Chapter 79: Chapter 79

Second Dragon’s eyes turned red with urgency. After emptying his rifle bullets, he actually held a plain knife and leaped down from above, recklessly wanting to use his life to drag down the fusion body and create an opportunity for Huang Sheng to fire the rocket.

But what surprised everyone was that when the fusion body faced the lunging Second Dragon, it actually stopped abruptly, its body convulsing as it turned to flee.

No, it could clearly sweep Second Dragon away directly or devour him, but why change direction?

"Zhang Can, Zhang Can, I know it's you. Stay here, stay here for me!"

Second Dragon chased after it like a madman. When he ran to the edge of the wall, he used all his strength to throw out the plain knife.

The blade spun and smashed against the fusion body's back, but didn't even scratch the surface.

"Zhang Can, it really is Zhang Can!"

"He's a fusion body, he's become a fusion body!"

The face was full of pain, eyes tightly closed, only opening a crack when Second Dragon shouted.

In just the blink of an eye, the fusion body completely disappeared into the cracks between buildings, leaving behind a street full of militia warriors with eyes splitting with rage.

Everyone understood that when this monster appeared again, it would be at full health.

The ammunition just wasted, the fallen brothers, and Inspector Cheng...

Big Dragon suddenly turned his head. Just as he was about to roar for someone to rescue him, he saw a figure staggering to sit up from the garbage pile.

"Don't, don't chase. First consolidate the battle line!"

Cheng Ye's voice carried hoarseness. The dizziness from the blast wave impact was still churning in his mind.

When he had just been swept away by the shock wave, his head was spinning, but his body couldn't feel any pain at all.

The strange feeling intertwined together, plunging him into a state that was half-awake and half-unconscious, half-dizzy and half-not.

Well, to describe it in gaming terminology.

The whole person was clearly conscious but couldn't make any movements.

Fortunately, this state didn't last long. As he removed Iron Body, severe pain stimulated his nerves, and his body quickly regained sensation.

"Captain, don't move!"

Zhu Xiang was the first to rush out from the battle line, carrying a simple medical kit in his hand, completely ignoring the spitting fusion body that might attack again from the shadows.

Only after pulling away the garbage on Cheng Ye's body did he finally breathe a sigh of relief.

Although the battle armor was damaged in many places, it hadn't completely cracked. Cheng Ye's breathing was also relatively stable, not like he was severely injured.

Taking out the red medicine from his side pocket and swallowing it in one gulp, rich heat flowed down his throat, dispelling some of the churning pain.

To charge Iron Body with energy, he could only endure the discomfort and struggle to stand up.

"Sir, that monster is Zhang Can. He's become a fusion body. He's taking revenge on us!"

Big Dragon also rushed over, supporting him with one hand, his expression bewildered and lost.

Cheng Ye was stunned for a moment.

He had vaguely heard someone shouting a name but hadn't been able to hear clearly what it was.

"Is that the young man who wanted to leave the community?"

"It's him, it's him. He's become a fusion body and come back to take revenge on us!"

Big Dragon clenched his fists. "If I had known earlier, I should have shot this bastard!"

Unfortunately, there was no "if I had known earlier."

Cheng Ye was slightly dazed. He had even thought of those people released from the warehouse, but just hadn't thought it would be Zhang Can.

No, that wasn't right. The two had only met face to face and hadn't even spoken a word. How could there be such strong negative obsession that he had to kill him to vent his hatred?

But at this moment, it was clearly not the time to investigate the reasons deeply.

"Don't worry about me. Quickly go reorganize the defense line and distribute ammunition!"

Arranging for Big Dragon to consolidate the battle line, Cheng Ye took out the defense communicator. Fortunately, it hadn't been smashed. The screen was displaying the fusion body's real-time position and images:

A tube building community on the verge of being overrun. Zhang Can leaped down from above, his three remaining tentacles brutally grabbing infected bodies and stuffing them into his huge mouthpart.

Any dissatisfied infected body that lunged at him was swept away by one tentacle strike, making the survivors in the community stare in amazement, thinking the infected bodies were having internal strife.

In just over ten seconds, hundreds of infected bodies surrounding the community fell into chaos under Zhang Can's frenzied devouring.

And Cheng Ye also noticed the relationship between devouring and recovery.

"His recovery requires eating more and more. This means the ability also has limits!"

At the beginning, when Zhang Can was shot a few times by him, grabbing one infected body could complete all repairs.

But now, he needed to devour at least five infected bodies to barely heal one wound.

The tentacles on his back required even more. After devouring more than ten, new tentacles still hadn't grown.

"So... this is actually a war of attrition?"

Catching the key to victory, Cheng Ye stood up, no longer feeling much pain.

This made him immediately realize the correct usage of Iron Body.

"Since I can't feel pain during battle, if I could stack the thickest armor and infinitely pile up defense, wouldn't I be able to withstand all attacks?"

As the thought arose, a deafening buzz suddenly came from overhead.

Cheng Ye instinctively looked up and saw a transport drone seven or eight times the size of an inspection drone pass through the gaps between buildings at low altitude. Its metal cabin door opened, precisely dropping a silver-gray box.

[Supply has been delivered. Please verify badge to accept]

There was still a supply?

Cheng Ye was stunned for a moment and took out the defense communicator. There were no new prompts on it.

But intuition told him that this box of supplies must have a direct connection with the person who had sent him messages.

Was it the inspection station?

Or some faction from the inner city?

"Can't worry about that much. Future matters for future consideration."

Only by surviving would he be qualified to ponder future matters.

Zhang Can was constantly recovering by devouring infected bodies. There was no time for him to think more.

The badge swiped past, and the supply box opened with a sound.

A set of gold-red battle armor came into view. The material was extremely similar to the battle armor on his body, yet it revealed a more fierce metallic luster.

Even through a layer of rubber gloves, when Cheng Ye touched it, his fingertips could still feel the warm, smooth texture transmitted from the armor's surface, as if it contained some special energy.

The defense communicator sent a prompt. He picked it up for a glance, and his pupils suddenly contracted.

[Fire Lotus Battle Armor, forged from transcendent material 'Lotus Steel,' can absorb direct kinetic impact]

[Price: 2800 contribution points]

[Already deducted in advance from your account. Please spray and wear according to instructions]

"Battle armor forged from transcendent materials?"

Cheng Ye's eyebrows jumped sharply, and irrepressible wild joy instantly spread through his heart.

As for the price and deduction, at this moment he had thrown it all to the back of his mind.

Zhang Can could return with a vengeance at any time. Now, let alone 2800 points, what about 28,000 points?

He could borrow as much as possible. It would be best if he could borrow a set of divine equipment and let Zhang Can see what was called a "loan war god."

"Come a bit more. Can you deduct from my account?"

Unfortunately, the defense communicator gave no prompt.

Cheng Ye could only shake his head and give up. He grabbed the compatible removal spray and sprayed it on his body armor, beginning to change equipment.

Amazingly, although this Fire Lotus Battle Armor was clearly not forged according to his body type, after putting it on, it fit better than his previous equipment. A comforting warm current seeped in through the armor gaps, as if fusing with his body.

His eyes suddenly lit up. He also saw three brick-like blocks at the bottom of the box, with a palm-sized remote control placed beside them.

['Restrainer' biological sticky bomb. After throwing, it can automatically adhere to organisms within a one-meter radius. Remote detonation]

[Three pieces need to detonate simultaneously to kill an advanced fusion body]

[Price: 145 contribution points each]

[Already deducted in advance from your account. Please stay ten meters away after adhesion is complete before detonating]

"There really is more?"

Grabbing the sticky bombs and hanging them on the side of his battle armor, the heavy feeling transmitted. Cheng Ye experienced the charm of being a pay-to-win warrior for the first time.

It was simply too awesome!

Zhang Can could devour infected bodies to become stronger, but behind him was an entire Happiness City.

Not only could it monitor positions in real-time, it could also provide equipment bonuses.

[Target fusion body detected to have completed repairs. Please prepare for second battle]

[Fusion body No. 2 has re-entered within one thousand meters. Position: side-rear 67 degrees]

Cheng Ye took a deep breath, took out red medicine and consumed it, then took a fierce inhale of blue medicine.

As a crisp breath rushed straight to his mind, the dizziness quickly receded. He grabbed Thunderbolt-1 and directly switched the deer rounds to explosive rounds.

He absolutely couldn't let this fusion body escape again. Now it was time for the decisive battle.

If they continued consuming , the ammunition brought from the supply point would soon be exhausted, and Zhang Can definitely wouldn't give the team a chance to open the next supply point.

Once only cold weapons remained, this battle would definitely be lost!

In less than half a minute, under real-time drone surveillance, that disappeared spitting fusion body finally appeared.

Seeing Cheng Ye in gold-red battle armor charging toward it without dodging or avoiding, it was clearly stunned for a moment, then let out an angry howl.

Almost instinctively, roars more deafening than the howl burst from everyone's throats.

Just like when suppressing Zhang Can at the electronics factory complex, the roars of mortals actually once again overwhelmed the fusion body's transcendent ability!

At the same time, accumulated firepower suddenly erupted, completely covering the spitting fusion body.

Unlike Zhang Can who could withstand handgun bullets with his flesh, this fusion body's epidermis was far from that tough. It was instantly shot with three or four large holes that couldn't heal.

It howled in pain, but what made it tremble even more was the gold-red figure that had already rushed over.

Boom boom, boom boom!

Four explosive rounds shot from Thunderbolt-1's muzzle, precisely blocking all escape routes.

At the same time, a silver-white high-explosive grenade was also thrown.

Explosion blast waves surged forward. Cheng Ye instinctively knelt on one knee to resist, already prepared to be blown away again.

But what surprised him was that the Fire Lotus Battle Armor actually emitted red light, forming a visible red arc in the shock wave!

The arc only persisted for an instant before shattering with a roar, but the remaining impact force only made him roll twice on the ground before stopping steadily.

This was the power of 2800 contribution points?

The fusion body screamed and fell to the ground. With its remaining intelligence, it simply couldn't understand why humans dared to charge up. How could these weak creatures that should be cowering behind cover possess such powerful defense and lethality!

Unfortunately, the holes all over its body were no longer sufficient to support it escaping and devouring to recover.

It could only watch helplessly as the gold-red figure stood up and walked over with determined steps.

A middle-aged man's face struggled out from the twisted starfish-shaped body. Between his eyebrows and eyes was some honest simplicity. No one could connect this face with the terrifying fusion body before them.

Seeing Cheng Ye approaching step by step, its murky left eye opened with effort, and a trace of relief actually flashed across its face, "Kill quickly, kill me!"

The combat pistol's muzzle spat flames, leaving a fierce hole in the middle-aged man's forehead.

The fusion body that had been struggling the previous second suddenly stiffened. The still-twitching tentacles and appendages simultaneously dropped, completely motionless.

[Target fusion body has entered within two hundred meters. Position: directly above 11 degrees]

The defense communicator sent another prompt.

At this moment, more than twenty surveillance drones were already floating in the sky around Hongguang Hotel, their dense buzzing sounds converging into a wave of sound.

Poor Zhang Can thought hiding in the cracks between buildings could deceive heaven and cross the sea, not knowing that every movement was clearly captured in real-time footage.

Following the alley wall, Cheng Ye rapidly retreated, pulling out an explosive magazine and inserting it into Thunder-1.

These were the last four explosive rounds.