Infinite Ebullience
Chapter 728 - 70: The Empress’ Original Form

Chapter 728: Chapter 70: The Empress’ Original Form

The searing white beam continues to spray from the Hellfire’s chest, like a sharp military knife, plowing a half-meter deep trench on the ground. The black-clad special agents that the beam grazes are all vaporized, the sound of explosions ringing in the ears continuously.

"I’ll leave this to you guys." Tang Zheng doesn’t want to waste time on these insignificant soldiers, his palm shooting out continuous Impact Beams, killing as many as he can. But the moment he flies over the heads of the black-clad special agents and sets foot in the Artificial Stadium, a clone of the mother queen, whose head is covered in snake-like mechanical tentacles, instantly teleports to his side and strikes out with a powerful punch.

She is still shrouded in the red leather clothes, accentuating her voluptuous figure—a delightful sight indeed. However, Tang Zheng doesn’t hesitate at all to punch back, engaging with her in a fierce melee.

Bang, a visible ripple in the air is set off due to the resulting shock wave.

The mother queen’s clone is voraciously aggressive, launching continuous punches while her snake-like tentacles open their mouths wide, spitting out forked mechanical probes, and spraying laser beams and acid.

Sssss, Tang Zheng did not manage to evade in time and gets splashed directly. The red laser beam hits him, leaving only some charred spots, while the green liquid begins to corrode his armor.

"Die." Tang Zheng eyebrows slightly furrowed, throwing punch after punch and pushing away the queen’s arm with a maneuver, a crescent-shaped blade shot out from his waist armor, cutting across the clone’s neck.

The clone of the mother queen veers her head to dodge, but the Moon Blade swirls back, severing half of her snake-like tentacles.

"Dammit." Tang Zheng sees those falling tentacles squirming around and suddenly elongate, shooting towards his face, which then explode and spread out a cloud of poisonous mist.

The Hellfire’s radar detects the threat and immediately shuts down the breathing system and activates internal circulation. If a regular Conqueror were here, they would certainly be affected.

The mother queen had seemingly copied thousands of years of martial arts mastery into her clone body, and thus, her hand-to-hand combat ability has evolved quite exceptionally. Combine this with her hardy physical attributes, Tang Zheng found himself under slight pressure.

Tang Zheng switches his fists into palms and uses a push hand technique to deflect the clone’s arm, then releases the Impact Beam that hits her body.

The clone remains unharmed, only stepping back a few steps. Tang Zheng then mounts an offensive, pushing hard against her chin with his palm. The queen lifts her head, and with the resulting impact, her body is launched into the air. He then releases another Impact Beam and sends her flying.

Tang Zheng extends his hand, grabbing the mother queen’s ankle, and violently slams her to the ground, causing the ground to shatter and stones to fly about.

Dantai flies low, opening all his bullet nests, and as soon as he presses the launch button, the fuselage trembles. In an instant, dozens of rocket shells are released, shooting like lightning towards the Stadium Gate.

Under the carpet-style bombardment, the flames flash by and dense smoke billows up. Hundreds of black-clad special agents are killed, and mechanical parts rain down like a heavy downpour.

Qin Yan releases the Scavenger, jumps into the cockpit, and quickly charges forward while shooting. The formidable firepower provided by dual-wielding heavy machine guns topples any robot blocking the path.

Ruan Feifei is quite proud and will not allow herself to be outshone by Qin Yan, so she also swiftly employs the Scavenger for her assault.

Nobody is left to take care of the newbie. Lu Fan clutches his rifle, leaps out of the tank, and drives the Scavenger forward. Under the constraint of the one-hour time limit, Zhuo Lie doesn’t have much chance to shirk away. At least until he actually sees the mother queen, he then pulls out the S-class heavy Magnetic Storm Rifle and forges ahead with Zi Xin, and Yi Ting firmly follows behind. To go alone in this situation is undoubtedly the most dangerous thing.

"Stay in the car," Li Xinlan originally wanted to leave Cheng Cheng behind. However, the little girl doesn’t say anything and just obediently nods her head. It makes the woman uncertain. Watching the loli silently shedding tears, Li Xinlan sighs a little and lifts her up.

"Mei Jueye, be careful or I will tell the Group Leader." Yao Feng stares at the high school student, looking quite smug.

"Idiot." Mei Jueye ignores him and sprints to the Stadium; he plans to pick up the slack. As for fighting hard, that’s not possible. Shooting from the dark isn’t a bad option but killing Yao Feng has no benefits and would even deduct a thousand points. He would have gotten rid of this guy by now if not for that penalty.

"Tang Zheng, you go handle the mother queen. We’ll take care of these minor soldiers." Qin Yan and Ruan Feifei stand side by side, utilizing heavy firepower to once again clear out the remaining black-clothed special agents. They then notice Tang Zheng tangled in combat with the clone of the mother queen.

He’s spent over a minute and still hasn’t put an end to the clone of the mother queen. This greatly irritates Tang Zheng, so he goes into berserk mode. He’s reluctant to use his ability, planning to save the five minutes for facing the Mother Queen herself.

"Got it." In his berserk state, Tang Zheng is still able to dominate the queen’s clone, but killing her would also take time, so it’s not worth it.

The clone in the leather clothes has her snake-like tentacles open their mouth wide, revealing venomous fangs that bite towards Tang Zheng. He grabs it immediately and yanks it off with brute force. Following that, he lands a brutal axe-kick on her skull and simultaneously steps back with a sweeping roundhouse kick.

Tang Zheng’s leg, when clad in the Hellfire armor, wields more impact force than a Siege Hammer. When that leg sweeps across tank armor, it can leave a noticeable dent. Hence, the neck of the clone notably bends at a 90-degree angle.

The two ladies fire in unison, with bullets raining down on the flying clone like a downpour. Her leather clothes are torn to shreds by the bullets, revealing her white flesh.

"Daylily, come out and apply the boost effect." Following Tang Zheng’s summon, a nurse-dressed girl appears. With continuous waves of her hands, golden halos explode one after the other, enveloping Qin Yan and Ruan Feifei.

The two ladies suddenly felt energetic and light as a feather.

Tang Zheng held Daylily with one hand, the thrusters activated, he flew through the Passage into the artificial Stadium. The spotlight turned on in an instant, and countless white beams of light shone onto the stage.

In the center of the football field, covered with green grass, a wooden platform was set up with a large white grand piano on it.

A woman in a blue evening gown with ruffle trims sat beside the piano. Like a fairy, her spring onion-like white fingers were jumping on the black and white piano keys, and a chord of lively music poured out, floating in the air of the stadium.

"Humans, you have desecrated the dignity of the Empress!" The woman was beautiful and elegant, showing two fair arms. A sapphire necklace hung on her full chest, adding a luxurious and noble temperament.

Tang Zheng didn’t bother with the rhetoric, he activated the Gatling gun on his shoulder, the shooters on his arms and legs popped out. The next second, dozens of rocket shells, trailing white smoke, rushed towards the Empress.

"You’re overreaching! This place is my domain," the empress’s face darkened, she swung one arm, a translucent shield appeared instantly, blocking all attacks.

"Here, I am the law, I am the ruler!" The Empress pointed her food finger at Tang Zheng, the grass-covered ground under her began to surge, and then like a tsunami, it churned up to several meters high, crashing towards Tang Zheng.

Yu Manli and Lin Weiguo were both keen-minded people who noticed a problem. Every time Old Zhou attacked Agent Smith, the latter’s body would have some nail-sized cracks, peeling off like mosaics, especially where the fists landed, the damage was more significant.

The body of Agent Smith suddenly shivered and split into two, then four, as if undergoing cell division, he instantly created twenty clones.

"Old Zhou, we’ll hold them off, give you a chance, you take the lead." Yu Manli didn’t allow Old Zhou to refute, she triggered the Dragon’s Strength, hitting the clones, instantly sending them flying.

Old Zhou knew that the two were also under considerable attack pressure, but he couldn’t trust them, especially when he saw that his attacks were more effective against Agent Smith, he began to suspect that Tang Zheng had tampered with the antivirus reagents.

"What has Tang Zheng done to me?" Old Zhou suddenly voiced his suspicion, driving his fist into Smith’s chin, instantly causing it to collapse, without regaining their form like before.

"Nothing at all." Yu Manli lied without batting an eye, Lin Weiguo, who was honest, hesitated for a moment and was immediately caught by Old Zhou.

"You guys, you really tricked us." Old Zhou angrily gritted his teeth. He didn’t want to die here, after pushing Smith away with a punch, he prepared to leave the battlefield and find Zhuo Lie for a discussion.

"Retreat." Yu Manli and the old soldier wouldn’t give him this opportunity, they both quickly retreated. Since Old Zhou had been injected with the improved reagent, he himself was a virus, causing destruction to the Virtual World all the time. Naturally, he was listed as the top kill target by the antivirus program, Agent Smith.

Yu Manli and the old soldier had noticed this early on, but they didn’t want to make things too extreme. Now that Old Zhou wanted to run away, there was no need to be polite, let him fight it out first.

"You bastards." Old Zhou realized he couldn’t escape. It felt as if he had killed Agent Smith’s father, that they were mortal enemies. It stubbornly chased him, attacking relentlessly.

In his anger and surprise, Old Zhou exploded, releasing his ability but his body immediately reacted with a strong rejection. He vomited blood, and his swinging fist also paused.

Smith’s arm-blade hit Old Zhou’s chest, sending him flying. Old Zhou was, after all, one of the Conquerors, having numerous defense and life-saving measures. He wasn’t severely injured, but Smith’s consecutive attacks left him struggling to cope.

Old Zhou felt increasingly weak, his chest in pain, he even began to feel suffocated, air rapidly escaping from his chest cavity.

"This must be the side effect," After cleaning up a few clones, Yu Manli stood nearby, holding a rifle, aiming at Agent Smith.

"Thanks to Tang Zheng, there is no battle easier than this one." Watching Old Zhou fully attracting hatred, Agent Smith ignored Yu Manli and Lin Weiguo, greatly reducing the pressure on them. Lin Weiguo heaved a long sigh of relief.

"Help me out." After being hit again, Old Zhou regretted revealing his hand too early to the duo, putting himself in a one-on-one situation. No Conqueror was a pushover after all.

"I have a wife and kid, I don’t want to die here." Seeing that he couldn’t convince them, Old Zhou began to play the sympathy card.

Yu Manli definitely wouldn’t help, she glanced at Lin Weiguo, fearing that the man might act impulsively. But, the old soldier was also determined, once he decided something, he would see it through to the end.

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