Chapter 320: Art Is An Explosion
The center of the battlefield had already turned into a scorched earth.
Su Huan pushed horizontally for hundred meters through the zombie tide to avoid accidentally injuring the train, killing out a thunder prison.
Metal, corpses, abandoned vehicles… even the insulated buildings flashed with blazing electric sparks.
Looking at the fierce train conductor ahead, Lin Jin’s heart surged, sharp questions madly pounding in his mind.
‘If this continues, even the train conductor’s back will disappear from sight!’
‘Is this what you call effort?’
‘How will you protect your sister and lover in this chaotic world?!’
A flame seemed to burn in Lin Jin’s heart, the fire spreading from his heart to his eyes, turning his red pupils almost platinum.
When a Tier 2 Jumper whistled down from the sky, Lin Jin abruptly turned his head, flames shooting from the gaps in his fist, forming a nearly two-meter flame longbow.
His right hand pulled the bowstring formed by the flames, accompanied by a fierce wind sound, an 1.8-meter-long flame arrow formed out of thin air.
“Die!”
Amid the air’s explosive crack, the flame’s glow flashed and vanished.
The descending Tier 2 Jumper directly turned into a massive fireball, then instantly exploded under Lin Jin’s platinum cold gaze!
In the instant this arrow was shot, Lin Jin also became a Tier 2 “Flame Dominator”.
Tier 2 “Flame Dominator” = Tier 2 “Flame Wielder” + lv1 “Explosive Flame” + lv1 “Flame Mimicry”.
The Tier 2 Jumper’s struggling body turned charred in the increasingly fierce flames, only a skeleton-like shadow visible dancing in the blazing flames.
“Bang!”
With a sound, it crashed to the ground, smashing into a pile of charred rotten meat.
Upon advancing to Tier 2, Lin Jin directly reversed the longbow’s direction, aiming at the Tier 3 Matriarch who was exchanging magic blasts with the train conductor.
……
The long ten minutes finally arrived.
The several Butchers bearing the Tier 3 Matriarch were also roasted into a lump of fragrant soft fat, their charred surfaces peeling off from time to time, flowing out orange-red wax tears like candles.
The Matriarch was already black all over, showing no abnormalities, except her smooth porcelain-white face now bore traces of smoke and scorch.
Her gem-like eyes held only the purest condensed killing intent, reflecting the demon-like human before her.
“If you don’t kill me soon, it will be too late…”
Blood rolled out from between her teeth along with a low laugh.
“Crackle—”
It was instantly evaporated by the nearly liquid thunder around her body, the thunder liquid rippling slightly, her black hair dancing like a demon, black lightning patterns or scorch marks appearing on her body from time to time, then scabbing and peeling under her powerful self-healing ability.
Su Huan slowly straightened his body, his mouth grinning to his ears, his demonic eyes like those of an evil demon.
“Then it’s my turn.”
With a casual swipe, under the “Gas Vortex”‘s restraint, the thunder liquid truly seemed like water as he cupped it in his hand.
Drifting and swaying, it gathered into a deep blue whirlpool, nearly ink-black in the center.
The violent currents not only slaughtered the zombies’ vitality but also stimulated his unstable genes to the extreme, the collapsing genes frantically seeking the only lifeline, general energy from dozens of kilometers around madly converging, pushing the evolution progress.
Vitality flowed like water into this bottomless pit of evolution.
But his aura only grew stronger instead of weakening.
Sensing this terrifying aura and the surging energy in his body, the Matriarch could no longer hold back, throwing her head back in a long howl.
The general energy in the air fluctuated violently, a dim dark light domain spreading outward from her as the center.
After enveloping Su Huan, it did not stop, madly spreading forward: the charging zombie tide, He Jie roaring and cursing while carrying the anti-aircraft machine gun, the armored train busy transporting ammunition, the baffled scavengers…
Everyone was swept by this dark light, whether zombies, humans, or mutated beasts trembling in the corners, all their eyes turning pitch black.
Devouring was an ability she possessed as a “Matriarch” zombie.
But this Dark Light Domain was her ultimate trump card as a “Lord”!
The zombies trapped in darkness merely paused, then continued hunting with their keen smell and hearing.
But the visionless crowd fell into panic, even the well-trained soldiers only regaining their familiar sense of security amid He Jie’s roars.
But their combat power was reduced by ninety percent.
Even the cannons and heavy machine guns on the train roof lost manual manipulation, only able to fire at original targets.
In an instant, biting sounds, impact sounds, gunshots, curses, and wails rang out chaotically.
Just like the massive changes happening in Su Huan’s body at this moment.
“General Energy Conversion” broke its shackles first, breaking through to lv10.
Everyone’s ears seemed to hear a crisp snap, like chains breaking or ice cracking.
Soon these sounds rang out one after another.
And everyone heard the train conductor’s low laugh.
“Is this your trump card?”
Whether it was He Jie and others at the front or Jin Feng and the scavengers at the back, a rift appeared before their eyes at the same time, like a crack in overcast skies, and in the next instant, rolling thunder exploded in their ears.
Heaven and earth suddenly brightened!
Within a hundred kilometers of Zhijin, everyone seemed to see a figure suspended in the thunder.
One eye deep blue like ink, the other scarlet like blood, lightning patterns spreading from the corners, his body wrapped in thunder liquid blue to black, wantonly releasing web-like thunderbolts around him.
And directly opposite him was an eight-meter-tall colossal behemoth, its black figure like the ruler of the night.
Even just looking at them, the pressure they released left people’s minds blank.
Amid everyone’s stunned gazes, the Matriarch’s crown-like head approached Su Huan, the cracks on her face opening, madly absorbing the lightning he released, the transparent tentacles behind her brain turning black one by one and snapping off.
Dropping to the ground and exploding into several-meter-wide thunderstorms out of thin air.
The remaining tentacles spread open respectively, like a “mother”, embracing Su Huan in her arms.
And Su Huan seemed to lose focus, letting her do as she pleased.
Although he had advanced to Tier 3, the massive changes in his body had not ended, like a madly galloping carriage charging forward crazily; now all his energy was focused on suppressing the rampaging energy in his body.
The “Fighting Expert” skill “Internal Vision” also benefited from this mad evolution.
Allowing him to see more clearly every rampaging energy path in his body.
The violently increased energy completely exceeded his manipulation limits; among the five basic attributes, the one most needing training, “Fine Control”, was also what Su Huan lacked most.
At this moment, Su Huan was like a poorly prepared student, dazed in the exam room, watching the twisted characters before him turn into joyful colts galloping wildly.
And he could only watch helplessly.
But the next moment, a cool sensation came from his forehead, like ropes binding the colts one by one.
Though strange, it inadvertently helped Su Huan resolve the rampaging energy and nearly collapsing genes in his body.
When he came to, he was locking eyes with the massive Matriarch.
Endless energy transferred from his forehead into his body, sealing the rampaging energy within.
Along with this energy came some strange things surging in; Su Huan felt his memories suddenly stuffed with many things, various scenes flashing madly before his eyes—marriage, work, socializing… faces flashing wildly before him, the most frequent being a man’s, which Su Huan felt somewhat familiar with.
Then he uncontrollably recalled his own memories, but most were blank; only a woman with heavy law lines repeatedly saying something to him, and just seeing that face stirred an inexplicable fury from the depths of his heart.
His past being spied on, his mind arbitrarily stuffed with things—the anger mixed with this baseless fury instantly drove Su Huan mad.
The perpetual playful smirk on his face completely vanished, turning into near-spasmodic madness.
His right hand pressed on the Matriarch’s porcelain-white face, all his skills mobilized at once, finally under “Energy Repulsion”‘s manipulation, gently and slowly touching together.
Bright white light lit up under Su Huan’s hand, the world slowing down in this moment.
Cracks appeared on the Matriarch’s mask, but those red eyes stared deadly at Su Huan’s earring, a simple gold-silver intertwined earring.
The mask cracked inch by inch, revealing a delicate face barely called “human”.
Iron gray skin carrying a beauty of utter death.
Amid everyone’s shocked gazes, the Matriarch pushed Su Huan away, her brain-rear tentacles slowly closing, fully embracing the ever-brighter white light, the dark light spreading and gradually sealing.
Memories smoothed out, Su Huan finally remembered.
“Boom—”
Even with the Matriarch’s Tier 3 strength, she could not suppress this Tier 3 near-self-destructive desperate move.
White light expanded, the entire world like a painting erased by an unknown hand’s eraser.
Buildings, zombie tide, even the sturdy train…
……
Wen Biao and others could only anxiously wait behind the iron wall formed by the armored train, listening to the explosions and roars from ahead, unable to find a high place to look.
Because when the train entered, He Jie had leveled all the high-rise buildings.
The entire war zone was left with only broken, low ruins.
When the Matriarch appeared, though they couldn’t see, they felt the unease seeping into their bones; some scavengers already wanted to flee, but he comforted them with words.
Until the train conductor and Matriarch’s battle reached white-hot intensity, when the Dark Light Domain deprived everyone of vision.
Everyone panicked.
But before they could fully panic, the devastating explosion instantly silenced them.
A massive breach appeared in the iron wall, the foremost several vehicles directly shattered by the blast, the corpse mountain inside the iron wall also blasted into meat foam by the shockwave, sticky bone and flesh dripping down the gaps.
Including Jinfeng President and others, all stunned by this hellish scene.
Wen Biao was also stunned, but his ingrained ruthlessness made him react instantly—this was the only chance!
Standing on the train roof, he shouted madly through the prepared horn, “The big boss has been taken down by the armored train! Now charge to eat meat! Drink soup!”
“Go late and you’ll never have another chance! Just wait to starve to death!”
“Brothers, charge with me!”
After shouting, Wen Biao tossed the horn, drew his gun, and howling charged forward.
His subordinates behind didn’t even hear what he said, guns in hand fearing to be slow.
Wen Biao’s words had no artistic or infectious words, but to these people who experienced hunger and life-death, they were more effective than anything.
They just wanted to follow behind the train, eat meat! Drink soup!
These two phrases were more wonderful than any words!
So when Wen Biao charged, Jin Feng and Tiejian City barely hesitated, grabbing their weapons and joining.
The people behind didn’t even hear several phrases, seeing others run, they followed, not knowing if charging or fleeing, running fast, wishing parents gave two more legs.
Luo Jingyi originally just wanted to watch the fun, but seeing benefits, gritted his teeth and charged too.
He Jie and others, though closest, reacted fastest, directly jumping to the train’s rear.
After the explosion passed, shaking heads and crawling out.
Then a group of high-level evolvers madly ran toward the battlefield strewn with corpses, ignoring the shouts of killing behind.
At the battlefield center, the Matriarch had vanished without a trace, replaced by a huge corpse pit, blood water from surroundings flowing in with a splash, indistinguishable who was who.
Zombies twisted their mutilated corpses crawling out from under the remains, blankly staring at everything before them.
Before reacting, He Jie and others stomped their heads.
At the forefront was a slender agile figure, like a nimble rabbit, but the 1.8-meter sniper rifle on her back made no one dare ignore her.
“You…”
A low hoarse voice sounded behind.
The foremost Yu Yue abruptly turned her head, her rosy almond eyes widening slightly.
Bringing huge surprise as she darted over through the ruins.
Su Huan was among the first besides the Matriarch to take the impact wave, but Tier 3 “Energizer” stacked with Tier 2 “Defender”‘s basic quality had reached a terrifying level; though not enough to withstand a nuke with flesh, tanking a rocket launcher was no problem.
But the power of that hand-crafted thing of his was truly terrifying; if not for the Matriarch’s final push, he would also be torn into meat foam now.
Now he was embedded spread-eagled on the train’s track, with two or three scapegoat zombies below, zombie blood and his flesh mixed, so blurry stuck on the train unnoticed by the crowd.
Yu Yue’s tears fell seeing his wretched state.
Su Huan felt his brain heavy, unsure if from stuffed memories or blast concussion, his mind foggy now, words at his lips but unsure how to speak.
Suddenly feeling wetness on his lips, a cool liquid entered his mouth, instantly dissolving like a miracle pill repairing his depleted body.
‘Crown Pear’
But he had lost over a decade of lifespan; this wasn’t enough.
Hearing the crisp crunch by his ear, Su Huan instinctively reached to hook the woman’s waist, biting down greedily, plundering the soft sweet pear flesh.
(Similar to Spirit Cage)
