71: Chapter 71: The Loli Tears the Monster Apart!

The armored door slid open with a hiss.

Su Xiaoqi's petite figure dashed straight out.

Outside was the Corrosive Stomach Zone, which even regular troops couldn't withstand!

Iron Wall saw this scene and was completely stunned.

"Chen Chen, you're crazy! You're sending a little girl out to die?!"

Before Iron Wall could finish shouting, his voice stuck in his throat.

Su Xiaoqi landed in the mud pit, facing the aberrations lunging toward her.

Her petite body shuddered violently.

SS-grade talent [Gluttony Evolution] activated at full power!

A violent wave of energy exploded from her.

A two-meter-tall acid aberration opened its bloody maw and bit down.

Su Xiaoqi countered with a backhand punch.

"Bang!"

The monster's head was blown apart instantly, and green juice splattered all over Su Xiaoqi.

She didn't care at all; her small hand plunged directly into the monster's chest cavity, forcibly digging out a high-energy core that was still pulsating.

She stuffed it into her mouth.

Crunching it to pieces, she swallowed it.

"Too bland."

Su Xiaoqi muttered, curling her lip in disdain.

Then, she set her sights on the giant shield of flesh belonging to the Crimson Hive.

The little girl pushed off with her legs, her figure launching like a cannonball toward the shield.

She crashed right into it.

Then, hair-raising tearing and chewing sounds emanated from inside the shield.

Iron Wall and the surviving soldiers were stunned, their jaws dropping to the ground.

The defense they couldn't break through even with their lives on the line was being treated as a buffet by a little girl?

What kind of monster team is this!

Inside the Ghost Fortress, system notification sounds began flooding Chen Chen's mind.

[Ding! Su Xiaoqi devoured a Tier 1 mutation core, triggering the LV3 affix 'Gluttonous Feast'!]

[Energy feedback successful! Host constitution + 1!]

[Ding! Su Xiaoqi devoured Tier 2 mutant flesh, energy feedback successful! Host agility + 2!]

[Host spirit + 1!]

[Host constitution + 3!]

Chen Chen felt his muscle fibers heating up, and his bones emitted faint popping sounds.

Power surged wildly within his body.

This feeling of gaining stats while lying down was incredibly satisfying.

The Crimson Hive also sensed something was wrong.

The shield of flesh it had absorbed was being frantically gnawed on from the inside by something.

It finally felt fear.

Its massive heart began to contract violently, and the surrounding strata rolled with it.

"It wants to run!"

Shen Wanbing pressed down on the concentration ice heart necklace, and the Radar scanned the entire area, locking onto the Crimson Hive.

"It's severing its connection to the earth veins and preparing to burrow deeper underground!"

"Can it escape?"

Chen Chen sneered.

He pushed open the vehicle door and leapt out.

Mid-air.

Chen Chen slammed his hands downward into the void.

[Absolute Control: Gravity Field]!

Full power! Limit burst!

Twenty times gravity turned into an invisible Mount Tai, slamming heavily onto the Crimson Hive's massive heart.

"Boom!"

The underground space emitted an unbearable, deafening sound.

The blood vessels the Crimson Hive had just pulled out were instantly crushed by this terrifying pressure.

Its massive body was pinned firmly into the mud pit, forcing a giant crater over ten meters deep.

Mud splattered everywhere.

The Crimson Hive let out a desperate shriek, struggling to break free, but the twenty times gravity prevented it from moving even an inch.

"Shen Wanbing! Position!"

Chen Chen, bearing the twenty times gravity, landed steadily on the edge of the crater, holding the Armor-Piercing Military Dagger upside down.

"Three meters down from the center! There's a high-energy crystal reaction! That's its core!"

Shen Wanbing shouted in the channel.

Chen Chen pushed off with his feet and jumped straight into the crater.

Facing the tentacles and flesh of the Crimson Hive that were still struggling wildly.

Chen Chen raised the Armor-Piercing Military Dagger, aiming at the location Shen Wanbing reported.

Muscles bulged.

His terrifying constitution of over eighty points, combined with the gravitational acceleration of twenty times gravity.

This strike was unstoppable.

"Pfft!"

The Armor-Piercing Military Dagger sank completely into the thick flesh of the Crimson Hive.

A crisp "crack" sound rang out.

Something shattered.

The Crimson Hive's shrieking stopped abruptly.

The massive heart twitched a few times, then went completely limp, losing all vitality.

A crimson system announcement exploded simultaneously in the minds of all survivors in Zone 069.

[Regional Announcement: Regional Survival Challenge Mission 'The Awakening of the Crimson Hive' has concluded!]

[Congratulations to player 'Chen Chen', successfully destroyed the core of the Crimson Hive! Damage contribution: 99%!]

[Obtained First Place Exclusive Reward: Gold Blueprint Blind Box * 1!]

[Obtained: Intermediate Vehicle Core * 50!]

[Obtained: Free Attribute Points * 20!]

The entire regional channel fell into instant silence.

Everyone saw that glaring name.

It was Chen Chen again.

Iron Wall sat slumped in the mud, looking at the man who pulled the Armor-Piercing Military Dagger from the corpse of the Crimson Hive, and gave a bitter smile.

As a military commander, he had completely lost face today.

Chen Chen shook the blood off the Armor-Piercing Military Dagger, and with a thought, swept all the system rewards into his silver-grade storage ring.

Just as he was about to turn and head back to the vehicle.

The massive corpse of the Crimson Hive suddenly began to wither and weather at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Immediately after.

A sigh, extremely faint yet filled with endless malice and resentment.

Resounded directly in the depths of Chen Chen's consciousness.

"You... broke... my toy..."

Chen Chen jerked his head up.

A terrifying mental pressure, a hundred times stronger than The Shepherd's just now, instantly enveloped the entire underground space.

The mud on the surface began to churn violently.

A giant hand, composed entirely of ghastly white bone and large enough to crush the Ghost Fortress.

Slowly reached out from the depths of the mud.

Chen Chen narrowed his eyes and tightened his grip on the silenced pistol in his hand.

"Lord of Flesh?"

Not only did he not retreat, but he curled his lips and laughed.

"Just in time."

"I haven't killed a god yet."

The giant hand suddenly opened and slapped down toward Chen Chen.

A gale howled.

Chen Chen stood in place, unmoving.

On the second floor of the Ghost Fortress.

Qin Hongye chambered a round, her muzzle locking onto the palm of the giant bone hand.

"Boss, where should I shoot?"

Chen Chen raised his pistol.

"Break its fingers."

At the second-floor sniper position, Qin Hongye held her breath.

She pulled the trigger all the way.

"Ssss——"

The Gauss electromagnetic rifle let out a sharp whine.

The specially made alloy projectile tore through the air, carrying terrifying kinetic energy, and slammed into the middle finger joint of the giant bone hand.

By all logic, this shot should have been enough to blast a ten-ton armored vehicle into iron slag.

But the projectile collided with the ghastly white bone surface without even leaving a dent.

It only kicked up a few invisible bone shards, and the projectile itself was reduced to powder by the recoil.

"Boss! Physical attacks are ineffective!"

Qin Hongye shouted urgently in the channel, her palms covered in cold sweat.

The giant bone hand didn't pause at all.

It slapped down with world-destroying force, and before it even touched the ground, a mental pollution that was cold and viscous to the extreme descended first.

This wasn't ordinary pressure.

This was the power of corruption!

On the military side, screams instantly merged into one.

Iron Wall's knees went weak, and he knelt heavily in the mud, two jets of blood spraying from his ears.

He clutched his head, feeling as if his brains were about to be pulverized by this invisible force.

"Aaaaah!"

Several soldiers with weaker willpower didn't even finish screaming before their bodies began to twist.

Disgusting tumors grew under their skin, bones pierced through their muscles, and it was clear they were about to mutate into monsters.