Chapter 40 Nest Mother
Li Nanke held the handle of the cannon. The metal handle felt cool to the touch. The whole gun had a high-tech feel and a fierce and huge shape. The total weight was about 70 to 80 kilograms.

The cannon is a node reward and is equipment with real ownership. It can be stored at any time without having to worry about the inconvenience of carrying a huge firearm.

This ‘linear laser cannon’ shaped like a launch tube can be said to be the most powerful weapon he has ever seen. Just from the description of the weapon details, one can know how terrifying the lethality of this gun is.

However, its powerful power also comes with significant limitations. The bullet capacity is one shot, it takes 5 seconds to charge up after shooting, and it enters a long cooling period after shooting. These are all flaws of this cannon.

Without these flaws, the weapon would have been rated much higher than 19.

In the mechanism of The Great Beyond, equipment rating is a horizontal comparison of items of the same quality and does not involve vertical comparison of items of higher or lower quality.

The remaining materials on the workbench were no longer enough to make other equipment, so Li Nanke invested all the materials in the manufacture of high-energy battery packs, and eventually exchanged them for two high-energy magazines for the cannon.

With a thought, the cannon and magazine disappeared, and he said to the envious Alba, “Let’s go to the main control room.”

The two quickly left the secondary armory and headed towards the main control room according to the map.

Possessing a powerful cannon gave Li Nanke a slight sense of security, but the sense of crisis in his heart was silently intensifying.

The two of them deliberately avoided several large cabins, including the living area, dormitory area, entertainment area and other cabins with many people in them, which were not on their route. They chose the most remote corridors and cabins and moved forward step by step.

Although he was not attacked by the mutant again, Li Nanke’s brows became more and more furrowed.

“Alba, I suspect that the prison management and the space station staff did not evacuate. Even if they did, they may have encountered some kind of accident, causing a large number of people to stay in the space station.”

Alba was stunned, and then immediately retorted: “How is that possible? Do you know how many guards and managers there are in the entire prison? Even with a series of electronic equipment, including drones and robots to assist management, the staff in the Deep Pit Prison is nearly a thousand people.”

“If we add the scientists in the laboratory and the staff in the space station, the number of people may reach 1,500.”

“If all these people stayed in the space station and turned into monsters, would we still be able to make it all the way here?”

Li Nanke shook his head. “There are too many bloodstains along the way. The prisoners who escaped earlier were probably dozens, and no more than a hundred. The number of maintenance personnel left in the space station may be even smaller. After all, if they can be evacuated, few people would be willing to stay on this dangerous planet.”

“We have chosen the most remote road to the main control room, but most of the cabins and corridors along the way have traces of battle and blood. Although we have not encountered any aberrations again, we can judge from these traces that the number of people in the space station is definitely beyond our expectations.”

This reasonable yet horrifying judgment made Alba want to refute it again, but he couldn’t find any explanation, so he could only insist: “Then why didn’t we encounter more aberrations?”

“There is only one explanation. Remember what was said in the experiment log? They may have gathered together in batches and are merging into larger aberrant creatures.”

“Don’t, don’t scare me…” Alba tightly grasped the ‘plasma cutter’ in his hand, as if he wanted to use the weapon in his hand to give himself some sense of security.

As he got closer to the main control room, Li Nanke felt a growing sense of crisis.

The ‘command hall’ in front is the last cabin leading to the main control room and is also the only way to go. The metal gate is covered with sticky blood plasma.

Even through the thick gate, he could clearly feel the terrifying atmosphere brewing inside.

Li Nanke took a deep breath, ready for battle, and gave a few instructions to Alba beside him.

His mind moved, his shoulders sank, and the linear laser cannon appeared quietly.

Carrying this extremely ferocious huge cannon on his shoulder, Li Nanke held the front handle tightly with one hand and placed the other hand on the trigger. His fingers gradually exerted force and slowly pulled the trigger.

A hair-raising buzzing sound rang in my ears, and the indicator lights on the cannon began to light up one by one.

Through the heavy metal gate, the huge amount of electrical energy stored in the high-energy battery pack magazine all poured into the high-power laser and converted into light energy. The barrel, which was as thick as a bucket, began to heat up gradually, and dazzling white light surged and gathered inside the barrel. “Five…”

“Four……”

“three……”

“two……”

The four indicator lights of the linear laser cannon lit up. The light accumulated in the barrel was so bright that it was almost impossible to open one’s eyes. The barrel on the shoulder was extremely hot.

“Open the door!”

Li Nanke shouted loudly, and Alba suppressed his fear and slammed the button on the door.

Then he was so scared that his face turned pale that he immediately ran away and hid in the corner of the corridor. With his small body, he could not be of any help in the battle, and it would be good if he did not become a burden.

The moment the metal gate opened, the linear laser cannon was fully charged.

Li Nanke also saw the terrifying and deformed monster in the cabin.

It was a giant creature formed by the fusion of countless deformed forms, and its huge body almost filled the entire command room.

The monster was shaped like a giant centipede. Each section of its twisted body was formed by the fusion of many deformed bodies, and each section had long, sharp legs on both sides.

It is the advanced form of the aberration – the nest mother!
Sensing the arrival of outsiders, the nest mother opened her big round mouth, revealing a circle of sharp fangs, and was about to let out a deafening roar…

At the same time, Li Nanke raised the gun barrel and released the trigger.

The gun barrel on the shoulder vibrated, and huge energy was focused by various optical elements and ejected out!

With a high-frequency scream, a dazzling beam of light cut through the air, leaving a fiery trail. One could even see the air around the beam of light twisting rapidly.

In an instant, an extremely dazzling light burst out from the nest mother’s open mouth, which stung people’s eyes and made them cry.

The surging heat wave swept and spread with the explosion of the laser column, and the hot wind blowing in the face made people’s cheeks hot.

The light went out, and the red indicator light on the cannon on the shoulder lit up. The entire barrel became extremely hot, like a red-hot iron, and the apprentice’s leather cape was sizzling from the heat.

Li Nanke flipped his wrist and the huge gun disappeared.

But when he looked at the huge monster, his pupils suddenly shrank.

“Fuck! He’s not dead yet!”

Most of the Nest Mother’s head was melted and evaporated by the laser, and the remaining small half was burning with flames. However, this monster with extremely terrifying vitality was not dead yet!

Without saying a word, Li Nanke slapped the button on the side of the door, and the heavy metal gate closed instantly. He turned around and ran without looking back.

“Boom!”

The metal gate was blown away by the huge force as if it was made of paper. Countless legs trampled on it alternately. The huge body of the nest mother smashed the gate and squeezed into the corridor, chasing after it madly!

(End of this chapter)