Chapter 143: King of War Training Manual

【Planet Scan】 pierced through all secrets of the Hydra outpost like the eye of a god. Based on this shockingly precise intelligence, the infiltration plan was rewritten, every link interlocked like a precision clockwork.

At four a. m., the night and sea fog became the perfect cover.

The Voyager hovered like a dormant beast, silently suspended in the deep water several nautical miles from the outpost. Two small submersibles shot out like arrows released from a bow, slipping soundlessly from the mother ship toward the maintenance access entrance hidden beside the massive sewage pipe, marked by the system.

Qin Feng personally led Team B aboard one of the submersibles. He wore a black diving combat suit newly developed by the Shield, equipped with optical camouflage and weak energy shielding, his face painted thickly with camouflage grease, his eyes blazing unnaturally bright in the dark. Though the system had been restored and 【Life Enhancement】 had returned to its peak, he felt no complacency. Even a lion hunting a rabbit uses all its strength.

The submersible precisely docked with the maintenance access entrance. Led by Lei Zhan, Team A slipped in like ghosts, tasked with clearing obstacles along the way and rushing straight toward the energy core and Main Control Room.

Qin Feng, with his five-man Team B, advanced swiftly and silently through the narrow, damp, and foul-smelling maintenance passage. The passage was dimly lit, visibility provided only by the faint night-vision glow on their helmets. The air reeked of disinfectant, engine oil, and a strange, indescribable odor like decaying biological tissue.

According to the scan map, they avoided several patrol routes and fixed surveillance points, slicing into the outpost's depths like a surgeon's scalpel.

"B1 Point cleared." "Passage secure, advance."

Concise reports from Team A and Lei Zhan's steady commands came through their earpieces. Everything proceeded as planned.

Yet, just as they neared the perimeter of the lower lockdown zone, an unexpected change erupted!

"Alarm! Team A encountering heavy resistance! Hidden defense units detected around D-District energy core! Not mechanical guards—these are… biological weapons!" Lei Zhan's voice carried urgency and shock!

Almost simultaneously, a grating, bone-on-bone "crack" echoed from the corridor's bend ahead, followed by heavy, dragging footsteps!

"Prepare for contact!" Qin Feng growled. Team B members instantly scattered, forming a rudimentary defensive line against the passage walls.

Shadows writhed around the corner. Several twisted figures slowly emerged.

These were not human! They retained a roughly humanoid shape, but their skin was a sickly grayish pallor, muscles bulging and distended, nearly bursting through their tattered uniforms. Their eyes were hollow and vacant, drool oozing from their mouths, arms mutated into bony blades that glinted with cold light. A revolting aura—identical in origin to the chaotic energy of the Deep Sea—clung to them.

"Gene-modified monsters…" Qin Feng's gaze turned icy. So this was what the Foundation called "biological weapons"?

"Fire!"

Without hesitation, Team B's specialized pulse weapons spat out bolts of blue electricity! These weapons inflicted severe paralysis on electronic systems and biological nerves!

Yet the pulse blasts struck the monsters only to make them stagger slightly, their skin blackening slightly—but failed to halt their advance! They emitted low, inhuman roars, swinging their bony arms and charging forward!

Blistering speed! Immense strength!

"Watch out! They have high resistance to pulse weapons!" one soldier cried, dodging a bony slash that carved a deep groove into the Alloy Wall.

Close-quarters combat erupted instantly!

The narrow passage hindered evasion. Team B members were all elite Shield operatives, skilled in hand-to-hand combat and perfectly coordinated—but against these painless, superhuman monsters, they were quickly bogged down!

One soldier failed to dodge; a bony blade slashed across his upper arm, blood gushing instantly. Another was slammed backward by the monster's impact, crashing hard against the wall.

Qin Feng's eyes turned cold. He knew he could no longer hold back.

These monsters clearly could not be swiftly eliminated by conventional tactics. He needed more efficient, deadlier killing techniques.

In an instant, countless martial arts and assassination techniques—forged in life-or-death duels with Huaxia's top special forces at the special ops training base, and synthesized under system assistance—flashed and coalesced in his mind like instinct.

This was not merely the physical enhancement from the system's 【Life Enhancement】. It was the fusion of endless battlefield experience, the extreme mastery of force application under pressure, and the ultimate insight into human vulnerabilities—culminating in… Qin Feng's own unique combat art.

He moved.

Faster than a phantom, leaving afterimages in the narrow corridor. He used no flashy techniques—each strike was simple, direct, lethal.

Sidestep, twist waist, punch! "Crack!" His fist, infused with terrifying power, shattered the monster's cervical vertebrae.

Duck, sweep leg, grapple! He shattered the monster's knee joint in an instant; before it could fall, his knife-hand struck precisely at its throat.

Elbow strike, knee thrust, headbutt! Every part of his body became a weapon. His movements flowed like water, radiating violent aesthetics—as if he were not fighting, but performing a dance of death.

The monsters that had pinned Team B in brutal combat were now swept aside by Qin Feng like rotten straw and broken pottery.

In under thirty seconds, the corridor held only a few twisted, shattered corpses.

Team B members stared at Qin Feng, standing poised, breathing steady, eyes icy—and all drew sharp breaths, their eyes filled with awe and shock.

Boss's skills… are more terrifying than ever. He's like a living… 【King of War Training Manual】! No—worse than that.

"Continue advancing!" Qin Feng did not pause, his voice calm.

With the blocking monsters eliminated, Team B faced no further obstacles and swiftly reached the heavy Alloy Wall guarding the lower lockdown zone.

According to the scan, behind this door lay the area emitting the peculiar signal!

Qin Feng pressed his palm against the cold access panel.

【Energy Spectrum Analysis】 (Basic) activated!

An invisible energy wave spread from his palm, instantly permeating the access system's internal structure. In his "vision," complex circuits, energy flows, encryption logic—all became crystal clear.

He found the critical, fragile node sustaining the entire access system's energy balance.

He used no brute force, no password cracking. Qin Feng merely channeled a faint bioelectric current—like the most precise surgical scalpel—and gently touched that node.

"Hum…"

A soft hum. The massive Alloy Wall silently slid open to either side.

Revealing what lay beyond—the hidden core area!

Qin Feng stepped inside, his gaze instantly locking onto a platform at the room's center, encased in a transparent energy field.

There, suspended motionless, floated half of a… cracked, glowing fragment of deep blue and dark red interwoven light.

The fragment's energy signature matched that of his own 【Heart of the Ocean】 shard—yet was utterly opposite: chaotic, violent, and radiating a terrifying, seductive allure.

Simultaneously, the Chip decryption team's message arrived via encrypted channel:

"Director Qin! Partial chip data decrypted! Confirmed 'Prometheus Foundation''s core project—'God Theft'! They aim to use the power of 'Pandora's Box' combined with special gene sequences to create… 'New Humans'!"

"Chuangsheng Technology is a vital component of the project. Liu Shiyin is one of its key executors!"

"Their next target… is you. They suspect you carry the most perfect 'Cornerstone' sequence!"

All clues converged at once.

Qin Feng stared at the fractured crystal, icy light blazing from his eyes.

"God Theft"? "New Humans"?

They see me as the "Cornerstone"?

How bold.

He reached out, pierced through that energy field, and seized the half-crystal of chaos in his hand!

A cold, violent, destruction-driven energy surged instantly along his arm, trying to flood into his body!

"Hmph!"

Qin Feng let out a cold snort; his blood and Qi, refined through countless trials and like a Furnace, roared into motion—his body, pushed to its peak by Life Enhancement, erupted with vast Life Energy, forcibly suppressing and isolating the chaotic energy outside!

He held the dangerous fragment as if gripping a beating heart.

"The game is over."

He murmured to himself, turned, and his gaze seemed to pierce through layers of obstruction, seeing the true enemy hidden deep within the shadows...

Liu Shiyin... the Prometheus Foundation...

Your God Theft plan... I will crush it with my own hands!