Interstellar boss, she doesn't talk about martial arts

Chapter 1734 Unconventional (Second Update)
The massive, rusted iron gate lay ajar, like a bottomless, dark crevice, or the menacing, gaping mouth of a demon.

Xia Chujian made a gesture to the side of the door, and Xia Chao's body immediately moved to the front of the door. A heavy defensive shield was switched out from the mecha and firmly held the ground.

Xia Yu silently slid to the side of the group, holding an instrument in his hand that emitted a faint blue light in the rainy night, quickly outlining the space behind the iron gate.

It was a vast, desolate world devoid of heat sources, vital signs, and any signs of life.

"Safe," Xia Yu reported in a low voice, but his tone revealed a hint of confusion.

"However, the structural scan shows that there are large, irregular heat sources remaining here, and they are cooling down rapidly, which is... very strange."

Xia Chujian's heart sank slightly.

Yes, it's too quiet, unusually quiet.

Furthermore, if there really are no living organisms here, then where does the large, irregular heat source come from?
She whispered a command to Xia Xiong, who had already gone inside and occupied the high ground: "Xia Xiong, report the situation inside."

"Nothing unusual. Just rain." Xia Xiong's voice came from above, still calm.

"Proceed." Xia Chujian suppressed his doubts and decisively gave the order.

Xia Chao kicked out and swung his heavy shield, smashing open the half-closed iron door.

The iron gate emitted a piercing, metallic scraping sound, creating a huge echo in the empty city, but it was quickly drowned out by the deafening roar of the torrential rain.

Xia Chujian, Xia Yu, Xia Rao, and Xia Xi followed closely behind.

Bright lights shone on the mech helmets, like several sharp white lightsabers, piercing through the torrential rain inside the city and the black fog that spread with the rain.

Where the beam of light swept across, a horrific scene unfolded before everyone's eyes, like a scroll painting of hell.

Inside the vast city, nothing remains.

Not far from the entrance, there stands a huge building made of some unknown material, haphazardly piled up.

It was another altar, much like the previous one.

Hundreds or thousands of mummies, or rather, things that were once human, were scattered around it.

Like the altar outside, these people lay stiffly scattered on the muddy ground around the altar in an extremely painful and indescribable posture.

His limbs were contorted to the extreme, his face frozen in the final moment, filled with utter horror that was about to burst forth.

The clothes were nowhere to be seen, and the skin had turned a strange dark green and withered, as if all life and moisture had been instantly drained away.

At the very center of the altar, a huge, indescribable mass of flesh was slowly writhing.

Isn't this life?!
Xia Chujian whispered to Xia Yu, "...Why didn't you detect any vital signs data for this thing?"

Xia Yu's voice was also confused: "I don't know either, but my life detector definitely doesn't have any vital signs for this thing."

Xia Chujian wanted to ask more questions, but then she saw Qi Lu display another line of childlike doodles on her eyepiece screen.

[Qi Lu]: Master, this thing is not a normal life form. The life detectors of the Northern Chen Empire cannot detect its vital signs.

Xia Chujian: "..."

Well, this thing doesn't seem like anything serious.

It is like a huge organ that has been turned inside out.

The surface is covered with a wet, sticky, semi-transparent purple gelatinous film.

Beneath the membrane were countless frantically pulsating, constantly expanding and contracting sarcomas, like gaping mouths struggling to breathe.

Around the edge of that huge mouth, there were still some fragments of limbs that had not been completely absorbed.

For example, a child's head still wearing a hair accessory, and half of a child's leg covered by a blue dress.

As if still alive, they constantly rise and fall, struggle on the surface of those large, gelatinous tumors, and are then pulled deeper into those large mouths by an invisible force.

The smell that filled the air was indescribable.

It was as if the stench of blood from a thousand-year-old execution ground, the fishy smell of deep-sea fish exposed to the sun for ten thousand years, and some kind of fermented, cloying, and nauseating stench was so strong that it could almost make a person faint.

Even their second-generation mechs seemed unable to block the stench.

On the eyepiece display screen, the air pollution level data kept climbing, and it looked like it was about to break through the critical value.

"I can't take it anymore..." Xia Xi's voice rang out behind Xia Chujian, accompanied by violent retching sounds, and the beam of light on her helmet shook violently.

Although they couldn't smell anything, they couldn't suppress the urge to vomit at the sight that was more terrifying than hell.

"Hold on! Fire!" Xia Chujian's sharp shout was like a thunderclap, instantly dispelling the nausea and discomfort that was almost unbearable in everyone's hearts.

Without the slightest hesitation, well-trained nerve reflexes overwhelmed instinctive fear.

In an instant, the city's night sky was ripped apart by beams of energy that stretched across it!

However, it didn't have much effect.

The altar in front was pierced through again by Xia Chujian's plasma energy beam, but it didn't produce the high-temperature burning and incineration effect it had before. Those writhing tumors seemed exceptionally sturdy.

Because He was only pierced by a hole, but from that hole, more spores split off and began to escape in all directions.

"Switch to conventional weapons! Bring in heavy firepower!"

Xia Chujian gave another order.

At this point, she felt that the plasma sniper rifle was no longer suitable.

The filth here needs fire, real fire, to truly cleanse it!
She wanted to see the altar covered in heavy firepower.

Soon, everyone switched to conventional weapons.

The crisp, rapid bursts of semi-automatic submachine gun fire jolted the city, which had been silent like an ancient tomb for millennia.

The roar of heavy machine guns, like thunderclaps, echoed through the city streets.

The flamethrower spewed out bright, thick beams of fire, igniting the mummified corpses of carbon-based life forms around the altar.

The shoulder-fired rockets fired one rocket after another, emitting a dull and deadly roar.

The laser beams fired by the laser weapon crisscrossed, illuminating the filthy and dark city night sky.

A dense hail of bullets and laser beams tore through the air, carrying devastating kinetic energy, and slammed into the writhing, enormous mass of flesh in the center of the altar.

The bullet and the laser beam worked together, and like the energy beam, they penetrated the translucent gelatinous film.

It made muffled popping sounds, leaving holes the size of bowls on its massive body.

A viscous, dark purple liquid, shimmering with an eerie glow, gushed out from the bullet holes like pus and blood.

However, the enormous size of that thing did not seem to be affected in any substantial way.

Even more terrifying is that along the edges of the holes torn open by bullets and laser beams, countless tiny, tentacle-like buds are growing wildly at a visible speed, even intertwining and merging with each other!
Within seconds, the grotesque wounds of the flesh-like creature had healed completely. Even the splattered viscous liquid seemed to have a life of its own, meandering and crawling on the ground before flowing back into the main body!

The writhing of the fleshy creature became even more violent, as if it had been "awakened" by the powerful attack!

"Still no use! What the hell is this thing?!" Xia Chao roared, his heavy machine gun spitting out long tongues of fire, the spent cartridges falling like golden raindrops into the puddles on the ground.

"Don't panic! Keep shooting!" Xia Chujian continued firing while trying to find His energy core on the frantically writhing chunks of flesh.

She felt that this thing was exactly the same as those advanced remnants, and must have its own energy core.

Once the energy core is found, it can be killed in one blow!
However, her senses seemed less acute in Ursus than they were outside, so she couldn't find the energy core of this thing for a while.

Xia Chujian's gaze was sharp as a hawk's, sweeping over the ever-changing, nauseating surface.

Just then, the huge lump of flesh suddenly launched itself forward.

Immediately afterwards, several dark purple tentacles, as thick as elephant trunks and split at the ends to reveal layers of sharp teeth and suckers, shot out from different parts of its body like battering rams!

They disregarded physical distance limitations, moving so fast that they left only a few blurry afterimages on everyone's retinas!

"Xia Chao! Left!" Xia Chujian's warning rang out, and he fired his gun at the same time!
Click!

This time she used the standard Destroyer 2 sniper rifle.

The sniper bullet shot out and hit the tentacle closest to Xia Chao.

boom!
The tentacle exploded, spraying viscous liquid everywhere.

Xia Chao managed to escape in time with his mecha, but he still got splashed with some slime.

Fortunately, the number was small, and the outer coating of the mechs resisted corrosion.

But as soon as he turned around, another tentacle covered in slimy mucus appeared beside Xia Chao like a ghost. The huge suction cup at the end suddenly opened and expanded, instantly covering his upper body!
The suction cup is filled with sharp teeth, like a chainsaw, spinning and cutting wildly.

Fortunately, Xia Chao was wearing a second-generation mecha, which helped him withstand the attack from the suction cup tentacles.

Although he resisted the suction cups' cutting force, he was still violently pulled off the ground by an irresistible force!
His legs kicked involuntarily in the air, and the heavy machine gun in his hand flew out and hit the ground with a thud.

The next second, he was dragged and sucked deep into the huge lump of flesh, instantly swallowed up by the churning gel and throbbing tumor, leaving not even a ripple.

"No—!" Xia Rao's roar came from the flank.

Accompanied by the increasingly frantic firing of his semi-automatic submachine gun.

He witnessed the Xia Dynasty being swallowed up, and anger and fear instantly ignited all his fury.

However, at the very moment the Xia Dynasty was swallowed up, an invisible mental shockwave, filled with endless malice and mad ramblings, spread out from the center of that lump of flesh!
This mental pollution doesn't act on the eardrums, but directly pierces the brain, exploding deep within everyone's consciousness!

Everyone froze in place.

　This is the second update. There will be a new update at 12:05 AM.

　　(End of this chapter)