DipNovel Chapter 144 Spatial Overlap Point! The Interdimensional Rift on the Second Basement Level of the She
Chapter 144 Spatial Overlap Point! The Interdimensional Rift on the Second Basement Level of the She
The friction sounds from deep within the passage grew increasingly intense, like countless blunt knives scraping against the concrete floor, making one's bones ache.
"Ready to fire." Chen Qi pulled back the bolt without hesitation, and the special operations team members immediately spread out, their guns locked on the gap in the door.
Zhou Feng still clung to a sliver of hope, reaching out to stop Chen Qi's gun barrel: "Don't fire! What if it's a survivor inside..."
"Would a survivor make such a fuss?" Jiang Ming sneered.
In the darkness, the first figure suddenly pounced out.
It was a man wearing a security guard uniform, but his skin had turned a sickly grayish-white, and his eyes were rolled back, without any pupils.
His mouth split into an exaggerated arc, stretching all the way to his ears, revealing a mouthful of sharp fangs, with black saliva dripping down his chin.
Mutant Ghoul (Lv.12)
[Danger Level: Medium]
[Characteristics: Infection, loss of pain sensation, bloodlust]
Chen Qi decisively pulled the trigger.
"Bang!"
The specially made armor-piercing bullet accurately hit the monster's chest, exploding into a cloud of black, foul blood.
But the monster only paused for a moment, without even letting out a scream, and continued to rush towards them on all fours.
"Shoot them in the head!" Jiang Ming warned.
Chen Qi slightly raised the muzzle of his gun and fired two shots in quick succession.
The monster's head exploded like a watermelon, and the headless corpse slid forward seven or eight meters before collapsing to the ground.
But then, hordes of ghouls surged out of the passage, bursting through the cracks in the door like a tidal wave.
Zhou Feng recognized one of the monsters' faces and was struck dumb. His legs went weak, and he almost collapsed to his knees: "Old Wang? That's Manager Wang from Yonghui Supermarket! He... how did he become like this?!"
"Stop talking nonsense, fire!" Jiang Ming kicked Zhou Feng back to reality.
The special operations team unleashed their full firepower, assault rifles spitting fire, and a dense barrage of bullets weaved into a deadly fire net in the narrow passage.
But there were too many ghouls. As the ones in front fell, those in the back stepped on the corpses of their companions and continued to charge forward, completely oblivious to the concept of fear.
Jiang Ming carried the [Fire and Thunder Prison] at the very front.
The greatsword swept across, its dark red blade unleashing a burst of violent lightning and flames.
The ghouls at the front didn't even touch Jiang Ming's clothes before being cut in half at the waist. The wounds were instantly scorched by the high temperature, and no blood could flow out.
The kill notifications on the panel were flooding the screen.
[Obtained: Mutated Ghoul Claws *1]
[Obtained: 1 Fragmentary Necromancer Core]
"Necromantic attribute?" Jiang Ming raised an eyebrow.
This is a bit interesting.
The orcs outside use elemental magic and physical melee combat; they can't create any necromantic effects like this.
As the zombie horde surged ever larger and the passageway narrowed, the special operations team's ammunition was being depleted rapidly.
Jiang Ming took a half step back: "Chen Qi, hand grenade!"
A few fragmentation grenades were thrown in through the crack in the door.
Boom boom boom!
The blast wave sent a large number of ghouls flying, limbs and fragments flying everywhere.
But after only a two-second gap, the monsters behind them surged forward.
"Brother Jiang, there are too many! There are three thousand people in this shelter!" Lin Yu hid in the back, his legs trembling with fear.
Three thousand level 12 monsters, even if they just stand there and let you hack and slash, you'll still be hacking until your hands are sore.
Jiang Ming quickly opened the storage card and scanned the materials section.
I got a lot of low-level fire-attribute crystal cores from killing orcs, as well as some broken ironware.
[Low-level Fire Attribute Crystal Core] + [Scrapped Orc Steel Battle Axe] + [Remnants of a Powerful Acidic Thunder]
Mental energy was instantly injected.
Synthesis successful! Obtained: Bursting Firewall Generator (Green, Excellent)
[Effect: After placement, it can spray a cone-shaped wall of high-temperature fire in front for 3 minutes, dealing additional burn damage to undead/mutated creatures.]
Jiang Ming placed the hastily assembled metal device in the center of the passageway and slammed his foot down on the switch.
boom!
A massive, dark red wall of fire, over three meters high and extremely violent, erupted and completely blocked the gap in the gate.
The ghoul that charged forward crashed headfirst into the wall of fire and was instantly ignited.
Their mutated skin and flesh were extremely flammable. They emitted a shrill and ear-piercing scream, rolled wildly on the ground, and were burned to a pile of charcoal in just a few seconds.
A pungent, acrid smell filled the air.
Zhou Feng slumped to the ground, his eyes bloodshot, clutching his hair tightly with both hands: "How could this happen... The air raid shelter wasn't breached, so how did they all turn into monsters? That's three thousand lives!"
"The door isn't broken, but that doesn't mean nothing's happened inside." Jiang Ming stared at the raging wall of fire, his tone calm. "These things have fluctuations of necromantic energy. Orcs can't create things like this."
Chen Qi changed to a new magazine and stepped forward: "Brother Jiang, you mean there's something else in this underground mall?"
Jiang Ming nodded.
He turned to look at the emotionally distraught Zhou Feng: "Just how big is this underground shopping mall of yours?"
Zhou Feng took a few deep breaths, forcing himself to calm down, his voice hoarse: "There are two underground levels. The first basement level is the clothing and food area, and the second basement level is a large chain supermarket. Most civilians are concentrated on the second basement level because there is plenty of food and water there."
"Alright, the firewall can hold for another two minutes. Chen Qi, take your men to check the equipment and distribute all the remaining ammunition." Jiang Ming slung his greatsword over his shoulder, stretched his neck, and said, "Let's go in and get the supplies."
"Buying them?" Zhou Feng was stunned, staring at Jiang Ming in disbelief. "They're full of these monsters! Three thousand of them! The dozen or so of us going in is just suicide!"
"Three thousand monsters? That's all experience and material for walking around." Jiang Ming grinned, revealing a set of white teeth. "What, don't you want to go in and see what exactly turned your citizens into this ghastly state?"
Zhou Feng gritted his teeth, his cheek muscles bulging.
He jumped to his feet, drew a tactical knife from his thigh, and his eyes hardened: "I'll go with you!"
The moment the fire wall went out, Jiang Ming was the first to rush in.
With a swing of the greatsword, several wounded ghouls were easily slaughtered.
The entire basement level has become a living hell.
Everywhere there were tattered clothes, smashed glass countertops, and dried bloodstains.
The walls were covered in a strange, black slime that emitted a nauseating, fishy stench.
Jiang Ming continued to advance, and his experience points increased rapidly.
Although these ghouls are level 12, their attack methods are extremely limited, consisting mainly of pouncing, biting, and scratching.
With Jiang Ming's strength exceeding 30 points, the game was a complete mowing down of enemies, one by one.
The special operations team followed behind in tactical formation to provide cover fire, and the team advanced at an extremely fast pace.
Jiang Ming stopped in front of the escalator leading to the second basement level.
It was pitch black below, and even the beam of a powerful flashlight couldn't penetrate the thick layer of black fog.
The necromantic energy in the air was so dense that it almost solidified.
[You have entered an area with high concentrations of necromantic radiation!]
[Warning: Staying in this area will continuously deplete your mental energy!]
Jiang Ming glanced at the panel prompts, then turned to the people behind him and gave instructions: "Lin Yu, you and Ma Luo stay on the basement level. Chen Qi, Zhou Feng, come down with me. The rest of you stay put and guard the escape route."
Marlowe was more than happy to oblige, and quickly pulled the dire wolf behind a thick, load-bearing pillar, nodding repeatedly.
Jiang Ming, carrying his sword, walked down the stopped escalator.
Halfway down, the sight before them made everyone gasp in shock.
……
The second basement level no longer resembles a supermarket at all.
The once smooth cement ground has completely disappeared, replaced by a putrid swamp bubbling with black bubbles.
Rows of collapsed supermarket shelves lay scattered in the black water, covered with eerie fungi that emitted a faint blue glow.
Mutilated limbs and broken packaging bags floated on the water.
But what really sends chills down your spine is the ceiling.
A huge black crack, more than ten meters long, appeared in the ceiling of the second basement level.
The edges of the gap have an irregular jagged shape, as if space has been forcibly torn apart by an invisible hand.
Through that crack, one could vaguely see the other side of the world—a dilapidated altar made of countless white bones, with a deathly gray-white sky.
"What...what the hell is this?" Zhou Feng's voice trembled, and his palms, gripping the gun, were covered in cold sweat.
"A spatial overlap point." Chen Qi gasped, instantly realizing, "No wonder the air raid shelter didn't break, yet these people all mutated. An alternate dimension opened right next to them!"
Jiang Ming stared at the gap, and a clear prompt popped up on the panel.
[Microscopic spatial cracks discovered (stable state)]
[Connecting Area: Wailing Abyss - Bone Swamp (Lv.10-Lv.25)]
"No wonder," Jiang Ming said, suddenly realizing.
The fusion of Earth and the other world is completely random.
These three thousand people were incredibly unlucky; their shelter happened to overlap with a high-level undead map in another world.
The high concentration of necromantic energy poured in directly, and ordinary people's bodies simply could not withstand this erosion. In a very short time, they were assimilated into mindless ghouls.
Just then, the water in the center of the swamp suddenly began to churn violently.
Glug glug.
A large expanse of black water boiled, and a colossal creature slowly rose from the bottom.
It was a giant stitched monster, as big as an elephant.
Its entire body was crudely pieced together from countless human corpses, with the seams haphazardly tied together with thick black wire.
It has four thick arms, each holding a rusty iron hook, a large machete, and a lamppost half-attached to a block of cement.
Its belly was split open into a gaping maw, filled with crisscrossing fangs, which was now chewing on half of the carcass dressed in a supermarket uniform.
【The Stitching Butcher (Lv.25 Warrior)】
[Danger Level: Extremely Lethal]
[Features: Advanced Carrion Armor, Plague Aura, Corpse Devouring]
Warrior-level BOSS!
Jiang Ming's eyes lit up instantly.
This is a fat sheep that's a whole level above that orc warlord from before!
The first kill reward is absolutely generous.
"Step back." Jiang Ming pushed Chen Qi and Zhou Feng up the stairs. "This thing has a plague aura. If you get close, you'll keep losing health."
"Brother Jiang, are you sure you can handle this?" Zhou Feng asked anxiously. "This monster looks even more sinister than the orcs outside! Should we retreat first and call for heavy fire support?"
"The more bizarre it is, the better the stuff it produces."
Jiang Ming flicked his wrist, not taking out a sword, but instead pulling out the exaggeratedly designed [White Bone Magic Rocket Launcher].
Dealing with this massive, slow-moving monster by slowly whittling it down with melee combat is too inefficient; the best approach is to unleash heavy firepower to overwhelm it.
The stitching butcher let out a deafening roar and charged toward Jiang Ming with his powerful legs.
Its massive body stepped into the swamp, shaking the entire underground space and splashing black water everywhere.
Jiang Ming calmly hoisted the rocket launcher onto his shoulder and frantically channeled his mental energy into it.
It charges in three seconds.
The dark red light compressed rapidly inside the cannon barrel, emitting a dangerous hum.
"Roar!" The butcher swung out a thick chain with iron hooks, tearing through the air and heading straight for Jiang Ming's face.
"Gravity spell".
With a thought, Jiang Ming caused the gravity in front of the chains to suddenly increase tenfold.
The iron hook slammed down on the steps beneath Jiang Ming's feet with a loud clang, creating a large crater in the thick concrete floor and sending gravel flying.
Meanwhile, the rocket launcher was fully charged.
Jiang Ming pulled the trigger.
hum-
A dark red, high-energy beam of light erupted instantly, like a laser, and struck precisely the butcher's huge belly mouth.
Boom!!!
The terrifying explosion echoed through the underground space.
The extreme heat instantly evaporated a large area of the swamp's black water, and white steam spread out.
The stitched butcher's massive body was blasted backward several steps, and a hole more than a meter in diameter was blasted into his stomach.
Black, foul-smelling blood and colorful intestines gushed out onto the ground.
[Deals massive weakness damage to the Stitcher!]
But it didn't die.
The vitality of general-level monsters is extremely tenacious.
It roared angrily, grabbed a ghoul corpse from the nearby shelf, and stuffed it directly into the hole in its stomach.
Visibly, countless granulation tissues grew from the edges of the hole, quickly enveloping and fusing with the corpse, and the wound began to heal at a speed visible to the naked eye.
"It can even eat corpses to replenish its health?" Chen Qi felt a chill run down his spine as he watched from the stairs.
"Then let it have nothing to eat."
Jiang Ming put away the rocket launcher.
This thing is powerful, but it also consumes a lot of mental energy, so it can't be fired continuously.
He pulled out the [Fire and Thunder Prison] with a backhand, and with a sudden burst of power from his legs, he plunged into the swamp like a cannonball.
Black water splashed up.
The butcher swung his large cleaver, sweeping it across the room and creating a stench.
Jiang Ming neither dodged nor evaded, but gripped the sword hilt tightly with both hands and slashed fiercely at the cleaver.
clang!
A deafening metallic clang rang out, sparks flying everywhere.
Jiang Ming's terrifying strength of 30 points actually managed to block the full-force attack of this giant monster.
Moreover, the lightning attached to the Calamity Fire Thunder Prison instantly spread along the cleaver to the butcher's body.
Crackling sounds!
A pale blue arc of electricity leaped wildly across the killer's body, triggering a paralysis effect.
The butcher's massive body stiffened abruptly, his movements pausing for half a second.
"Overload!"
Jiang Ming activated the weapon's additional skill without hesitation.
The flames and lightning on the greatsword surged instantly, transforming into a two-meter-long destructive sword aura.
He pushed off with his feet, turned his body nimbly, and circled around to the butcher's side, then slashed down hard at its thick right knee.
Chi!
There is no suspense.
Advanced Flesh Armor is like a hot knife through butter when the Epic weapon is in "Overload" state.
The butcher's right leg was severed at the root.
Its massive body lost its balance and crashed into the black water, splashing water everywhere.
Without pausing, Jiang Ming leaped onto its broad back the moment it fell to the ground.
He gripped the greatsword upside down, aimed it at its little head covered in pustules, and plunged it in hard.
puff!
The blade pierced through the skull and went straight into the hilt.
The violent fire magic exploded completely inside the butcher's body, burning his brains and cervical spine to ashes.
Its massive body convulsed violently a few times, then fell completely still.