Gao Wu: If this BOSS isn't nerfed, is it even playable?

Chapter 107 Giant Winged Demon

"hurry up."

The burly man urged him on in a cold voice.

Lin Ye lowered his head and quickened his pace.

Lin Ye is currently at LV19.

Of all the people he had ever met in the entire underground base, the strongest was Wu Weiping, the head of security.

Unleash your full power, combine it with the [Crystallization] skill, utilize the complex environment within the base to create distance, and regenerate health while out of combat...

Self-preservation shouldn't be a problem.

The passageway on level B5 is very long, with endless cages on both sides.

Finally, we reached the end of the passage.

Ahead was an incredibly heavy alloy gate, its surface seamless and completely solid.

hum-

The alloy gate rose silently, revealing a pure darkness behind it that seemed to swallow all light.

Lin Ye stepped inside.

The moment he stepped into the darkness, the gate behind him slowly closed, completely isolating him from everything outside.

All I could see was darkness.

This is a separate transition zone from B5 to B6.

The entire space was eerily empty, devoid of any lighting, so silent you could hear your own heartbeat.

Lin Ye's eyes quickly adjusted to the darkness.

He saw that on the other side of the space, there was a narrow metal staircase that spiraled down into the deeper, darker underground.

Tap...tap...

Footsteps came from the darkness below.

The sound was unusually heavy as it landed on the metal steps.

Lin Ye looked in the direction of the sound.

Soon, a slender figure slowly emerged from the darkness below.

She was wearing a bulky, heavy white hazmat suit that covered her entire body, leaving only her eyes visible.

Even so, Lin Ye could still discern the graceful curves of her body from her silhouette.

【LV.20】!
Lin Ye's pupils contracted almost imperceptibly.

This woman was of a higher rank than anyone he had ever met.

Even higher than himself.

"The doctor is waiting for you. Come with me."

The woman spoke.

Her voice is clear and pleasant.

But Lin Ye heard it and felt an indescribable strangeness.

The feeling was like many different voices being forcibly superimposed and blended together.

Without uttering any further words, the woman turned and continued down the stairs.

Lin Ye silently followed.

As they went deeper, a pungent, rotten smell assaulted their nostrils.

Lin Ye was familiar with this aura.

In the heart of the ruined city, in that forgotten Third Hospital, he smelled the same odor.

The stairs meandered downwards, seemingly without end.

A few minutes later, Lin Ye's feet finally touched solid ground.

Before us was an experimental area, also without lights.

Floor B6.

The units here are much larger and more sturdier than the cages on level B5.

They are no longer alloy fences, but fully enclosed transparent cubes made of ultra-high strength composite materials, their surfaces shimmering with the unique glow of energy barriers.

"Watch your step."

The woman walking ahead reminded him without turning her head.

"The test subjects here are almost all discarded products that failed to integrate with the drugs, and they are extremely irritable and vicious."

“Any strong light will stimulate them.”

Please understand.

Lin Ye followed behind the woman, his gaze piercing through the transparent walls and into the interior of each cell.

He saw it.

One by one, they were injected with potent sedatives and were falling into a deep sleep...

A fusion monster.

They come in various shapes and are twisted and terrifying.

Lin Ye's palm was now clenched with two crimson pills.

Blood Explosion Pill.

This is one of his last resorts when necessary.

At the same time, Lin Ye had already edited a distress text message and uploaded it to the cloud, with Chen Meng as the recipient.

If you are out of contact for more than half a day.

The text message will then be sent.

Before he knew it, Lin Ye noticed that the woman leading the way had slowed down.

She started walking ahead of Lin Ye, and gradually, she walked alongside him.

Then, they fell behind by half a body length.

She stopped leading the way and instead... blocked his escape route.

Lin Ye noticed this detail.

But his expression remained unchanged, still tense and curious. He simply kept his head down and silently continued walking forward.

The entire B6 level was larger than Lin Ye had imagined.

Within his field of vision, there were five whole rows of huge apartment units.

Furthermore, the deeper Lin Ye went, the newer and more vibrant the fused monsters imprisoned there became.

The long passage finally came to an end.

Suddenly, everything became clear.

Lin Ye's breath hitched.

He found himself standing on a suspended metal platform.

Beyond the platform lies a magnificent underground space that defies description.

The dome was so high that its top could not be seen, and countless thick cables and pipes hung down like giant pythons.

The entire space resembles a hollowed-out mountain, or an underground launch silo prepared for launching interstellar rockets.

Directly in front of the platform stands a mechanical creation of unimaginable size.

Those were three enormous metal pillars, with a deep blue energy flowing in the grooves on their bodies.

Below the three mechanical towers is a base.

Beneath the base lies a gigantic source crystal, as large as a truck, pure and flawless, with a deep blue hue!

It's like a blue sun imprisoned underground, radiating a heart-pounding, intense energy.

The entire underground space was bathed in a dreamlike sea of ​​light, a deep blue hue.

On the platform I'm on, there's a person standing.

A middle-aged man, who looked to be in his forties, wearing glasses and a spotless white lab coat.

He had a warm smile on his face and a refined demeanor, like a scholar lecturing at a university.

"sit."

The doctor smiled and pointed to a metal chair in the center of the platform.

Lin Ye sat down as instructed, her body stiffening slightly with nervousness.

"Welcome, young man."

The doctor's voice was gentle and magnetic.

"Actually, I wanted to meet you as soon as you joined our company."

"Unfortunately, the project I was working on at the time was too critical, and I just couldn't find the time. So, it wasn't until today that I was able to formally invite you over."

Then, the doctor changed the subject.

"Do you feel nauseous, dizzy, or uncomfortable anywhere here?"

Lin Ye shook his head.

The doctor nodded, and a look of immense admiration shone in his eyes behind his glasses.

"very good."

"very good."

He gazed at Lin Ye, his smile growing even gentler.

"I would like to invite you to participate in a very great experiment."

"I want to know, where your true limits lie."

The doctor leaned forward slightly, and behind his warm smile seemed to lie some kind of crazy expectation.

"You'll definitely agree, right?"

Without waiting for Lin Ye's reply, he took something out of the pocket of his white coat.

It was a blue crystal, only the size of an egg, but deeper and purer than the giant source crystal below.

It lay quietly in the doctor's palm, as if it contained the entire starry sky.

"Do you know what this is?" the doctor asked.

Lin Ye's face perfectly displayed a look of panic and confusion.

He wanted to play this role to the very end.

He needed to make the man in front of him lower his guard.

As for the source crystal...

He is not afraid at all.

Even, a little excited.

Such pure crystals!

Lin Ye could sense that the purity of this source crystal was far higher than any of the ones he had ingested in the abandoned chemical plant.

"This is a Source Crystal."

"167 years ago, the world's first celestial abyss opened, and since then, these beautiful crystals containing enormous energy have begun to grow all over our planet."

"In the early years, a global craze for studying it swept the world. Some ignorant rich people even regarded it as a rare celestial gem, cutting and polishing it and keeping it in their homes."

He raised the Source Crystal in his hand, held it up to the light, and exclaimed, "It is indeed beautiful, isn't it? Like the tears of a god falling to earth."

"But soon, people discovered its deadly side."

"It contains highly toxic substances, or rather, a type of radiation that is unprecedented and extremely potent."

"Any living being exposed to its radiation for a long time will be consumed by its energy within a few days, its genetic chains will break down inch by inch, and it will eventually turn into a puddle of pus."

"So people began to fear it, destroyed it, and regarded it as a curse brought by the abyss."

"Everyone believes that it is a poison that the Tianyuan world deliberately spread in our world with the aim of wiping out all life on our planet."

The doctor chuckled softly as he finished speaking.

"But that is the prejudice of a fool."

"They simply don't understand."

"This is not poison, it is a blessing bestowed by the heavens..."

"It is the key to unlocking our path to immortality, to a higher form of life!"

His voice suddenly rose, and his eyes gleamed with fanaticism.

"Have you ever thought about it, Lin Ye?"

"If we hadn't chosen to passively come into contact with it and be affected by its radiation..."

"What would happen if we actively swallowed it, or ground it into the purest liquid and injected it directly into our bodies?"

Lin Ye only felt a blur before his eyes.

Suddenly, a huge virtual light screen was projected into the air in front of him.

That was a surveillance video.

In the video, Lin Ye saw two incredibly familiar faces.

Shi Lei, Shi Hao.

Both brothers were in a deep coma, strapped to a metal lab table. Several researchers in protective suits forcibly pried open their mouths and shoved two dark blue source crystals directly down their throats.

soon.

An unimaginable scene unfolded.

Shi Lei and Shi Hao's bodies began to convulse and swell violently at a speed visible to the naked eye!

Beneath their skin, it seemed as if countless living things were writhing wildly, and their bones emitted a teeth-grinding cracking and reforming sound.

Human characteristics are rapidly fading away.

Thick carapace, sharp bone spurs, twisted limbs...

In just a few tens of seconds.

Two living people were transformed into two hideous and terrifying fused monsters.

For the first time, an undisguised shock appeared in Lin Ye's eyes.

He had imagined countless possibilities.

He had always believed that these fusion monsters were the result of some kind of evil human and animal gene recombination experiment conducted by the Dawn Creatures, which ultimately created these monsters with multiple biological characteristics.

He never thought about it.

The truth is both so simple and so bizarre!
"You're surprised too, aren't you?"

"The difference between ingestion and contact is only a fine line, but the consequences are worlds apart!"

"The most amazing thing is that these features from other animals just appeared out of nowhere!"

"I didn't implant any animal genes into them, I didn't do anything! These traits just grew out like that!"

"Sometimes I even think..."

"Where did we humans come from? Were we really not created haphazardly by some creator from a higher dimension?"

The screen ends.

The light curtain disappears.

The doctor's fanaticism slowly subsided, and he returned to his gentle and refined demeanor.

He looked at Lin Ye and handed him the egg-sized source crystal from his palm.

"Now."

"it's your turn."

"Let me see, a perfect adaptable entity that can perfectly resist source crystal radiation..."

"What kind of amazing appearance will it take after swallowing it!"

The moment the doctor took out the Source Crystal, Lin Ye's face showed the fear that a normal person should have.

He abruptly stood up from the metal chair and turned to escape the suffocating platform.

"do not want!"

However, the next moment.

A slender white figure appeared before him like a ghost, blocking his path.

It's that woman.

Lin Ye only felt a blur before his eyes, and a hand wearing a heavy protective glove had already gripped his neck.

That hand didn't look particularly strong, but the power it contained was like a steel clamp.

"Feed it."

The doctor's gentle voice sounded like a devil's whisper.

Upon receiving the instruction, the woman took the egg-sized pure source crystal with her other hand and, without any hesitation, roughly shoved it into Lin Ye's mouth.

Lin Ye struggled desperately, kicking his legs wildly and scratching at the woman's arms in vain.

The next moment, the extremely pure source crystal was forcibly shoved into his throat.

The immense force on his neck suddenly released.

"Cough...cough cough! Ugh..."

Lin Ye coughed and gagged violently, as if he were about to vomit up his internal organs.

The doctor pushed up his glasses, and the fervor and expectation in his eyes grew even colder.

For ordinary people, the moment they swallow a Source Crystal, their bodies will experience an extremely violent rejection reaction.

Then the mutation began.

He had seen all kinds of horrific scenes, and none of them surprised him.

But the scene before him caused his expression to change slightly.

Lin Ye's coughing subsided quickly.

Apart from her face turning bright red from the suffocation and her body twitching slightly, surprisingly... there were no signs of the expected breakdown.

He just calmed down and was fine.

The doctor's breathing suddenly became rapid.

He strode up to Lin Ye, bent down, and his eyes gleamed with an unprecedented sharpness.

"It's incredible!"

He muttered to himself, his voice trembling slightly with excitement.

"Perfect adaptability...! You are simply the most perfect gift God has given me!"

"continue!"

The doctor suddenly stood up and gave the woman in white an order that left no room for argument.

"I want to see him reach his limit! Keep feeding him!"

This time, the woman took out two source crystals of the same purity from a metal box and grabbed Lin Ye by the neck again.

Finally, a hint of genuine reaction appeared in Lin Ye's eyes.

That was the boiling sign produced when the surging blood and qi in his body were frantically tempered by the extremely pure torrent of source energy!
His veins bulged on his body, and his skin quickly turned red.

"Quickly! Continue!"

In the doctor's eyes, all that remained was madness and insanity.

In fact, the nausea, coughing, and vomiting he experienced after swallowing the first source crystal were all acted out by Lin Ye.

He hadn't consumed any source crystals for a long time.

Now that someone is feeding him, he enjoys it.

Lin Ye could clearly feel the massive amount of blood and qi that had accumulated in his body during this period due to the surge in his attributes, which had not yet been fully tempered.

Under the impact of this ultimate source energy, it is evolving at an incredible speed.

Lin Ye diverted a portion of his mind to forcefully guide this newly formed, violent torrent of blood and energy.

Following the route of the "Five Qi Guiding Techniques", the wildest attack was launched against the last three meridian barriers that had not yet been opened among the twelve regular meridians!
Foot Jueyin Meridian!

Foot Taiyin Meridian!

Foot Shaoyin Meridian!

boom!
boom!
boom!
Three muffled roars, seemingly originating from the depths of the soul, exploded one after another!

Bottlenecks are as fragile as window paper in the face of such overwhelming power.

Connected!
An unprecedented sense of power surged forth from the depths of my limbs and bones, coursing through my meridians.

My energy surged again, and a feeling of exhilaration, stemming from a leap in my life level, welled up within me!

Indeed, nothing is more satisfying than becoming stronger at lightning speed.

If so, it's about continuing to grow stronger at an extremely rapid pace.

The doctor in front of me seems to have completely gone into some crazy obsession.

piece.

Another one.

Source crystals were continuously fed into Lin Ye's mouth.

Lin Ye even felt like he could barely swallow anymore.

The only pity is that all the excess, unrefined blood and qi in his body had already evolved during the breakthrough just now.

The source crystals he swallowed afterward only made his already refined blood and qi even more condensed and violent.

The quality is still improving, but the improvement is not as immediate as before.

The three Yin meridians of the hand and the three Yin meridians of the foot.

With all six Yin meridians fully opened, he was only one step away from the mid-stage of the Meridian Opening Realm: the six Yang meridians in his hands and feet.

However, acting eventually comes to an end.

When the woman stuffed the tenth source crystal into Lin Ye's mouth, the doctor's fanatical face finally showed a slight change.

He discovered the problem.

Aside from the initial "struggle," the boy before me was eerily calm throughout the process of consuming the Source Crystal.

Even beneath that flushed skin, he could vaguely sense a kind of...pleasure?
"you……"

For the first time, the doctor's voice carried hesitation and scrutiny.

"Was it intentional?"

Lin Ye slowly wiped the drool from the corner of his mouth.

All of her previous acting skills have been completely concealed.

Instead, there is a bottomless calm and indifference.

"I'm curious."

"What is your purpose in conducting these experiments?"

Can you tell me?

puff!
The words have not yet fallen.

In the instant before the doctor and the woman could react...

A strange purple crystal spear materialized out of thin air in Lin Ye's palm without warning, piercing straight through the white-clad woman's chest!

Roar--! ! !
A savage roar, utterly inhuman and filled with brutality, exploded from deep within the woman's throat!

Her body began to swell violently in front of Lin Ye, growing larger!
The doctor's astonishment froze instantly, turning into a gloomy expression.

"It was my mistake; you're very smart."

"They even saw through my true form."

His voice slowly rose, and by the last few words, it had taken on a strange quality, as if countless voices were overlapping and twisted together.

Lin Ye certainly wouldn't tell him.

A woman clearly marked with "LV.20".

A PhD without any rank or designation.

Does it even need to be said who the real entity is and who the puppet is?
Moreover, from the moment he stepped onto those metal steps, Lin Ye could tell from the sound of her footsteps that this woman possessed a terrifying weight that was completely inconsistent with her slender figure.

Each step caused the metal steps to vibrate heavily.

Lin Ye's gaze fell on the doctor.

His body was rapidly dissolving, turning into a pool of viscous, pitch-black liquid.

It slid silently to the ground, slowly merging into the shadow beneath the feet of the female assistant whose body was expanding wildly.

Swish——!!!
A sickening sound, like clothes and flesh being torn apart, emerged.

Lin Ye's gaze suddenly sharpened.

Two huge, ugly, dark red fleshy wings suddenly tore out from the back of that swollen body and unfolded instantly!

Its wingspan is a good seven or eight meters!
Immediately afterwards, the white protective suit, which was already stretched to its limit, completely ripped apart, revealing the truly terrifying figure hidden beneath.

It was a monster that barely maintained a human-like outline.

Its skin is a grayish-white color resembling cadaverine, covered with twisted muscle fibers and dark purple proliferative tissue.

This monster looks a lot like the legendary demon.

It has wings on its back, a black face, and fangs.

Its left arm still retains a human form, but its right arm has been completely mutated, turning into a huge demonic claw.

The most bizarre thing is its head.

A human face was on the huge and hideous head of the demon.

But the skin on that face had been stretched to its limit, tightly taut against the skull.

Lin Ye took a deep breath.

The LV.20 Lord Giantwing Demon he had been searching for was indeed not in the ruined city.

It had been hiding in such a heavily guarded underground base all along.

Furthermore, it was transformed from a human being.

This was something he had never expected before.

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