Thunder Tyrannosaurus? No, That's My Mobile Nuclear Power Plant!

"So noisy."

Qin Feng picked at his ear and casually snapped his goggles onto his face. The six-meter-long Thunder Tyrannosaurus in front of him was baring its blood-red maw, the thunder rolling in its throat causing the leaves on the surrounding trees to rustle and fall.

"Brother Wolf, don't dawdle. This big lizard is too loud; it's easy to attract the city inspectors... I mean, the people from Martial Soul Hall."

Grey Wolf was sticking his butt in the air, rapidly tightening screws on several metal boxes. With a wrench clamped in his mouth, he mumbled indignantly, "Hurry, hurry, hurry! All you do is hurry! This is precision equipment! If this crappy coil is wired backward, we'll both end up as roasted lamb!"

"Roar--!"

The Thunder Tyrannosaurus clearly felt it was being ignored. It was the overlord of this region; when had it ever seen such two-legged creatures that didn't take it seriously?

Its amethyst-like scales flared up violently, and a thunderball the size of a bucket condensed in its mouth, the surrounding air instantly filling with a scorched, acrid smell.

"It's over! It's over!" Yu Xiaogang sat down hard in a mud pit, his face paler than a corpse's as he clutched his empty lunchbox tightly. "That's a Thunder Breath! A full-power strike from a thousand-year soul beast! Run!"

Run? Run where?

The thunderball carried the momentum to destroy everything in its path, slamming straight toward Qin Feng's face. The blinding blue light turned the night as bright as day, illuminating even the fine hairs on Qin Feng's face with perfect clarity.

Qin Feng didn't move. He simply raised his wrist and glanced at his watch.

"Three, two, one."

"Activate!" Grey Wolf slammed down a massive red knife switch.

"Zzz--hum!!!"

Four metal pillars that had been buried beforehand suddenly popped up from the ground, surrounding the three of them perfectly. The metal spheres at the tops of the pillars instantly released a pale blue light barrier, resembling an inverted bowl.

The thunderball slammed fiercely into the light barrier.

No explosion. No deafening roar.

The thunderball, which had enough power to blast rock into powder, was like a drop of water falling into a sponge, instantly "absorbed" by the light barrier. The barrier merely flickered slightly before glowing even brighter.

At the same time, the dashboard behind Qin Feng began to dance wildly, the needle spiking from the red zone straight to the maximum limit.

"Beep beep beep! Charging efficiency 300%! The battery pack is rapidly reaching saturation!"

Grey Wolf looked at the dashboard, so excited he dropped his wrench and began dancing around. "Wahahaha! We're rich! This voltage! This current! It's ten thousand times better than that manual generator of mine!"

Qin Feng watched the rising numbers, his eyes filled with greed.

"Good fellow, this isn't a soul beast; this is clearly a nuclear power plant with legs." He patted the battery box beside him. "This one bolt of lightning is enough to keep our laboratory running at full power for three months."

The Thunder Tyrannosaurus was stunned.

Its walnut-sized brain could not comprehend what had just happened. Its ultimate move—how did it just vanish?

Refusing to believe it, it let out another roar and lunged forward on its thick limbs like a heavy tank. If magic attacks were ineffective, it would crush these bugs with its physical body!

The earth trembled.

Yu Xiaogang scrambled backward in terror, his voice cracking. "It's charging! Physical attack! Get out of the way!"

"Physical attack?" Qin Feng sneered and pulled a remote control from his pocket. "In the face of gravity, all physical collisions are just throwing your life away."

He pressed his thumb down lightly.

"Click."

Just as the Thunder Tyrannosaurus reached a point ten meters away from them, a ring of purple light suddenly lit up on the ground beneath its feet.

"Super Gravity Mine, activated."

"Boom!"

The multi-ton behemoth felt as if a mountain had suddenly been placed on its back. Its forward momentum came to an abrupt halt, its four legs buckling uncontrollably before it knelt heavily onto the ground.

The ground cracked into two deep pits under its knees.

It struggled desperately, trying to stand, but the invisible suction force pinned it firmly to the earth, making it incredibly difficult even to lift its head.

"Woo... roar..." The Tyrannosaurus let out a low, unwilling growl, its eyes filled with fear.

Qin Feng walked leisurely toward it, carrying a strangely shaped long gun in his hand. The barrel was thin, connected at the back to a glass canister filled with a transparent liquid.

"Don't move, big guy."

Qin Feng pressed the muzzle against a scale growing in reverse under the Tyrannosaurus's neck. That was the dragon's reverse scale, the area where the central nervous system was most concentrated.

"One shot of this, and you'll have a very long dream."

"Pfft."

The specialized needle pierced the gap between the scales. A high-concentration nerve-blocking agent was injected instantly.

The pupils of the Thunder Tyrannosaurus contracted sharply before rapidly dilating. Its massive body twitched twice and went completely limp, with only its nostrils still puffing out ragged breaths.

"Done."

Qin Feng put away the gun and turned to look at Yu Xiaogang, who was staring in a daze.

Yu Xiaogang stood up shakily and pulled out a dagger, his hand still trembling. "Quick... kill it now! This is a thousand-year soul ring! Although the attributes are a bit violent, it's still a top-tier one..."

"Kill?"

Qin Feng looked at him as if he were an idiot, snatched the dagger, and threw it on the ground.

"Master, is there anything in that brain of yours besides killing the goose to get the golden egg?"

"This is a living high-energy battery! If I kill it, where am I supposed to find such a stable power source?" Qin Feng pointed at the Thunder Tyrannosaurus on the ground. "I'm going to take it back and keep it in the basement of the laboratory."

"Keep... keep it?" Yu Xiaogang felt like his brains were about to boil. "This is a thousand-year spirit beast! If it wakes up, it will tear the entire academy apart!"

"It won't wake up."

Qin Feng pulled a bundle of thick conduits and wires from his backpack, along with a buzzing surgical drill.

"I'm going to perform a minor surgery on it."

"I'll implant a control chip into the cerebral cortex, sever the motor nerves, and keep only the autonomic nervous system to maintain life and discharge electricity."

"Then, I'll insert these conduits into its thunder sac to draw out the electrical energy directly."

As he spoke, Qin Feng skillfully gestured where he would make the incision on the head of the Thunder Tyrannosaurus. Grey Wolf also leaned in, handing over a pair of hemostatic forceps, the two of them working in perfect synchronization.

"Brother Wolf, the battery capacity isn't enough; the energy density inside this thing is too high."

"Tch! I told you to bring that large energy storage tank!" Grey Wolf complained, pulling a massive metal funnel out of his tattered coat. "No choice then, we'll have to perform an expansion surgery first and channel the excess energy into its bones for storage."

"Zzzzzzt--"

The sound of the drill boring into bone was exceptionally jarring in the silent forest.

Blood splattered.

Qin Feng expressionlessly inserted metal probes one by one into the body of the Thunder Tyrannosaurus, connecting complex circuits to its nerves. The sight of machinery and flesh being forcibly fused together was filled with an eerie, cyberpunk aesthetic.

This wasn't hunting a spirit beast at all.

This was assembling a machine.

In the bushes in the distance.

A pair of pink eyes were staring fixedly at the scene.

Xiao Wu covered her mouth, her body trembling uncontrollably. She had seen spirit masters hunt spirit beasts; that was for survival, for strength, the law of nature.

But this scene before her...

Turning a living spirit beast into a mindless machine?

That youth was humming a tune while shoving cold metal into the body of one of her kind. That indifference, that matter-of-fact attitude, was ten thousand times more terrifying than the most vicious predator.

"Ugh--"

Yu Xiaogang finally couldn't take it anymore, leaning against a tree trunk and vomiting violently. He had spent his whole life studying theory and prided himself on being knowledgeable, but this scene of treating life like spare parts to be dismantled at will completely shattered his psychological defenses.

"That's about it."

Qin Feng wiped the blood from his hands and nodded with satisfaction as he looked at the Thunder Tyrannosaurus, which was now covered in tubes and steadily outputting an electric current.

"Brother Wolf, pack it up. Call Scrap King No. 2 over to drag it back."

Just then.

A gust of fragrant wind suddenly swept over.

It wasn't the smell of decay from the forest, but a rich, somewhat cloying scent.

"Oh my, oh my..."

A voice that sent shivers down the spine rang out abruptly in Qin Feng's ear.

"Little brother, seeing you treat such a cute spirit beast this way really makes big sister's heart ache."