The hole was facing the corridor of the hotel.
When he took more than ten steps in, he found that his feet were covered in sticky insect fluid, and he was surrounded by a suffocating black fog.
When he turned his head around to look, he could no longer see the hole leading to the outside world. It was just a dark maze.
"How strange," Meng Chao mumbled.
"There was no explosion in the hotel. Even if the smoke crawled in through the hole and the embrasures, why did it suddenly become so thick?" “
While he was puzzled, a huge beetle suddenly crawled out from the corner in front of him. Its blackish-brown carapace was covered in white spots, and at first glance, it was pretty.
Meng Chao, who had been fearless when he faced the Golden Scythe and the Ghost-eyed Golden Winged Flame Beetle, had his expression change drastically at that moment. He yanked Lu Siya. "Run!"
"Wha —"
Lu Siya was dragged away by him.
The two of them jumped and landed on the ground eight meters away.
Thud!
Behind them, the mysterious beetle's carapace opened up. Its abdomen shrank, and a faint yellow gas gushed out from the embrasures on its exoskeleton.
A pungent smell that was one hundred times worse than that of rotten eggs instantly filled the air.
Even if Meng Chao had the fighting strength of someone at the peak of Earth Realm, it was so pungent that he could not open his eyes.
As a Spirit Sensor, Lu Siya suffered because her senses were too sharp. She was a mess of tears and snot, and her eyes and nostrils were red.
Meng Chao closed his eyes and used his memories from a moment ago to deduce the beetle's location. Then, he pulled the trigger of the Thor's Hammer and used a total of five rifle grenades to completely destroy the mysterious beetle.
Then, a ball of incredibly foul-smelling gas shot out from the remains.
Lu Siya screamed and ignored the sticky insect fluid on the ground. She kicked her legs and took a few steps back. Then, she brought out a vial of ointment used to clean wounds from her waist bag and poured it on her palm. She rubbed her eyes and nostrils before she coughed and said, "W-What is this?"
"A large arthropod monster similar to a stink bug."
Meng Chao could not help but sneeze three times in a row. Then, he said, "Stink bugs are fart bugs, and they're also known as stinky ladies. They have hydroquinone, m-cresol, and other poisonous substances that can cause cancer and cause gene mutations in their bodies. When they run into enemies, they can turn the poisonous substances into poisonous fog in the combustion chamber in their bodies through a high-temperature and high-pressure reaction.
"Even a finger-sized stink bug's poisonous mist is enough to make people sick for a long time, not to mention this Giant Stink Bug Mutant that's over a meter long!"
During the early stages of the Monster War, Giant Stink Bugs were not monsters that often appeared.
It was probably because the chemical reactions in the body were too complicated. As the body grew larger, the complexity and danger level increased. If the body grew too big, the 'combustion chamber' in the body would often self-destruct before it could attack the enemy.
But based on what Meng Chao remembered from his previous life, during the later stage of the Monster War, the number of Giant Stink Bugs increased, and the poisonous gas they released became thicker and more lethal.
When Giant Stink Bugs worked together with Illusionary Light Bugs, especially in sealed environments like buildings and underground, they could cut off humans' vision, bullet trajectories, and communications to the maximum. They destroyed the humans' advantage in firearms, so they had to face the poisonous gas and fight hand-to-hand against the monsters.
Fortunately, they had a filter gas mask among the individual equipment they borrowed from the Red Dragon Army.
Even though they could not completely block off the poisonous gas from the Giant Stink Bugs, it was better than nothing.
They panted and moved forward. Then, they ran into more than ten insect swarms formed by Sickle Heads, Twin-tailed Scorpions, and Giant Stink Bugs.
This time, Meng Chao reacted quickly. He first fired at the Giant Stink Bugs, and at the moment they released their poisonous gas, he destroyed their stomachs along with their combustion chambers.
At the same time they destroyed the insect swarm, explosions rose and fell from the depths of the building.
They could not tell whether the humans were fighting fiercely with grenades or rocket launchers.
Or if the monsters were digging out the building's foundation.
"There's not much time left. We need to find the members of Project 101 as soon as possible."
Meng Chao stomped on a Golden Scythe's head and pulled out its mandibles. Then, he used the momentum to cut the last Two-tailed Scorpion's shell and cut it in half. He flung off the adhesive liquid on the mandibles and asked Lu Siya, "Can you sense where the spirit energy nearby is the most chaotic?"
"Yes, ahem, yes —"
Lu Siya's eyes were still red and swollen like a ripe peach. Her throat was also swollen because she had swallowed poisonous gas, so much so that she was practically suffocating. She gulped and said laboriously, "It's around thirty meters to the left. But it seems like there are four or five walls between us. If we go around it, it'll be too troublesome. Wait for me to regulate my breathing. Just now, I drained too much energy in the underwater tunnel. I …"
What she wanted to say was that once she was done adjusting her breathing, she would be able to activate her spirit energy magnetic field and reconstruct her molecular structure so that she could punch a few holes in the wall.
Meng Chao did not wait for her to finish speaking. He extended his fist and knocked against the wall gently. Then, he took a few steps back and roared. Suddenly, he exerted his strength and rammed into the wall like a raging rhinoceros.
No matter how sturdy the walls were, there was a limit to how sturdy they could be.
Meng Chao's spirit energy erupted like a volcano. Dazzling spirit tattoos appeared on his shoulders, and he looked like he was carrying a bag of explosives.
Boom!
He created a human-shaped hole in the wall, and with dust all over his body, he pounced into the room next door.
There was a Scythe Head lurking in the room next door. It was shocked by Meng Chao's sudden appearance. It was stunned for a total of three seconds before it swung its mandibles and rushed over.
Meng Chao casually grabbed the Scythe Head's mandible and spun three times on the spot like a hammer thrower. Then, he threw it against the wall, making the human-shaped hole bigger. Naturally, the insect was reduced to a bloody mess and was reduced to a pulp.
"What did you say just now?" “
He held the twitching insect carcass upside down and turned his head to ask Lu Siya.
"… It's nothing," Lu Siya said.
"I said, continue. Do your best! “
"Alright."
Meng Chao tossed the insect carcass aside and crashed into the next wall.
Since he had traveled a longer distance this time, the collisions were even fiercer. His vision cleared up, and he appeared in a rather wide space.
It was once the hotel's executive lounge.
But now, it was a slaughterhouse filled with insects.
The dark red emergency lights flickered and illuminated the dense insect swarm around him. They were covered in a bloody armor by the red light, and they looked even more monstrous and ugly.
Dozens of humans were surrounded by the insect swarm. Based on the torn limbs all over the ground, they had definitely fought back fiercely.
But the wounds all over their bodies, the broken blades and cracks on their swords, their pale faces, and their rapid breathing all indicated that their resistance had reached its limits.
The human escape squad was about to be completely wiped out.
Meng Chao loaded the last, thick, and short rifle grenade chain into the Hammer of Destruction.
The spirit energy in the barrel crashed into the crystals, and ripples spread out like invisible ripples. They attracted a large number of insects' attention.
Meng Chao smiled. He was no longer stingy with his ammunition. He fired the fierce Fire Dragon at the insect swarm.
Eight of the Scythe Heads exploded as a result of the shots. Three of the Golden Scythe Heads tried to fight back, but as they hissed in pain, fist-sized holes were left in their bodies. Twin-tailed Scorpions, Giant Centipedes, Three-eyed Wolf Spiders, and all sorts of insects that had turned into gigantic insects were torn to shreds by Meng Chao's roars.
Meng Chao strode forward. The torn carcasses and sticky liquid under his feet became thicker. When the last rifle grenade turned into destructive fireworks, the monster's torn limbs had already reached his knees.
"…"
The humans who were in a desperate situation were stunned by Meng Chao's sudden appearance.
They stared at the heavy rifle grenade launcher in his hands, which was as thick as a bowl and had a red barrel. Once it was stained with insect liquid, it sizzled, and white smoke rose from it. They were dumbfounded and could not say anything even after a long time had passed.
But the remaining insects thought that Meng Chao had emptied his rifle grenades and could take advantage of them, so they hissed and rushed over.
Meng Chao licked his chapped lips and tightened his grip around the heavy rifle grenade launcher.
He felt as if he was holding a soldering iron that was hundreds of degrees Celsius hot. Blood flowed down his palm and went straight to his heart.
He swung the heavy rifle grenade launcher, and as if he was swinging a hammer of destruction, he stirred up a whirlwind and sent two Scythe Heads flying. Then, he crushed a Black Beetle into a pulp.
The thunderous attacks attracted most of the insect's attention. Under his protection, Lu Siya finally created a spirit energy magnetic field that had a diameter of more than ten meters. Within that area, the collapsed reinforced concrete gathered together and turned into a raging stone dragon.
Lu Siya's mental strength turned into spirit tattoos that surged through her fingertips to the stone dragon's spine. It moved forward and formed complicated scales. In the end, it gathered on the stone dragon's head. Two balls of spirit fire were lit on the sides of the stone dragon's head, and it gave the stone dragon life.
The stone dragon opened its mouth, and the reinforced concrete turned into a mouth full of sharp, intersecting teeth. It pounced on the remaining insects.
Meng Chao and Lu Siya slaughtered their way into the battlefield, and their presence greatly increased the survivors' morale. All of them shouted at the top of their lungs and activated the last of their spirit energy. Like tigers charging down the mountain, they chased after them. In an instant, they worked together with Meng Chao and Lu Siya and killed all the insects who had entered the administrative corridor.
The last "Golden Scythe" was dismembered by seven or eight humans.
When the insects' cries disappeared from the battlefield, the people looked at each other at a loss. They looked at the insect carcasses that piled up like mountains around them and could not believe that they had survived.
They cast grateful gazes at Meng Chao and Lu Siya.
"Are you guys alright?"
Meng Chao did not bother to catch his breath. He gestured and asked, "Are there any Project 101 members here?"
"Meng Chao?"
Xiao Fanghua's disbelieving voice came from the center of the crowd.
"Big Sis Xiao!"
Meng Chao was delighted. He squeezed into the crowd and saw Xiao Fanghua, who was protected by the others. She was pregnant and had a pale face.
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