Basic Attack Decapitation Protocol
But at this moment, the leader of the assassins revealed a ruthless and vicious nature, as if he didn't care about his own life.
He did not resist the Great Scythe around his neck; instead, he used the downward force to forcibly pull his right hand away from the concrete wall's restraints.
With his right hand, he directly tore open the hidden clasp on the side of the bulletproof vest and pulled out a sealed lead box from under his ribs.
The latch popped open, revealing a dark purple military-grade syringe.
Inside the syringe, a fist-sized tumor was clearly soaking in the nutrient solution.
The surface of that mass of soft tissue was covered with protruding bluish-black veins, which were constantly undulating and contracting at a strange frequency.
A strong, fishy smell, a mixture of dead fish and rotting seaweed, quickly spread throughout the hall from the tip of the needle.
Mint, lurking in the shadows of the ruins, smelled this odor and felt her stomach churn; she nearly vomited.
She quickly covered her mouth and nose, and staggered back half a step.
Within Su Bai's mind's contractual sea of consciousness, the dormant Kabi suddenly emitted a sharp alarm sound.
"High-risk biochemical contamination detected! Chop that thing up immediately!"
"That's a living byproduct of a failed Deep Space Marrow Core purification process—a parasitic gland at the Abyssal Sea Tier!"
Kabi's voice screamed wildly in his mind, even carrying an unusually agitated tone.
"This thing is a demonized organ forcibly cultivated using living human Star Ring. Once fused, it will trigger irreversible abyssal mutation!"
Su Bai's gaze fell on the throbbing tumor.
Two years ago, the old case in Xinghai City, which had been kept strictly confidential, was immediately pieced together from the depths of my memory.
The entire Third Combat Readiness Division Ready Division, consisting of two armored battalions, was wiped out during a so-called defense exercise in a closed mining area.
The official report issued afterward stated in black and white that he bravely sacrificed himself in the face of a sudden high-level demonic tide.
All the remains were cremated on-site in the mining area, and the families were not even able to collect the ashes in their entirety.
That wasn't an encounter battle at all.
This is clearly an illegal human military experiment orchestrated by high-ranking officials, a fig leaf to cover up a completely out-of-control operation deep within the mining area!
This group of people actually turned the out-of-control biochemical residue from back then into a trump card they carry with them!
"Since we're going to die anyway, let's turn into mud together!"
The leader of the assassins roared, gripped the syringe tightly in his hand, and plunged the needle deep into his heart.
Hidden outside the sunroof, Su Xiaoxiao stared wide-eyed, her hands tightly covering her lips.
She lay hidden behind the outer iron fence and witnessed firsthand the man wearing the badge of the Monster Hunting Bureau, Enforcer this insane act.
The deep purple liquid, along with the throbbing tumor, was forcefully injected into his chest through the thick metal needle.
Click!
That was the sound of a sternum being forcibly cracked.
As the tumor disappeared into his flesh, the leader of the assassins' faces contorted in agony.
His screams lasted only half a second before degenerating into low, chaotic, beastly growls.
The golden, second-order Artificial Star Ring was forcibly pushed out from behind his neck.
The thick, dark stratum corneum broke through the skin and flesh, gushing out through the pores and crushing the metal Star Ring into fine iron filings scattered all over the ground.
Black mist, mixed with a strong, acrid smell of sulfur, emanated from his body, quickly obscuring the entire courtyard.
The body of the adult male, who was originally about 1.8 meters tall, continued to stretch and grow taller with the sound of his bones cracking.
Two meters, three meters, four meters...
The massive black shadow shattered the concrete ceiling above them, stopping at a height of over five meters.
Dust and steel bars kept falling, hitting the monster's thick back and turning into dust.
A mutated skeletal beast, its entire body covered in keratinous barbs, stood there.
A massive, dark red horn grew on its head, its four spirals twisting, and its thick lower limbs trampled across the rubble.
Right in the center of its chest, where its heart was originally, a distorted human face belonging to the leader of the assassins has grown out.
The person's eyes rolled back, and meaningless blood foam spurted from their lips as they opened and closed.
The Magic Power readings in the air skyrocketed.
This value exceeds the threshold of the Enforcer level, crosses the Star Mark level range, and approaches the range of C-Rank Abyssal Sea Tier Monster.
The overwhelming pressure of twelve thousand micro-luns caused the Welfare Home building to shake violently.
However, the left half of this enormous creature's body was not completely covered by scales; large patches of rotten flesh were exposed to the air, oozing green pus.
This is not a complete Abyssal Sea Tier Lord.
Instead, it's a berserk, broken beast forcibly created due to genetic collapse!
The mutated monstrous beast's newly grown dark red horn slammed upwards, piercing straight through the concrete ceiling of the basement.
Sizzle!
The main water pipe connecting the kitchen on the upper level of the cellar was broken, and high-pressure water mixed with grayish-white cement slurry poured down on them.
Su Bai watched as the murky mud splashed onto her Purple-Gold Lace Magical Armor, the intricately woven lace at the hem of her skirt becoming stained with grayish-black dirt.
His mood was even worse than the Magical Armor he was wearing.
"Mint, take them back!"
Ziwei held the dark gold Great Scythe horizontally in front of her.
Mint gritted her teeth and used the last bit of Magic Power to create a pale blue wind blade barrier in front of her, protecting Clear Bell and the orphans behind her, before retreating into the corner of the wall, into the dead corner of the load-bearing pillar.
She gathered her remaining Magic Power into several cyan wind blades and hurled them at the enormous creature.
The wind blades sliced across the beast's black, barbed scales, leaving only a few pale, whitish marks without even breaking the skin.
With her Magic Power depleted, Mint's legs gave way, and she knelt on the damp ground, panting heavily.
"It's useless... our attacks can't hurt it at all..."
The face belonging to the leader of the assassins on the broken beast's chest was reveling in this despair.
It opened its mouth and let out a piercing roar.
Green pus, accompanied by sound waves, transformed into a corrosive rain of arrows, covering the location where Mint and the others were.
The pus fell onto the floor tiles, melting the hard bricks into poisonous gas.
A nauseating, sour stench filled the air.
Ziwei lifted the enormous dark gold scythe with one hand.
In her mind, she was calculating the latest funding for the special subsidy regulations on the cleanup of sudden high-level alienation pollution sources, as published on the official website of the Xinghai City Monster Hunting Bureau.
A-level source of mutated contamination; base bounty of three million Federal Coin upon confirmed kill.
Non-governmental organizations that collaborate on the process can apply for an additional subsidy of up to 50%.
A site report of no less than 10,000 words and proof of harmless treatment of pollutants must be submitted afterwards.
Most importantly, if public facilities are damaged, the repair costs will be deducted from the total reward money first.
It's like forcibly dragging a regular worker who clocks out on time into this quagmire where there's no overtime pay and you even have to pay for repairs.
"No matter what era this is in, it would be a heinous crime deserving of a thousand cuts."
Ziwei muttered to herself.
The Great Scythe in her hand silently slid into the shadows of the ground.
The gravitational field folded and compressed in the opposite direction beneath the massive feet of the wrecked beast.
Buzz--!
The concrete ground beneath the enormous creature's feet cracked inch by inch under the force of a tremendous impact, creating a deep crater.
Its massive body was pinned to the spot by this force, making even the simple act of raising its claws difficult.
"Roar!"
The beast let out a roar.
It brandished the bone blades that had grown out of its mutated form, not at Ziwei, but instead swept them with all its might towards the last remaining load-bearing pillar above its head.
It intends to completely destroy the entire Welfare Home and bury everyone inside alive.
The old, load-bearing structure of the Welfare Home groaned under its strain, cracks spreading across the walls and ceiling.
We can't delay any longer.
Su Bai looked at it.
His figure left a blurry purple-gold afterimage in the gravitational field, gliding along the ground to the front of the broken beast.
The heavy Great Scythe in his hand was devoid of any fancy Magic Power effects.
Using physical force, it drew a diagonal slash from bottom to top.
The scythe's blade sliced silently across the beast's thick neck without encountering any resistance.
Boom!
A loud bang came from the direction of the underground storage room.
Outside the ventilation skylight, the welded iron fence was shattered by the blast wave, and twisted iron bars flew out.
Hiding in the shadows of the corner, Su Xiaoxiao was thrown back several steps by the shockwave before she could barely steady herself by holding onto the wall.
She looked up at the broken window.
In the smoke and dust filling the basement, a colossal creature, as tall as a two-story building, broke through the remaining floorboards and squeezed half of its body out.
Immediately afterwards, the monster's head separated from its body, and dark liquid with a pungent stench sprayed out from the severed neck.