Ashen God
Chapter 197 - 196: T-103 Type Tyrant·Tracker

Chapter 197: Chapter 196: T-103 Type Tyrant·Tracker

Half an hour later, Zhang Yanhang had successfully cleared the Umbrella Company’s Raccoon City branch, finding nothing but a few scattered treasure boxes.

Zhang Yanhang currently stood in a brightly lit underground tunnel, facing a Tracker clad in a black restraint leather jacket.

Confronting this Tracker, with a staggering height of over two and a half meters and a weight of at least a ton, charging at him at a speed of about 100 kilometers per hour with its Charge Skill, Zhang Yanhang took advantage of the brief moment before the Tracker’s fist, nearly as large as a washbasin, smashed into his face to silently check the Tracker’s attribute list.

[T-103 Type Tyrant・Tracker (Lord Monster)]

[Level: Second Tier 2 Stars]

[Talent: 1. Slow Corrosion. 2. T-Virus Carrier (Biological Weapon).]

[Slow Corrosion: In the zombie state, the speed of rotting is reduced by 90%, consumption of Physical Strength is reduced by 90%. Physical Strength +10%.]

[T-Virus Carrier (Biological Weapon): The ’Tracker,’ a bioweapon developed by the Umbrella Corporation’s European branch, is a product of the fusion of the ’Nemesis Parasite-α (codenamed Revenge Goddess)’ parasite with the T-103 mass-produced Tyrant.

After absorbing T-virus-infected cells as nutrients, the tentacles of the Revenge Goddess parasite achieve full control over the T-103 mass-produced Tyrant’s body, ultimately controlling all of the host’s actions, by excising and destroying part of the Tyrant’s frontal lobe and a portion of the brain.

Umbrella Corporation controls the Tracker, which has taken over the brain and body with the Revenge Goddess parasite, by injecting thought chips for combat purposes. Thanks to the high intelligence of the Revenge Goddess parasite, the Tracker can skillfully use a variety of firearm types and perfectly understand mission commands.

Apart from rapidly enhancing the Tracker’s body by large infusions of the T-virus, the second brain formed by the Revenge Goddess parasite occupying the Tracker’s body grants it a super-speed regeneration ability, far superior to that of the G-virus. Once in crisis, the Tracker rapidly activates its subsequent second, third, and fourth stages to annihilate enemies.

Whether in terms of combat strength or intelligence, the Tracker is undoubtedly the most perfect Tyrant product compared to the previous flawed T-001 prototype Tyrant, T-002 prototype Tyrant, and T-103 mass-produced Tyrant.]

[Life Value: 600/600]

[Energy Value: 0/0]

[Strength: 30]

[Agility: 25]

[Constitution: 30]

[Intelligence: 10]

[Charm: 3]

[Skills: 1. Charge. 2. Death Claw. 3. Partial Unbinding (Second Stage). 4. Complete Unbinding (Third Stage). 5. Revenge Goddess Descent (Fourth Stage).]

[Charge: The T-103 Type Tyrant・Tracker charges towards the enemy, increasing Movement Speed by 30% (+10%), lasting 5 seconds (+2 seconds), cooldown one minute, consumes a small amount of Physical Strength.]

[Death Claw: The T-103 Type Tyrant・Tracker stabs at the enemy’s head with its huge right arm claw, causing normal damage of 145% (+25%) of Attack Power and an additional 200 points (+100 points) of Armor Penetration Damage that ignores physical defense. Cooldown five minutes, consumes a large amount of Physical Strength.]

[Partial Unbinding (Second Stage): When the T-103 Type Tyrant・Tracker is in a dying state or the chest limiter is destroyed, it removes some of the restraints from the restraining leather jacket, freeing its upper body and some abilities from the Revenge Goddess parasite.

After activating the second stage, the T-103 Type Tyrant progresses to Second Tier Three Stars and fully recovers Life Value, Strength +5, Constitution +5, Maximum Life Value Conversion Coefficient +5.]

[Complete Unbinding (Third Stage): When the T-103 Type Tyrant・Tracker is in a dying state or the heart is destroyed, it completely removes the restraints from the restraining leather jacket, fully freeing its body and releasing most of the abilities from the Revenge Goddess parasite.

After activating the third stage, the T-103 Type Tyrant progresses to Second Tier Four Stars and fully recovers Life Value, Strength +5, Agility +5, Constitution +5, Intelligence -5, Maximum Life Value Conversion Coefficient +10.]

[Revenge Goddess Descent (Fourth Stage): When the T-103 Type Tyrant・Tracker is in a dying state or the brain is destroyed, it fully releases the abilities from the Revenge Goddess parasite, rapidly restoring itself through the consumption of large quantities of surrounding flesh (the flesh of over 50 zombies) and causing bodily deformations.

After successfully consuming enough flesh, the T-103 Type Tyrant・Tracker activates the fourth stage, progresses to Third Tier 1 Star, and fully recovers Life Value, Strength +10, Agility -10, Constitution +15, Intelligence -4, Maximum Life Value Conversion Coefficient +15.]

"Although I knew the Tracker would mutate, I never expected that the third and fourth stages would turn out to be Second Tier Four Stars and Third Tier One-star," Zhang Yanhang mused.

He had originally thought that a Second-tier Monster like the Tracker would at most transform into a Second Tier Three Stars, but now an unprecedented Second Tier Four Stars had suddenly emerged. He had always believed that Second Tier would have a maximum of Three Stars, just like the First Tier, but now a Second Tier Four Stars appeared.

Furthermore, with the activation of the fourth stage, the Tracker would ascend even further to become a Third Tier One-star. As a ’mere’ First Tier Awakener, even though he was at the peak of his tier, he probably wasn’t likely to defeat a Third Tier monster.

Fortunately, for the Tracker to activate its fourth stage it required the consumption of fifty zombies, but there were no zombies nearby, or rather, he had already cleared away all the zombies and their corpses in advance.

This tactic was previously used by the Tracker in the game, so how could Zhang Yanhang possibly be unprepared? Therefore, he had already taken away all the corpses with his waist bag.

Even though the situation still seemed somewhat beyond his expectations, as long as the Tracker’s level remained within Second Tier, Zhang Yanhang felt confident about taking it down.

"Speaking of which, this Tracker has an Intelligence of ten points, when an average adult’s Intelligence is only around five points..." Zhang Yanhang surmised that the Tracker’s relatively high Intelligence was mostly due to the Revenge Goddess parasite, which had used its own body to create a second brain for the Tracker.

Having an extra brain compared to a normal organism, it made sense that its Intelligence would be equivalent to the total of two average adults combined, which naturally seemed reasonable.

While Zhang Yanhang was contemplating how to deal with the Tracker, the Tracker that had been standing silently in the distance had already activated its Charge Skill, hurtling towards Zhang Yanhang at a speed of around a hundred kilometers per hour, enveloped in a violent current of air.

Bang!

With a tremendous impact, the two and a half meters tall Tracker, carrying an unstoppable momentum, collided solidly with Zhang Yanhang, who was only one meter ninety.

Utilizing inertia and the additional bonuses provided by the Charge Skill, the Tracker’s hard elbow, with its immense force, struck directly at Zhang Yanhang’s face. Zhang Yanhang’s blue Energy Shield rippled and undulated, but his body remained perfectly upright, unflinching at his original spot.

Before the Energy Shield was completely shattered, no one could inflict any form of harm on him unless he voluntarily retreated. All the impact was wholly absorbed and negated by the Energy Shield.

Given the speed and mass of the Tracker and having withstood its Charge Skill, Zhang Yanhang felt as if he had been hit by a car, one that was traveling on a highway at that.

Moreover, due to the Tracker’s smaller size, the impact force generated by its charge was even higher than a normal car collision. Fortunately, it wasn’t a big problem. Zhang Yanhang glanced at his Shield Value, which had only dropped by a hundred points or so.

Upon realizing its attacks had no effect, the Tracker immediately swung its massive fist down towards Zhang Yanhang’s head, the considerable force like that of a heavy cannon.

Thump, thump, thump, thump!

The Tracker, using both hands, threw four consecutive punches at Zhang Yanhang’s head in less than a second, but other than causing the Energy Shield to ripple and undulate, it still could not inflict any real damage. Zhang Yanhang remained standing in place, unmovable.

Roar—

Seeing that its attack was futile, the Tracker, controlled by the Revenge Goddess Parasite’s brain, opted to follow the enemy strategy instilled by the Umbrella company. It roared loudly before rapidly retreating and unloading a large box from its back, which contained a PF-89 anti-tank rocket launcher.

Zhang Yanhang still just stood silently in place, calmly watching the Tracker’s performance. The Tracker had just punched him in the head four times in a row, but the total damage wasn’t very high, roughly inflicting seventy to eighty points of damage per hit, for a total of just under three hundred Shield Value points lost.

Even with the hundred or so points lost earlier, the Tracker had only depleted about four hundred points of his Shield Value in total, roughly forty percent.

While the Tracker was busily assembling the rocket launcher at the side, Zhang Yanhang had already recovered the lost part of his Shield Value to full using a recovery rate of twenty percent per second.

The Tracker spent several seconds skillfully assembling the disassembled components of the PF-89 anti-tank rocket launcher and then loaded it with an Anti-Tank Armor-Piercing bullet.

One second later, the Tracker raised the PF-89 anti-tank rocket launcher in its hands, aimed at Zhang Yanhang’s position, and pulled the trigger.

Zhang Yanhang still stood quietly in place, watching its performance, even using Seeking Fortune and Avoiding Evil to minutely sense the entire launch process of the rocket launcher and the reaction the rocket caused when it struck the Energy Shield.

After the Tracker pulled the trigger, a bright red flame and a plume of smoke instantly rose within the rocket launcher. As the shooting distance was incredibly short, only about a dozen meters, an Anti-Tank Armor-Piercing Rocket shot towards Zhang Yanhang’s Energy Shield almost instantaneously, as if by teleportation.

He observed the entire process in detail. The metal warhead detonator of the anti-tank armor-piercing rocket was instantly triggered when it hit the energy shield, causing the special explosive inside to explode. This explosion should have generated a high-pressure directional jet stream of several thousand Celsius degrees near the warhead.

This high-temperature, high-pressure gas would penetrate armor like a cone through paper, creating a focused penetration and injecting a large amount of high-temperature, high-pressure gas and high-temperature metal jets formed by the explosion into the armor to cause lethal injuries to the personnel inside.

Moreover, if the shooting location was precise, it could use the high-temperature metal jet to detonate the ammunition depot inside the armor, resulting in a sympathetic detonation and greater damage.

But this was when facing ordinary tanks with weak armor. Since Zhang Yanhang’s energy shield had different properties from armor, it prevented the anti-tank rocket’s initial conditions from being triggered, and the subsequent damage was greatly reduced.

The main reason was that the high-pressure directional jet stream needed a point to focus on as a pouring target.

Usually, when an anti-tank armor-piercing bomb hits the tank armor, it would create a small dent from the initial impact force and use this dent to trigger the internal explosive, forming a high-pressure directional jet stream for further penetration of the armor.

However, Zhang Yanhang’s energy shield did not undergo any shape changes when facing external attacks, unless it was directly broken. By that time, if the energy shield was depleted, naturally, there would be no shape to speak of.

The crucial point of the high-pressure directional jet stream lay in its focus and concentration. Without creating a dent but facing a smooth surface, it was completely impossible to form a high-pressure directional jet stream, and with even the preliminary conditions failing to trigger, the overall damage the anti-tank rocket could cause was naturally greatly reduced.

Although the internal explosives still produced high-temperature metal jets after the explosion, these metal jets could not cause much damage when they could not penetrate into the energy shield.

From the Tracker’s perspective, all he could see was the anti-tank armor-piercing rocket shooting out and hitting the target successfully, creating a large amount of flames and smoke. But after the loud explosion, a twisted rocket warhead fell onto the metal floor of the underground passageway, making a crisp metallic collision sound.

With the smoke dissipating, Zhang Yanhang appeared unscathed inside, and although the special properties of the energy shield reduced part of the damage, the anti-tank rocket had just reduced a significant amount of shield value, probably about three hundred points.

After the first anti-tank armor-piercing rocket failed to take effect, the Tracker began to load the second anti-tank armor-piercing rocket.

"Really? You really don’t think I’ll counterattack? Just now I was merely testing the damage."

Zhang Yanhang took out an M57 hand grenade from his waist bag. Having observed the complete firing process of the PF-89 anti-tank rocket launcher, and with the aid of his Seeking Fortune and Avoiding Evil’s predictive ability, he precisely threw the grenade into the rocket tube at the instant the Tracker pulled the trigger.

His Gun Master skill could enhance all ranged proficiency, including throwing techniques. Hence, hitting the mark was not surprising—missing it would be the real shock.

The grenade thrown by Zhang Yanhang struck precisely on the metallic detonator at the top of the anti-tank armor-piercing rocket. As the grenade exploded due to the impact, it also ignited the anti-tank armor-piercing rocket, which had just been lit and had not yet been launched.

The hand grenade and the anti-tank armor-piercing rocket exploded simultaneously, causing a violent explosion inside the rocket tube. The fragile tube was instantly blown apart in the middle, and the metal skin that formed the body was heavily twisted, with metal fragments from the explosion flying out in all directions.

The Tracker, who was shouldering the PF-89 anti-tank rocket launcher, was hit head-on. Its face was sliced off, revealing whitish skull and slowly wriggling tiny tentacles underneath, and the temple, eye socket, and cheek on its right side were penetrated by a dozen sharp metal fragments.

Additionally, a bayonet-shaped metal fragment sliced off part of the Tracker’s neck muscles and cut through its trachea.

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