Everybody looked at each other. Waving the guns and blades in their hands, they nodded at the same time.
"Wait. Let's observe the situation outside first."
Xiahou Wuxin operated quickly on the mainframe crystal processor in a corner of the secret warehouse. Dozens of 3D light beams immediately popped up in midair, all of which were the real-time pictures of Liberty City from various angles.
"Since the Immortal Cultivators can monitor the ground from the sky, it is only natural that I can install some surveillance cameras in the secret corners of the streets and alleys to observe everything from below the ground," Xiahou Wuxin explained with a smile.
Xiahou Wuxin explained with a smile, "The underground warehouse has four secret exits in total. Let's see which one is the most chaotic and escape from there!"
On the 3D light beams, the chaotic battle in Liberty City was still going on, but the peak of the chaos had passed.
After a large batch of tough bandits perished together with each other, the fire of war gradually died down. The sounds of guns, cannons, and explosions became sparse. Occasionally, a skyscraper would collapse in deafening thunder and raise a cluster of lazy dust.
The night was dark and poured into Liberty City like a black waterfall. The mobsters and the unorganized bandits suffered heavy casualties and turned into burnt, broken bodies. The only things left were the elite gangs of relatively large scales. They each occupied a territory and confronted each other in silence in the darkness.
Liberty City turned from a chaotic ocean of slaughter into a small dark forest.
Whoever showed up first would die first!
"This is getting tricky," Xiahou Wuxin mumbled.
Xiahou Wuxin mumbled, "Right now, the territories of the major gangs have been stabilized. We will be very eye-catching if we walk on the street openly."
"Can't we escape from Liberty City from below the ground?"
Li Yao asked.
"No. There are dead ends everywhere. We have to return to the surface."
Xiahou Wuxin shook his head and said, "If we lurk below the ground and wait for the Immortal Cultivators to pour their firepower on us like a flash flood, we will be doomed. There will be nowhere to run even if we want to."
"Wait."
Li Yao's primordial spirit was agitated. "What is that? It seems like something is falling from the sky again!"
As expected, in the dim yellow sky, hundreds of thousands of pitch-black metal jars descended from the sky. Due to the distance, it was impossible to tell the sizes of the metal jars, but one could vaguely sense a weird aura from them.
Despite the drag of the parachute, the metal can still fell at an extremely high speed, raising smoke and dust in Liberty City very soon.
One of the metal cans happened to fall not far away from the surveillance camera that Xiahou Wuxin had deployed.
When the dust settled, the ferocious figure that leapt out of the ruins was clearly seen by everyone. Han Te, the Coloured Glaze, and Xin Xiaoqi all exclaimed.
It was a mutated beast that resembled a giant lizard. It was about three to four meters tall and covered in dense green scales. Bloody stripes extended to the limbs and the sharp claws on its back.
Its head was long and narrow like that of a venomous snake, and it was covered with a layer of white bone armor, which made it look like a white bone mask. Deep inside its dark eye sockets, two red spots that looked like will-o '-the-wisps could be seen rolling around, searching for prey in the surroundings.
Brutal, cunning, and intelligent, like a combination of a viper, a crocodile, a wolf, and a slaughter machine. That was the first impression that it gave.
Very soon, a team of fully-armed, tough-looking bandits fell into the eyes of the 'skeleton lizard'.
Swoosh!
It lunged at the prey at an unbelievable speed and turned into a streak of dark-red brilliance instantly!
The team of bandits had actually noticed that something was falling from the sky a long time ago. They had raised their wariness to the maximum. Sensing a stinky wind coming at them, they all raised their hands and spurted out thousands of fire snakes.
Bo! Bo! Bo!
But out of his expectation, the 'skeleton lizard' shook its body, and its green scales rubbed against each other at a high speed. A vague spiritual shield was condensed around its body, blocking and deflecting all the attacks!
"A mutated beast that can automatically trigger a spiritual shield?"
This time, even Li Yao, A Boxing Champion, and Xiahou Wuxin looked at each other in bewilderment. It was true that some high-level spiritual beasts or demon beasts boasted very high self-defense abilities and could perform techniques similar to spiritual shields, but they were the outliers among the demon beasts and spiritual beasts and were like leaders or kings.
But right now, the Immortal Cultivators had projected at least thousands of skeleton lizards from the Heavenly Rails. They were a large batch of 'minions'. Could they all trigger a spiritual shield?
That would be too horrifying!
In the blink of an eye, the spiritual shield of the skeleton lizard only resisted one round of attacks from the bandits before it exploded. However, it was enough for the skeleton lizard to cut into the bandits from a strange angle.
Swoosh!
A streak of blood spurted out of its mouth and pierced through the center of the eyebrow of a bandit like a sharp blade. It pierced out of the back of the head, only to discover that it was a tongue that was as tensile as a whip.
Then, it swung the tongue brutally, throwing the dead bandit to one side and crashing into a few other bandits who were aiming in a hurry.
"Wa!"
Before the bandits realized what was going on, its head simply split apart and blossomed into a man-eating flower that was full of thorns and sharp teeth. The fluorescent 'stamens' deep inside its throat stabbed out abruptly and stuck to four or five bandits respectively. The super powerful electric arcs that were sent over instantly electrocuted all the bandits. Their guns and blades all fell to the ground.
Shaking the enormous' man-eating flower 'on its neck, the skeleton lizard crashed into the bandits like a hungry tiger lunging at lambs.
The bloody feast of slaughter was officially on.
While using the sharp edges of the man-eating flower to tear the bandits and their armor into pieces, it let out a rhythmic shriek from the depths of its throat. Very soon, another three skeletal lizards with pale faces appeared from the darkness. While they grinned hideously, they looked at the bandits who were running away in panic.
The same bloody and desperate scenes of slaughter were happening everywhere in Liberty City at the same time.
Even the most ferocious bandits could only struggle and delay death in front of the skeleton lizards that were lunging at them incessantly.
Even the most fearless of the bandits felt that their legs were shaking and vomiting when they saw that their companions were swallowed by the man-eating flowers that blew up the heads of the skeleton lizards, chewed into minced meat and blood, and sprayed on their faces and bodies like a storm of arrows.
Screams, moans, and crazy roars that indicated that their nerves had completely collapsed echoed in the entire bloody city!
But what was very strange was that, when they encountered certain trainers or streamers, the skeleton lizards would let them go after sniffing them carefully, as if they had certain special instructions that allowed them to tell the difference between the Immortal Cultivators and the sinners in the Land of Sins.
Li Yao and Xiahou Wuxin were both shocked and felt that their blood was freezing.
A Boxing Champion's crystal processor was functioning at a high speed, too, emitting abnormal humming noises. After observing carefully for a long time, he said, "This is a perfect biochemical weapon. Not only does it boast high offensive and defensive abilities, it must have been implanted with special control chips in their brains, making them no longer ignorant animals but connected to a complicated, enormous war network. They will fight in a way similar to 'hunting wolves'. When one skeleton lizard is attacked, it will summon hundreds of companions to reinforce it at any moment."
"Exactly."
Xiahou Wuxin gnashed his teeth. "Isn't the so-called 'Land of Sins laboratory' a place where such perfect monsters are created with the flesh of the sinners and the mutated beasts?"
…
In the control center of the first laboratory in Manjusaka, the City in the Sky …
The enormous light beam displayed the biophysical parameters and the real-time battle videos of three thousand and five hundred nightmarish beasts at the same time.
As the streams of data poured down like a waterfall, and the expectations were exceeded one after another, Wuying Lan's mood gradually turned better again.
"The biochemical beasts produced this time are indeed not bad. Their killing efficiency is very high, and their controllability is rather stable, too."
Sitting on a soft leather couch comfortably, he spoke to Luo Tiansheng, the manager of the laboratory, with a smile as if he were an emperor who was inspecting his army.
Luo Tiansheng rubbed his hands in excitement and smiled. "I told you a long time ago that, as long as you give me five thousand of the freshest test subjects, I will certainly give you a miracle! This time, we have devoted a lot of effort to the combination of the brain and the crystal chip, as well as the reception and secondary transmission of information. Right now, the nightmarish beasts can both slaughter freely with their natural instincts and carry out more than a hundred and eighty predetermined tactics precisely. They can even enter the half-hypnotized standby state under the remote control of a command and go to the recycling point automatically like the most docile cattle or sheep. There will be no more incidents like last time where the crystal chip goes out of control and eats up tens of thousands of sinners in a town randomly! "
"The audience in every part of the Imperium has a very good reaction to the slaughter feast, too. Our ratings, the bounty, and the gambling capital that we have attracted have all broken the highest point in the past three years. Countless viewers have also sent comments of extreme excitement. This time, the report of the 'Heavenly Eye Group' will certainly be splendid and satisfy so many big shots outside."
The redness and fire on the thousands of light beams cast a mottled shadow on Wuying Lan's face, making it impossible to tell his real feelings. They could only hear him speaking in a low voice under the cover of the bloody fire. "It couldn't be better to open the curtain of our 'epic quest' with such a perfect slaughter."
"Then …"
Luo Tiansheng said in a low voice, "About 'A Boxing Champion' and the mysterious expert that Wei Xiaotian mentioned?"
"Keep investigating."
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