Chapter 236 The Mysterious Resurrection of the Amazon Rainforest

"Strategic deployment? Bullshit! What do a bunch of brainless bastards know about tactics?!"

The captain cursed and slammed his hand hard on the side of his helmet, trying to physically dispel the inexplicable chill in his heart. "Full formation activated! Heavy armor in front, gunners prepare psionic mortars, three o'clock, indiscriminately bombard the enemy!"

According to the "golden rule" they summarized in the wilderness over the past three months, when monsters are frightened or provoked, they will roar and charge at you to tear you apart immediately. As long as the heavy armor withstands the first wave of impact, the firepower from the rear can harvest their lives like harvesting wheat.

"Buzz!!!"

Ten hunters wearing heavy protective shields and exoskeletons strode out and slammed their massive, door-sized black steel shields into the swamp. The impregnable array on the shields instantly transformed into a pale blue light screen.

"Psionic Mortar fully charged! Fire!"

With a deafening roar, a dozen psionic shells flashing with a violent red light tore through the humid rainforest air and slammed into the area with the densest concentration of red dots on the radar.

"Boom!!!"

The violent explosion sent mud, water, and broken branches flying everywhere, and the terrifying spiritual shockwave completely leveled the bushes in front of them.

"Well done! Get ready to harvest the demon cores..." Before the captain could finish speaking, his voice was as if it had been tightly gripped in his throat by an invisible hand.

The smoke of battle has cleared.

The blast zone, ravaged by psionic fire, was completely empty. No severed limbs, no monster carcasses, not even a drop of blood!

"How is this possible?! The radar clearly showed them there!" The observer's voice shrill and distorted as he stared intently at the holographic screen on his mask. "Captain! The red dots... the red dots have disappeared! The radar has been jammed!"

In that instant, the faint rustling sound deep in the rainforest suddenly turned into a chilling silence.

"above!!!"

It was unclear who let out an extremely shrill scream.

Everyone looked up abruptly and saw dozens of human-faced venomous spiders, each the size of a millstone, hanging upside down among the branches of the towering, shady trees above them.

In the past, these venomous spiders would have pounced directly on the target for hand-to-hand combat. But now, their eight compound eyes, gleaming with an eerie light, exuded a chilling aura.

"Pfft! Pfft! Pfft!"

Dozens of giant spider webs, glowing with a ghostly green poisonous light, descended from the sky! But these spider webs were not targeting the hunters' core torsos; instead, they precisely enveloped the [heat dissipation vents] and [pseudo-spiritual roots] on the backs of their exoskeletons!

"Zzzzz!!!"

The moment the highly corrosive spider silk came into contact with the external psionic circuit, it burst into dazzling sparks and thick white smoke.

"Warning! Psionic circuit damaged! Output power reduced by 40%!"

"Warning! Cooling system malfunctioned, the machine is at risk of overload and self-destruction!"

Alarms blared throughout the armored vehicle.

"Damn it! They know our weakness! Cut the web! Retreat!" The captain's eyes widened in horror.

However, the real killer move has only just begun.

"Whoosh whoosh!"

Just as the heavily armored defensive formation was thrown into chaos by the attack from behind, a thick pink mist suddenly spewed out from the mutated bushes that were half a person's height around them.

That was the hallucinogenic acid mist from a second-tier mutated carnivorous plant. Previously, the plant would only spray it on the faces of its prey. But now, dozens of these plants, like well-trained grenade launchers, used the slight wind in the rainforest to precisely cover the entire hunter team's position with the acid mist!

"Sizzle sizzle sizzle!"

The acid mist not only contained potent hallucinogenic toxins, but more terrifyingly, it could neutralize spiritual energy! The pale blue array light barrier on the surface of the heavy exoskeleton melted instantly upon contact with the acid mist, like snow splashed with sulfuric acid!

"The shield wall has been breached!"

"Aaaaaah!" A hunter whose exoskeleton mask's sealing strip was worn out inhaled a mouthful of acidic mist, instantly threw down his weapon, and dug his hands into his face, letting out a shrill scream.

"Spread out! Back to back!" the captain roared hoarsely, trying to stabilize the collapsing team.

But in the darkness, a cold-blooded killer was already waiting for this moment.

"Whoosh!"

Three black streaks, swift as lightning, flashed out from the shadows. They were Shadow Panthers, masters of stealth!

Instead of attacking the heavily armored hunters, they cunningly circled around to the rear of the column, their sharp claws severing the throats of three gunners who were frantically reloading mortar shells!

A single, fatal blow, with no room for greed. Having succeeded, the Shadow Panther instantly used the acid mist as cover to disappear back into the darkness.

"Third brother! Big Tiger!"

Seeing their companion's headless corpse fall, the hunters were utterly terrified. This wasn't hunting monsters; it was clearly falling into a trap meticulously laid by some top tactical mastermind!

Just as the squad was gripped by extreme panic and their firepower was completely paralyzed.

"hiss--"

With a deep, soul-stirring hiss, the mutated second-tier serpent, over fifteen meters long, finally emerged slowly from the swampy mud ahead.

Its massive body slid through the mud without making a sound. Its cold, vertical pupils looked down condescendingly at the group of humans cornered in their predicament, their eyes filled with mockery.

"Let's fight it! Overclock! Overclock everything!!!"

The captain knew there was no way to escape today, so he frantically slammed down the red button on the control panel, and the pseudo-spiritual root at his spine instantly erupted with blinding blood light.

He raised the heavy, high-frequency vibrating battle axe in his hand, and with a death wish, leaped high into the air like a human cannonball toward the head of the Serpent!

"Die!!!"

However, faced with this deadly attack that was enough to cleave through a peak first-tier demon beast, the serpent didn't even try to dodge.

A hint of mockery flashed in its vertical pupils, and its massive tail, as if calculated, lashed out with extreme precision at a towering ancient tree with a diameter of over three meters.

"Crack, Boom!!!"

The ancient tree snapped at its roots and, with immense force, crashed down with incredible precision onto the captain in mid-air!

"Bang!"

The captain's body was struck directly by the giant tree in mid-air. Even with the protection of his exoskeleton, he was still shaken so badly that he coughed up a mouthful of blood mixed with fragments of his internal organs and crashed heavily into the swamp like a shooting star.

Sold out instantly.

It's not just a crushing defeat in strength, but an absolute crushing defeat in intelligence! It doesn't even want to waste its own strength, knowing how to use the environment to its advantage!

"Team... Captain..."

The remaining hunters stared at their captain's exoskeleton, smashed to pieces and still oozing blood. Their hands, gripping their guns, trembled violently, and their mental defenses crumbled completely at that moment.

escape!

That was the only thought left in their minds.

"Run!!!"

The remaining thirty-odd hunters completely abandoned their formation, turned around like headless flies, and frantically fled towards the edge of the rainforest.

But they didn't run very far.

Because they were horrified to discover that the rainforest they had just walked through... had come to life.

"Click click click..."

The seemingly ordinary ancient trees and vines around them, after absorbing the strange fluctuations in the air, developed cracks in their bark that resembled distorted human faces.

The thick tree roots burst forth from the ground like giant pythons, tightly coiling around the hunters' frantically running steel legs.

"What is that?! Let me go! Get away!"

A hunter frantically swung his psionic short sword, severing several vines. But then, hundreds upon hundreds of bloodthirsty demonic vines covered in barbs surged from all directions, instantly enveloping him and his mech in a giant green cocoon.

"Crunch... crunch..."

The chilling sounds of metal shattering and bones being crushed emanated from inside the cocoon, while crimson blood dripped from the gaps in the vines into the soil.

This was a one-sided hunt with no suspense whatsoever.

Deep in the rainforest, screams and explosions rose and fell, but were quickly swallowed up by the boundless darkness and green ocean, returning to deathly silence.

The second-tier mutated forest python slowly swam to the destroyed captain's exoskeleton.

The captain wasn't quite dead yet. He stared through his tattered mask at the enormous creature looking down at him, his bloodshot eyes filled with extreme fear.

The python lowered its head, but its gaping maw didn't swallow him whole. Instead, it strangely moved closer to his ear.

Its forked tongue vibrated in the air, mimicking the vibration of the vocal cords in a remarkably stiff and slow manner:

"Human...flesh...doesn't...taste good..."

"Spiritual root...delicious..."

Upon hearing these harsh human words, which sounded like the whispers of a demon, the captain's heart clenched, and his pupils dilated to their maximum size.

They...can talk?!

"Click."

The python bit through the back armor of the exoskeleton, and with extreme precision, ripped out the still-pulsating "pseudo-spiritual root" along with the captain's spinal cord, then tilted its head back and swallowed it.

The captain's eyes bulged out, his life completely extinguished. The last image reflected in his frozen retina was a faint, eerie blue light that appeared on the back of the python after it had devoured the pseudo-spiritual root!

The monsters not only possessed intelligence, they even began... to plunder humanity's cyber cultivation system!

The wind in the Amazon rainforest still carries a heavy dampness and the smell of blood.

But at this moment, this storm is spreading across the globe with unstoppable force. Humanity's proud artillery and crude formations appear so pale and powerless on this crazy night when species collectively transcend the dimensions of intelligence.

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