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Chapter 154 Flesh and Blood Furnace! Overload Slaughter!
Chen Qi held the rifle, a wisp of smoke still rising from the muzzle.
He swallowed hard, staring at the heavy plate armor and black blood scattered all over the ground, unable to utter a single word for a long time.
Marlow poked his head out from behind the stone door, his two pointed ears twitching.
"Boss, you...you've gotten stronger again, haven't you?" Marlowe cautiously approached and kicked the flattened horse head on the ground with his toe.
This was a warhorse's head encased in fine steel armor, which was crushed into a flat iron disc by being trampled.
"Enough with the nonsense, hurry up and loot the corpse." Jiang Ming shook the blood off his sword and casually stuck the [Fire and Thunder Prison] into the stone slab at his feet.
Upon hearing the words "looting corpses," Marlowe's eyes lit up instantly, and he slithered into the pile of scrap metal like an eel.
The system notification sounds kept flashing on Jiang Ming's retina.
[Defeat two Fallen Paladins (Lv.27 Elite) who are significantly stronger than you, gaining 56000 experience points.]
Current level: Lv.15. Experience progress: 61000/100000.
Jiang Ming glanced at the progress bar.
This place is disgusting, but it does give out a lot of experience points.
At this rate, I'll definitely reach Lv.16 before clearing the monastery.
"Boss! We've struck it rich!" Marlowe laboriously dragged a few items out from under the plate armor and placed them in front of Jiang Ming as if to show off his success.
Three sets of severely deformed [damaged steel plate armor].
Several fragments of a broken steel lance.
The most striking feature is a cloud of gray mist sealed within a transparent crystal, within which a painful, distorted human face can be vaguely seen.
【The Headless Resentment of the Fallen Knight (Blue - Rare Material)】
Jiang Ming picked up the crystal, and a chilling sensation spread from his fingertips throughout his body.
"Brother Jiang, what's the use of these scrap iron plates? They're too heavy, we can't carry them away." Chen Qi walked over and kicked a piece of plate armor on the ground.
"Who says I can't take it with me?" Jiang Ming smirked and pulled out the two [refined steel torture device shells] that had been found when he was forging iron earlier from his storage card.
These items together make an excellent material for crafting heavy armor.
Jiang Ming's current defense mainly relies on his Silver Knight full armor, but in dungeons where levels are often 25 or higher, the Silver armor's defensive capabilities are already somewhat inadequate.
Synthesis talent activated.
[Steel Torture Frame *2] + [Torn Steel Plate Armor *3] + [The Headless Resentment of the Fallen Knight] = ?
An extremely dense, blood-red light suddenly erupted between Jiang Ming's hands.
The light was more dazzling than any previous synthesis, and the temperature in the surrounding air even dropped a few degrees.
The light dissipated.
A set of dark red heavy breastplates floated silently in mid-air.
The surface of the breastplate was covered with extremely intricate dark gold runes, and a grayish-white crystal was embedded in the very center, within which a swirling mass of resentment continued to churn.
【Crimson Knight Heavy Breastplate (Blue - Rare)】
[Attribute Preview: Defense +45.]
【Special Effect 1: Absolute Fortress (Immune to all physical piercing and blunt damage below Lv.20).】
[Special Effect 2: Pain Reflection (When attacked by melee, the absorbed kinetic energy is converted into a resentment impact, reflecting 20% of the true damage back to the attacker, and inflicting a "Soul Shock" effect lasting 2 seconds).]
Jiang Ming's eyes lit up.
This attribute is practically tailor-made for his tactics, which favor head-on confrontations.
He directly took off the somewhat damaged outer layer of silver armor and put on this crimson breastplate.
The moment the breastplate touched the skin, the dark gold runes seemed to come alive, automatically shrinking and fitting together. Although it was not light, with the support of 37 points of strength, there was no sense of resistance at all.
"Let's go take a look ahead." Jiang Ming stretched his shoulders, picked up his greatsword, and headed deeper into the processing plant.
The entire underground space was filled with the pungent smell of blood.
Chen Qi, holding a gun, followed behind Jiang Ming, cautiously surveying their surroundings.
He looked up at the sky, his brows furrowed.
"Brother Jiang, look up there." Chen Qi pointed to the thick, transparent pipes in mid-air.
I couldn't see it clearly from a distance, but now that I'm closer, I realize that even after the iron cages filled with corpses were tilted over the pool of blood and flesh, the liquid in the pool didn't overflow.
The bottom of the pool is connected to more than a dozen transparent pipes with a diameter of more than half a meter.
The viscous red liquid was being continuously pumped through pipes by some powerful water pump to the back of the giant metal gate at the deepest part of the processing plant.
"What exactly is the abbot of this monastery doing with all this flesh and blood?" Chen Qi felt a wave of nausea wash over him.
"Whatever he does, if we cut off his food supply, he'll naturally panic." Jiang Ming walked to the edge of the pool of blood and flesh.
The pool was still bubbling with foul-smelling blood.
Marlowe ran to a control panel covered with various levers and gears, and began fiddling with it restlessly.
"Boss, this thing seems to control those pipes." Marlowe grabbed a rusty red lever and pressed it down hard.
It wasn't pressed.
"Get out of the way." Jiang Ming walked over, grabbed the lever with one hand, and pulled hard.
"Click—"
The rusty gears emitted a piercing, mournful sound as the lever was pulled yanked to the bottom.
"Click—"
The rusty gears emitted a piercing, mournful sound as the lever was pulled yanked to the bottom.
The next second, the entire factory floor began to shake violently.
"Boom!"
The flow of blood and flesh fluid in the transparent pipes above suddenly stopped, and then the pressure inside the pipes surged dramatically.
"Bang! Bang! Bang!"
Several pipes could not withstand the pressure and burst one after another.
Blood rained down from the sky, mixed with bits of flesh.
Jiang Ming grabbed Chen Qi and pulled him behind a thick stone pillar.
The commotion was even greater in the pool of blood and flesh.
The originally boiling liquid began to spin wildly, forming a huge red vortex.
The water level is dropping at a rate visible to the naked eye.
"Something's about to come out." Jiang Ming stared at the bottom of the pool, gripping the hilt of his sword tightly.
When the last drop of liquid was drained, a huge circular metal plate was revealed at the bottom of the pool of flesh and blood.
The metal plate slowly slid apart to both sides.
Accompanied by a deafening mechanical roar and a teeth-grinding metallic scraping sound, a colossal object slowly rose from the ground.
It was an extremely exaggerated half-mechanical, half-flesh monster.
Its lower body consists of two wide, heavy tracks, which are covered with bits of meat and intestines.
The upper body is a huge cylindrical boiler, the surface of which is covered with a thick layer of fat and muscle tissue.
The most terrifying thing is its front end.
It was a giant metal drill bit with a diameter of over three meters, and the blades of the drill bit were densely embedded with countless human skulls.
As the drill spun rapidly, eerie green flames shot out from the hollow eye sockets of those skulls.
【Flesh Harvester - Prototype (Lv.28 - Boss Class)】
[Danger Level: Extremely High]
【Characteristics: Flesh and blood armor, insane cutting ability, ignores pain.】
"Holy crap! Is this bulldozer that's come to life?!" Chen Qi cursed and pulled the trigger without hesitation.
"Bang bang bang!"
A burst of armor-piercing rounds hit the fat layer on the monster's surface.
That layer of fleshy armor was extremely elastic; bullets that hit it didn't even make a splash, as they were trapped by the thick layer of fat, without even touching the monster's mechanical core.
"roar--"
A roar, like that of a wild beast, came from inside the harvester.
The tracks accelerated suddenly, and its massive body, with the force to crush everything in its path, smashed through the two stone pillars in its way and roared as it rolled toward Jiang Ming.
"Back off!"
Jiang Ming shouted and, instead of dodging, charged straight at the wildly spinning giant drill.
"Has Brother Jiang gone mad?!" Chen Qi shouted anxiously as he watched Jiang Ming charge straight toward the three-meter-diameter meat grinder.
When that thing spins, it can instantly grind stones into powder, and flesh and blood that hit it will be completely obliterated.
Jiang Ming wasn't crazy; he was calmer than ever.
Less than five meters from the drill bit, Jiang Ming suddenly pressed down with his left hand.
"Gravity Spell!"
An invisible gravitational field descended instantly, directly covering the harvester's massive body.
Under the terrifying pull of five times the force of gravity, the tracks at the bottom of the harvester emitted an extremely ear-piercing "creaking" sound, and its originally soaring speed was forcibly suppressed by half.
However, the Lv.28 leader-class monster had too much horsepower. The exhaust pipe behind the boiler spewed out thick plumes of black smoke, and the tracks slipped wildly on the stone slabs, carving out two deep furrows, yet it still moved forward little by little.
"You're quite strong," Jiang Ming sneered.
He raised his left arm, and the [Soul-Binding Black Iron Chains] wrapped around his arm transformed into a streak of dark light and shot out.
"clang!"
The chain precisely wrapped around the metal shaft behind the giant drill bit.
Jiang Ming slammed his feet into the stone slabs on the ground, and with a burst of power from his waist, unleashed his terrifying strength of 37 points without reservation.
"Stop right there!"
One person and one vehicle engaged in an extremely brutal struggle of strength in the empty underground processing plant.
The black iron chains were stretched taut, groaning under the strain.
The stone slab beneath Jiang Ming's feet shattered inch by inch, and his legs were pushed backward by the enormous force, sliding more than ten meters, leaving two deep plow marks on the ground.
But he held on to the chain tightly, refusing to let the drill push forward another step!
"Chen Qi! Shoot the exhaust pipe on its side!" Jiang Ming roared through gritted teeth under immense pressure.
Chen Qi immediately realized what was happening.
If you can't penetrate its flesh and armor from the front, then attack its mechanical weaknesses.
He picked up his rifle, quickly circled around to the side, knelt down, and locked his sights onto the several thick exhaust pipes on the side of the harvester's boiler that were spewing black smoke.
"Bang! Bang! Bang!"
Three armor-piercing rounds hit their targets precisely.
The exhaust pipe was blown apart, and high-pressure steam mixed with scalding black blood sprayed out instantly.
A loud mechanical jamming sound came from inside the harvester, and the drill bit's rotation speed visibly slowed down.
The monster was completely enraged.
Its thick layer of flesh and blood armor suddenly began to writhe violently, and then a dozen or so watermelon-sized pustules of flesh and blood bulged up on the surface of the armor.
"Pfft! Pfft! Pfft!"
The abscess burst, and more than a dozen streams of high-pressure, corrosive blood plasma sprayed towards Jiang Ming like a high-pressure water gun.
The distance is too close; there's no way to avoid it.
Jiang Ming simply stopped trying to dodge.
"laugh--"
The pungent smell of blood plasma was poured over Jiang Ming's head.
But the moment the blood plasma touched his body, the intricate dark gold runes on the surface of the [Crimson Knight Heavy Breastplate] suddenly lit up.
The special effect "Painful Reflection" has been triggered!
Jiang Ming felt a slight tremor in his chest. The blood plasma, which was enough to corrode bones, was actually blocked by the invisible force field on the surface of the breastplate.
At the same time, the harvester's massive body suddenly stiffened.
"Awooo—!"
An invisible shockwave of soul energy flowed directly into the core of the harvester along the counter-damage field.
It was a soul-crushing pain; the stitched-up wronged souls inside the monster let out mournful screams.
"Now!"
Jiang Ming seized the moment when the monster froze, flipped his right hand, and a [Netherfire Fragment Mine] appeared in his palm.
He suddenly loosened the chain on his left hand, and using the momentum, he leaped forward, jumping directly onto the harvester's wide tracks.
Braving the scorching steam, Jiang Ming darted to the gap in the exhaust pipe that Chen Qi had just blown up and forcefully shoved the landmine into the mechanical gears inside the monster.
"boom!"
A muffled explosion resounded inside the harvester.
The eerie green ghost fire spewed out from the cracks, burning the monster's internal flesh and tissue into a charred mess.
The harvester's massive body convulsed violently a few times, its tracks jammed completely, and thick smoke billowed from the boiler.
"Not quite dead yet."
Jiang Ming stood on the roof of the car and drew the [Hellfire and Thunder Prison] from his back.
The crystal core on the sword hilt shone brightly, indicating that overload mode had been activated!
The violent lightning and fire sword energy gathered wildly on the blade.
Jiang Ming gripped his sword with both hands, aimed at the huge, smoking gap at the top of the harvester, and thrust it down with overwhelming force.
"Die!"
The two-meter-long giant sword went all the way down to its hilt.
The power of thunder and fire erupted in the monster's core power reactor.
"Boom—!"
The entire harvester was blown in two from the inside.
Thick metal shells mixed with bits of roasted meat flew everywhere.
Jiang Ming drew his sword and retreated a second before the explosion, landing steadily on an open ground more than ten meters away.
[Defeat the Flesh Harvester Prototype (Lv.28 Boss) – Gain 45000 experience points.]
[Loot obtained: High-Energy Flesh Engine (Purple Epic Material)*1, Boss-Level Power Core (Blue)*1, Extremely Effective Corrosion Liquid*3.]
"Hoo—" Jiang Ming exhaled a breath of stale air and shook off the slag on the blade.
The level 28 boss monster is indeed much more troublesome than those elite knights, but as long as you find its weakness, under the absolute suppression of power, it can only be dismantled into parts.
"Brother Jiang, awesome!" Chen Qi ran over with his gun, looked at the pile of still-smoking scrap metal, and gave a thumbs up.
Marlowe immediately rushed to the pile of wreckage, bending over and rummaging through it for loot.
"Boss, this purple engine is top-notch! Take it to Blacklight Outpost, and those goblin engineering masters will definitely be willing to pay a fortune for it!" Marlowe held the still slightly pulsating [High-Energy Flesh Engine], his mouth practically watering.
"Put them away, we'll deal with them later." Jiang Ming put all the materials into the storage card.
With the harvester's demise, the entire underground processing plant fell into complete silence.
"Brother Jiang, look over there." Chen Qi pointed to the bottom of the pool of blood and flesh.
The huge circular metal passage where the harvester had been raised was not closed again.
A faint light shone from below the passageway.