With the chemical concoctions "gulugulu" and the metallic weapons cutting through the air with a "swoosh," Twitch crafted five or six rusty iron arrows from the garbage pile. These arrows, covered in venom, were continuously fired, instantly penetrating Zac's body.
Zac's pancake-shaped body now had several ventilated holes, and pieces of green cell tissues and mucus detached and splattered, sprinkling into the sewage.
"Ah, it hurts so much!" Zac screamed in agony.
His gel-like body, originally adhered to the curved wall of the corridor, could no longer support itself due to the pain.
A whole mass of green slime fell to the ground, creating a dirty and foul-smelling puddle in the sewer.
"Kate, Sheriff Grayson, don't expose yourselves! He's shooting crossbows from the opposite side!" Li Lin urgently reminded Caitlyn and Grayson upon hearing Zac's miserable cry.
Immediately, he activated the "Overload Charge" function of his powered armor. After two seconds, he also initiated the "Adaptive Defense" shield.
Instantly, the energy bar on the visor screen plummeted, and the powered armor's surface emitted a burst of blue light. A faint blue energy field enveloped him.
Li Lin took a deep breath, swiftly jumped out of cover, and rushed towards Twitch's direction.
"Oh, my moldy cheese, what on earth is this thing?!" Twitch was startled by this suddenly appearing big figure and agilely rolled backward. He then fired continuously at Li Lin.
However, the poisonous arrows, with their deadly toxins, couldn't penetrate the energy defense of the powered armor under the "Adaptive Shield." The metallic collision sounds of "ding ding ding" echoed as the arrows were deflected, causing minimal damage to the energy shield.
Li Lin ran to Zac's side to check on his condition. "Zac, are you okay?"
Zac extended a part of his body, absorbing back the submerged cellular tissue in the water, and then reconstituted into a humanoid form.
Without answering Li Lin's question, Zac's deep yellow eyes stared fiercely at Twitch, who seemed to have sensed trouble and was retreating nervously.
"Damn it, you've annoyed me! I'll make sure you don't walk away from this!" Twitch declared angrily.
Before Li Lin could respond, Zac firmly adhered his two sturdy arms to the walls on either side, straightening his entire body, pulling it back as far as possible. It looked like a rubber band pulled taut, ready to be released.
Affected by Twitch's negative emotions, Zac now struggled to control his own anger.
This rat must be flattened!
Seeing the situation turning unfavorable, Twitch immediately turned and ran, muttering nervously, "Sneaky, be sneakier..."
At the same time, Zac released his arms, and his entire body transformed into a stiff adhesive in the low air, directly smashing towards Twitch ten meters away.
However, with the assistance of the "Smart Assistant Chip," Li Lin keenly noticed that Twitch, while fleeing, pulled out a small bottle containing a powdery substance and poured it onto himself.
[Alchemical Refinement Phosphorescent Powder: Pour it on the body to refract light, entering a semi-transparent state. The darker the environment, the more pronounced the transparency (highly toxic).]
Damn it!
Is this the source of Twitch's invisibility skill? He actually modified luminescent phosphorescent powder to refract light?!
Li Lin's mind tightened, controlling the armor to lock onto Twitch. He wanted to shoot him with an energy blast before he became invisible.
"Zac, get out of the way!" He shouted to Zac.
Unfortunately, at this moment, Zac's anger had spread to every cell in his body.
Unless the source of the negative emotions, Twitch, was defeated or moved away from him, Zac couldn't return to normal.
And the current situation was obvious: he couldn't voluntarily move away from Twitch...
"Damn it... a miscalculation." Li Lin couldn't help but curse in his heart.
Even the smallest [Electric Shock Hand Cannon] at this stage couldn't track the target, risking injuring Zac, who was much larger than Twitch.
In his dash forward with the High-Frequency Vibrating Blade and the imminent close-quarters combat with the mice...
Let's not even bring up the current issue of whether the core energy is enough.
Based on Zac's current state, it's highly likely he'll pull himself into this battle.
Furthermore, with Twitch having entered a semi-transparent state, despite the reminders from the Data Mind, his vision is still significantly restricted.
I shouldn't have let Zac participate in this operation to kill Twitch...
But now is not the time to dwell on that.
Seeing Twitch deftly dodge Zac's extended arm strikes, Li Lin promptly activated another storm in the awaiting channel.
Following that, he cautioned Caitlyn and Grayson not to expose themselves, lest they be accidentally hit by the sporadically flying poisoned arrows.
The dim sewer passage, with a width of just two meters, was already more than half occupied by Zac alone.
Even Caitlyn, with her maxed firearm proficiency, had no assurance of precisely hitting the agile and semi-transparent Twitch in this situation.
Subsequently, Li Lin approached the one slime and one rat engaged in combat, maintaining a distance of around five meters.
The storm was circling from behind, and now, all that needed to be done was to delay Twitch as much as possible and let the storm ambush from behind.
"Is this all the capability your filthy and nauseating slime has? Hehehe..."
Twitch, while loading arrows into his chem-powered crossbow, continued to mutter provocations and taunts.
In no time, he also took out a bottle of alchemical venom from his worn-out satchel and threw it at his feet.
However, Zac, also being a form of alchemical venom, was unaffected by this carefully concocted "deadly venom."
"I'll Flatten you!" he roared, pulling his body taut, jumping forcefully, hitting the top of the passage, and then descending heavily, splashing a large amount of sewage.
Li Lin calmly raised the "Steel Barricade" shield, blocking most of the sewage, but he frowned, feeling uneasy.
Twitch agilely navigated the sewer passage, and Zac, in the form of slime, pursued intermittently. Surprisingly, his speed was not inferior to this agile mutant rat in the slightest.
They tangled for another two or three minutes. Suddenly, Twitch put away his crossbow, turned around, and laughed at Zac, "Hehehe... You can't catch me!"
Ahead was a vertical sewage pipe. As long as he entered there, relying on his familiarity with the sewer, it would be absolutely impossible for this disgusting slime to catch up.
Only twenty more steps, just reach that place...
Twitch's mouth widened in excitement, and his mind slightly relaxed. However, he noticed something familiar in the front passage, which had an additional floating, blue-glowing object.
Huh? Why is this color so familiar?
His mind had just flashed with this thought when the metallic chunk floating in mid-air suddenly erupted with glaring orange sparks.
Simultaneously, deafening gunfire echoed in this narrow space. Over a dozen bullets precisely poured onto Twitch in a short two or three seconds.
Twitch's green vertical pupils flashed with a hint of shock, feeling his body suddenly numb. Uncontrollably, he tilted forward, his consciousness gradually distancing from his body.
It turns out the color was the appearance of that foolish human's outer skin...
Seizing this opportunity, Zac swiftly shot out his arm, grabbed the giant rat falling, forcefully threw it against the nearby wall, and then rained down punches and kicks.
However, at this moment, Twitch had already lost all signs of life.
Li Lin silently distanced himself from Zac, who was venting his anger, and at the same time, checked the system panel that had just sent a series of notifications after killing Twitch:
Congratulations! You've encountered 15 Champion, leveled up 2 levels, and gained 2 skill points.
You've killed the Plague Rat Twitch (Champion), leveled up 4 levels, obtained 1000 blue essences, 100 orange essences, and 5 skill points.
Congratulations! Your level has increased to 18, gaining 6 skill points, unlocking the career advancement feature!
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(End of this chapter)
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