The Star River Era! The Dimensional Freedom Demon

Flames roared, and a mushroom cloud rose high into the sky.

A colossal blue beast, stained black with charred ash, burst forth from the mushroom cloud.

The nuclear explosion affected the Lin family's underground base, causing a strong tremor that made the place shake violently.

Many people, disregarding their disheveled state after falling, immediately looked at the surveillance camera as soon as they regained their balance.

In the video, the blue behemoth is covered in a thick layer of blood and looks somewhat disheveled, but it is still clear that it is not seriously injured.

"My God, even nuclear weapons can't threaten it?!"

Everyone who witnessed this scene paled in shock and was deeply disturbed.

"Why?!"

Upon receiving the news, the Lin family members who arrived later turned pale.

"One more! Let's keep bombarding it!"

Lin Zongyao slammed his fist on the table and shouted hysterically.

No one objected; everyone stared at the giant beast in the picture with hatred.

The nuclear warheads were quickly loaded, and an arc of light was launched again amidst the tense and expectant gazes of the crowd. In addition to the nuclear warheads, other thermal weapons were also used for saturation bombardment.

boom!

The ground shook as if it could not withstand the fury of a nuclear bomb.

The mushroom cloud roared into the sky, and the terrifying heat even distorted the image, painting it with twisted colors.

"Is he dead?"

The Lin family members, who were ready, immediately turned their attention to the screen.

Once the image stabilized, the blue behemoth reappeared. Although its injuries were more severe than before, it was still full of energy.

"No!"

puff!

One of the Lin family members couldn't accept the outcome and coughed up blood.

Lin Zongyao's face was frighteningly pale, and his palms were sweaty. He gave the order again with a blank expression.

"continue."

Now that things have come to this, they have no way out but to gamble everything on the possibility of a nuclear bomb killing Ji Chen.

Amidst the roar, those present only saw a fleeting flash of fire before the surveillance footage suddenly went gray and cut off.

"What happened?"

In the midst of the panic, someone answered:

"The signal was interrupted, and all ground monitoring equipment lost contact."

Seeing that everyone's eyes were on him, the technical supervisor reported with trembling hands:

"It wasn't equipment malfunction...it was the powerful electromagnetic pulse from three consecutive nuclear explosions that destroyed all electronic equipment!"

Shortly after, he added:

"This is already the best result we've achieved after deploying electromagnetic protection technology. If the satellite were still there... ..."

"never mind."

Lin Zongyao interrupted wearily:

"Recover as quickly as possible, and based on the predicted trajectory from previous actions, deliver the final nuclear missile. The rest... well, let's leave it to fate."

Lin Zongyao closed his eyes and sat heavily back in his chair. At this moment, the only thing he was grateful for was...

Fortunately, because of the mysterious person and D City, they sent Lin Teng, the future of the Lin family, to D City.

By now, he should be almost at D City.

Teng'er, live on, carrying the hopes of the Lin family.

Ten minutes later, new surveillance equipment filled the gap, and the surveillance footage of the wilderness gradually returned.

The dust-covered behemoth lay prostrate on the smoke-filled earth.

Its body was covered with a mixture of dried blood, smoke, and ash, which had solidified into a thick layer.

"Is he/she dead?"

No one answered; the still-rising belly of the giant beast in the image had already given the final answer.

The Lin family's underground base was deathly silent.

After a long silence, Lin Zongyao finally said, "Run! Choose a direction from the base's passageways and escape. Let as many as you can get away."

"Master, what about you?"

"Me? The twilight of the technological aristocracy must be accompanied by someone else, so let me accompany it on its final journey."

...

Ji Chen felt his heart pounding wildly.

The shock of a nuclear bomb was beyond imagination. If he hadn't reacted quickly and avoided falling into the blast radius of the nuclear bomb, he would have been seriously injured if not killed.

Breathing in the scorching air, Ji Chen could feel his body's potential constantly increasing.

The perilous situation spurred his ability to adapt and evolve. In addition to developing radiation resistance that allowed him to live comfortably even in a nuclear crater, it also seemed to have turned on some kind of switch within his body.

As time went on, this switch was fully turned on.

The intense nuclear radiation emanating from the surrounding area transformed into a kind of nutrient, which he continuously absorbed, turning into powerful nutrients that nourished his massive body.

Ji Chen was experiencing both pain and pleasure.

Ji Chen could feel that after absorbing nuclear radiation for less than half an hour, he had gained energy almost equivalent to eating half a fourth-tier beast king.

Feeling his strength and injuries gradually recovering, and his body beginning to grow stronger with the help of nuclear radiation, he couldn't help but squint his eyes and stretch on the fiery ground.

The thick pillar of clouds in the sky gradually spread out, and the mushroom cloud surged and spread like waves, obscuring the sky and plunging the surrounding area into darkness.

Dust fell like rain, thick as a curtain, engulfing everything.

Ji Chen suddenly sneezed, expelling the dust that was blocking his nostrils.

He sensed the Lin family members fleeing below.

"Old Black, come here quickly, I'll point where you shoot."

At this point, Ji Chen no longer cared whether Lao Hei could withstand the nuclear radiation. In any case, with the physical strength of a fourth-tier beast king, he wouldn't die anytime soon.

Besides, even if Lao Hei suffered some radiation-induced internal injuries, he believed that Lao Hei would definitely be able to recover in the future.

"Boss Yoda, you're still alive?"

The chimpanzee rushed over, but hesitated to move forward, feeling dizzy and remaining outside the core radiation zone.

The first thing Lao Hei said almost made Ji Chen lose his composure: the underling actually hoped his boss would die.

He kept a straight face, feeling that he had been too lenient in exploiting Lao Hei.

Ji Chen flicked its tail, making it stumble, and urged it to use its skills to launch a long-range attack.

"Yes, over here, and over there. What are you dawdling for? Can you run faster?"

. . . . . .

"Hurry, hurry! Before that beast starts attacking the base, let's run as far as we can."

A group of people from the Lin family, driving several green and yellow trucks, hurriedly made their way through a passageway.

"It's just a pity for the patriarch... ...Our Lin family will remember this grudge, and we will make that beast pay for his blood debt sooner or later!"

Someone roared in frustration.

"Wait! Why is the passageway shaking?!"

The convoy ahead slammed on the brakes, only to be horrified to find the surrounding concrete structure shaking violently. The ceiling of the passageway cracked first, and gravel and dust fell from the gaps.

"Run! This place is going to collapse!"

bang——

A deafening roar drowned out all the shouts as a thousand-ton stratum of rock crashed down, completely burying the passage and the desperate cries within.

The same scene was playing out in various places.

All the Lin family members who escaped, as sensed by Ji Chen, met the same fate, regardless of which route they chose.

They were buried alive in the escape network they themselves had built.

On the ground, Old Black vented his anger by repeatedly slamming his heavy fists into the earth like meteors, as if a hammer of heaven were falling, causing the earth to crack and the rock layers to tremble.

The powerful shockwaves transformed into invisible shock waves, precisely penetrating hundreds of meters of soil and reaching the load-bearing structure of the underground passage.

click-

The faint sound of the supporting wall crumbling came from underground, like the sound of a massacre.