Wasteland Border Inspector - Chapter 690

Chapter 690: Chapter 233: Seed of the Vortex Turtle, Tanming Rune!_2

It could only move its eyes with the last of its strength; the anger and unwillingness in its gaze were gone, leaving only the most primal pain of a creature on the verge of death.

“Does it hurt?”

The merciless voice sounded again: “Good if it hurts. Compared to the pain you inflicted on humans, this… is nothing but a tiny fraction!”

Boom!

The five fingers suddenly clenched, and that massive heart exploded right in the palm.

Dark green bodily fluids poured down from the sky like a rainstorm, splashing onto the ground and spreading waves of stench.

In the distance, the other infection sources that were still madly attacking the blood-colored silhouette all froze; a distinctly human-like fear flashed through the eyes of many of them.

Especially that giant black fish a little over two meters long—it actually turned around without the slightest hesitation, trying to dive back into the lake to escape.

But.

“You think you can run?”

The giant beast pushed lightly off the ground, its pillar-thick legs crushing the rock underfoot and stamping out a deep pit.

Next, its enormous body suddenly sprang up, leaping more than ten meters high before crashing down, plopping its butt right onto the black fish’s back.

Splat—

It was like a human accidentally sitting on an overripe tomato; a sticky, squelching crack sounded from beneath.

Cheng Ye stood up; the ferocious giant black fish from before had already turned into a puddle of dark green sludge.

Its hard scales, sharp teeth, and even the infection source core hidden inside its body…

Under absolute power suppression, all of it had become formless mush, without even the slightest chance to resist.

Under the power of the Immortal Objects, under Spiritual Contamination, humans had been so helpless.

Then now, under Tan Ming’s power boost, these infection sources were just as helpless.

“Ch… Chief Cheng?”

Luokuke’s voice came from the side, and Cheng Ye turned his head to look.

He saw Luokuke walking over with some excitement; the face emerging atop the blood-colored ripples flashed with a hint of embarrassment.

He gritted his teeth, pointed at the infection sources around them that hadn’t escaped, and spoke urgently, “These infection sources are still worth containing… whichever Plague Level they are, they can be exchanged for a lot of supplies, to help build Dapo Town.”

“Yeah?”

Cheng Ye was stunned for a moment and glanced at the black fish beneath him…

Or rather, the fish paste.

He’d gone too hard just now; there wasn’t even an intact core left of the black fish.

“Then how about this: I’ll hold the line and keep them under control, and you handle the containment?”

“Okay… I’ll do the containment.” Luokuke nodded quickly, unable to hide the excitement in his eyes.

He had never tried this kind of “violent suppression + rapid containment” mode, but the confidence brought by Tan Ming’s power was no illusion. Cheng Ye had just crushed a Plague Level to death with his butt; these remaining infection sources were naturally nothing to fear.

Cheng Ye stepped back, his gaze sweeping over the battlefield, and suddenly fixed on the giant turtle not far away.

The faintly blue fragments on its shell made him pause—wasn’t that… a Vortex Turtle shell piece?

But the one in front of him was dozens of times larger than the one he had collected from inside the Mutated Fish King before!

“That turtle, leave it to me.”

“Okay, okay!”

Luokuke answered at once, and his eyes immediately locked onto his next target.

The giant water spider!

An unknown infection source—by the rules, its value far exceeded that of infection sources already cataloged.

He didn’t know what exact abilities this big spider had, but its combat power wasn’t hard to judge.

Once the blood-colored silhouettes around them were covered by the webs it spat, they would soon be corroded into puddles of blood.

This ability was lethal.

Which meant its value was high!

“Let me!” Luokuke shouted, stepping on blood-colored energy as he charged forward, a surge of unprecedented fervor in his chest.

In the past, when facing infection sources, he either relied on potions to maneuver around them or used rules to restrain them; he had never had the guts to “go head-on” like this.

But once he rushed up to the water spider, he suddenly froze, not knowing where to start.

He hesitated for a second, then simply copied Cheng Ye’s earlier Combat Skill, clenching his fist and smashing it hard toward the water spider’s thinnest leg.

Crack.

A crisp snapping sound rang out, and the water spider’s leg was smashed, bending and splitting open as black fluid flowed from the wound.

Its body jolted sideways, nearly collapsing onto the ground.

Luokuke’s eyes, however, lit up as if he’d discovered a new continent. He immediately sped up, circling the water spider, his fists landing again and again on its legs.

One punch, two punches!

Battle, hell yeah!

In barely over ten seconds, all eight of the water spider’s legs had been broken, leaving it sprawled on the ground, unable to move.

So close-quarters brawling with infection sources could actually be this exhilarating?

Luokuke simply leaped up, straddled the water spider’s back, and clamped its head with one big hand:

“Die!”

His fingers suddenly exerted force, stabbing straight through the water spider’s skull and pulling out a handful of sticky pulp from inside.

Within the pulp, a tiny silver-white spider was trembling faintly, too weak even to flee—this was precisely the infection source core of the water spider.

“That’s it for containment?”

Luokuke was both shocked and delighted. He hurriedly carried the core over to the Containment Box, opened it, and threw it in.

Stuffing multiple cores into one box was a bit risky, but there was no time to run back to shore for a new box now, so he could only make do.

Fortunately, these cores had all entered a lethargic state after their bodies were destroyed, and wouldn’t interfere with each other in the short term, as long as they were separated in time later.

Over ten minutes passed, and the number of infection sources in the field dwindled, until only the giant turtle embedded with the faintly blue shell remained.

Cheng Ye shook his head, then strode forward and pressed one knee down heavily onto the turtle’s shell.