First, they were certain that Meng Chao's hunting squad was not the Vortex's ultimate goal.
Thirty-three Heaven Realm superhumans might be a force to be reckoned with, but they were not so important that they could completely change the situation of the battle.
And the Vortex had paid a huge price to destroy them.
The thousands of robbers all over Dragon City, the cultivation resources it had gathered with great difficulty, and the large number of puppets it had subdued in the lair were all used as bait to die with the hunting squad.
Not only did it use up a lot of cultivation resources, it also exposed its existence, and it lost the flexibility and element of surprise in its tactics.
Now, the secret police and abnormal beast research department were on guard outside, so it was impossible for the Vortex to carry out a second large-scale robbery and destruction.
And the thirty-three Heaven Realm superhumans might not have been killed by the super crystal bomb.
Meng Chao deduced the power of the super crystal bomb based on his injuries and analyzed it based on the cultivation realms of the hunting squad members. At least two-thirds of the Heaven Realm superhumans had a chance of surviving. They would just temporarily lose their fighting strength and be forced to retreat from the battlefield.
Based on the consumption of resources and the exchange of fighting strength, this was not a good deal.
At the very least, the Vortex, who had the upper hand and could calmly set traps, would definitely not be satisfied with this.
Right from the start, it knew that no matter what it did, it could not completely kill the thirty-three Heaven Realm superhumans.
But as long as it could temporarily paralyze their fighting strength and force them to retreat from the battlefield, it could calmly carry out the next stage of its plan.
Right now, an earth-shattering pitched battle was going on at the borders of Dragon City.
The peak fighting forces of human civilization and monster civilization were held back by each other. They were like fangs that intersected with each other and were pinned to the battlefield at the borders of the city.
Before the explosion, which caught the lair off guard, the hunting squad Meng Chao was in was the only mobile force the humans could send into the depths of the lair and had decent fighting strength.
This mobile force was heavily damaged, which meant that the lair would enter a period of empty fighting strength.
Even if Man-eating Shark Zhou Chong and the other veteran hunters were still alive.
They were heavily injured and drained of spirit energy, so they had to leave the lair and go to hospitals and cultivation rooms to treat their injuries, meditate, and recover their fighting strength.
Depending on the severity of the injury, this process could take anywhere from three to five days to ten days to half a month.
As for the Heaven Realm and Deity Realm superhumans at the borders of Dragon City, even if they won against the Hell Beasts and Apocalyptic Beasts, they would definitely be drained of their lives and tired. They would need a long time to recover before they could fight again.
The secret police and the abnormal beast research department naturally had some soldiers they could use.
But if he looked at all of Dragon City, there would be water purification plants, power plants, spirit energy purification and pressurization plants, hospitals, schools, and densely populated residential areas. There were plenty of strategic locations and facilities for people's livelihood that had to be guarded.
With defenses set up everywhere, their military strength was naturally stretched thin.
It was impossible for him to ignore the other vital points and gather together a force to throw into the bottomless pit of the lair.
Before the operation, the vice director of the abnormal beast research department, Nie Chenglong, had told them very clearly that if the hunting squad failed, they could only carry out the second plan. They would temporarily lock down the lair from the outside and not let a single rat that might bring the zombie virus, Blood Flower spores, or Deification Capsules out of the lair.
Once the battles at the borders were settled, they would mobilize their forces to completely solve the problem in the lair.
"The high-end fighting power and armed personnel of the clubs in Golden Tooth Lair had just entered Leprosy Village with us. They might have suffered major losses in the explosion.
"In the next three to five days, or even half a month, the clubs will be in an unprecedentedly weak state, and their authority will be severely challenged.
"If all of Golden Tooth Lair is locked down right now, won't the Vortex and its puppets be able to do whatever they want inside?"
Meng Chao did not have a good impression of the clubs in the lair, such as Golden Tooth, Black Bone, and Poison Scorpion.
But he had to admit that the worst form of order was still better than complete disorder.
And the complete disorder was perhaps what the Vortex wanted.
'No, I have to stop it.
'Next, the Vortex will definitely use the chaos to shake the order in the lair.
'I can't let it invade the clubs in the lair and cause chaos in the lair!'
Meng Chao sucked in a deep breath and spent nearly ten thousand contribution points to cast six Middle Stage Healing Skills on himself.
When the golden light flowed through his body like warm rain, his cells, which had been shattered countless times, moaned in extreme comfort. His originally shattered and withered meridians were repaired, and they became full and crystalline once more. In fact, due to the excessive repair after being repeatedly torn, he became even stronger than before the explosion.
As his body healed without medicine, the hunger that came from the depths of his cells grew like sparks on the plains. They instantly swelled up and gathered together to form a sea of fire that covered the entire area.
Contribution points could help him repair his body.
But it was impossible for energy to come out of nowhere.
If he did not replenish his energy in time, he would end up like the robbers who took too many Deification Capsules and used their lives in exchange for fighting power.
Fortunately, he brought Raging Dragon Blood with him.
He also stuffed the super gene medicine into his nano fighting suit.
With great difficulty, Meng Chao pulled out his right arm from the twisted reinforced concrete.
The space in the depths of the ruins was really limited. He could only remove his shoulder and elbow joints and use the pull of his muscles and tendons to make his right arm slither into his chest like a python to retrieve the Blood of the Furious Dragon.
He used his thumb to pry open the cover of the super gene medicine and revealed the sharp tip of the needle.
There were three ways to take Raging Dragon Blood. They were oral, injection, and rectal.
If it was taken orally, it would be absorbed through the stomach. With the help of the crystallized organs in the digestive system, the medicinal effects would be released slowly and gently. The side effects would be the lowest, and the absorption rate would be the highest.
If it was injected, the medicinal liquid would quickly reach the flesh and blood, and it would instantly replenish spirit energy and restore fighting power.
It was even faster than injection, but the side effects were also the greatest.
In truth, as one of the most domineering gene medicines in Dragon City, taking Raging Dragon Blood itself was very dangerous.
If a person was heavily injured and their vitality magnetic field and mental strength index fluctuated by a large degree, not only would they not be able to return to full health, they might even enter spirit energy deviation at any moment and explode to death.
Even veteran hunters like Man-eating Shark Zhou Chong did not dare to take Raging Dragon Blood when they were attacked by a super crystal bomb and the spirit energy tsunami tore apart their cells.
But the Vortex had not expected that Meng Chao, a weirdo with great self-healing abilities, would be in the hunting squad.
Shick!
Meng Chao stabbed the Raging Dragon Blood into his arm.
He instantly felt as if a raging dragon made of magma had appeared in his blood vessels, nerves, tendons, and spirit meridians.
As the raging dragon bared its fangs, a piercing pain shot through his body again. But this time, the pain did not last for long. It turned into an indescribable pleasure, and the raging dragon fused into his flesh, allowing him to control explosive power once more.
"Kacha kacha, kacha kacha"
The seemingly indestructible reinforced concrete that had been pressing down on his body just now was shattered into pieces by his slight stretch.
'I've recovered around eighty percent of my strength. It's enough for the time being.
'Before the explosion, the enemy was in the dark, and I was in the light. After the explosion, the enemy was in the light, and I was in the dark. The Vortex must not have expected that I would still be alive and kicking, and it even knew about its existence a long time ago!'
Meng Chao opened up a large space and looked at his tactical watch.
The screen of the tactical watch had long since been smashed to pieces, and it was gray.
Even if the screen was in perfect condition, the chip inside might have been interfered with or even blocked, just like the nerve connection chip.
Meng Chao decided to tear off the nerve connection chip and tactical watch behind his ear and crush them.
In a battlefield with such strong spirit energy magnetic field interference, not only would these two things become useless burdens, they might even be detected by the enemy. In fact, the enemy might even use the brain-computer interface of the nerve connection chip to invade his brain.
Based on Meng Chao's memories from his previous life, there were plenty of people who used neural networks and brain-computer interfaces to turn their brains into defenseless cities. In the end, enemies skilled in mind attacks would invade their brains and take whatever they wanted.
After returning from the apocalypse, Meng Chao paid more attention to protecting his brain compared to the superhumans of this era.
He listened and thought carefully in the darkness.
Right now, the most important thing was to find a way to escape.
The top of his head was filled with ruins. The rubble of a super building that was nearly one hundred meters tall had completely collapsed was no joke.
With his maximum punching strength and endurance that far surpassed that of superhumans at the same level as him, he could indeed use his Demon Subduing Pole to create a path above his head.
But if he did that, would he destroy the fragile balance that was held together by the ruins weighing tens of thousands of tons?
If he caused a second collapse, he might end up being squashed into a pulp again.
Contribution points and Raging Dragon Blood were not unlimited, and neither were they omnipotent. Meng Chao did not want to take unnecessary risks.
Besides, who knew whether the Vortex was lurking nearby and observing the battlefield?
If he swaggered out from above and was immediately discovered, he would lose the secrecy and initiative that he had worked hard to obtain.
At that moment, Meng Chao sensed the faint flow of air beneath him.
He could also hear rustling sounds.
'By the way, this building itself has a huge underground structure that's as complicated as a maze.
'The super crystal bombs the enemy buried mainly destroy the ground. At most, they will only destroy the first two or three floors underground.
'The deeper underground cities will only be squashed by the ruins. They will be distorted, and part of them will collapse. It's impossible for them to turn into ruins.
'Instead of running upwards, it's better to run downwards!'
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