Unable to Walk
The blade's edge still flashed with undiminished force.
The Poison Scorpion's retreating figure suddenly froze.
From his right shoulder diagonally down to his left abdomen, a thin, grayish-white line, smoother than a strand of hair, quietly appeared.
The incredibly hard polymer biomimetic shell and the beating biochemical heart were neatly sliced open with this one cut.
Laugh!!
The grayish-white blade light dissipated.
The energy circulation within the Poison Scorpion's body was completely severed, and its tattered chest cavity was completely exposed, revealing a high-dimensional energy crystal core the size of a fist, its entire surface shimmering with deep purple lightning.
"Dr. Chu... Doctor Chu... won't let this go..."
Intermittent electrical hissing emanated from the Poison Scorpion's throat, and its mechanical double pupils went completely extinguished.
Chen Fan didn't even look down at him; he simply raised his right hand and pressed his palm against the Fourth Tier crystal core from a distance.
Call!
Deep within the Qi Sea, the gray-white Great Life-and-Death Millstone in the Miniature Divine Kingdom suddenly reversed.
An unparalleled suction force descended from nowhere. The violent high-dimensional radiation Origin Source within the Poison Scorpion's remains, the lingering life essence, and the Fourth Tier lightning crystal core transformed into a visible purplish-gray stream of energy under Lin Wei's horrified gaze. It sank into Chen Fan's palm like a whale sucking in water.
Click, click.
The Poison Scorpion's remains, having lost all energy and vitality, quickly lost their luster, their moisture evaporated, their flesh withered, and finally, along with the remaining metal skeleton, completely weathered into a pool of pale, cold ashes, which were scattered by the incoming gale.
The Fourth Tier Biochemical Modified Human was annihilated, both in body and spirit.
Chen Fan slowly sheathed his sword.
As this violent energy was thoroughly ground and absorbed by the Life-and-Death Millstone within his body, the last trace of stagnation after the Fourth Genes Lock in his Qi Sea shattered completely dissolved, and his 60,000 jin of extreme Qi became perfectly smooth and unimpeded, solidifying his Fourth Tier Low Rank realm.
The cabin was deathly silent, save for the faint, lingering roar of the Worldbreaker's remaining engines.
Lin Wei's knees went weak, and she slumped onto the iron-gray deck, the silver-white Secret Casket in her arms having slipped to the ground at some point.
Her pride in her advanced knowledge was utterly crushed in those brief ten seconds.
Without using a powered exoskeleton, without implanting Neural Chip, and without even using his Superpower flames, he reduced a Fourth Tier individual weapon capable of tearing apart an armed company head-on to ashes simply by the vibrations of his physical particles and a rusty piece of iron.
What's this?
What kind of science is this?!
"You..."
Lin Wei's throat was dry, her lips trembled violently, and she looked up at the boy in the faded white clothes, unable to utter a complete word for a long time.
Chen Fan ignored her, bent down to pick up the silver-white Secret Casket that had fallen to the ground, and casually tossed it back into her arms.
"Can you still walk?"
Chen Fan remained calm, his tone revealing no trace of the turmoil that followed a life-or-death battle.
Lin Wei instinctively hugged the Secret Casket tightly, nodded blankly, then shook her head violently.
"I can't walk anymore..."
Lin Wei's voice was trembling with tears, her eyes welling up with moisture, but she stubbornly held them back.
She gritted her teeth. "Severe neurotransmitter overload, muscle spasms in both lower limbs... Simply put, my legs went weak."
Chen Fan frowned slightly.
For him, trekking across 800 miles of radiation- Wasteland would only take half a day, but carrying a burden who couldn't walk would drastically reduce his efficiency.
The radiation in this wasteland was a deadly toxin to Lin Wei's body.
Without a protective cabin or a vehicle, she wouldn't last more than three hours.
Chen Fan shifted his gaze, past the torn metal gate of the VIP Cabin, and looked towards the control room deep inside.
The main engine of the Worldbreaker had long since shut down, and the numerous red malfunction lights on the instrument panel flashed wildly in the dark passageway like the bloodshot eyes of a dying man.
Chen Fan stepped out barefoot, his feet treading over the charred wreckage without making a sound.
Seeing him turn to leave, Lin Wei's heart sank. Instinctively, she clutched the Secret Casket in her arms and shouted, "Hey! The central power shaft of the main control system has been severed by a landmine! The third transmission gear is completely locked. Without a heavy-duty towing crane, this vehicle simply cannot move..."
Before he finished speaking, Chen Fan had already stepped into the driver's seat, which was filled with the smell of electric sparks and burnt engine oil.
He didn't even glance at the LCD screens that were displaying error messages incessantly.
The Divine Thought, like an invisible net, spread downwards along the gaps in the Alloy floor, instantly enveloping the entire chassis of the Land Cruiser Ship.
The internal mechanical structure was fully visible in his Sea of Consciousness.
The hydraulic valve broke, and the brake bolt bent at a 45-degree angle under the enormous impact, becoming stuck between the flywheel teeth; the two backup diesel turbocharger units were intact, but could not be injected with high-pressure fuel because the safety valves were locked.
"Open."
Chen Fan stood in front of the main control panel, casually raised his right hand, put his five fingers together into a palm, and gently pressed down on the power base plate under his feet through the three-foot- Void.
Boom!
An irresistible, dark gray Hidden Force penetrated vertically into the steel plate along its grain.
The seven-layered spiral particle vibrations precisely bypassed the surface armor and exploded directly at the core of the chassis.
Click!
The special steel brake bolt, capable of withstanding tens of tons of tension, was shattered into dust at the molecular level by Hidden Force.
The stuck physical clutch valve spring disintegrated, forcibly resetting.
Immediately afterwards, Chen Fan's fingertips brushed over the emergency ignition valve on the far left of the control panel.
A wisp of Pure Yang internal energy pierced through the metal knob, breaking through the blackened carbon deposits inside the fuel line and igniting the highly concentrated fuel mist.
Hold head high!
The sleeping steel behemoth emitted violent coughing and wheezing.
With a deafening roar, the heavily turbocharged engine, damaged by 30%, roared to life, causing the 300-meter- Worldbreaker to shudder violently. The exhaust pipe spewed out billowing black smoke several meters long, and the heavy drive wheel began to struggle through the rubble.
"It... it moved?!"
Lin Wei, in the rear cabin, was stunned. She rubbed her eyes, her face full of disbelief.
A car with a purely mechanical malfunction, deemed unrecoverable even by the car's AI, was brought back to life by him simply pressing a button on the ground?!
Footsteps sounded again.
Chen Fan returned, walked up to her with a cold expression, and without even bending down, simply stretched out his right hand and grabbed Lin Wei's dusty engineer's leather jacket from the back as if catching a chick.
"Ah!"
Lin Wei exclaimed in surprise as she and the Secret Casket in her arms were lifted into the air.
A gust of wind swept across her face, and in the blink of an eye, she was tossed onto the passenger seat in the cockpit, a seat stained with engine oil.
"Fasten the safety pin."
Chen Fan uttered five words indifferently and gripped the heavy Titanium Alloy rudder, which was half a meter in diameter, with his backhand.
His movements were extremely casual; his left hand was even resting on the edge of the car window, he was only using one hand to steer, and his right foot was on the heavy accelerator pedal that was almost welded shut.
Rumble!
The thousand-ton Heavy Assault Land Cruiser, like a severely wounded and enraged rhinoceros, smashed through the scattered wreckage of tanks and charred gravel with its front end, leaving behind blinding sparks and black smoke, and ruthlessly drove through the dust and smoke, re-entering the dark and Silent Wasteland.