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Chapter 540 Assimilation
Bai Ze's tone was serious and earnest; he wasn't joking.

The background noise from the Special Affairs Bureau headquarters on the other end of the earphones also corroborated this point.

"Row."

Despite any doubts, victory is the priority. Li Sheng stared at the alien mothership continuously emitting black smoke and said into his headset, "How do we fight this thing? Any suggestions?"

"According to current intelligence, the [Phase Change Demon] can freely change its composition and form of existence, including solid, liquid, plasma, and even electric current, data, and memetic concepts."

Bai Ze spoke rapidly, "Therefore, it has extremely strong resistance to most forms of physical and energy attacks."

To inflict effective damage, you need to use a high-level attack to first destroy its form and seize the brief gap during the transformation.

Or use a highly mysterious, concept-level attack.

When it comes to the concept class, the first thing that comes to mind is the undefeated ranch owner since his debut. With a wheel in his left hand and a whip in his right, he can whip even the most powerful monsters.

However, the farmer only attacks the soul, so it doesn't cause any actual damage.

Li Sheng's mind raced. At that moment, the black smoke column had already passed through the energy barrier and reached the high-rise buildings along the Huangpu River.

The Central Tower, the Shanghai World Financial Center, the Jin Mao Tower, and the Oriental Pearl Tower.
Wherever the black smoke reached, the glass on the exterior of buildings shattered. NPCs who accidentally inhaled small amounts of smoke while fleeing staggered and fell to the ground, twitching for more than ten seconds.

When they stood up again, these NPCs had black lines all over their eyes and bulging veins around their eye sockets. They pounced on the uninfected humans around them with the speed of a sprinter, knocked them down, and then breathed out black smoke mouth to mouth.

This scene is somewhat like a post-apocalyptic zombie apocalypse, but much more bizarre than zombies.

The infected and assimilated NPCs even retain some intelligence. They will cooperate to surround those NPCs who have not been transformed, forcibly pry open their jaws, and pour black smoke into them.

"What are you country bumpkins trying to do?! *glug glug glug*"

Li Sheng's eyelids twitched repeatedly. This ability to corrupt and transform was far beyond what ordinary Lv33 human players on Earth could compare to. He immediately asked, "Which player's main universe does this [Phase Change Demon] come from?"

"I don't know, Earth players haven't encountered this before."

Bai Ze on the other end of the phone said, "Mr. Ant, you encountered otherworldly players led by Mian Yue in the previous Tremor mission, right?"

That world, like Earth, is a main world with over two hundred thousand superhumans, and their 'version' is slightly higher than Earth's. I've had contact with many more players from other worlds.

The information about the [Phase Change Demons] came from intelligence provided by the main world's order faction—their high-ranking transcendents had repelled an invasion by the [Phase Change Demons].

In other words, the Special Affairs Bureau only had secondhand intelligence.

Li Sheng pursed his lips slightly, and with a thought, all the Imperial Guard tanks that were parked above the energy barrier simultaneously rotated their rivet-studded turrets, and their thick, long cannons fired high-explosive shells at the mothership.

Boom!

The mothership's hull exploded in multiple places, and the hundreds or thousands of tons of its exterior collapsed like a landslide.

But the black gas seemed endless, quickly filling the gap, sticking to the hull and core components, preventing the mothership from disintegrating.

"Does this thing even have a physical form?"

Li Sheng closed the distance, aimed at the smoke, and pulled the trigger of the ape-man degeneration gun.

When a degraded bullet is fired into highly corrosive black smoke, the equivalent of an entire warehouse instantly turns into toxic fumes.

However, this is still a drop in the ocean compared to the mothership itself.

Pulling the trigger again only reduces the volume of that "small pinch" of gas. It transforms from toxic, dense smoke into soot mixed with sulfur dioxide.

Then, from coal smoke, it degenerates into secondhand exhaust from traditional cigarettes, and then into secondhand smoke from e-cigarettes.

In the real world, the camera lens on a mobile phone screen constantly follows the ant's perspective, switching back and forth between long shots, medium shots, and close-ups, which everyone can clearly see.

The Neptune Task Force operative couldn't help but whisper, "If I remember correctly, that gun's effect is supposed to be degradation, right? It can degrade from traditional cigarettes to secondhand smoke, doesn't that prove that the degradation gun is a traditionalist who favors physical cigarettes?"

Upon hearing this, his colleagues in the carriage all silently turned to look at him. Even Haiwang himself realized that this wasn't a routine duty assignment.

The officers at headquarters are still watching the live stream.

"it's not true."

This topic happened to touch on Grey Rain's area of ​​expertise, and she earnestly explained, "Look closely, it's the secondhand smoke from physical cigarettes that has degenerated into the secondhand smoke from e-cigarettes. This proves that in the field of secondhand smoke from e-cigarettes, the harm is less. Therefore, it is actually a reformist faction that strongly supports e-cigarettes."

Oh, I see. Beijing A license plate is a joke.

The atmosphere here is so tense, can you please be a little more serious?

At this moment, the streets were filled with infected and assimilated NPC passersby, who swarmed toward Gray Rain.

Rarely having the chance to beat up a kid, Gray Rain was invigorated, his strength and might overwhelming, as he swung his skull-crushing power hammer and swept forward.

Each strike could send more than a dozen zombies flying.

However, the black smoke and zombies were endless, while the players' strength and spiritual power were being depleted every moment.

The Phase Change Demon did not primarily attack Li Shenghuiyu, but instead focused its efforts on eroding everything in the movie world, turning it into its own domain.

As its corruption continued to spread, even the supporting characters who played significant roles in the movie were not spared, and the already crumbling energy barrier collapsed even faster.

Sudden——

After recovering all the Imperial Guard chariots, Li Sheng landed back on the ground. Gray Rain swept away a large number of zombies with a single hammer blow and quickly asked, "What do we do now? Should we use that item?"

The two were of one mind, and that item naturally referred to the most mysterious offensive item currently in Li Sheng's possession, the [Eight Trigrams Alchemy Magic Cannon].

If you really put your mind to it, you could insert a perfect or even higher-quality item and forge it into a cannonball.
Even the original form of the Frog God might not be able to withstand it.

"Being not."

Li Sheng shook his head. The existence of the [Phase Change Demon] was even more special than the formless conceived divine evil he had encountered before. The Eight Trigrams Demon Cannon might not be able to kill it with one shot.

In that case
He swooped down into the riverbed not far away, and with a heavy thud, the [Compassionate Soul Serenade] glove struck the giant cannon submerged in the river water.

ka ka ka-

According to the film's marketing materials, this cannon is a self-made offensive weapon for decisive battles, symbolizing Chinese characteristics and technological independence, with a particular emphasis on the integration of artificial intelligence.

Regardless of whether it's advanced or not, it's huge enough. Driven by the compassionate spirit, the cannon on the riverbed rose on its own, slowly emerging from the water and rotating its barrel.

High in the sky, the mothership seemed to realize what Li Sheng was about to do, and suddenly accelerated towards the energy barrier, its hull beginning to charge up a high-energy beam.
A vast number of predator robots and corrupted NPCs rushed in like madmen.

At the crucial moment, Li Sheng gently swiped an NFC card on the surface of the Heat Death Corridor to summon the Frog God.

The Frog God, whose size is comparable to a roll-on/roll-off ship, slams its palms heavily on the river surface, causing tens of thousands of tons of river water to surge up and float against gravity above the cannon, forming a spire structure like the Eiffel Tower.

The mothership's high-energy beam struck the 10,000-ton water flow. Most of the heat evaporated and dissipated with the river water, while a small portion of the beam was deflected by the water flow and exhausted its energy through repeated refraction and scattering.

As for the swooping robots and corrupted NPCs, they were not even considered grunts in front of the Frog God. They were crushed to the ground by more than seven times the gravity and embedded in the concrete road surface.

This bought enough time for the cannons at the bottom of the river.

Noisy!
The cannons blasted out white arcs that shot into the sky, and the few remaining glass facades of the high-rise buildings on both sides of the river reflected the dazzling light.

The beam wasn't aimed at the mothership—that would be pointless; it was merely meant to destroy the ship, the temporary host controlled by the phase-change demon.

Li Sheng was aiming at the spatial rift that had been accidentally created by his elbow strike at the speed of light.

Boom! !
The spatial rift was violently torn open, and the original gale of level eight suddenly turned into a super storm of the level of Mars and Jupiter, accompanied by spatial distortion.

Skyscrapers collapsed, bricks and stones floated, river water flowed backward, and all matter in the city, including the mothership and Li Sheng's gray rain, was siphoned into the spatial rift.

Inside the subway car, the Neptune agent said urgently, "A surge in mobile data uploads has been detected! Unable to intercept the data packets."

"Then trace the data packet flow! Quickly!"

Su Jie shuddered and operated the instrument. He saw a huge data packet, tens of gigabytes in size, jumping back and forth between the backbone networks of domestic telecom operators such as China Telecom and China Unicom at a speed of 0.1 seconds, repeatedly shuttling between various nodes, and finally coming to a stop.

In the command center of the Yin City Special Affairs Bureau, a high-ranking official next to Xing Hechou asked anxiously, "Where is the data packet stopped?!"

Su Jie read the IP address, scratched his head, and said, "Sichuan Province, Panzhihua, a certain internet cafe."

(End of this chapter)