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Chapter 158 The Winner Lives, the Loser Dies

Dong Qi carried various firearms but no melee weapons. So, after standing in front of the fence, Dong Qi simply stretched out his hands, gripped the fence, and then forcefully broke it.

To everyone's surprise, the seemingly sturdy fence was broken by Dong Qi with his bare hands.

Then Dong Qi repeatedly broke the fence, creating an opening for himself to leave.

After creating an opening in the fence to escape, Dong Qi did not leave immediately. Instead, he looked around to make sure the burly figure was no longer nearby before cautiously stepping over the fence under the watchful eyes of the others.

After Dong Qi was completely out of the cage, he suddenly heard a deep voice in his ear: "Congratulations, you have escaped the cage of imprisonment. You can choose to leave now, or you can choose to stay here."

Hearing the deep sound in his ear, Dong Qi understood why the first person to leave the cage had disappeared immediately after showing a look of joy on his face.

Dong Qi entered the secret realm in order to obtain more Origin Value.

He had just killed so many mutated insects outside with his gun, but when Dong Qi opened the data panel in his mind to check how much Origin Value he had gained...

Only then did I realize that even after killing so many mutated insects, I only gained less than twenty points of Origin Value after the settlement.

It seems that the amount of the original essence carried by those mutant insects is extremely low, but thinking about it the other way around, it is actually normal.

After all, the number of mutated insects outside is countless. If each mutated insect carries a large amount of origin, then the original will of Blue Star would have been defeated by alien creatures long ago and would have no ability to introduce third-party visitors from other worlds into the battlefield.

It seems that to obtain a large amount of Origin Value, one still needs to kill those giant mutants or explore the secret realm and destroy its core.

Although a notification sound came through his ear, Dong Qi did not make any choice.

After seeing Dong Qi leave the cage, he stood motionless outside it. The other members of the convoy who were still trapped inside were all waving their arms and legs, hoping that Dong Qi would help rescue them.

However, due to their special circumstances, no matter how much noise they made in their respective cages, the sound was always locked inside the cages, and not a single sound could travel outside.

Coming to his senses, Dong Qi looked up and saw the others around him gesturing wildly, even though he could only see them opening and closing their mouths as if they were saying something, but couldn't hear what they were actually saying.

But just from those actions, one can roughly guess what they were thinking at that moment.

Although Dong Qi could leave directly at this point, he considered that they were all members of the caravan, and he also needed others to explore the secret realm together.

So Dong Qi walked straight to the nearest cage. Just as he reached out and was about to grab the bars, he suddenly felt a deadly danger emanating from them.

Dong Qi immediately withdrew his hand, then waved it. Just as he was about to explain, he suddenly remembered something and immediately shut his mouth.

To verify his hypothesis, Dong Qi changed the cage and did the same thing as before, reaching out to probe again, feeling the same deadly feeling once more.

The others in the cage, seeing Dong Qi's actions one after another, although they didn't know the specifics, roughly guessed that Dong Qi's inability to help was likely due to some kind of restriction.

Finally, Dong Qi shrugged helplessly. Although he didn't say anything, everyone else knew from his gesture that he couldn't help the others escape the cage.

Seeing that Dong Qi had been moving around outside the cage for so long without the burly figure from before appearing, the others still inside the cage began to get restless.

Since they couldn't wait for help from others, they decided to follow the example of others and break down the fence in front of them to save themselves.

Upon seeing the excited looks on the other people's faces, Dong Qi immediately remembered his earlier guess, so he decisively turned around and tiptoed toward the only exit of the passage.

Those who were about to break down the cage bars paused when they saw Dong Qi's actions. Only after Dong Qi entered the passage and left did they react and immediately use their weapons to destroy the bars in front of them.

As expected, the fence in front of those people did not hold for long under their attack. When the first person broke through the fence and left the cage, before he could even hear the deep voice in his ear...

He could no longer contain his earlier silence and shouted out loud, wanting to vent his pent-up feelings.

But shortly after he spoke, his body was firmly grasped by a giant hand, and like the man before him, he was shaken up and down by the giant hand, and finally thrown back into the cage where he was originally.

Only then did those in the cages notice that the very burly figure had reappeared at some point.

Even those convoy members who hadn't yet left the cage but were merely damaging the fence were grabbed by the giant hand, dragged out of the cage, tossed around wildly, and then thrown back into the cage heavily.

After dealing with all the convoy members who had damaged the fence, the burly figure disappeared from everyone's sight once again.

After the burly figure disappeared, the convoy members who hadn't managed to break the cage in time thought about their companion who was the first to break the cage and leave, and Dong Qi's actions after leaving the cage.

After just a moment's thought, he already had a guess as to why that burly figure had appeared.

Next, we wait for the others to arrive and see who can't resist escaping the cage first to prove their point.

Unfortunately, even those intelligent people were so engrossed in what they had just witnessed that they didn't notice anything amiss.

The longer they stay in the cages, the weaker they become, and the more difficult the fences that confine them become to break.

As Dong Qi left the underground prison and walked out of the passage, he felt as if he had entered a gladiatorial arena.

The spacious central area is surrounded by layers of spectator stands.

Dong Qi tried to jump onto the audience seats, but before he could get close, that instinctive sense of danger returned.

It goes without saying that to truly unlock this secret realm, victory in the next battle is essential.

Just as Dong Qi was pondering how to find the core of this secret realm, the door to the opposite passage opened, and a mutated insect walked out of the passage.

Seeing the enemy opposite him, Dong Qi was really at a loss for words. After all, even though they were outside, they were being chased by those mutated insects and dared not stop their cars.

But that's because there are so many mutant insects that if you stop your car, you'll be attacked by an endless stream of mutant insects.

But if there's only one mutated insect around, think about how weak those mutated marine creatures are. In a one-on-one fight, even the weakest mutated marine creature would treat the mutated insect in front of it as a meal and eat it easily.

That's why Dong Qi, who originally thought he would be facing a very powerful enemy, felt somewhat at a loss the moment he saw the mutated insect.

Although Dong Qi was somewhat taken aback when he saw that his opponent was a mutant insect, the mutant insect did not stand still after leaving the passage.

Upon seeing Dong Qi standing not far away, the mutated insect, as if it were outside, recklessly charged towards Dong Qi.

Before the mutated insect could get close, a gunshot rang out, and the mutated insect's body was shattered by a bullet from Dong Qi's gun.

After the battle ended, there was no cheering from the empty stands.

However, as the shattered corpses of the mutated insects on the ground suddenly disappeared, a figure with the head of a mutated insect appeared in the previously empty stands.

If the audience seats hadn't been empty at that moment, and if that figure hadn't been so conspicuous, Dong Qi might not have noticed its sudden appearance at all.

Upon seeing a lone survivor in the empty stands, Dong Qi didn't hesitate to use the bullets in his gun, raising his hand and firing a shot.

Unfortunately, the audience seats seemed to be protected by an invisible barrier; the bullets were deflected before they even got close to the seats.

Perhaps Dong Qi's rash actions had angered the secret realm, and as punishment, five figures immediately emerged from the opposite passage once more.

Seeing the five mutated insects reappear, Dong Qi no longer hesitated and fired in quick succession, eliminating the mutated insects that had just left the opposite passage.

Having just eliminated the mutated insects on the other side, Dong Qi immediately turned his gaze back to the audience.

Just as Dong Qi had guessed, with the death of the five mutated insects, five more audience members appeared in the stands.

As the door to the opposite passage reopened, Dong Qi expected to see even more mutated insects.

But after the figure left the opposite passage, Dong Qi realized that the enemy that appeared this time was actually the same earth-yellow humanoid creature he had seen outside.

Having already clashed with him in the outside world, Dong Qizhong knew that while the firearms he carried could inflict damage, their terrifying regenerative abilities made it difficult to kill him outright.

However, in Dong Qi's view, no matter how strong the defense or how powerful the recovery ability, as long as there is enough firepower, it can eventually be destroyed.

Some of the fear stems from insufficient firepower.

Anything that has a physical form can be destroyed by firearms.

That's what I thought in my mind, and that's what I did in my actions.

Dong Qi released the rifle he had just used and directly unfastened the heavy machine gun that he had been carrying on his back.

The heavy machine gun, which ordinary people could only set up on the ground and required two people to work together, was carried by Dong Qi with one hand and the other hand holding the heavy ammunition belt, so that the bullets could be supplied smoothly when the heavy machine gun was firing.

The heavy machine gun carried by Dong Qi used bullets with a caliber of 14.5×114mm, which is larger than the commonly used 12.7mm bullets.

In actual tests, it can directly penetrate 40mm of steel armor within a range of 500 meters. This means that even a common armored vehicle can be penetrated with just one bullet.

Of course, precisely because of this, heavy machine guns, due to their own heavy weight and the weight of their ammunition, require multiple people to transport, let alone use them, without a vehicle for transport.

Dong Qi was able to use heavy weapons, which were originally used by multiple people, as individual weapons because his body had been strengthened multiple times by the Forging Treasure Technique.

Even so, in order not to affect his flexibility in combat, Dong Qi did not carry many bullets with him.

After all, Dong Qi didn't have any personal space. Even though the weight of those bullets was negligible to Dong Qi, carrying too many bullets would still take up space and affect Dong Qi's mobility.

However, under normal circumstances, two hundred bullets are enough to make most physical beings feel the passion of heavy firepower.

Dong Qi, as always, fired his gun directly as soon as the other party left the opposite passage, showing a complete lack of sportsmanship.

Because of prior contact with the outside world, Dong Qi did not fire in bursts as he usually did, but instead pressed the trigger directly.

In less than a minute, Dong Qi had emptied all one hundred bullets from the ammunition belt.

Even the tan-colored figure opposite him, upon seeing Dong Qi raise his gun, had already assumed a defensive stance with his shield raised.

However, when faced with the close-range fire of the heavy machine gun in Dong Qi's hand, the round shield in the opponent's hand did not last long before it was shattered into pieces by the thick bullets.

Even though the opponent possessed a very strong regenerative ability, the dense barrage of bullets left them no time to recover, and their entire body was shattered into pieces by the intense hail of bullets.

For the heavy machine gun in Dong Qi's hands, a firing distance of less than 300 meters is considered close-range shooting. Moreover, at this moment, the distance between Dong Qi and the opponent is only about 100 meters.

Most bullets, when they hit an opponent's body, easily penetrate directly through it.

However, during this process, Dong Qi keenly noticed that at the beginning, several bullets that hit the same spot seemed to hit some hard object and did not penetrate the opponent's body directly.

Fortunately, Dong Qi had strong control, and the bullets were very densely packed in a short period of time. In the end, the spot that was not directly penetrated by the bullets could not withstand the continuous barrage of bullets and was eventually penetrated by the bullets that hit the same spot later.

After emptying his magazine, Dong Qi looked at the ground opposite him, which was now shattered into pieces. He wondered how he should fight back if his opponent could recover even after being reduced to this state.

Fortunately, as the debris on the ground disappeared, the earthen-yellow figure appeared in the audience.

Upon seeing the figure that suddenly appeared in the audience, Dong Qi finally confirmed that he had completely killed that guy.

However, it seems that killing one person consumes an entire belt of one hundred bullets, which is quite terrifying, considering that Dong Qi only carried two hundred bullets with him this time.

It wasn't that Dong Qi couldn't bear the weight of those bullets, but compared to other bullets, these bullets were relatively large. If he carried too many bullets at once, it might affect Dong Qi's agility.

In addition, Dong Qi also needs to carry other weapons and ammunition, so two hundred rounds in two ammunition belts is the most suitable quantity.

Although it took an entire belt of ammunition, a hundred rounds, to eliminate the khaki-colored figure, Dong Qi also discovered a fatal spot on the opponent's body during the battle.

That earthen-yellow figure, like the dragons in movies and TV shows, had the strongest defense in the reverse scale area, but the area protected by the reverse scale was also its fatal weakness.

Once the dragon's reverse scale is broken, even if the dragon has a powerful regenerative ability, it can be killed quickly.

Only the unknown can be terrifying. Knowing the weakness of the yellowish-brown figure will make the subsequent battle much easier.

As if on cue, the passage across the way reopened, and upon seeing the same earthen-yellow humanoid creature appear, Dong Qi's tense mood immediately relaxed.

However, as more and more figures emerged from the opposite passage, Dong Qi's originally relaxed expression gradually became tense.

Logically speaking, after Dong Qi killed one figure, he shouldn't have had five more emerge to fight him, just like those mutated insects.

But as figures kept appearing one after another, Dong Qi roughly counted them and found that there were more than thirty of them.

Based on the situation just now, even if Dong Qi hit the opponent's vital parts in the abdomen with every shot, it would still take four or five shots to kill him completely.

He only has one belt of a hundred rounds left, which means that even if he hits every shot, he can only kill about twenty people at most.

As he watched the figures in khaki hues continue to emerge from the opposite passage in the distance, Dong Qi's heart sank lower and lower.

Fortunately, just as Dong Qi's spirits were about to sink to rock bottom, the passage behind him opened again.

Noticing the commotion behind him, Dong Qi turned around and saw Lu Ziye leading a few people as they slowly walked out of the passage.

Perhaps because they saw the earthy-yellow figures still appearing in the distance, Lu Ziye and the others, who were initially excited about leaving the cage, gradually became somewhat embarrassed.

Before Lu Ziye and the others could ask about the current situation, Dong Qi spoke up first: "Those guys over there are not immortal. Their abdomens are their weak points. As long as we break their abdomens, they will die."

After hearing Dong Qi point out the opponent's weakness, everyone's expressions gradually relaxed.

Knowing the opponent's weaknesses, even if the opponent outnumbers them, the fear in everyone's hearts gradually disappears.

After all, once the opponent reveals their health bar, even a god can be killed.

At this moment, Lu Ziye and the others walked up to Dong Qi and asked him, "What's going on now?"

Hearing Lu Ziye's question, Dong Qi shrugged helplessly: "You see, in the arena, the winner lives and the loser dies."