Without a doubt, the alloy cylinder hut that looked like a pull-tab can had come alive.
It charged straight ahead like a rabid dog, racing through the blasted underground ruins. It had no feet, forcibly scraping across the shattered floor as it clanged and jolted nonstop.
This was nothing more than a solid lump without even a mechanical mechanism, but once driven by a clockwork mechanism, the greater its mass, the greater its strength.
As it moved, the entire underground base trembled. It stood a full nine meters tall, with a thick layer of special steel covering its surface.
This was precisely the result of the Steel Clockwork Monster: after the doctor's corpse had been blown apart, the clockwork mechanism had attached itself to the wall beside it.
The doctor had fought desperately to reach the gate, but from the very beginning, his only goal had been to die there.
Inside the blasted-open hole.
β-147, Expired Coke, had suffered a Containment Breach, and black liquid was flowing out.
It immediately warped the air into disgusting dust spores. The metal walls it touched soon grew black lumps as countless nauseating swellings and pus-filled sores rapidly spread.
Black, red, purple, and all sorts of disgusting mottled growths covered the walls, making the originally clean, smooth metal look like the skin of someone with a disease.
This was the infectious power of Expired Coke. It could instantly turn inanimate objects into a kind of Inorganic Pathogen afflicted with a skin disease.
Although this Inorganic Pathogen would actively spread its condition outward and slowly infect other inanimate objects, it was not aggressive toward living creatures.
That was precisely why its threat level was only β.
But the clockwork mechanism was aggressive.
If the clockwork mechanism took control of an Inorganic Pathogen that originally had