Chapter 256 - Lord I (2/2)

However, all of this actually made Zero pay a massive price. Zero had to sit down and rest, and with trembling hands he took all the nutrients from the walker and ate them one by one.

Only after the eighth nutrient was swallowed did Zero stop. This was equivalent to what normal people would need for three days of nourishment, but Zero ate it in one gulp. After the nutrients enter the stomach, they are digested into pure nutrients and quickly absorbed by the body. Only then did Zero relax and close his eyes to rest.

”What was that just now?” While walking, Feng suddenly stopped and looked in the direction of the battle between Zero and Gunnar.

Beneath his feet was the corpse of a human-faced moth. The wing of the man-faced moth had been shattered, the result of a machine-gun shot from Maple. However, the fatal wound was a shallow wound on the forehead of the monster bug's face. If one were to compare it with Feng's Tang Dao, they would discover that it matched well with him.

On the left side of Feng was Su, who was holding an alloyed broadsword. The broadsword was covered in insect potion, and a slight crack appeared on the blade of the sword. The broadsword was no longer as sharp as before, but in order to corrode the broadsword, the human-faced moth had paid more than a thousand.

Behind Su was Ma pei. The black man was carrying a machine gun, and the injector on his back was nowhere to be seen. The fuel in the injector had been used up in the previous battle, and it had become a useless piece of metal. In order to lighten the load, Maple threw it away and took up his machine gun instead as a weapon.

All three of them looked more or less bedraggled, but Eva's short red hair was as radiant as ever. Even in the dark, it flutters like a flame in a windless base.

Surrounding the four of them were the corpses of Man-Faced Moths, hundreds of half-wormmen and even two Goddesses of Vengeance!

When Su pulled the sword out of one of the insect corpses, it meant that they had cleaned up the last wave of bugs near the entrance. Feng used a tricky method. Although he managed to avoid a few waves of bugs, when he was near the entrance, his method no longer worked. After the two live corpse archers were discovered, they were killed for the buggers and then thrown into the buggers. They were then gnawed clean by the face moth, leaving not even their bones behind.

Feng, who had found out that this method had failed, was just about to let everyone hide, when a goddess of vengeance crawled up from behind them. The Vengeance Goddess did not attack them directly, but instead used a biological bomb to attack the Man-Faced Moths in front of them. In this way, the man-faced moths attracted by the Goddess of Vengeance immediately rushed over, pulling the squadron that was squeezed between the two sides into the whirlpool of battle.

Now, this swarm of bugs was completely wiped out by the team's various tactics of luring the enemy, splitting up and attacking them forcefully. However, the team had also suffered a considerable loss. Although there were no casualties among the four of them, other than Eva, the other three had at least a hundred minor injuries or more on their bodies. Eva's biochemical army was officially bankrupt. Except for Gemini, all the other zombies were dead. As for Gemini, he only had half of his body left. If he was a normal person, he would have died from such an injury long ago.

Although Gemini could still move, his combat power had dropped by more than half. Right now, he was even weaker than an ordinary butcher.

Hearing Feng's words, Eva revealed a proud smile and said, ”That's the wave of the invader. It's done.” ”Hmm, not bad. I was right about him.”

”Done?” Feng said, ”Are you saying that Zero got rid of that guy? ”As expected of the captain, he actually killed someone with a higher rank.”

Eva smiled without saying a word. In his heart, he thought, if Lingcun were to be killed by that fellow with spikes all over his body, it would be equivalent to saying that he had no eyes. Luckily, Zero killed that guy. Up until now, this ”companion” was still considered qualified.

”Then should we wait until it's midnight before proceeding forward?” Ma Pei asked.

Feng lifted his foot from the corpse, which was still dripping with insect venom, and frowned. ”No, let's keep going. Even though he had killed that fellow, it would definitely consume a huge amount of his physical strength, and he might even be injured. If we stop now, we'll be wasting his time. So, let's go. Our target is the experimental diary in the fifth layer's base! ”

Seeing Feng walking towards the entrance with an imposing manner, Sue looked at Ma Pei in surprise. After Zero left, Feng's performance was very different from his usual appearance. Although they did not have the courage to kill, every decision they made was resolute and decisive. They were even more so than zero as they seemed like a team captain.

However, just as she was thinking this, Feng Feng, who was in front of her, suddenly slipped and fell to the ground. Although he bounced up in the next second, Feng could not help but curse at the bug corpse that tripped him, and even kicked it away with his foot. Looking at Feng, Suo Su thought that she must have been mistaken.

”What a playboy.”

Eve, at the end, sneered, and the twins beside her looked at her quizzically, but she didn't respond. But when she reached the entrance to the fifth floor, she pulled the black dragon from her back and held it in her hand. It had to be known that in the most intense battle, Eva had only attacked with a single fist and a kick from the west. She had not even used a single attack from the Black Dragon!

The safe passage was very quiet. It was as quiet as a grave, with no signs of life. As they got closer to the base on the 5th floor, the composition of the oxygen became lower and lower on the tactical helmet panel of Feng, while the content of the toxic substances kept increasing. When the symbol representing the poison showed a skull pattern that constantly flickered, Feng raised his hand to stop the team.

”Ma Pei, it's filled with poisonous gas. You don't have any tactical uniforms left, so why don't you wait for us at the exit? ” Feng Wan Chuan said.

Of the four, only Feng and Su can now use their tactical helmets to filter out toxins from the air. But not only had he lost his tactical helmet, but even his uniform had been badly damaged in the previous battle and could no longer be worn. Although Adepts had a far higher resistance to poisons than normal humans, the toxins in the fifth floor of the base were already at a level beyond what Ma Pei could handle.

Feng's words were all out of good intentions. ”As for you, you can stay on the helmet if you want.” After all, this is not your job. ”

”I don't want to be a fool up there,” Eve said, as she walked carelessly down the stairs past the maple.

Seeing that she had disappeared into the darkness under the stairs, Maple pointed at himself with a wry smile and said, ”It seems that I can only go up and be a fool.”

Feng patted his shoulder and said, ”Man, don't compare yourself to a pervert.”

Before he could finish, Eva's angry voice came from the darkness: ”Who's the pervert!”

Feng shrank his neck and made a helpless gesture.

In the end, Maple backed out. Feng was right, there was a huge gap between Eva and him. It meant that Eva could go into the gas without a care, but he couldn't. As far as Ma Pei knew, the reason why high-ranked Adepts were able to ignore poison was because they were able to use cell-level power to separate and dilute the toxins in the air until they were harmless to the body.

From the looks of it, Eva was not afraid of poison, which meant her strength was at least at the eighth step or even higher.

A powerhouse of the eighth step or above, there were already very few natural substances that could kill them. Therefore, calling them abnormal wasn't too excessive. In the world of high-level Adepts, the only people who could kill an Adept were those who could!

With a ”pa da” sound, Feng frowned as he stepped into the ice-cold water. Beneath his feet, ice water of extremely low temperature covered his knees. The current was still flowing slowly, which meant that the water level was still rising. Although the speed was very slow, it wouldn't be long before the base was flooded by ice water from who knows where.

This was probably the reason why the Human-Faced Moths had to migrate. Feng made a cautious gesture and walked towards the exit. The fifth floor's base was immediately reflected in Feng's eyes. The entire base had already been flooded by water, and floating in the water were all sorts of broken objects. There were even some insect corpses. The insect corpses were pushed against the wall by the water and piled up in the corners. And looking at the distant base, he could still see insect corpses floating over. The atmosphere was very strange.

Feng and the other two looked at each other, not knowing how these people died. If they were drowned, Maple did not believe it. The face moths, though they could not swim, would not drown in the water, but now they were dead, and God knows what had killed them.

As the body of an insect floated past Maple, she saw strange marks on the belly of the human-faced moth.