Chapter 557: Carmic (2/2)

Sha Ya had never seen Ye Chong move with such deliberate care. She held her breath while Ye Chong worked.

Ye Chong lifted the grenade carefully in his hands and sent it sliding back down the firing chamber.

When the hatch of the firing chamber was closed, Ye Chong felt relaxed. Sha Ya could hear his breathing pace change. It took only a short while to modify the grenade, but Ye Chong was already sweating on his forehead.

Sha Ya knew the kind of person Ye Chong was. He did not panic even when fighting against a Level 8 shooter by himself. However, he was clearly nervous when handling those two test tubes. What could be so terrifying about the beautiful solutions in those test tubes?

Ye Chong ignored the sweat on his forehead and resumed typing on the control console.

”Target identification.” A red cross appeared on the screen. Ye Chong moved the red cross to the center of the sandscorpion colony.

”Target locked.”

Next, Sha Ya heard a low rumble from the firing chamber that Ye Chong opened earlier. She saw Ye Chong focusing on the screen, and followed suit.

There was an almost imperceptible flash at the center of the red cross. Sha Ya noticed the tiny flash of light on the screen.

”This must be the strange 'weapon' that Ye Chong slid down the firing chamber,” Sha Ya thought to herself. She watched the screen with anticipation.

Abruptly, a cloud of yellowish green smoke exploded in the center of the sandscorpion colony.

The thick smoke spread out quickly from the center. Sha Ya was surprised by how fast the smoke was spreading.

When Ye Chong saw the smoke, he immediately had the Spider retreat at full speed. The Spider jolted backwards.

In the next instant, the yellowish green smoke had engulfed all the sandscorpions. The Spider could not outrun the mist. Ye Chong immediately keyed in new commands for the Spider.

”Close all ventilation openings. Activate cabin oxygenation system. Pressurize the cabin.”

The Spider stood still as the mist finally reached it. The Hummingbirds were still in the sky, however, and the video feed from them informed them of what was happening outside.

The thick yellowish green mist unfurled on the ground like a monster, spreading at an alarming speed.

Both the Spider and the sandscorpion colony found themselves shrouded by the thick mist. It was impossible to see them from the sky, outside the mist.

Sha Ya was confused, but began to have an inkling of what was to come.

She stole a glance at Ye Chong. The man looked serious as he looked at the screen without a word.

Gradually, the mist began to subside. Xuan Ning awoke then. He rubbed the back of his neck and sighed. ”Oh my, what's with the soreness? Huh, there's a mist?” Xuan Ning was startled by the image on the screen. He straightened up immediately. ”Impossible. There is no mist in the Desert. Why is there a mist? And it's in a yellowish green color!”

He turned to the other two people in the pilot cabin in surprise. ”Did someone fart?” Ye Chong and Sha Ya simply ignored him while he wallowed in embarrassment.

The mist was thinning out. Ye Chong was happy to find that the mist was behaving as he expected.

The mist subsided as quickly as it first appeared. Soon, it was gone without a trace.

”Wah!” Sha Ya looked terrible. Her eyes betrayed the shock she was feeling. She doubled over and vomited.

Xuan Ning looked pale. He watched the screen in horror and muttered, ”This, this is impossible …”

All round them was a five-kilometer radius of blood and dissolved flesh. Nothing in sight was left alive. The sand was covered with mushy insect bodies. The blood was quickly absorbed into the sand beneath it, forming a layer of dark red crust on the ground. Above the layer of crust lay hundreds and thousands of sandscorpion exoskeletons. Only the toughest parts of the exoskeletons remained, which was the sting on their tails!

Sha Ya threw up violently. Despite her long experience in combat, she had never seen or heard anything quite so bloody and devastating. The pilot cabin was filled with the stench of vomit.

Ye Chong was unaffected by it. He tapped a few times on the controls and the air inside the cabin was freshened up. The vomit was cleaned up by an automatic cleaning machine.

Sha Ya straightened up, her face white as a sheet. She stared at Ye Chong in horror.

Sha Ya felt a deep terror inside her. The man in front of her was like the Devil in all the legends she had heard of! No, he was even scarier than that! If this ”weapon” was used on humans … Sha Ya felt goosebumps all over her. She seemed to understand now why Ye Chong had nothing to be afraid of, not even a Level 9 shooter. After all, what was a shooter compared to this?

It was a terrifying thought!

Xuan Ning was uncharacteristically quiet, but his sharp eyes revealed how shaken he felt!

If this weapon was ever used on Su City …

A flash of killing intent came and went from Xuan Ning.

Ye Chong ignored the horror of his two companions. Personally, he thought that this fell short compared to the time when he used the Green Tempest. This time around, he did not have the materials to formulate the Green Tempest. Besides, the wind conditions and humidity in the Desert were not suitable. Hence, he opted for the Shavill root extract and Wanda extract. When mixed together, these two solutions produced a very poisonous and corrosive gas called Carmic, which meant ”to dissolve”. [1]

Even so, Ye Chong had used this combination with great care, since both solutions were highly unstable and very dangerous to handle.

Fortunately, the weapon worked perfectly. For a person like Ye Chong, who cared only about results, it did not matter if he ended up with a disgusting and bloody scene.