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Chapter 387 Completion and Rewards

The feeling of weightlessness was like an invisible giant hand, suddenly gripping everyone's hearts.

The vast and resilient carpet of biological tissue beneath their feet, the layer of flesh disguised as the ground, burst open with a deafening roar after a violent tremor without warning!

The descent is so brief that there's no time to think, yet it's also long enough for fear to fester in your heart.

"Fire from above!!"

In that moment of chaos and dizziness, Chu Xuan's voice pierced through all the noise, as calm as an ice pick.

His brain had already completed the analysis the moment the feeling of weightlessness hit.

This is not an accident, it's a trap.

After realizing that the worker bees had been wiped out, the Alien Queen proactively reduced its defenses, turning its nest into a trap.

However, the sudden drop and anticipated impact caused most people's bodies to freeze, making it impossible for them to react effectively.

"boom!"

With a heavy thud, everyone crashed to the ground. The hard texture came from behind, shaking their internal organs as if they were out of place.

But one figure reacted almost the instant he landed.

It's Zheng Zha!
The patchwork black armor he wore absorbed most of the impact, and combined with the physical enhancements from his two C-level upgrades, he was almost unaffected by the impact.

He suddenly exerted force from his waist and abdomen, and with an extremely smooth, fish-like sprain, he stood up abruptly.

He didn't even have time to aim; relying solely on his combat instincts, he pointed the pulse rifle upwards and pulled the trigger!
“Da da da da—!”

The roaring flames tore through the darkness, and the beams of light from the projectiles instantly illuminated the view above them.

At the edge of the enormous hole that had just swallowed them, an unimaginably large black shadow was slowly emerging.

That was the Alien Queen.

Its size was at least three times larger than the worker bee aliens we had encountered before, and its iconic, smooth, and long, huge head resembled a black, menacing coffin.

The exoskeleton reflected a dark, metallic sheen in the firelight.

The modified, enhanced bullets, powerful enough to tear apart the worker bee alien's exoskeleton, only managed to produce a series of blinding sparks when they struck its thick armor; they couldn't even leave a white mark.

The next moment, the enormous figure moved.

Fast! Extremely fast!

Zheng Zha's pupils suddenly contracted. He only saw a black afterimage flash by before an unparalleled force slammed into his chest from the side.

It was the Queen's tail! That long tail, like a steel spine, with sharp, spear-like bone spikes at the end, swept in with tremendous force.

"boom--!"

Zheng Zha's alien armor let out a loud thud as if it could no longer bear the weight. He was sent flying like a cannonball, as if he had been hit head-on by a battering ram, and crashed hard into the distant nest wall, shaking off a large amount of slippery biological tissue.

"Use overload mode!"

Zhang Qi's roar exploded amidst the chaos. Without pausing, he flicked his wrist, retrieved a high-explosive grenade from his storage ring, pulled the pin, and hurled it precisely below the massive figure.

The grenade traced an arc in mid-air before landing and tumbling.

"boom!!"

The violent explosion generated a powerful blast of air and flames.

The Alien Queen's massive body visibly froze under the impact of the explosion, emitting an angry roar.

This brief pause created an excellent opportunity for others to counterattack.

"Roger that!"

Overlord roared and pressed a concealed button on the side of the pulse rifle at the same time as Zero.

The energy core inside the gun emitted a low hum, and the energy indicator light on the gun instantly turned from green to a blinding red.

Overload Mode! Consumes several times the energy for a short-term, explosive increase in bullet power!
The next second, two completely different lines of fire shot out.

The Overlord's fire was wild and dense, forming a barrage that continuously bombarded the Alien Queen's body, suppressing its movements.

The firing at midnight was extremely calm and precise.

His gaze pierced through the darkness, locking onto the hind limb joints that supported the Alien Queen's massive body.

This is an inherent weakness of living things.

No matter how sturdy the outer armor is, the joints are inevitably the most vulnerable parts in order to ensure mobility.

puff!

A bullet enhanced by Overload mode pierced precisely into the joint gap of the Queen's left hind leg.

Dark green, acidic blood gushed out like a fountain, corroding large pits in the ground and emitting pungent white smoke.

"hiss--!!!"

The Alien Queen let out a piercing wail, its struck leg snapped limply, and its massive body lost its balance, collapsing to its knees with a thud.

"Midnight, well done!!"

Seeing this, Zhang Qi's heart skipped a beat. He knew Zero's marksmanship was good, but he never expected it to be this incredibly skillful.

In this dimly lit and complex lair, facing an unprecedentedly enormous monster, he was still able to hit the weak point of a joint while moving at high speed with a single shot.

This level of eyesight and marksmanship is on par with Hawkeye from the Marvel universe.

However, a severely wounded beast will only become more ferocious.

The alien queen, who was kneeling on the ground, suddenly raised her head. Her huge mouth, full of sharp teeth, opened wide, and a pink, sticky tongue shot out like an arrow towards Zhang Qi, who was closest to her!

Those are its inner teeth, deadly weapons capable of piercing through steel!
But at that moment, a figure clad in menacing black armor appeared like a black wall in front of Zhang Qi.

It was Zheng Zha who had just been sent flying!

"Qiang!!"

The inner tusk slammed into the alien carapace on Zheng Zha's chest, producing a piercing, metallic clang.

A deep dent was dented into the surface of the carapace, and cracks spread, but it ultimately withstood the fatal blow.

"Damn! That really hurts!"

Zheng Zha let out a muffled groan, but instead of retreating, he advanced.

He raised his left hand, which was already prepared, and held a laser emitter in his hand.

A high-energy orange laser beam suddenly shot out, accompanied by a scorching "buzzing" sound, and slammed into the inner canine tooth that had not yet retracted!

Without any hindrance, the laser beam, like a hot knife through butter, instantly severed the tough fleshy tongue in two!
Having landed a successful blow, Zheng Zha's movements did not falter in the slightest.

His inner strength surged, and he took a step forward, almost pressing himself against the Alien Queen. He then thrust the laser emitter in his hand fiercely into the Queen's enormous head!

"Fuck-"

The high-energy laser made direct contact with the Queen's exoskeleton, burning large areas of it black and emitting a strong smell of burning protein.

Even so, this terrifying defense was not instantly penetrated; it simply melted and created a dent.

The Alien Queen, writhing in pain and fury, slammed her massive arms together like two doors, slamming them down on Zheng Zha.

"boom!"

Zheng Zha was once again sent flying by a tremendous force, and the laser emitter in his hand also slipped from his grasp.

But just as he flew away, Zhang Qi seized this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

With a thought, he took out two glass bottles from his storage ring and threw them with all his might at the charred area on the Alien Queen's head caused by the laser.

"Zero o'clock!"

Without Zhang Qi saying anything more, Zero's gun was already aimed at the two parabolic arcs flying in the air.

boom!boom!
Two crisp gunshots rang out, and the bullets shattered the glass bottle precisely in mid-air. The two colorless liquids mixed in the air and rained down, accurately covering the wound on the Alien Queen's head.

The next second, orange-red flames roared up!

That was no ordinary flame, but a viscous, petrol-like chemical flame that clung tightly to the Queen's carapace, ignoring the corrosive effects of the acidic blood, burning wildly and turning the area scorched by the laser glowing red-hot.

The Alien Queen struggled and roared in agony amidst the flames, trying to pounce on Zhang Qi and the others, but its broken leg joints made its movements slow and clumsy.

Such speed, in the eyes of a sharpshooter like Zero Point, is no different from a stationary target.

Zero's eyes were calm and undisturbed. He steadily raised the muzzle of his gun and aimed at the area of ​​the carapace that was glowing red in the flames.

That's it.

The only flaw Zheng Zha created using his body and lasers.

He pulled the trigger.

The final projectile, enhanced by Overload mode, carrying the team's hopes, roared out. It precisely struck the weak point that had been repeatedly tormented by lasers and flames.

"Click..."

A soft cracking sound. The seemingly indestructible exoskeleton had finally been pierced.

The bullet pierced through, penetrating deep into the Alien Queen's brain. Immediately afterwards, the miniature explosives inside the warhead detonated.

"puff--"

A stream of black liquid, mixed with brain matter, blood, and bone fragments, gushed from the queen's eye sockets and mouth.

Its massive body convulsed violently, then completely lost all life and collapsed heavily to the ground, with only the flames on its body still burning tirelessly.

At the very moment the Alien Queen died, Zhang Qi heard the cold yet majestic voice of the Supreme God.

[Assist in defeating the Alien Queen; reward: 1 D-rank side quest, 500 reward points.]

With that sound, he felt a moment of disorientation, and the scene before him began to distort and blur.

The burning flames, the stench of the air, the icy lair... everything was rapidly receding into the distance.

When he regained consciousness, he found himself in a vast, boundless, pure white space.

At the center of the space, a huge white sphere of light, emitting a soft glow, floats in the air...

(End of this chapter)