Chapter 369: Humanoid Armor
"Of course not, you don't actually think I'd take advice from an enemy, do you?"
Lin Ye looked at the corpse with an expression reserved for idiots.
"You think I'm lying to you?"
The corpse still didn't resist, only the position where its flesh and blood were reassembling had moved a bit closer to the door.
It was as if that flesh and blood couldn't wait to get closer to them.
"If you're going to set a trap, at least use your brain first. A trap full of holes like this just makes people feel bored."
Lin Ye took a step back, maintaining a safe distance from the room.
"If you want to trick someone into entering the room, you'd better stay outside the room yourself."
The corpse dodged the Compressed Spiritual Energy Blade stabbing toward its head and climbed up from the bed.
Then its upper body was blown apart by Lin Ye. Lin Ye kept blowing apart the corpse from various angles, preventing it from moving its feet.
Kumar: Boss, not good! The ground above is shaking! Those things outside have already entered the underground space!
Lucas: We're done for. There's not even a safe exit here, nowhere to run.
Anna: Can you use your talent ability to get us out? I have mental energy potions here.
Kumar: No, I still need some time to recover. Otherwise, if the ability fails, we'll be buried alive underground.
Lin Ye: Can you create an enclosed space inside the wall then?
Kumar: That I can do, but it's useless. They'll discover us as soon as we get close, and then we'll have nowhere to run.
Lin Ye: Find a spot and hide. Leave this to me.
Anna: Huh? Boss, you still have a trump card?!
Lin Ye: No, because it's already been played.
The Flesh Membrane surged into the core area of the underground space like a tide of writhing motion. Lin Ye stood with his back to the room door, continuously stabbing the corpse inside the room behind him with one Compressed Spiritual Energy Blade after another. Cecilia, holding the coffin, moved through the tide. The Old Butler lay inside the coffin, his body already completely transformed into Flesh Membrane.
Kumar took Anna and Lucas to hide inside a wall in the corner. They observed the outside through the wall, ready to support Lin Ye at any moment.
The Masked Man also ran over, holding the worm. He originally wanted to die together with his family, but thinking about being submerged by the Flesh Membrane, he got a bit scared. If possible, he wanted a different way to die.
"Lie down in the coffin, give me your body. You have nowhere left to run."
Even in this situation, Cecilia showed not the slightest intention of giving up.
"Why should I run? It's you who should be running."
Lin Ye put away the Cross Scepter and stood calmly in place. The corpse in the room had its upper body blown apart again.
Cecilia wasted no more words. It moved closer to Lin Ye along with the surging Flesh Membrane. Just a little closer, and it could open the Parasitic Gate in the room, pulling Lin Ye into that world where even Planes could be parasitized.
But just as it took that final step, a broken sword pierced through its body.
Cecilia's head rotated 180 degrees backward. It saw a dilapidated humanoid suit of armor.
The humanoid armor was like a samurai in a desperate situation, facing death head-on. Wrapped in the Flesh Membrane, it had stabbed through Cecilia's body.
"This is your reliance? A piece of junk armor?"
Cecilia was amused by Lin Ye.
"That's not junk armor. That's a War Machine."
Lin Ye looked past Cecilia and made eye contact with the humanoid armor. The armor had only absorbed enough energy to barely start up, but it was enough to deal with an enemy of this level.
A flash of blade light. Cecilia's head rolled onto the ground. The corpse slowly fell. This time, its body did not recover.
"What did you do?! Why can't I recover?!"
Cecilia had just let out a sharp shriek when its head was crushed under the foot of the humanoid armor.
The room behind Lin Ye suddenly opened like a great door. A massive amount of Black Threads poured out from within.
The humanoid armor instantly shattered like building blocks. Then, the various fragments traversed space and reassembled on Lin Ye's body.
Lin Ye turned around, drew his blade, and cut the Black Threads that had approached behind him.
The old man's corpse suddenly decomposed into dozens of slender worms, attacking every part of Lin Ye's body. A flash of blade light. The space in front of Lin Ye was divided by the blade light into several irregular spaces. Those worms were also neatly divided into corpse chunks of varying sizes.
A massive number of slender, thread-like white long worms poured out from the Parasitic Gate. They surged toward Lin Ye from all directions like rain, covering the sky and blotting out the earth.
Lin Ye extended his left hand forward. A wall made of compressed spiritual energy appeared between Lin Ye and the worm rain.
His left hand rotated. The compressed spiritual energy wall began to spin. The stable spiritual energy began to fluctuate.
The worm rain piled up on the wall. Lin Ye increased the rotation speed.
When the energy vibration reached a certain amplitude, Lin Ye created a second compressed spiritual energy wall behind the first one.
The worm rain seeped into the interior of the unstable compressed spiritual energy wall. The vibrating compressed spiritual energy inside instantly shredded the worm rain into mincemeat.
Lin Ye continuously repeated the previous operation. Layer upon layer of compressed spiritual energy walls stacked up. Compressed spiritual energy with chaotic amplitudes piled up behind the walls. The spiritual energy flesh and blood shredded into liquid also released spiritual energy. All of this accumulated outside the final layer of compressed spiritual energy wall.
At this moment, Lin Ye pushed the compressed spiritual energy wall toward the Parasitic Gate and ignited the spiritual energy blood inside using Blood Burning.
The white long worms pouring out from the Parasitic Gate had already been completely wiped out, but the explosive spiritual energy fluctuations were still rapidly spreading into the interior of the Parasitic Gate.
The Parasitic Gate quickly closed. Just before it completely shut, Lin Ye suddenly pressed close to the Parasitic Gate and disassembled one unit of spiritual energy inside.
The armor immediately pulled Lin Ye away from the Parasitic Gate, running to a corner of the room.
The already-closed Parasitic Gate was torn apart by the spiritual energy. The Spiritual Energy Burst swept through the entire core area.
The Flesh Membrane was cleared by the violent spiritual energy. The metal pillars evaporated on the spot. The entire Underground Space completely collapsed.
Lin Ye grabbed his three teammates, the Masked Man, and the worm, forcibly crashing into the soil while shouting loudly:
"Use your ability to coordinate with me!"
Kumar hurriedly activated his ability. The group began moving rapidly upward. But after just a few seconds, Kumar's ability suddenly failed.
The surrounding vibrations had affected him somewhat.
"I need a bit of time!"
Kumar also knew they were dead if this continued.
"Dig upward!"
Lin Ye expertly tore through the soil, creating footholds one after another.
The Masked Man was, after all, a seventh-tier spiritual energy user. His digging speed was only slightly slower than Lin Ye's.
Lucas transformed into a muscular burly man and dug upward. He finally used his talent ability.
Kumar occasionally activated his talent ability. Although it couldn't last long, by using it frequently in small bursts, they still managed to escape from underground.
By now, the ground surface was already covered with a film of flesh and blood. Beneath the Flesh Membrane, a large number of Dark Shadows were moving.
"Damn, that was too dangerous!"
Kumar was completely exhausted, collapsing onto the ground.
Lin Ye was just about to pull him up when he recoiled a step back as if electrocuted.