled into the core slot of the center console.

[Module loaded. Magnetic levitation engine short-term burst speed increased by 30%, and it does not lose durability in toxic gas environments.]

"Boom!"

The electric arcs on the Ghost Fortress's chassis turned from blue to a bewitching purple-blue.

The speedometer shot past 250 yards.

The swamp aberrations attempting to pounce on them couldn't even catch the exhaust fumes and were all left in the dust.

"Twenty kilometers to the target."

Shen Wanbing's voice suddenly sounded a bit tight.

Chen Chen turned his head and glanced at her.

Blood was dripping from Shen Wanbing's nostrils.

"Stop the detection. Your mental power is about to hit bottom."

"No. Something is wrong." Shen Wanbing grabbed a tissue and wiped away the nosebleed haphazardly.

"Why has the military's 'Iron Wall' fleet disappeared?" Chen Chen asked.

Shen Wanbing zoomed the projection to the limit, her hands trembling.

"They didn't take a shortcut at all."

"That passage without toxic gas is an 'esophagus' deliberately opened by the broodmother!"

"The broodmother core is not on the surface; it's in a flesh-and-blood cavern three hundred meters underground!"

"Those fifty military heavy armored vehicles have all fallen into the broodmother's digestive stomach. They are currently being melted by high-intensity acid. They are finished."

Chen Chen narrowed his eyes.

In the regional public channel, scarlet distress messages were flooding the screen crazily.

[Commander 'Iron Wall' of the 7th Mechanized Infantry Brigade of the North China Military Region in District 069 has issued a region-wide distress call!]

[Coordinate location: Core area under the toxic swamp!]

[Status: Besieged by Tier 3 mutants, armored fleet trapped in a corrosion trap, over half lost!]

[Conditions: Any player/faction that can provide heavy firepower support or open a retreat path to the surface, the military is willing to forgo all rewards for this mission and pay an additional 30 Intermediate Vehicle Cores!]

The distress signal was sent three times in a row.

Iron Wall, who always prided himself on being regular military, bowed his head.

This meant they had encountered an insurmountable desperate situation underground and were one breath away from total annihilation.

"Boss, are we going to save them?" Jiang Yanxue picked up the blade, her tone filled with excitement.

"Save them?"

Chen Chen sneered.

"I'm only interested in that golden blueprint blind box. As for whether they live or die, it's none of my business."

"Shen Wanbing, mark the coordinates directly above that underground cavern."

Shen Wanbing's fingers operated rapidly on the screen.

"Two kilometers ahead, coordinates locked."

"Hold on tight."

The Ghost Fortress let out a deafening roar, its speed of 250 yards carving deep grooves into the toxic mud as it headed straight for the coordinate point.

Two kilometers arrived in the blink of an eye.

"Screech—"

The RV braked sharply and hovered directly above the coordinate point.

Below was a layer of calcified rock and flesh-and-blood tissue mixed together, dozens of meters thick.

Below that was the broodmother core.

Chen Chen pulled down his multi-functional tactical goggles.

"Watch closely."

He tapped rapidly on the control panel with one hand, short-circuiting and shutting down the downward thrust power of the magnetic levitation engine.

Immediately after.

[Absolute Control: Gravity Field]!

Full power burst!

But he didn't apply gravity externally; instead, he applied it in reverse onto the chassis of the Ghost Fortress itself!

Ten times gravity!

The eighteen-ton steel beast turned into a solid iron block weighing one hundred and eighty tons!

"Boom!"

The Ghost Fortress smashed toward the ground in a terrifying posture of free fall combined with ten times gravitational acceleration.

The calcified rock layer on the surface didn't even hold up for a second.

It collapsed immediately!

The RV, carrying sky-filling gravel, mud, and violent purple-blue electric arcs, smashed straight into the space three hundred meters underground.

The sensation of weightlessness caused the women in the carriage to grab the edges of their seats.

The half-gnawed meat bone in Su Xiaoqi's hand flew directly to the ceiling.

"Bang!"

A dull, deafening sound exploded in the underground space.

Three hundred meters underground.

Broodmother stomach area.

Iron Wall was holding a heavy machine gun, firing wildly at the tidal wave of acidic aberrations surging toward him.

More than twenty of the fifty heavy armored vehicles around him had already melted.

The soldiers suffered heavy casualties.

Just as he was preparing to detonate a glory grenade to perish together with them.

A large hole suddenly exploded in the rock layer above his head.

A pitch-black RV, with an extremely ferocious design and covered in a pale blue energy film, smashed down like a meteorite.

"Boom!"

The RV landed.

Over a hundred acidic aberrations preparing to pounce on the military were crushed into meat paste by the 180-ton downward kinetic energy.

The shockwave sent Iron Wall and several soldiers flying more than ten meters away.

The entire underground space was silent.

Only the "sizzling" sound of electric arcs from the RV's chassis remained.

Iron Wall climbed up, covered in dirt and dust, staring at this unharmed steel monster with protruding eyes.

He recognized this shape.

The number one on the combat power ranking, Chen Chen's vehicle.

"Chen Chen! You're finally here!"

Iron Wall couldn't care about his dignity as an officer and shouted at the RV.

"Quick! Help me hold the left defensive line! Once we break out, the rewards are all yours!"

The Ghost Fortress's window rolled down a crack.

Chen Chen didn't even give Iron Wall a glance.

His gaze immediately locked onto the very center of the space.

There was a huge heart with a diameter of over thirty meters, pulsing with dark red light.

It was covered in thick blood vessels absorbing geothermal energy.

Crimson Hive core.

"Qin Hongye. Load armor-piercing shells."

Chen Chen's voice spread through the vehicle's loudspeaker throughout the underground space, cold to the extreme.

Iron Wall was stunned.

"Chen Chen! I'm talking to you! Save people first!"

Chen Chen finally turned his head and glanced at Iron Wall through the window crack.

"Get aside. Don't block my trajectory."

"I didn't come here to save people!"