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Chapter 442 Crisis Resolved [4000 words]

[Early morning of the sixth day on Changsheng Island]

Is it over?
In the unfamiliar jungle at the center of the island, Liu Ma lay sprawled on the ground like a rag doll, his tactical uniform soaked with sweat.

He looked at the mutated gorilla so close to him and closed his eyes in despair.

In an instant, his world seemed to fall completely silent, with only the gorilla's heavy breathing and the strange sounds of vines wriggling in his ears.

The expected excruciating pain did not come to him. Instead, a pale blue ice wall suddenly appeared between him and the gorilla. The ice wall was covered with sharp ice spikes. Just then, the monster lowered its head to bite, and its tongue was instantly pierced and turned into a bloody mess.

Dark green blood flowed from the forked vines, dripping down the ice spikes onto the fallen leaves on the ground, emitting tiny white wisps of smoke and making an eerie sizzling sound.

"!!!"

Sensing the commotion outside, Liu Ma suddenly opened his eyes.

Isabel was kneeling on the ground, her long, light blue hair sticking to her pale cheeks with sweat, and a few strands of hair clinging to the corners of her lips, trembling slightly with her rapid breathing.

She pressed her right hand firmly to the ground, and pale blue star energy flowed like water from her fingertips into the ice wall in front of her.

The ice wall was so cold that even Isabel's exposed forearms were covered with a thin layer of frost, clearly indicating that it was a skill activated by forcibly overdrawing star energy.

"Stop standing there, get up!"

Seeing that Liu Ma hadn't reacted yet, Isabel immediately reminded him.

Her voice trembled, but not from fear, but from the excessive depletion of her star energy.

Meanwhile, the ice wall had developed spiderweb-like cracks from the gorilla's continuous impacts, and the ice spikes at the very center had even begun to disintegrate.

A moment later, the ice wall shattered completely with a 'crack', and ice shards flew onto Liu Ma's face, making him shiver from the cold.

Without the barrier's protection, Liu Ma and Isabel were completely exposed to the gorilla's fangs.

The monster's crimson eyes were fixed on the two of them, and it let out a threatening growl from its throat.

At the critical moment, three whooshing sounds suddenly rang out.

Bang bang bang!
Dust Sky's specially crafted Sky Pattern Enhanced Bullet sliced ​​through the air and arrived just in time.

The projectile was enveloped in a milky-white spiral of air, moving so fast that it left only three afterimages.

These three bullets were not only incredibly fast, but their accuracy was also beyond what ordinary people could imagine.

The three bullets struck the purple rose between the mutated gorilla's eyebrows with perfect accuracy.

And this purple rose is none other than the life core unique to the mutated creatures of Longevity Island.

The bullet damaged the petals of the purple rose, causing a large amount of green sap to splatter on the spot.

But the creatures of Changsheng Island possess a unique and vigorous vitality.

While Chen Kong's three consecutive attacks were impressive, they still failed to completely shatter the mutated gorilla's life core, only creating a few small cracks.

Fortunately, Chen Kong's three consecutive attacks were not entirely fruitless.

In the sudden attack, the mutated gorilla, in pain, actually took a half-step back, buying the others a precious second.

In that split second, the screen of Miyao's game console suddenly burst out with a blinding green light.

Immediately afterwards, dozens of green pixel chains, each as thick as a wrist, shot out out of thin air.

Like living snakes, they precisely coiled around the mutated gorilla's limbs, temporarily restricting its movement.

At the same time, Vivian's second-hand rapier transformed into a silver rainbow, precisely piercing the gap in the gorilla's elbow joint.

There were no vines to protect it, only dark purple muscles.

The sword tip pierced the mutated gorilla's knee, instantly splattering a few drops of dark green blood.

Although the sword strike was not fatal, it caused the mutated gorilla to stagger and almost kneel down.

good chance!
Seeing this hard-won and precious opportunity, Liu Ma gritted his teeth and propped himself up, his gums even bleeding from the force of his bite.

The next second, the golden light spread from his chest to his entire body again, his skin first glowing with a pale golden halo, and then gradually solidifying.

Then, his muscles swelled wildly, stretching his short-sleeved shirt and tactical pants so tight that the seams made a hissing sound, as if they were about to burst at any moment.

However, Liu Ma paid no attention to any of this. He gathered all the remaining star energy into his right fist, and even the phantom of the Star Source Netherworld Warhorse was forcibly activated.

In an instant, it transformed into another creature, a centaur.

boom!
Liu Ma's fist, glowing with intense golden light, hurtled towards the gorilla's chest like a cannonball.

The vines there were still slowly regenerating, and the tender buds had just begun to sprout, making it one of the two most vulnerable parts of the plant.

"Roar!"

With a single punch, the gorilla let out a shrill roar, the vines on its chest were instantly blasted into powder, and dark green blood mixed with bone fragments and dark red flesh splattered all around.

Several pieces of flesh even hit Liu Ma's skin, eventually sliding down his skin to the ground.

The power of this punch is evident.

Even with its incredible life force, the mutated gorilla was severely injured by such a blow.

Its life core between its brows rapidly dimmed, its light changing from a dazzling emerald green to a dying gray-green.

His body started swaying wildly in place, as if he had an epileptic seizure.

Is it over?
Looking at the mutated gorilla that seemed to be having an epileptic seizure, Liu Ma's vision began to blur, and the golden light was showing signs of fading. He could feel that his muscle fibers had been torn during the outburst, and every movement was excruciatingly painful.

But the excitement didn't last two seconds before something unexpected happened.

"Roar!"

Perhaps he was completely enraged by Liu Ma and the others, or perhaps he sensed the danger emanating from these five people.

The mutated gorilla suddenly stopped convulsing, letting out a roar that made people's eardrums hurt. The purple flower core between its eyebrows burst out with a blinding green light, more intense than ever before.

Then, its body swelled up at a visible speed. Its original size, comparable to that of a buffalo, grew even larger in the blink of an eye, and its muscles bulged out from under its skin, causing the vines on its body to snap and break.

Seeing the strangely behaving mutated gorilla, Vivian's android pupils lit up instantly, and a massive torrent of data was frantically refreshing her retina.

Then, she tapped the second hand of her slender sword on the ground, synchronizing her analysis results into the minds of the others.

'Be careful, its life energy flow rate is three times faster than before, it seems to be preparing to burn its life energy and self-destruct!'

After transmitting the crucial information, Vivian immediately pulled the exhausted Liu Ma backward at lightning speed. The joints of his robotic arm kept making 'clicking' mechanical overload warning sounds as he was dragged.

The next second, the gorilla's body expanded rapidly, its skin cracked open with countless fissures, and green energy gushed out from the fissures, spraying onto the surrounding vine monkeys like a fountain.

A large amount of green energy gushed out from the cracks, shining on the vine monkeys all around.

Bathed in this green light, the vine monkeys seemed to be summoned, bursting out densely from the trees and grass, suddenly rushing towards the five people like madmen, and forming a 'vine wall' with their bodies layered on top of each other.

Undoubtedly, they were trying to trap Chen Kong and the others here completely, preventing them from escaping the mutated gorilla's blast radius. "No, we must deal with them as soon as possible and open a passage."

Realizing the danger of the situation, Chen Kong raised his gun and fired in quick succession without hesitation.

In an instant, the specially made Sky Pattern bullet pierced the purple flower between the eyebrows of the three vine monkeys at the front.

Their bodies froze instantly, then they slumped softly to the ground.

Although these vine monkeys died, as more vine monkeys scurried down from the trees, their bodies were quickly surrounded in the center of the vine wall, without any impact.

Furthermore, as the 'thickness' of the vine wall increased, the regeneration speed of the outermost vine monkey's body also began to increase exponentially.

Even if the outermost monster has its arm broken, new vines can sprout from the wound within two seconds.

As a result, Chen Kong's bullets could only make fleeting holes in the vine wall, and could not cause any substantial damage to it.

Fortunately, Chen Kong wasn't the only one who made a move at that moment.

After a period of adjustment, Isabelle struggled to her feet.

She raised her hand to wipe the blood from the corner of her mouth, her chest heaving violently with rapid breathing.

Then, a large amount of pale blue star energy began to condense in her palm.

Although the previous battle had caused Isabel to consume too much of her planetary energy, the ice blade she was currently conjuring was only half the length it had been before, and its edges were still melting.

Even with such an ice blade, it was still able to precisely cleave through the little monkey's core.

Almost at the same time that Isabel made her move, Vivian and Mi Yao also joined in.

As a result, only Liu Ma, exhausted from overexertion, collapsed on the ground, supporting his companions with his eyes.

Ten seconds later.
"No, there are too many of these guys, we can't make it in time."

Seeing that it took the four of them working together to barely break through two-thirds of the vine wall, Mi Yao solemnly stated his judgment.

Although if they were given a little more time, they could completely break through the vine wall that was in their way.

But at this moment, their only problem is time.

Without any hesitation, after realizing that his attempt to stay away from the 'explosion' had failed, Mi Yao immediately changed his plan.

His fingers flew across the game console, and then a large number of green pixels appeared out of thin air, forming a huge pixel cage.

The pixelated cage appeared above the mutated gorilla's head and slammed down heavily.

boom!
Inside the cage, the mutated giant star's body continued to expand, soon reaching the limit that the pixel cage could withstand.

The railings began to show obvious deformation and clearly wouldn't last much longer.

"Dust Void, use your Void Weaver to disrupt its core. Your Void Patterns can, to some extent, restrain the flow of their life energy."

"Its self-destruction requires core guidance; it can be stopped by interrupting the energy flow!"

Vivian suddenly shouted, and her robotic arm transformed into an energy cannon, shooting a pale blue beam of light towards the gorilla's core between its eyebrows.

Upon hearing this, Chen Kong immediately understood.

He took a deep breath, then poured all the remaining star energy into the Void Weaver, aiming the gun at the gorilla's core.

boom!
Sky Pattern: Spiral Spirit Piercing Bullet!
The specially designed aerial bullet, accompanied by a swirling airflow, accurately struck the purple flower core between the mutated gorilla's eyebrows.

"Roar!"

Dust Sky's attack caused the mutated gorilla to let out another miserable scream.

If the previous screams were mostly out of anger, then this time... it was out of pain.

Because of Chen Kong's 'Spiral Piercing Spirit', the flow of life force within its body was completely disrupted.

For it, which was accumulating energy, this situation was like a domino effect, triggering a chain reaction within the mutated gorilla's body.

Seeing the mutated gorilla's pained expression, Chen Kong's face lit up with joy.

Is it finally over?
Before Chen Kong could be happy for long, Mi Yao suddenly shouted, "Everyone, get behind me!"

As if in response to Mi Yao's words, the mutated gorilla trapped in the pixelated cage not far away acted strangely again.

Although its body had stopped expanding, numerous cracks suddenly appeared all over its body.

Countless rays of purple light were released from these cracks.

Without any hesitation, Mi Yao took the lead, and the game console in his hand suddenly transformed into a huge 'riot shield'.

The shield came from a shooting game that Mi Yao had played. Its special feature was that it could make one immune to 'physical attacks' below a certain value, and reduce some 'energy damage'.

Explosions are also a form of energy damage.

Star Source: Gaming Master

[Visualized Game Item: Azure Special Forces' Riot Shield]

【Effect 1 - Physical Defense: Immune to physical attacks below level 3; for attacks above level 3, the physical damage is reduced by a fixed level of 3】

【Effect 2 - Energy Mitigation: Reduces energy damage by 50%】

[Evaluation: 'This time, I will protect everyone.']

boom!
Shortly after Mi Yao erected the massive riot shield, a terrifying burst of explosive energy was released from the mutated gorilla's body.

The terrifying impact first destroyed the pixel cage that Mi Yao had summoned, and the remaining explosive shockwaves landed entirely on the huge riot shield.

boom!
Mi Yao braced himself against the blast shield with both hands, his legs completely buried in the ground below the calves under the immense pressure of the explosion.

At the same time, he and Chen Kong and the others hiding behind him were also forced back more than fifty or sixty meters by the powerful shockwave of the explosion before finally stopping.

As the aftershocks of the explosion subsided, Chen Kong and the others looked ahead.

Where the mutated gorilla had originally stood, a crater over fifty meters in diameter and over twenty meters deep had appeared.

"finished?"

Chen Kong looked at the crater created by the explosion with lingering fear and asked a question.

"Maybe."

Vivian's android pupils scanned the crater repeatedly before cautiously providing an answer.

Although the mutated gorilla's unique life characteristics still existed in the pit at this time.

And this vital sign is still growing stronger.

However, neither the speed of their growth nor the energy fluctuations released by their vital signs could pose even the slightest threat to them anymore.

(End of this chapter)