Chapter 373 - 198: Underground Nuclear Explosion, Mother Empress Severely Injured, The Pursuit

Chapter 373: Chapter 198: Underground Nuclear Explosion, Mother Empress Severely Injured, The Pursuit

Ling Yi nodded in agreement.

"As long as the Nuclear Bomb kills those Black Spine Zergs and Tiger Spine Zergs and doesn’t give the Mother Empress a chance to replenish its Life Value, even if it has sixty percent of its strength left, it will just take a few more slashes to finish."

"When the time comes, I’ll help you pin it down, just like last time in the Slaughter Realm."

Lin Feng agreed wholeheartedly, offering encouragement.

"We even managed to take down a King Spine Zerg that had mastered the Slaughter Realm. A mere Tier Three Early Stage Zerg Race Mother Empress will be no problem at all!"

Ling Yi smiled and began to focus on calculating the time it would take for the Jiangbei Mother Empress to reach the nuclear bomb inside the black box.

When it was three hundred and fifty meters from the transfer station, Ling Yi immediately spoke up:

"The time is right!"

Without a trace of hesitation, Lin Feng opened the dynamic password display and connected it to the black box’s detonation program.

Once the two were linked, a long password string appeared.

He calmly entered it, successfully activating the nuclear bomb’s detonation program.

Finally, he set a three-minute detonation delay.

The program entered its countdown phase.

Now, unless someone opened the lid and pressed the stop button, no one could prevent the warhead’s detonation.

He completed all of this in one go, taking only about half a minute. Lin Feng then stood up, put away the device, and looked at Ling Yi.

They looked at each other, nodded slightly, and left the lowest level of the transfer station one after another.

Before leaving, Ling Yi summoned the Red-Armored Beetle Swarm gathered there, spreading it evenly across the lowest level. This was to allay the Jiangbei Mother Empress’s suspicions while also concealing the presence of the black box containing the nuclear bomb.

Although the nuclear bomb was shielded by lead plates, its highly concentrated nuclear fuel still possessed an extremely high energy density.

However, before leaving, Ling Yi had also placed several layers of a Spiritual Concealment Shield on it. That should be enough to deceive the Mother Empress’s Spiritual Scan.

Only when the Mother Empress walked right up to it and specifically investigated the subway platform’s environment would it discover the nuclear bomb’s existence. By then, however, it would be too late!

Even if it summoned a Divine Domain Descent, it couldn’t withstand that fifty-thousand-ton-equivalent warhead!

The nearly one-million-degree temperature at the center of the explosion—never mind a Zerg Race Mother Empress, even a Tier Four Cosmic Powerhouse would struggle to withstand such scorching heat.

However, this central temperature would be quickly absorbed by the nearby concrete structures and cavern walls. What actually reached the Mother Empress’s body would probably only be a few thousand degrees.

But even so, that was enough to make it suffer greatly.

After all, even a being as strong as the King Spine Zerg, which dwelled within a volcano, could only tolerate lava of two to three thousand degrees.

Therefore, the searing heat and shockwave from the nuclear blast would be enough to strip away the defensive Outer Armor from the Mother Empress’s body and cook several layers of its flesh.

At that point, they would be facing a gigantic monster, its Life Value constantly draining, reduced to little more than a skeleton.

Soon after, Lin Feng and Ling Yi, having left the subway station, arrived at the encampment of the Tier Two Close Combat Team three kilometers away. They were preparing to lead the team back to the transfer station to carry out the final reaping of the Mother Empress.

The Battle Soldier Camp had also been notified and was on its way.

Three minutes later, a colossal, muffled explosion tore through the sky above the crossroads where the subway station was located. Like rolling thunder, it sent a violent tremor through the earth.

The surface asphalt and concrete foundations of the entire intersection were instantly ripped open, erupting like a volcano and flinging debris over a radius of more than ten kilometers.

The terrifying nuclear explosion had finally arrived!

As the sound of the explosion rolled over them, the knot of suspense in everyone’s stomachs loosened. They were poised and ready for action.

Lin Feng and the others took cover behind a building two kilometers away. Despite being so far from the epicenter, they still felt the powerful shockwave from the nuclear blast. It shattered the glass and cracked the building’s exterior wall.

Even though the Nuclear Bomb was buried underground and the subway tunnels absorbed most of the light and thermal Energy released by the fission, its power was still not to be underestimated.

After more than a full minute, the secondary aftershocks from the nuclear blast began to subside.

Lin Feng took the lead. Clad in his Flying Tiger Armor and wielding an Electromagnetic Cannon and a Tiger-toothed Chainsaw Sword, he charged toward the epicenter two kilometers away.

The radiation left by the nuclear blast was not fatal to a Tier Two Awakener; at most, it would just cause them to lose a layer of skin.

Their powerful self-healing abilities and rapid cell replication allowed gene-protein chains shattered by radiation particles to reform in a short time. The rate at which their surface tissues decayed was slower than the rate at which healthy tissue could heal.

Nuclear radiation was essentially a debuff that constantly drained the Life Value of any creature caught within it.

But for a Tier Two Awakener with a Life Value Attribute over 200, the effect was minimal—unless they decided to eat, sleep, and relieve themselves exclusively in the crater at the epicenter.

And that was without even mentioning the protection provided by their Armor.

For the Zerg Race in the underground tunnels, however, this radiation debuff was far more lethal.

After all, having already been scorched to the brink of death by the nuclear blast’s inferno, they were now being assailed by invisible, intangible, and yet omnipresent radiation particles. It was as if, every moment, ten thousand fine needles were piercing through their bodies, penetrating their very flesh.

Meanwhile, protected by their Orange Tiger Armor, the effects of the radiation on Lin Feng and his group were almost negligible.

This all served to tip the scales of victory further in their favor.

The group sprinted, reaching the epicenter in just over ten seconds. There, they saw a crater a hundred meters wide and several hundred meters deep. The air was thick with dust and grit that reeked of burnt flesh, and a column of dense smoke billowed thousands of meters into the sky.

But then, a sharp, ear-piercing shriek cut through the smoke-filled crater. A colossal beast, well over fifty meters tall and larger than a building, revealed its form from within the dust and smoke.