Infinite Ebullience
Chapter 1268 - 22: The Mad Scientist

Chapter 1268: Chapter 22: The Mad Scientist

The bat monster was incredibly tenacious. Despite being riddled with bullet holes, it struggled to fly away.

The swarm of little bats, dense and dark, whined as they converged like a cloud, obstructing the vision of the Warhammer team and preventing them from taking timely aim for additional shots.

"Scram!" Sun Jingshan waved his arm, trying to disperse them. The bats’ claws were razor-sharp – a mere scrape across the scalp would leave behind bloody trails.

Ruan Feifei raised her left hand, and electric arcs suddenly appeared at her fingertips, forming an electric net that spread out, extending over half the corridor.

The bats were fried by the high voltage electricity, tumbling down like shot airplanes.

Watching the blue electric current crackle overhead, with some even falling down, causing their skin to tingle and hair to stand on end, the newbies were tense, fearing they might get electrocuted to death.

With a series of booms, the corridor’s mechanisms were triggered, revealing hidden secret rooms as the walls on both sides collapsed. Massive chunks of flesh, each three meters high, lumbered out like moving mountains of meat, assailing the Warhammer team with their pungent stench.

Qin Yan’s Doomsday Predator was ineffective; the bullets it fired sank into the monsters’ skin but failed to make even a splash.

Boom, Dantai’s Demon Slaying Holy Flame launched a projectile, creating fist-sized wounds on the flesh chunks. However, the rotten meat around the holes writhed and filled in instantly.

"What’s going on? Frankenstein’s monsters?" Ruan Feifei waved her hand, sending forth an electric net that struck the man-made monsters. What should have been powerful enough to turn any living being into charred remains was instead like a gentle caress of spring rain, failing to harm a single strand of their hair. Rather, it seemed to inject energy into them, causing them to become more ferocious and their wounds to heal faster.

These scientific abominations were cobbled together by Frankenstein from various body parts, infused with souls, and then brought to life by electrical shocks during a tempestuous night, bestowing life upon them. The electricity from the female anchor’s attack was as ineffective as throwing meat buns to a dog; instead of harming them, it fueled their fires.

Frankenstein’s craftsmanship was rough, with a significant portion of these creatures lacking any human form – just clusters of writhing flesh. Some were crippled or had disproportionately large limbs. As they crawled, they left behind pools of yellow pus, utterly repulsive.

Of course, there were also a dozen or so that had the appearance of humans, albeit covered with centipede-like, contorted needles and stitched together with visible seams. There were even white maggots wriggling within.

Xu Biyun slapped the wall beside her and not far ahead, the brickwork rippled like waves, shedding dust. A huge head emerged from the wall, letting out a roar before swinging its arm at one of the scientific monsters, stepping forward and, with a squish, crushing the bat creatures on the ground.

The puppet burst out of the wall and, acting as a meat shield, charged into the Frankenstein’s monsters, leaving behind a damaged wall in its wake.

Lu Fan’s wristwatch emitted sand that flowed across the ground like a tide, submerging the scientific monsters’ legs and gradually hardening to restrict their movement.

"We can’t kill them; their self-healing is too fast!" The newbies screamed in panic, retreating continuously, having lost their composure.

Tao Ran’s Time-space Blackfish appeared, swimming and biting into the bodies of the monsters, leaving behind numerous bite marks. Up on the second floor, Dong Zixuan’s abilities were limited.

"Li Xinlan, freeze the entire corridor!" Tang Zheng fired his gun, a single bullet shooting out which then fanned out to fill the entire corridor, penetrating the bodies of the flesh chunks, creating an array of holes. However, the creatures were unaffected, roaring as they charged.

"We’re blocked in the back," said several newbies at the rear end of the group, unsettled as dozens of scientific monsters blocked their escape.

A large group of humanoid bat monsters took advantage of the chaos to surge out from the rooms, launching a desperate charge. Pang Meiqin’s Ripper cleaved through them, slicing several corpses and spattering blood on the walls.

From Li Xinlan’s wristwatch flowed water, which froze everything around her. Amid the cracking sounds, a white layer of ice spread, quickly thickening. In less than ten seconds, the entire corridor was icebound, and the monsters froze into lumps, immobilized.

Qin Yan and Dantai opened fire, shattering the frozen sculptures, with clouds of ice and frost falling from the sky.

After the battle concluded, Tang Zheng took a head count. Thanks to the Frankenstein’s monsters’ inability to get close, the Conquerors weren’t even scratched, but the bat creatures had killed nearly ten newbies.

"Move on!" Pang Meiqin, unconcerned about the small fry, urged the vanguard to hurry along. Sun Jingshan, leaning on his knees, panted heavily, no longer the warrior he once was. The other newbies averted their eyes, pretending not to hear, motionless. It couldn’t be helped. Anyone would behave the same upon seeing their fellow alumni, once alive, now turned into corpses.

"The castle is too big. Searching room by room is a waste of time and invites frequent attacks. We must find a way to draw out the BOSS," Mu Nianqi said, standing in front of a door, inspecting its interior.

"Everything’s in such chaos, and we still haven’t seen the BOSS. Whether it even exists is a question," Teng Yuangxiang grumbled, her patience running thin at the sign of trouble.

"Let’s cause even more chaos, then. Step back!" Tang Zheng took out the matriarch’s roar and set it to maximum power, aiming diagonally upwards before pulling the trigger.

An energy sphere condensed at the muzzle, then with a sizzle, it shot out, the thick beam of light blasting through the ceiling and piercing the Vault of Heaven. Numerous pieces of debris fell.

The Conquerors activated their Defense Shields, while the newbies could only retreat with their heads covered.

"Don’t demolish the house," Lin Fachan shouted, protecting his girlfriend underneath him. "If the BOSS doesn’t show up with the dagger, are we supposed to search in the ruins?"

"It’s just firing a couple of shots to test, the castle won’t collapse," Tang Zheng fired again. The light beam, like a red-hot iron rod piercing through ice, broke through easily.

"Who dares to disturb the great Dr. Frankenstein’s experiment?" A hoarse roar of anger, like thunder, echoed in everyone’s ears.

The Combat Hammer team was ready for battle. In less than a minute, a freak covered in needles and yellowish in complexion appeared in the corridor. A giant screw protruded from its head, sparking intermittently, dressed in a black tailcoat and covered in a white lab coat splattered with bright red blood and various unknown fluids.

"So dirty!" Jing Lan covered her nose.

Frankenstein emitted a strong stench from his body; greenish stench could even be seen wafting from him continuously.

Growl, Frankenstein held a thick black iron chain in his hands, restraining a pet pieced together from various monster parts, with saliva dripping from the three-headed beast’s snarling mouths, front paws digging into the ground, body crouched, ready to attack at any moment.

"Kill!" Tang Zheng glanced over and raised his gun to fire. The warrior charged towards Frankenstein with such sprinting force that each step cracked the floorboards.

Lightning, ice spikes, sand spears, all streaked out together, bombarding Frankenstein. Some attacks missed and hit the walls, smashing them, and the entire corridor began to collapse.

The semi-transparent Ghost Reaper wielded a sickle, barely visible, followed closely by the Time-space Blackfish right behind the warrior, ready to ambush Frankenstein.

Dantai unleashed a Mental Impact, but unfortunately, it was ineffective against Frankenstein.

"Slaughter these intruders!" Frankenstein let go, and the Stitching Beast charged wildly, its neck chain clanging against the floor.

As both sides clashed, the warrior’s Warhammer spun like a windmill, striking right at the leaping Stitching Beast’s head.

Bang, the Stitching Beast crashed into the wall, plunging into a room, while the warrior, like entering a realm without opponents, advanced toward Frankenstein.

Gaining the upper hand upon first encounter, the morale of the Combat Hammer team surged, with various attacks raining down like a heavy storm.

Tang Zheng monitored his teammates out of the corner of his eye and noticed even those under suspicion were attacking the BOSS with full force, which made him furrow his brows. What exactly was their goal?

"Damn you, you’ll pay for this, I’ll turn you into specimens, stay in the vessels!" Frankenstein pulled aside his white lab coat and drew a handgun, emitting a green beam.

This was a steampunk-style weapon with no clip, composed of densely packed brass coils, a metal rod, topped with a sphere condensing light beams.

The warrior lifted the Warhammer like a door board to block the beam, but the beam, as if intelligent, curved just before hitting, dodged around the Warhammer, and struck the warrior’s head.

Thunk, as if ice and snow were melting, the warrior’s cheek was pierced, but as a spirit, he didn’t die.

Frankenstein fired a second shot, and the warrior was hit again but managed to get close, bringing down the Warhammer. The Time-space Blackfish also bit his wrist to stop him from firing.

The Ghost Reaper floated behind, swinging the sickle across Frankenstein’s neck.

Frankenstein sneered contemptuously, stomping and shattering the floorboard, dropping down just in the nick of time, evading all attacks.

"Watch out for that Stitching Beast!" Sounds of collapsing walls constantly echoed from the castle, a result of the beast that had been flung earlier causing chaos. Indeed, before Tang Zheng could finish speaking, the creature burst through a nearby wall and lunged out, swiping with its claws.

Dantai was struck, Gu Xueqi and Song Xin along with him were thrown to the side, others hurriedly dodged. Its intrusion caused complete disarray in the Combat Hammer team’s formation.

Lin Weiguo, adorned in alloy armor, and working in tandem with Tang Zheng, had already moved to confront Frankenstein and couldn’t turn back to provide aid. Pang Meiqin didn’t hold back this time, stepping forward; the Ripper blocked the Stitching Beast’s attack, and then she slashed it across its back. Flesh peeled, meat splattered, covering nearby people with pus-filled fluid.

"Tao Ran, Jing Lan, conserve your strength. Conquerors, go all out!" Black Long Straight and Jing Lan were fighting too hard. Tang Zheng quickly admonished them. As newcomers, they should prioritize their own safety, and their efforts also temporarily earned the trust of the Group Leader.

"Tang Zheng, the terrain limits us, we can’t deploy our attack formation," Zhao Dongtao called out. The newbies were scrambling to retreat, while the Conquerors fought, hindered by the narrow space.

"Lure the Stitching Beast outside," Tang Zheng shouted. What happened to Dantai? At times like this, the deputy leader should be covering for what he couldn’t attend to, yet the Special Agent was too silent. (To be continued. If you like this work, welcome to Qidian (qidian.com) to vote your recommendation, monthly pass, your support is my greatest motivation.)