CHAPTER 438: CHAPTER 406 BROTHERS

The outer layer of the four-armed beetle shimmered, revealing its true form, with chitin armor thick as tank plates covered in hooks, the upper two limbs curved like sickles, holding the Skull Shattering Power Hammer,

and a Steel Banner Spear thrust into its chest.

Under its ribs, two limbs extended, each holding an Activated Long Whip and a Biological Gun growing eyes.

"Sss..."

The Divine Calamity infection opened a maw full of sharp teeth, exhaling a hot stream, laughing sinisterly like a human.

In the next instant, the infected creature’s upper limb joints spun fiercely, its sickles moving too fast for the eye to see, slicing into Gray Rain’s shoulders.

"Huh?!"

Gray Rain’s eyes widened in anger, gripping the hammer handle tightly, activating the Special Effect.

[Special Effect 2: Skull Shattering. After violently swinging and hitting a target, the Power Hammer releases a shockwave with power equivalent to the strike]

Buzz!

A surging impact traveled through the contact point, spreading into the chitin shell, infiltrating the infected creature’s body.

The force of this blow could overturn a speeding overloaded truck or shatter a main battle tank and trigger ammunition explosions.

Yet the infected creature that took the full brunt of the Power Hammer only had blood spurting from the armor joints on its right side, then, as if nothing happened,

it used sickle limbs to rip Gray Rain into five pieces, tossing her aside.

Whoosh—

Li Cheng rushed forward, delivering a powerful side kick to the end of the Steel Banner Spear, causing the spear to rotate inside the infected creature’s stomach.

Torn organs and spurting blood did not hinder the infected creature’s actions.

It shook its wrist, unleashing the Activated Long Whip, tightening ferociously around Li Cheng’s waist like a python crushing its prey,

and simultaneously, it raised its left arm, aiming the Biological Gun at Li Cheng’s head.

The gun resembled a mix of cockroach, shrimp, and silkworm, with its structure curled and its chitin shell alternating gold and white, sides covered with rotating black bean-like eyes.

As the infected creature raised the gun, the gun body swelled and moved forward, a pale blue plasma forming at the muzzle.

Zzzap!

The spherical plasma shot out, ionizing the air, penetrating the floor, reaching the fourth basement level, missing Li Cheng who disappeared into thin air while taking the Steel Banner Spear with him.

Did he log out from the Killing Field?

No, he didn’t.

The infected creature instinctively looked up, as Li Cheng had used [Demon Exchange] to switch places with the Thousand Paper Cranes released in advance, now stationed on the second basement level, and now...

Boom!

Li Cheng punched through the floor, dropping vertically with concrete, wielding the unyielding [Blade of Repentance], cutting through the tough chitin shell like a hot knife through butter, slashing straight into the infected creature’s brain.

The infected creature lifted its sickle-like limbs, blocking Li Cheng’s wrist, halting the 20-centimeter blade from proceeding,

while the second pair of limbs wielding the Activated Long Whip whipped out towards Li Cheng’s neck.

In the nick of time, Li Cheng used his mind to open the Backpack and retrieve the [Ape-man Degeneration Gun].

One of the Killing Field’s hidden rules is that players can decide where the retrieved item appears, such as in their left hand, right hand, above the head, beneath the feet,

because the Killing Field’s items cover everything, having them always appear in the hand for use wouldn’t be convenient, especially for players without arms.

At this moment, Li Cheng utilized this rule, summoning the [Ape-man Degeneration Gun] onto his belly.

The [Assembled Puppet·Modified] Special Effect activated instantly, and the [Ape-man Degeneration Gun] adhered securely to Li Cheng’s abdomen,

as he thrust his waist twice in an ungainly, almost vulgar motion, firing two shots,

the bullets arriving first, hitting the incoming Activated Long Whip.

The whip, initially thick like a python, devolved first into an ordinary steel cable, then into a plastic toy snake, losing all power.

All this happened in a flash; the infected creature turned the gun, firing another Plasma Cannon,

while Li Cheng dodged to the side of the Biological Electromagnetic Cannon, evading with extreme maneuverability, retreating several meters away.

The flashlight fell to the floor, its strong beam reflecting back and forth on the metal instruments, illuminating the entire space.

"Are you okay?"

Li Cheng directed a quick shout to the corner while keeping his eyes fixed on the infected creature.

"Just ended up as Five-Part Shang Yang, won’t die."

Gray Rain’s muffled voice came from the corner, with her resilience, being merely torn to pieces was nothing.

The real hassle was the acid attached to the infected creature’s sickle—

Acid, comparable to Alien blood, with strong corrosiveness which even nanometal robots’ self-healing struggle with effects for quite a while.

Since Gray Rain was fine, Li Cheng refocused entirely on the Divine Calamity infected.

Even observing from a distance, he could sense the surging Life Force within its body.

In terms of power, it was undeniably one of the strongest entities he’d faced since debut, aside from the crazy couple Xiao Shui Star Lord and Miao Yin Hermit,

even the Frog God from the [Homeward] mission, who could cross space, paled against this Divine Calamity infected.

Jose trapped under the Biological Electromagnetic Cannon couldn’t help but cry out in fear. He never had pork but had seen pigs run, instinctively realizing he might not escape from this.

His instincts were correct,

The Divine Calamity beetle healed at a visible rate, lifting a delicate hair-like tail from its back, directly piercing Jose’s back of the head.

Jose’s once clear eyes instantly lost all reason, flipping white, mouth opening involuntarily in a non-human howl, facing Li Cheng, he uttered, "...Brother..."

Li Cheng’s eyes narrowed, the words coming from Jose’s mouth were perfect Mandarin, unprocessed by Killing Field translation.

This meant the Divine Calamity beetle’s intelligence level was sufficient to extract knowledge from victims’ brains.

Taking a deep breath, Li Cheng smiled, saying, "Anyone who can’t work overtime 996 isn’t worthy of calling me a brother."

??

If the Divine Calamity beetle surfed online abstractly, it would definitely reply, "Can working overtime 996 make you a brother to be cut down then?"

"How did you..."

The infected creature used Jose’s head for speech, "discover me..."

"Airflow."

Li Cheng concisely replied, the Biological Electromagnetic Cannon on the third basement floor just looked somewhat bloody and ugly, but its inherent technology far surpassed that of the real world.

To complete its setup, the Divine Calamity beetle brought various instruments, spread germ carpet, connected power supply, and restarted the biological lab.

According to Forth Level biological lab standards, the adjacent room’s pressure differential should be -20 to -30Pa, using a fresh air system that continuously draws purified gas from outside,

thus preventing leakage of Forth Level lab’s deadly pathogens like Ebola virus, Marburg virus.

As the Divine Calamity beetle restarted the fresh air system, Li Cheng couldn’t smell the dense blood scent on the third basement level from the second.

And it was precisely due to the fresh air system’s continuous pumping of fresh air into the room that Li Cheng detected the subtle changes in airflow, discovering a hidden massive entity inside the room.