Guan Tong and Shi Jingyi exchanged a glance, both instantly understanding the other's current thought—the battlefield must be moved outside the warehouse!
Otherwise, in a warehouse full of living dead corpses, no matter how much damage they inflicted on the "Matriarch Converter," it could always replenish and recover using the "blood packs" on the ground.
And the Mind Power consud by Guan Tong and Shi Jingyi during the fight wouldn't be so easy to replenish.
The two simultaneously retreated outward, one after the other. Guan Tong ran towards the back door, while Shi Jingyi deliberately slowed her pace by a step, drawing the Matriarch Converter's attention onto herself before exiting through the warehouse's front door, which she had broken open herself.
The Matriarch Converter imdiately gave chase to Shi Jingyi. After exiting the back door, Guan Tong circled around to the front of the warehouse. He saw Shi Jingyi relying on her kung fu to defend against and counterattack the Matriarch Converter.
A faint, flowing light shimred over her body as she used her kung fu. Guan Tong knew that was her Mind Power. This was her unique application of Mind Power, used to enhance her own body and allow her kung fu to unleash greater power.
At this mont, she was engaged in close-quarters combat with the Matriarch Converter. Guan Tong, holding the Silver Hunt, couldn't intervene for the ti being.
"Shi Jingyi!" he shouted. "You're too close to it; I can't shoot!"
Guan Tong still had thirteen Type 3 rounds left. These most powerful high-explosive rounds could inflict considerable damage on the Matriarch Converter with just a single hit.
It might even be possible to directly blow apart that flesh body it had pieced together from living dead corpses.
But before doing that, Shi Jingyi had to first retreat to a safe distance.
Hearing Guan Tong's shout, Shi Jingyi understood. She first used a punch to deflect the Matriarch Converter's claw, then lightly tapped her toes on the ground, her body gracefully floating backward a considerable distance.
Guan Tong imdiately seized the opportunity, continuously pulling the trigger, firing a full seven Type 3 rounds in one breath, completely sealing off all possible escape routes for the Matriarch Converter!
He wasn't ssing around with single-shot probing anymore. Against such a nimble enemy, he had to adopt a saturation firepower coverage tactic.
"BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!"
A single Type 3 round was enough to destroy a small target point. Now, with seven consecutive rounds, the area near the warehouse's front door was instantly blasted, sending clods of earth flying, and the dazzling flas instantly engulfed the Matriarch Converter!
Shi Jingyi, who had already retreated to a safe distance, couldn't help but be slightly stunned by this scene of frenzied bombardnt.
Earlier in the warehouse, seeing all those living dead with nurous severed limbs, she had known the gun in Guan Tong's hand was powerful. But she hadn't expected it to be this strong. Was this still a gun? It was practically like a cannon.
Guan Tong, anwhile, stared intently at the center of the flas. He wanted to know how the Matriarch Converter was faring. Had it been blown to pieces?
"AHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!"
Suddenly, a piercing shriek erupted from within the flas. It was the sa shriek that had sounded twice before, the one that transford corpses into living dead!
Hearing that sound at such close range, Guan Tong imdiately felt dizzy and disoriented. Even though he was still wearing his motorcycle helt, it couldn't stop the shrieking sound from flooding into his ears.
But the next mont, he felt a slight weight on his shoulder.
Turning his head, he saw Shi Jingyi had sohow arrived beside him. Placing her left hand on his shoulder, as her peculiar energy flowed, Guan Tong felt much better.
"Thanks."
"The situation isn't good," Shi Jingyi said, looking into the darkness in the distance as if she could sense sothing. "That shriek just now attracted quite a few living dead heading this way."
Guan Tong said in surprise, "It can summon living dead here too?"
Whoosh—
At that mont, a mangled, incomplete figure shot out from the explosion caused by the earlier Type 3 rounds. It was the Matriarch Converter.
Although they only caught a glimpse, that thing was clearly severely injured. Most of its body was damaged, and that crimson single eye had also been destroyed by the explosion.
"It ran back into the warehouse. It must be planning to use the living dead corpses to repair itself. We can't give it a chance to recover!"
Guan Tong raised his gun, ready to give chase, but Shi Jingyi raised her hand to stop him.
"Too many living dead are converging on this location," Shi Jingyi said with a grave expression. "Staying any longer will get us surrounded."
Even so, how could Guan Tong possibly abandon the target? Moreover, he still had plenty of Mind Power left. Even if the Silver Hunt ran out of stored ammunition, he could consu Mind Power to create new rounds to break the encirclent.
"My remaining Mind Power isn't much, Guan Tong. Your gun is so powerful; its consumption of Mind Power must also be very high," Shi Jingyi said. "For safety's sake, we should withdraw imdiately."
"You withdraw first, Shi Jingyi. I have to kill that monster," Guan Tong said, his mind made up. Not waiting for Shi Jingyi to say anything more, he lifted his leg and charged into the warehouse.
Shi Jingyi watched Guan Tong run inside and hesitated for a mont. She rembered the martial arts school apprentice she had arrived too late to save. Her eyes narrowed, and she actually followed him in.
Guan Tong, who had run into the warehouse first, saw at a glance the injured Matriarch Converter crouching in the middle, using other living dead corpses to repair itself.
Because its eye and claws had been destroyed in the earlier bombardnt, its repair efficiency was far lower than before. More than half of its body was still in a damaged, incomplete state.
Guan Tong imdiately raised his gun muzzle, but before he could fire, the Matriarch Converter suddenly shot up onto the warehouse wall.
It seed to possess a certain level of intelligence. Having already learned that Guan Tong's gun had the power to kill it, it used high-speed movent to evade and rapidly closed in on Guan Tong.
BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG!
Seeing the Matriarch Converter rapidly approaching, Guan Tong had no choice but to switch to Type 1 ammunition, hoping for area coverage. But Type 1 rounds weren't powerful enough. The pellets that hit only slightly slowed its movent, unable to inflict fatal damage.
While dodging the attacks, the Matriarch Converter continuously grabbed severed limbs of living dead from the ground and threw them as projectiles. Its strength was imnse. Guan Tong didn't dare to block them head-on and could only run and dodge.
Just as Guan Tong was about to use Shadow Armor for defense, Shi Jingyi also entered the warehouse, actively engaging the Matriarch Converter, allowing Guan Tong so room to adjust.
Guan Tong was sowhat surprised to see her. He had thought Shi Jingyi would withdraw, since she had already said her remaining Mind Power wasn't much.
"ROAR!!!!!"
The roars of a large number of living dead were already sounding not far outside the warehouse. Shi Jingyi was right. The earlier shriek had attracted a large number of nearby living dead to gather here! Judging by the distance of the roars, it probably wouldn't take more than a minute for those things to reach the warehouse.
They had to finish this quickly!
At that mont, Shi Jingyi spoke up. "Guan Tong, I might have to expend all my remaining Mind Power to kill this monster. You go lock the warehouse's back door and use your gun to defend the front door. If you can hold it, we can survive."
"..."
Guan Tong looked at the Matriarch Converter. He actually had a better idea.
With a thought, the Wordless Book appeared in his palm, and the insubstantial Shadow imdiately manifested from its pages.
He was now clear that the key to killing the Matriarch Converter was to not give it a chance to recover. They had to completely destroy its body in one go.
That could be achieved with multiple Type 3 rounds from the Silver Hunt, but the current conditions didn't allow it. So, they could only let the Shadow try.
Guan Tong manipulated the insubstantial Shadow, transforming it into a long rope that slithered rapidly along the ground like a snake towards the Matriarch Converter fighting Shi Jingyi!
Due to the dim lighting, not only the Matriarch Converter with its limited intelligence, but even Shi Jingyi didn't notice a shadow silently moving near her.
Then, Guan Tong seized the mont. When the Matriarch Converter was knocked back by a whip kick from Shi Jingyi, he manipulated the Shadow to dart into its body!
In its insubstantial state, the Shadow had no physical form and could enter anything. Utilizing this characteristic, Guan Tong had the Shadow transform again once inside the Matriarch Converter, taking on a form similar in size to the Matriarch Converter's body.
Then Guan Tong imdiately materialized the Shadow!
The amount of Mind Power consud for materialization was directly proportional to the Shadow's size. Currently transford into the Matriarch Converter's size, the Shadow's volu was roughly three tis that of its ordinary form. The Substantial-Ins substantial conversion itself had a fixed cost of 20 points of Mind Power. Combined with the volu issue, the instant the materialization occurred, Guan Tong imdiately lost over 80 points of Mind Power!
But the effect was absolutely outstanding!
SPLORTCH!!!!!
A solid entity of the sa volu suddenly forming from inside its body resulted in the Matriarch Converter's entire form being instantly squeezed until it burst apart and disintegrated!
This sudden developnt greatly startled Shi Jingyi, who hurriedly retreated several steps to observe intently.
By the dim light, she vaguely saw only a pure black "Matriarch Converter" draped with flesh and blood, but it existed for barely two seconds before rapidly disappearing without a trace.
And the real Matriarch Converter, now that all the pieced-together limbs had been squeezed apart, revealed its true form.
It was a monster only the size of a palm, with skin turned outward all over its body, like a newly hatched chick but incomparably ugly.
It had no eyes, ears, or nose. Its face had only a sharp, tube-like mouth, like a piece of bamboo. Without a doubt, that ear-piercing shriek was emitted from this mouth.
Now, it blindly spun around, seemingly still wanting to piece together a living dead flesh body to rebuild its powerful self.
But what greeted it was the sole of a size 42 shoe.
SQUISH!
Guan Tong brought his foot down, crushing the Matriarch Converter's true form to death.
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