Ren Sha

Chapter 30: 1.30 Ren Sha

Grasp -- this is actually an experienced judgment made after obtaining enough information about things. Whether a ball can be caught when it's hit by a racket, one has a grasp of it before the ball lands on the racket. As for whether an exam can be passed? A student has a grasp of it the day before the exam.

On the mountaintop, after the Wei Keng Collective surveyed, they began to confirm they had a certain grasp of bringing the remains back themselves.

As long as they can be proficient and achieve the expected results they deem possible, because their actions can be faster than the reaction speed of these collectives.

Currently, bamboo trees on the mountainside are being cut down, and Wei Keng is making final preparations for a batch of tools.

After comparing a series of records he made in the system, Wei Keng believes that whenever he arrives, he can always sense the direction of the enemy through this "Sixth Sense." Then he uses his eyes to confirm the threat, ensuring that the perception is not a coincidence born from imagination.

Previously, these Gene Colonies were rushing towards this place because of Wei Keng's Life Radiation, and because of Wei Keng's approach, they treated it as a formidable enemy. Correspondingly, when Wei Keng arrived here, he also completed the Locate through Life Radiation.

Moreover, Wei Keng is feeling the position of the remains with increasing precision!

So?

What if?

Wei Keng trembled and began to make a hypothesis!

This feeling is like disarming a bomb that is about to explode, whether his palm truly grasps the lifeline of future life and death! Various reasons prove he can do it, but the feeling of "a single mistake means eternal regret" grips his heart, making him unable to move.

Wei Keng: If that mind-stealing spider still wraps the remains itself?

Touching fire reveals its temperature.

If his own life is enveloped by the enemy's Life Radiation, can he then precisely Locate it!?

If this were the case, Wei Keng felt he had a slim chance to achieve destruction + rescue.

At this time, Wei Keng, who arrived at the battlefield first, consisted of five hundred and thirty-seven individuals, equipped with light weapons, and their projectile weapons were Grenade Launchers.

Another one hundred and twenty individuals are rushing towards this battlefield with four Heavy Machine Guns, a 60mm Mortar, and forty Nitro-Sugar Rockets and Satchel Charges. They are still two days away.

Rescuing people, of course, the sooner the better. Every extra hour means one more variable.

And to annihilate the enemy while minimizing casualties requires waiting for heavy firepower.

This is a choice similar to a Train Junction!

Option One: It is possible to save one individual, but several times, or even tens of times, more individuals might die.

Option Two: It is highly unlikely to save this individual, but when eliminating the enemy, fewer individuals will die.

However, after Wei Keng's hundreds of minds communicated with each other, their logic was not chaotic. Instead, it gradually became clearer.

Wei Keng: "What is the purpose of my combat? To annihilate the enemy? Or to protect myself? Most of the time, annihilating the enemy equals protecting myself, with no conflict. But at this moment, the cause and effect must be clear! Because I want to protect myself, I must annihilate the enemy."

"Then?" At this moment, Wei Keng was completely relieved and calmly made the decision for option one.

In a state of weakness, and persisting without giving up, even if it's just one person, they must be protected.

And in a state of strength, even if death lies ahead, the bottom line must be defended.

If five hundred of me can defeat the enemy, that is a state of strength. No explanation needed, no need to consider pros and cons, in principle, we must go!

In the last five minutes, every individual in the Wei Keng collective confirmed the thousands of data points observed and aimed, as well as their own predictions of spatial positions.

Without a moment's pause, they immediately launched their action.

The Wei Keng collective directly expanded on the flanks and launched an offensive from the front.

Life Radiation made both sides feel the threat of the other, so surprise attacks were useless. Therefore, Wei Keng was not launching a surprise attack, but a bold and open one, acting rapidly in an extremely short period of time, so fast that you knew it was happening but were powerless to stop it.

In short, it was a battle of skill!

The flanking maneuver was carried out in front of the Gene Colony on the hilltop, without concealment, because it was certain that they could not spare enough force from the front to repel the flanking maneuver.

Giant Beasts, each weighing half a ton, began to charge down from the hilltop. These large predators, charging down in groups of seven or eight, gave a sense of a torrent. Against the Wei Keng charging uphill from the slope, they appeared very fragile under such an impact.

Ten days ago, Wei Keng's plan for his abilities was to avoid any large creatures exceeding one ton in weight, and to destroy them with sniper rifles and heavy firepower.

Now, there were only twenty-six sniper rifles, and they were needed to suppress targets on the hilltop, leaving only two-thirds of their capacity to intercept the Giant Beasts descending from the front.

"Whoosh whoosh whoosh," the Grenade Launchers fired. At a distance of two hundred meters, they unleashed a creeping barrage on the Wei Keng charging uphill. Although the killing power of Black Powder and shrapnel was limited, it instantly stunned the charging Giant Beasts. The explosions were overwhelming in sight and sound, forcing them to rely on the path they saw two seconds prior to charge.

However, the Wei Keng charging head-on predicted these processes as the warheads fell, and thus seized the opportunity to roll to the side.

In World War II battles, when tanks charged, there were warriors who would hide among the dead. When the tanks rolled over, and their teammates' machine guns provided cover, they would seize the moment to roll to the side of the tank and stuff cluster grenades into the treads.

These Giant Beasts were far inferior to tanks.

Submachine Guns were aimed at their flanks, unleashing their output.

As the Giant Beasts swept past their sides, they pulled the trigger. Before sweeping, the action of raising the gun involved both arms holding the gun and raising it diagonally upwards. After sweeping, they held the gun with the muzzle pointing diagonally downwards. These dozen or so bullets at point-blank range devastated the Giant Beasts' vulnerable organs, temporarily disabling them.

As the Giant Beasts fell onto the gentle slope before they could recover, Wei Keng, holding a Demolition Rod, thrust the bamboo pole into the Giant Beast's abdomen or throat while it was bleeding, then dropped the bamboo pole and left. (This Demolition Rod was a bamboo pole with a Hand Grenade tied to it.)

The surrounding Wei Keng unleashed a barrage of gunfire, pinning them to the ground, unable to move, until the Hand Grenade exploded.

Thus, the sequence of stunning (dazed by the Grenade Launcher), crippling (sweeping the flanks), and finishing (thrusting the Demolition Rod) was completed. Nine out of ten attempts were successful, fully embodying the phrase "long-planned."

As a human, Wei Keng mentally simulated a large number of plans before the battle, rather than relying purely on brute force.

The two collectives currently in combat were roughly equal in total BMR. However, judging by their condition before the battle, the Wei Keng appeared more fragile externally. Each Giant Beast within the Gene Colonies seemed capable of killing a Wei Keng. But once the battle commenced, the Wei Keng, despite suffering casualties of only sixteen, charged directly from the foot of the mountain to its summit.

The Wei Keng's strength lay in its brain; the energy metabolized supported complex coordination of consciousness, proving this stat allocation to be superior.

Fifteen minutes into the battle, the Wei Keng's frontal assault reached the mountaintop, while the flanking forces advanced diagonally up the slope.

Gene Colony's assessment: Their current strength was insufficient to face the "Calamity of Nature" and they should withdraw.

The Droplet Spiders within the colony once again engulfed the Wei Keng's remains, attempting to digest the Wei Keng completely within five minutes to obtain life energy and, for the last time, acquire information.

However, this creature was unaware that its final act of greed perfectly aligned with one of Wei Keng's optimal expectations.

Three hundred meters away, Grenade Launchers were placed in earthen pits, their barrels mostly buried and secured. The direction of these Grenade Launchers was aimed at the general vicinity of the Wei Keng's Life Radiation perception.

Now, after its remains were consumed by the Droplet Spider, Wei Keng had a precise location.

With a 1.5 times charge, it was loaded into the Grenade Launcher. This charge would cause irreparable deformation, rendering the Grenade Launcher unusable afterward, but it would achieve an extended Range in the short term. To prevent potential barrel bursts, it had been pre-buried in the earthen pit.

With the location confirmed, Wei Keng grabbed an Entrenching Tool and slightly pried the Grenade Launcher out of the soil. The trajectory was fine-tuned, and stones were inserted for stability. The system-provided impact point coincided with its own perceived location.

Wei Keng's consciousness collective "observed" this Artillery Position and loudly shouted: "Fire!"

Eight Projectiles were launched towards the predicted direction! Following a series of explosions there, countless tiny Shrapnel fragments scattered into the air before falling back down.

Everything had yielded results.

When the Wei Keng Collective charged onto the mountaintop, the Gene Colonies had already cut their losses and fled, leaving behind a large number of corpses as they escaped to the north.

Wei Keng then dug open the spider's belly and found its own remains inside.

Seeing this version of itself that had merely survived, Wei Keng found it hard to imagine how a person could reach such a state, devoid of skin tissue and with most of its muscles stripped away.

Perhaps the limbs were digested first, leaving behind a skeleton that was discarded. The Eye Socket areas were empty, with no eyes visible, leading into the brain. The Viscera were held by unknown threads, not protruding from the rib cage.

Yet, this version of itself, though unable to breathe normally, was still alive and had a heartbeat.

The effect of its Life Radiation field forced associated organs to maintain vitality. At this moment, the Wei Keng's remains had small, contracting and expanding pores on its muscles, forcibly drawing oxygen into the abdominal cavity.

They would transport it now. As the Wei Kengs carefully tried to pull their remains out of the spider's liquid abdomen, they discovered that the back of Wei Keng's head and the muscles of its lower leg were connected to the spider's remains in many places, making them difficult to distinguish organically.

However, the spider suddenly twitched, startling all the Wei Kengs. Except for the two closest ones who maintained observation, the rest retreated and raised their Firearms in alert.

This spider could still live?

Wei Keng (he) felt this was unreasonable. He had clearly severed several major nerve centers, and in his own perception, he couldn't sense any threat from this spider. Well, the life radiation recorded by the system, it was probably just the natural twitching of frog muscles.

However, Wei Keng (he) soon confirmed it. The spider wasn't alive, but the remnant Wei Keng (he) within the wreckage was struggling, seemingly causing the spider's current tissues to twitch.

The subsequent changes left Wei Keng (he) ????

After twenty minutes of observation, it was discovered that the body of the remnant Wei Keng (he) was drawing tissue from the spider into its own body. The eye sockets and skin were regenerating.

All of this indicated to Wei Keng (he) that this was Earth within the Pandora Field, where carbon-based life could be very tenacious.

Previously, this Fused Human spider had, through a symbiotic dominance, devoured Wei Keng (he), attempting to seize Wei Keng (he)'s thoughts and information. At that time, Wei Keng (he) had resisted fiercely, never giving up. Even some of its nerves that had entered the remnant Wei Keng (he) were assimilated by Wei Keng (he)'s life radiation. And when the Wei Keng Collective attacked, this mutual assimilation entered a more intense state. By the final moment, when the spider was ready to digest Wei Keng (he), it was already too late.

Now, the spider was crippled by the explosion, its main nervous system torn away, unable to lead the symbiotic process anymore. Moreover, the Wei Keng Collective was here, and the life radiation would be even more potent, rendering it ineffective.

Watching the remnant Wei Keng (he) lying inside the spider, with an amniotic environment appearing around its body, Wei Keng (he) was sure that what came next might be much better than he had imagined.

The system, unseen for a long time, suddenly spoke, offering a potentially very reliable suggestion!

Bai Linglu (he): "You can try a blood transfusion."

Wei Keng (he) paused, then immediately summoned the First Aid Kit and found a syringe.

The closest Wei Keng (he) rolled up his sleeve, found a vein, endured the prick, and filled a syringe with blood by pulling the plunger. After removing the syringe, Wei Keng (he) pressed on the wound, but the small wound healed instantly.

In the Pandora Field, extremely strict medical conditions were not necessary. When a community of genetically similar beings gathered, all alien life forms were at a disadvantage.

The remnant Wei Keng (he) in the vacuole directly broke through the vacuole's membrane, extending its shoulder, which was part of a growing forearm. As the shoulder squeezed out of the vacuole, the semi-transparent, growing arm bent like a noodle.

As a syringe of blood was injected into the remnant Wei Keng (he)'s blood vessel, it was visible to the naked eye that this stream of red flowed beneath Wei Keng (he)'s translucent skin. Wherever it went, a large amount of tissue and capillaries grew like plant veins with accelerated time.

Effective, very effective.

In the life field, similar life forms could only convert carbon-based energy, but material exchange still relied on internal processes.

Syringe after syringe of blood was injected into the remnant body.

A large number of bubbles emerged from the transparent spider carcass, and a large amount of sweat-like liquid flowed from its outer skin. The vacuole rapidly deflated. This was clearly forced metabolism.

The remnant Wei Keng (he) felt thirsty, and the Wei Kengs (he) immediately injected water from their kettles. The sweating from the spider carcass intensified.

Within three hours, The incomplete eyes, skin, and even hair had grown back. This body, which had endured hardship, finally survived.

Of course, everything was not over yet. The Wei Keng Collective occupying this area exuded a Killing Intent, so strong that no birds dared to approach within a ten-kilometer radius.

[When life prepares to hunt, its entire metabolism changes. In this Pandora Era, this is reflected in the life radiation. Although Wei Keng (he) was not hunting, its thoughts and emotions linked to the tense state of its body maintained a constant life state. This state radiated through the life field, appearing as Killing Intent to other weaker creatures!]

In this battle, the Wei Keng Collective had lost three bodies! Every Wei Keng (he) felt their scalp tingle, and Wei Keng (he) also sensed multiple hostile life radiation sources within a radius of several dozen kilometers.

Recalling the recent combat, I discovered that during the attack, all three Warfalls sustained fatal head injuries.

The system clearly recorded the final moments of these three selves. One was caught by a dying Giant Beast while charging forward with a Demolition Rod. The other two were directly pounced on and pinned down by Giant Beasts. The commonality in their deaths was that once controlled by the Giant Beasts, they couldn't escape. Their Eye Sockets were pierced by long Claws and Sharp Teeth, leading to their complete demise.

Still agitated from the bloody battle, Remnant Wei Keng (he) declared, "These creatures seem to be accumulating killing experience. For that reason alone, they must be annihilated."

In the 21st Century, any Fierce Beast that had hunted humans was to be controlled. During the capture process, they could be beaten to death.

Therefore, Wei Keng (he) had a perfectly valid reason for initiating the "Pursuit": "Only by beating them to death can the hidden danger be eliminated."

Five hours later

Remnant Wei Keng (he), fully recovered, rejoined the group and quickly integrated into the mental link. Subsequently, his thoughts and consciousness merged with the ongoing work.