Repair Function

There was more than one giant beast. After Li Wei digested and compressed the biomass, his weight returned to a normal three tons, and he continued to search for monsters to assimilate and absorb in this battlefield where he didn't even know what he was fighting.

Because their vision was obstructed, the armored units in the forest used the simplest circular firing method, which was to attack everything in every direction indiscriminately. This method of attack consumed a massive amount of ammunition, but it had the advantage of being effective and safe.

It didn't matter if their advance was slow; within the circular perimeter, a group of scientists was hiding in a base vehicle, analyzing and studying samples of the monsters.

As long as they could enter the military base and cut the power lines within three days, the mission would be considered complete, so they were not in a hurry.

Li Wei searched the vicinity and saw many monsters. After assimilating the relatively larger ones, the Key still needed 8.47% more energy to perform the next traversal.

He looked at the few mosquitoes remaining nearby, assimilated a few, and then lost interest.

Finding the garrison point of the military base, an arrow appeared before Li Wei's eyes once again.

This time, he followed the guidance of the arrow and soon found the entrance leading underground. After using the physical "Key" to open the Gate of Opening, he entered an underground laboratory filled with white mist.

The underground laboratory was located about ten meters below ground, and the visibility inside was even worse.

Moreover, just as he entered the underground laboratory, a thin, sharp tentacle shot out from the dense fog, piercing his abdomen. The powerful force carried his body and pinned him to the wall.

"Holy... shit!"

The exclamation slipped out. Li Wei stared blankly at the thin tentacle piercing his abdomen. Caught off guard, he had been pinned to the wall—it was absurd!

A virus body without a fixed form could naturally not be killed by such an attack, unless the attacker could unleash hundreds or thousands of stabs per second like the Pegasus Meteor Fist, beating him until even his basic particles were evaporated.

He let the thin tentacle slide across his abdomen to break free from being pierced. Li Wei's feet touched the ground again, and he instantly transformed into his armored form. His right hand turned into a blade and slashed at the tentacle still stuck in the wall.

It sounded like a kitchen knife hitting a stone wrapped in cloth. Li Wei's strike only left a tiny crack on the tentacle and failed to sever it as he had expected, which greatly exceeded his predictions.

Refusing to believe it, he increased his size by a notch and swung the blade down again, but the tentacle flashed before his eyes and retracted into the depths of the white mist in the laboratory.

The next instant, two thin tentacles burst out from the white mist again; one aimed at his chest, and the other at his head.

Alerted this time, flesh and blood rapidly spread over Li Wei's left hand, transforming into a massive shield that looked like the gnarled roots of an ancient tree to block his front.

The thin tentacles stabbed into the shield, failing to push his body back even half a step, though the shield was penetrated by a few centimeters due to the powerful piercing damage.

The ends of these two tentacles were as sharp as spears, and the speed of their thrust was even more powerful than large-caliber armor-piercing shells!

If it were the previous Li Wei, perhaps the shield would have struggled to block this thrust, but he had just assimilated a large number of giant monsters and was currently full of energy.

Under the compression and release of biomass, he could even withstand a nuclear explosion. Although the piercing ability of the tentacles was very strong, that was all there was to it.

With the shield jamming the sharp thrusts, the legs wrapped in biological armor began to exert force, and the two-meter-tall little giant pushed forward against the two straight tentacles.

The tentacles resisted desperately, but upon discovering that their strength was inferior to Li Wei's, they began to retract, incidentally pulling Li Wei in with them.

With the shield firmly jammed against the tentacles, Li Wei condensed a spear-like structure on his right arm and charged along the pull of the tentacles.

He crashed into many things with his oversized body along the way, but he broke through them all with brute force. He charged blindly for over thirty meters before feeling his progress obstructed, and the spear also pierced into an object.

Clang! Clang! Clang!

A full sixteen sharp tentacles stabbed into the shield. The monster's tentacles stopped retracting. Li Wei didn't know what was in front of him, but he exerted all his strength to push the spear formed by his right arm forward.

They wrestled for a full half-minute, and the ground had already sunken under his feet before the resistance lightened, causing his body to stumble forward two steps.

The tentacles piercing the shield gradually softened and disappeared, and the spear on his right arm also slid smoothly into an object.

Li Wei did not move the shield away; instead, he turned his right arm into a whip, injected the Blacklight Virus into the monster he had pierced, and immediately began to assimilate and absorb it.

Only after the biomass successfully returned to his own body did he move the shield away to see what exactly had been able to fight him for several minutes.

After moving the shield, the first thing he noticed was a door frame with a strong sci-fi aesthetic, followed by the octopus-like monster stuck in the frame.

The monster's torso was covered in eyes that had lost their luster, and its bloated body was surrounded by dense, thin tentacles. The surface of the tentacles was pitted like rotting flesh. Only half of its body was exposed; the other half was stuck in the door frame.

The interior of the door frame was filled with white mist. Li Wei looked over and couldn't see anything, but he was certain that this was the "window."

The arrow began to flicker with fluorescence, targeting the machine directly beneath the monster's body.

He reached out to grab the monster's tentacles, wanting to pull this creature from the other side of the door, but after a great deal of effort, he failed. In the end, he could only use his blade to cut off the flesh stuck in the door frame to assimilate and absorb it.

[Energy 100%]

This time, the consumption didn't just provide useless mucus production methods; it also included a special gene that allowed soft, limp limbs to become instantly hard, with a hardness that could even directly surpass Earth's diamond.

After the Blacklight Virus absorbed this special gene and ability, it began to analyze and propagate it, which was equivalent to upgrading Li Wei's defense. The defensive capability of his armored form was significantly improved.

After assimilating the tentacle monster that could become rock-hard, Li Wei saw what the Key had been pointing him toward: a white crystal encased in a glass container.

He had originally planned to go see the world behind the mist, but after absorbing the tentacle monster that could become rock-hard, he dismissed that idea.

Because that monster seemed a bit powerful; if there were many such monsters behind the door, he would be in for a headache!

The Key's energy was already full, and he could go see other worlds, but for now, he decided not to consider entering those dangerous worlds.

He casually smashed the tempered glass and used two fingers to pinch out the pure white crystal. The door that had been emitting white mist slowly dissipated after the crystal was removed.

Li Wei held the white crystal between his two fingers and examined it. He was very curious about how this thing opened the door to another world. Unfortunately, the scientists here were all dead; otherwise, he could have used their research results to study the Key.

Thinking of the Key, the trashy toy Key automatically manifested its entity before his eyes, floating in mid-air, and then slammed into the white crystal between his fingers.

The white crystal shattered upon this impact, and the hundred fragments were absorbed by the Key. Finishing the absorption, the Key faded back into his vision, its edges flickering, looking no different than before.

However, the thoughtful trashy Key indicated in text exactly how it was different from its previous self, stating: [Repair Function: World Retrieval (Retrieves based on key information, performs low-probability anchoring) {Please enter keywords}]

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