Battle Underway

He ground his molars and forced those words out through clenched teeth!

Screeeech—!!!

The piercing metallic shriek was like a demon's nails scraping glass, making the surrounding soldiers cover their ears in pain!

The cell door, forged from special steel and embedded deep in the wall, began to bend outward inch by inch under Chu Hang's pure, unreasonable brute strength!

Chunks of concrete and fragments of rebar continually cracked loose from where it connected to the wall, spraying everywhere!

Before the soldier's disbelieving eyes, as though he had witnessed a miracle!

The cell door was forcibly... torn off!

But he did not throw away that lump of scrap metal.

Instead, he swung the several-hundred-pound iron door with both hands. Sparks still flew from it as he wielded it like an oversized flyswatter and smashed it down with crushing force upon the Mechanical Spider that had just lunged close!

Boom—!!!

A deafening crash!

The spider, along with the hard special concrete floor beneath it, was instantly smashed into an unrecognizable iron pancake mixed with metal and rubble!

Holding the battered iron door, Chu Hang stood there like a demon god who had slaughtered his way out of hell, his chest heaving violently.

He turned to look at the soldier in the cell, who had gone completely blank with shock, then grinned, revealing teeth stained red by blood and gunpowder smoke.

"Don't be afraid." His voice was hoarse, yet carried an unquestionable power.

"I'm here."

With that, he propped the iron door upright before him, forming a temporary shield covered in spikes to block another wave of approaching spiders.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

The unceasing impacts numbed his palms.

Passively taking hits? Only an idiot would do that!

"Get the hell out of here!"

With a furious roar, he swung the iron door with both hands, sweeping it hard before him as though clearing away trash!

The heavy iron door tore through the air with a shriek, carving out a deadly semicircle!

Every Mechanical Spider in its path seemed to have been struck by a train, instantly bursting apart and exploding into a shower of parts!

With one sweep, he forcibly cleared an open patch in the fan-shaped area before him!

This could work!

Chu Hang's spirits soared. Like a player who had gotten his hands on a bug-level artifact, he wildly swung his "ultimate weapon"! Smash! Sweep! Swat! It was all pure, back-to-basics physical exorcism! For a time, one man and one door actually held back the spider swarm from an entire direction!

But it was not enough! More spiders were pouring out from the depths of the passageway, endless in number! On the other side, Logan had gone on a killing spree, but the rate at which he cut them down could not possibly keep up with the rate at which the spiders were tearing the place apart!

They had to get moving!

"Hey! You bunch of useless bastards! Listen the hell up!" Chu Hang roared at the top of his lungs while frantically swinging the iron door. "Do you want to die standing, or live on your knees?!"

His voice rolled past every soldier's ears like thunder.

"Look at yourselves, you pathetic cowards! Are you even soldiers anymore? Where's your courage? Did the German Army sell it off as scrap metal?! Your families are still waiting for you to come home, and you're ready to turn into a pile of spider shit here?!"

"If you want to live, get the hell up! Grab whatever you can use around you! Broken iron rods! Rocks on the ground! Even your damn teeth!"

"Follow me! Kill our way out!"

Every word struck the soldiers' faces like a burning slap! Their desire to survive, fueled by the terror of watching their comrades die and then doused with oil by Chu Hang's savage roar, was completely ignited!

"Fuck them up!"

A burly man with blood all over his face was the first to rush out of a cell! He gripped an iron pipe he had just snapped off a bed frame!

"Count me in!"

"Kill all these metal monsters!"

One, two, three... more and more soldiers rushed out! Despair was gone from their eyes, replaced by the madness and fighting spirit born from being driven into a corner!

A bargain-basement suicide squad made up of battered remnants was assembled in barely a dozen seconds!

"Good! Form pairs and hold the breached cells! Smash down every spider that tries to crawl inside!" Chu Hang roared.

"Yes!"

The soldiers roared in unison, instantly easing the pressure on Logan's side. The defenses throughout the cell block miraculously stabilized!

Chu Hang took a deep breath. While mechanically swinging the iron door, his serum-enhanced brain raced at supercomputer speed.

Something's wrong. These spiders' movements are too orderly. Attack, retreat, flank... They aren't beasts. They're an army!

To catch thieves, catch their king! As long as I find the commander giving orders in the rear and take it out, this battle can end!

His hearing instantly shifted modes. Like the most precise sonar, it began filtering and selecting a special, rhythmic high-frequency signal from this chaotic ocean of sound!

His gaze instantly sharpened like an eagle's as he rapidly scanned the chaotic black sea before him.

His eyes passed over the crazed "soldiers" lunging at him, reaching deeper into the battlefield, into the darker recesses.

Suddenly, his pupils contracted sharply!

There!

In an inconspicuous corner at the very rear of the spider swarm crouched a special spider nearly twice the size of the others, its shell gleaming dark gold!

It did not move, but the antenna-like feeler atop its head continuously flashed with an eerie, rhythmic red light! With every flash, the entire swarm's offensive shifted slightly!

That's it!

In that instant, all the chaos, flames, and screams vanished from Chu Hang's eyes.

In his world, only that dark golden figure in the corner remained.

An utterly cold killing intent rose from the depths of his heart.

Found it.

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