chsdbacks Chapter 621 The Mutated Beast
Chapter 621 The Mutated Beast
Chapter 621 The Mutated Beast
That's a strange beast!
It has a huge skeleton similar to a Tyrannosaurus Rex, with thick hind limbs supporting a hill-like body, and a huge tail like a battering ram trailing behind it. However, its body is the most horrifying deformity.
Its left half was covered with dark red, tangled, writhing flesh. The flesh was not fresh, but rather had a rotten, swollen texture. Its surface was covered with thick, worm-like blood vessels that constantly oozed a viscous, foul-smelling black liquid. At the end of a forelimb made of flesh was a huge, twisted bone claw that gleamed with a cold metallic light.
Its right half is a cold, metallic mechanical structure, supported by a thick alloy skeleton and covered with heavy armor plates. The hydraulically driven joints emit a dull hissing sound. Its right forelimb is an enormous, terrifying mechanical claw composed of rotating saw teeth and hydraulic clamps. Gears and pistons are clearly visible on the exposed parts, flashing a dangerous red light.
What's most chilling is its head.
The enormous head was also a terrifying combination of half flesh and half machine. The flesh part had two bottomless holes where the eyes were, constantly flowing with viscous black blood, while the machine part had a huge optical sensor that emitted a blinding red light and constantly scanned the surroundings.
Bloodlust, destruction, terror.
An indescribable, terrifying aura, seemingly emanating from the deepest abyss, surged forth like a tangible tide from the half-machine, half-flesh monster.
Its left eye, flowing with black blood and flesh, and its right eye, flashing red light, carried a pure and insane desire for destruction almost the instant it appeared.
The beast lowered its massive body slightly, then suddenly raised its enormous tail, made of flesh and metal, slamming it into the ground and creating a deep crater. It let out an even more ferocious roar, a sound that was a mixture of the friction of metal and the tearing of flesh.
The violent air currents whipped up clouds of dust, and the shadow of death spread instantly.
The last trace of clumsy gentleness on Chang Lei's face vanished instantly, replaced by a murderous intent that was more ferocious, more violent, and more pure than that of the monster.
In his cold eyes, it seemed as if a viscous scarlet liquid was churning.
Before Chang Lei's sinister grin could fully unfurl, a buzzing sound suddenly rang out...
A specially made, extremely sturdy communicator in his arms suddenly emitted a high-frequency, rapid vibration.
Chang Lei frowned deeply, a hint of extreme displeasure at being interrupted flashing in his eyes, but he stopped abruptly. He quickly pulled out the special communicator, pressed the answer button without even looking at it, and spoke with barely suppressed irritation.
"Who?"
A hurried yet calm voice immediately came through the communicator.
"Deputy Director, this is the Demon Surveillance Bureau's Seventh Monitoring Station. We have detected an S-class alien beast signal at your location, D7."
An outbreak occurred in the area, with energy readings exceeding the maximum limit; the source was traced to the basement of the technology building.
Chang Lei's cold gaze narrowed slightly. The Shanghai branch reacted quickly enough; it seemed that the energy fluctuations of this thing were indeed quite large.
The voice on the communicator spoke faster, carrying an undeniable urgency.
"Satellite footage shows that your and your daughter's life signals are on the target's impact path. Please evacuate immediately to a safe point in the southeast direction. All nearby special operations teams have been mobilized. Repeat, please evacuate immediately. The target is extremely dangerous."
Almost at the same time the communication ended, a piercing siren sounded from the end of the street. Several heavily armored assault vehicles, painted with the dark blue insignia of the Magic Bureau and exuding a sense of technology, burst through the dust like steel behemoths. With a sudden drift and a stop, the doors sprang open.
Swish swish!
More than a dozen elite agents from the Bureau of Magical Investigations, dressed in black high-tech combat suits and wearing full-coverage tactical helmets, leaped out like cheetahs.
They moved swiftly and coordinated perfectly. One group immediately set up portable phase shield generators that shimmered with energy, quickly establishing a temporary defensive line on the chaotic street to cover the panicked civilians as they retreated to safety. The other group quickly dispersed, raising their uniquely shaped high-energy pulse rifles with muzzles flashing dangerous blue light, instantly locking onto the cyborg beast that was charging wildly.
"Quickly! Evacuate all civilians and establish a dark crystal energy barrier!"
"Target locked, prepare crossfire, and be careful not to let the monster break through the blockade; try to keep it trapped here!"
"The energy readings are still soaring! Watch out for its tail strike!"
Well-trained instructions were rapidly transmitted through the tactical channel, creating a tense atmosphere of real combat.
An agent, clearly the on-site commander, with his helmet visor flashing red, immediately spotted the burly figure protecting a little girl in his arms amidst the smoke and flames.
"Deputy Director!?" The commander's expression changed, and he rushed over like a madman, his voice urgent. "Please take Miss Luan Luan with us immediately and evacuate. Leave this place to us!"
As he shouted, he led two detectives through the flying debris and heatwave, quickly approaching Chang Lei.
Chang Lei glanced at Luan Luan, who was still lying in his arms with her eyes closed, her face pale, and her body trembling slightly. He then glanced at the mechanical flesh and blood behemoth that was getting closer and closer, exuding an aura of destruction. A struggle flashed in his eyes, but soon the red light in his eyes gradually faded.
"Hmph!" Chang Lei snorted coldly into the communicator, which was his response to the monitoring station, and then shouted at the agent commander who rushed over.
"You lot, immediately, right now, take my daughter to a place that is absolutely safe."
For some reason, even though it was a very ordinary sentence and the tone wasn't harsh, the two approaching agents suddenly froze, as if they had been startled by something.
The commander reacted swiftly, immediately issuing orders to his team: "Grey Wolf, Hound, protect Miss Luan Luan's retreat and immediately move to the safe zone."
"Yes!" Two elite agents rushed towards Chang Lei without hesitation, ready to take Luan Luan from him.
Chang Lei then loosened his grip on his daughter's arm slightly and handed her over to his teammates, but his gaze remained fixed on the approaching monster, his brows furrowed.
"This thing...something's not right. When did those brainless bastards from the Outer Paths manage to create a beast of this caliber? Its energy core..."
He keenly sensed that the violent energy within the monster's body was not entirely stable. The energy flow at the junction of flesh and machinery was extremely chaotic, full of traces of forced piecing together, like... an out-of-control, immature experimental subject?
"Deputy Director, you should come with me. You're just an ordinary person; it's too dangerous for you to stay here." The commander supported Chang Lei, trying to pull him away with more force, but Chang Lei's body didn't budge.
Just as Chang Lei was filled with doubts and the commander was anxious.
Click!
--boom!!
Two terrifying bolts of lightning, completely different from each other, ripped through the sky and struck down with a speed that surpassed everyone's reaction time, without warning!
One was a dark lightning bolt, as black as ink, seemingly capable of swallowing all light!
One of them was a blindingly bright white bolt of holy lightning, containing the power of purification and destruction!
These two bolts of lightning, like the spears of judgment cast by the gods, descended vertically from the sky with unparalleled precision, carrying a world-destroying force, and slammed into the very center of the charging cyborg of flesh and blood, onto its back where flesh and machine were frantically intertwined!
Snap!
The deafening explosion was far louder than before, ten times more powerful than the pulse rifles fired by the Bureau of Demon Control.
The violent energy shockwave swept out like a real ring-shaped tsunami. Even the agents of the Magic Bureau who were relatively close were forced to retreat despite their shields. The debris on both sides of the street was cleared away in an instant.
The ferocious charging mechanical behemoth was as if it had been slammed down from ten thousand meters in the air by an invisible giant hammer. Its massive body stiffened abruptly, letting out a agonizing roar that was a mixture of metal breaking and flesh exploding.
The hard special alloy armor was torn apart and melted like paper under the lightning. The dark red flesh and blood tissue was instantly carbonized and exploded under the interweaving of black and white lightning, and thick smoke mixed with the stench of burning rose into the sky.
This sudden, divinely ordained turn of events plunged the chaotic battlefield into a deathly silence.
The agents from the Demon Surveillance Bureau were slightly taken aback, Chang Lei narrowed his eyes, and even the severely injured monster seemed to freeze briefly and let out a painful howl.
Everyone's gaze, instinctively filled with extreme shock and disbelief, suddenly turned toward the source of the lightning strike—atop a relatively intact, seven- or eight-story residential building across the street.
The wind howled on the rooftop, blowing against the two figures standing side by side.
On the left is a boy.
He was tall and slender, wearing a smartly tailored and uniquely textured agent's uniform. His black hair danced wildly in the wind, and his deep eyes seemed to hold endless shadows and destructive lightning. His right hand was slightly raised, with wisps of black electric snakes still coiled around his fingertips.
On the right is a young girl.
She was slender and wore a purple magical girl skirt with golden holy light shimmering at the edges. Her long silver hair cascaded down like a waterfall of moonlight. Her eyes were clear and sharp, with a kind of indifference that looked down on all living beings. Her left palm was facing upward, holding a ball of blazing white lightning that was slowly rotating and exuding a purifying aura.
One black and one white, like the embodiment of light and shadow, the two poles of destruction and purification.
They stood quietly on the edge of the rooftop, looking down at the chaos of the street below, at the giant beast roaring in pain amidst the smoke and dust, and at Chang Lei, the agents from the Demon Surveillance Bureau, and Luan Luan, who was being protected by Chang Lei.
After a moment of stunned silence, the commander quickly recovered, and the other agents also relaxed, smiles appearing on their faces.
"He's Deputy Director Qiu's disciple!"
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