Infinite Ebullience
Chapter 855 - 17 Strong Insect-Humans_2

Chapter 855: Chapter 17 Strong Insect-Humans_2

The meat worms rolled around, bloated and swollen, crawling like earthworms. Their entire heads were as large as a face, pockmarked with various lumps, oozing pus. At a distance of over twenty meters from Tang Zheng, they suddenly opened their mouths and sprayed a large volume of green mucus toward him.

Tang Zheng dodged; the mucus clearly possessed corrosive properties, sizzling and emitting white smoke upon contact with the ground.

Firing the Heavy Magnetostorm Rifle, a dozen blue lightning balls shot out, hitting the meat worm monster but causing no damage—the shots were resisted and vanished without a trace.

Tang Zheng tried shooting again, but the effect was the same. He fired the Mechanical Lion Roar Cannon and it was also fruitless; these meat worm monsters seemed to be immune to energy weapons. Moreover, they appeared to absorb the energy as Tang Zheng noticed their bodies bulking up after the attack.

"Try this on for size," Tang Zheng said as he threw a hand grenade. The explosion tore some flesh off the meat worm monster, embedding shrapnel into its body and causing green bodily fluids to flow from the wounds, though the damage was too minimal.

Tang Zheng wielded Gatling machine guns in both hands, moving while unloading a barrage into the group of meat worm monsters. In the darkness, the gunfire was dazzling, as a multitude of spent casings clattered to the ground.

Bullets riddled the flesh of the meat worm monsters, tearing their bodies apart, but even after Tang Zheng spent a full ten thousand rounds, he couldn’t finish them off.

The chunks that fell to the ground still wriggled. When other meat worms crawled over, they attached to them, quickly merging. Gradually, under Tang Zheng’s assault, a giant meat worm monster formed.

"Pfft, pfft," just like farting, the meat worm monster’s body ejected green toxic gas from its cilia pores, which instantly started to fill the laboratory.

Not knowing if they were damaging to skin, Tang Zheng dared not expose himself and rapidly retreated, but when it rains, it pours; hundreds of gun-toting insect-humans blocked his escape route, opening fire on him to suppress him.

Considering that Hellfire was mostly equipped with energy weapons, Tang Zheng pulled out a BMP-3 infantry armored car and jumped in, opening fire with the 30mm machine gun.

Shrapnel exploded amongst the insect-humans, shredding them into a field of broken corpses. Tang Zheng couldn’t aim precisely and had to carpet-bomb the general area, with the 100mm rifled cannon periodically thundering.

The delay allowed the meat worm monster to crawl within ten meters of the armored car, spewing a stream of acid that immediately began to corrode the front armor. The toxic gas spread, and some mushrooms and plants in the darker areas withered on contact, as if sprayed with herbicide, perishing from the poison.

Tang Zheng cleared the insect-humans, but it was too late to dodge. The lobby was filled with equipment that left no room for the armored car to turn around. Moreover, the meat worm monster suddenly shot out a dozen tentacles that wrapped around the armored car, along with several more whip-thick tentacles that continuously lashed at the armored car.

The tentacles struck the armor, banging loudly, and the car couldn’t hold up to the battering and began to twist and compress.

Amidst the screeching sounds, the turret turned towards the meat worm monster, and the cannon fired like a knight’s lance, roaring non-stop as it shot cannon shells into the monster’s flesh.

The powerful kinetic energy of the cannon shells tore through its flesh~body; each shell carried away chunks of flesh, splattering fluids everywhere. After a dozen rounds, the meat worm monster shrieked in pain and wrapped its tentacles around the barrel, attempting to twist it.

Boom, the cannon shell exploded inside the bore, and the blown-off barrel plunged into the meat worm monster’s body. Tang Zheng started operating the machine gun again, but after dozens of rounds, the armored car’s deformed structure and damaged automatic ammunition system meant he couldn’t shoot anymore.

Tang Zheng pushed against the hatch, but the meat worm monster’s body was already pressing down, trapping him. He held his breath, tore off the gas mask, armed the Hellfire and charged the energy cannon at his chest. Then he fired, blasting a large hole in the armored car, with shrapnel penetrating the meat worm monster’s body. Nevertheless, the creature didn’t die, and its flesh began to reassemble.

As the tentacles swept down towards Tang Zheng, they attempted to crush him.

The beam saber shot out from the wrist, spinning to slash through the tentacles, but the military knife, which could sever steel, couldn’t inflict any damage on the meat worm monster, instead, it appeared to heal their wounds quite a bit, as these monsters could transform such energies into nutrients and absorb them.

The tentacles wrapped around the body, spraying a sticky fluid, fortunately, the power armor’s defense was strong enough to resist corrosion, and Tang Zheng immediately fired up the thrusters to full capacity, the shoulder-mounted machine guns firing continuously, as he opened the bullet nest in his armature, targeting the meat worm monster.

Rocket shells, trailing flames, shot out, blasting apart some of the meat worm monster’s bodies, and Tang Zheng wrestled free of the tentacles, standing dozens of meters away, he ripped the severed meat whips off his body and stared at the writhing monster, pondering how to kill it.

"Such a monster can regenerate indefinitely, so there must be a core somewhere in the center," as the meat worm monster’s body rolled over and picked up fallen chunks of flesh, it could reabsorb and integrate them, hence those parts must not be crucial, Tang Zheng’s task was to completely obliterate it into mincemeat.

No sooner had he thought it than he did it, for Tang Zheng was not short on ammunition, after firing off all the Hellfire’s rocket shells, he took out the Beetle Chariot and jumped in, pressing the launch button.

The bullet nest trained on the meat worm monster, and then started a volley fire, two hundred rocket shells with flaming tails engulfed it, the violent explosion echoing throughout the test lobby, the castle seemed to shake a bit as well.

The coaxial machine guns also began to fire, as gun smoke and the smell of blood filled the air; the place instantly turned into a slaughterhouse, with more than half a foot of minced flesh and blood forming a liquid meat sauce underfoot, an extremely grisly sight.

As the meat worm monster’s body shrank, its core finally exposed, a fist-sized green crystal, which clearly sensed the crisis as well, its flesh undulating, spreading rapidly, attempting to cover the core.

Tang Zheng maneuvered the Beetle into a leap, landing amidst its body, paying no attention to those writhing, rapidly regenerating flesh walls around him, extending a mechanical arm, he grabbed the insect heart crystal and, with brute force, wrenched it out.

The meat worm monster let out a hysterical scream, going berserk, countless tentacles stretched out, coiling towards the Beetle Chariot.

However, Tang Zheng was already piloting it to escape; the meat worm monster’s body began to collapse, shrivel, and peel away in chunks.

The scanner showed the entire lobby filled with lethal neurotoxic gas, and Tang Zheng began to evacuate. The meat worm monster wasn’t fast, upon seeing it couldn’t catch up to its prey, it let out a cry of desperation. Desperate to survive, it urgently needed energy and began devouring all the cellular material-rich matter around it, not sparing the remnants of Insect-Human corpses.

Tang Zheng had intended to finish off the meat worm monster, but suddenly the entire passage began to collapse, and not wanting to be buried, he recovered the Beetle Chariot and fled at full speed.

At this moment, a fierce battle was underway in the castle; Huangfu Xiong, wearing Hellfire armor, had discovered this castle at the center of the island while scouting and decided to explore it. He did not expect the bad luck of encountering Fleischer, who was in combat with an Insect-Human leader. Huangfu Xiong had intended to hide and let Fleischer kill the Insect-Human, then reap the benefits, but the German had more sophisticated detection methods and discovered him.

Huangfu Xiong cursed his bad luck silently, but confident in his superior strength and not willing to give up on the BOSS, he engaged in the fight with the target being the lady in leather clothes.

The masturbating man, Fleischer, was nearly driven mad; he was tied up by the Insect-Human leader and could not split his focus, and this monster seemed to hold a grudge, attacking him with full force.

One ultimate ability after another exploded, practically demolishing the entire castle.

The sports star Landeck had intended to swoop in for the kill, unfortunately failing, as in terms of hiding and tracking, they couldn’t compare to the keen noses of the Insect-Humans, a squad of Insect-Human scouts found them, and the commotion of their firefight alerted Fleischer.

The masturbating man roared, urging Landeck to join the fight and take down Huangfu Xiong together, and now it was the turn of the former Special Forces Instructor to be anxious. (To be continued. If you like this work, please vote for it with recommendation tickets and monthly tickets at Qidian.com, your support is my greatest motivation.)