pjbooks Chapter 329 The Cicada is Hidden Behind! Using the chaebols as cannon fodder, I'm going to leve
Chapter 329 The Cicada is Hidden Behind! Using the chaebols as cannon fodder, I'm going to leve
Chen Yifan leaned against the cold tracks of the armored vehicle, panting heavily.
That was incredibly fast.
Before the pain could even be transmitted to the brain, his body was completely annihilated.
If he hadn't kept a backup plan, creating dozens of shadow clones to hide outside, he would already be meeting his maker.
That's really weird.
He quickly reviewed the situation in his mind.
Could it be... that the statues in the passageway possess some kind of bizarre annihilation mechanism?
Or perhaps it was because he triggered a mechanism.
No!
Forcing your way in is definitely not an option.
While the tycoons below were still working themselves to the bone, Chen Yifan simply shrank into the shadows.
It's better to leave the arduous task of scouting out routes to professionals.
The firefight at the bottom of the pit had reached a fever pitch.
After the earth dragon finished spraying a round of venom, its stamina was clearly depleted, and its movements became much slower.
The losses suffered by the Qilin Group were also extremely severe.
Of the elite squadron of over two hundred men, fewer than seventy are still standing.
Safety supervisor Zhou Tao had bloodshot eyes and a large patch of his hair was singed. He was yelling at the top of his lungs into the communication channel.
"Open the crates! Open crate number three! Don't let this beast breathe!"
The heavily armed guards behind immediately dispersed, revealing the silver metal box that had been under tight protection.
The lid popped open.
There were no psionic weapons inside, only a crystalline bullet about the length of an adult's arm, with a translucent, dark blue color.
The surface of the warhead is covered with densely packed micro-carved runes.
Chen Yifan glanced at it from afar, his eyelids twitching.
That was a highly concentrated void explosive.
This stuff is sold by the gram on the black market, yet the Qilin Consortium actually produced such a large one.
Two heavily armed soldiers pushed the warhead into a specially designed, shoulder-fired launcher.
"Lock on the heart! Fire!"
Zhou Tao's voice was hoarse and strained.
hum!
There was no loud explosion.
A thin blue line pierced through the earth dragon's prized rocky scales in an instant, stabbing straight into its bulging chest.
one second.
two seconds.
The mutated earth dragon's massive body suddenly froze.
Immediately afterwards, its chest and abdomen contracted sharply inward, followed by a muffled, tearing sound of flesh being ripped apart.
Half of his body was torn open by the power of the void, leaving a bloody hole several meters wide.
Not even the internal organs were left; they were all shredded into a bloody mist.
The level 53 boss monster let out a desperate cry, and its massive body collapsed with a crash, making the entire mine tremble.
Large, dazzling orbs of light and materials burst forth from the corpse.
But these elite chaebols didn't even glance at the spoils of war.
"Clear the area! Quickly! Push forward!" Zhou Tao drew his sidearm and stumbled forward through the blood-soaked ground. "Go open the door! The things inside absolutely cannot be lost!"
The remaining dozens of people, despite their exhaustion, immediately set up a semi-circular defensive perimeter outside the bronze gate.
Chen Yifan shifted to a more comfortable position and watched coldly from the sidelines.
The fun has begun.
Zhou Tao swallowed hard and pointed to the two heavy shield guards closest to the door.
"You two, go and widen the crack in the door. Be quiet."
The two burly men, each over two meters tall, exchanged a glance, put away their giant shields, and walked step by step to the bronze door.
Just now, this door was hit by the void bomb, and a hole was blown open.
The two men, one on each side, placed their hands, clad in power-operated gloves, on the heavy bronze door.
With a loud roar, they exerted their strength together.
Click click click.
The heavy scraping sound echoed through the empty mine shaft. The door had indeed been pushed a little wider.
But in the next second.
The intricate ancient patterns on the originally lifeless bronze door suddenly lit up.
It wasn't the pure light of psionic energy, but a dark red that sent chills down your spine.
The color was like fresh blood surging through veins.
"Watch out!" Zhou Tao instinctively sensed something was wrong and shouted as he retreated rapidly.
It's too late.
A visible ripple of crimson light exploded instantly along the arms of the two shield guards who pushed open the door.
There was no explosion.
There was no shockwave.
There wasn't even a sound.
Those struck by that dark red light were either the shield guards pushing open the door or the guards standing on guard a dozen meters away.
The body underwent extremely terrifying changes in a fraction of a second.
He didn't even have time to scream.
Dozens of living, high-level professionals had their moisture and life force instantly drained as if by a super pump.
The body beneath the bulletproof plates quickly shrank.
The flesh and blood disappeared, and the fur and hides were carbonized.
A breeze carrying a fishy smell blew by.
This group of elite soldiers, who were just moments before full of energy, were instantly reduced to a pile of grayish-white dust.
Not even bone fragments were left.
Zhou Tao slumped down in a pile of rubble thirty meters away, his teeth chattering uncontrollably.
There were fewer than ten people left around him.
They were all trembling.
The ripple just now was less than a fist's distance from the tip of his nose.
It was a terrifying force that completely transcended their level of understanding.
Chen Yifan, hiding in the shadow of the armored vehicle above, could see everything clearly.
He understood how he had died in the tunnel.
Deprivation of vitality.
This bronze door is not a simple defensive structure, but a huge altar of life.
It needs to eat.
After the life force of those dozens of professionals was absorbed, the blood-red patterns on the door became noticeably brighter, and even the gap that had been forcibly pushed open closed up considerably on its own.
The only way to completely open this door, or rather, to shut down the killing restrictions inside, is to fill it with a massive amount of life force.
Fill it until it can't hold any more.
Of the more than two hundred people who died, only about ten remained. This amount of flesh and blood sacrifice was not even enough to fill the gaps in the teeth of this ancient gate.
"Retreat...retreat quickly!"
Zhou Tao finally couldn't hold back anymore.
If the mission fails, it fails; it's not something they at this level can handle.
He scrambled to his feet and beckoned the remaining men to run out of the pit.
Nobody cared about the materials dropped by the earth dragon.
Chen Yifan did not attempt to intercept or kill Zhou Tao.
These few remnants are already useless; keeping them alive will allow them to return to the Qilin Group and report back.
Once the chaebol's top brass learns of this door's existence, they will definitely not let the matter rest.
They will definitely mobilize more cannon fodder, bringing more vitality.
Since that's the case, let them do the hard labor for now.
The door wasn't open, so no one could take anything from inside.
Once they've paved a bloody path with human lives, we'll stalk them from behind and reap the rewards.
Having figured this out, Chen Yifan didn't linger any longer.
The commotion here is too great; it will likely attract even higher-level beasts from the surrounding area soon, and might even summon the crazed Lantern Bearers from Jiangcheng.
He needs to hurry up and get his own business done.
Shadow Stealth is activated again.
Like a ghost, Chen Yifan quickly escaped the mine's perimeter, using the shadows of the continuous ruins as cover.
Ten minutes later.
He had moved far away from the area of fire and ventured back into the perilous, dark wilderness.
The surroundings were eerily quiet.
There wasn't even the sound of insects chirping.
This is the hinterland 50 kilometers north of Jiangcheng.
For many, this is a forbidden zone for life.
But for Chen Yifan, this place is a natural ATM with no upper limit.
As he walked through the weeds, he took out several skill books that he had just obtained from Wang Qingyun.
A book radiating a purple aura, titled "Passive - Psionic Assimilation".
An extremely rare book on spatial segmentation.
Wang Qingyun was generous, offering only top-quality items that could make up for his current shortcomings.
Without a second thought, Chen Yifan smashed everything to study.
The skills transformed into points of light and merged into the body.
Chen Yifan suddenly stopped.
Across the black mist ahead, a vast, undulating outline appeared.
It's not a ruin.
Instead, it was an extremely large nest made entirely of dried bones.
The air was no longer filled with the simple smell of decay, but with an extremely strong, sweet, and fishy odor.
This is the pheromone scent unique to high-ranking Zerg.
[Ding! Target area detected: Bone Insect Nest]
Average monster level in the area: Lv.55-Lv.60 (Third Job Advancement Danger Zone)
Chen Yifan twirled the dagger between his fingers and then gripped it in a reverse hand.
A level 50+ third-tier monster.
Large quantity, enough to fill you up.
"Those idiots were infuriating to watch."
Chen Yifan twisted his neck. The power within him, which had surged due to the full power of his spirit, was surging wildly through his blood vessels and desperately needed an outlet.
He had no intention of carrying out any stealth assassination.
The immense spiritual power instantly left his body and condensed into a giant, invisible hand in mid-air.
Then.
He slapped the enormous bone nest in front of him hard!
"Everyone, get out here! Dinner's ready!"
boom!
The violent mental energy smashed the outer perimeter of the nest.
next second.
The piercing chirping of insects tore through the night sky.
Thousands upon thousands of black beetles, each the size of a small car, surged from the ground like a boiling black tsunami, rushing madly toward Chen Yifan!
Facing this swarm of insects that could instantly plunge a three-turn team into despair, Chen Yifan not only did not retreat, but instead strode forward to meet it.
tonight.
He won't go anywhere until he's maxed out his experience pool.