The Creators: From Night City

The next moment, he swung his windbreaker and rushed forward at an even faster speed.

Jiang Bing raised his head to dodge his punch, reached out to grab the opponent's arm, took a step forward, stretched his back, and directly smashed the opponent into a stone pillar beside him.

Dust flew up along with the sound of the stone pillars collapsing.

"You succeeded in irritating me!"

A huge rock flew out from the dust and hit where Jiang Bing had been standing.

Wesker stretched his muscles and walked out of the dust. Apart from some damage to his clothes, he was fine.

Apart from anything else, those who are qualified for the Ouroboros virus are really tough.

He was just about to say something harsh when he found that the dominant Plaka parasite next door was surrounded in a semicircle by many "Apostles" who had already withdrawn. The other party tried to break through, but as soon as he turned around, he was sandwiched between two "Apostles". His tail, which was bleeding all over, was frozen in mid-air by the stagnant energy ball that was almost touching his face with the left arm of an "Apostle", becoming a sitting duck.

For the next ten seconds or so, the firepower was so fierce that it was unimaginable. The gunfire illuminated the entire square. The dominant Plaka parasite was pushed all the way by the bullets and was almost launched into the air. The yellow slime covered the ground beneath it.

By the time the stagnant energy dissipated, the opponent had successfully completed a one-to-one blending with many bullets. Except for a tail that could still be barely seen, the whole person turned into a pool of minced meat.

Faced with this situation, Wesker snorted coldly, as if he didn't care at all.

He raised the hem of his long windbreaker with his hand, lowered his body, and prepared to sprint.

Everyone present was on guard. Wesker turned into a shadow, but instead of rushing towards them, he walked away.

Nonsense, if you don’t retreat in this situation, are you going to be shot?

With his speed, if he wanted to leave, only Jiang Bing could stop him, but that would take quite some effort.

Boss Jiang has more important things to do right now.

Stairway to the Sun.

However, the BSAA members were obviously not very interested in this. After a brief communication with Jiang Bing, the two teams, which had different goals, parted ways.

BSAA will continue to track Wesker's location and provide intelligence support for the subsequent large-scale attack, while Jiang Bing brings his 12 "apostles" to the inner city garden where the "Stairs of the Sun" are planted.

The garden is flat, but the circular flower bed in the middle is raised high and is filled with giant blood-red flowers.

The edges of the petals have a strange red and yellow luster, the lines on the branches are like metal burned by lava, and the air is filled with a rich and strange smell.

Beside the flowerbed stood a small stone altar, carved with a totem of the Bibiyan people kneeling in worship of the sun. Dark green moss covered the altar, and a sticky black liquid oozed from the cracks, emitting a pungent, humic smell.

These are the fertilizers used to water the 'Stairway to the Sun'.

Thin sunlight filtered through the natural cracks in the dome's rock, refracted by the vapor rising from the ground into a pale columnar halo that enveloped the flowers. Wherever the light reached, the red of the petals became even more vivid, as bright and juicy as blood.

But what Jiang Bing saw were not flowers, but smelly flesh and blood rooted in the soil.

They seem to be growing and multiplying.

Pale golden spores visible to the naked eye were floating in the air, making the vision extremely turbid.

Dead ants, mantises and other insects can be seen everywhere beside the flower beds.

The open space next to the altar was littered with Tri-Union Pharmaceuticals' scientific research equipment: an overturned portable freezer, a stalled generator, an unmanned medical tent, and on the other side were piles of even older Umbrella equipment.

Jiang Bing stood in front of the flower bed, his eyes fixed on something deeper underground.

The compositional strength had grown to 9.6, making him feel as if he was standing in front of a huge radiation source. Heat waves rolled towards him from a higher dimension, causing his hair to tremble involuntarily.

However, Feiying and other apostles did not have this feeling. They just felt that this place was inexplicably depressing.

Jiang Bing stepped forward, a blood-red tide flowed, and [Power-Chi You] had finished dressing.

Mist spread across the garden.

The blood-stained gold stake from "The Wizarding World" was taken out from the ghost train by Jiang Bing.

This stake is quite convenient to use in the [Power-Chiyou] state. It is made of very tough material and contains a large amount of magic-blocking gold. It is very effective against magical creatures. Jiang Bing has always used it as a backup for the main weapon.

And now, it is used as a Luoyang shovel.

Jiang Bing erected a solid metal pillar in the middle of the flower bed, and hammered the ground again and again like a rammer. After a few hits, his hands were free and the stake sank into the flower bed.

Beneath this flower bed, there is actually a underground palace that looks quite large.

There was originally a thick layer of stone between the two, but they still succumbed to the continuous blows of the stake.

The lights were turned on, illuminating the underground palace below and the densely packed black tentacles that intertwined like vines and covered the entire space.

Therefore, more than half of the apostles replaced their main weapons with flamethrowers fueled by liquid hydrazine.

A raging fire broke out in this underground palace that had been sealed for who knows how many years.

These black tentacles crawling all over the place seemed like living things, twitching and shaking under the burning flames, but they were still plants after all, and eventually they unwillingly turned into ashes under the licking of the flames.

After burning out a place to stay, everyone jumped into the underground palace.

It is not actually appropriate to call it an underground palace. It was obviously once a part of the main body of the royal city, but due to the subsidence over thousands of years, the lower part of the building was buried.

The walls around are very rough, as if the space here was not originally excavated entirely by humans, but was formed naturally.

A huge plant branch squeezed out from the mountain wall, spreading all the way here from nowhere.

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Jiang Bing looked up along the direction of the plant's branches and vines. A large number of tiny, root-like aerial roots spread out from this pitch-black branch that looked like an oak branch and extended into the soil above.

For hundreds of years, researchers including Umbrella and Tri-Union have been blindly exploring the secrets of these flowers, not knowing that plants originate from seeds and survive in roots.

Or perhaps this flower bed was too important, and the two major forces that came for scientific research purposes could not bear to destroy it. After all, there was no record of the flowers of the "Stairway to the Sun" being successfully planted elsewhere.

The Tri-Union Company did discover the secret of the underground empire of the Dubai Dynasty, but from the previous action report, it was also known that the monsters underground were so dangerous that the Tri-Union Company was unwilling to deal with them.

Jiang Bing carried the stake and walked in front to lead the way, with waves of radiation invisibly guiding his way.

The 'apostles' behind him were holding flamethrowers, and when they saw black tentacles gathering on the wall, they would use flames.

The ground was littered with calcified or dried corpses. All of these corpses were human-shaped, but as shown in the murals, their bodies were covered with tentacles. However, these tentacles died with their hosts and became dry and stiff, like dead tree branches.

To be on the safe side, the bodies were also burned.

Soon, everyone came to a fork in the road. It was like the central node of a maze, with several passages radiating out from it.

These paths are dark and lead to nowhere.

Fortunately, Jiang Bing followed the direction of the "radiation" and quickly selected the direction. Not far away, he came to a "temple".

A heavy sarcophagus was placed in the center of the not-so-large stone chamber, and the surrounding area was filled with bottles and jars, some severely rusted gold, silver and iron objects, several Dubai-style masks, bracelets and other sundries.

This style is a typical tomb chamber at first glance, with burial objects placed around it.

So this is an underground tomb.

Thanks to the pioneers of Sanlian, the sarcophagus in the tomb has been opened, and it is full of weathered black colloids. It is unknown whether the owner of the tomb rushed out of the ground and was eliminated by Sanlian, or went to other places.

The shape of the sarcophagus caught Jiang Bing's attention.

The coffins used by African people are basically box-shaped, but the sarcophagus in front of us is not only made very thick, but also has an even thicker outer coffin on the outside.

The entire coffin is designed not to be laid down, but more like a cage, for fear that the deceased inside might come back to life and run out.

However, looking at the current situation and combining it with the previous Sanlian action report, the deceased in the coffin might really come back to life.

What is this, a biochemical version of Ghost Blows Out the Light?

The team continued to move forward.

More tombs appeared in front of everyone, but not all of them contained luxurious double-layer coffins. Some of the sarcophagi were of normal style, and contained rotten corpses of normal size.

The area of ​​this tomb complex is not small. Jiang Bing passed through more than ten tombs of different sizes before he left the cemetery. He also found many double-layer coffins that had not been opened.

But with the experience of the Deep Diver team as a lesson, he wisely did not touch them.

After all, no matter whether it poses a threat or not, if it is released, it will be like a toad crawling on your feet. Even if it doesn't bite you, it will be annoying.

The subsidence of the royal city also had a great impact on this underground space.

For example, the barrier between two areas was accidentally cleared.

A large number of tombs have been torn away from the main body of the ancient city, and the compression during the city's subsidence forced another area into this burial area.

Fortunately, it made things convenient for Jiang Bing and his group.

After walking through a raised crack and taking a few steps, the scene suddenly changed.

The surrounding walls began to be covered with bulging gray bumps.

As the crowd approached, the sound of dense animals breaking shells was heard, and a large number of black tentacles broke through the calcified shell and began to wriggle like millions of insects.

There was nothing much to say about this scene. Several 'apostles' stepped forward and spread the high-temperature flames evenly over every inch of space.

The flames and heat waves seemed to have triggered some kind of chain reaction.

More and louder cracking sounds came from the darkness.

What followed was a dense sound of footsteps and strange roars.

Flares were immediately fired forward, and a large amount of metal combustibles burned violently, generating high temperatures and illuminating the surroundings.

A group of monsters have awakened at some point.

They should have been curled up in their calcified pods, hanging on a black branch like an oak branch not far away, but the light and heat woke them up and made them break out of their shells.

As depicted in the murals, these monsters are all human-shaped, but their bodies are covered with black tentacles that look like wire worms. They look like a ball of black wool. These tentacles are wriggling all the time, which is very scary. Anyone who comes here will know that they are not good things.

The flamethrower spewed out angry tongues of flame, as if to purify these heretical creatures.

Others also opened fire. Bullets and steel balls hit the monster's body that looked like fluid, splashing only a few pieces of black blood, and then nothing else happened.

In the end, fire is the most efficient.

These black tentacles seemed to be made of oil. Faced with high temperatures, all the water was quickly evaporated and then burned violently.

They don't move very fast, and although a large number of bullets cannot cause effective damage, they can effectively stop them from moving forward, providing sufficient time for the flames to burn.

A foul odor gradually filled the air.

Jiang Bing swung the stake and used the top to whip a "ball of yarn" that came too close away, like playing golf.

The grenade followed closely behind, exploding among the group of monsters.

Perhaps it was because the time was too long, or perhaps the special attack effect of fire was very effective. The team burned and advanced all the way. Soon, they wiped out all the wool monsters they saw and advanced to a building that was definitely man-made.

This is a terraced garden with a very large area. It extends downward in an inverted pyramid shape. There are 7 steps in total, each about 5 meters wide. The surface of the steps is covered to guide rainwater to irrigate the flowers.

But this place is underground, how could it rain?

The stone steps are made of black basalt, and the surface is covered with honeycomb-like etching marks.

Jiang Bing used the armor on his feet to touch the dry dark brown attachments on the stone steps and immediately determined that these things were the remains of weathered blood.

The grooves on the stone steps are not used to guide rainwater, but are clearly used to drain blood.

This place was probably used by the ancient Bayan people for sacrifices.

In the center of the lowest floor is a circular platform, on which hangs a strange tree, a pitch-black tree with upside-down branches.

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At the top are its roots. These fine roots cling tightly to the mountain above and penetrate into the belly of the mountain. Thousands of fine aerial roots fall down like weeping willows, like a waterfall.

Countless substances as thick as black asphalt were secreted from these roots, and as gravity pulled out spider-web-like filaments, they slowly fell to the ground over a long period of time.

The inverted branches went deep into the earth, and the thick vine that Jiang Bing had seen earlier originated from here.

The 'Sun Stairs' growing on the branches seem to be the fruits of this upside-down tree.

It is the source of the radiation, or more precisely, its roots.

On the wide steps near the upside-down tree, dozens of huge flesh cocoons were crawling.

These flesh cocoons look like prostrating believers worshiping a fallen tree. Their exterior is covered with a layer of dry calcified matter, as if condensed over a long period of time. However, the innermost flesh cocoons have completely weathered into the color of rock, and it is unknown how many years have passed.

In the groove at the bottom were many bones, bone fragments, even bone powder, and a pile of fresh bones.

Vines spreading from the roots of the fallen tree tightly wrapped around the skeletons. The flesh and blood of the corpses had long since dried up, but from the clothes on their bodies, it could still be determined that these corpses belonged to the Tri-Union "Deep Diver" team.

I don't know why they died here.

Faced with this kind of scenario, needless to say, firepower coverage is the right choice.

If it weren't for the fact that this was an underground space, Jiang Bing would have wanted to launch a "big explosion" to destroy everything with nuclear weapons.