Mystery Paradise: Wishing Power Demon

Chapter 250: Chapter 249: Unscientific Encounter

Chapter 250 -249: Unscientific Encounter

“…” Everyone was rendered speechless.

“Wait, after Huiqiu Mine flew into the sky, the Evil God didn’t actually descend, right?” Ailuodi was somewhat confused, “I saw a huge membrane in the rift with my own eyes, and then we detonated the nuclear bomb.”

Leisk nodded his head.

“Then I don’t understand, if the Evil God hadn’t descended and nearly a thousand people had died without the aid of Ouroboros, which we could hardly get close to, why are we still alive and well now that it has appeared?”

“This… I don’t know either.” He also seemed quite perplexed, “I have prayed in this world many times, yet the divinities have never responded. But I can’t possibly misremember the reaction of the horn; it only refracts the corresponding light when the essence of the source is very close.”

“It doesn’t matter, as long as this thing can show us the way,” Anthony said indifferently, “As for what they’re hiding here, won’t we know once we go and see for ourselves! So, kid, which duct should we choose?”

Leisk closed his eyes, and the horn floating in his palm began to spin. After a few rotations, it pointed to an air intake on the ceiling to their right.

“I’ll go first.”

Without a word, Anthony jumped onto a mound of sand and stones and then leaped, grabbing the edge of the duct two meters away. With a few kicks against the wall, he climbed into the duct. His agility did not betray the fact that he was actually fifty-six years old.

“Ha, your turn now!” he called back, “You lads can’t be worse than me, can you? I can lend a hand to the lady!”

“He’s still so energetic,” Zhang Zhiyuan sighed and was the second to jump up to the air intake.

Once everyone was inside the duct, Leisk led the way in front with Cui Zhen’en taking up the rear, the two Divine Artifacts were sufficient to cover the entire team.

However, as the group crawled along the duct for about 150 meters, gunfire suddenly erupted!

Bullets entered from below the side of the ventilation duct, instantly piercing the thin iron sheet, stirring up a violent storm of blood in the middle of the duct! Zhou Zhi and Qianyuan Mingzi, who were in the middle, were hit by several bullets and instantly lost the ability to move!

“There are infrared detectors inside the duct, we’ve been exposed!”

Zhang Zhiyuan realized belatedly.

“Get down, quickly! Staying here just makes us live targets!” Anthony shouted.

Ailuodi stirred up a powerful wind, blocking the remaining bullets, and simultaneously cut off both ends of the duct. Everyone fell to the ground along with the passage, and she also sliced apart the metal casing that obstructed their view!

In that moment, team Paradise finally saw their enemies.

The opponents were undoubtedly human, and from their attire, armed to the teeth, they were clearly no pushovers—ordinary people wouldn’t be clad in bulletproof vests and ammo belts at all times, not to mention professional night vision goggles on their heads.

“Back off!” the enemy shouted in English.

The two shooting at the entrance instantly withdrew behind the wall, then seven or eight grenades were thrown into the room, clattering to the floor!

Leisk obviously lacked an intuitive understanding of modern weapons and was still in a daze, while Cui Zhen’en had already reacted immediately.

“Get close to me!”

No sooner had her words fallen than a series of high-explosive grenades and flashbangs detonated, the room instantly filled with flying shrapnel and piercing explosion sounds that were endless to the ear.

Everything then seemed to fall into a deadly silence.

“Go check, see if there are any survivors,” someone ordered from behind the door.

As one soldier groped his way through the lingering gun smoke into the room, he found a gun pressed against his own head.

The person holding the gun was unscathed, as if not at all affected by the barrage of grenades.

“How is that possible…”

Bang!

Mid-sentence, Anthony pulled the trigger. The bullet penetrated the night-vision goggles’ faceplate and then his eyeball and skull, sending a spray of blood from the back of his head.

“Don’t speak Russian!” Zhang Zhiyuan reminded.

“Got it!” Then Anthony burst out of the room, locking eyes with the many enemies outside waiting for a report! He curled his lips and spat out two words through clenched teeth, “Die already!”

A commotion instantly erupted outside.

Zhang Zhiyuan, Cui Zhen’en, and Ailuodi also joined the fight immediately, under the cover of Ouroboros, all long-range firepower was rendered ineffective. The bullets fired by the enemies could even be redirected to hit behind them, effectively firing upon themselves, not to mention grenades and explosives that could have their energy absorbed. Once the secret artifact stored enough energy and released it all at once, it was like turning a large-caliber naval cannon into a personal weapon. Faced with this level of bombardment, any bulletproof vests and indoor covers were useless.

Leisk and Luowei Siya weren’t idle either, they were performing emergency treatment on the two who had been shot, following Chaoyang’s instructions. Since Chaoyang’s clone had not come with them, they couldn’t use things like “Healing Cards,” but that certainly didn’t mean the players were as vulnerable as normal people.

As long as their brain wasn’t hit, they could avoid shock by lowering their pain threshold; rigid board bulletproof vests protected vital organs, and if the limbs pierced by bullets had the fragmented bullet removed, they could still be patched up and used temporarily; coupled with injections of stimulants and adrenaline, Zhou Zhi and Qianyuan Mingzi quickly got up from the ground. Apart from moving a bit slowly and still bleeding from the arms and legs, they didn’t look much different from a normal person.

That’s the advantage of a specialized shell—it can be pushed to the limits as long as it’s not dead.

Gradually, the enemy couldn’t hold on.

In their eyes, although their side was more numerous and their weapons were no worse, they simply couldn’t take down the opponents effectively, while their comrades were being whittled away little by little. They had seen the monsters that came out of the lab before; as scary as they were, they would still react if hit by a barrage of bullets or a grenade. But this group had no reaction… Their actions completely defied common sense; they could return fire normally even while facing the blast of grenades.

The most terrifying was one of the girls who moved like a ghost—she would be ten meters away one second, and the next, she was right in front of you. She appeared unarmed, yet she seemed to be a weapon herself. Everywhere she went, there was decapitation, and teammates didn’t even know how they died.

The firefight lasted for about twenty minutes, and finally, the Paradise players could no longer hear the enemy’s gunfire. Facing layers of enemy blockades, they had fought their way from the room that fell through the ventilation duct, to a large hall that seemed to be a dining room, taking down nearly thirty enemies. When the remaining twenty or so people threw down their weapons and surrendered, only Qianyuan Mingzi from the Paradise squad had fallen—a “sacrifice” with the characteristic of self-destruction.

“Who’s the leader here, step forward and talk!” Anthony demanded.

After exchanging glances for a moment, a blonde man braced himself and stepped forward, “The leader is already dead… I’m Captain Pedro from the armed defense department. Whatever you want from the company, we are willing to cooperate. We just hope you can spare our lives…”

“You are hired by a company? So you’re mercenaries…” Anthony raised an eyebrow, “What exactly is this place?”

The man was momentarily stunned as if he had heard an unimaginably absurd question. It took him a while before he finally said, “If you guys don’t know anything… why did you invade this place?”

“Isn’t that what I’m asking you?” Anthony raised the gun to point at him, impatiently saying, “If you don’t want to answer, I can always ask someone else.”

“It’s the Pacific Research Facility of Corona Company!” Pedro shouted hastily, seeing that the man before him didn’t care at all about the lives of the prisoners, “The research project is on extraterrestrial life forms, and the main lab is at the very bottom of the facility!”