CHAPTER 790: CHAPTER 346: HIGH-ALTITUDE INTERCEPTION! (DOUBLE-LENGTH BONUS CHAPTER)

But at this moment, Qian Suxun’s voice came through the communicator: "Lin, be careful!"

Empty!

The moment the voice on the communicator fell, a massive boom sounded from outside the reinforced door, which was at least two meters tall. It caved inwards, creating a huge dent, and a broken alloy bearing shot directly at Lin Xian!

Lin Xian remained unmoved as the fractured bearing eerily halted in front of his power armor face shield.

KIKI’s eyes flashed brightly, throwing the cracked metal onto the ground, while Lin Xian sternly said, "Prepare!"

Even before Qian Suxun’s voice sounded, Chen Sixuan had preemptively caught the commotion outside, and the group was ready.

Catching his breath, Lin Xian realized that the reinforced door couldn’t withstand a second hit, so he used the Mechanical Heart to forcibly open it.

Boom!

The next instant, a giant axe hurled out from the passageway outside the reinforced door, powerfully chopping towards the group.

KIKI immediately used telekinesis to grab the axe mid-air. Just then, a tall shadow, entirely cloaked in an odd black leather outfit and wearing a top hat, stepped into the hall, its eyes blood-red. This monster was shrouded in a boiling corpse gas, with strong Spirit Vibration Values making the Soul Swinging Value Detector flash non-stop.

"Lin, two transport ships, one of them is on your path!"

"Got it!" Lin Xian replied coldly as drones unleashed dozens of pulse beams!

At this moment, the towering Red Man Gu suddenly swung its left arm forward, sending silvery waves through the air as if warping the atmosphere. The pulse beams fired by the Thunder Falcon Drone exploded violently upon contact, yet in the next moment, the Red Man Gu charged unharmed. Everyone then saw that under the top hat was a humanoid form resembling a blackened mummy. Its eyes glowed mechanically, and with its hands emitting a grayish-white glow, it rushed towards Lin Xian and the others with its fists.

Boom!

In a split second, a bizarre surge of corpse gas, accompanied by an energy shockwave, blasted out directly towards them.

However, the explosive energy collided with an invisible Defense Shield with hexagonal patterns, causing all airflow to bypass Lin Xian and his group.

The mechanical eyes of the Red Man Gu saw this and hesitantly scanned the scene.

"A shield, huh? I’ve got one too." Lin Xian’s body crackled with electricity as the AT Force Field Shield protected everyone. At the Red Man Gu’s moment of hesitation, a powerful force swept it up, hurling it like a bullet towards a distant wall. In an instant, the solid concrete wall caved in, scattering smoke and debris.

As KIKI made a move, Lu Xingchen quickly charged into action as well.

"You vile creature, taste the Heavenly Dao Divine Fire!"

He levitated and shot forward, propelling two blazing red fire pillars ahead as his hands manifested flames.

"Zhou Lian!"

Whoosh! In an instant, the entire shelter hall erupted with scorching flames, with boiling hot air bursting out. The two white-hot fire pillars struck the Red Man Gu directly. Just when everyone thought the monster was melting, Chen Sixuan suddenly noticed that the area engulfed by the flames was consistently emitting grayish-white corpse gas, with silver-scaled ripples quivering. She immediately said,

"It’s still alive!"

Lin Xian saw this too. Glancing at the time, he realized the tide wasn’t over. The intense commotion immediately triggered an eerie buzzing from the upper floors of the building, so he ordered Grace,

"Grace, block the stairwell!"

[Grace understands]

The tide was about to end. He needed the team to avoid being marked before the Monster Tide surged in, to minimize pressure.

At this time, a greenish light enveloped everyone as Shi Zhi deployed her Purification Ability.

KIKI used telekinesis and immediately warned Lu Xingchen: "Be careful; it can withstand your fire."

"Then I’ll intensify the flames!" Lu Xingchen, frustrated after spending a night in the darkness, lamented. If even the Abnormal Body could withstand his Heavenly Fire, what use was the title of Fire God?

Just after saying that, a chunk of concrete unexpectedly shot forward, directly hitting Lu Xingchen’s power armor helmet. The impact blacked out his vision, sending him flying backward and snuffing out his flames.

"Damn it..." Lu Xingchen hadn’t even finished swearing before he crashed into a wall. Fortunately, the power armor protected him; otherwise, the blow would have been unbearable.

KIKI didn’t even react when the monster suddenly threw the stone. Eyes turned to the wall, now glowing molten red, but the creature was nowhere to be seen.

The next instant, a powerful airflow struck from the side. Chen Sixuan swiftly sidestepped, firing an armor-piercing bullet into the shadows. A muffled piercing sound echoed as the bullet hit. A raspy guttural howl resonated from the air, while KIKI seized the moment to unleash a telekinetic force like a giant wall, sweeping through the shadows, instantly extracting the Red Man Gu and suspending it midair.

It was only now, under the illumination inside the hall, that everyone saw the Red Man Gu’s leather outfit had been entirely burned away by Brother Huo’s Big Fire. It was a being that looked about 2.5 meters tall, with robust skin akin to decaying iron. The most terrifying sight was its abdomen, shoulders, spine, and hindbrain filled with various metal implants, crudely sutured with metal. Gray-white corpse gas continuously seeped from it, causing Lin Xian’s information system to send misaligned signals.