Similar to an electric eel, it’s also a mutated Ruined Beast that plays with electricity, but the former is not in the same league as this Fourth Level Plasma Coil Maze Bug.
Whether in terms of voltage, current, or total electricity, the two are on completely different scales.
After leaping forward a few meters, the Maze Bug started to turn around.
Ren Zhong knew that after it fully turned around, the plasma would flow over like poured molten iron, engulfing him completely and burning him to ashes.
At this moment, Ren Zhong, whose hair was still standing on end, wore a helmet, and every part of his armor was fitted with insulation layers.
But he was not flustered.
He merely swiftly pulled the heavy Dagger Rifle from his thigh, held it up in both hands, aimed, and pulled the trigger.
The Fifth Level special bullet — the Superconducting Magnetic Needle Sniper Bullet, costing 4400 pre-tax Contribution Points per shot from Wang Zhaofu, whistled out and hit the forehead of the Plasma Coil Maze Bug, embedding itself inside!
In an instant, the Maze Bug’s motion to turn came to a halt.
The substantial plasma expelling from its rear as if suddenly finding its direction, snaked around its body and surged towards its forehead like rivers converging into the sea.
It began to emit a piercing wail, and the coil in its abdomen began to flicker on and off.
It attempted to cease discharging.
But it was futile, for under the attraction of the true superconducting magnetic needle, the plasma within it was drawn back and forth, unstoppable.
Its body, the plasma in the air, and the superconducting magnetic needle bullet organically combined to form a closed circuit.
Until the energy matrix within it was completely depleted, the electric surge would not cease.
Three minutes later, the Plasma Coil Maze Bug lay prostrate on the ground, with a blackened small spot burned on its forehead, motionless.
It was dead, and rightly so.
The value of just one special bullet exceeded that of the Plasma Coil Maze Bug.
This shot by Ren Zhong was akin to using anti-aircraft artillery to swat a mosquito.
But he could afford it.
As the high temperature in the cave was gradually carried away by the soil and the temperature dropped again, with the ozone slightly dispersed, Ren Zhong walked inside, dragging the Bug’s corpse further inside and repositioning it into its previous resting pose.
Subsequently, Ren Zhong removed his exoskeleton armor gloves and replaced them with the Fourth Level Demolition Master’s gloves he had retrieved from Chen Hanyu.
He took a deep breath, with a glint flashing in his eyes.
This dismantling could only succeed, failure was not an option!
Three minutes later, Ren Zhong placed the already damaged beyond repair crystal chip into the storage box.
He wasn’t disheartened because his definition of success this time wasn’t acquiring a perfect crystal chip, but merely preserving the Bug’s corpse as much as possible.
He lifted the box he had been holding in his arms, opened it, took out something resembling an ostrich egg from inside, carefully opened the Bug’s head shell, and placed the item inside.
Then, he set the thing inside to activate in ten minutes, closed the head cover, and used the reverse cutting function of the demolition gloves to carefully melt and restore the Bug’s head shell to its prior state as closely as possible.
After finishing all this, Ren Zhong checked the superconducting magnetic needle sniper bullet on the Bug’s forehead that appeared silver-grey like the head shell and was needle-shaped, almost indistinguishable to the naked eye, ensuring that its orientation was correct before exiting the cave chamber.
He waited outside for about eight minutes, and inside, there was a faint buzzing sound.
Ren Zhong glanced at the scanner, ensuring that the energy oscillation frequency, manner, and mechanism coming from inside were almost identical to when the Maze Bug was alive, albeit slightly stronger, then left with assurance.
The bomb he had placed inside earlier, when slowly releasing the electric surge, mimicked the information diffusion akin to the Fourth Level Plasma Coil Maze Bug’s state when breaking through to the Fifth Level, being able to deter other Ruined Beasts from provoking it easily for a prolonged period.
Having done all this was enough.
The next afternoon, Xing Ming would eagerly approach this Maze Bug, which had fallen into dormancy due to breaking through its realm, to pick up the scraps.
Then, the Boiling Bomb, a Fifth Level special bomb worth 50,000 Contribution Points, would detonate.
The Boiling Bomb would instantly release terrifying plasma like boiling water at a power output of 15,000 kilowatts, filling the entire cave chamber and lasting for 5 seconds.
At the moment of its detonation, the Fifth Level superconducting magnetic needle sniper bullet would be propelled out by the counterforce, drilling a capillary-like hole into Xing Ming’s armor’s insulation layer, rooting itself inside.
Subsequently, the rolling plasma in the cave would flow into Xing Ming’s armor through the superconducting magnetic needle sniper bullet.