Chapter 23 Comprehensive Breakthrough
At 3:55, Nine Prisons, Exit Level.
This is the floor connected to the ground of the Nine Prisons. The area close to the gate is almost all passageways, with only a few useful rooms; and continuing to walk inward is the prison guard's living area and the arsenal.
When Zi Lin turned the gate of the Nine Prisons into a pool of metal liquid, the scene in the corridor behind the door was not surprising - dozens of prison guards wearing combat armor and holding weapons were already on guard.
These prison guards did not mean to say hello to the intruders. Two seconds after the door was destroyed, the prison guards who directly confirmed the target with their visual vision immediately opened fire.
Because we knew from the beginning that the invaders were capable people and had strong combat power, all the prison guards guarding here went to the arsenal to replace the armor with heavy firepower components. This type of component was mainly composed of light weapons and small missiles... Obviously, they did not consider using bullets at all, and directly treated the enemy as armored vehicles.
Unexpectedly, facing such an attack, Zilin just raised his hand, opened his palm slightly, and made a "stop" gesture.
All missiles, including the beams... are all condensed in mid-air due to his ability, and it is difficult to make any progress.
After a few seconds, when the missile and beam accumulate to a certain number, Zimin's gesture suddenly changed and he snapped his fingers.
At that moment, a violent explosion occurred in the passage.
However, the kinetic energy of the explosion did not move towards the entrance at all, but rushed towards the inside of the Nine Prisons; the exploded shrapnel and particles were like broken glass... and they scattered in a strange arc, and all flew backwards towards the direction they were flying.
In the blink of an eye, a burst of blood and fire flew everywhere.
This scene, to be described, is that someone crushes all the firepower output by an army within a certain period of time into a tangible entity and throws it back at the launchers.
If these artillery fires came at normal pace, the prison guards might be able to withstand one or two of them with their combat armor, but the firepower that was as sudden as constipation was pouring out, let alone armor... the city wall could not hold it.
In a moment, the section of the road ahead of them seemed to have been washed away, and was "swept" by fire all the way inward for hundreds of meters. The camera probes and automatic defense weapons along the way were also destroyed by this fire flow, and the bodies of the prison guards were also rolled to pieces and disappeared.
"I said... Since you are so powerful and have mastered potions that can neutralize the gases limited by superpowers, is there still a lot of plans?" As the few seconds of waiting for the firepower flow to subside, Suzu turned to Zilin and said, "Why do I think you can rob the prison if you attack me directly?"
"Hehe..." Zilin laughed out loud and asked, "People can eat with their hands, so why use chopsticks?"
"Well..." Suo pondered, "So we are your chopsticks?"
"You can say that too." Zilin replied.
At this time, Che Wuchen suddenly interrupted and muttered: "I just hope it is not disposable chopsticks..."
"That's what..." Zilin didn't even look at him, and as he said, he had already taken a step forward, "It seems that the service life of a non-disposable chopstick is as long as the service life of..."
Meng Jiehan felt that the words were wrong when he heard this, so he hurriedly chased after him and said, "Hey...hey! What does this mean?"
But Zilin smiled but refused to answer this kind of question.
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On the other hand, the bottom of the Nine Prisons is the "forbidden zone".
Qiu Zheng, who was "dragged" down, was not panicked by this sudden attack. He responded quickly in the air; he first gathered most of the energy used for defense in his body to his ankles to prevent his limbs from being broken. At the same time, he adjusted his body in the air, leaned down, and wanted to launch a counterattack.
But when Qiu Zhengichi's eyes moved down and saw the "biology" that pulled him, he couldn't help but be shocked.
If we only look at the overall outline, the "biology" should be a tall and strong adult man wearing the prison uniform of the Nine Prisons. However, the face and hands exposed by the prisoner were all moldy, covered with blue and odorous substances; some of the substances were mushroom-shaped, some granulation-shaped, and some looked like exposed tendons and muscle fibers...
"Hunter?" A few seconds later, Qiu Zheng recognized the creature in a daze. Of course, it was not recognized by his appearance, but by the number on his prison uniform and the other party's energy form.
"Yeah—" But Hunter just responded with a beast-like howling.
Before the roar was over, the granulations on the hunter arm began to wriggle... In the two seconds before landing, the granulations quickly stretched and spread to Qiu Zhengichi's legs, and gradually wrapped upwards.
It was also in these two seconds that Qiu Zhengyi saw through the light shining from the hole in the ceiling... On this floor, several huge flesh cocoons that looked shriveled and withered were already lying across the ground.
"You guy..." The next second, Qiu Zheng's supernatural power suddenly opened, and he used his finger to attack, "... Finally, has even 'swallowed' people..."
As he whispered, Qiu was showing his strength to collapse.
With a bang, Lieba's right arm burst into a meat sauce as soon as Qiu Zheng pointed it with his fingertips. Lieba himself was also shook back by the aftermath of energy. After landing, he staggered for several meters before he could stand firm.
On the contrary, Qiu Zhengichi, who was behind the scenes in this round of confrontation, finally settled firmly on the ground, and his face looked as if he was taken for granted.
This is Qiu Zhengichi's strength. At the same level of madness, his use of energy and physical skills are far superior to Hunter, and his ability "destruction" is even more of a force that makes people scared.
The reason why Akimaichi uses "fingers" as a medium for attack is not because he is good at finger skills, but simply because if he uses fists or palms... the destructive power generated may exceed his own control and cause unpredictable results.
"Ah! Kah—— uh..." The hunter on the other side was not a fuel-efficient lamp. As soon as he stood firm, he made a few strange noises in his mouth. Then a lump of granulation and muscle fibers quickly "sprayed" out of his broken arm, forming a brand new, thicker arm.
"Although I don't know how you did it..." Qiu Zhengyi tidied up his collar and glanced at the flesh calluses on the ground. "But it seems... the other prisoners have been 'handled'ed by you..." He laughed dryly, and a hint of chill appeared on his face. "Ha, to be honest, I'm really worried that they will join forces after they recover their abilities... it may pose a little threat to me, so I'm so worried now."
"Cough--" At this moment, the Hunter's mind has long been obscured by the "swallowing instinct". Apart from the idea of "absorbing away the powerful DNA nearby", he can no longer think about anything else... He even lost his basic language ability. Therefore, he could not talk to Qiu Zhengyi.
After another roar, the Lieba opened his mouth to an angle that ordinary people would never be able to open, and then, something like a trumpet tube popped out from his throat.
When he saw this tube, Qiu Zhengichi's face changed... and became like a great enemy.
A second later, with a "shining" sound, a thin thread that was hard to see from the naked eye was sprayed out from the tube.
At the same moment, Qiu Zheng, who was more than ten meters away, shook his body, and when he moved from solid to Xu, he was bent over and rushed towards the Hunter from the front, and quickly attacked his opponent's abdomen.
Qiu Zhengyi used this attack with the idea of directly smashing the opponent into pieces, so he used energy several times higher than that.
But the result of the attack... was not as he wished - after the "destruction" power touched the body of the Hunter, the latter only had a shattering and bursting in his abdomen, and although the other parts were damaged, they were fine.
When the move falls, the part above the chest of the Lieba is shaken up, and the crotch falls quickly to the ground.
Qiu Zheng Yiben wanted to chase him and add another blow to the opponent's head, but unexpectedly... When Lieba's head flew to the high point, he hovered in the air for a short second. In this second, Lieba forced his neck and lowered his head, and sprayed a thin line with the tube in his throat, just in time to meet the chase opponent.
Now, Qiu Zhengyi was unable to escape.
"So that's it..." The moment I was hit, Qiu Zhengichi was already thinking in his heart, "This is why you can kill other prisoners..."
At this moment, Qiu Zhengyi realized that the "hunter" in front of him was not just the body of his "neighbors".
Although the two of them have not been fighting for a long time, Qiu Zhengichi has already seen five abilities in each other: "self-healing", "high-speed regeneration", "tail-breaking phenomenon", "seven-grass sting", and "floating".
Among them, only "self-healing" and "high-speed regeneration" are the powers that Hunter had mastered before being locked up here, and the other three are supernatural abilities that only several other prisoners had.
The "tail-breaking phenomenon" comes from an energy-transforming ability user. Of course, this move is not all of his ability, but it is undoubtedly one of his skills.
The "floating" ability comes from a mutant. Because its ability is somewhat related to "gravity" and has a very fast growth efficiency, he was locked up in this "forbidden zone" with the highest concentration of inhibitors.
"Qian Juezhe" comes from a powerful experimental subject produced by EF. It is made up of the genes of several mutants, anteaters, and several insects. The final product has close intelligence to humans and is hostile to all living creatures. Its ability "Qian Juezhe" is the "thin line" that the hunter just spewed out.
The true face of those threads is actually a fine needle made of a mixture of energy and secretions. When this needle hits a human, it will have a "progressive" effect. Simply put, each needle will deprive people of a feeling.
The first needle is "touch", and the next two to five needles are "vision", "listening", "sniffing", and "taste" respectively; the sixth needle is slightly different. If the middle needle is a capable person or a mutant, then what they will be deprived of is the ability of "energy perception", and if the middle needle is an ordinary person, what is deprived of is the so-called "intuition".
As for those who have been hit by the "seventh needle", there is no doubt that their lives will be taken... Therefore, they are called "Seventh Chronicles".
At present, Qiu Zheng was hit by a shot, which means... his sense of touch has been deprived. Unless the opponent actively removes his abilities or loses consciousness, Qiu Zheng will always be in this state.
"Another shot is 'vision'..." Amid the flash of lightning, Qiu Zhengichi quickly considered the next countermeasures, "Although I don't have vision, I can't fight, but it will inevitably become extremely unfavorable... I must fight quickly."
At this point, he also clearly realized that he was not fighting against the "hunter", but was in a duel with the "fighting instinct" of all the prisoners in this "forbidden zone".
Even for Qiu Zhengichi, this is definitely not a sure thing...
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At four o'clock in the morning, the sixth prison, "The evil spring is destroyed".
When Uncle Xue arrived here, he happened to pass by several prisoners in prison uniforms; he did not say hello to the prisoners, and the prisoners just looked at him, some nodded to him, while others ignored him and walked out directly.
After walking forward for a while, Uncle Xue saw Jack who was checking the body of the prison guard.
"I thought I could catch up with you with the next level." When Uncle Xue walked towards Jack, he had already started talking to the other party. "Why did it take you a few minutes to get the fifth prison, but the sixth prison, which is a little lower, slow down again?"
"When I arrived at the fifth prison, the neutralizing agent had not yet taken effect, so I handled the prison guards there by myself..." Jack did not stop what he was doing when he replied, "But by the time I arrived at the sixth prison, the prisoners' superpowers had begun to recover and had already started fighting with the prison guards..."
After hearing this, Uncle Xue already understood what the other party meant, so he took the conversation and said, "So you are checking whether those prisoners have any mistakes?"
Jack did not answer the question with obvious answers, and he asked directly: "How is the progress of the superior?"
"At least it was very smooth when I passed by the Ninth Prison." Uncle Xue replied.
At this point when the two talked, Jack looked up at Uncle Xue and said, "The time flow around you is not very stable... Did you encounter something in the fifth prison?"
"Yes." Uncle Xue replied in a very ordinary tone, "A guy came to me with your head, so I played with him."
His words sounded a little puzzled at first glance, but Jack quickly understood: "Is the illusionist capable of illusion..."
"That's not it." Uncle Xue spread his hands, "I knew he was trying to trick me before I could go back to the time."
"It's because of 'time'." Jack continued, "Based on the time when the neutralizer took effect and when I left the Seventh Prison... it's not difficult to infer that this person only recovered his supernatural powers after I handled the Fifth Prison."
"No." Uncle Xue said, "My reason is not that complicated... Because you are a god of killing, you can't die in the hands of that kind of person, so when he shows your head, I know that it is definitely an illusion."
"Okay." Jack shrugged, "Then... what about his motive?" He paused and said, "The prison guards in the fifth prison were all killed when I left there. The person who blocked you was undoubtedly a prisoner... As a prisoner, is the reason why he did not escape at this time, but stayed there?"
"This is a long story..." Uncle Xue said, "Let's talk about it when the action is over."
Since Uncle Xue said that, Jack stopped asking questions. He nodded, stood up from a corpse and said, "Okay, I'll finish the inspection, let's go to the next floor."
"Aren't you going to the Fourth Prison?" Uncle Xue asked.
Chapter completed!