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Steve roared, his voice like a thunderclap, echoing through the closed passage!
Without any fancy movements, he suddenly exerted force with his legs, his body slightly lowered, and poured all his strength, anger, and belief into his right shoulder, which was harder than steel!
He slammed into the gate with an unparalleled momentum that could smash through mountains!
"哐——!!!"
A terrifyingly loud bang, capable of shattering a person's internal organs, exploded out!
Chu Hang's ears went deaf instantly, and all that remained in his mind was an extremely sharp buzzing sound! He even felt the ground beneath his feet suddenly jump upwards, and a visible ring of air exploded outwards from the point of impact, sweeping away all the dust and debris in the passage!
The specially made door, which was half a meter thick and strong enough to withstand the frontal bombardment of an anti-tank gun, had a terrifying dent in the center of its panel, as if it had been smashed by a 10,000-ton hydraulic press!
The next second, countless dark cracks, like living vines, spread wildly outwards from the point of impact!
The entire door lock system, along with the surrounding concrete structure deeply embedded in the wall, disintegrated amidst a shower of rubble and sparks!
The iron gate, weighing several tons, spun and whistled as it flew inwards like a piece of scrap metal kicked away by a giant, crashing heavily into the space behind it with a dull thud.
But the scene behind the door made the three figures, who had just been full of momentum, freeze in place.
Chu Hang's scalp tingled on the spot.
A chill, even more biting than the Siberian cold front, traveled from the soles of his feet up his spine, as if someone had plunged an ice pick into the top of his head! His blood seemed to freeze in that instant!
This is... like we've stirred up the aliens' lair?!
What came into view was not a prison cell at all.
It was a living, black ocean of pure despair and steel! The mechanical spiders they had seen outside were now rampant here! The ground, the walls, the ceiling... they were densely packed, like a writhing, nauseating black carpet, covering everything in sight!
"Shhh..."
"Crack...knock..."
The sounds of countless metal limbs scraping against the ground and gnawing at steel, mixed with a pungent, nauseating stench of ozone and blood, assaulted the senses and almost suffocated the senses!
The moment the gate was flung open, the black ocean seemed to pause for a second.
Then, countless scarlet compound eyes turned around in unison, locking onto the three people at the door.
It was a cold, emotionless gaze that saw all living things as food.
"Help!"
"Get away! Don't come over here!"
From the depths of hell came the wails of survivors.
In rows of iron bars, the captured soldiers were using their last bit of strength to pound on the bars, their faces contorted with fear and despair. Their uniforms were tattered, their bodies bore wounds, and their eyes were vacant, like lambs to the slaughter.
Right before Chu Hang and his companions' eyes, a spider had already used its scalpel-like mandibles to bite through the iron bars of a cell. Its compound eyes, flashing red, were fixed on a young soldier huddled in a corner, trembling with fear.
It pounced!
The young soldier's scream was only half a sound.
Then, it came to an abrupt end.
A glaring splash of bright red splattered onto the cold iron railing.
Then, more spiders, smelling the blood, swarmed forward like vultures smelling carrion... The soldier's body was quickly submerged by the black tide, leaving only a few suppressed sounds of bones breaking.
Steve's eyes instantly turned red.
This is not a metaphor; it is the real, vivid redness caused by the extensive rupture of capillaries in the eyes due to extreme anger.
"Do not!!!"
What he let out was no longer a human roar, but the most sorrowful and furious roar of a lion witnessing the slaughter of its cubs! Reason? Tactics? Plan? Everything was burned to ashes in that instant! Like an angry blue comet, he was the first to plunge into the black spider swarm that symbolized death!
"Ouch——!"
Logan reacted only half a beat too late, and an even more primal and ferocious roar exploded from his throat! It wasn't a human voice; it was the most primal roar of a wild beast after witnessing the brutal slaughter of its kind! He moved faster than anyone else, transforming into a black whirlwind of death, each swing of his bone claws sending up a flurry of flying metal limbs and blue-purple sparks of electricity!
Chu Hang's mind went blank for a moment.
Seeing those two simpletons plunging headlong into the monsters, the raging fire in his heart felt as if a bucket of ice water had been poured over his head.
He's not Steve, he doesn't have that "I am a legend" mentality, the kind of person who would burn himself out for his beliefs. He's not Logan either, he doesn't have that carefree attitude of someone who's lived for over a hundred years and is indifferent to life and death, he fights just for the thrill.
At his core, he was still that time traveler who just wanted to live a peaceful life.
With the help of the super soldier serum, the brain operates at an unprecedented speed, with countless streams of information flowing through it like a waterfall.
Enemy numbers: Estimated to be over a thousand, possibly more, and they keep coming.
Enemy characteristics: Highly aggressive, moderately defensive, acts in groups, and fearless.
Teammate #1, Steve, Class: Tank/Warrior. Status: Currently in "taunting face" and "brainless charge" mode, drawing maximum aggro, and with his intelligence completely offline.
Teammate #2, Logan, Class: Berserker/Assassin. Status: "Berserk" mode activated, in a "mutually dominating" state, indiscriminately attacking enemies (possibly), only caring about killing monsters and ignoring hostages.
Our unit, Chu Hang, Class: Agile Warrior/Support. Status: Still sensible, but blood pressure is soaring.
Number of hostages: 30 to 40. Status: Terrified, movement speed is zero, defense is zero, purely for "escorting mission targets".
Terrain: Narrow, easy to defend but difficult to attack, but also easy to be surrounded.
Chu Hang cursed inwardly.
This isn't a fight, this is a tower defense game on hell difficulty! Both main DPS and the tank have turned into AI auto-attacks, and he's the only player still conscious!
Playing like that is just feeding the enemy!
Someone has to be that damn commander!
"Captain! Block the door! Don't let them in!" Chu Hang shouted with all his might, his voice hoarse as if it had been sanded, yet it boomed like thunder. "Logan! Clear the left! The right side, get me!"
This roar finally pulled Steve back to his senses from his rage. He whirled around, and the vibranium shield with the five-pointed star on it slammed to the ground with a thud. His towering figure, like an unshakeable mountain, firmly blocked the door he had smashed open, forcefully holding back the second wave of spider swarms that was about to surge in like a tidal wave!
Logan didn't reply, but he roared and turned to the left cell block without hesitation, beginning a more efficient slaughter!
The tactics worked!
Chu Hang took a deep breath, and what he inhaled felt not like air, but like scalding flames. His gaze was fixed on his right! There, spiders crawled all over the iron door of a cell, and inside, a young soldier was clutching his head, completely terrified.
Chu Hang's figure left an afterimage in place, and in the next instant, he appeared like a ghost at the door of the cell!
He ignored the spiders and swiftly reached out with both hands to grab the gnawed and pitted bars of the prison gate!
His feet were pressed firmly against the wall by the door, his muscles bulged like coiled dragons, and his combat uniform creaked under the strain.
"Open it for me!!!"
He gritted his teeth and forced out those words through the gaps between them!
Crunch, crunch, crunch—!
The ear-piercing metallic screech, like the fingernails of a demon scraping against glass, caused the surrounding soldiers to cover their ears in agony!
The prison door, made of special steel and deeply embedded in the wall, began to deform outward inch by inch under Chu Hang's pure and unreasonable brute force!
Debris from concrete blocks and steel bars kept breaking off and flying from the joints of the wall!
In the soldier's incredulous gaze, as if he had witnessed a miracle!
He ripped the prison door off with his bare hands!
But he didn't throw away the piece of scrap metal.
Instead, he swung the heavy iron door, which weighed hundreds of pounds and was still sparking, down like a giant fly swatter, and smashed it down on the mechanical spider that had just pounced on him!
boom--! ! !
A deafening bang!
The spider, along with the hard, special cement ground beneath its feet, was instantly smashed into an indistinguishable disc of metal and gravel!
Holding the broken iron gate, Chu Hang stood there like a demon god who had emerged from hell, his chest heaving violently. He turned his head, looked at the soldier in the cell who was completely stunned, grinned, revealing a set of teeth stained red with blood and gunpowder.
“Don’t be afraid,” his voice was hoarse, but carried an undeniable power, “I’m here.”
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Chapter 40 Door God
boom--! ! !
A deafening roar, like a muffled thunderclap, exploded in the narrow underground passage, making everyone's eardrums buzz.
The thick steel door, thick enough to be used as a bunker, caved in deeply in the center at an exaggerated arc under Steve Rogers's unreasonable, brute force. The next second, countless dark cracks, like a spider web, instantly covered the entire door panel.
"Clang-!"
The heavy iron lump, weighing several tons, flew backwards like a kicked biscuit, spun around, and crashed heavily into the darkness behind the door, stirring up a cloud of dust.
Then, the three people at the door froze on the spot, as if a pause button had been pressed.
Chu Hang's scalp tingled with fear at that moment.
A chill shot up from the soles of his feet straight to the top of his head, making the hairs on his body stand on end.
Damn it... Did we tamper with the mechanical spiders' lair?!
What came into view was not a prison area at all.
It was a living, breathing black ocean of cold steel and frenzied slaughter! The ground, the walls, the ceiling—densely packed, layer upon layer—were covered with those damned mechanical spiders! Countless scarlet electronic eyes flickered in the darkness, like the eyes of billions of demons, staring intently at them.
"Shh..." "Crack..."
The sound of metal limbs scraping and crawling, mixed with the noise of steel being gnawed at, was like a death symphony that could drive a person mad. The nauseating smell of ozone, engine oil, and a strong stench of blood in the air almost made a person vomit on the spot.
The silence lasted only a second.
Then, that black ocean stirred.
"Help!"
"Get away! Ah—!"
From the depths of the ocean, the heart-wrenching cries of the survivors echoed.
Right before Chu Hang's eyes, a spider used its razor-sharp forelegs to tear open the iron bars of a cell in a few swift movements, and pounced on a young soldier who was curled up in a corner, trembling like a leaf.
The scream was cut short, barely audible.