The Witch's Taste

Chapter 381 Suspected Accident
At noon the next day, the three nearby airports were completely captured and occupied, and good news and bad news came to the command center in the rear.

Good news: Energy reserves found in warehouse near airport.

Bad news: They're all heavy-ion batteries.

As antimatter energy application technology matures, heavy ion energy technology, which lags far behind in all aspects, has withdrawn from the stage of history... but it has not completely withdrawn.

Almost all the patents for the Federation's antimatter energy technology belong to the Bakht family, which results in huge military expenditures for upgrading.The wealthy federal sector can afford this money, while the relatively poor can only make do with old equipment. Therefore, it is understandable that the pirate fleet in the ruined sector is still using heavy ion energy. This proves that they are very senior. Pirates have been living here since long time ago.

There's a fart!
These batteries are not unusable. The ship does have three heavy ion engines, but their energy storage efficiency is too low.If used for long-distance jumps, it can only replenish a few percent of the points.

We have to find other energy sources.

Not long after, Nishikawa Mie’s ghouls also sent news:
In the bottom passage of the ruins, a suspected secret treasure trove of pirates was found.

This can be considered a traditional feature of pirates.Due to the large number of people, complex factions, and endless intrigues, there will naturally be a distinction between public and private treasury... The public treasury refers to the overall inventory of pirates, and the private treasury refers to a certain pirate faction, or simply a warlord himself. Hidden in a small warehouse.

In the warehouse, a valuable cache of antimatter was discovered, firmly locked inside the cylindrical battery compartment with a restraint field.

Considering that the pirates do not have antimatter application equipment adapted to it, it is most likely that they plundered this thing from a certain merchant ship, and then it was secretly concealed by each warlord, intending to use it to exchange for more with black market merchants. A lot of money - considering the instability of antimatter battery compartments, these things tend to be sold quickly, so you're really lucky to find one that hasn't been sold yet.

Of course, the reason why the ghouls recognize this thing is because it has a metal nameplate on it, so they need to send personnel to confirm it as soon as possible and transport the battery out of the underground warehouse.

After hearing the news, Chen Ziang was also in high spirits. He quickly took Xia Zili and several members of the guard and hurried towards the subway station.

In colonial times, the city had an extensive metro network beneath it.As the corporate war destroyed everything, it was completely abandoned by federal capital. The subway tunnels became a place for gangs and pirates to hide supplies, and the underground military facilities were not destroyed by orbital bombing.

But they can't guard against the sneak attacks of ghouls.

It was pitch dark in the subway tunnel, the lighting system had been blown out long ago, and the pirates obviously had no interest in repairing it.The guards held up their rifles to clear the way ahead. Chen Ziang and Xia Zili were guarded in the middle, feeling a sticky feeling on the soles of their boots.

It is flesh and blood.

Obviously, this tunnel is not empty, but the enemies have been attacked and killed by ghouls.

The reason why no corpses were seen, only a pool of blood that had not yet dried up, was obviously that the corpses had been used... To a certain extent, the war efficiency of lower-ranking races such as ghouls is indeed much higher than that of humans.

If it weren't for the series of problems that high spiritual vision would bring, Chen Ziang would really want to recruit some lower-level races to protect the starship humans, and he wouldn't feel bad if he died in the end.

Whether these lower races will die is still a question.

When I arrived at the location reported by the ghoul, I saw Mie Nishikawa standing boredly at the door. There were no monsters around.

The guards entered the room to make sure there were no traps or ambushes.Chen Ziang stayed by the door, talking to Nishikawa Meihui:
"Confirmed it's an antimatter battery compartment?"

"I don't know." Nishikawa Mie said boredly, "That's what it says on the nameplate, but I don't know how much energy is left in it. And according to the pirates guarding here, the antimatter battery compartment needs a restraint field to prevent it from exploding, but the pirates also I don’t know how to charge the restraint field.”

"In other words, this thing could explode at any time. If I were you, I wouldn't come here personally."

"But there is nothing we can do." Chen Ziang shrugged and said, "The soldiers have no way to confirm the authenticity of this thing."

Nishikawa Meihui returned to the Mandala Magic Sword. Someone from the guards came out and said that there were no traps inside. So Chen Ziang and Xia Zili walked into the warehouse. The latter stood in front of the antimatter battery compartment and stared at the dial above carefully. data.

"It should be true." She turned around and said, "There is no problem with the restraint field. The power is above 90% and can be used."

"How many antimatter battery compartments like this do we need?" Chen Ziang asked in confirmation.

"The best is 10." Xia Zili replied, "The minimum is 4, but it's very likely that you won't be able to walk after you reach your destination."

"Then I can only hope that there will be more pirates like this." Chen Ziang joked, and ordered the engineers in the guard, "Ship it out..."

Before he finished speaking, the ground beneath his feet suddenly shook.

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There are many possibilities for ground shaking, such as earthquakes, orbital bombing, close-range explosives, etc.

But no matter what the possibility was, the well-trained escorts responded professionally at the first opportunity - surrounding Chen Ziang and pressing him down.Because the body is the best human shield buffer, whether it is facing bullets, collapsed containers, broken steel bars, or anything else.

But there was one person whose speed was even better. Xia Zili arrived at Chen Ziang's side almost instantly. The unknown armor from [Feng Rang Ritual] spread from her body, and then crawled along her arm and onto Chen Ziang's body. It was wrapped in less than 0.1 seconds.

Immediately afterwards, a terrifyingly violent flower of explosion bloomed enthusiastically in the warehouse.

The explosion tore apart everyone's bodies immediately, as well as the surrounding concrete and steel bars. The shock wave penetrated outwards and reached the subway tunnel. Countless smoke and dust violently collapsed, like a flood opening to release water.

Chen Ziang was caught off guard. He could only detect some strong force impacting him, but something blocked the impact for him. The remaining force transmitted almost shattered the internal organs in his abdomen.

He immediately started the Song of the Drowned.

The living dead is not afraid of impact, or in other words, the living dead is not afraid of anything. He doesn't even feel any pain.

After almost twenty seconds, the high temperature and smoke of the explosion finally dissipated. Chen Ziang tried to get up, but failed because something was holding him down.

It was a charred corpse.

After releasing the Song of the Drowned, he looked upward carefully. Behind the body were broken cement remains. It was obvious that the warehouse had collapsed due to the explosion.

There was no pain in the body, which meant that nothing penetrated the body.But being buried in the rubble is very dangerous, because the debris above is likely to collapse again... By the way, how is Zili?

Before she could worry about Xia Zili, an angry roar sounded next to her.

Countless wreckage... Countless wreckage fell. They were instantly dissolved, melted, or even vaporized in the boiling blood. As these load-bearing materials were destroyed, more wreckage above the head staggered and fell. Down, and then caught in the extremely hot blood.

Chen Ziang tried to stand up, and the weight on him disappeared.He saw that a hole had appeared above his head, because the entire ceiling had been penetrated, and no more debris would hit him.

The charred corpses around him were gone, and there were no containers or containers. There was only a huge, shapeless monster.The flesh and blood all over his body is squirming crazily, and countless nerve bundles are flying in the sky, constantly beating the surrounding walls like fire whips, beating them until they are completely shattered and turned into powder.

Chen Ziang tried to find human traces on the monster's body, but the more he stared at the monster, the more strangely his spirit became trance-like.He saw that countless eyes seemed to be opened in the flesh and blood, and the huge eyeballs were spinning around, and then suddenly they all stared at him.

A certain emotion spread from the bottom of my heart like a virus. It was some kind of weird, indescribable fear, because the whole body began to secretly riot, hands, feet, knees, nails, hair, every cell seemed to be screaming, Trying to get rid of the commands and constraints of the brain and spinal nerves.

They are rebelling.

The body seems to be melting, while the spirit is falling into a violent whirlpool, like a drowning person who cannot swim, and his consciousness is gradually dragged into the darkness.

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When Suzuna Tsukinomiya arrived at the scene, she saw Xia Zili kneeling on the ground.

Countless flesh-and-blood flying insects were circling around randomly, trying to attack anyone who came close, but how could these stop Tsukimiya Suzuna?She just waved her hand impatiently and drove away all the flying insects.

After she saw clearly that the person being held in Xia Zili's arms was Chen Zi'ang, who didn't know whether he was alive or dead, Tsukimiya Suzuna felt her body go weak and almost collapsed to the ground.

I wanted to rush forward, but I didn't have any strength. My body seemed to be surrounded by huge grief.Endless power was injected into her body, making her feel overwhelmed and unable to control herself.

Tsukimiya Suzuna finally broke free from the huge pressure. She didn't know when she was already kneeling on the ground. She just rolled forward and crawled forward, came to Xia Zili's side, and stretched out her hand to detect Chen Ziang's breath.

Her hand was grabbed by Xia Zili.

Steel-like strength came from her wrist, clamping her wrist tightly like an iron hoop, but Tsukimiya Suzuna had no intention of resisting. Her eyes noticed that Chen Ziang's chest was rising and falling steadily.

The senior's life is not in danger.

Such thoughts passed through my mind, like a balloon filled with water being punctured, and the pressure poured out of my heart like water and disappeared.

She seemed to have lost the ability to speak for a moment, and just stared blankly at Chen Ziang's face. Suddenly she heard Xia Zili say quietly:
"Suzuna."

"Maybe your suspicion...is right."

(End of this chapter)