"Run now!"
Han Te's roar and the bullets rushed out at the same time, only to be ripped apart by the sharp claws of the Thunder Salamander. Before he pulled the trigger for the second time, half of the storm bolter was cut into halves by the claws that were enshrouded in electric arcs and flames.
The moment before the Thunder Salamander extended its claws to the Coloured Glaze, Han Te charged forward and entangled with it, rolling into a burning ball of lightning.
The gas mask that he had just covered his face was ripped off again, revealing a face that was as infuriated as an animal's. Countless veins protruded on his burnt cheeks, making him look like vipers that would dash out of his body at any moment.
The right half of his body was also enshrouded by electric arcs, which were condensed into the shape of blades and armor, helping him resist the sharp claws and tusks of the Thunder Salamander.
The man and the salamander were on par with each other.
The other Thunder Salamander that had shown up and attracted their attention launched an attack, too.
He opened his bloody mouth to the maximum, and a crimson ball of light grew brighter and brighter in the depths of his throat, like highly compressed and condensed magma. In the next second, it would rush out and melt the three of them into skeletons.
"Ahhh!"
Holding her head, the Coloured Glaze began to shriek.
At first, Li Yao thought that the girl was too scared for her sanity. However, his soul sensed the quakes that felt like surging tides, and a weird yet powerful force was released from the depths of the girl's brain. A very special magnetic field imposed a strong 'interference' on the spiritual energy reactions that were rapidly expanding deep inside the Thunder Salamander's throat.
BOOM!
The fireball exploded inside the Thunder Salamander's throat, making it writhe on the ground in pain. Its six claws were cramping violently, and its weird tail with long bone spurs was waving crazily, kicking up a lot of pebbles that looked like flowers.
The damage of such a degree was not enough to completely deprive the Thunder Salamander of its combat ability. The deep purple stripes on its body were emitting soul-stirring fluorescence. Blood, mixed with saliva, was dripping from the tusks.
The Coloured Glaze, on the other hand, seemed to have used up all her strength in the shriek just now. She staggered back and collapsed to the ground. Her breath was getting weaker and weaker, and she did not even have the strength to raise her arm anymore.
"Coloured Glaze, go now!"
A saber of electric arcs more than two meters long was triggered out of Han Te's right arm, glittering glamorously in the darkness. After three lightning-fast collisions, the Thunder Salamander left a deep wound on his chest, but one of the strongest front claws of the Thunder Salamander had been chopped off.
Seeing that his junior sister was paralyzed on the ground, the young man's heart was burning with anxiety. He used his scream to pick up a twisted steel bar and forcefully knocked it against the collapsed rock, letting out a thunderous roar, "Come, you two bastards, come at me, grandpa is here!"
While bashing, he threw out enormous electric arcs through the rebar to attract the attention of the two ferocious mutated beasts. He slowly retreated to the darkness, away from the exit.
The two Thunder Salamanders were indeed attracted by his roar and let go of the Coloured Glaze and Li Yao.
"That's more like it. Come on, come to your grandpa!"
With blood all over his face, Han Te gradually disappeared into the darkness. Bulging his eyes that were as big as bells, he hinted at the Coloured Glaze. "Now is the time. Run now!"
The Coloured Glaze bit her wrist hard and sobbed silently. She was almost crying out blood. With the last bit of her strength, she staggered to her feet again.
Han Te smiled in the most brilliant way. His two irregular dimples seemed to be saying, "That's more like it. Coloured Glaze, run now. I'll definitely stall the two animals for you!"
Right when the two Thunder Salamanders were about to be lured into the depths of the underground ruins that were more complicated and rugged by Han Te, a calm and dry metallic voice suddenly echoed behind them. "Little friend …"
"Shua!"
At the most critical moment, the voice was as loud as thunder. The two Thunder Salamanders immediately turned their heads and stared at the Coloured Glaze.
Dumbfounded, Han Te looked at Li Yao, feeling like crying.
Li Yao said, "Excuse me for interrupting your self-sacrifice. I only want to say that there are actually three Thunder Salamanders in total. One of them is ambushing us on the way of escape. Also, it is the biggest and strongest one. It should be the leader of the hunting team. This is a very delicate trap. They have cut off the prey's hope of escape since the very beginning."
Han Te's pupils constricted violently.
The Coloured Glaze, on the other hand, bulged her eyes in disbelief.
A third Thunder Salamander slowly surfaced from the darkness.
It was even larger than the previous two Thunder Salamanders. It was covered in a dark gold armor that looked like a reactive armor made of metal. There was an enormous tumor on its head that was fluctuating like a heart. Every time it 'beat', electric sparks would be popping up, and blue flames would be spluttering on the ground.
Like the king of the Thunder Salamanders, it crawled to the two little fellows unhurriedly with a glamorous crown on its head and stared at them from the high stance.
It seemed to be the greatest honor of their lives that they were about to be swallowed by it from their skin to their bones.
"This … This is not a Thunder Salamander, but its mutated and evolved species, the Thunder Salamander King!"
As if someone had kicked his throat hard, Han Te's voice was completely twisted. "I might've been able to fight it three years ago, but right now —"
"Senior Brother …"
The Coloured Glaze called him softly, hinting for Han Te to stop talking. The young man and the girl leaned against each other and gave up the futile struggle. Illuminated by the blue brilliance of the Thunder Salamander, desperation was written all over their young faces.
"Is that so?"
Li Yao wriggled his tracks and struggled to move on the uneven ruins while he observed the enormous, precise, and perfect slaughter machine in front of his eyes with great interest. "What an interesting little thing. Judging from its crawling posture, it doesn't seem to be a natural one."
Gulu! Gulu! Gulu! Gulu!
The Thunder Salamander King was infuriated by Li Yao's hideous appearance and his unperturbed attitude. Noises that sounded like magma were rolling deep inside its throat, and the lump on its head expanded nonstop until it was even larger than its head.
Ten thousand thunders seemed to be hidden inside!
Li Yao adjusted the crystal cameras of the "Universal Janitor" slightly and stared at the enemy without blinking, observing the flow of spiritual energy and the structural model of the mutated beast carefully.
He discovered that, after he advanced into the Divinity Transformation Stage, he had a new understanding about strength, combat, and the judgment of the enemy's capability. He did not even need to observe with his naked eyes anymore. He could feel the flow, surge, and spread of spiritual energy directly, which was more accurate and efficient.
The Thunder Salamander King was supposed to launch the craziest attack in the next second.
However, it seemed to have sensed something all of a sudden and shrieked in panic. The lump on its head immediately shrank, and it turned around and fled, leaving its two companions behind.
In that instant, it sensed the terrifying existence that was hidden in the broken iron bucket.
But it was too late.
In the eyes of Han Te and Coloured Glaze, they saw that three clusters of dark red light suddenly dashed out of the body of the "Universal Janitor" and enshrouded the three mutated beasts including the Thunder Salamander King. Not only were they unable to move, they were also floating in midair unsteadily.
Then, the clusters of dark red light turned into thousands of flashing red lines and danced inside the bodies of the three mutated beasts in a dazzling manner, dissecting them cleanly and completely into countless pieces of meat no larger than fingernails.
"Ew!"
Han Te and Coloured Glaze were dumbfounded, as if they had been caught in a nightmare. Although they had struggled for years in the "Land of Sins" and seen all kinds of bloody and cruel scenes, the weird scene before their eyes was far beyond their endurance. Looking at each other, they shuddered so hard that they could not stop themselves from vomiting.
Li Yao had no time to bother with the reactions of the two little fellows. While experimenting with the brand-new attack methods that he constructed with his soul, he studied the structure of the three mutated beasts.
The flashing red lines that he used to dissect the mutated beasts precisely just now were the result of him manipulating countless tiny dust with his telepathic thoughts and kneading the dust into threads that were ten times thinner than hair. Then, he triggered high-frequency vibrations and caused the dust to rub against the air at a high speed, generating a temperature of thousands of degrees.
The threads of dust were close to the molecular level in the first place. They were like sharp blades that could cut iron as easily as mud. After being heated to the maximum in the moment, they were naturally indestructible. Even the strongest armor and shell would not be able to resist them.
The only shortcoming was that the mass of the dust was so tiny that it would be obliterated after rubbing against the air at a high frequency for 0.1 seconds.
However, the second wave of the threads of dust would follow closely and cut all the targets like burning sabers.
At the very least, at this moment, Li Yao was quite satisfied with the effect of such a small method of self-defense.
As for the slightly weird structure of the three mutated beasts, there was not the slightest secret under his skillful dissection. It was soon revealed.
His guess was not wrong. The three mutated beasts were not naturally born. They were not even purely mutated by the radiation.
It was because Li Yao had discovered a lot of very precise units on their bones and throats, which were used to strengthen their body structure, increase their speed and strength, and launch attacks that were similar to magma spurting out.
Somebody seemed to be running an experiment by combining the most brutal mutated beasts with magical equipment to create perfect war machines that were half flesh and half machine.
Li Yao dug out three very precise chips deep inside the brains of the three ferocious beasts. Judging from the rune arrays and the basic architecture on them, they should be some sort of data scanning and storage chips designed to record their battle data.
Thankfully, the radiation interference in this area was very serious. Li Yao did not sense the existence of the Spiritual Nexus. The three chips did not have the function of uploading battle data in real time, either.
Perhaps, some sort of command was hidden in the chips, allowing the ferocious beasts that had been implanted with the chips to appear in an empty place every once in a while so that the Immortal Cultivators could collect all their battle data for a period of time.
"Pa!"
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