Infinite Ebullience
Chapter 578 - 47 The Scorpion King

Chapter 578: Chapter 47 The Scorpion King

Continuous blue cannon beams incessantly bombarded the ground, obliterating murderous Giant Crab Pharaoh Scorpions into burnt chunks of flesh. The surface of the square where the beams passed was left with molten sandy streaks that looked like glass, reflecting sunlight in a dazzling manner.

Under the powerful front line formed by Tang Zheng and Dantai, the team was advancing methodically, and the situation entered a stalemate. The only thing Hammer Squad could be grateful for was that their opponents had no long-range attacking means.

Puff, puff, two-meter-high sand pillars continually erupted on the square, morphing into wolf-headed monsters, charging at the team. In an attempt to speed up, they tossed away their shields, holding their battle axes in their mouths, and ran on all fours like wolves.

The flaming tongue of Qin Yan’s Doomsday Predator spewed out, its bullets whistling towards them, hitting them with a faint green light, and completely turned them into a cloud of sand dust, scattering with the wind.

"Keep on enduring," the old soldier motivated to boost morale, but the moment he finished speaking, violent vibrations occurred at his feet. Immediately, a sharp forelimb struck out from the team’s very center. Without any hesitation, it swung fiercely to the left in a semicircle.

Qin Yan and Pang Meiqin reacted quickly. Seeing the incoming forelimb only 60 cm high, they bent over, nearly parallel to the ground, luckily dodging it. Cai Nan and Hu Xiaoyan, however, were directly hit and knocked out of the team like kites with their strings cut.

Whoosh, another forelimb and tail stinger thrust out simultaneously. A chunk of ’sand dune’ emerged from the ground, and shot up to a full five meters high, promptly plunging its open forelimb towards the old soldier.

Boom, as the forelimb thrust into the ground, sand dust spattered. While the old soldier was rolling to evade, his MG42 never stopped firing. The ’sand dune’ shuddered under the gunfire, and sand trickled down, revealing its true form.

This was a huge Giant Pharaoh Scorpion, obviously, it had crawled up from underground to ambush Tang Zheng and his men on their necessary route.

Although the ambush didn’t manage to slaughter anyone, the tactic of center dispersion successfully disintegrated the team’s formation. Everyone was forced to fight on their own without the opportunity to support each other.

This meant nothing to the Conquerors, but for the newbies, it was almost a catastrophe.

Tang Zheng quickly spun around, aiming his muzzle at it. A blue beam shot out, hitting the Pharaoh Scorpion’s chitinous shell and instantly penetrated it, burning the surrounding flesh into black charcoal.

The Pharaoh Scorpion seemed to taste the severity of the situation, so it didn’t chase Tang Zheng anymore but rushed toward the rear to hunt weaker newbies.

The five wolf-headed monsters finally made a successful breakthrough and rushed in front of Tang Zheng, five meters away. They powerfully leapt forward, seized the battle axe held in their mouths and ruthlessly chopped it down.

Tang Zheng wouldn’t waste cannon beams on these trivial soldiers. He flicked his wrist, and an AK74 with a hundred-round drum appeared. As his arm moved, he fired at them,

Amidst the dense gunshots, their bodies were instantly pierced, busting into dozens of sand clouds, and then falling to the ground.

Tang Zheng’s right hand wasn’t idle either. He once again fired a beam at the Pharaoh Scorpion, completely blowing its head up.

This place was unquestionably Lu Fan’s home base. Those wolf-headed monsters had no chances of getting close to her. Once they entered a range of ten meters, it was like they were swallowed by quicksand, they sank directly into the square, vanishing without a trace.

Just as the newbies watched the Pharaoh Scorpion that was about to get close, killed by Tang Zheng, before they could heave a sigh of relief, more than twenty wolf-headed monsters charged within a twenty-meter range. They grabbed the handle of the axe and threw their battle axes by rotating their waist and swinging their arm.

"Dodge." Qin Yan only had the time to yell out one word. With a glint of cold light, the axe rotated and chopped its way closer.

The newbies had hardly flattened themselves against the ground when the whistling axe chopped just above their heads, leaving a strong wind in its wake, making their hairs flutter and their cheeks hurt.

The first round of the wolf-headed monsters’ flying axe attack failed. They swiped their long arms across the sandy ground while running, and when they lifted their hands, they had grabbed a new battle axe. It was visible to the naked eye how the sand condensed into a sharp axe body and blade.

Whoosh, it was another round of throwing. Senior sister Shan Shan thought that the monsters would not have weapons after throwing the axe, so she didn’t immediately dodge, instead, she lay low to catch her breath. Unexpectedly, there was another round of axes. As soon as she heard Cai Nan’s screams, she instinctively raised her head, only to see a glint of cold light and then she lost consciousness.

A female head with long hair rolled to the ground, blood spewed from her neck cavity, and thump, the headless body fell to the ground.

"Senior sister!" Cai Nan wailed and yelled.

"Don’t freeze, get moving, look around, stay close to me." Tang Zheng was still sniping at the scorpions, occasionally switching to Holy Demon Flame to blow up the ones that were close. Once the number increased, he would opt for the Terminators sweeping gunfire. He saw what happened to Shan Shan but was unable to help. Just when he was about to assist, one after another, Giant Scorpions climbed out from the ground, trying to surround him.

Tang Zheng fired a beam, trying to break through the front at unprecedented speed. The sound of the trigger being pulled, the shell flew out into the air, and the second shot fired, creating an opening. But the Scorpions weren’t planning to let him escape. They blocked him in before he could cross.

"Uncle."

"Tang Zheng."

Qin Yan and Lu Fan cried out urgently. Seeing Tang Zheng in danger and wanting to come to his aid, they saw that it wasn’t just scorpions around Tang Zheng; more than five hundred wolf head monsters had also started to gather.

"Don’t worry about me, protect Aima." The sand under his feet was soft, every step sapped more strength than on firmer ground, and it greatly reduced his ability to jump.

Tang Zheng tried to break through from under the Pharaoh Scorpions, but their pincers were like stone pillars, weighing thousands of pounds, slamming down heavily. If hit, he would definitely be reduced to a pile of mince.

Tang Zheng dodged in a very embarrassing manner, but he often caught the right timing to fire a shot, killing a Pharaoh Scorpion. However, the others would quickly fill the gap left by their fallen companions.

Seeing the space he could move to was getting smaller, Tang Zheng gritted his teeth, running towards the shortest one. Because he exploded with power and kicked off the ground with full strength, each step kicked up a pile of sand. When he got closer, he saw the enormous creature, that stood five meters high. He bent his legs, leaned forward, and the tense muscles suddenly exerted force, springing him diagonally upward like a spring.

A pincer swung over. Although he was in mid-air, Tang Zheng couldn’t change direction. Despite this, he remained calm. A blue light beam lance out, completely decimating the pincer.

Thud! Tang Zheng successfully jumped onto the body of a Pharaoh Scorpion, but he was unsteady and about to slide off. He quickly raised his rifle high, like driving a stake into the ground, forcefully plunging it into the chitin shell of the scorpion. As he steadied himself, he pulled the trigger.

Boom! The Pharaoh Scorpion was shot through and fell to the ground. Other scorpions stabbed with their pincers. Tang Zheng jumped down to dodge, whereas the unlucky dead scorpion was smashed even more.

The wolf head monsters were too densely packed. Tang Zheng stepped on two of them, but their attacks were also closing in, a dozen axes aimed at his body.

Tang Zheng leaped diagonally again. His body had just left the ground when he pulled out the Terminator with one hand. At the apex of his jump, the six-barrehled machine gun started to spin and roared, frantically sweeping towards the place where he was about to land.

The wolf-headed monsters were instantly cleared in one area, but some of the faster ones threw their axes.

Bang, bang, Tang Zheng was hit in the back, and his landing point shifted. As soon as he touched the ground, the monsters ringed him again.

Tang Zheng quickly withdrew his rifle, dual-wielded his Terminators, and quickly spun. The nearby monsters were all turned into mounds of sand. Plus, with the penetration power and density of a barrage, a radius of three meters was cleared out as a safe space. Tang Zheng exerted force on his feet, not giving the monsters a chance to regroup. He used the Dual Terminators to pave the way and charged out.

The Old Soldier was also in danger at this time. He was staying by Aima’s side, guarding her, hacking and killing those wolf-headed monsters when one of them mustered up strength to resist his bullets, successfully getting close, and swung an axe at his shoulder. If it wasn’t for the shield of his ability, his arm would have been cut off.

"Get out of the way, it’s a tough one." Lin Weiguo pushed Aima away, let Qin Yan take her away, and stepped forward to block, sweeping with a machine gun.

"Human, you have good eyes. I, the Scorpion King, grant you a complete corpse." This ordinary-looking wolf-headed monster suddenly spoke human language, let out a weird laugh, and charged up. Suddenly, he swung his arm, and the sharp blade of the axe towards Lin Weiguo.

The bullets that the MG42 shot did not cause any damage to it, just went right through. Lin Weiguo was shocked, and knew this was a boss-level monster. He couldn’t be careless, but he also had no fear. He put away his machine gun and took out a large machete. He aimed at the head of the Scorpion King and chopped down.

Ding! The two cold weapons collided, producing a nerve-racking sound and some scattered sparks. The Old Soldier’s B-Class Prop received a notch.

The Scorpion King let out a weird laugh, its axe chopping while a large group of scorpion’s spewed from its mouth, as dense as water sprinkles at him. There were at least a thousand of them.

The Old Soldier didn’t dodge. His armor extended and instantly covered his entire face. His large machete once again chopped down on the Scorpion King.

The group of scorpions landed on the Old Soldier, crawling all over him, trying to sting him with their tail. However, it was in vain. The Old Soldier once again used his ability. Another layer of sand came up from his feet and covered the surface of his body. It squashed the thousands of scorpions to death.

The Scorpion King couldn’t laugh. It was so angry that its face turned green. Its axe hit the Old Soldier’s body, making a piece of armor fly off.

Although the thickness of the armor increased, it didn’t affect the agility of the Old Soldier. Just as he thought he could fight with the boss-level Scorpion King alone, not always relying on Tang Zheng, the sand under his feet suddenly receded and tied up his legs.

The Scorpion King held the axe in one hand and cut it hard on the Old Soldier’s head. The huge force made him bend down. At the same time, he made a claw with his right hand and lifted it from the ground. Dozens of strands of sand shot up like a fountain. Then, after they were condensed into sand spears, at the swing of Scorpion King’s hand, they punctured the Old Soldier’s body.

The Old Soldier began to increase the thickness of his armor again while successfully hitting the Scorpion King. One of the wolf-headed monster’s arms flew out and broke into a pinch of sand dust.