Infinite Sun in the East China Sea

Chapter 298 Upgrade again
Zhao Zhuikong lightly gripped the dagger, mentally summarizing the information he had perceived:

"The attackers are 4.2 meters tall, with wings on their backs, and wield a 3.3-meter-long giant sword. The sword's core attack range is 15 meters, with a maximum damage radius of 300 meters. They can launch feathers in batches for ranged attacks, with the feathers having a maximum attack range of over 5 kilometers. 120 of them engage in close combat within the dense forest, while more than 200 fly in the sky above the forest for ranged attacks..."

"They have the ability to become invisible. When the distance between them exceeds four thousand meters, I can only vaguely sense their location and can no longer accurately perceive their movements; when the distance exceeds ten kilometers, even their aura becomes blurred. Heh, these monsters must have used this invisibility ability to quietly surround me."

After the arrival of these attackers, Zhao Zhuikong felt the pressure, and of course, this pressure was not solely caused by the saboteurs.

There were also a large number of drones around him.

From the start of the battle, millions of drones had been relentlessly targeting him. In the past three hours, Zhao Zhuikong had moved from the northeast of the dense forest to the southwest corner, and then back to the north... He had moved countless times, circling the dark forest several times, and destroyed hundreds of thousands of drones during the strategic transfer, but he was always under surveillance.

If he stays in an area for more than two seconds, he will face an air strike that could kill him.

Zhao Zhuikong had planned to attack the large drones above the dense forest, but those drones were over three thousand meters high and constantly moving; without leaving the forest, it was virtually impossible to destroy them. The moment he left the forest, he sensed a renewed threat to his life—the weapons of those large drones were not the most advanced technology of the East China Sea team; once he left the forest, the attacks he faced would be far more terrifying.

In summary, as long as the Destroyer Sub-Entity entangles him for more than a second, the hit rate of those high-powered technological weapons will increase significantly.

Once hit, it's death.

Besides the high-powered technological weapons, he also cannot ignore the attacks of the Destroyer's offspring, which are even more troublesome to dodge; while technological weapons such as bombs and lasers can be avoided by hiding behind trees to avoid most of the damage, the Destroyer's greatsword and feathers are non-technical attacks, using trees as cover, turning both people and trees into dust.

Small drones sense and lock onto targets, large drones strike, and disruptive sub-units entangle and obstruct... Zhao Zhuikong is facing a systematic attack that is closely coordinated with each other.

His intuition told him that the East China Sea team was adding other types of attackers to the system.

Just then, the Destroyer's offspring attacked again.

"Up, down, front, back, left, right... twelve monsters attacking from all directions at once?"

Zhao Zhuikong licked his lips lightly: "This round of twelve monsters is just intended to intercept me. After their attack, there will be thirty-six more, while the remaining monsters are gathering their strength, in groups of twelve, preparing to attack my next and even the next place after that."

"As for the monsters in the sky above the dense forest... their exact movements cannot be sensed, but they are definitely preparing for a ranged attack."

"An impenetrable siege!"

He grinned, a crazed look on his face: "But...wouldn't it be better to just kill all these monsters?"

Zhao Zhui took a step forward, facing a destroyer a hundred meters away.

As he stepped forward, he swung his dagger, slicing it across the Destroyer's body. Killing intent surged from where the blade struck, completely pulverizing half of the Destroyer's offspring.

However, once the remaining part of the body reached the critical point where it could no longer maintain its full combat power, it immediately exploded, with a large number of feathers covering the area of ​​its self-destruction. Within a radius of 500 meters, there were holes pierced by feathers and feather fragments everywhere.

Zhao Zhuikong, too lazy to deal with the feather debris on his arms, charged at the next destroyer like a madman.

"Spatial abilities?"

Xiangzi, who was watching the battle, noticed something strange about this round of attacks. Although three sword energies had clearly passed by Zhao Zhuikong, he was not injured at all. The three sword energies landed perfectly on the ground or trees, turning a forest with a radius of hundreds of meters into a barren wasteland full of ravines.

The only thing that truly harmed Zhao Zhuikong was the Destroyer's self-destruction.

"This performance is very similar to blurring... but the specific ability should be to instantly teleport to a short distance and then teleport back to the original position, just like the footwork he showed before, constantly leaving footprints in different locations to confuse perception. Now it is an upgraded version of that footwork, with the ability to teleport added to that footwork."

"No wonder he's faster than that veteran from the East America team who enhanced his Quicksilver bloodline; spatial abilities shortened the distance between them!"

Xiangzi sighed, "It's hard to pinpoint Zhao Zhuikong's exact location just by sight."

"Locating his approximate location is enough," Xu Feng said nonchalantly.

“Zhao Zhuikong has gone even crazier!” Mei stared at the chaotic scene on the monitor: “Knowing that the Destroyer Sub-body has the ability to self-destruct, he still does not make any defense and keeps attacking. This fighting method allows him to completely destroy a Destroyer in just one or two seconds. At this rate, the first Destroyer Legion will be completely wiped out within fifteen minutes.”

"And... the crazier he gets, the stronger he becomes... Captain, I think you shouldn't delay any longer."

Zhao Zhuikong was able to contend with the East China Sea team's technological system for so long, thanks in large part to the special environment of the dark forest.

Although the forest was vast, if Xu Feng attacked seriously, two palm strikes would be enough to turn that enormous forest into an inland sea; if he only intended to kill Zhao Zhuikong, one palm strike would be enough.

Even if Zhao Zhuikong hadn't died from that palm strike, without the cover of the dark forest, he would have been blasted to ashes by the high-altitude turbine laser cannon.

Xu Feng shook his head: "No need to rush. We've only tested a portion of his abilities, and we're still far from fully understanding him. There are still six hours until dawn. After dawn, the strength of the Ringwraith version of 'Destroyer' will decrease. If we haven't defeated him by then, I will make my move."

Xu Feng knew Zhao Zhuikong; that person was considered one of the top experts in the Primordial Infinite Realm... but he didn't intend to rely entirely on the information he had gathered before his transmigration.

After all, he had no way of being sure that this Zhao Zhuikong was the same Zhao Zhuikong.

Even if this Zhao Zhuikong is the person he knows, he cannot be sure whether Zhao Zhuikong's fate has changed.

Compared to information that cannot be 100% certain, Xu Feng has more faith in the abilities tested by cannon fodder.

Xu Feng gazed at the battlefield in the north and said, "Moreover, these Ringwraith 'Destroyers' did not come away empty-handed."

The self-destruction attacks of the Destroyer's offspring injured Zhao Zhuikong more than once.

Some of the feathers with stronger kinetic energy even pierced through his body... but it wasn't a vital spot. Although Zhao Zhuikong was becoming increasingly insane, his instincts made him protect his vital spots.

Under his meticulous control, the penetrating wounds stopped bleeding instantly and healed visibly.

But... those feathers were stained with a few drops of blood! If one possesses the skill to attack using blood, even a few drops of blood can be of great use.

Xu Feng did not enhance that type of skill from the main god, but he obtained a similar ability from Maoshan in "Mr. Vampire". Although it was not a skill like killing by using blood curse, it could only lock the opponent's location by using blood.

His mastery of biotechnology also allows him to glean information from those blood samples.

After Zhao Zhuikong and the Destroyer Sub-body left the initial battle area, the medical drones began collecting the blood.

The battle between Zhao Zhuikong and the 360 ​​destroyers was extremely large, creating a winding wasteland in the dark forest.

It's like carving a wound about 500 meters wide in a dark, dense forest.

This is also the advantage of the East China Sea team. Those wilderness areas have become Zhao Zhuikong's no-go zone. Once he steps into them, it's like stepping out of a dark forest. The high-altitude monitoring equipment will quickly lock onto him, and a high-energy attack will be launched.

As Zhao Zhuikong frantically slaughtered the Destroyer's offspring, those extremely small amounts of blood had already traveled through three spatial teleportations to Mordor, where Xu Feng was. "Let me see just how he gains such immense power in reality!"

Xu Feng, slightly excited, divided the blood into two parts.

A portion of the nearly inactive cells were used to analyze the gene sequence, further understanding Zhao Zhuikong's abilities.

Another group of more active cells were placed in a high-energy culture chamber for proliferation.

"Xiangzi, have the Destroyer Mother reproduce twelve offspring." After a moment, Xu Feng gave the instructions.

"You've already gained something from the blood so quickly?" Xiangzi was somewhat surprised; the speed was too fast.

“There is some, but we only know the facts, not the reasons. This person’s blood is very mysterious… Perhaps only the wisdom gained after mastering the Amitabha Sutra can thoroughly study his genes.” Xu Feng shook his head and said, “But the information we have so far is enough to form the basis of our fantasy construction, and the information itself can further enhance the realism of our fantasy construction.”

"Because they know what it is but not why it is, the combat dolls they create will be weaker, but they are very familiar with Zhao Zhuikong... Zhao Zhuikong should not be able to instantly kill these combat dolls."

The plan is to combine the fantasy-constructed battle dolls with the Destroyer's offspring by having the Destroyer Mother provide twelve offspring.

The Swallow Fruit is designed to combine two creatures together.

The illusion constructed by fantasy grants strength, while the offspring bred by the destroyer grant endurance. By combining the real and the virtual, ultra-high-speed 'cloning' is achieved.

The final result is just like Zhao Zhuikong... The original version of Zhao Zhuikong enhanced the Greatsword bloodline, but of course, the level of gene lock was far inferior to the current Zhao Zhuikong, and he did not have the ability to teleport.

A few minutes later.

Twelve combat dolls appeared before the veteran members of the East Blue Team.

There were only twelve because there were too few cell samples from Zhao Zhuikong. Whether it was 'collecting' more flesh and blood from Zhao Zhuikong, or proliferating more cells in the advanced culture chamber, or Xu Feng thoroughly studying the information of the cells, he could imagine constructing more Zhao Zhuikong-style combat dolls.

These combat dolls look remarkably like Zhao Zhuikong... except for the wings on their backs and the cumbersome things in front of them; in order to achieve the strength of the fantasy structure, the original four-meter-tall Destroyer sub-body has shrunk to one and a half meters.

Based on this, Xu Feng further transformed them into spirit mediums.

"Although there are fewer of them, these twelve battle dolls will be far stronger than the previous three hundred and sixty destroyers."

Xu Feng looked at the twelve puppets with a smile on his face.

He used the Imperial Arm Shangri-La again to send them near the battlefield.

When this batch of cannon fodder arrived at the Dark Forest, the first batch of 360 had already been slaughtered by Zhao Zhuikong. Correspondingly, his body was also covered with feathers from the self-destruction of the Destroyer's offspring.

Because of the entanglement of the destroyer's offspring, Zhao Zhuikong didn't even have time to destroy the small drones, and the surveillance equipment in this area was already very dense.

They captured Zhao Zhuikong's disheveled appearance in its entirety.

During the pursuit and interception, Zhao Zhuikong continued his strategic retreat while treating his injuries.

As his injuries lessened, the man regained consciousness.

"This can't go on... If we keep getting beaten up, we'll eventually be killed by these flies."

Zhao Zhuikong looked towards the northeast.

That was the land of the Dark Forest, the kingdom of the elves. He muttered to himself, "Based on the East Sea Team's previous performance, they should have been able to burn the Dark Forest to the ground. Did they not do so because they were worried about the elves?"

"In that case, let's enter the Elf Kingdom."

He had just decided on a new direction when he stopped.

Twelve people who looked remarkably like him, but were of different genders and much younger, blocked his way from all sides.

These combat dolls can become invisible, just like the Ringwraiths.

However, Zhao Zhuikong has already demonstrated a perception ability that can ignore invisibility, so there is no need for these puppets to become invisible.

By revealing their whereabouts, they can attract hatred to some extent—which is far more insulting than sending women's clothing to the enemy.

By attracting hatred, Zhao Zhuikong's actions will be influenced by these combat puppets.

Upon discovering these combat dolls, Zhao Zhuikong smiled, a smile tinged with terrifying killing intent: "The East Sea Team is truly... a disgusting bunch of enemies!"

He swore...

We must give those bastards from the East China Sea team the most miserable way to die, so that they'll regret ever being born.

Of course, before that, he had to deal with the counterfeit and shoddy products manufactured by those bastards.

Zhao Zhuikong launched another offensive.

To his surprise... the puppet seemed to know his moves very well, and its dodging skills were perfect.

Because of the vast difference in their fundamentals, and because the main body also possessed spatial abilities, the dodge, though exquisite, was still a beat too slow. The combat puppet only managed to dodge with its main body, but was still struck in the neck by Zhao Zhuikong, and a small part of its body, including its head, was shattered.

Just as Zhao Zhuikong was launching an unexpected attack on his next target, the headless puppet, now only half its body remaining, launched an attack wielding a feather-shaped dagger.

While attacking, his body was also visibly recovering.

Zhao Zhuikong, who was attacking his next target, was startled. He was now attacked from both sides, with a dagger aimed at him from both the position before and after the attack.

The situation was dangerous; if he didn't change his move, he risked being hit by one of the daggers, but he ignored it.

Completely unconcerned about the attacks from the combat dolls.

"There's almost... one second left!"

(End of this chapter)