The Creators: From Night City

Under Isaac's guidance, the two decisively changed direction and headed towards the workshop.

Along the way, a large number of zombies, summoned by the "Fragment of the Divine Seal", chased and intercepted the two of them, and fought them relentlessly. Although they were all killed by Jiang Bing's sword and Isaac's feet, their flesh and blood were not wasted and were swallowed and fused by the giant zombies that followed the two closely.

It is also possible that this is the original intention of the "Fragment of the Divine Seal" to summon these zombies.

As a result, when the two arrived at the mineral cracking workshop, the zombies had expanded to a size that blocked the entire corridor, and they were wriggling forward like a mudslide.

The mineral cracking workshop is a place used to crush ores. These ores, which are pulled from the planet into space by gravity cables, are often tens or hundreds of meters in diameter.

This also resulted in the entire workshop being built to be very large.

When the giant zombie squeezed into the workshop, it finally no longer filled up all the space, but was like a flowing hill.

Compared to the mineral cracking workshop that is hundreds of meters high, it seems a little small.

As an inspection engineer who was very familiar with the internal structure of the Ishimura, Isaac came up with a very feasible solution in a short time.

He shouted at the frowning Jiang Bing, "I need you to hold it back for a while while I turn off the artificial gravity in the workshop. This will at least significantly limit its ability to move.

Jiang Bing nodded in agreement and turned the chainsaw sword to fight against the giant zombie.

The huge zombie actually reacts very slowly. Although each of its tentacles is as thick as a bucket and carries tremendous force, slapping against the wall with a loud bang, its reaction speed is not fast.

The real trouble is the oppressive feeling brought by its huge body and its almost invincible self-healing ability.

Jiang Bing dragged the chainsaw sword and cut off three or four tentacles in one encounter, but it did not cause any effective damage at all.

The giant zombie is like the mythical Hydra. If one of its tentacles is cut off, two will grow back in a short period of time.

So Jiang Bing decisively changed his plan and started hanging in front of the giant zombie, keeping a distance neither too far nor too close, and flew the kite.

The zombie was manipulated at first, but in a very short time, it evolved long-range attack capabilities based on the current combat situation.

Several tentacles crossed and merged to form a cavity similar to a gun barrel. As the body of the giant zombie squirmed upward like a tide, several bone spurs were spewed out by the cavity tentacles and shot towards Jiang Bing in front like bullets.

The speed of the bone spurs was almost catching up with the crossbow, but fortunately, this speed was not enough in front of Jiang Bing. With the help of the airflow, [Power-Wind Lord] swiftly dodged most of the bone spurs. Those that he could not dodge or were in the necessary dodging path were also deflected or blocked by him, eliminating the danger invisibly.

However, as time went on, the giant zombies transformed into more and more tentacles that could spit out bone spurs. Under the absolute pressure of numbers, Jiang Bing's dodging space was gradually compressed.

Fortunately, Isaac is the strongest engineer in the universe, and his professional ability is not in vain. Just when Jiang Bing was forced to climb walls and was about to activate his flying ability to create distance, he felt his body lighten, and the huge body of the giant mutant floated up lightly.

"Well done." Jiang Bing praised in his heart.

In a state of zero gravity, Jiang Bingteng's space of movement directly changed from front, back, left, right, up and down to all directions.

[Power - Wind Lord]'s ability to control airflow allows him to move forward and turn 360 degrees without any blind spots.

But this doesn't mean that he can do anything about the slime floating in the air.

On the contrary, the other party was rapidly adapting to the zero-gravity state. Although it could not move by crawling, it extended several huge tentacles from its body and stuck to the surrounding objects. Then the tentacles tightened and contracted, and launched its huge body out like a rubber band.

The huge body was like a semi-trailer, bouncing up and down, left and right, and back and forth in the cracking workshop, just to capture Jiang Bing who was floating in the air.

In other words, Jiang Bing can move flexibly in the air by manipulating the airflow. If he had used Isaac's slow plasma propulsion method, he would have been crushed into a meat patty by the giant zombie.

Isaac didn't dare to get involved in the game of chase and dodge between the two sides at this time. After turning off the artificial gravity, he went straight to the deck where the mineral cracker was located.

He skillfully used the RIG to connect to the mineral cracker and completed the initial synchronization, but difficult problems immediately ensued.

A mineral cracker is a large device that looks like a cannon with a base fixed to the ground. It is mainly used to crack large fixed ores.

However, due to its huge energy consumption, it needs to be charged before it can be activated, and its heavy weight means that it cannot turn freely like a defense turret.

After all, it was originally designed as a mining tool, not a weapon of war.

Fortunately, Isaac was a seasoned engineer with extensive experience. He quickly unlocked the giant grappling hook that fixed the ore, released the fixed ore, and then pulled the grip of the grappling hook to the highest level before slowly turning the muzzle of the mineral cracker toward the grappling hook position.

In this way, a simple trap is made.

Isaac quickly signaled Jiang Bing to lure the giant zombie that was bouncing back and forth like a pinball to the grappling hook so that he could start the disintegrator and destroy it.

As a biological weapon, this 'Slime' is indeed very qualified. Its infinite regeneration and the ability to evolve rapidly according to actual conditions make it basically adaptable to most combat situations.

Jiang Bing felt that even if it was thrown into the cold space, it would be able to ensure its own survival and eventually evolve the ability to move in the universe.

However, as a product of a small aggregation, its intelligence was obviously insufficient. At least at this moment, it did not realize Jiang Bing's intention to lead it into the trap.

Finally, under Jiang Bing's intentional guidance, the giant mutant's next ejection landing point was controlled by Jiang Bing near the grappling hook.

Although the giant mutant's flesh and blood body is heavy, the suppressive force it can exert in an environment without gravity is severely weakened by this huge weight.

Faced with this flesh bomb attack, Jiang Bing did not choose to dodge directly as he did before. Instead, in the gap between the two, he created a huge airflow in front of him, hitting the mutant's slippery body, pushing it onto a carefully calculated trajectory while blood splattered.

Chapter 71: Taking Chestnuts from the Fire

The mutant, who knew nothing about this, smashed directly into the grappling hook, and then, as usual, extended several thick tentacles, trying to wrap around the surrounding objects and launch itself out again.

But how could Isaac, who had been waiting for a long time, give up this opportunity? He immediately started the grappling hook closing program.

As the four huge metal teeth of the grappling hook closed inward, the mutant was clamped tightly and began to wriggle and struggle frantically. However, facing the giant grappling hook that was routinely used to fix hundred-ton meteorites, its resistance was as useless as an ant trying to shake a tree.

As Isaac closed the switch of the mineral splitter, the three-meter-thick splitter barrel began to accumulate energy. The splitter, which also originated from the principle of unified field theory, can output a directional impact powerful enough to split mountains and rocks in a very short time.

The disadvantage is that there is an obvious energy storage process and the energy consumption is very huge.

But when used to shoot fixed targets, its power is absolutely satisfactory.

As the charge ended, there was no discernible sound. The arcing muzzle of the disruptor flashed briefly, and the next moment, the giant mutant, clamped in the grappling hook, was instantly struck by an invisible shockwave, and it let out a tragic wail from its vocal organs, which were located somewhere unknown.

In order to complete the ore cracking, the shock wave emitted by the cracker does not have strong penetrating power, but instead has a large-scale surface crushing ability.

This caused the corpse's huge body to be like a tomato crushed by a car, with half of its body smashed to pieces by the shock wave.

The flesh and blood were scattered everywhere by the huge force.

However, this seemingly serious injury cannot even be considered an injury for the giant zombie that has the "Divine Seal Fragment" to provide it with energy, which is almost equivalent to infinite energy.

As the tentacles swung wildly, the blood-red field suddenly expanded and contracted. A large amount of splattered flesh and blood rapidly gathered together as if they were given independent lives. After reaching a certain volume, they flowed back into the body of the giant corpse, quickly healing the wound that would have been unsolvable on other living things.

Isaac, who didn't believe in evil, fired a few more shots. Even with blood and flesh flying everywhere, the giant zombie was still alive and kicking. Its vitality was not diminished at all. Instead, it used these rebirths to stick half of its body out of the hook.

"Ugh, this thing has no use for it at all."

Isaac spoke the harsh truth in distress.

But that doesn't mean resourceful engineers don't have other options.

"We can banish it into space. I just noticed that the main control room has a switch that controls the workshop and the space gate."

Jiang Bing, who had been observing silently beside the giant mutant, suddenly interrupted.

"It's that fragment of the divine seal."

Watching the field that continued to spread outward from somewhere inside the zombie, Jiang Bing analyzed another solution.

"As long as we can separate that fragment of the divine seal from its body, it will lose its unlimited energy supply and will most likely self-destruct."

"If you drop it into space, your long-cherished RIG will be ruined."

Jiang Bing concentrated his mind, feeling the specific location of the fragment of the divine seal in the body of the 'Slime'.

Jiang Bing's words were not only for Isaac, but also mainly for that piece of "divine seal fragment".

As a high-dimensional creation that runs through the entire world of "Dead Space", it would be a lie to say that Jiang Bing, as a "craftsman", is not curious about it.

He couldn't afford to offend the entire 'Divine Seal' yet, but the gallstones in the 'Slime' in front of him were a perfect target.

Isaac keenly noticed the unspoken meaning in Jiang Bing's words and quickly asked.

"Sabul, do you have any good ideas?"

[Power-Wind Lord] was like a satellite, constantly flying around the giant zombie, looking for the center of the field.

"Can you fine-tune the mineral splitter's landing point?"

The engineer didn't hesitate for a moment.

“No problem, I can sync its aiming system to my RIG view panel and make fine adjustments manually.”

"Very good. Pay attention to my movements later and hit the place I marked with a hard blow."

Isaac was a little confused, but with trust in Jiang Bing, he still nodded in agreement and provided a great assist at the first opportunity.

"I can short-circuit the power supply system, temporarily overloading the output power and performing an overloaded charge shot. The power will be several times stronger than the normal mode."

The engineer had already left the main control room and wasted no time in flying towards the cracker while the two men were discussing countermeasures.

"However, this will severely damage the overall circuit structure of the cracker, and we only have one chance to fire."

Jiang Bing swung his sword and sawed through the tentacles in front of him. A large amount of air gushed out from the back of the armor, allowing him to fly almost close to the surface of the giant zombie.

After this period of data sampling, Jiang Bing has already determined the location of the "divine seal fragment" in the "slime" body.

When the adventurous close-flight approached the predetermined position, Jiang Bing drew out his own katana, and with the help of the forward momentum, he used both hands to chop two deep scars on the opponent's body with the chainsaw sword and the katana as a mark.

"Isaac, can you see the mark?"

The engineers had used the telekinetic power module to dismantle the panel of the cracker, pasted a ball of static energy on the circuit board inside, and then frantically welded and modified it.

Hearing Jiang Bing's call, Isaac turned back in his busy schedule and marked the location of the rapidly healing wound with his RIG.

Finally, the engineer completed all the preparations for the overload in a hurry and replied to Jiang Bing.

"No problem, I've marked the location. Once the transformation is complete, we'll be ready to fire."

After receiving Isaac's affirmative response, Jiang Bing immediately stopped circling around the giant zombie and began to keep his distance to leave enough space for the next action.

By the time the engineer finished his modification work on the cracker, Jiang Bing had already almost flown to the other end of the workshop by controlling [Power-Wind Lord].

Under Isaac's gaze, countless tiny air currents began to blow in this huge workshop, and then converged from all directions towards Jiang Bing's position, finally converging into a whirlwind visible to the naked eye.

As Jiang Bing continued to invest his mental power, the storm was constrained and shaped, further compressed, and turned into a high-speed gas drill composed entirely of rapidly rotating airflow.

With a teeth-grinding hissing sound, Jiang Bing activated all the wind tunnels in his body of [Power - Wind Lord]. While moving forward at a rapid speed, he spared no effort to increase the speed of the drill in front of him to the fastest.

Jiang Bing pushed the drill forward and began to accelerate gradually.

"It's now!"

Isaac began to charge the cracker overload without hesitation, completely ignoring the fact that this would cause the Harmony Mining Group, to which the Ishimura belonged, to lose millions of credit points.

Chapter 72 Consecration

As a light bright enough to illuminate the entire mineral cracking workshop flashed by, the left half of the giant corpse was almost shattered by the shock wave. A huge amount of minced meat was thrown in all directions in a state of weightlessness, gliding steadily in the air due to inertia.

It will be difficult for them to aggregate back into giant zombies in a short period of time.

With a crazy howl, Jiang Bing controlled the "Electric Dragon Drill" composed of airflow and almost followed the shock wave's buttocks.

The high-speed rotating air drill dug its way inward through the channel opened by the shock wave, continuing to throw out countless blood clots in all directions while rapidly penetrating into the opponent's body.

The giant corpse finally realized that something was wrong. Even with its not very advanced intelligence, it could judge that Jiang Bing's target was the core of the 'divine seal fragment' in its body.

But when I realized it at this time, it was too late.

Guided by the 'craftsman's' perspective, Jiang Bing advanced rapidly all the way and finally reached the center of the blood-red field before the air drill's speed dropped to the critical point.

Dr. Messer's flesh and blood had long since melted and merged with the entire giant zombie.

His body turned into a mass of flesh, blood, and bones, wrapped around the 'divine seal fragments', and then countless tiny blood vessels spread out from it, penetrating into the flesh walls on all sides.

However, this heart-like flesh ball, which was still shrinking, was pierced by Jiang Bing's ruthless move.

Facing the pressure of the surrounding flesh, Jiang Bing turned the power of the chainsaw sword in his hand to the maximum, stabbed it deeply into the flesh, and opened a gap to the side that was large enough for him to lean in.

Although blood and minced meat had completely covered the eyepieces of [Power-Wind Lord], the blood-red field continuously emitted by the "Fragment of the Divine Seal" was as conspicuous as a bright light in the dark night.

With the help of the omniscient vision provided by [Mithril], Jiang Bing used his fingernails to tear open the thick cortical membrane that was constantly growing, and accurately reached out to grab the only hard object in the giant corpse's body.

As soon as the 'divine seal fragment' touched Jiang Bing's palm, countless illusory shocks and mental interferences came one after another.

Entering a state of mental overload, Jiang Bing gritted his teeth and suppressed them tightly.

Jiang Bing continued to exert his strength, winning this unequal struggle and uprooting the 'divine seal fragment' that had grown together with the giant corpse.

The blood-red field began to run wild, and the flesh walls wrapped around Jiang Bing were stimulated and began to wriggle and squeeze violently, putting pressure on Jiang Bing and trying to keep him.

Following the guidance of his intuition, Jiang Bing lifted his visor and smeared the sticky blood from his nose, which was flowing freely due to the overload of his mental power, on the divine seal.

The higher-level information contained in the blood began to rapidly erode the essence of the existence of the fragment of the divine seal. As a creation, no matter how high the level is, it is difficult to resist the erosion of the blood of a craftsman.

The violent blood-red field suddenly began to become chaotic.

Jiang Bing wiped the blood from his nose as he rushed out of the giant, already exhausted corpse body.