louisehourcade Chapter 290: The Chase!
Chapter 290: The Chase!
Four pairs of scarlet eyes lit up in the darkness, spaced out incorrectly—not human spaced out.
Zhang Yan took a half step back, and the energy reading on the miniature panel jumped wildly.
Grade B. All four are Grade B.
The dark red, pulsating "heart" deep inside the cargo hold suddenly began to beat faster, the sweet and pungent smell of sulfur instantly intensified tenfold, the iron walls of the container began to bulge outwards, and the metal emitted a piercing deforming sound.
There are not four heat sources.
These are four traps that have already undergone mutation and are waiting for their prey to come to them.
Zhang Yan held his high-frequency dagger horizontally in front of him, the skeleton on his left wrist shimmering faintly.
The first thing fell from the top of the container.
There was no sound, no roar, and the movement was as fast as a broken spring—the three-meter-long body unfolded in mid-air, the limbs bent in reverse joints, and the fingertips were translucent bone spurs.
Zhang Yan turned to the side, and the dagger slashed across its abdomen.
The high-frequency vibration cut through the rotting skin, and black blood mist spurted out, but the wound began to heal within 0.3 seconds.
Regenerative type.
The second one was launched from the left wall, and the third one burst out from a crack in the floorboards.
Amidst the attack from three directions, Zhang Yan spun on one foot, unleashing the full power of his skeletal structure, and slammed his right fist into the second skull, driving its entire head into its chest cavity.
But it didn't die; its broken spine rearranged inside its body, and it continued to pounce and bite with its head tilted to the side.
The cramped cargo hold is not suitable for close combat.
Without further hesitation, Zhang Yan took two steps back, kicked open the iron door of the cargo hold behind him, and leaped out of the cargo hold, landing on the deck.
Qin Xiao's urgent voice blared through the earpiece: "Boss, four high-speed moving targets have appeared on the cargo ship's deck—no, six! And the number is increasing!"
Zhang Yan looked up.
Under the moonlight, those things were densely packed on the cargo ship's smokestack, mast, and boom.
Their bodies are translucent, resembling humanoid spiders pieced together from rotting flesh and black crystals, with a dark red light flickering in the chest cavity of each one.
Twelve.
No, fourteen.
People were still climbing out from below the deck.
Zhang Yan slightly raised his wrist; the summoning command was ready.
But he didn't activate it immediately.
Fourteen Class B contaminants, plus the core source of contamination in the cargo hold—this was not a random, drifting infection event.
This is a targeted campaign.
Someone loaded these items onto a cargo ship and sent them to Jinghai Port.
"Qin Xiao, seal off all waterways leading out of the port area. Do not allow anything to enter the sea."
"clear."
As soon as Zhang Yan finished speaking, the three monsters closest to him on the deck attacked simultaneously.
He did not back down.
"White Tiger".
A dark golden light exploded on the cargo ship's deck, and a ten-ton mechanical tiger crashed down from the void, its three massive alloy claws smashing the monster at the front into pieces.
The impact of landing caused the entire 10,000-ton cargo ship to tilt five degrees to the left.
The moment the white tiger landed, its electronic blue eyes swept across the entire area, locking onto all moving targets.
Zhang Yan flipped over and leaped onto the white tiger's back, entering the neck cockpit, and his nervous system activated in sync.
"Clear the area."
The white tiger roared and swept its metal tail whip, sending three attacking monsters flying off the deck and crashing into the sea.
wrong.
Zhang Yan caught a detail in his synchronized neural perception—the three monsters that were thrown into the sea did not struggle to rise, but sank directly.
Actively sink.
The remaining monsters seemed to have received some kind of signal, and their movements changed at the same instant.
Instead of attacking, they leaped into the sea from all directions of the deck, moving as fast as a swarm of startled cockroaches.
Within three seconds, all eleven Class B pollutants entered the water.
"Qin Xiao!"
"Spotted! Sonar tracking—target is descending at high speed, heading southwest, towards the open sea!"
Zhang Yan stared at the dark, murky sea.
They are not running away.
The three broken pieces prove that the White Tiger is fully capable of clearing the area.
They are carrying out instructions—to transfer the source of pollution to the deep sea.
cargo hold.
Zhang Yan manipulated the white tiger to turn around, tearing open the steel plate of the deck with a claw, revealing the cargo hold below.
The dark red, pulsating core remained in place, but its light was rapidly dimming.
The energy was being drawn away and transmitted through the seawater to the fleeing monsters.
If these substances are allowed to disperse into the deep sea with their energy, the entire sea area surrounding Jinghai will become a pollution pool of ruins.
Zhang Yan did not hesitate at all.
He jumped out of the White Tiger cockpit and landed on the broken deck. As soon as his feet touched the ground, he summoned a second mech with his right hand.
The sea-devouring shark.
A six-meter-long black mechanical giant shark was ejected from the storage space and crashed into the sea on the starboard side of the cargo ship, sending up a water column ten meters high.
Zhang Yan leaped off the edge of the deck and landed precisely in the hatch on the back of the mechanical shark. The cabin sealed, seawater surged in, and the view switched to deep-sea mode.
"White Tiger stands by, guarding the cargo ship."
As soon as the command was issued, the mechanical shark's thrusters started at full power, and the entire shark plunged into the dark seawater like a torpedo.
The sonic boom spread.
Fourteen... no, eleven moving targets were fanning out at a depth of 200 meters underwater, moving at extremely high speeds, each fleeing in a different direction.
Zhang Yan glanced at the distribution map and made a judgment within three seconds.
Don't chase the most recent one, chase the fastest one first.
The mechanical shark adjusted its course and entered the fray at full speed of sixty knots.
The underwater world was pitch black, with only the moving, flickering dots of light on the sonar screen.
The first target was caught up after forty seconds.
It swims frantically at a depth of 300 meters underwater. Its translucent body becomes even more compact under high pressure, and it moves quite fast.
But the mechanical shark is the ultimate weapon designed for deep-sea combat—it has even ventured into the abyss at a depth of 10,000 meters.
Three hundred meters? You're kidding.
The high-frequency cutting teeth are activated, and the mechanical shark cuts upwards at a 45-degree angle from below, its serrated mouth biting directly into the target's waist.
High-frequency oscillations produced a series of muffled sounds in the water, and the black blood mist was rapidly compressed into thin lines under the pressure of the deep sea.
Its upper and lower body rolled several times in opposite directions before the dark red core light went out.
One.
Zhang Yan didn't stop; he changed direction with the thrusters and chased after the second one.
The points of light on the sonar continued to sink, and these things seemed to realize that escaping horizontally was useless, so they began to burrow deeper.
Four hundred meters, five hundred meters, six hundred meters.
Zhang Yan's lips tightened.
This depth poses no challenge for mechanical sharks, but for those biological monsters, the high pressure of the deep sea itself weakens their mobility.
They are committing suicidal escape.
They would rather be crushed by the pressure of the deep sea than let the polluting energy in their bodies spread to the seabed.
Zhang Yan accelerated.
The second target was caught up at a depth of 700 meters.
The mechanical shark rammed into it from the side, slamming it into a group of underwater reefs. Then, a high-pressure water jet was activated, splitting it in two from head to toe.
The third one tried to hide in a crevice in the seabed.
Since the mechanical shark was too big to fit inside, Zhang Yan launched a supercavitating torpedo directly.
The shockwave from the explosion underwater shattered the entire reef area into rubble, with the target's remains mixed in, and the core light went out.
The fourth, the fifth, and the sixth.
Zhang Yan pursued the enemy underwater for a full forty minutes.
The depth ranges from 300 meters to 1,200 meters, covering a sea area of nearly 20 kilometers outside Jinghai Port.
Every kill was swift and decisive, without any hesitation.
The mechanical shark is consuming energy, but its reserves are sufficient and far from being a cause for concern.
The number of light spots on the sonar decreased from eleven to three.
The last three targets have teamed up.