chsdbacks Chapter 126 Great Fortune Has Arrived!
Chapter 126 Great Fortune Has Arrived!
Chapter 126 Great Fortune Has Arrived!
"Drip—drip—drip—"
Inside the tactical scope of the Fat Man nuclear missile launcher in Pei Qi's hand, the red locking cursor was firmly locked onto the center of the crosshair.
With just a gentle press of Pei Qi's finger, the miniature tactical nuclear warhead, marked with yellow and black radiation symbols, would unleash a scorching, all-purifying light, blasting the ruins below, along with the earth's crust, into a bottomless, vitrified crater.
However, just before Pei Qi was about to pull the trigger, the situation he saw through the minimap changed unexpectedly.
The bright red dot representing the hostile creature, which had been lying motionless thirty meters underground, suddenly began to move!
At first it moved slowly, but after only two seconds, the red dot began to accelerate at an astonishing speed toward deeper into Manhattan Island!
"Oh? You've finally recovered, so you're planning to escape underground?"
Pei Qi raised an eyebrow, looking at the rapidly elongating red line on the minimap, a playful smile curving his lips.
"It seems this giant insect is quite intelligent. Knowing it can't withstand firepower on the ground, it relies on the tens of meters thick layer of reinforced concrete and rock as natural defense, thinking it can act with impunity?"
Pei Qi's finger hovered over the trigger for a moment before finally releasing it slowly, returning the nuclear launcher, which exuded a dangerous aura, to his inventory.
It wasn't that he suddenly became soft-hearted, but rather that considering the realistic geographical factors, growing mushrooms here was prone to problems.
It's important to understand that Manhattan is not some vast plain.
As a long and narrow island city with a total area of only about 60 square kilometers, its longest north-south span is nearly 21 kilometers, but its narrowest east-west width is only a little over 2 kilometers!
This terrain is like a fragile baguette.
If Pei Qi really did want to have a moment of pleasure here and recklessly detonate a bunker-buster nuclear bomb...
With that terrifying explosive force and geological upheaval, there's a very high probability that the "baguette" will be blown in two. At that point, seawater will flood in, and the waters of the Hudson and East Rivers will instantly submerge the entire underground pipe network of Midtown Manhattan.
While the super hunter will certainly be blown up or drowned, the entire underground exploration value of Manhattan will be completely destroyed.
He was also hoping to "stock up" in the mother nest deep in the red zone; he couldn't exactly dive down to the bottom of Manhattan, could he?
"And if it really hits the mark and blows Manhattan into the east and west halves, that would be too environmentally unfriendly."
"The high-temperature vitrified crater produced by the nuclear explosion is ridiculously hard. If we need to go down to the underground mother nest to pick up some goods later, we'll have to dig down there."
Pei Qi shrugged, but he had already thought of a solution—
"But that's alright, there's always a solution. Since you like burrowing—"
A glint flashed in Pei Qi's eyes as he casually accessed his equipment inventory.
"Then it's time for me to show you what the true value of being called the strongest miner on Earth is!"
At this very moment, seventy meters underground in Manhattan, deep within the abandoned tunnel of the 2nd subway line.
"Hiss—roar—"
The chilling sound of heavy, labored breathing echoed through the dark tunnel.
The super hunter, which had just escaped the missile explosion and dodged a round of carpet bombing, was like a mad dog wriggling in the mud, recklessly rushing forward.
Its current appearance is extremely miserable.
The dark red carbon fiber skeleton and chitinous armor that were originally capable of withstanding tank main gun fire were now shattered and peeling off in large areas—
It fell, revealing the bright red viral muscle bundles below, twitching in pain.
Its left side was almost completely burned by the missile's tail, and its once thick and strong left forelimb was severed at the root, with thick, black blood constantly seeping from the cut.
Pain, a sensation that shouldn't even be in the Blacklight Virus's dictionary, was now stimulating its central nervous system like a thousand steel needles.
It desperately needs a lot of energy! It needs flesh and blood! It needs to devour!
Only a massive amount of biomass can accelerate its almost stagnant super-regeneration mechanism!
To speed up its escape, this super hunter displayed the Blacklight virus's terrifying ability to deform its body.
It forcibly twisted and reassembled the remaining three limbs and the damaged skull.
The bone spurs rolled back and the muscles compressed, and in a very short time, its forelimbs transformed into two huge biological bone shovels resembling the drill bits of a tunnel boring machine.
"Boom! Crash!"
It crashed through the wall of the subway tunnel and plunged headfirst into the solid granite foundation of Manhattan.
The biological bone shovel swung wildly, shoveling apart everything from soil and rocks to rusty underground water pipes as easily as tofu.
It wants to escape as deep as possible, back to the mother nest at the very bottom of the red zone!
Only there could the tens of thousands of Blacklight Virus infected beings provide it with a faint sense of security.
Thirty meters — Ten meters — One hundred meters —
As it dug deeper and deeper, the super hunter's heart, which had been hanging in suspense, finally relaxed a little.
After all, based on its knowledge and common sense, even the most advanced sonar and ground radar would be absolutely unable to pinpoint its location in such deep and complex underground rock layers.
That demon who wields terrifying firepower couldn't possibly tear the entire city apart with his bare hands, could he?
However, just as it was about to slow down its digging and lick its wounds to rest and recover its strength.
An extremely strange noise traveled clearly through the surrounding hard rock layers and reached its auditory nerves.
"Buzz"
It was an extremely sharp, continuous, high-frequency buzzing sound, like tens of thousands of mechanical bees vibrating their wings simultaneously!
At first, the sound was very faint, as if it came from several kilometers away.
But less than two seconds later, the buzzing sound amplified like a tsunami!
What followed was the terrifying, muffled sound of the geological structure behind and the massive collapse of reinforced concrete ruins above!
"Boom! Boom!"
That was the sound of thousands of tons of soil, rocks, and even foundation steel bars falling and collapsing in an instant after losing their support.
The super hunter whirled around, his amber vertical pupils contracting sharply in the darkness.
It sensed it! The rock layer behind it wasn't violently pushed aside by some enormous force, but instead—it vanished into thin air!
The deadly source of vibration is approaching at a terrifying speed, completely defying the common sense of underground resistance, along the route it previously fled!
And its speed is constantly increasing! Rather than moving forward, it's more like a Yunche truck that's constantly speeding up!