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Chapter 405 - 374 Giant Salamander

Chapter 405: Chapter 374 Giant Salamander

All the firearms had been modified, with a layer of wood varnish applied to the surface, resembling a luxurious flintlock gun with golden inlays and carvings.

The saying goes, "The rich practice martial arts," and every martial artist present had used flintlock guns; even the wealthiest, Su Konghu, carried several with him. After fiddling with one in his hands, he roughly understood how to use the automatic weapon.

’This craftsmanship, this firing rate, this power.’

Lu Hu held a Gatling in each hand, spraying bullets into the dense forest. After holding the trigger for just two seconds, the bullets shredded towering trees into flying wood chips and snapped branches.

If an ordinary person were to handle the firearms, they might be outmaneuvered by the blazing corpses, which could predict the bullet’s trajectory based on their responsive speed and mobility.

But if a martial artist was shooting, they could completely match the movement speed of the blazing corpses.

While Lu Hu was deeply shocked, his suspicion of Li Cheng grew increasingly strong.

Neither the Great Ming nor the Western Countries had such advanced firearms. Where exactly did this person come from?

He didn’t know that Li Cheng’s self-propelled artillery could fire and relocate by itself. He simply assumed that Li Cheng had other accomplices hidden somewhere on the island and that this large box of advanced weapons had been buried for a long time, proving that he had targeted the Tu Family even earlier than the Jinyi Guard.

So the question arose, what kind of foreign influence could plan so flawlessly, deceiving both the Tu Family and the court entirely?

A foreign force from the Moon?

Lu Hu’s heart surged with an undercurrent, while others were weighing the vials and bottles of agents in the second box, their expressions peculiar.

The descriptions on the bottles hinted at a sense of foreboding, with effects such as enhancing strength, increasing physical recovery speed, and improving self-healing efficiency. The side effects included acne, irritability, hair loss,

Hair loss could be overlooked, but what does the "Eggs May Shrink" mean, written in uppercase, italicized, underlined, and highlighted in red, complete with a picture of two quail eggs?

Sikong Lan felt a phantom pain in his lower body, awkwardly saying, "Brother Pifu, is there a pill with fewer side effects? I am not married yet."

"All medicine is three parts poison; if your eggs shrink, just soak them in hot water, hot expands and cold contracts, right?

If you can’t handle the side effects’ pain, you’ll have to endure the pain of blazing corpses. How do you expect to become stronger if you can’t grasp this simple logic?"

Li Cheng shook his head, and Gray Rain added from the side, "That’s right, wasn’t the famous medicinal beauty Dongfang Bubai also a martial arts giant?"

Seeing that everyone still hesitated, Li Cheng waved his hand and said, "There’s another layer at the bottom of the box with drugs that have fewer side effects. You can give those a try."

Li Cheng, who had a Liangyi Blade, neither needed nor had any reason to take illegal drugs. He didn’t even use protein powder, at most dabbling slightly in it.

However, to explore the effects of [Assembly Puppet] on the human body, he indeed procured quite a bit from other shops in the slum.

From the most ordinary steroids, peptides, psychotropic drugs,

To more advanced physical activators, the Super Soldier Serum, and T-Virus that removes toxicity, everything was available.

Kuyu Monk even found a bottle of blue "Zen Meditation Injection," specifically for monks, Taoists, mages, and spiritual ability users, effectively enhancing meditation efficiency and accelerating spiritual power recovery,

If paired with specially-made mushroom incense, it could induce mystical illusions in the mind, making it very suitable for use during breaking through realms.

The accompanying image was of a monk sitting cross-legged in meditation, with an electronic cigarette hanging from his mouth, exuding ethereal bliss as if about to behold the Western Paradise of Ultimate Bliss.

Uh...this is too blasphemous.

After a long internal struggle, Kuyu put the bottle down, merely taking two rolls of self-stitching medical bandages from the box.

Once everyone had finished their preparations, they took two bites of an energy bar and set off towards the Tu mansion.

Along the way, clearing paths with rifles, with machine guns providing cover, they effortlessly reaped the usual variations. Even the advanced blazing corpses transformed from martial artists were torn to pieces under the dense firepower net.

Wu Ge, Cao Meng, and the others felt nothing special, finding the weapons indeed easy to use. However, Lu Hu and other Jinyi Guards raised with loyalty and patriotism couldn’t help but indulge in fantasies.

If such weapons were available to the Great Ming army, what Mongols, what Westerners, what Japanese pirates, they would all be ants.

Our Great Ming, invincible in the world!

"Stop."

Li Cheng raised his hand, interrupting the Jinyi Guards’ fantasy.

"What’s wrong?"

"It’s too quiet."

The closer they got to the Tu mansion, the quieter the roars became, as if all the blazing corpses had hidden away.

Li Cheng glanced at Gray Rain, who understood and discreetly took out a drone controller. Using the cover of dark clouds, he piloted the drone to ascend to a high altitude and activated the thermal imaging mode. What he saw made his eyebrows rise instinctively.

No large heat sources were visible in the mountain forest; instead, small heat sources were as numerous as stars.

Rustle——

Faint noises came from all directions as countless snakes, insects, mice, spiders, and frogs crawled out from the decaying leaves, sliding past people’s feet, heading toward the Tu mansion.

Cao Meng felt a chill, and while brushing off a flying squirrel from his shoulder, he inadvertently pulled the rifle trigger, breaking a spearhead viper in half.

The original spearhead viper, split into two, was writhing and twisting on the ground, while the upper half continued to crawl toward the Tu mansion.

Like people in the South American rainforests braving bites from various creatures to line up for the American beacon.

"Let’s go."

Li Cheng glanced at the crawling insects covering the ground and strode forward, forcing the others to follow quickly.

Ascending the winding mountain road bit by bit, they reached the Tu mansion.

The fire ignited by fallen lanterns and candles was restrained by the fine drizzle, burning slowly.

The entire estate was deathly silent, all corpses—whether the ones killed by Gray Rain and others or those torn apart by the blazing corpses—had disappeared without a trace.

"Uncle Zhong, where are you Uncle Zhong?"

Su Konghu was still worried about Song Zhong, calling softly. Seeing no response, he gritted his teeth and left the team, jumping onto the corridor roof to carefully inspect the marks on the tiles, trying to deduce the battle’s course from the traces.

Song Zhong was besieged by three Innate blazing corpses, retreating as he fought. When he was about to escape the Tu mansion, he was forced back. He circled around, relying on the roof, which was no longer stable due to the fire, and exploiting the difficulty in using Qinggong by the blazing corpses.

Unfortunately, much of the battle traces were washed away by the rain, ending by a pond.

The pond water was dark green, nearly black, while in the grass beside the pond lay a white object. Su Konghu took a deep breath and used a fallen branch to flip the white object over.

It was not Song Zhong but a white giant salamander nearly 1.7 meters long.

The right side of the giant salamander’s body was covered with cut marks, and the flesh exposed by the cuts was clearly the kind of white sashimi Gray Rain liked.

Around the dead giant salamander, countless snakes, insects, and ants lined up in rows, extending all the way into the Tu mansion’s ancestral hall.