Qin Weiguo's cold word, "Begin," instantly ignited the dead silence of the Zoo!
"Roar—!!!"
A deafening roar, filled with violence and destruction, suddenly exploded from deep within the Zoo! It instantly tore apart the brief tranquility!
Immediately after!
"Ugh ah—!!!"
"Roar—!!!"
Countless crimson eyes lit up like ghost fires in the shadows of the ruins!
Deafening roars swept in from all directions! The entire Zoo instantly... transformed into a boiling ghoul purgatory!
"Enemy attack! Defensive formation! Open fire! Open fire!"
The commander's hoarse shouts were instantly drowned out by the terrifying sound waves!
Da da da da—!!!
Boom! Boom! Boom!
The soldiers of Panshi Fortress reacted extremely quickly! Dense gunfire erupted like popping beans! The firelight from grenade explosions shot into the sky! Instantly illuminating the ghoul horde charging at the front!
What a terrifying sight that was!
No longer were they the scattered, low-level ghouls from the periphery!
Instead, it was an army!
At the front! Were dozens of Bone Armor Corpse Rhinos, each as large as a bull, covered in thick, grayish-white bone armor, with tusks like scimitars, charging like a tank formation!
They slammed their massive bodies against the defenses of Panshi Fortress!
Rumble! Rumble!
Heavy armored vehicles were violently shaken by the impact!
Temporary metal barricades were torn apart and sent flying like paper! Soldiers were sent sprawling by the immense force of the impact!
Close behind! Were hundreds of Shadow Claw Cats whose sharp claws glowed with a faint blue light!
They darted and leaped through the ruins like specters! Avoiding the frontal gunfire! From the flanks, and even from above! They swarmed towards the soldiers like a tide! Their sharp claws easily tore through bulletproof vests!
Even more terrifying was... behind the ghoul horde!
Three Bone Eater Realm Bone Armor Corpse Ghoul elites, exceptionally massive in size, covered in smooth, black jade-like bone armor, with ferocious bone spikes protruding from their joints, and cold wisdom gleaming in their crimson beast eyes!
The three "commanders" cultivated by Zhuang Han!
They stood like command towers! Emitting low, commanding roars!
Under their command, the ghoul horde advanced and retreated in an orderly fashion! Fearless of death! Like the most elite... Legion of Death!
"Hold steady! Firepower coverage! Ability users! Get up there!"
Li Mingyu roared! His Buli (Brute Force) ability instantly erupted! His muscles bulged!
He was like a mad rhino! He slammed into a Bone Armor Corpse Rhino that had charged into the defensive line!
Bang—!!!
The dull thud was like two trucks colliding!
Li Mingyu grunted! His body was forced backward by the immense force! His feet plowed two deep furrows in the ground!
But he held on! His arms clamped tightly around the Corpse Rhino's horns! Roaring! He forcibly flipped the massive beast onto the ground!
"Sun Qiang! Cover!"
Li Mingyu roared hoarsely!
"Coming!"
Sun Qiang roared back! His metal fist gleamed with a cold light! He slammed it hard into another pouncing Shadow Claw Cat! Pfft! The hard metal fist directly smashed the Shadow Claw Cat's head to pieces! Red and white matter splattered!
"Chen Xue! Save him!"
Sun Qiang's eyes were bloodshot as he watched a soldier not far away, who had been knocked down by a Shadow Claw Cat and whose throat had been torn by its claws!
Chen Xue's face was ashen, and her body was still trembling slightly, but seeing her comrade injured, a flicker of struggle passed through her eyes, immediately replaced by a near-instinctive sense of duty!
She bit her lip hard! Soft silver light surged wildly from her palms! Like a warm stream, it instantly enveloped the severely wounded soldier's neck! Trying to staunch the gushing blood! To repair the torn wound!
However! Just as the silver light touched the wound!
"Ugh ah—!!!"
The soldier suddenly let out a distorted, agonizing shriek!
His body convulsed violently! Countless... dark red, spiderweb-like... blood patterns instantly appeared on the surface of his skin!
His crimson eyes instantly bulged! Fangs bared! A hoarse, beast-like snarl escaped his throat!
Corporeal transformation! Dragon blood contamination!
"No—!!!"
Chen Xue let out a heart-wrenching scream! Her eyes filled with unbelievable horror and despair!
Her silver light... not only failed to save him... but instead... accelerated the corporeal transformation?!
Why... why!
"Roar!"
The transformed soldier suddenly opened his fanged maw! And bit fiercely at Chen Xue, who was within reach!
"Watch out!" Sun Qiang roared! His heavy metal fist, with a tearing screech through the air, slammed into the transformed soldier's temple!
Bang—!!!
The head burst open like a watermelon! Red and white matter splattered all over Chen Xue's face!
Chen Xue stared blankly at the headless corpse collapsing softly before her, then looked down at her own hands, stained with blood and brain matter, still shimmering with a faint silver light... her body began to tremble violently!
Tears mixed with bloodstains streamed freely down her face!
Who... was she trying to save? Who... could she still save?!
"Chen Xue! Don't just stand there!"
Li Mingyu roared, punching away a pouncing Shadow Claw Cat, shielding the distraught Chen Xue behind him.
"Leave this to us! You... protect yourself!"
The battlefield instantly erupted into a white-hot melee!
Gunfire, explosions, roars, screams, bone-crushing sounds... intertwined into a mad and desperate symphony of death!
The soldiers of Panshi Fortress, relying on vehicles and ruins, desperately resisted the ghoul horde that surged like a tide!
The ability users displayed their various powers!
Flames, ice, storms... exploded within the ghoul horde!
But the number of ghouls was simply too many! And they were fearless of death!
The three Bone Eater Realm Bone Armor Corpse Ghoul elites! Each charge made the defensive line precarious!
"Damn it! This won't do!"
Xiong Yan's irritable voice exploded in the communicator! His "Furnace" battle vehicle had already charged into the battlefield!
This was his ride, a highly heat-resistant flame-spraying vehicle.
The heat vents on both sides of the vehicle spewed out scorching white flames like volcanoes!
Wherever it passed, ghouls instantly melted and carbonized like candles thrown into a furnace! Forcibly plowing a charred path through the ghoul horde!
【Samadhi True Fire】!
"Old Li! Come with me to kill those three big guys!" Xiong Yan roared, and the battle vehicle sharply turned, heading straight for the three Bone Armor Corpse Ghoul elites that stood like command towers!
Li Fan did not answer.
His figure vanished from the assault vehicle like a ghost, merging into the shadows.
The next moment, he had already appeared on the flank of one of the Bone Armor Corpse Ghoul elites!
Dark golden vertical pupils gleamed with cold killing intent in the darkness! Scaled claws, with a screech that tore through the air, stabbed fiercely at the relatively vulnerable neck joint of the ghoul elite!
Pfft—!!!
The sharp claws accurately pierced into the bone armor's gap!
Yazi's first derivative ability 【Half-Dragon Transformation】.
Blood gushed out! The ghoul elite let out a painful roar! Its massive body twisted violently! Its bone-spiked giant claw, with a terrifying momentum that seemed to tear everything apart, slammed fiercely at Li Fan!
Li Fan's figure vanished from its original spot as if teleporting! The giant claw slammed heavily onto the empty ground! Crushed stones flew! The ground cracked!
At the same time!
"Burn to ashes... for me!" Xiong Yan's roar sounded! The "Furnace" battle vehicle suddenly spewed out two even thicker, hotter columns of fire! Like two roaring giant fire dragons! They slammed fiercely into another Bone Armor Corpse Ghoul elite!
Boom—!!!
The flames instantly engulfed the ghoul elite's massive body!
The terrifying high temperature made it let out a shrill scream! The bone armor covering it made crackling sounds! Rapidly turning red, softening, and melting!
However! The third Bone Armor Corpse Ghoul suddenly opened its massive mouth!
From deep within its throat... a viscous, pungent... dark green poisonous mist! It sprayed fiercely at Xiong Yan's battle vehicle, which was controlling the flames!
"Watch out!" Li Fan's voice held a hint of urgency!
Chh chh chh—!!!
The poisonous mist instantly enveloped the battle vehicle! The thick armor emitted a grating, corrosive sound! The high-temperature resistant coating on the vehicle's surface rapidly dissolved and peeled off! Revealing the vulnerable metal beneath!
Xiong Yan inside the vehicle let out a muffled grunt! Clearly, he had been impacted!
"You're courting death!" Xiong Yan raged! The battle vehicle suddenly shook! Even more violent flames surged out from the heat vents! Trying to disperse the poisonous mist!
But the poisonous mist clung to the battle vehicle like a maggot to bone!
Just then!
A figure descended like a cannonball from the sky! Crashing heavily onto the head of the ghoul elite that was spewing poisonous mist!
It was Li Mingyu! He was covered in blood! His Buli (Brute Force) ability was pushed to its limit! His skin was like a red-hot branding iron! Covered in a metallic sheen!
He roared! His fists were like pile drivers! With terrifying sonic booms that tore through the air! He slammed them fiercely into the ghoul elite's head!
Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!
Like a heavy hammer striking iron! The dull thuds made eardrums ache! The bone armor on the ghoul elite's head instantly became covered in spiderweb-like cracks!
Blood gushed from its seven orifices! Its massive body staggered backward from the impact! The poisonous mist spray instantly ceased!
"Nice job!"
Xiong Yan roared! Seizing the opportunity! Scorching white flames slammed fiercely into the chest of another ghoul elite!
Boom—!!!
The bone armor instantly burst! Charred flesh and internal organs splattered everywhere! The ghoul elite let out an unwilling roar! Its massive body crashed to the ground!
Li Fan's figure appeared like a ghost behind another ghoul elite that Xiong Yan had heavily wounded! His scaled claws were like the most precise surgical knives!
Instantly piercing into the bone armor gap at its back neck! And twisting fiercely!
Crack—!!!
The neck bone snapped! The ghoul elite's roar abruptly ceased! Its massive body slumped softly!
Three Bone Eater Realm ghoul elites! Under the combined assault of Xiong Yan, Li Fan, and Li Mingyu! In just a few breaths! Two dead, one severely wounded!
"Roar—!!!"
The remaining ghoul elite, whose head was severely wounded by Li Mingyu, let out an enraged roar! Its crimson beast eyes locked onto Li Mingyu! Charging madly! It wanted to... tear this ant to shreds!
Li Mingyu's pupils constricted! The previous burst had almost exhausted his strength!
Now, facing this Bone Eater Realm's dying counterattack! He... had nowhere to escape!
"Mingyu!" Sun Qiang's eyes were bloodshot! He wanted to help but was tightly entangled by several Bone Armor Corpse Rhinos!
Just at this critical moment!
Buzz—!!!
An indescribable, cold and absolute will fluctuation, as if from the depths of the soul! Like an invisible storm! Instantly swept across the entire battlefield!
Time... seemed to... freeze!
The roaring ghoul horde... their movements suddenly stiffened! As if a pause button had been pressed!
The charging soldiers... their steps halted in place! Their eyes became hollow!
The firelight of explosions... solidified in mid-air! Like a still oil painting!
The flying shattered stones... suspended in the air! Like frozen ice crystals!
Only... one person!
Chu Hang!
He had, at some unknown point, stood in the center of the battlefield! His pure white mask reflected an eerie light under the blood moon!
He slowly raised his right hand! Five fingers spread open! His palm facing the Bone Armor Corpse Ghoul elite that was pouncing on Li Mingyu!
There was no earth-shattering energy explosion! No dazzling light! Not even... any physical contact!
But the moment his palm faced the ghoul elite!
"Rules... Judgment!"
Chu Hang's cold voice was like the pronouncement of death!
"Evil cannot triumph over good!"
Buzz—!!!
An indescribable, cold and absolute will, as if from the very rules of the world! Like an invisible shackle! Instantly clamped onto the soul of the Bone Armor Corpse Ghoul elite!
"Roar... ugh..."
The Bone Armor Corpse Ghoul elite's massive body suddenly stiffened in mid-air!
As if a pause button had been pressed!
A hoarse, rattling sound, like a broken bellows, escaped its throat! As if... an invisible giant hand had choked its throat! All sounds, all movements, all thoughts... were forcibly stripped away!
The next second!
Pfft—!!!
Without any warning! Without any process! The Bone Armor Corpse Ghoul elite's massive body... like a wax figure thrown into strong acid... instantly... vaporized! Vanished! Not even a speck of ash remained! Only a bottomless, mirror-smooth, terrifying pit was left in its place!
Rule erasure! Absolute! Complete! Erasure!
The entire scene was dead silent! You could hear a pin drop!
Everyone was frozen in place as if petrified!
Staring in disbelief at this... miraculous... terrifying sight before them! Looking at the bottomless pit! Looking at the figure standing like a demon god on the edge of the pit, wearing a pure white mask!
Chu Hang slowly withdrew his hand.
His gaze pierced through the chaotic battlefield, through the pervasive gunpowder smoke and blood mist, like a solid ice pick, locking onto the highest observation deck deep within the Zoo!
A figure stood silently there!
Crimson pupils! Like burning hellfire! Cold! Indifferent!
The corners of his mouth slowly curved into a cold, mocking arc!
Ling Chen!
He... had been watching all along!
Chu Hang's brow beneath the mask... furrowed very subtly...
The Rule Judgment seemed... not to have fully taken effect? He remembered that he had issued the rule to include Ling Chen. Or perhaps the target was wrong?
He slowly lifted his foot.
Taking a step!
Buzz—!!!
The space around him... rippled like water! His figure... instantly... vanished from its original spot!
When he reappeared, he was already standing at the entrance of the observation deck!
Facing off against Ling Chen across the air!
"Ling Chen."
Chu Hang's cold voice sounded, like metal scraping.
"The apocalypse needs order. You... are chaos... the protagonist's mortal enemy."
A playful glint flashed in Ling Chen's crimson pupils, he slowly raised his hand, a wisp of dark red blood like a living thing coiled and extended from his fingertip, finally transforming into a foot-long, thin as a cicada's wing, blood-colored short blade with a dark red glow flowing along its edge!
"Order? Justice?"
Ling Chen's voice carried a hint of languor, the mocking curve of his lips deepened.
"You tell me what is order, what is justice? Order is justice written by the victors, merely ink used by the victors to gloss over peace."
He lightly slashed his blood blade! Leaving a dark red streak in the air!
Before his words had even finished!
Boom—!!!
A terrifying pillar of fire, scorching white with a blue-green halo! Like a roaring angry dragon! Shot up from the battlefield below! Slamming fiercely into the Ferris wheel observation deck!
It was Xiong Yan!
He had finally shaken off the ghouls' entanglement! Carrying towering rage and... a hint of even more fanatical fighting spirit after being shocked by Chu Hang's rules! He charged straight at Ling Chen!
"Ling Chen! Die for me!"
At the same time!
A dark shadow, like a ghost merging into the night! Silently appeared behind Ling Chen! Scaled claws, covered in dark golden scales! Gleamed with a deadly cold light! Piercing straight at Ling Chen's back!
It was Li Fan! He was like the most lethal venomous snake! Choosing the most cunning timing! Launching the most deadly sneak attack!
Chu Hang! Xiong Yan! Li Fan!
The three top combat powers of Panshi Fortress! From three directions! Simultaneously... locked onto Ling Chen!
And Ling Chen's face always held a nearly perfect smile.
"Heh... finally... a little... interesting!"
The blood blade in his hand... slowly rose!