Wasteland Border Inspector - Chapter 681

Chapter 681: Chapter 231: Blocking Contamination, 1 Rune!

“It seems breaking through the Cotton Room rune suppression isn’t as easy as it was during the initial size enhancement…”

Cheng Ye nodded silently to himself.

As he withdrew his perception, the grass and trees within fifty meters had completely withered, even the moss on the ground had crumbled into fragments, and the Crab-men behind him finally caught up, a densely packed swarm.

He took a deep breath, sinking his air into his dantian, then abruptly turned and shouted at the crab swarm, “June 8th, Shegang Bridge, monster attack, you all died!”

His voice exploded like rolling thunder, clearly reaching the ear of every Crab-man.

Bang!

A nearly tangible white spiritual wave suddenly fell from the “white cloud” above his head.

This is… single-target spiritual contamination?

A suffocating sense of near-death swept over him instantly, as if his throat was being choked by an invisible hand, causing Cheng Ye’s body to freeze.

Yet he wasn’t disappointed. The “red cloud” above immediately responded, sending a blood-colored aura coursing into the battle armor, igniting the rune with fierce blood flames.

As the blood flames ignited, the white wave was blocked outside.

With the blood flames becoming even fiercer, the wave was forcefully bounced back, dissipating into the air without a trace.

Under Cheng Ye’s watchful gaze, most of the charging Crab-men staggered and knelt down, their throats emitting a strange “gurgle” sound.

Scarlet Death Language Tentacles reached out from their mouths, but without targets to parasitize nearby, they could only futilely knot in the air before ultimately drooping powerlessly.

With just one sentence, nearly three hundred Crab-men died on the spot, without even a chance to resist!

The remaining fifth of the Crab-men were still standing, clearly they hadn’t died during the June 8th Shegang Bridge attack, but some other disaster, preventing the sentence from triggering their Death Language weakness.

Cheng Ye didn’t rush forward to clear the remaining Crab-men, instead he looked down at the battle armor.

The part of the rune at the lower right corner that had just condensed became blurry again, his size continuously shrinking, eventually returning to just over 1.2 meters.

Although he couldn’t directly communicate with Tan Ming, this change clearly explained one thing.

“Breaking through the spiritual contamination of the Ten Thousand Orders Land Conch requires energy?”

Cheng Ye burst into joy.

As long as the target can be materialized and the consumption and supplementation pattern found, there’s a way to respond.

The most terrifying aspect of the Ten Thousand Orders Land Conch is that humans cannot resist its spiritual contamination.

No matter how much energy is available, the spiritual plane shatters upon contact.

But now, Tan Ming’s blood-red battle armor perfectly masks this flaw.

In other words, the situation finally returned to a “fair duel,” he just needs to deal with the Crab-men.

And triggering the key information for Death Language Tentacles felt like a type of “magic” that consumed energy, which could be repeatedly used as long as there was a vitality supplement!

“I’ve never felt such a wonderful experience…”

Compared to the support from Happiness City at his back, Tan Ming’s real-time linkage is more reassuring.

For the remaining Crab-men, he didn’t use “magic” to consume energy but instead charged forward with two blades, the crimson-purple blade light flickering among the crab swarm, each slash could take the lives of several Crab-men.

When he had killed down to ten or so, his body suddenly shook, and a view panel automatically popped up:

[Collector detected dispersing biological information, automatically absorbing…]

[Absorption complete, Ghost Water Cave Crab features (Living Water Essence) have reached full value, you can continue accumulation, maximum storage capacity: 200%]

“Living Water Essence, full again?”

Cheng Ye paused, suddenly feeling as if he’d entered a treasure mountain.

Especially when his gaze turned to the Crab-men continuously charging from afar, and then back to the panel’s prompts.

He hesitated for a moment, never feeling his grip on the blade so tight.

Those Crab-men in his eyes no longer seemed menacing but turned into prompts for increased features.

“Just a couple more essences to feed the Shrinking Earth Giant Louse, what effect will feeding it have?”

“If I could gather seven or eight essences, wouldn’t cultivating fish ponds in the future be simple and easy?”

“…”

Countless thoughts flashed through his mind, but the next moment upon seeing dozens of crab fusion bodies emerge from the crab swarm, wielding six crab claws like iron whips behind them, Cheng Ye turned and ran without hesitation.

Compared to the blood-colored shadows that know only brute force, his greatest advantage is his ability to maneuver.

Collecting features is one aspect, more importantly reducing the energy level of the Conch, weakening the Immortal Objects to collect them is the ultimate goal.

The large green trees withered at a visible speed, vines shriveled and dropped, and even the dead branches and leaves on the ground seemed to have the last trace of moisture drawn out.

With vitality continually surging in, the rune on the battle armor regained clarity, his size rose from 1.2 meters to 1.8 meters, with power once again filling his entire body.

During this period, three blood-colored figures charged from afar.

Cheng Ye hadn’t had time to lift his hand to stop them before they audibly crushed into blood water, unquestioningly merging into his battle armor, which brightened the blood glow anew.

“No, can’t we live well and let me command the battle?”

Cheng Ye felt a bit of a headache.

If there were over a thousand blood-colored shadows assisting, the pressure dealing with Crab-men would be greatly reduced.

But these “Tan Ming clones” simply didn’t leave space for explanation, rushing forth to merge voluntarily, as if worried about causing him trouble.

“Perhaps, more of Tan Ming’s features need to be collected to command them?”

He glanced over the encyclopedia, ultimately abandoning the idea of taking off the battle armor and killing some “Tan Ming” to brush for features.

Now, with the Ten Thousand Orders Land Conch and Demon Eye Sponge watching him, without the battle armor’s protection, it was uncertain whether he could even escape, let alone brush for features.