Infinite Ebullience
Chapter 721 - 63: Blast Them All (4th in the series)

Chapter 721: Chapter 63: Blast Them All (4th in the series)

Tang Zheng, consumed in a nebulous dark red mist, appeared in the lobby carrying the neckless Corpse of the T800 that weighed over 200 pounds, exhibiting his domineering presence, which immediately provoked a wave of greetings.

Not only Qin Yan and the others, but the newbies were also shouting his name with joy on their faces. Seeing Tang Zheng appear unscathed, the survivors instantly found their mainstay, calming their panicky emotions.

"Dantai, Bai Guo, Old Soldier, Meiqin, Chen Hong, set up defenses in front of the building, resist the machine soldiers."

"Xin Lan, Ruan Feifei, Lu Fan, you attack T1000, Qin Yan, Bi Yun, Mei Jueye, you attack TX, Chu Baichuan, we switch, you go and attack TX, others go help Dantai build defenses."

Tang Zheng didn’t let everyone down. He immediately began issuing battle commands. His deep, confident voice accompanied by his calm and composed demeanor, immediately brought a strong sense of security.

The previously panicked crowd found their individual targets and began to act orderly. Tang Zheng swung his arm, hurling the corpse at another T800, then leaped up like a lion.

Just as the T800 was about to chase after Chu Baichuan, it saw a shadow blocking its body. Tang Zheng descended from above, first holding the Thunderstorm rifle tightly and bombarding the T800’s head with bullets, then pulling back at the moment of contact, took out twin blades, and with the help of the downward momentum, stabbed into the Terminator’s neck.

The T800 was hit in the face by dense thunderballs which, although not lethal, affected its judgment and field of vision. It was then stabbed by the twin blades.

Tang Zheng exerted force in his arms to slash horizontally, hoping to break the T800 into pieces. However, he only cut a few inches long incision before the Terminator lifted its fists over its head and smashed down towards his head.

Tang Zheng immediately retreated, dodging with his hand knife. At this point, the Mechanical Lion Roar Cannon had also cooled down, so he lifted his arm and fired a light beam.

T800 was hit by the light beam into mid-air. Before it could land, two more shots were fired, directly scorching and melting its artificial skin, revealing its inner metal layer, which was spitting sparks.

After shooting the Roaring Cannon, Tang Zheng attacked again. The T800 fell to the floor with a thud, not rolling far before its head was chopped off and its heart core was shattered. A second later, the electronic eye dimmed down.

"So powerful!" The survivors are both shocked and happy. Tang Zheng’s attack was so swift it was hard to follow. They didn’t imagine he could destroy the T800 that made Xu Liangmao suffer in an instant. This relieved a lot of pressure for everyone.

Every time the T1000’s silver liquid writhed, ready to condense into shape, Ruan Feifei’s blue lightning chain, Li Xinlan’s frost gun stab, and Lu Fan’s sand spear would shoot down from the sky, breaking it apart. Innumerable silver liquid beads splashed out, flowing back before more were blasted away.

The situation on the other side was equally favorable. Chu Baichuan cooperated with Qin Yan, slightly suppressing the TX Terminator. With the addition of Xu Biyun’s Steel Puppet, they had the upper hand. Mei Jueye, seeing that there was no need to flee, used his ability to control a Rebel Soldier and threw him as a meat shield towards TX.

TX thrust its arm knife into the chest of the soldier, opening up his stomach, and blood and viscera were strewn across the ground.

Tang Zheng didn’t make a move. Since there was no immediate danger to life, it was good for actual combat training. Otherwise, if he keeps on fighting alone, he will eventually collapse.

"Boss, why aren’t you moving? Finish them off quickly." Yao Feng held the rifle, cheering from the side.

"That’s their prey, how can I snatch it?" Tang Zheng joked, causing the Conquerors to laugh. They understood Tang Zheng’s goodwill. If a team wants to survive, it has to minimize the existence of weakness. This kind of experience is beneficial to everyone.

"Tang Zheng can’t protect everyone forever, he needs to leave too." Li Xinlan spoke with a cold voice, straightforwardly pointing out that she always hoped Tang Zheng would leave and live a stable life, instead of risking his life every day.

"Agreed." Lu Fan had a similar thought. They really considered it from Tang Zheng’s perspective.

"But what about the time limit? If we exceed the time, we will all be wiped out." The driver felt insecure and thought it would be better to eliminate the Terminators as soon as possible. "What if something goes wrong?"

"Then why don’t you go and fight? The guy skiving around also has the nerve to make requests?" Lu Fan sneered at the driver, who she despised for his sarcastic remarks.

"There’s more than six minutes left, that’s enough." Tang Zheng glanced at his wristwatch. Based on the combat data from the last time, they could definitely kill them within three minutes. Besides, if you wait for the Terminator to be beaten to a pulp before making your move, it would save more energy than making a move now.

"I should take a break too, Wushang, go, clean up TX." Tang Zheng let Wushang join the battle, while he held a rifle shooting at the machine soldiers, ravaging those miscellaneous soldiers. Although the points would certainly not be much, it was safe at least.

The time was indeed enough. The ice, electricity, and the sand abilities of the three women were absolutely the strongest attack power in the team. T1000 didn’t even get close before it was bombarded to the point of exploding its core. Then, five consecutive thunderbolt lightnings completely shattered it.

The Terminator exploded into three Silver Seeds, which were evenly divided among Li Xinlan’s three, which made Chen Hong and Yu Manli envious.

The situation on the other side had also been resolved. Qin Yan utilized her own ability to restrain TX, while Chu Baichuan launched a full-scale fierce attack. With the addition of a Wushang and a puppet, they managed to burn the blond-haired, blue-eyed TX into a puddle of black ashes in more than a minute.

"Just three Bronze Seeds?" Chu Baichuan raked through the ashes and picked up three low-level seeds, feeling frustrated.

"Okay, everyone hide and focus on defense." Dantai glanced at Tang Zheng and shouted. He was not impulsive enough to help defend against the mechanical soldiers in the base. What does the death of civilians have to do with the Trojan Squad? Damaging our own combat power, it would be more of a loss than a gain.

"I wonder how Zhuo Lie is doing on his side. You guys stay, I will check on him." Tang Zheng didn’t care about these trifles, instead, he thought about Zhuo Lie. His original intention was to let the other side disperse the punishment units, which seemed to have been successful now.

"I’m going with you." Lu Fan dismissively called forth his Spider and hopped onto it.

"Ride my Beetle. If they see your Giant Spider out there, they’ll definitely attack it, thinking it’s a monster," Tang Zheng was actually planning to use a Scavenger, but figuring it was easier said than done.

"Don’t go." Jing Xiang, not trusting the strength of others and unwilling to see Tang Zheng leave, tried to dissuade him.

But, Tang Zheng couldn’t hear her. He drove his Beetle out of the lobby. During the evening rest period, he had reloaded his Bullet Nest with rocket shells, a formidable weapon.

The mechanical soldiers were running amok in the base, which annoyed Lu Fan. So, he sat in the gunner’s seat, skillfully operating the 40mm turret on top of the Beetle, annihilating all enemies along the way and clearing a vacuum zone.

The people at the base were well aware of the conflict between Zhuo Lie and Tang Zheng, so they arranged their rooms apart from each other, about six hundred meters away. By the time Tang Zheng arrived, he saw two Terminator corpses on the ground. Three were surrounding Zhuo Lie’s team of four. Yi Ting and Old Zhou, who were injured, were still in a stalemate. Only Zhuo Lie was holding back the opponent.

"I’m so unlucky; there are five of them." Lu Fan criticized, without any intention of helping.

"Hey, need any help?" Tang Zheng parked the Beetle next to them, crawled out of the cabin and put on a serious expression.

Except for the still impassive boy Zi Xin, Zhuo Lie’s team was almost spewing blood.

"Tang Zheng, this is a time-limited mission. If we fail, you won’t survive either." Old Zhou shouted in anger, reproving Tang Zheng.

"What? I didn’t hear that?" Tang Zheng deliberately pretended to pick at his ear and ignored Old Zhou.

"Leader, please help." Yi Ting pleaded directly, without any dignity.

"Huh, they’re just taking advantage of our situation. Five of them, indeed. Potentially all the punishment squads are heading our way." Old Zhou was indignant, feeling that all good fortune had been taken by Tang Zheng.

"Tsk, we also had five of them on our side, but we’ve already dealt with them. This only shows you guys are idiots. Can you understand what I am saying? Watch my lip movements, you, are, idiots!" Lu Fan also got out of the car, keeping his Gauss Sniper Rifle aimed.

"Watch out for misfire." Seeing the muzzle pointed at him, Old Zhou broke into a cold sweat.

"Aren’t you asking me to help?" Lu Fan pretended to be surprised.

"Alright, let’s get started. If we had more than a dozen people, we would have killed them long ago." Yi Ting played the mediator, trying to defuse the tense atmosphere. But she was accidentally wounded in the chest by the TX in front of her, blood trickling out.

"Huh, it’s all because your leader is incompetent. This is what you get for being selfish. How about it? Why not transfer? Join our team?" Lu Fan teased but kept his rifle untriggered, waiting for the right moment.

"If you think I don’t want to..." Yi Ting muttered. She and Old Zhou had long been dissatisfied with Zhuo Lie, but they didn’t dare to say it out loud.

"Zhuo Lie, stop waiting. I won’t make a move. You’re strong enough to kill them." Tang Zheng wished Zhuo Lie and the Terminator could end up in a lose-lose situation.

Zhuo Lie fell silent, beads of sweat trickling down his forehead as he could barely hold on. He didn’t expect Tang Zheng to genuinely hold back, so he exploded with all his strength, fearing that if he waited any longer, there wouldn’t be any time left.

Tang Zheng’s face was calm, but he heaved a sigh of relief in his heart. If Zhuo Lie was still in a stalemate after ten more seconds, he would have to step in because he had to leave some room for the time-limited mission.

Almost simultaneously, the three of them entered their burst state, delivering their most potent attacks. In thirty seconds, Zhuo Lie killed the T1000 in front of him, although his shoulder and left waist were pierced, losing one kidney in the process.

Old Zhou lost an arm and broke six of his ribs, but he also nearly killed the TX. Tang Zheng could no longer wait and suddenly burst forth from the Beetle. He swung his Moon Blade, cutting the TX’s neck. After Old Zhou’s continuous attacks, TX’s body was much weakened, so it was sliced right through.

Tang Zheng stabbed the Xue Dai Wan into its heart, smashed its core, the electronic eye dimmed, and a Golden Seed fell out.

"It’s mine!" Old Zhou was shocked and picked it up in a huff of blood, but Lu Fan was faster. A sand snake swam out, swallowed the seed and brought it back.

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