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Chapter 468 - 434: Sacrifice

Chapter 468: Chapter 434: Sacrifice

Unexpectedly, the muzzle did not emit flames, nor did a bullet emerge from the chamber.

Time seemed to slow down dozens of times at this moment, and Red Spider exhaled in relief, the screen surface of the Binary Tree VR glasses shaking violently, trying to focus and locate the bullet.

Li Cheng slowly blinked, his eyelashes casting a grid shadow in his vision.

A line, a dotted line traversing space appeared out of nowhere, stretching between the Ikea sofa 3000 meters away and Gray Green Giant A.

As a perfect level consumption type weapon, the bullet of [Miraculous Grace] was close to conceptual, intangible and formless, directly acting on the giant’s life essence,

forcing it to stumble back several steps, suddenly freezing in place, with a dozen blurry giant shadows gradually tilting backwards.

All the shadows trembled lightly, like afterimages of an old television.

"Cough, cough, is this considered... successful?"

Inside the cockpit, Blood Lion Roar coughed violently, with oil and coolant constantly spilling out of the joints of the Infinite Justice Mecha, fully reflecting his current physical condition.

"Half successful."

Binary Tree’s expression was serious; Giant A was not dead, at most temporarily sealed. Once the seal is broken, it would be lively again, eating heartily, able to climb five floors in one breath without effort.

"We need to hurry up and leave."

At this moment, Red Spider also activated a skill, coming swiftly with the wind, quickly saying, "The effect of this shot [Miraculous Grace] is weakening magical resistance, disarming, and sealing. It can last for about 10 minutes.

This giant has attributes like ’super defense’, ’quick regeneration’, and ’stronger the more injured’, which can still be effective even in a sealed state.

Therefore, unless any of you have extremely powerful destructive methods to eliminate it in one go when the seal breaks,

my advice is to run now."

As a gold-tier hitter of the [Suited Thugs] guild, Red Spider’s power system is quite complete and perfect.

This shot not only utilized the power of [Miraculous Grace] but also combined several shooting skills and items.

Including but not limited to [Magic Power Break] — bestows the next bullet with magic breaking enhancement.

[Scout’s Sniper Scope] — the farther the target is from oneself, the higher the damage, until the enhancement reaches a fixed value.

[Gun Spirit] — enters a complete meditative state, temporarily receives the experience of top snipers in world history such as Simon Haye, Vasily Zaitsev, Lyudmila, Matthias Heisennoel, Zhang Taofang,

Truly becoming one with the gun god. Who dares say I’m cheating.

The excessive consumption also made his originally shiny hair turn completely white, his appearance gaunt, aging him by over twenty years.

"Run, there’s no shame in it."

Blood Lion Roar said nothing, gulping down a bottle of Life Potion, healing his injuries.

Influenced by the [Human-Machine Chain Life] skill, the healing effect on him also spread to the Justice Mecha.

The broken cables were reconnected, the damaged brake armor automatically fell off, and the burst tire completed its replacement.

Though not completely restored, at least it could barely start moving again.

Rattle, rattle, creak, creak.

After a burst of transformation sound, the Justice Mecha reverted into a heavy-duty truck, Blood Lion Roar waved to signal everyone to get on—

A 10-minute window is enough for them to escape to the deep underground.

Everyone boarded the heavy-duty truck, except Li Cheng who remained standing, motionless.

"Why aren’t you leaving?" White Horse Tombstone asked in surprise, in her impression, Pifu seemed unreliable but could be counted on for important matters.

"No point."

Li Cheng pushed his Information Integration Glasses with his middle finger, calmly saying, "In fact, there’s not ten minutes, barely three. Look at the giant’s soles."

Following Li Cheng’s gaze, everyone saw faint nodules emerging under the giant’s soles.

They looked like parasites, or like wax oil formed by melting candles.

"The giant is not a conventional carbon-based organism, if we forcefully call its body parts cells, it’s in a constant state of ceaseless renewal and extinction."

Li Cheng explained rapidly while scanning carefully with his Information Glasses, "The [Miraculous Grace] seals the giant of the past. It cannot seal the new giant produced by cell division.

If left alone, in less than two minutes, it will complete self-renewal, scrapping its past self, ’hatching’ a new entity."

Sure enough, within a few breaths, the wax oil under the giant’s soles vaguely showed a baby-sized humanoid shape.

And the giant’s main body, like being eroded by wind and sand, gradually shed its surface.

"What the hell..."

Blood Lion Roar couldn’t help but curse. The capabilities of this Giant were just too overwhelming—Laser Eyes, Super Defense, Infinite Energy, Infinite Blood Bar, Built-in Flight, getting stronger the more it’s fought.

If this were on a Modern Earth’s parallel universe, a single Giant could wipe out global standing armies, needing close-range explosions from atomic and hydrogen bombs just to possibly destroy it.

In comparison, the similarly abnormal existence, Horse-headed Man S, and Meat Mountain L

were just cosplaying a shameful version of the Evil Spirit Knight and David Dai.

Running was impossible, killing it was out of the question,

White Horse Tombstone, with two torn sleeves revealing strong muscular arms, sighed and pulled out a military flask from World War II from the Backpack, drinking heavily.

This drink wasn’t some special-effect killing field delicacy; it was simply vodka brewed by her long-deceased grandparents.

Others also dimmed their eyes, realizing that the average life expectancy of the player community was even less than drug junkies and fitness enthusiasts who took medicine every day, yet why a group of Lv27, Lv28,

died in the Secret Realm just because of a rumor, without even seeing the Legendary Hidden Room, was truly suffocating.

"Pifu brother, your player essence hasn’t been taken away, so you should be able to return to the real world at any time, right?"

Blood Lion Roar pulled out a pre-prepared envelope from the Backpack, "Please deliver this letter to my guild’s president.

I have a bottom-box method here that might, perhaps, maybe, take down the Giant."

Li Cheng raised an eyebrow, "Isn’t it the backup hidden energy source?"

"You’ve guessed it."

Blood Lion Roar smiled wryly. He planned to activate the {Human-Machine Chain Life} Skill, consume a Heavenly Demon Dissolving Body Elixir, then overload the engine, detonating the Mecha, achieving a dual self-destruction of human and machine, with expected power not less than a medium-yield tactical nuclear bomb.

Upon hearing these words, all other players turned to him, eyes full of surprise, worry, and respect.

"Don’t look at me. If there were another way, I wouldn’t be doing this."

Blood Lion Roar sighed helplessly and skillfully pulled out a half-crumpled pack of cheap cigarettes from the truck drawer, lighting one casually,

"Also, I made a personality backup at the Whale Song Guild, and spent a significant sum to have the Evil Science Alliance customize a Perfect Level cloned body.

After I die, the Evil Science Alliance will help activate the clone, implant my memories, and have it take care of my family.

In a sense, the new me will be luckier than the Transcendents still struggling to survive in the killing field."

As the saying goes, ’The words of a dying person are kind.’

Blood Lion Roar, having accepted his death calmly, smoked a cigarette without restraint, exhaling the smoke before inhaling it back through his nose, letting it linger in his lungs.

"Alright, you all should leave. Get out of this range."

The burly man with a stubbly beard tossed the cigarette butt down, stomped it out, then stretched his hand out of the truck window, giving the void a flying middle finger, "Damn this killing field, to hell with your ancestors."

Saying that, he pulled out the truck steering wheel, revealing a hidden red skull-shaped button inside.

"Uh... actually there’s no need to rush."

The atmosphere was already so heightened, Li Cheng’s expression turned slightly awkward, "I have an idea that I’m not sure will work."

He pulled out the butterfly hairpin he obtained, and from the Three-dimensional Warehouse, took out numerous metal buckets, PVC pipes, and drainage joints.

"Wait, are you going to..." Binary Tree was the first to react, widening his eyes.

"Yes, that’s right."

Li Cheng’s hands moved like lightning, operating the {Assembled Puppet·Modified}, forcing these parts together to eventually form a spherical device.

With plastic pipes as the framework, drainage joints as connecting points, and all metal buckets facing inward.

It somewhat resembled a three-dimensional laser scanning system.

Li Cheng attached Floating Engines onto the sphere device, gently raising it, and when the Gray Green Giant was immobilized, he locked it onto the Giant, aligning all buckets towards it.

Then, he pulled out a water pump and water tank from the warehouse, pumping water into the pipe system.

Due to the floating engine, the pumped water didn’t flow to the ground but lingered inside the buckets.

As for the final step...

Li Cheng placed the butterfly hairpin at the top of the pipe system, softly chanting, "Cha Yu Ji..." _{\n(o)v.e\l.com}

The next second, an anomaly suddenly occurred, each bucket sprouting a decayed corpse, thrashing about with eroding limbs, clawing right onto the Giant.