CHAPTER 346: CHAPTER 343 [BARRIER?]

Chapter Three Hundred Forty-Three [Barrier Shield?]

The mutated drivers all rushed out of their vehicles, including the one who had killed the last two armed men.

When the Gatling’s metal storm had torn apart the bodies of four mutated drivers, the spinning of the gun barrel stopped.

The ammo belt was exhausted!

Vanel, seeing the mutated drivers that had already rushed up to him, had no time to reload. As he retreated quickly, he pulled out his handgun and fired.

BANG!

BANG! BANG! BANG...

The mutated drivers were incredibly fast; to shoot them in the head while they were running wasn’t easy. After Vanel emptied a magazine and finally shattered the head of one, he was out of bullets!

The remaining two mutated drivers had already pounced on Vanel, and the Bear Warrior let out a low growl!

"URA!!!!!!"

His muscles began to swell wildly, and then he actively grappled one and rolled out with a mutated driver in his clutches... the second one pounced onto him shortly after...

At that moment, the bodies of the four armed men who had been killed earlier on the ground suddenly began to shakily rise, contorting with strange movements as they got up...

Then, in unison, they pounced towards Vanel...

Even the dead technician inside the vehicle let out a low growl as he crawled out from within...

Vanel was finally overwhelmed by the successive onslaught of the mutants...

One... two... three... four...

Chen Nuo was almost at the edge of the base!

The outline of the convoy in the distance was already clearly visible, and the continuous sounds of gunfire, along with screams and roars, only made Chen Nuo’s heart feel even heavier!

As he was running with all his might, Chen Nuo suddenly sensed a strong premonition of danger!

He suddenly reined in all his strength, forcefully slowing his pace in an instant.

And just then, abruptly, the ice plain right in front of Chen Nuo’s feet seemed to be lifted by a tremendous force!

Over ten meters wide, a huge section of the ice plain was lifted entirely as if something underground was bursting forth. Chen Nuo, like a small insect on a plate, instantly felt the ground shake under his feet, and his body was thrown into the air.

At that moment, a large section of the ice plain was completely overturned, bearing down on Chen Nuo who immediately leapt backward...

Behind him, a thunderous BOOM echoed...

When the ice plain overturned, it even flattened a bunker outpost at the edge of the base!

Chen Nuo landed swiftly, finding before him a pit more than ten meters wide on the ground!

Below there was a dark passageway...

As Chen Nuo was about to leap over it, he immediately sensed an intense danger and did not hesitate to retreat swiftly...

BOOM!!

A Spiritual Storm collided head-on!

Chen Nuo instantly activated his Mentality Spike while unleashing his spiritual power at full force to resist.

But the strength of this unfamiliar Spiritual Storm still caused Chen Nuo to lose his focus for half a second. When he stepped back continuously, the pure, unadulterated desire for "slaughter" and "attack" that filled the Spiritual Storm shocked him to the core!

At this time, Captain and Kamisou Ichiro, who were behind Chen Nuo, had both stopped in their tracks, staring in amazement at the drastic change in front of them.

All of a sudden, Chen Nuo twisted his head and bellowed, "Retreat!!!!"

BUZZ!!!!

Following a buzzing sound from the tunnel of the pit, countless dense things surged out en masse!

In an instant, Chen Nuo "saw" clearly what these things looked like.

They had flat and irregular bodies, each no more than half a meter tall, but they had eight long limb tentacles like an octopus or spider, their scuttling speed was astonishing!

More importantly, under the light, they bizarrely displayed a near-translucent appearance, as if their bodies could refract light, achieving some sort of "invisibility"!

Dense and numerous, hundreds surged out, more and more...

Chen Nuo took a deep breath as his spiritual power erupted wildly. Several Spiritual Force Tentacles unfolded into a sharp Mentality Cutting net, which hurtled out with a WHOOSH.

The monsters at the forefront were instantly shredded into pieces by the power of the Mentality Cutting.

Chen Nuo let out a sigh of relief—at least these things could be killed.

But the very next moment, Chen Nuo was stunned!

After the dozen or so monsters in the front were sliced into pieces, the creatures coming from behind suddenly swarmed over the broken "corpses", feasting on them in a frenzy.

Quickly after finishing their feast, these monsters grew noticeably larger and then rushed towards Chen Nuo again.

"Break through!!"

Chen Nuo made the call without hesitation!

With such a group of ghostly things in the base, staying here was seeking death. Breaking out to find the convoy and then evacuating the area was the only sensible course of action!

But at the same time, Nolan’s roaring could be heard from behind.

"Get back! Everyone, retreat!! Let’s gather at the command center module!!!"

Retreat my ass!! The first thought that came to Chen Nuo’s mind was this.

At this time, he certainly didn’t feel like dying here with the people of the Octopus Monster.

"Captain!" Chen Nuo yelled. The Captain, understanding, ignored Nolan’s voice and quickly ran over to Chen Nuo.

Chen Nuo shouted, "To the left! We’ll circle around and run out of the base first!" The Captain had already swiftly changed directions.

Unexpectedly, Kamisou Ichiro was still closely following them.

The Captain couldn’t help but glance at the Neon man. Huh? Are you afraid of dying too?

Huh? Why did I use the word ’too’?

The three of them converged together, with Chen Nuo still leading at the front. They quickly circumvented the pit on the ground while Chen Nuo kept throwing out Mentality Cutting, shredding the approaching monsters and using their shattered bodies to attract subsequent creatures, buying time as they feasted.

Chen Nuo immediately shouted, "Captain!"

Without a moment’s hesitation, the Captain frantically activated his power. The edges of the pit on the ground began to crack, ice shattering and turning into a cloud of water vapor. This vapor rushed wildly into the pit’s tunnel. As the pit continued to crumble, a torrent of vapor poured in and instantly froze over...

The tunnel of the pit had finally been temporarily sealed off!

Upon reaching the very edge of the base, although having circled around dozens of meters and reaching the side of the distant convoy...

Chen Nuo felt a sudden unease about the direction of the base perimeter...

He took a deep breath and released a Spiritual Force Tentacle directly in front of him...

"Fuck!" Chen Nuo cursed softly and abruptly stopped, pulling the Captain to a halt.

"Wait a second!"

"?" The Captain turned to look at Chen Nuo.

Chen Nuo also glanced at the Captain and pointed ahead, "There’s something there..."

The Captain immediately understood, took a deep breath, and with a shake of his arms, countless pieces of ice and snow shattered and floated up from the ground, forming clusters of ice crystals that whistled vigorously towards the area outside the base perimeter.

At the same time, Chen Nuo immediately followed up with another Spiritual Force Tentacle extending outward...

But what happened next left both of them stunned.

After the dense swarm of ice crystals flew toward the edge of the base, they were suddenly shredded into pieces in mid-air by an invisible force!

Meanwhile, Chen Nuo’s Spiritual Force Tentacle fared even worse; it was torn apart by an invisible force and rapidly devoured!

After the Spiritual Force Tentacle was torn apart and devoured, Chen Nuo’s Consciousness Space immediately reacted. The residual sensation enabled him to capture more information.

At the base perimeter, a thick invisible barrier had appeared, with wild and irregular forces ripping back and forth!

This barrier was very thick. Just before his tentacle was torn apart, Chen Nuo distinctly felt that the thickness of the barrier was at least three to five meters, perhaps even more.

What the hell!

Chen Nuo’s expression changed, and he suddenly saw a frozen single-person snow vehicle parked outside a nearby base module. He went up to it and grabbed it!

He lifted the snow vehicle, weighing over a hundred kilograms, and threw it towards the base perimeter!

Then...

With a BOOM, the metallic snow vehicle quickly disintegrated in mid-air, falling to the ground in numerous shattered parts...

Chen Nuo and the Captain looked at each other in dismay. Their expressions truly changed then.

Chen Nuo pulled out the pistol from his waist and started firing without hesitation at something in the distance.

He emptied an entire magazine, firing more than ten bullets in different directions.

But what frustrated Chen Nuo was that after small ripples appeared in the air, all the bullets were completely crushed, and then...

Not a single one could cross the outer perimeter of the base!

A term flashed through Chen Nuo’s mind: A barrier?!

I think... I know why this place can maintain such a drastically low temperature compared to the outside world...

Chen Nuo took a deep breath, "Captain, it seems we can’t get out!"

The Captain’s face was ashen.

Chen Nuo went over and grabbed the Captain, already thinking about triggering his "Teleport" ability...

But at that moment, Kamisou Ichiro from Neon suddenly said quickly, "They’re in trouble!"

He pointed to his headset.

A thought struck Chen Nuo.

Through the headset, Nolan’s voice shouted, "Wizard! We need you!!"

Nolan was already leading people in a mad dash towards the command module, and behind him... the warehouse module had been completely ripped apart!

Monsters surged out of the tunnel under the floor of the living quarters, swarming out!

The armed personnel were retreating and desperately firing, their dense volley of bullets covering the oncoming monsters. However, there were simply too many of them!

Nolan suddenly turned around, grabbed an armed personnel member, and ripped off the other’s tactical backpack, "Blow up the warehouse! Bury them!!"

As he spoke, he took out a string of cluster grenades from the bag, ripped off the pins, and threw them violently into the warehouse.

The surrounding armed personnel, still retreating and firing, also threw their grenades.

For a moment, the warehouse was filled with a barrage of explosions. Many monsters were torn to shreds while their kin frenziedly swarmed over to feast—this act actually blocked and delayed the emergence of more monsters.

Nolan roared, "Run!!"

He was the first to run back, while the armed personnel shot at the few monsters that managed to run out. At the same time, Rebecca picked up a slow-moving technician and carried him on her shoulder, retreating rapidly.

Just then, from a distance within the base, a low growl sounded!

A figure soared into the sky, leaping up to about ten meters in height before swiftly flying towards them!

The Wizard!

"The warehouse! Bury them!!" Nolan shouted.

The Wizard in the sky, like a puppeteer controlling marionettes, deftly wiggled his fingers. Countless Spiritual Force Tentacles immediately enveloped the tattered warehouse module, which quickly emitted a mournful groan, signaling its impending collapse.

Steel plates of composite material twisted, and structural supports deconstructed and crumbled in an instant. The module, like a distorted cardboard box, was completely crushed!

The monsters within were squashed. The collapsing module and the frozen topsoil then filled the gaping hole in the ground.

The few monsters that sporadically ran out screeched as they lunged at the armed personnel, but suddenly...

Spiritual Force Tentacles appeared, effortlessly tearing or twisting the monsters apart as they grabbed hold of them.

As the last few monsters were crushed, Chen Nuo slowly lowered his hands and walked over to Nolan.

The Wizard glanced at Chen Nuo from afar, raising an eyebrow, "Impressive spiritual power proficiency, Mr. Anderson."

"Thanks for the compliment, Lord Wizard."

"I didn’t expect the Captain to have such a powerful member of the Mentality Series in his ranks. That move just now, had the mark of a Destroyer, didn’t it?"

The Wizard stroked his chin.