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Chapter 400 The Hunted Predator
The next moment, a piercing shriek, sharp enough to tear eardrums, converged from all directions.

The earth was shaking, and a black wave was sweeping in at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Thousands upon thousands of aliens surged forth from the pre-dug burrows, from every corner of the darkness.

Their long, black heads reflected a deathly glow in the dim light, and they moved with a speed unlike any other flesh and blood creature, using all four limbs.

Upon seeing this overwhelming black legion, the face beneath the helmet of the leading Iron-Blooded Elder instantly froze.

trap!

This was a trap set for them from the very beginning!

There should be no anger, or rather, as a hunter, the angrier you are, the calmer you should be.

A slight mechanical creak came from the metal spine on the Iron-Blooded Elder's back, and a retractable spear, gleaming with a cold light, instantly sprang out and was firmly grasped in his hand. He
It let out a series of short, powerful growls, the language of the Ironblood race.

The remaining young Predators reacted immediately, standing back to back with the elders, instantly forming a stable triangular battle formation.

The open hatch of the spaceship was right behind them, serving as both their escape route and their last line of defense and shelter.

They will rely on this cold, steel behemoth to fight against this endless nightmare.

“Hiss—!”

The aliens at the front had already rushed forward. One alien leaped high into the air, its sharp tail blade like a scorpion's stinger, aiming straight for the head of a Predator.

The young Predator neither dodged nor evaded; with a flick of his wrist, his arm blade shot out with a "whoosh." A flash of silver light, and the alien was cleanly cleaved in two mid-air.

The strong acid blood spurted out, but the Predator nimbly dodged it, leaving only a hissing white smoke on the sand.

The battle broke out instantly.

The Predator's fighting style is full of primal savagery; the spears, wrist blades, and circular saws in their hands are all deadly weapons.

Faced with the surging tide of aliens, they showed no panic. Every swing and every thrust took the life of an alien.

The Iron-Blooded Elder's battles were nothing short of art.

The spear in his hand seemed to come alive, sometimes striking like a venomous dragon emerging from its lair, precisely piercing the alien's hard skull.
Sometimes it swept away three or four aliens that pounced on it at the same time, like a whirlwind sweeping away leaves.

Those killing machines, touted in Weyland Corporation's documents as having exoskeletons comparable to alloy armor, are as fragile as butter cut by a hot knife in the face of the Predator's melee weapons.

As soon as they engaged in combat, the Iron-Blooded Elder realized that although the number of these aliens was terrifying, the combat power of a single individual was not as great as that of the aliens.

They're more like mass-produced, low-quality goods...

Even so, their numerical advantage remained overwhelming. The battle formation was constantly under attack; while efficiently slaughtering the enemies before them, they moved towards the spaceship's hatch under the elder's command.

"It's really amazing..."

In the underground command center several kilometers away, Zhan Lan looked at the images in the mental scan and couldn't help but sigh.

"If they don't even have this much skill, they don't deserve to be called the strongest hunters in the universe."

Zhang Qi's calm voice rang out in the command room. His gaze didn't even linger on the main screen, but instead was fixed on another screen displaying a perspective view of the spacecraft's internal structure.

"However, the warm-up is over."

He picked up the communicator and gave a brief command into the microphone.

"At midnight, the second phase begins."

Let's give our hunter friends a little surprise.

"clear."

One kilometer away, in a camouflaged sniper position, Zero's cold voice came through the tactical channel.

He lay prone on the cold sand, his body becoming one with the earth.

In front of him was a huge, grotesque sniper rifle with a futuristic design—a specially modified Gauss sniper rifle.

He had already locked onto his target.

It is accompanied by a slight humming sound from the electromagnetic release.

A specially modified bullet, filled with high explosives, vanished without a trace in the blink of an eye.

The next moment, in the distant Gobi Desert, a huge fireball suddenly exploded from the side and rear of a Ironblood spaceship, right where the engine was located!

With terrifying kinetic energy at dozens of times the speed of sound, the warhead easily tore through the spaceship's exotic alloy hull and precisely detonated the internal energy core.

The violent explosion sent dozens of aliens flying and also jolted the three Predators who were engaged in fierce combat.

Our escape route has been cut off!
The Iron-Blooded Elder let out a deafening roar, a roar filled with the fury of being mocked and a hint of barely perceptible panic.

He ceased fighting and swung his spear sharply, forcing back the alien in front of him, while issuing a series of urgent commands.

The remaining young Predators immediately understood. They abandoned their plan to retreat towards the hatch, quickly contracted their defensive line, and retreated to the hull of another intact spaceship, a natural blind spot for fire.

The elder's tactical intention was clear—to prevent that deadly sniper shot from the darkness.

Upon achieving his goal, Zhang Qi's lips curled into a smile.

"Alright, the guests have taken their seats. It's time for us hosts to make our appearance."

As he finished speaking, the members of the Central Continent Team, who had been hiding behind bunkers around the Gobi Desert, no longer concealed themselves.

"Fire!"

Zheng Zha roared, and the M41A pulse rifle in his hand spat out angry tongues of fire, the heavy and rhythmic gunshots echoing across the battlefield.

The Overlord was like a mobile artillery platform, wildly firing his pulse rifle, with spent cartridges clattering all over the ground.

Li Xiaoyi and Li Shuaixi followed closely behind, their smart grenades tracing precise parabolic arcs as they exploded amidst the alien horde, effectively dividing the battlefield and clearing a path for the "main course" to arrive.

Just as the Predator was suppressed by the firepower and unable to lift its head, several figures much larger than ordinary aliens slowly emerged from behind the alien army.

They stand nearly four meters tall, with a more robust build, and their exoskeletons are covered with an extra layer of bone-like armor, making them appear even more ferocious and terrifying. Most importantly, the sheer oppressive aura and ferocity they exude are far beyond what those "mass-produced" animals can match.

This is a mutated combat-type alien created by Zhang Qi through optimization and catalysis using biotechnology.

Their power and speed were already very close to that of the alien queen they encountered on the spaceship.

This is the real feast that Zhang Qi prepared for the Iron-Blooded Warriors.

"Roar--!"

With a non-human roar, several mutated aliens took heavy steps and charged towards the Predator's position.

Their massive bodies rampaged across the battlefield, making ordinary aliens appear tiny in comparison, who were knocked off balance by their impact.

Within the Iron-Blooded Elder's masked vision, the sudden appearance of these massive heat sources instantly raised the alarm level to its highest level!
He immediately realized that this was the real killer move.

Under the devastating charge of the mutated aliens and the precise and annoying harassment fire of the Central Continent Team, the Predator's already precarious battle formation was instantly shattered.

A young Predator was unable to dodge in time and was struck hard by the giant claw of a mutated alien. His heavy armor made a teeth-grinding twisting sound, and he was sent flying like a kite with a broken string, crashing heavily into the hull of the spaceship.

The situation took a turn for the worse.

A resolute glint flashed in the Iron-Blooded Elder's eyes.

He held nothing back, suddenly raising his left shoulder, the iconic plasma shoulder cannon opening its muzzle and beginning to rapidly charge.

In the tradition of the Predator race, using a plasma cannon to deal with such prey is a disgrace.

But now, tradition and glory are no longer important. Survival trumps everything.

"Om-"

A beam of bluish-white particle cannon, containing extremely high-temperature energy, shot out, ionizing the air along its path due to the instantaneous high temperature, emitting a piercing screech.

However, just as the destructive beam was about to hit the mutated alien, from another direction, a particle cannon, equally thick and filled with destructive energy, arrived at an even faster speed.

boom! ! !
The two particle cannons collided precisely in mid-air, unleashing a ball of light several times brighter than the earlier explosion of the spaceship's engine.

A terrifying energy shockwave spread outwards, blasting away all the sand and alien debris on the ground, creating a brief vacuum zone.

The intense light from the explosion made everyone instinctively close their eyes.

After a long while, when the dust settled and the view returned, the Iron-Blooded Elder stood there, stunned.

Most of his companions had already fallen into pools of blood, torn to pieces by several aliens.

The remaining creatures were also besieged by the mutated aliens, and their defeat was only a matter of time.

His gaze swept across the chaotic battlefield, finally settling on the direction from which the particle cannon had been fired.

Within the black alien army, a passage was deliberately cleared away.

A figure, entirely black and possessing a streamlined, bio-like texture, slowly walked out.

Before that figure, these ferocious cosmic beasts, which had been incredibly savage just moments before, now behaved like the most docile little dogs, lowering their menacing and elongated heads and retracting their claws and fangs.

Seeing this, Elder Ironblood finally understood completely.

From the moment they received the coming-of-age trial signal and landed on this planet, they were no longer hunters.

Wearing the Guyver armor, Kaip, Zhang Qi slowly walked to the center of the battlefield, raised his hand, and beckoned to the only remaining, solitary Ironblood Elder.

"bring it on."

Zhang Qi's voice came through the external loudspeaker of the KAP armor, calm and clear.

"I will bestow upon you the honor of being a warrior."

The Iron-Blooded Elder couldn't understand human language, but he understood the gesture and sensed the meaning behind the words.

He slowly lowered the plasma cannon from his shoulder, the light from its muzzle dimming. He discarded the somewhat deformed spear in his hand, and then drew a more ancient and heavier double-edged battle axe from behind his back.

This is his weapon of honor, which he only uses when facing the most respected opponents.

As a battle-hardened elder, he had experienced countless baptisms of blood and fire over the long years, and his combat skills had long been honed to perfection.

He knew he was going to die today, but as a Predator, he could choose how he died.

"Roar--!"

The Iron-Blooded Elder looked up to the sky and let out a roar filled with tragic heroism and fighting spirit. It was his way of announcing his true name, a name of glory that belonged only to the victors and the dying.

Then, he moved.

His massive body unleashed a speed completely disproportionate to its size, carrying an unstoppable momentum as he launched a final charge towards Zhang Qi.

However, Zhang Qi's combat skills were still superior to those of this iron-blooded elder.

The accumulated combat experience across several worlds, coupled with the superior physical abilities granted by the Guyver Armor that surpassed those of the Ironblood Elders, meant that the outcome of this battle was predetermined from the start.

Faced with the Iron-Blooded Elder's powerful axe blow, Zhang Qi did not retreat but advanced, his body slightly tilted to the side at an incredible angle.

At the same time, sharp high-frequency blades instantly popped out from the arm of the KAP armor.

The sword flashed.

The Iron-Blooded Elder's charge came to an abrupt halt.

He looked down at the perfectly smooth cut on his chest, a hint of confusion flashing in his eyes before turning into understanding.

Such a fast knife...

His tall body swayed, and finally he collapsed to his knees, then fell forward, kicking up a cloud of dust.

[Defeat the Predator Elder to obtain one C-rank side quest, rewarding 5000 points.]

(End of this chapter)