r18novel Chapter 163 The Upside-Down Building! The Giant in the Elevator Shaft!
Chapter 163 The Upside-Down Building! The Giant in the Elevator Shaft!
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The moment the black mist engulfed the chariot, all light, sound, and even the perception of gravity were forcibly stripped away by a powerful force.
Jiang Ming felt a loud "buzz" in his head, and countless sharp, piercing whispers desperately tried to drill into his ears, as if thousands of tiny files were scraping his nerves.
[Attacked by a high concentration of mental pollution!]
[Passive skill "Iron Will" triggered, pollution immunity granted!]
The whispers were forcibly blocked, and Jiang Ming's vision instantly returned to clear.
He stood firmly in the commander's tower, but the situation was not so optimistic for the other two people in the cockpit.
"Holy crap! My eyes! Bugs are crawling into my eyes!" Chen Qi screamed in agony inside the turret, clutching his helmet tightly with both hands, even trying to pull out his gun and put it on his head.
Marlow was in an even worse state; the goblin tumbled off the driver's seat, clutching his head and rolling wildly on the metal floor, foaming at the mouth: "No! No! My gold coin has grown teeth! It's biting me!"
Jiang Ming frowned, then drew the Soul-Binding Black Iron Chain from his waist and swung it around, striking Chen Qi and Ma Luo on the back.
The "Soul Shock" effect attached to the chains erupted instantly.
The two of them shuddered, abruptly jolted awake from their hallucinatory frenzy.
"Stop yelling, open your eyes and look carefully." Jiang Ming put away the chains and patted the command platform.
Chen Qi, panting heavily and drenched in sweat, scrambled back to the machine gun control panel. He glanced through the periscope and immediately cursed, "Is this the China World Trade Center? This is no longer Earth!"
The tank's searchlights were turned on.
What appeared before them was an extremely distorted space that defied the laws of physics.
The once spacious and bright lobby on the first floor of the building has now been completely turned upside down.
The floor had been replaced by a pitted concrete ceiling, which was covered with expensive marble tiles. The reception desk, sofas, and even huge potted plants were all stuck upside down on the tiles.
Even more bizarrely, gravity is divided into several parts in this space.
The tank was parked on the "ceiling" but showed no sign of falling, with its four tracks firmly gripping the ground.
The air was filled with the smell of moldy paper mixed with formaldehyde.
[You have entered a dangerous area: Tower of Chaos - Ground Floor Lobby (Lv.25-Lv.30).]
[Exploration progress started: 0.01%]
"Boss, this place is really weird. My neural connector almost got burned out just now." Marlowe wiped the foam from the corner of his mouth, climbed back into the driver's seat with lingering fear, and re-inserted the fleshy probe into his wrist.
"The armored vehicles are fine, what are you afraid of?" Jiang Ming tapped on the vehicle's exterior. "Turn the searchlights up to the maximum; something's coming."
The voice just fell.
Suddenly, a teeth-grinding scraping sound came from behind the upside-down reception desk.
Several monsters dressed in tattered suits crawled out on their hands and feet.
They have no facial features; their entire faces are completely smooth, except for a crack on their foreheads, inside which is a large, bloodshot eyeball.
Both hands were severed at the wrists, replaced by two rusty paper cutters, each half a meter long.
【Alienated Faceless Employee (Lv.25)】
[Danger Level: Medium]
[Characteristics: Loss of pain sensation, limb regeneration, mental confusion.]
"There are quite a few." Jiang Ming glanced at them.
Hundreds of faceless monsters surged out from the surrounding upside-down corridors, elevator shafts, and even air conditioning vents.
They scurried across the walls and ceiling like geckos, brandishing paper cutters as they pounced on the chariot.
"Chen Qi, load the chain gun." Jiang Ming pulled down his goggles.
"receive!"
Chen Qi had been itching to get started, and he suddenly pulled down the control lever.
The newly mounted [Psionic Armor-Piercing Chain Gun] on the right side of the tank began to roar.
There was no piercing explosion of gunpowder, only a dense "buzzing" sound.
A hail of dark blue bullets instantly rained down.
This thing is much more powerful than a regular 30mm autocannon.
The first few faceless monsters that charged forward were riddled with holes by psionic armor-piercing bullets before they even got within ten meters.
The psychic killing properties of the warheads completely ignore their so-called "limb regeneration".
Once hit, a ghostly blue flame will ignite at the wound, burning skin, bones, and even the soul to ashes.
"That's awesome!" Chen Qi laughed. "This gun has practically no recoil!"
"Marlowe, don't stay put and become sitting ducks, run him over," Jiang Ming ordered.
"Leave it to me!"
Marlow floored the accelerator.
The flesh-and-blood engine roared to life.
The bronze-level heavy fortress sped through the upside-down floors.
A dozen or so faceless monsters leaped down from the wall, attempting to jump onto the roof of the car.
As a result, the tank drifted, and its heavy composite armor side skirts slammed into them.
boom! boom! boom!
Several plumes of blood mist exploded.
As usual, the dark red tentacles under the chassis of the tank emerged and instantly sucked up all the severed limbs and broken arms on the ground.
[Absorbing the flesh and blood of a Lv.25 mutated faceless employee, replenishing kinetic energy, armor self-repairing.]
The battle was a one-sided massacre.
These level 25 ordinary monsters are no match for the fully armed tanks; they can't even scratch the surface of the armor.
In less than five minutes, the hundreds of faceless monsters in the lobby were completely wiped out.
The ground was covered with materials that shimmered with a faint light.
Jiang Ming pushed open the hatch and jumped out.
[Obtained: 45 units of the Faceless One's Resentful Black Mud]
[Obtained: 20 Rusty Paper Cutter Blades]
[Obtained: 15 Low-Quality Otherworldly Energy Crystals]
Jiang Ming threw all these odds and ends into the folding space of the chariot.
He stopped next to a huge load-bearing column.
A triangular bayonet, standard issue for Blue Star special forces, is stuck in the pillar.
The wall surrounding the bayonet had been charred black by a highly corrosive liquid.
Several torn pieces of polymer bulletproof plates and a blood-stained military communication radio were scattered on the ground.
These are the traces left by the special forces team that Chu Tianfeng sent in.
"Boss, this thing got crushed, it can't be fixed." Marlowe came over, picked up the walkie-talkie, and glanced at it.
"They're in big trouble." Jiang Ming touched the tear marks on the bulletproof plate. The break was extremely rough, definitely not caused by an ordinary weapon, but more like it was torn apart by some kind of enormous force.
"There's no road ahead." Chen Qi leaned out from the roof of the car and pointed to what used to be a stairwell.
It turned into a writhing wall of flesh, completely blocking the passage to the second floor.
The only way upwards is through those three elevator shafts with their doors open.
However, the elevator shaft was pitch black, filled with sticky red spider webs, and exuded an extremely dangerous aura.
"Roads are forged through collisions." Jiang Ming turned and walked back to the chariot. "Marlowe, activate Frenzy Overload on that wall of flesh."
"Hehe, just you wait and see!"
The tank reversed thirty meters in place, leaving enough space to accelerate.
Marlowe slammed down on the skull icon on the neural panel.
The furnace inside the flesh engine instantly reached boiling point.
Two blinding white flames shot out from the exhaust pipe.
The front half of the tank suddenly The steel behemoth, weighing tens of tons, unleashed almost ferocious kinetic energy, crashing into the writhing wall of flesh like a giant cannonball.
boom--!!!
The dull thud caused the entire hall to tremble violently.
The "localized armor hardening" feature attached to the bulldozer blade came into play instantly.
That seemingly resilient wall of flesh couldn't even hold for a second before being smashed through, leaving a huge hole.
Amidst a shower of stinking, flying chunks of flesh, the tank roared as it charged into the second floor of the building.
The moment it broke through the wall of flesh, an even stronger stench of blood assaulted its senses.
The tracks rolled over puddles of unidentified liquid, making a sticky sound.
This place was originally supposed to be a high-end shopping mall on the second floor of the China World Trade Center, but now it has been completely transformed into a meat grinder, a random patchwork of flesh and metal.
The glass windows of those luxury brand stores were all shattered, and instead of clothes, they displayed mummified corpses hanging upside down.
"Be on alert." Jiang Ming glanced at the tank's radar panel.
The snowflakes above became increasingly dense, and the beam of the searchlight could only illuminate a dozen meters away.
Sizzle...
Sizzle...
A rhythmic metallic scraping sound came from the depths of darkness.
The sound grew louder and louder, accompanied by a slight tremor in the ground.
"Boss, there's a big guy at twelve o'clock!" Chen Qi gripped the machine gun control lever tightly.
Amidst the billowing mist, a colossal creature, twenty meters long, slowly emerged.
It was an extremely strange centipede.
Its exterior is made of metal steps from an escalator, and the gaps between each step are filled with the pale, struggling hands of the victims.
The centipede's head is a shopping mall elevator car magnified countless times, with the car door half open, revealing densely packed metal grinding gears inside.
【Flesh and Blood Escalator - Meat Grinder (Lv.29 - Elite)】
[Danger Level: High]
[Characteristics: Crushing Devour, Armored Shell, Frenzied Charge.]
"So it was an elevator that came to life," Jiang Ming sneered.
The elevator centipede had clearly also discovered the tough nut to crack—the chariot.
Its carriage head emitted a roaring sound similar to a human scream, and hundreds of pale white hands frantically clawed at the ground, charging toward the chariot at a speed completely disproportionate to its size.
"Chen Qi, use chain guns for suppression!"
Da da da da!
The dark blue chain cannon bullets rained down on the metal shell of the elevator centipede.
But this time the effect was greatly reduced.
Those metal pedals were clearly reinforced by otherworldly energy; bullets hitting them exploded into sparks, leaving only shallow craters, unable to penetrate at all.
Instead, the centipede became even more ferocious after being attacked, and the gears inside the carriage spun rapidly, creating a powerful suction force.
"Boss, this thing's armor is too thick, the machine gun can't penetrate it!" Chen Qi shouted.
"Marlowe, back up and fly the kite, create some distance!" Jiang Ming said calmly, opening the system panel with a backhand.
I printed out a bunch of materials on the first floor, and now they come in handy.
[Military C4 High Explosive*2] + [Faceless Man's Resentful Black Sludge*5] + [Damaged Bulletproof Plate]!
A progress bar immediately popped up on the system panel.
[Ding! Synthesis successful!]
[Obtained: Resentment-Infused Blast Mine *2 (Blue, Rare)]
[Effect: After being thrown, it adheres tightly to any material surface like mud, detonating after three seconds, causing massive targeted armor-piercing damage and inflicting a brief "mental stun" effect.]
"Good stuff." Jiang Ming grabbed the two soft, black-fuming explosive mines in his hands, pushed open the hatch, and stepped out.
The elevator centipede had now closed to within twenty meters of the chariot.
The gears inside the car door even made the surrounding air whistle as they tumbled.
"Marlowe, brake suddenly!" Jiang Ming shouted.
The tank tracks locked instantly, leaving two deep grooves on the sticky ground.
Using this immense momentum, Jiang Ming was launched off the roof of the car like an arrow, rushing straight toward the open metal maw.
"Boss!" Marlowe exclaimed in surprise.
Jiang Mingren was in mid-air, just as he was about to be sucked into the gears, when he suddenly raised both hands.
Two [Grievance-Infused Explosive Grenades] struck with pinpoint accuracy the weak joint connecting the car door to the first metal step.
The bomb, which resembled black mud, instantly stuck to it.
Jiang Ming kicked the outer shell of the car, used the momentum to do a backflip, and landed steadily on the supporting column more than ten meters away.
Beep, beep, beep!
The three-second countdown has ended.
Boom! ...
The deafening explosion echoed through the mall.
The terrifying power of military-grade C4, combined with the corrosive properties of the resentful black mud, produced an extremely violent directional explosion.
The elevator centipede let out a piercing scream as its strongest joint was blown off on the spot.
The entire massive carriage head, accompanied by a string of sparks, crashed heavily to the ground, jamming the gears inside and emitting thick black smoke.
The centipede, having lost its head, resembled a headless snake, writhing and tumbling wildly on the ground.
"Now's the time to crush it!" Jiang Ming drew his greatsword, [Chaos Fire Thunder Prison].
"receive!"
The tank roared forward, its bulldozer blades digging directly into the centipede's broken opening, crushing everything in their path.
The metal pedals snapped off the tracks, and the pale human hands inside were shredded into a bloody pulp, then greedily absorbed by the flesh-and-blood engine.
Jiang Ming wasn't idle either. He leaped down from the supporting pillar, gripped the greatsword tightly with both hands, and unleashed his full power.
Thunder and flames converged on the blade.
puff!
The greatsword pierced the center of the still twitching elevator car, piercing right through the energy core that was emitting a red glow.
[Defeat higher-level enemies in the Flesh Ladder/Meat Grinder (Lv.29 Elite).]
[Gained 45000 experience points.]
[Materials Obtained: Living Metal Gear (Purple, Epic)]
Jiang Ming drew his sword and shook off the engine oil and blood.
This elite monster dropped some great purple items, which are perfect for upgrading the vehicle's transmission system.
Just as he was about to pack up the materials, a faint cough suddenly came from deep inside a completely destroyed clothing store next door.
Jiang Ming's eyes sharpened, and he walked over with his sword drawn.
Pushing aside a pile of collapsed shelves, he saw an extremely horrific scene.
A person was embedded in the wall.
He was wearing the special operations uniform of the Blue Star military. Most of his body had been completely swallowed up by the surrounding fleshy walls, leaving only his head and a right hand sticking out.
Several thick, fleshy tubes were inserted into the back of his head, continuously supplying some kind of unidentified liquid.
These are members of the missing special forces team.
He was actually transformed into part of a living building!
Hearing footsteps, the soldier struggled to open his eyes.
His pupils were completely dilated and filled with red blood vessels.
"You... are you a rescuer?" The soldier's voice was hoarse, like sandpaper being rubbed.
"You can think of me that way. My name is Jiang Ming."
Jiang Ming looked at him and knew that this man was beyond saving.
The fleshy tubes had grown together with his central nervous system.
"No need... to save me..." The soldier forced a pathetic smile. "We just came in... and got lost in a maze. The captain was dragged away by... a winged humanoid monster. This floor... is a trap..."
The soldier's body suddenly convulsed violently, and the fleshy wall behind him began to writhe wildly, as if trying to pull him in completely.
"Kill me...please..." The soldier used his last bit of strength to clench his exposed fist.