Starting as a Mechanical Hunter
Chapter 123

Open the Formation

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As the largest money pit in the central desert and even the radiation zone, the senior engineer almost swept away all the immersive equipment in the entertainment center; even the cleaning lady couldn't have cleaned it as thoroughly as he did.

Faced with the menacing guns of the security forces, none of these powerful nightclub owners dared to object. Anyone who dared to utter a sound was to go and talk to the beast tide.

Now, more than two hundred electronics cities have sprung up overnight, revealing gasoline towns, military supply depots, old metal recycling stations, and scavenger gathering places. To the naked eye, they are practically identical.

The enormous, surging tide of beasts, like a cascading Milky Way, split into hundreds of channels, rushing into various places.

A newly formed B-class monster, a rotting robot, stomped its massive foot into Gas Town. The thick walls seemed as if they were made of paper. Basketball-sized electronic eyes suddenly flashed with a warning light. The next moment, two enormous chainsaws, as thick as door panels, collided violently, sending sparks flying everywhere.

Ordinary combat robots cannot defeat rotting robots. The rotting robot's engine, serrated chainsaw, and handheld energy cannon are covered with a large amount of rotting flesh. This flesh is like a special biological plug-in, which increases its performance by a full 200%, directly breaking through the upper limit of large mechanical bodies.

After several slashes with the large chainsaw, the rotting robot was forced to lean back, its upper body lolling backward. Suddenly, countless fleshy buds erupted from the serrated chainsaw, doubling in speed, and slashed fiercely into the large combat robot's chest. Liquid pipes tore apart, gasoline sprayed out, and mechanical parts exploded into the air.

The combat robot has ten power engines, four of which have shut down.

At the same time, one of the electronic eyes exploded, the sensing element cracked, and the electron tube was full of cracks.

The rotting robot's entire body was glowing with excited red light, its power at full throttle. A large amount of radiant energy was concentrated on the handheld energy cannon, and with a clean and decisive shot, it blew off the combat robot's head.

However, the next moment, three powerful beings suddenly appeared in mid-air, with at least ten energy nozzles on their bodies shining brightly. They unleashed their ultimate move, "Shockwave," and a violent storm instantly enveloped them, followed by countless fist shadows.

The advantage of the bio-armor over mechs is that it can withstand overload. The essence of this overload is to use the human body to bear the pressure of the armor. Therefore, every bio-armor user is a carefully selected warrior.

After unleashing three powerful attacks, they took away a quarter of the opponent's health, especially leaving numerous fist-shaped cracks on the outer shell.

The three colonists landed on the ground, panting heavily, kneeling on one knee in a classic "heroic landing."

The reason why the bio-armor is inferior to the mech is that its endurance is not as good. Unlike the mech, it cannot continue to deal damage as long as its energy is not depleted.

Like all living organisms, it needs time to recover its output.

In the past, they would have had to retreat, but now, someone has taken over.

Ten cone-shaped bullets struck the blood-red electronic eye almost simultaneously, and the bullet trajectories even predicted the robot's evasive maneuvers.

Each of those ten shots dealt critical damage, instantly taking away eight thousand points of the rotten robot's health.

Three kilometers away, the blind man held the "Storm" brand electromagnetic rifle and still wore his signature small round sunglasses. Beneath the sunglasses were electronic bee eyes with five thousand tiny eyes. Moreover, unlike the fist-sized eyes of ordinary bio-modified warriors, his eyes were even smaller than normal people's, just slits.

The dynamic capture ability of ordinary modified soldiers is 100 times that of normal people, making them the best snipers.

The blind man's dynamic capture ability is 100 times that of the biological warrior, which is 10,000 times that of an ordinary person.

Therefore, his visual organs are shut down most of the time because his optic nerves cannot withstand such strain.

But Guan Yu never opens his eyes; if he does, he will surely kill.

When he was blind and his eyesight was poor, he couldn't even find toilet paper when he went to the toilet, but when his eyesight was good, anyone he glared at would tremble.

The next moment, the rotting robot's knee was blasted open again. This was not an ordinary critical hit, but a "tenfold critical hit".

One of the mechanical legs exploded.

The next moment, two fiery whips shot out from the horde of beasts, twisting and turning in the air several times before wrapping around another mechanical leg. Terrifying flames spread upwards along the whips.

Why does Old Ma always need to go to the toilet? Because he drinks gasoline. His stomach is no longer a normal human stomach, but an energy storage organ of a flamethrower beast.

Amidst the pillar of fire, Old Ma gave a sudden yank, and the rotting robot crashed to the ground.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Old Cha leaped into the air and viciously chopped down on the robot's head with a millstone-sized mechanical axe, hacking from head to tail. Countless brain components exploded, and tens of thousands more health points were lost.

Meanwhile, dozens of gun-wielding beasts had appeared all around. While ordinary gun-wielding beasts typically only had one weapon, these "gun-wielding beasts" each carried at least four guns, either high-energy machine guns or radiation energy guns. With their large caliber and powerful firepower, the B-class robot finally lost its engine and died completely under the terrifying firepower.

The three strong colonists and the three old hunters disappeared into the vast beast tide at some unknown time.

On the other side, a colossal vomiting creature with over a million units of blood is spreading forward. It's like a mountain of flesh, engulfing and devouring everything in its path.

However, behind it, a blood vessel as thick as a water tank resembled a hollow parasite, with one section inside and the other outside, thick blood plasma gushing out from the vessel.

This enormous monster, whose health surpassed that of an A-grade radiated beast, was actually worn down to death after an hour of frantic blood loss.

This is something that no one could have imagined.

Then, the blood vessel swayed on the corpse and suddenly fell off.

The blood vessels slowly pulsated, eventually transforming into a middle-aged man with a bluish complexion. The man staggered, but was fortunately supported by a biological soldier.

"Are you... alright?" Luo Dayou looked at the other person with a shocked expression, as if to say, "Although I don't understand, I am greatly shocked."

Old Xie rubbed his stomach and said irritably, "If you had diarrhea for an hour, could you stand it?"

"So... you're going to rest?"

"No, help me to the next place, I can still pull myself along!"

On the main battlefield, small forces are engaged in a multi-pronged attack; on local battlefields, large forces are used to defeat smaller ones.

This is the core of Operation Wild Hunt.

Unlike Class B radiation beasts, each Class B radiation beast is a gigantic monster, and their movements cannot be concealed.

Humans are at most small-scale radioactive beasts. With the help of the light pollution and sound effects of the "Electronic City," they can disappear into the beast horde as soon as they plunge into it.

Moreover, the senior engineer had already marked these people with his radiation field, which would allow them to avoid most attacks from the radiation beasts.

After all, there are all sorts of irradiated creatures, so it wouldn't be surprising if one of them grew into a human shape. Isn't the irradiated corpse a human-shaped creature?

As the supreme commander, the senior engineer's vision is no longer limited to a local battlefield; he must have a comprehensive view of the overall situation.

And the sky began to gradually turn white.

This wasn't daytime; rather, the battlefield, perfectly suited for A-level radioactive beasts, was already beginning to prepare.

Once successfully conceived, any place can be within the Red Queen's sphere of influence.

"Beep beep beep—"

[Quest: Beast Tide - Frenzy]

Difficulty: Nightmare

Mission Briefing: The beast scourge that has engulfed the entire desert—whether it is the beginning or the end—depends on this battle.

Mission objective: Stop the beast tide

Determining the winner:

Success conditions: 1. Defeat the Crimson Queen/Fission Duke; 2. Stop the rise of mutation energy; 3. Repel the Knights' backup plan.

Failure conditions: 1. Host's death; 2. Defeated Four Continents Alliance; 3. Abundant mutated energy.

Task Reward 1:

For each radiated beast killed by your faction, you gain 1 experience point.

For each C-level radioactive beast killed, your faction gains 1000 experience points.

For each B-level radioactive beast killed, your faction gains 10,000 experience points.

Fangfang's faction kills an A-level radiation beast, gaining 100,000 experience points.

Task Reward Two:

Experience +45000, Regional Reputation +10000, Mechanical Puzzle Fragment*1, Specialization Points*2, Skill Points*5, Lottery Chances*5

Task Reward 3:

The original timeline has been altered by 1%, the Mech Hunter faction has been established, and the host has been granted the title of 'Faction Leader'.

"As expected, the Knights will intervene; this isn't too surprising."

"What's truly surprising is that I thought we'd have to wait for players to arrive before the system-wide factions could be unlocked. Turns out, you don't even need players; NPC templates can create factions. That's amazing!"

Players feel a great sense of superiority, after all, they are the fourth calamity.

But now it seems that whether they are here or not, it makes no difference in the past or present life.

Compared to the three major natural disasters, this fourth natural disaster is rather pathetic.

Is the true purpose of the Fourth Calamity yet to be discovered?

The thought flashed through Gao Gong's mind in an instant. The next moment, "bullet time" was activated. Gao Gong's reflexes became a hundred times faster. He saw the expansion and contraction of the pores on his arm, the water droplets "swimming" not far away, and the radiation rays stretched into a long line.

His thighs and head flashed rapidly, so fast that it was invisible to the naked eye.

Almost simultaneously, a burst of red light flashed across the engineer's body, followed by a terrifying explosion that created two mushroom clouds on the ground.

"Damn it, that Class A radioactive beast is so unsportsmanlike, it launched a sneak attack!"

"Even a homing missile can't outrun a spear you've conjured by hand. Does your husband know how fast you are?"

"Oh, he must know. Otherwise, why would he be called the Duke of Fission? He's already Fissioned. How tragic."

The red light emanating from the senior engineer blocked the black light that was being squeezed out from all around.

Clearly, the senior engineer has been targeted.

However, in the engineer's field of vision, a unique hunter's mark also lit up.

The 'pheromone marking' doesn't necessarily have to be aimed at the target. As long as the other party's aura is present, such as the energy spear that just flew by, it can be marked.

However, the marker did not move. It seems that, like the senior engineer, the Crimson Queen was also observing the situation on the field and making adjustments as needed.

"If I were on the other side, I would send someone to behead them right now. Even if that fails, it would greatly disrupt the enemy leader's thinking."

The next moment, one after the other, the dense radiation transformed into two giant cocoons, which turned from black to white. The next moment, terrifying lightning flashed from behind, while in front, more than a dozen bird heads as thick as water vats emerged from the dark clouds.

Sky Beast: Ionizing Radiation Bird, Sky Beast: Multi-Headed Ghidorah.

"Is it this exciting right from the start? Do they think I'm the neighbor's husband?"

The senior engineer muttered to himself.

"We really are on the same wavelength."

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