Longzang

Chapter 791 Creating Weaknesses

The world returned to normal, and it seemed that no one noticed anything amiss. Wei Yuan still wore his usual poker face. Only the reason for his expressionless expression was different: before, he had forgotten how to smile; now, he simply couldn't smile at all.

Wei Yuan had made ample preparations and was protected by great fortune, but he never expected to wake up in this way. Rather than wake up like this, he would rather not wake up at all. After all, he had a massive amount of human fortune, and many miracles would happen in the face of life and death. And miracles were the last thing Wei Yuan lacked.

But it's too late to say anything now, and besides, this "Eternal Emptiness and Form" method... is actually quite useful.

Just then, a squeaking sound came from beside his feet. Wei Yuan looked down and saw the monster struggling on the ground. The front ends of all six claws of the monster had disappeared, leaving only a flat surface of its mouth. Black blood kept gushing from the severed opening, and it was writhing and screaming in pain.

You feel pain too?

Wei Yuan pointed his gun at the monster and fired five shots in quick succession, shattering its limbs and the area where its reproductive organs were believed to be located. After pausing for a moment, he blasted its head apart with a single shot.

The surrounding soldiers all subconsciously took a few steps back, distancing themselves from Wei Yuan. It seemed that making eye contact with him would cause a strange ache in their groin.

Ji Liuli's eyes flickered as she approached Wei Yuan and said, "Not pretending anymore?"

Looking at her expression, Wei Yuan felt that she wasn't faking it; she probably hadn't awakened yet. So, a ball of golden-blue light appeared in Wei Yuan's hand. This was the Buddha's fortune inherent in the Lotus Lantern Ancient Treasure. After Wei Yuan used it to awaken himself, he still had a little left, enough to push Ji Liuli a big step towards awakening, or even awaken her directly.

However, Wei Yuan quickly remembered what had just happened and withdrew his luck. If she were to truly regain her senses, it would be difficult to retaliate in many ways.

Of course, this reason wasn't very respectable, so Wei Yuan replaced it with another one in his mind: the Immortal Lord would naturally set the time for her awakening, and he didn't need to add anything unnecessary.

Wei Yuan pointed to the monster's corpse on the ground and continued, "If I keep hiding, I'll die."

“That’s true. Actually, you can easily change your identity and disguise yourself. For example, two of my four deputies are all muscle and no brains. I recruited them so that you could easily replace them. It shouldn’t be difficult for you to disguise yourself as them, and you can also get close to me and make it easier to take action.”

“...But I don’t want to kill you,” Wei Yuan said truthfully.

Ji Liuli paused for a moment, then pinched Wei Yuan's chin, kissed him on the cheek, and said, "One of my abilities is to distinguish whether what other people say is true or false. I'm quite surprised that what you said is true."

"What's so surprising about this..." Before Wei Yuan could finish speaking, another monster swooped down from above.

But just as it left the ceiling, a flash of fire appeared before its eyes, and amidst the roar of gunfire, a large hole was blasted into its lower body, leaving only a bit of flesh connecting its two legs.

With a thud, it collapsed to the ground, struggling in extreme pain. Wei Yuan walked over, stepped on its head, and slowly crushed it.

The surrounding soldiers instinctively retreated further. One Ji Liuli was already deadly enough, and now it seemed another equally deadly guy had appeared.

At this moment, Wei Yuan suddenly trembled, then raised his hand and looked at the wisp of green energy on his fingertip with some disbelief: Where did this luck come from?
His gaze swept over the people around him, and when it landed on a soldier with a large beard and an exceptionally burly build, the man trembled all over, immediately straightened up, and dared not meet Wei Yuan's eyes.

Looking at the muscular, hairy man, Wei Yuan ignored him, unwilling to face the truth, and continued searching for the next one.

After looking around, Wei Yuan actually gained another wisp of azure energy, this time from a bearded man who was relatively thin but whose neck was still thicker than his head.

None of Ji Liuli's soldiers had a neck thinner than their head.

A few moments later, the warehouse was completely cleared, and the following troops entered to take over and set up the base. They began to pump and filter the air, and then pushed in instruments to start testing various active ingredients and unknown viruses on the spot.

To prevent accidental power outages, two cables were specially installed and connected to the power supply in the experimental area.

Once the forward base was established, Ji Liuli ordered continued exploration.

Outside the warehouse was a long, dimly lit corridor. It was only thanks to an external power source that it was illuminated. Suddenly, several larger monsters charged out from the end of the corridor. The two warriors leading the way reacted swiftly, immediately ducking behind their riot shields.

However, the monster was only the size of a wolfhound, but its strength was unbelievable. It knocked the two warriors away in one go, and they couldn't even hold onto their shields.

The two monsters pounced on the fallen soldier, about to bite him, when suddenly two loud explosions rang out, and the muzzle flashes illuminated the entire passage!

Ji Liuli knelt on one knee and fired two shots. The huge recoil pushed his body back a foot, while the two monsters were sent flying backward as if hit by a giant iron hammer.

While still in the air, green light kept splashing from their bodies. Wei Yuan drew his gun and fired, instantly landing three shots on each of the two monsters.

The monster landed, its wounds oozing green fluid that was rapidly widening. It seemed these green-tipped bullets had a special effect on them.

The two monsters struggled to continue their attack, but Wei Yuan habitually fired two shots at their lower bodies, followed by a headshot. Their hind legs were all broken, and after struggling for a while, more and more green fluid oozed out before they finally collapsed and lay still. Ji Liuli glanced at Wei Yuan and said, "Not bad, oh, at least not disappointing. Let's continue."

This time, Ji Liuli ordered the soldiers to search each room one by one, while he and Wei Yuan headed towards the entrance leading to a deeper level. This area was clearly more complexly divided, with many more miscellaneous rooms. After being ambushed twice in succession and caught off guard, Wei Yuan could no longer tolerate it and began to release his divine sense to explore the surroundings.

With a thought, Wei Yuan felt a distinct pressure, as if he were being swept through a layer of glue or jelly. He could only clearly perceive what was within ten feet around him, and beyond that, it began to blur rapidly.

Moreover, this space is not complete, with many hidden and collapsed areas. Even when Wei Yuan scans it with his divine sense, he must carefully avoid these areas, otherwise he will be trapped in the broken space and lose this part of it.

With his divine sense monitoring the surroundings, Wei Yuan immediately sensed about a dozen small monsters wandering aimlessly ahead. They then sensed Wei Yuan and Ji Liuli's presence and rushed over at full speed.

They rushed within about five zhang before Ji Liuli reacted, instantly drawing his gun to defend himself, with two more magazines appearing in his left hand.

At this moment, Wei Yuan scanned the area with his divine sense and had already labeled all the dozen or so monsters according to the order in which they appeared, and determined their respective attack routes. From then on, Wei Yuan didn't even need to think; he simply let his body act instinctively.

Wei Yuan also held the gun with both hands, with two magazines in his left hand. He emptied the magazines instantly, then reloaded with lightning speed, emptied the magazines again, and reloaded again.

Every monster that popped its head out in the corridor was shot in the head by Wei Yuan. Some fell to the ground immediately, while others were able to continue charging forward but were then blasted away by Ji Liuli's powerful bullets. After clearing out this wave of monsters, the two reloaded and continued to advance, with more soldiers continuously entering to expand the occupied area and clear out every nook and cranny.

Wei Yuan scanned his surroundings with his divine sense while comparing it with the map displayed in his glasses. Just as he was about to reach the elevator area, Wei Yuan suddenly heard a sound inaudible to the human ear, followed by a sharp pain in his divine sense, and two streams of blood flowed from his nose!

A terrifying monster appeared ahead, and the space around it was slightly distorted. As soon as Wei Yuan's divine sense got close, it was distorted and blurred, and he could not even perceive the monster's appearance.

Ji Liuli said, "Be careful! There's an extremely high energy reaction ahead! It looks like we've encountered something big."

Ji Liuli did not rush up directly, but glanced at the terrain and then drew a circle on the wall in front of him.

Several soldiers quickly stepped forward and planted a ring of bombs around the wall. Then, four soldiers carried in a large recoilless rifle, set up the position, and Ji Liuli gave the order to proceed.

As soon as the explosion occurred, that wall collapsed with a roar. The two gunners immediately opened fire, and the shells pierced through the collapsed wall, striking the wall behind it and causing it to collapse as well. The gunners fired two more shots, opening up another wall, thus forcibly creating a path to the elevator shaft.

The elevator was filled with what appeared to be a monster that had torn dozens of people apart and pieced them back together. It had many human legs at the bottom and numerous interconnected arms on its upper body, the longest of which was over ten meters long. Its body was covered in human eyes and ears, and it had begun to go berserk, violently pounding everything around it.

The passage opened, and it immediately saw Ji Liuli and Wei Yuan. It then transformed into a centipede with human legs, unleashing thousands of limbs as it swiftly slithered towards them. Human faces appeared on its head, and a silent scream instantly halted the two's movements, while more than ten elite warriors behind it collapsed to the ground!

Fortunately, Ji Liuli had an extremely strong physique and recovered in the blink of an eye. With a roar, he shot the monster in the head, creating a terrifying hole about a foot in diameter.

Meanwhile, Wei Yuan switched to a purple magazine, and was only slightly slower than Ji Liuli. He emptied the magazine in an instant, spending his entire annual salary of several hundred years.

The bullets struck the monster, instantly leaving purple spots that quickly festered and oozed pus. The monster screamed in agony, its massive body tumbling on the spot. But its most lethal attack wasn't the direct strike, but rather its piercing shrieks.

The soldiers behind them appeared to be in extreme pain amidst the silent shockwave. One soldier could not withstand the pressure, his eyes bulged out, then his eyeballs burst, and a large amount of blood mixed with fragments of internal organs gushed from his mouth. He remained motionless thereafter.

Each warrior was struggling in agony, while the monster possessed incredible resilience; though in pain, it showed no signs of being fatal. The purple spots were insignificant compared to its massive body.

Moreover, given its appearance and the fact that its shrill sound waves can vibrate one's divine sense, Wei Yuan had no idea where its weakness lay.

Seeing the critical situation, Wei Yuan gritted his teeth and decided to create a weakness if there was none! He immediately changed to a new magazine and fired a bullet with a golden-blue light!
At this point, the type of bullet is no longer important; what matters is the auspicious energy from the Buddha statue attached to it.

The bullet pierced the monster's body, and faint chanting seemed to echo in the air. Dozens of faces appeared on the monster's body, each with a different expression: some fearful, some sorrowful, and some joyful and relieved.

The monster let out a deafening scream, and countless cracks instantly appeared on the surrounding walls. Wei Yuan's tactical goggles shattered into countless pieces with a snap, and the fragments stuck in his eyeballs, only to be bounced back by the layer of golden light emanating from them.

The final scream seemed to have exhausted all its life force. Its body sprang up, crashed into the ceiling, and then landed. Large patches of golden-blue color appeared on its body surface, interspersed with countless purple spots, and then it remained motionless.

Wei Yuan suddenly felt a stirring in his heart. He sensed that wisps of energy seemed to emerge from the monster, fly towards him, and then disappear from his body, disappearing to who-knows-where.

Vengeful spirits, resentful power, or the very essence of heaven and earth? Before Wei Yuan could even discern what he had absorbed, he was suddenly pinched hard on the buttocks.

Ji Liuli leaned down slightly, his eyes shining, and said, "Well done! I'll reward you properly later!"

Wei Yuan did not react. At this moment, he was recording everything from three different perspectives, and his best reaction was to remain expressionless.

(End of this chapter)