Chapter 1020

Michelle Mine.

Beside a large scrapped excavator, several zombies wearing construction helmets were aimlessly dragging their bodies around.

Wearing a yellow uniform, on his tattered work clothes, an inverted triangle emblem was embroidered on the chest.

Inside the engineering vehicle's cab, a male zombie with a sunken skull kept hitting the windshield with his head like a wooden fish.

However, under the blast-resistant engineering quality, after who knows how long of hitting, it merely managed to crack the glass.

Dark brown blood mixed with clumps of flesh congealed, like a puddle of rotting meat stuck on it.

There aren't many zombies in the mining area; from the scene it can be seen that the mine was in a semi-shutdown state when the apocalypse broke out, and the sudden mutation turned these hardworking workers into soulless husks.

Due to the information of a third-rank high-level threat in the mission, no Awakened Ones dared to spy on the location of the Sunwalker, and thus the entire mine still retained its pre-apocalypse appearance.

Of course, it also had to do with the mine's supplies.

Although there was enough coke and iron ore here, which are strategic materials for any Safe Zone, in the early-middle stage food was still more important.

"Lin Dui, what should we do?"."

Standing behind Lin An, Xiong Hanzi nervously gripped the Lingchi in his hand.

Facing a third-rank high-level enemy for the first time, saying he wasn't nervous would be a lie.

Although he knew that even without Lin An, he could still handle it alone—if he couldn't beat it, he could at least run away.

But given the two-rank gap, he lacked confidence. Still, after killing this monster, he should level up. That previous Alien Species had given him a large amount of spiritual energy.

"First, draw it out."."

After a moment's thought, Lin An replied calmly, indicating he would lure the Sunwalker to the mine's surface for battle later.

The battle plan was for him to enter the mine tunnel, then throw a ground-piercing bomb to completely blast the underground structure, and finally lure the Sunwalker out.

Although the Sunwalker likes light, fighting underground would maximally reduce its power boost.

But upon reflection, moonlight and starlight probably don't count as sunlight, right?

Besides that.

Fighting in the tunnel, even the battle's aftermath could cause a collapse, and once it triggered a chain reaction...

Buried deep underground, tens to hundreds of meters down, even if Lin An were stronger, it would still give him a headache.

Thus, after a brief consideration, Lin An still decided to dig this monster out from underground.

He waved his hand and condensed a layer of spiritual energy shield.

On the peak, Lin An was wrapped in a faint azure light; only seeing his figure flash, his whole body drifted down from the summit like a ghost, soundless.

The speed was extreme, yet only a faint tearing sound.

With fine spiritual energy control, not a trace of aura leaked out.

In the blink of an eye, Lin An landed before a mine cart about seven meters high; this was the entrance to the tunnel.

Beside the mine cart, a few wandering zombies suddenly halted, their rotting noses—nothing but holes—twitched, and in the next second, pairs of scarlet eyes seemed to lock onto him.

They charged forward roaring, but in an instant they crouched, and an invisible pressure like a force field easily crushed them on the spot.

He retracted the domain and Lin An charged straight into the tunnel without a glance.

As a continuously strengthened Descent Domain, with his current strength he need not lift a finger; the domain's pressure alone could crush swaths of zombies.

Charging into the cavern, Lin An quickly assessed the direction and, without hesitation, went down along the coal transport rails.

Inside the tunnel, the mining lamps once used for lighting had long gone out.

The foul air was thick with a stench, as if rotting corpses had fermented and then been heated.

Activating the Death God Mask, Lin An's eyes darted through the tunnel gathering information.

Claw marks, whip marks... many legs...

The rails inside the tunnel were somewhat damaged, but largely intact, with small sections crushed by external force.

It seems these few Mutants have made this their lair and haven't ventured out much.

Furthermore, from the vibration feedback, the Sunwalker beneath his feet seemed to be guarding something, remaining motionless.

After confirming the target's exact position with a foot, Lin An directly took a ground-piercing bomb from his ring.

He couldn't be bothered to care what the monster was guarding; it was probably just a special prop or piece of equipment.

If so, treat it as an extra surprise.

A white light flashed, and the next second a giant bomb as tall as a person appeared in his hand.

Estimating the distance, he set the ground-piercing missile to detonate in three seconds, then Lin An flashed back to the tunnel entrance, patiently waiting for the ground-piercing tactical missile to explode.

3..

2..

1..!

"Boom!"

In an instant, the front half of the ground-piercing missile burst with blinding white light; under high temperature and pressure, the metal jet inside the warhead shot through the rock at thousands of kilometers per second, a scalding-hot metal torrent heading straight for the Mutants' location.

Flame tail spewed.

Like subterranean fire, even though tech-side weapons were weakened, the nearby detonated ground-piercing missile still produced considerable explosive force, and within a few seconds it drilled straight underground, blasting a huge breach.

The tunnel trembled.

"Boom!!"

A second blast followed close behind.

Standing at the front of the tunnel entrance, Lin An waved his hand to block the incoming shockwave.

Facing the high-pressure airflow generated in the tiny space, a faint flicker of light on his body was enough to easily deflect it.

Watching rocks continually fall from above, the entire tunnel resembled a virgin field violently plowed, shaking on the verge of collapse in the blast.

At the same time, angry roars followed.

The earth shook.

Along the blasted-out crater, Lin An did not hesitate, and through the molten high‑temperature zone he flashed forward, instantly rushing toward the source of the sound.

Hearing the cries, it should be that the three Second Level Mutants were injured. But the main target, the Sunwalker, seemed to make no sound.

Although the earth‑penetrating missile worked well, Lin An also did not expect a single missile to cause much damage to a Third Rank Mutant.

Buried deep underground, his skin was torn all over.

The three centipede‑shaped mutants let out painful howls, while the humanoid mutant in the center, like a human, propped up a shield with one hand, protecting the area behind it without blind spots.

That shield was purely to protect what was behind it, with no intention of protecting the three Second Level Mutants.

Behind the centipede mutant composed of swollen, deformed human heads, the Sunwalker floated silently in mid‑air.

The Sunwalker was not large, about two meters tall, his muscles like those of a perfect athlete, and in its overall curved form it possessed a strange beauty.

His hands turned into crescent blades, and on his lizard‑like inverted‑triangular head, a humanized fury surfaced.

「shaa...!! 」