Player Reload
Chapter 199 - 183: Killing Insects

Chapter 199: Chapter 183: Killing Insects

Exploration Ship, inspired by the "pulled by a horse" approach, was equipped with Rapid Fire Gun, Machine Gun, and High Altitude Machine Gun on the deck, but unfortunately, they were ineffective against the massive number of Earthworm insects.

Zhao Zijing’s hair moved without wind, using Telekinesis, she levitated the same type of electric Water Cannon from the middle of the ship, and aimed it at the outside of the ship’s hull.

Hiss—

The water pressure of the torrent calculated in megapascals, swept like a broom, knocking off Earthworms from the left side of the ship’s hull.

"They climbed up!" Red Driver’s pupils constricted, as more Earthworms ascended along the front, back, and right side surfaces of the ship, stacking layered upon the deck.

Everyone heard nothing but the collision of footsteps.

"You four get inside the cabin and don’t come out."

Midnight Howl pushed Mendoza and others into the cabin, closed the door himself, and turned around, scratching his head in frustration.

As a pure Fighting System Transcendent, he truly had no suitable means to address the current situation, so he resorted to taking out Incendiary Bottle and hand grenades from the Backpack, throwing them at the water surface to kill as many clustered insects as possible.

"Come out, Fire Rock Rat."

Red Driver threw a Spirit Ball, releasing a Fire-type Pocket Monster over a meter tall with flames burning at its head and tail.

Fire Rock Rat is an evolved form of Fireball Rat, significantly stronger in power. Following Red Driver’s command of "release Jet Flame," Fire Rock Rat immediately spewed flames across the deck.

The result was spectacular, Earthworms hit by the intense flames curled up and died, but the rupture of their bodies meant that the Poison Liquid inside, which had not yet evaporated, seeped out.

Splash.

The corrosive Poison Liquid dripped onto the deck, accumulating in large quantities, quickly eroding a hole in the deck.

Red Driver hastily stopped Fire Rock Rat, summoned Pidgey to use the Wind Skill, its wings stirring up a wind, with slightly lower efficiency, blew the Earthworms within sight off the deck, clearing it.

Li Cheng stood in the background observing. From the deep-water marks beneath the rear cliff dam, it was evident that flood prevention was not a one-time act, but a practice over many years.

Perhaps there was some strange tacit agreement with the city’s insects—allowing them to inhabit the uninhabited city and periodically releasing floodwater, killing 99% of the insect population.

And once the insects repopulated, the cycle would begin anew.

The city survived with Earthworms numbering in the billions, tens of billions. If things dragged on, the ship would inevitably be overwhelmed by the sheer number of insects.

Li Cheng took the Suicide Notebook from the Backpack, tearing off five pages to glance at his own potential upcoming deaths.

The divination result... was strange.

The first four pages were pitch black, incomprehensible. Only the last page revealed the ship being destroyed, with Li Cheng and Zhao Zijing trapped on the rooftop of a high-rise building in this city.

Suppressing the doubts in his heart, Li Cheng activated the Special Effect of the Automated Three-Dimensional Warehouse, and took out a solid bowling ball.

Then, casting toward the bowling ball, he released the temporally recorded Skill "Mini Gravity Energy Ball."

Buzz!

The Dark Energy Ball attached to the bowling ball created a gravity-distorted area, causing many nearby insects to float up, struggling and twisting in mid-air.

"Next."

Li Cheng threw the bowling ball to Zhao Zijing, who tilted her head to catch the ball with Telekinesis through the air, and immediately grasped his intention.

Nodding her head, Zhao Zijing continued to control the Water Cannon with her left hand, washing the Earthworms off the deck.

Meanwhile, her right hand released Telekinesis, driving the bowling ball and the attached gravity-distorted area, circling around the ship’s periphery.

Like a powerful magnet drawing in iron sand, it sucked away masses of Earthworms.

As for Li Cheng himself, he calmly immersed his mind into the [Automated Three-Dimensional Warehouse].

The entire warehouse was filled with a variety of supplies he had spent a fortune on; shelves were lined up in rows, requiring specialized stackers and forklifts for organization. Saying it was like a wholesale supermarket was no exaggeration.

He took out twenty bottles of broad-spectrum insecticide, lined them up on the ground, and used tape to wrap them up in groups of ten.

After preparing the defenses, Li Cheng strode forward, pressed the insecticide valve, and sprayed the swarm of insects with the chemical.

"This is useless..." Midnight Howl warned that a few bottles of insecticide were just a drop in the ocean against the massive swarm of Earthworms, but before he finished speaking, pale yellow poisonous smoke began to billow from Li Cheng’s palms.

A Level 1 Mechanical Master’s casting trait allows the release of low-level spells through various items.

Among them, a zero-circle magic called [Poison Gas Splash], its effect is to spray a stream of poisonous gas.

When the Poison Gas Splash spell met the modern technology’s broad-spectrum insecticide, the resulting effect was greater than the sum of its parts.

The dense poison smoke quickly spread across the deck, wherever it reached, the Earthworms curled up and died without their bodies leaking any corrosive fluid.

Even so, Li Cheng still found the efficiency lacking.

After a brief consideration, he took out a blue-painted medical high-pressure oxygen cylinder from the three-dimensional warehouse, then... plugged it directly into his chest.

?!?!

Midnight Howl and Red Driver were dumbfounded, watching Li Cheng casually walk across the deck with an oxygen cylinder in his chest.

The Perfect Quality item [Assembly Puppet] effect could significantly distort the form of life, allowing temporary perfect integration of flesh organs with inorganic materials.

By inserting an oxygen cylinder, not only did Li Cheng breathe deeply to calm his emotions, but he could also use the high-pressure oxygen to accelerate the emission of the poison gas and improve the efficiency of extermination.

To other players, all this looked exceptionally horrifying—Li Cheng’s hands, mouth, nose, and even ears were emitting poison, turning him into a little poison person.

Even more bizarrely, this didn’t affect him continuing to casually chat, "This Lucky Spirit insecticide really is different, high-end insecticide, rich taste and fragrant smell, so tasty even after inhaling for so long."

Big brother, your hands are shaking, are you really okay?

Midnight Howl and Red Driver looked terrified, and even Zhao Zijing, who boasted of facing great hazards with the GOC, twitched her eyelids and almost lost her grip on the water cannon.

The visual eccentricity of Li Cheng’s move was proportional to its actual effectiveness.

Rapidly, the outside of the whole ship was enveloped in yellow insecticidal smoke, and those Earthworms still floating on the water were smoked by the poison and no longer had the strength to climb onto the hull.

The Exploration Ship sped up and left the urban area behind, finally shaking off the massive swarm of insects and temporarily coming to safety.

Zhao Zijing breathed a sigh of relief, put down the water cannon, and looked back to see both sides of the ship’s hull pitted from corrosion and a big hole on the deck.

Fortunately, these could all be repaired without affecting the ship’s navigational functions.

As for Li Cheng... he activated the [Assembly Puppet] trait, pulled the oxygen cylinder out of his chest, and calmly exhaled the last puff of poison smoke.

"Ant brother,"

If Red Driver previously found Li Cheng quite annoying, now it was a combination of seventy percent annoyance and thirty percent awe, "You... are you alright?"

"No problem, just insecticides, to me it’s no different from vaping."

Li Cheng waved his hand, in fact, if it weren’t for not wanting to scare his companions, he could have used the [Assembly Puppet] effect to completely remove his throat, stomach, and lungs, wash them with water and reinstall them...