Chapter 256 - Lord I

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Within the dark, complicated tunnel, countless thorns were dancing in the air. They crisscrossed each other, stabbing and jabbing in an extremely complicated manner, creating holes in the metallic wall. Zero weaves through the dense vines of these dangerous thorns like a fairy, moving nimbly and evasively. He was more like a black mist, a mist that had been dispersed. No matter how dense the thorns were, they would not be able to catch his shadow.

Günabel's eyes were bloodshot. If they were not in an underground base but on the ground, he would have killed them long ago. How could he still be alive and kicking like this? In an environment like the underground base, even though Günabel could use Brambles' data to create 3D models in his mind, he was able to capture the movements of his opponents. However, there was still a slight difference between using the naked eye and using data modeling. After all, it was the same as using the intellectual brain. From the thorns on the vine to the brain, there was a delay in the transmission.

With Günabel's computational ability, this delay of at most a second was negligible. However, such a subtle time difference was enough for Zero to make a slight movement, causing Gunnabel's additional attack to either miss or miss.

As a result, the battle that should have ended early in the morning continued until now.

All of a sudden, the figure of zero in Günabel's 3D model stopped. He dodged one of the thorny vines that had passed over his head and crouched on the ground, facing Gunabel. Gounabel was glad that, in his opinion, he had used up almost all of his energy. This was a good opportunity to kill him.

Gunnar was laughing, and so was Zero. He no longer ran, because there was no longer any need. He had led Gunnar to a straight passage about five hundred meters long. There were no more obstacles, and Gunnar's head was exposed to the air.

Although other parts of his body could be transformed into thorny vines, from beginning to end, his head had maintained the appearance of a human. Plants were not living beings, after all, and they did not have a centre of intelligence for data manipulation. Although Gunnar could transform into a plant, he was not a real plant. He wanted to kill the enemy and think. Therefore, he needed to keep his head.

And Gunnar's head was his weakness! His body could transform into a plant anywhere, and the only thing that he could not transform into a plant was his head.

In the incubator, when Gunabel's head was exposed to Zero's muzzle, he felt a genuine fear. And now, Zero was going to turn his fear into reality.

In his right eye, the silver lines that were scattered around his pupils suddenly converged at the center. They converged into a single point, then suddenly expanded and formed a beast-like vertical pupil. When the right eye changed, the temperature of the body rose sharply. This was a sign that the biological energy was rising exponentially. If there was a thermometer, the temperature emitted by the body hidden under the tactical uniform would probably be enough to blow up any thermometer.

Exhale zero, and a thick, grayish-white steam is ejected from Zero's mouth.

At this moment, a few vines came slicing towards them.

He took another deep breath and a long golden flame shot out from his right eye. At that moment, he disappeared. Not only had he disappeared on the spot, but he had also disappeared into Günabel's three-dimensional model.

That was the result of the first time a zero was faster than the data transmission speed of the Gounabel Bramble!

After activating the [Rampage] skill, the basic stats increased. His agility had originally only reached the fifth step, but now it had reached the seventh step. The agility of a rank 7 Magus was not something that Günabel could keep up with. He no longer relied on his stats, but based on his intuition, the hundreds of vines around him were crisscrossing about, continuously weaving an inescapable net that was sufficient to cover the entire cross-section of the passageway.

At the same time, Gunnar knew that the battle was finally coming to an end. After this blow, the victor would be decided!

For some unknown reason, less than a second after the zero disappeared, his figure appeared in Günabel's consciousness once more. But strangely, in the blink of an eye, another figure appeared. Two figures, one on the left and one on the right, were still running at a very fast speed along the wall, trying to get around Gunnar's net and attack his main body.

Günabel revealed a cruel smile. Since his opponent had already materialized, there was no need for him to passively defend. The rattan net that was in the process of weaving suddenly dispersed, but it split into two sides. Each side had over a hundred thorny vines, which were like vicious beasts as they pierced towards the two figures. However, this movement seemed to be an attack at the same time. In fact, the speed was different.

Using the different speeds of the left and the right, Gunnar wanted to be able to tell which was the real zero.

In his 3D model, the vine on the right quickly hit zero. The hundreds of vines were like a speeding train. Not only did they hit zero, but they also crashed into the wall, breaking countless cables. In the model, the figure that was' Zero 'flashed and disappeared.

The real zero was on the left!

"Got you!"

Therefore, the vine on his left suddenly accelerated and bloomed from all directions like a man-eating flower. It enveloped the space within ten meters around him and nailed itself firmly into the wall. From the 3D model, he could see that Zero had been stabbed and its body was hanging on the wall.

Gunnar finally couldn't help but laugh, but the laughter stopped abruptly.

"I don't know what you're happy about."

A 'zero' sound suddenly came from the back of his head, and Günabel suddenly felt a burning sensation on the back of his head. It was as if a sea of flames had appeared behind him.

He suddenly turned to look at the left wall and saw that the figure that was nailed to the wall was disappearing.

That figure was also fake!

This was Gounabel's last consciousness.

A ball of bright light lit up in the pitch-black passageway. A jade-green light brought along waves of air as it traveled across the passageway at a speed of two thousand meters. In the middle of this dark green light was a blazing white flame, and when it came in contact with the corner of the wall, it turned. The metal wall silently opened up a gap that was the same size as the ball of light, and the cables inside also silently melted.

When the barrier was broken, the green light had already disappeared, and the white flame inside had suddenly blossomed.

The entire base suddenly shook, and white flames burst out. The light carried with it an aura of destruction, causing crystallization of everything it touched. This was the result of the internal molecular structure being destroyed in a flash. The flames came and went quickly. They expanded the range to a hundred meters with the center of the explosion as their starting point before shrinking back and disappearing.

Zero looked at the gun muzzle that was still warm from the heat. He was quite satisfied with the weapon that Eva had gifted him. The invaders were as powerful as the tank's artillery bombardment, and more penetrating. It was just that the firing range was not as far as the artillery, and the killing range was relatively narrow, but its power was enough to make up for these shortcomings.

Günabel's entire head had disappeared, and the close-ranged blow at the back of his head had turned it to powder. The light from the invader's shell, the outer layer of the emerald light, was corrosive. Dissolving Gunnabel's head had only used up less than half of the corrosive light, and the white flame on the inner layer hadn't even been ignited yet, so Parkland's killer had died in Zero's hands.

As soon as Gunnar died, a green flame ignited each vine. Immediately, the hundreds of vines glowed with the same amount of fluorescent light. A faint green flame swept across the vines, burning them to ashes. For a moment, the burning vines made them seem like rivers streaking across the universe, beautiful beyond compare.

In this beautiful scene of death, Zero slumped to the ground.

In that short but intense battle, Zero had used Rampage and entered the calculation of the bullet's time limit. In order to attract Günabel's attention, Zero used the Phantom Shadow skill that came from Agility of the fifth step. And this time, he succeeded in creating another phantom. It was the double blunder that had fooled Gunabel, and Zero had come up behind him and taken the killing blow.

However, all of this actually made Zero pay a massive price. Zero had to sit down and rest, and with trembling hands he took all the nutrients from the walker and ate them one by one.

Only after the eighth nutrient was swallowed did Zero stop. This was equivalent to what normal people would need for three days of nourishment, but Zero ate it in one gulp. After the nutrients enter the stomach, they are digested into pure nutrients and quickly absorbed by the body. Only then did Zero relax and close his eyes to rest.

"What was that just now?" While walking, Feng suddenly stopped and looked in the direction of the battle between Zero and Gunnar.

Beneath his feet was the corpse of a human-faced moth. The wing of the man-faced moth had been shattered, the result of a machine-gun shot from Maple. However, the fatal wound was a shallow wound on the forehead of the monster bug's face. If one were to compare it with Feng's Tang Dao, they would discover that it matched well with him.

On the left side of Feng was Su, who was holding an alloyed broadsword. The broadsword was covered in insect potion, and a slight crack appeared on the blade of the sword. The broadsword was no longer as sharp as before, but in order to corrode the broadsword, the human-faced moth had paid more than a thousand.

Behind Su was Ma pei. The black man was carrying a machine gun, and the injector on his back was nowhere to be seen. The fuel in the injector had been used up in the previous battle, and it had become a useless piece of metal. In order to lighten the load, Maple threw it away and took up his machine gun instead as a weapon.

All three of them looked more or less bedraggled, but Eva's short red hair was as radiant as ever. Even in the dark, it flutters like a flame in a windless base.

Surrounding the four of them were the corpses of Man-Faced Moths, hundreds of half-wormmen and even two Goddesses of Vengeance!

When Su pulled the sword out of one of the insect corpses, it meant that they had cleaned up the last wave of bugs near the entrance. Feng used a tricky method. Although he managed to avoid a few waves of bugs, when he was near the entrance, his method no longer worked. After the two live corpse archers were discovered, they were killed for the buggers and then thrown into the buggers. They were then gnawed clean by the face moth, leaving not even their bones behind.

Feng, who had found out that this method had failed, was just about to let everyone hide, when a goddess of vengeance crawled up from behind them. The Vengeance Goddess did not attack them directly, but instead used a biological bomb to attack the Man-Faced Moths in front of them. In this way, the man-faced moths attracted by the Goddess of Vengeance immediately rushed over, pulling the squadron that was squeezed between the two sides into the whirlpool of battle.

Now, this swarm of bugs was completely wiped out by the team's various tactics of luring the enemy, splitting up and attacking them forcefully. However, the team had also suffered a considerable loss. Although there were no casualties among the four of them, other than Eva, the other three had at least a hundred minor injuries or more on their bodies. Eva's biochemical army was officially bankrupt. Except for Gemini, all the other zombies were dead. As for Gemini, he only had half of his body left. If he was a normal person, he would have died from such an injury long ago.

Although Gemini could still move, his combat power had dropped by more than half. Right now, he was even weaker than an ordinary butcher.

Hearing Feng's words, Eva revealed a proud smile and said, "That's the wave of the invader. It's done." "Hmm, not bad. I was right about him."

"Done?" Feng said, "Are you saying that Zero got rid of that guy? "As expected of the captain, he actually killed someone with a higher rank."

Eva smiled without saying a word. In his heart, he thought, if Lingcun were to be killed by that fellow with spikes all over his body, it would be equivalent to saying that he had no eyes. Luckily, Zero killed that guy. Up until now, this "companion" was still considered qualified.

"Then should we wait until it's midnight before proceeding forward?" Ma Pei asked.

Feng lifted his foot from the corpse, which was still dripping with insect venom, and frowned. "No, let's keep going. Even though he had killed that fellow, it would definitely consume a huge amount of his physical strength, and he might even be injured. If we stop now, we'll be wasting his time. So, let's go. Our target is the experimental diary in the fifth layer's base! "

Seeing Feng walking towards the entrance with an imposing manner, Sue looked at Ma Pei in surprise. After Zero left, Feng's performance was very different from his usual appearance. Although they did not have the courage to kill, every decision they made was resolute and decisive. They were even more so than zero as they seemed like a team captain.

However, just as she was thinking this, Feng Feng, who was in front of her, suddenly slipped and fell to the ground. Although he bounced up in the next second, Feng could not help but curse at the bug corpse that tripped him, and even kicked it away with his foot. Looking at Feng, Suo Su thought that she must have been mistaken.

"What a playboy."

Eve, at the end, sneered, and the twins beside her looked at her quizzically, but she didn't respond. But when she reached the entrance to the fifth floor, she pulled the black dragon from her back and held it in her hand. It had to be known that in the most intense battle, Eva had only attacked with a single fist and a kick from the west. She had not even used a single attack from the Black Dragon!

The safe passage was very quiet. It was as quiet as a grave, with no signs of life. As they got closer to the base on the 5th floor, the composition of the oxygen became lower and lower on the tactical helmet panel of Feng, while the content of the toxic substances kept increasing. When the symbol representing the poison showed a skull pattern that constantly flickered, Feng raised his hand to stop the team.

"Ma Pei, it's filled with poisonous gas. You don't have any tactical uniforms left, so why don't you wait for us at the exit? " Feng Wan Chuan said.

Of the four, only Feng and Su can now use their tactical helmets to filter out toxins from the air. But not only had he lost his tactical helmet, but even his uniform had been badly damaged in the previous battle and could no longer be worn. Although Adepts had a far higher resistance to poisons than normal humans, the toxins in the fifth floor of the base were already at a level beyond what Ma Pei could handle.

Feng's words were all out of good intentions. "As for you, you can stay on the helmet if you want." After all, this is not your job. "

"I don't want to be a fool up there," Eve said, as she walked carelessly down the stairs past the maple.

Seeing that she had disappeared into the darkness under the stairs, Maple pointed at himself with a wry smile and said, "It seems that I can only go up and be a fool."

Feng patted his shoulder and said, "Man, don't compare yourself to a pervert."

Before he could finish, Eva's angry voice came from the darkness: "Who's the pervert!"

Feng shrank his neck and made a helpless gesture.

In the end, Maple backed out. Feng was right, there was a huge gap between Eva and him. It meant that Eva could go into the gas without a care, but he couldn't. As far as Ma Pei knew, the reason why high-ranked Adepts were able to ignore poison was because they were able to use cell-level power to separate and dilute the toxins in the air until they were harmless to the body.

From the looks of it, Eva was not afraid of poison, which meant her strength was at least at the eighth step or even higher.

A powerhouse of the eighth step or above, there were already very few natural substances that could kill them. Therefore, calling them abnormal wasn't too excessive. In the world of high-level Adepts, the only people who could kill an Adept were those who could!

With a "pa da" sound, Feng frowned as he stepped into the ice-cold water. Beneath his feet, ice water of extremely low temperature covered his knees. The current was still flowing slowly, which meant that the water level was still rising. Although the speed was very slow, it wouldn't be long before the base was flooded by ice water from who knows where.

This was probably the reason why the Human-Faced Moths had to migrate. Feng made a cautious gesture and walked towards the exit. The fifth floor's base was immediately reflected in Feng's eyes. The entire base had already been flooded by water, and floating in the water were all sorts of broken objects. There were even some insect corpses. The insect corpses were pushed against the wall by the water and piled up in the corners. And looking at the distant base, he could still see insect corpses floating over. The atmosphere was very strange.

Feng and the other two looked at each other, not knowing how these people died. If they were drowned, Maple did not believe it. The face moths, though they could not swim, would not drown in the water, but now they were dead, and God knows what had killed them.

As the body of an insect floated past Maple, she saw strange marks on the belly of the human-faced moth.