Ground Spike

Because the scent of the slime no longer masked his presence, Li Wei was attacked by mist monsters shortly after leaving the supermarket by about thirty meters.

Another chimera-like monster emerged from the mist, its two arms, resembling crab claws, reaching out to grab him.

Transforming his hands into sharp claws, he reached out to parry the monster's two massive pincers, then immediately yanked it toward himself; the five-meter-tall giant was instantly pulled off balance, its ugly, grotesque head slamming into the ground with a heavy thud.

Although they were only thirty meters away, the mist dampened the sound so effectively that the group of people waiting anxiously in the supermarket couldn't hear the commotion, feeling only a slight tremor in the ground.

He drove his claws into the monster's head and torso, and tendrils of red blood spread upward, instantly assimilating and absorbing it.

Li Wei looked at the key and found that the energy increase exceeded his expectations, rising from 11.34% to 18.88%; the biomass content of these monsters was well worth their size, proving to be quite substantial.

However, he did not linger in the area to lure and eliminate more monsters; instead, he shifted into flight mode and flapped his wings to take to the sky.

During his ascent, cold winds howled all around him, and flocks of strange birds emerged in the daylight, attempting to attack him, only to be killed and absorbed by him one after another.

He climbed to an altitude of nearly a hundred meters before finally breaking through the effective range of the mist, which seemed to have grown much larger.

A scorching sun shone brilliantly in the sky, piercing through the shroud of mist; it felt like stepping from hell into heaven, everything appearing so beautiful and peaceful.

The sun was still as warm as ever, birds were still flying in the sky, and there were over a dozen American helicopters—the world was no different, save for the patch of mist below that did not belong to this world.

After climbing to a sufficient altitude, Li Wei looked down to see rolling white fog, unable to see any buildings or facilities through it.

But he didn't need to search for a path bit by bit; he simply flew toward the direction where the helicopters were circling.

Over a dozen Black Hawk helicopters and several Apache attack helicopters circled in the air, occasionally firing random rockets at the ground below.

They were the troops sent by America to clean up the mess. In addition to the aerial units, a large number of armored troops were engaged in combat below, dealing with the monsters that had climbed through windows and entered their world.

Aside from the fire support provided by the attack helicopters, many Black Hawks were slinging large amounts of equipment and supplies, responsible for dropping them in the direction where green signal flares were rising.

In this kind of blind combat, they had no choice but to use such relatively primitive methods.

If the mist hadn't blocked radio transmissions, they could have used carpet bombing or fire saturation to eliminate the enemy.

Furthermore, the higher-ups were still unwilling to give up on the other world and did not allow them to use excessive firepower that might destroy the underground base.

The soldiers in the helicopters wore bitter expressions, looking down at the mist where nothing could be seen, and inwardly cursed the higher-ups.

They had long heard that the higher-ups were unscrupulous capitalists and the scientists were a bunch of brainless madmen; whatever the two groups cooked up, the military had to clean up the mess.

When they enlisted, they thought it was just a rumor, but they never expected something to go wrong after only half a year!

Thinking about it now, those circulating rumors were likely all true!

"Number Six! Number Six! There's a monster approaching at six o'clock, watch out and evade!"

A frantic call came through the radio headset. The pilot and co-pilot were both stunned to hear that a monster was approaching, and it wasn't until they looked toward the six o'clock position, prompted by the shouts of other crew members, that they realized a gray-black monster bird was flying straight toward them!

"Shit! Is that a monster?!"

"Change course and fire! Fire!"

"Fire!"

Knowing that monsters existed within the mist, the helicopter fleet had never let their guard down. They instantly adjusted their gun barrels and used the cannons mounted under the aircraft to fire at the "monster" rapidly approaching them.

Facing the dense web of fire, Li Wei moved with ease. Having regained his pulse sensing and other special observation methods, he dodged the fleet's fire coverage with great simplicity.

His flight did not rely solely on his wings; facing the barrage of bullets, he could perform numerous high-speed ninety-degree turns, leaving the pilots feeling a sense of dread.

Thousands of rounds were fired, yet not a single one hit him!

Li Wei didn't bother with these people and dove straight into the white fog, disappearing from the view of the helicopter fleet.

The moment he landed, he became a blind man without pulse sensing again, nearly being blown away by a shell that grazed his scalp.

His auditory system picked up sounds he couldn't hear outside the white fog: gunfire, artillery, screams, and wails... he had fallen from heaven back into hell.

Completing his transformation while fifty meters in the air, Li Wei turned his hands into sharp claws and glided toward the source of the explosions.

Before he had traveled far, a behemoth charged out of the mist, ignoring the shells fired from unknown locations, and stumbled headlong into the gliding Li Wei.

Seeing this, Li Wei ended his flight, performed a vibration-assisted acceleration in mid-air, and landed squarely on the behemoth's body, which was covered in massive, curled tentacles.

The suction cups on his feet adhered to the beast's body, and he soon realized that this behemoth was truly pathetic.

It had seven long, thick legs, yet its speed was incredibly slow. The gray flesh on its body had no defensive capabilities; a light swipe was enough to slice through the tissue. Those ugly-looking tentacles were merely there to accentuate its mystery, serving no actual purpose.

Determined that this behemoth was useless aside from its size, Li Wei decisively switched to his armored form and used a skill he was employing for the first time: Ground Spike!

After condensing a large amount of biomass and virus and letting it brew for a brief moment, his hands were wrapped in a mass of threads saturated with biomass and virus.

Crouching down, he thrust his hands violently into the behemoth's back, injecting the biomass and virus into its body. In less than a second, countless sharp protrusions expanded a hundredfold, and hundreds of sharp black spikes spiraled out from the surface of the beast's body.

A long, deep cry emanated from some unknown part of the behemoth, and then the seven-legged giant was killed by the hundreds of sharp spikes erupting from within, its body beginning to tilt.

The rotating biological spikes shredded the beast's body, turning into countless tentacles that spread outward. Upon touching the beast's flesh, the Blacklight demonstrated its greed, continuously decomposing and assimilating the meat, converting it into biomass to feed back to Li Wei.

The energy in the key surged violently, instantly reaching 31.56%, and Li Wei was nearly overwhelmed by the sudden influx of energy, unable to even maintain his own body weight.

Jumping down from the carcass of the behemoth, which had been reduced to a shriveled husk, Li Wei landed on the ground, instantly kicking up a cloud of dust. The massive accumulation of biomass, which he couldn't digest in time, caused his weight to skyrocket to nearly a thousand tons.

Even falling from a height of only ten meters, the impact caused the soil beneath his feet to crack extensively due to the contact area.

He realized that the way Blacklight stored biomass was somewhat crude; perhaps he should find a different method for energy storage.