Chapter 1060: Underground Cavity

i「Lin Dui, the cave mouth seems to have a guard, ah.. 」

Swinging his arms, Zhang Tie imitated a zombie's manner, swaying back and forth not far from the cave mouth.

Unlike the Rear's crowded Corpse Horde, after approaching the cave mouth where zombies surge out, this place becomes somewhat spacious. Large numbers of zombies walk out of the deep pit like they're queuing, and six huge-bodied Three Fourth Rank Mutants stand guard at the exit like sentinels.

Occasionally, a zombie knocked down by the rushing Corpse Horde is violently flung away by the nearby Three Fourth Rank Mutant guard.

At a glance, it looks like a factory assembly line.

Seeing the scene before him, Lin An instinctively sensed something was wrong.

Such an arrangement doesn't seem like the mutants' own intelligence. Is it the system's arrangement, or is a higher intelligence guiding them?

After a moment's thought, Lin An directly asked Mo Ling:

"Can you control the Three Fourth Rank Mutants? Even just interfering would help."

Those six Three Fourth Rank Mutants remain motionless; he thought bringing two people to sneak in was almost impossible.

Obviously, the deep hole spewing zombies only lets things out, not in.

Mo Ling hesitated slightly after hearing that, she glanced at a few huge mutants and, as a matter of common sense, slightly raised her little hand.

"Hum-"

A faint deathly power quickly spread; moments later, a huge roar suddenly came.

Only see, the Three Fourth Rank Mutants touched by the ripple reacted as if attacked, violently looking around, their huge claws sweeping the air, causing nearby mutants to become agitated.

His face turned pale.

"Lin An, no!"

Hastily withdrawing the deathly power, Mo Ling's face turned deathly pale as she shook her head, like suffering a backlash, her head dizzy.

Lin An's gaze sank.

If the Three Fourth Rank can't be controlled, then it's troublesome. Indeed, hoping to easily sneak in like this is unrealistic.

He hadn't not considered causing a large-scale chaos to attract the mutants' attention. But it's obvious that these six guard mutants here are unlikely to move.

Seeing Lin An's hesitation, Zhang Tie likewise nervously looked around:

"Lin Dui, what should we do?"

"This place definitely has something fishy; why don't we charge in?"

Lin An quickly thought after hearing that, and a few seconds later he swiftly spoke:

"Mo Ling, you control four zombies to hold the tactical nuclear bomb and move outward; the farther, the better."

"Once those few zombies reach their set positions, immediately command the zombies to attack the mutants, creating chaos."

"Once the peripheral mutants are drawn over, we'll then charge in!"

The optimal solution.

In Lin An's simulation, along the way he saw about 46 Three Fourth Rank Mutants; subtracting the 21 mutants already spread outside, the corpse tide core still had at most around 70. If they force their way in, as long as there is some intelligent controller inside, they will surely suffer a massive mutant pursuit.

But if they first cause chaos in the four directions then detonate the nuclear bomb, their pressure would be greatly reduced.

At least, they could gain precious time.

Hearing the sound, he nodded heavily.

Little Mo Ling directly controlled four zombies to come over, and Lin An also directly took out a half-person-tall tactical warhead from his ring, quickly setting the detonation time.

Although this amount of tactical nuclear bomb cannot match normal power in strength, it is more than enough to cause chaos.

A few minutes later, only see the four zombies holding the silver-white warheads blankly scattering in all directions, utterly unaware of what terrifying weapon they hold.

"3.."

"2..."

"1!"

"Prepare to cause chaos!"

With Lin An's cold countdown, the nuclear bomb detonation command instantly shifted to a 30-second countdown. In an instant, under Mo Ling's limit of control distance, thousands of zombies suddenly turned around, frenziedly biting their nearby companions. Many of the precisely controlled zombies, moreover, rushed toward the nearest mutants, launching fearless attacks.

"Roar! Roar! Roar!"

The corpse tide successive chaos, like dropping clear water into hot oil, instantly exploded the pot.

Chaos erupted in four successive directions; large numbers of mutants, amid a roar, swiftly rushed toward the chaos points.

At the same time, Lin An directly drew his dual swords while in disguise, completely unbothered by his somewhat exposed appearance.

"Prepare to charge in!"

Taking a deep breath, Zhang Tie directly shielded Mo Ling from behind; the three formed an arrowhead formation, waiting only for the nuclear bomb's detonation moment to forcefully charge into the core.

In the tense wait, the countdown approached its final moment.

Accompanied by four sudden flashes of light, violent shockwaves exceeding the speed of sound instantly swept across the entire field.

"Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!"

A thunderous roar, the huge Red Tower Town filled with the corpse tide, once again faced the nuclear bomb's baptism. Viewed from above, enormous mushroom clouds suddenly rose in all four directions. The ground trembled, extreme light and heat instantly devoured everything.

Fierce winds raged, shards of stone flew.

The six mutants guarding the cave entrance howled, looking toward the distance, but under the nuclear bombs detonated in all directions, they were utterly confused in their "doubt" as to what to do.

Now is the time!

"Charge!"

With a fierce shout, Lin An unhesitatingly raised his spirit-energy shield; the blade's breath in his hand instantly spread, like a huge silver silk sash, he fiercely slashed at the Three Fourth Rank Mutant.

Destroying Impact!

"Boom!!"

Accompanied by the sound of shattering all along, Lin An, at triple Mach speed, after erupting a fierce sonic boom, his whole body became like red light, instantly carving a bloody path. His dual swords alternated slashes; the consecutively unleashed annihilation and impact skills, like a deathly light, instantly cleaved the two nearest mutants.

Collapsing Stomp!

He stepped down, without waiting for the remaining mutants to react, a tremendous force mixed with deathly power erupted again with his whole body as the origin.

"Mo Ling! Run!"

Left hand a sword blade, right hand a lingchi victim, Xiong Hanzi roared and directly activated bear transformation, charging forward along the blood path blasted open by Lin An.

Mo Ling, following closely behind, gave chase with all his might, but in the blink of an eye the three of them rushed into the deep pit.

"Roar!!"

The roar shook the heavens, accompanied by a burst of bloody mist; the mutants guarding the cave entrance only then noticed humans approaching the core. In shock and rage, they madly gave chase.

Inside the endless, winding deep pit, Lin An's expression turned cold; he directly backhanded a sword strike, and the invisible sword instantly sliced the mutant that had just recoiled.

Feeling the energy absorbed within the death seed, his heart sank.

Indeed, the absorbed energy still couldn't match that of an external second-level mutant.

He had no time to worry about that; in Lin An's sight, a red corpse stream lay ahead, and angry howls echoed from underground.

At the core, there were still large numbers of mutants!

"Let's kill our way in first!"

Before him lay a corpse tide and mutants hidden deep below; behind him came pursuers of the third level. Caught between two fronts, Lin An directly activated Demonic Form to boost his burst.

At the forefront, seeing a massive corpse tide charging at him, he decisively activated the Death God Domain.

"Hum-"

As the domain unfolded, a tremendous suction like the absorption of life sprang into being.

"Thud-thud"

As the Death God halo took effect, the charging corpse horde, as if encountering an insurmountable barrier, collapsed silently in swaths the moment they neared.

"Captain Lin!? Where are you heading!?"

Right behind him, Zhang Tie stared at the intricate, winding passages in the deep pit, anxiously asking where to go.

"Right!"

In the battle, Lin An shouted back; in the vibration wave transmitted through the ground he relied on, the abnormality to the right underground was most obvious!

The group hesitated not, quickly descending to kill.

A few seconds later, the blood-soaked Lin An shattered a third-level mutant that had come from who-knows-where with a single sword, and his gaze suddenly froze.

All that could be seen was a huge cavern over sixty meters underground, where numerous familiar metal structures appeared before his eyes.

This is...

An artificial base!?

Under an eerie blue light, a huge metal plaza, as if inlaid, appeared within the cavern.

On the endless plaza, numerous figures in silver-white work uniforms mingled with zombies.

On a conveyor‑like mechanical structure, one after another red‑tower zombies were continuously being transported.