Infinite Ebullience
Chapter 1501 - 89: Intrusion

Chapter 1501: Chapter 89: Intrusion

Under the night sky, Central Park was forest-like with its dark green haze, covering Manhattan’s face like a black veil. Countless bullets flew by, resembling the flickering light of fireflies in a gentle fire!

The park was awakening, the flames from the explosions igniting it, reaching their zenith with Dong Zixuan’s attack.

The hot lava bubbled and overflowed, creeping and spreading, melting more soil, turning everything a fiery red. From the sky above, it looked like the park had grown a huge scar.

Half of the bodies of two mutated beasts were immersed in the lava, charred by the burning. Because of the weak night wind, the putrid smell mixed with black smoke lingered, shrouding the park overhead.

The mutated beasts screamed, trying repeatedly to crawl out, but they were suppressed back by the Conquerors with a barrage of attacks, tearing their flesh apart.

Ruan Feifei’s lightning was the most striking. The female anchor, wrapped in leather clothes, was not only tall but also exuded sexiness. With a wave of her hand, thick blue-white lightning roared out, almost destroying all life in the world.

Sha Ou wouldn’t miss such an excellent opportunity to rack up points, bombarding the mutated beasts with telekinesis cannon after cannon, hitting hard and leaving visible dents. Whenever it tried to escape from the pool of magma, it was dragged back by the hand of telekinesis.

Lin Jing activated his shooting ability, wielding a heavy machine gun, inflicting as much damage as possible on the mutated beasts.

The lava surged, forming a puppet that threw furious punches. The Time-space Blackfish, set against the firelight, wasn’t very noticeable, but its attack power was strong; ripping and devouring, it produced more small blackfish.

The mutated beasts shrieked, light condensed, forming a large orb of light in front of their mouths, and then shot out, cutting through the ground as it moved its head, like a beam saber.

The Conquerors scrambled to dodge.

The vegetation suffered, directly severed by the beam, their cut surfaces all showing signs of burning.

"Be careful!" Qin Yan warned. Up until now, a total of ten mutated beasts had crawled out from the exit, and they began to spray beams of light at random, unpredictable and difficult to defend against.

"Lu Fan, block the exit. Dong Zixuan, switch targets; you attack the ones on the right. Xin Lan, freeze those that have been burned." Dantai gave commands while firing.

Giant Soldiers appeared, opening fire on the Conquerors—even some simply mutated and charged over barehanded.

Controlled by online particles, they had become puppets, having lost consciousness and completely unafraid of death.

Madam Li activated her ability, and the air, previously heated by the magma, immediately cooled down. Dew formed on the branches and leaves, which then turned into frost. In less than a minute, they were frozen into heavy chunks of ice, bending the branches with their weight.

"I don’t want to be a burden. I must try my best to share Tang Zheng’s responsibilities!" Li Xinlan constantly reminded herself, sparing no effort, unleashing full firepower.

Madam Li went all out; it was a pity she was only at Third-order, but it was enough against the mutated beasts. After using the rare Storm Core Crystal, she got the chance to evolve her Ice Age ability.

The sky began to blow cold, snowflakes falling. The lava cooled and solidified visibly, then froze into lumps. Naturally, the mutated beasts inside did not escape; suddenly alternating attacks of high temperature and low temperature caused the cellular tissue of the body to collapse.

Lu Fan filled the entrance with sand and then created a sand wall to block the steps of the mutated beasts.

Boom, boom, the mutated beasts used their light beams to strike the sand wall, shaking the entire ground. Seconds later, a beam pierced through the sand and streaked across the sky.

"Hey, Group Leader Tang, don’t play it like this, leave us some soup too?" Some fearless characters complained, relying on their own formidable strength.

"You can go full firepower, can’t you? We’re not stopping you?" How could such ’small characters’ be qualified to talk with Tang Zheng? Dantai answered for him.

The Conquerors were left speechless, you think other teams are like yours, having reserves both in number and strength? They indeed wanted to launch a fierce attack, but they needed to conserve energy for the following big battle, to cope with emergencies.

"Too slow," Dantai was dissatisfied with the current intensity of the attack, urging them to increase it.

Some Conquerors didn’t want to wait or maybe wanted to score points, and those who were a level behind began attacking the mutated beasts.

"Fanfan, let more out."

As Dantai spoke, the sand wall at the entrance was blasted through by a laser, and the mutated beasts swarmed out.

"Damn it, die!" Lu Fan, feeling she had lost face, was irritable, furiously firing her White Ivory and Ebony Incense, the bullets continuously hitting the bodies of the mutated beasts.

"Calm down," Tang Zheng touched Little Lolita’s head and glanced over the battlefield, "Qing Shuang, how is the progress with Warhammer over there?"

"They have already entered the underground center, advancing quickly," Shen Qingshuang was tracking Vasily and Bingxu’s squad with the Mechanical Dragonfly, but ten seconds later, the screen went black, clearly indicating the Dragonfly had been destroyed.

"About time, let’s go in," Tang Zheng looked at the Wristwatch and began roll call, "Anyone who is not at Hero Level stay behind. Xin Lan, you take command and lead them to kill the foot soldiers."

Lu Fan stood with her hands behind her back, stomping hard on the ground with her toes. She really wanted to go with Tang Zheng, but was also worried about becoming a burden and causing him trouble.

"Xueqi, are you feeling better? No problem coming with us, right?" Dantai then selected the school beauty Gu Xueqi as the main healer, naturally keeping her by his side.

"No." Gu Xueqi didn’t decline. When it’s time to fight with all her might, the campus belle certainly wouldn’t shrink back.

"Hey, Vasily and his team have already gone inside, let’s set off too." Tang Zheng called out and without hesitation rushed toward the entrance.

"Domineering!" The Group Leader of Warhammer impressed all the Trojan Squads at this moment. They thought there would be some pushing and shoving considering the pioneer faces the most attacks.

As a Mutated Beast just crawled out, it saw Tang Zheng and its head came smashing down like a hammer.

"Get lost!" Tang Zheng didn’t dodge, instead, he punched the Mutated Beast on its body.

The Gravity Cannon activated simultaneously, and the Mutated Beast rolled away with a bang, clearing the entrance.

Tang Zheng, roaring with a queen in his grip, charged in, followed closely by Qin Yan and her eight people.

"We’re going in too." While others were still hesitating, Wang Fang had already grabbed Li Zheng, following behind Tang Zheng, Fu Tianxiao gave Yue Jing a look and, cursing him as a coward in his heart, went off to catch up with Tang Zheng.

The Conquerors looked at each other, then started moving forward. They actually understood that there was no chance to shrink back this time.

If they stayed back like the reserves of the Warhammer Squad, even if their individual points reached the threshold, their team points would definitely not be as high as those who went inside, so they had no choice but to fight.

"Nobody idle around. Kill the minions, split into three teams and act. Try to find some BOSSes." Li Xinlan took the lead with the demeanor of a big sister, "Please understand, team points are Tang Zheng’s responsibility. What we need to do is raise our own points, otherwise, we will still be eliminated."

"Liang Mao, let’s act together," Li Huiwen went to find her husband, thinking of using him again and pondering how to steal monsters.

She wouldn’t do something as dangerous as killing a BOSS—just as long as she had more points than Xu Biyun, Lin Jing, and the others, she could still survive.

"Qin Yan, Old Soldier, you two take point. Tang Zheng, go rest at the rear," advised Jiang Xiuming, looking at the metal walls constructing the Passage, "Be careful of traps."

Qin Yan and the Old Soldier were knocking Mutated Beasts aside, not entangling with them, bearing the barrage of Giant Soldiers as they charged.

Yu Deye was an expert marksman, and after applying his Ability, his bullets came with a homing effect, making it easy to head-explode the Giant Soldiers, completely stress-free.

A hundred meters later, the first Crossroad appeared.

"Which way?" The other teams had caught up and subconsciously looked to Tang Zheng, waiting for him to make a decision.

"Did this guy rush in first because he already guessed there would be a crossroad?" Some quick-reacting Group Leaders thought it through and realized that the Warhammer Squad hadn’t faced much attack and had actually killed quite a few Giant Soldiers by being the first to advance.

Of course, Tang Zheng had thought about it. Any facility will inevitably have a complex network of passages—at the very least, there will be evacuation passages; it’s impossible to have just one route straight to the end. That’s why he was the first to rush in. Thus, he could also leave an impression of being not easy to mess with, deterring those with bad intentions and getting the authority of Group Leader if a temporary alliance was needed, based on his current performance.

"Go left." Tang Zheng didn’t hesitate in the slightest and immediately ran to the left.

"Tang Group Leader, give us a reason!" The Conquerors hadn’t reacted yet and were just instinctively following the Warhammer Squad, but a small number remained.

"Go right. It’s closer to Vasily and the others that way, making it quicker to rally," a Group Leader with a good sense of direction remarked after observing the surroundings.

"You think the BOSS here will let us easily rally? There must be heavy forces spread out between us," Tang Zheng called back without turning, hinting to that Group Leader.

The Conquerors had an epiphany and hurriedly followed, realizing he had already determined the direction. Such a response indeed threw off everyone else.

Of course, a few Group Leaders had also thought of this, but they deliberately maintained a low profile.

The Giant Soldiers were still trying to intercept, and within the Passage, there was not even a single shelter.

"Defense Type, come to the front. Of course, it’s fine if you don’t want to, there’s no shortage of enemies to kill anyway," Tang Zheng fired his queen’s roar at a Giant Soldier, directly vaporizing it, leaving no remains.

Defense Type Conquerors glanced at the Group Leaders of the various teams and stepped forward, positioning themselves at the forefront. They also wanted to kill Giant Soldiers for Points, and since they had already formed teams, having someone command them could maximize their combat power.

"Alright, Psychic type spread out. The moment you see an enemy Trojan Squad, attack immediately," Tang Zheng glanced back and counted the numbers, "Long-range Faction, you may begin to attack."

After entering the Game, both Tang Zheng and Dantai’s performance was very outstanding, and their rankings on the Hero List was the best proof. This was also why everyone trusted them—if it were someone else, they would have doubted much earlier.

"Tang Zheng, the air seems abnormal," Gu Xueqi sniffed the air. As a member of the Healing System, she was very sensitive to the air.

"There’s something wrong with the air." A few other members of the Healing System also called out.

"Everyone, put on your Gas Masks." Without needing Dantai’s command, people had already started doing so, but wearing the mask compromised their vision.

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PS: I’m struggling with writer’s block, it feels awful, only one update today. Allow me to organize the subsequent developments! (To be continued. If you like this work, please show your support with recommended votes and monthly tickets on Qidian.com, your support is my greatest motivation.)