Chapter 918: Monster Main Body

918. Monster Main Body

"This really doesn't seem right..."

"Is his head glowing?"

"Are we going to make a move?"

The surrounding survivors discussed amongst themselves. The survivor who had spoken earlier walked over to Su Yue and stopped her from continuing to draw the map.

"There's something wrong with this person! You can't draw out the base's structure!"

Bang!

Lin Ye directly drew his pistol and blew off that survivor's head.

"Keep drawing."

Some of the other survivors also drew their weapons, aiming them at Lin Ye.

But before those survivors could fire, Lin Ye turned and sprayed bullets, killing every survivor who had tried to attack him.

With light perception, he didn't need to turn his head at all to sense everyone's position and movements.

"We're still attacking each other in this situation? There are monsters coming from outside!"

Zhao Jie ran to the doorway, firing his gun to kill the monsters in the corridor.

"That's about it."

Su Yue finally finished drawing the map. She picked up her weapon and ran to the doorway to join Zhao Jie in shooting down the approaching Fleshy Monsters.

Lin Ye memorized the map. Ignoring the gazes of the surrounding survivors, he carried his weapon toward the Armory entrance.

The corridor was packed with all kinds of weapon-wielding Fleshy Monsters. Even for Lin Ye, it was difficult to fight his way out.

Zhao Jie and Su Yue had already retreated far from the Armory entrance. Bullets fell like rain near the entrance, pulverizing the Fleshy Structure there.

Lin Ye returned fire through the wall with the Machine Gun. His bullets killed the Fleshy Monsters that were shooting, but more Fleshy Monsters surged forward like living dead.

The other survivors hurried to help, but the Fleshy Monsters outside seemed endless, impossible to kill completely.

"I think I've seen something like this before. This seems to be some kind of research project! But I can't remember what project it was!"

One survivor shouted while killing monsters.

"I might have done experiments related to that research project, but the specimen should have been some kind of derivative. I never came into contact with the main body of the research project.

We might need to deal with the main body of these Fleshy Monsters to get rid of them."

Another survivor provided a piece of information.

"How do we find the main body?"

Zhao Jie hurriedly asked.

"...I can't remember clearly. It seems to be related to the number of duplicates. Only when there are enough duplicates can the main body be killed."

That survivor thought for a moment before answering.

The Fleshy Monsters had already approached the Armory door. Lin Ye hid behind a shelf, continuously killing the Fleshy Monsters that rushed into the Armory.

These Fleshy Monsters no longer had weapons in their hands, but they used their bodies to tank the bullets, slowly squeezing into the Armory.

Lin Ye felt that this time he was probably going to die. He couldn't kill all these monsters, and he couldn't find their main body.

Just as he was thinking about how to deal with these monsters in the next simulation, the Fleshy Monsters at the doorway broke through the defense line, surging into the Armory like a tide.

The Fleshy Monsters pounced on the survivors, turning them into new Fleshy Monsters.

Lin Ye, Zhao Jie, and Su Yue retreated to the deepest part of the Armory. They kept shooting the Fleshy Monsters closing in, but their bullets were running low.

Aside from the three of them, all the other survivors had become new Fleshy Monsters.

"Damn it! There's no exit here at all! How is there not even a ventilation duct?!"

After discovering the large door was blocked, Zhao Jie had been considering how to escape.

But after the flesh transformation, the Armory was a sealed coffin, without even a gap to be found.

Lin Ye loaded his last magazine. The Fleshy Monsters had gotten right in front of them. With this many Fleshy Monsters, even if they could get into the ventilation duct, it would only buy them a little time.

Zhao Jie roared and lunged at the nearest Fleshy Monster, and was then torn to shreds by those Fleshy Monsters.

Su Yue was almost incapable of close combat. She was quickly surrounded and killed by the Fleshy Monsters.

Only Lin Ye still struggled barely among the Fleshy Monsters, but as the space to dodge grew smaller and smaller, he too was submerged among the Fleshy Monsters.

His body was torn to pieces, leaving only a head emitting silver-white light still undestroyed.

This wasn't because Lin Ye had some special method, but rather because after his body was torn apart, those Fleshy Monsters began to melt, turning into pools of rotting meat chunks.

This made Lin Ye think of the information that survivor had provided earlier. The main body of the Fleshy Monsters was very likely related to the number of duplicates. Perhaps only when enough duplicates appeared would the true body show itself.

Lin Ye extended several thick nerve bundles, barely propping up his head.

Just as Lin Ye was preparing to run away first, a Fleshy Monster covered in strange runes walked into the Armory.

"You are the main body of those Fleshy Monsters?"

Lin Ye tried to communicate with it, gathering information about the research project.

"...The strong one's brain... delicious... I need more... research material... fresh brains... very good..."

The Monster Main Body walked up to Lin Ye and tore open his skull like opening a can.

"I'm honored."

Lin Ye tilted to the side, revealing the gun muzzle hidden behind his head.

Bang!

The nerve bundles pulled the trigger. The Monster Main Body's reaction speed was incredibly fast, it actually used its tentacle to sever the bullet's trajectory, but the silver-white bullet still pierced through its brain.

"Why... you couldn't possibly... penetrate my defense..."

The Monster Main Body quickly retreated toward the Armory entrance, but after only a few steps, it collapsed to the ground.

"What trash. I thought you would fight me to the death, try to finish me off."

Lin Ye had already prepared to fight desperately, but the enemy had fled instead.

Bullets might not be able to pierce the Monster Main Body's defense, but light with extremely strong penetrating power was a different matter.

After using silver-white light as material for Alienation, Lin Ye had gained an ability to briefly turn a certain substance into light. Earlier, he had used this ability to extend his nerve bundles outside and open the container.

However, this ability could only be maintained for an extremely short time, and the light-converted object couldn't be too large, so Lin Ye hadn't used this ability earlier to attack the Fleshy Monsters.

The Monster Main Body had already raised its tentacle the moment it saw the gun muzzle, but neither its tentacle nor its defense could block the silver light from passing through.

In the end, the silver light entered the interior of the Monster Main Body's brain. The light conversion ended, and the bullet, restored to its original state, destroyed the Monster Main Body's brain.

'Good thing those duplicates all melted.'

Lin Ye slowly crawled over to the Monster Main Body, cleared out the Monster Main Body's brain, and then swapped himself into a new body.

Under the effect of the special spiritual imprint, the fusion process went very smoothly. Before long, Lin Ye had taken control of this new body.