Chapter 582: A Splash of Red Descending from the Heavens

Hey~!

Xi Ren Sheng flipped out the big and small jokers from a deck of playing cards, narrowed his eyes, and took a quick look at the battlefield.

On this battlefield, Ying Duo was undoubtedly the most conspicuous.

After this period of study, Ying Duo had basically mastered the use of energy; countless Ying Guang Lu lines extended from behind him, tracing one circular hollow after another in midair.

From the hollow, a mass of gun muzzles slowly emerged; for this operation, Ying Duo still solved the problem of having only two hands and being unable to hold too many weapons at once.

Under the pull of the energy lines, the gun muzzles surged from the hollow and, accompanied by Ying Duo's input commands, fired in unison.

Meanwhile, in the distance, Ying Duo was likewise controlling the mech, constantly weaving through the artillery fire, straight toward the giant mushroom's location.

Xi Ren Sheng also eyed the mech enviously!

He had even mentioned to Ying Duo that the mech could be modified into something like an exoskeleton, or that someone could operate it from inside, but Ying Duo rejected the idea.

Mainly, the mech's Core was simply too huge, and its manufacturing method was also special; a real person inside could not withstand it at all.

But it's fine; he could obtain the mech by his own means.

He threw the colorful big joker toward Ying Duo, who only then lifted his eyes and glanced; seeing it was Xi Ren Sheng's trick, he ignored it. When the big joker stuck to Ying Duo, the colorful clown inside suddenly turned Ying Guang Lu green. Xi Ren Sheng stuck the small joker on his own forehead and then rushed out.

Xi Ren Sheng's whole body was blown into a cloud of smoke in midair; after the smoke cleared, a miniature version of the mech appeared on the battlefield, its energy circuits also black, as a phantom.

They lacked the strength of Ying Duo's mech and his overwhelming firepower, but they used spade cards as shells, club cards as restraint rounds, and had diamond-shaped defense and heart-shaped recovery.

This, in fact, formed a self-contained system, imposing tremendous pressure on the fungal group's defense.

Sha Yu Feng did not take part in this sweeping slaughter; he mainly covered Xie Jingyan and Meng Kexin, since they had no grudge between them, and coordinating with those two bloodthirsty women came much more naturally to him.

Moreover, those two women's ferocious fighting style also especially suited his habits.

His blood-red eyes unhurriedly glanced at Xi Ren Sheng's back; the four suits, as manifested in the Aberrant Arts, could directly equate this person with another wanted criminal on the Dome.

Undead.

Sha Yu Feng pressed those two words down without speaking, merely lowering his gaze and rechecking his magazine.

Now is not the time to bring this up.

And at the very center of the hollow, that giant mushroom was emitting a wail-like tremor; its surface, under everyone's assault, was covered in cracks, and Ying Guang Lu liquid welled up from within.

Its size had shrunk by a full round compared to the start of the battle, and its pulsation had become much more erratic.

After all the connecting main trunks were severed and the Core body had been bombarded with concentrated fire, this giant mushroom finally realized something——

It was really going to die.

The fear of death is etched into the basic code of all living beings; even a Mutation Core reshaped by Fang Zhiyan cannot completely erase this most primal stress response.

The giant mushroom began to spasm; the cracks in its fissured surface opened and closed in the flickering light, and the originally withered hyphae started to glow again.

"It's going to counterattack!" Xie Jingyan was the first to sense something wrong.

The fungal group's regenerative ability remained constrained by Qi Hengyu's Aberrant Arts, but the giant mushroom was doing something even crazier: it was reversely draining the life force from all the surrounding residual hyphae.

The Ying Guang Lu light, like a hundred rivers returning to the sea, flowed back into the Core.

The giant mushroom abandoned the survival of the entire fungal group, instead concentrating all its energy into its own body, preparing for a final all-or-nothing burst.

With its energy reserves and volume, the power of this explosion would be enough to blast the entire hollow, along with the strata within a radius of several hundred meters, into collapse.

"Interrupt it!" Ying Duo shouted while issuing the command, "Concentrate fire on the cracks in the Core giant mushroom's body—don't stop!"

All the firepower surged forth again, but those attacks striking the giant mushroom's surface were actually blocked by a rapidly thickening Ying Guang Lu membrane.

The giant mushroom was merely buying time; it only needed the last few dozen seconds, after which everything would come to nothing.

"Xi Ren Sheng! Cooperate with me to disrupt its ability transmission!" Meng Kexin hammered the light membrane; the hammerhead rebounded, shaking her palm until it went numb.

"My Aberrant Arts can't penetrate it!" Xi Ren Sheng gritted his teeth; he was used to all laws bending to his will, coming and going freely, but this was the first time he had an object he couldn't disrupt.

Ying Duo had already switched to typing another segment of code, when a deep, continuous thud came from above.

That sound grew ever closer, as if something were continuously descending from above, approaching them.

At the top of the hollow, a breach forced open by brute force appeared; shattered rocks rained down like a storm, and a dark red light pierced the ambient Ying Guang Lu, descending straight from a crack in the Dome.

That was a Blood Crystal formed by compressing pure blood, with distinct edges.

And the point where that shadow fell was exactly directly above the giant mushroom.

Chi Jinan didn't even assume an attacking stance; he simply swept out his right claw during the fall, dragging a scarlet trail, and finally slammed heavily onto that light membrane.

At the moment the Blood Crystal contacted the fungal group's energy shield, a blood-red stain soaked into the shield, seeping straight inside, corroding and annihilating it; red-and-green intertwined fragments scattered in the air.

Chi Jinan pierced the light membrane and landed steadily at the hollow's exact center.

He rose to his feet, looked left and right, then tilted his head up to gaze at the hole he had chiseled in the Dome; afterward, he looked at the dazed Lin Xun staring up at him from before him.

The gray-green tissue linking Lin Xun's hands to the giant mushroom was also torn apart by the fragments, revealing the pallid skin underneath that had not fully mutated; that emaciated figure staggered back two steps and collapsed straight to the ground.

The giant mushroom let out a deafening hiss.

"Chi Jinan?! How—" Qi Junyi never expected that Chi Jinan would have learned this technique of blasting a hole from the outside straight to the depths.

"We'll talk later."

Chi Jinan raised his right hand; Blood Crystal regrew from his palm, forming a scarlet sickle as tall as he is.

Obviously, during the time he was separated from everyone, his strength had increased further.

This was inevitable, after all; Chi Jinan also participated in the team, and Qi Hengyu's Aberrant Arts could amplify him, which gave him the ability to punch straight through.

It's just a pity...

He glanced over at the already fallen Qi Hengyu; Qi Hengyu had reached his limit, his Aberrant Arts had lost effect, but it no longer mattered.

He single-handedly hoisted the sickle forged entirely from blood crystal, aimed it at the giant mushroom's Core crack beneath his feet, and regarded the Ying Guang Lu as truly obstructive.

"This thing is too obstructive—let's chop it and talk later."