Chapter 4: Mushroom Cloud

The ground shook, roared like thunder, and dust flew up.

The thigh-thick deep mountain log is nearly 1,000 kilograms, and with the sound of the whirring wind, it smashed into two abandoned cars on the ground, and the two cars were directly smashed, and the broken metal parts flew around, so that the people around had to dodge in all directions.

The burly giant stood in the open space in front of the building, lifted the huge log again, and raised his head with an earth-shattering roar.

The nails of the resurrected living corpses were as sharp as the claws of wild beasts, and hundreds of them passed past the giants together, slowly but perseveringly approaching the opposite array.

On the opposite side were twelve heavily armed warriors, dressed in ring armor and wielding long swords, with a sturdy leather shield on their left arm. These warriors, whether they are outside the armor or the inner lining, are all uniform, and even the style of the leather shield is exactly the same.

These warriors were in charge of the frontal pick-up station, blocking the wave after wave of attacks from the living corpses on the ground, while behind them, they were guarding three men in ordinary clothes.

The three of them were all wearing cloth robes, two black and one white, the white-robed ones had been idle, idle, and the two black-robed people kept chanting words in their mouths, but no one could hear what they were talking about.

"These monsters don't even have the combat power of soldiers, they are just a bunch of civilian-level scum, and they are not a threat except for the large number of them. Hold the formation for me, and not a single living corpse will be allowed to slip through, otherwise you will wait to enter the gladiatorial arena. โ€

Also guarded behind was a man in chain mail, the chain mail was polished and shiny, looking like brand new, the scabbard of the one-handed longsword was inlaid with a silver five-pointed star, and the grip was also engraved with intricate and beautiful patterns. The most distinctive feature is the cloak behind him, with a rather eye-catching emblem embroidered in the middle of the cloak, the emblem is very complex, and the main part can be vaguely seen as a short staff with two things like snakes or tentacles.

The man who could see at a glance the identity of the leader did not participate in the battle, but just shouted loudly in the back, I don't know whether it was intentional or unintentional, he shook his cloak very frequently, and from time to time he had to shake the cloak to make the emblem on it waving in the air.

Hearing his order, the outermost soldiers shouted in fear, knocked down several living corpses that approached, and then swung their swords to cut off the heads of the living corpses. It wasn't until they were beheaded that these living corpses, which had risen again countless times, finally quieted down and could never get up again.

They were just cleaning up these troublesome living corpses, so focused that they didn't pay any attention to the most conspicuous giants.

The giant didn't pay attention to them, because since the smashing of the scrap car, he stood in a daze, and the two black-robed mages who were chanting words were chanting at this giant, and the fingers of their hands took turns to form a spell mark, chanting the incantation in turn, so that the giant always remained in a dazed state.

"Hmph, it's just a commander-level with a group of civilian-level minions, even if I don't have that group of waste cannon fodder, I can easily take it down. Hurry up and clean up this annoying group of living corpses, so that you can deal with the giants quickly, and Your Highness is still waiting for the good news of my victory. As he spoke, the leader suddenly sniffled and said dissatisfiedly, "What a smell of things suddenly, there is really anything on this edge, and suddenly there is a strange smell, disgusting." Hurry up and finish your work and leave quickly, don't be delayed. โ€

Indeed, as he had said, a strange pungent smell came from the direction behind the building, as Babu had opened a strange metal lid.

The battle in front of the building was raging, and neither of the warring sides noticed that two figures had crept around the back of the building and climbed onto the roof of the building.

That's Monica and Babu holding Anna.

Following Babu up the house, Monica found that it was not an ordinary roof, but a round metal lid at least four meters in diameter, made of metal, and there was still no sign of rust.

The metal lid was tightly closed and heavy, making it look like it was hard to open, but Babu didn't try to open it, but circled around it a few times, as if looking for something. Soon, the scattered gaze was focused on a single point, a window that resembled an observation window, with some dials such as a hand-reading book, and Babu leaned over to it, almost lying on it, observing it quite intently.

Monica didn't understand what Babu was busy with at all, but this didn't affect her watching Babu's busy back quite interestingly in the back, the corners of her mouth turned up slightly, and her originally somewhat strong gaze gradually softened. But when Babu raised her head, Monica's eyes returned to her previous appearance, and she teased: "After blowing up the building and prying the vault, why do I think you are so skilled in this matter, you have done it before?" โ€

"Well, that's not true." Although Babu continued to stare at several dials, he still shook his head vigorously, "Probably when I studied the structure in order to reserve a way out, maybe so, I don't know, but in the end, it was definitely not really implemented." โ€

"So what did you find?" Monica didn't dig deeper, but squeezed to Bรกb's side and stared with him at the observation window and the hands and scales on the dial, but after two glances, she lost her nature and looked away boredly.

"The fact that there is no crowd of scrap cars here means that there was no rush to buy here in the end, and most of the scrap trucks outside have a lot of fuel left in the tank, which means that no one has collected fuel afterwards." Babu tapped lightly on the roof beneath his feet, "So I guess there should be some stock in this for the sake of the tightness of the professional facility." I took a look just now and there was less left than I expected, but it was still enough. Come, help me, remember to hold your breath, or something will happen. โ€

Babu commanded Monica, and the two of them held a red wheel valve together, listening carefully to the sounds on the battlefield in the distance, whenever there was a relatively large movement, the valve would turn a few times, and it didn't take long for a strong pungent smell to slowly spread.

As soon as Babu pulled Monica, the two slipped off the roof and went around to the empty field that had been entrenched by giants, and there were many large scrap cars parked in the empty field, one of which was a large empty piece of the log, and the most special thing in all the cars was an extra-long truck dragging a huge metal can.

Motioning for Monica to get out of the way of the front of the can, Babu seized the opportunity to unscrew a plastic lid at the bottom of the can, taking advantage of the sound of the battlefield, and then turned the metal valve on the surface of the can. Soon, a stream of transparent yellowish liquid sprayed out of the metal canister that was originally sealed with a plastic lid, and the speed of the spray was quite fast, and it didn't take long for a puddle of liquid to accumulate on the ground, emitting a more unpleasant smell than the roof, and there was a tendency to slowly spread to the front yard of the building.

Seeing Monica cover her mouth and nose and jump away from the liquid on the ground, Babu pulled Monica's hand and whispered a few words in her ear. Monica punched him lightly, but nodded, and then the two separated, each hiding in the fog, and soon the slimy sound of ooze wriggling was heard in the fog.

"Very good, give me more energy." Obvious joy and excitement could be heard in the leader's voice, "If I can be the first to gnaw down these hard bones around the entrance this time, then His Royal Highness the Baron's reward will be indispensable." But if anyone dares not to work hard to make me lose face in the end, Your Highness will blame me, and none of you will be able to escape. โ€

The situation on the battlefield really made the leader happy.

A third of the annoying living corpses have been emptied, and the two mages who have restricted the giants have confirmed that they are in good condition, and can support enough to clean up the living corpses, not to mention that there are healers ready to support at any time, everything is surprisingly smooth. Wait until there is only one commander-level giant left, let your subordinates consume the giant's polluting energy first, and finally clean up the mess yourself, hehe, when the time comes......

The boss had already figured out the scene of his glory and being honored in public, and the smile on the connection became thicker and thicker, but at this moment, behind the nearby waste, there was a sudden sound of soft mud wriggling.

Goo, goo, goo.

At some point, a large group of mutated monsters like soft mud outflanked from behind the team of sixteen. The ooze moves slowly and moves awkwardly, but the dozens of them are grouped together in a large green patch, and the visual effect is quite scary.

A group of people in the battle were alarmed, and when they looked back, there was a panic, especially the first few in front, who were distracted and hurriedly retreated several steps before they could be considered to stabilize their position.

"Back, back, come over for me to protect the mage, don't let them run into the back row, a group of civilian-level mutants, hurry up and kill them."

However, this time, no one dared to obey his command, and four of the twelve frontal fighters went to the back, trying to clear the threat from behind as soon as possible. However, as soon as they came into contact, the warriors found that these soft mud were more troublesome than the resurrected corpses, they had almost no weaknesses, and the attack was not fatal anywhere, and the weapon hit the monster, just like hitting a real ball of soft mud, not only did it not work, sometimes even the weapon could not be withdrawn, and several times because of this, it was almost succeeded by the monster's sneak attack.

"Waste, you're a bunch of waste." Seeing that the originally good situation began to change, the leader rubbed his hands anxiously but had no choice, so he could only muttered while scolding his subordinates, "Where did this group of things come from, why didn't the previous spies mention it, are they all stupid?" โ€

"Boss, they, they seem to be the monsters that those cannon fodder turned into before, when I brought out the giants just now, I saw a few cannon fodder become this kind of monsters."

The leader suddenly felt a chill all over his body, and instinctively looked around, and couldn't help but shiver. However, he immediately raised his voice in retaliation, and shouted loudly: "Less nonsense, quickly find a way for me to kill this group of monsters, physical attacks have no effect, don't you use magic?" No, you two continue to control the field, don't mess around. For the rest, you can remember it for me, we still have alchemy potions. โ€

As he spoke, the leader took the backpack handed over by the therapist and opened the iron box inside, where rows of transparent test tubes were placed, of any color, each filled with abundant energy.

"Be smart, the monsters on the edge are so terrifying, why can we still kill them?" The leader boasted loudly as he threw out the alchemy potion, "It's because we're smart enough that we can use props." โ€

The first bottle was blue, and the bottle exploded in the green ooze group, and the low temperature instantly swept over an area within a radius of several meters, and the speed of all the ooze in the area slowed down significantly, and the slow-motion posture was particularly funny.

The second bottle is brown, with rock spikes bursting through the dirt and repeatedly piercing the soft mud, but this is still a physical attack, and the effect is minimal.

"Ha, I see, they're liquid, of course you need to use this." Saying that, the boss selected a few red bottles, and after activating them, he threw them at several groups of soft mud in different directions, seeing the bottles fly far away and fall to the ground, the leader smiled proudly, "Learn a little, the battle depends on the brain, not the ......"

Bang, the bottle shattered, and a few flames exploded in the swarm of ooze.

Most of the landing points are normal and the effect is really good, but two of the bottles turned into a sea of fire the moment they hit the ground.

The raging flames swept through the area in front of the building in the blink of an eye, and it was spreading towards the empty space behind the building at an extremely fast speed, almost in the blink of an eye, and the front and back of the building were plunged into a sea of fire.

The sixteen people who were fighting didn't even react, they watched everything in their field of vision be quickly engulfed by the flames, and before the leader's smug laughter could stop, he even laughed twice at the moment when the flames soared into the sky.

Just as he laughed triumphantly, the explosion came as promised.

The first explosion came from the backyard of the building, a huge fireball exploded in the fog, and after shaking for a while, all the glass walls of the building shattered at the same time, and all kinds of metal fragments shot in all directions like a rain of arrows, but fortunately, there was still a building, whether it was a group of corpse giants or sixteen humans, although they were shaken by the shock, they were not seriously injured.

So, everyone had the privilege of witnessing the second explosion.

A mushroom cloud rose into the air, and the blinding light tore through the perennially foggy sky, and then, a strong shockwave centered on the building, violently spreading in all directions, everything around it was powerless to resist, the building was destroyed, the abandoned car was lifted away, and any obstacle that dared to stand in front of the shockwave was mercilessly washed away.

At this time, the loud noise came belatedly, causing the windows of all the abandoned cars in the vicinity to burst at the same time, and the sound echoed on the edge of the silence for many years, and it did not subside for a long time.

By the time the huge mushroom cloud and the dust had finally cleared, the entire building had disappeared, and the surrounding area was full of overturned abandoned trucks and broken stones, and the chaos was like the scene of the disaster, and there was a large crater in the ground where the building was originally located, and the pit was still emitting pits of smoke outward.

In the thick smoke, a giant was blackened and smoking, curled up in the pit, motionless, not knowing whether he was alive or dead.