Chapter 862 - 732: Shared Lifespan

The muscle fibers stretch and release like a compressed spring, with bones segmenting apart, and the ring-shaped components generated on the inner wall are pulled and extended by muscles, lengthening the bones, while the nerves disconnected due to limb extension are connected to micron-sized optical fibers.

In this form, Li Cheng no longer resembles much of a human. Even without counting the horns, his height reaches 3.5 meters, and the knotty muscles support heavy armor—

The shell itself is black, covered with nanoscale pores that reflect light, presenting a multicolor structural hue.

Arms extending below the knees manifest sharp bone blades, while the unconscious swinging of the scorpion tail behind him slices off fragments of stone from the stone-built pillars.

Of course, the most eye-catching is the newly grown organ, resembling the dorsal fin of a stegosaurus.

The large amount of heat generated by cell division, muscle friction, and visceral activity accumulates in the dorsal fin, making it hot to the touch.

Clang!

The scorpion tail swiftly retracts like a frame-skipping animation, knocking into the air a supersonic depleted uranium alloy rod shaped like a stabilized armor-piercing bullet.

Wrapped around the depleted uranium alloy rod’s surface is an arcane scroll, which automatically activates as the rod breaks and the scroll is torn apart by fragments.

With a thunderous explosion, a high-temperature fireball erupts, engulfing the inhuman monster.

This isn’t some magical girl transformation, and players won’t stand idly like NPCs watching the whole process.

The player who fired that stabilized armor-piercing bullet (belonging to Prometheus) unhesitatingly brings out a multi-barrel rocket launcher, indiscriminately shelling the position of the smoke.

The others join in the response, with explosive shockwaves rising one after another.

Swoosh—

The black smoke suddenly bursts open, and the insect-transformed monster, with traces of petrification from the [Rooting in Stone Technique] remaining on its surface, rushes directly toward that Prometheus player, crossing its bone-blade arms forward to slice the rocket nest into four pieces.

Explosive rockets within the barrel detonate violently, and that player is blown away, immediately activating the magic scroll they carry, generating a spherical shield.

With a crunching sound, the bone blade pierces the shield and rips it apart, accompanied by ear-grating squeaks, creating an opening in the high-tier magic shield.

The scorpion tail drills into the shield gap, with the venomous sting piercing the player’s abdominal skin, instantly pumping into their body an amount equivalent to a 330ml bottle of cola.

With extremely complex poison liquid composition, muscles relax, nerves become paralyzed, and consciousness dissolves simultaneously, rendering the player instantly incapable of resistance, drooling from the mouth.

This is not the end. Hundreds and thousands of optical fibers shoot out from the shell at the end of the scorpion tail, plunging into the unfortunate person’s forehead, rear neck, spine, and limbs, taking control of their body’s functions.

In the next instant, the player numbly opens their eyes, pulling a Gauss revolver machine gun out from their space items, pulling the trigger at Wanli Sealed Blade who was diving in from afar.

Brother Blade fully employs Qinggong, skillfully maneuvering between the pillars to evade all Gauss projectiles, as the Dragon Slayer Sword in his hand slashes downwards.

The insect-transformed monster doesn’t dodge but instead raises the scorpion tail, pushing the Prometheus player toward the Dragon Slayer Sword.

The sword edge quickly alters direction, skimming past the player’s attire, as instinctive battle movements cause Wanli Sealed Blade to twist his wrist in reversal, urgently raising the sword stance.

Clang clang clang clang!

In the blink of an eye, the bone blade and Dragon Slayer Sword clash hundreds of times, as Wanli Sealed Blade violently retreats, supporting with one hand on the pillar behind to halt the retreat.

’Tsk... I’ve been discovered...’

Wanli Sealed Blade’s gaze is icy. The Summoners affected by Demon City have no trust, relying entirely on rule contracts to limit mutual harm.

That Prometheus player isn’t dead yet; harming them means the rule contract will first harm oneself.

Thinking of this, Wanli Sealed Blade raises a palm toward the sky, where the Dragon Slayer Sword he’s holding in the air splits into shadows that shoot out, piercing the ground around the insect monster.

"Make a move!"

With a shout, the sword shadows tilt and rise, interconnecting to form a translucent pyramid-shaped cage.

At the same time, Gao Chenluoxing’s hollow bearings at the elbows and knees rotate rapidly, while flames burst from the thrusters on his back and soles, pushing him to glide along the ground.

Gao Chenluoxing had once entered a wasteland punk script world similar to "Gun Dream," rebelling against a massive multinational Kang Caien Group.

While he barely succeeded in the end, he was also counterattacked by the network connection pod, with 90% of his body cooked, leading a town doctor to remove his brain and transplant it into an unknown human-shaped prosthetic body.

Later, it was proven that the technological content of the nameless prosthetic is perhaps even above most of the mecha manufactured in Mechanical War Thunder.

Not only can it run and fly with infinite strength, but it can also adapt to the Killing Field System, recognized by the field as a new "Cyberman" race, further strengthening with attribute upgrades.

At this moment, Gao Chenluoxing skidded along the ground around the insect-transformed monster, holding an old camera, repeatedly pressing the shutter at high frequencies.

In the 19th century Victorian era, there was a craft known as "Deceased Photography Technique," which involved using strings to fix the body of the deceased, even propping open their eyelids, creating the illusion of life for photography, leaving behind photos for family remembrance and mourning.

Back then, they used Silver Plate Photography, while this old camera provided by [Iron Bar Can Win] only needed to take enough clear photos from a 360° angle around a target to suddenly cause it to die abruptly, without any trace.

The high-performance prosthetic moved smoothly across the slide, always maintaining focus, as the modified camera spat out photo after photo.

The attempted aid from the White Horse Tombstone and Hansel was intercepted and blocked.

The insect-transformed monster paused for a moment, observing the semi-transparent cage in front.

The pyramid cage wasn’t substantial but extremely sharp, cutting back and forth, resembling a meat grinder’s sword qi.

Because the sword qi automatically triggers and is visible to the naked eye, even if a Prometheus player were thrown in, the killing field would deem it as actively rushing into someone else’s attack range, seeking death, thus not activating rule contracts.

But since that’s the case, the insect-transformed monster crouched, reaching an arm out of the sword shadow cage.

Instantly, sparks flew, the sword qi desperately cut the chitinous shell, leaving white marks.

The insect-transformed monster reached out, clenched its fist, and struck down heavily, releasing Condensed Qi Explosion towards the marble floor.

Bang!

Millstone-sized fragments soared into the air, mixed with countless stones, hurtling towards Gao Chenluoxing.

Gao Chenluoxing’s prosthetic parts separated actively, letting stones pass through the gaps in the body, relying again on magnetic fields to bind together, piecing the prosthetic back.

Regaining footing, the old-style camera stopped abruptly, its internal parts collided, emitting black smoke.

The camera curse interrupted, the insect-transformed monster leisurely stood up, tore apart the sword shadow violently, the beast unleashed.

The neck and shoulders suffered repeated cuts from the sword qi, the chitinous surface covered in marks, with the dorsal fin area vaguely exuding blood beads, quickly absorbed back into the wound.

Wanli Sealed Blade’s breathing slightly paused, yet there wasn’t much panic or astonishment in his eyes, more of eager anticipation and... greed.

Biotechnology companies, represented by Gen-S, for a long time have been coveting the top-tier Divine Abomination Followers of the Insect Lord. How much would they pay for Pifu’s biological sample?

50,000 game coins? 100,000? Or 200,000?

Players controlled by Demon City won’t contemplate potential risks, like whether they’ll be hunted down after the mission ends. They are already driven by greed.

Wanli Sealed Blade, Gao Chenluoxing, and even the steady Iron Bar Can Win, all their eyes glinted.

Even Ω, who’s entangled with Midnight Dad, lit up with red light in the fish tank head.

Snap.

The insect-transformed monster pulled the Wolf Mad Demon Axe out from the void; the large axe, impossible for normal humans to wield, was perfectly fit in the hands of the insect-transformed monster.

Epic Quality Weapon?

Wanli Sealed Blade and others’ expressions changed, okay, be sure not to be hit directly...

Wait.

The players’ barely relaxed expressions suddenly froze, seeing the insect-transformed monster holding the Wolf Mad Demon Axe in one hand and lifting the small, palm-sized [Disease Unclean Book] like a flipbook in the other.

[Special Effect 2: Sharing Suffering. Choose a directory, randomly flip to one page under the directory, spreading the disease effect to specified range and oneself]

[Cooling Time: 5 seconds]

In human form, ensuring combat strength, can at most inflict a few or a dozen severe diseases on the enemy and oneself,

While activating insect-transformed form, physical quality and resistance significantly increased, meaning, can bear more diseases...

Heaven and Earth Same Life.

The same words echoed in Wanli Sealed Blade and others’ minds,

The insect-transformed monster’s shell-like face seemed to grin slightly, holding the plague book without wind, flipping pages rapidly.