Chapter 40: So That's What 'Powerful, Please Use With Caution' Means!!!

Chen Yuan's eyes were locked on Wang Hao's face. He said in a deep voice, "What? You won't even let a teammate who already left go?!"

A thick killing intent glinted in Wang Hao's eyes. He snorted coldly. "Let her go? Heh. She broke my brother's family jewels, and you want me to let her go?!"

Chen Yuan was taken aback for a second. Damn, that girl is fierce! She seems so nice, how could she do something like that?

But a moment later, his own attitude became exceptionally cold. "Let me guess. It must have been your worthless brother who took a liking to Jiang Nan and tried to force her into something, right?"

Wang Hao sneered in response. "Heh, I provided her a safe place to live, I provided her food, I provided..."

"I'll provide you my ASS!!!"

Chen Yuan didn't wait for him to finish. He raised the plasma cannon. To try and force a woman and then speak with such self-righteousness... this man was truly inhuman. It was one thing for her to escape, but you have the gall to come seeking revenge?!

The more Chen Yuan thought about it, the angrier he became. His left thumb flipped off the safety switch. The blue, breathing light ring at the front of the cannon collapsed into a small, rapidly spinning point.

One second... two seconds... three seconds.

The blue point continued to spin, finally expanding back into a full, brilliant blue ring that began to flash rapidly.

Charging complete!

Chen Yuan aimed at Wang Hao and pulled the trigger.

whIRRRRRRR—SHOOOM!!!

A sphere of azure light shot out from the end of the cannon, striking Wang Hao with incredible speed.

The next second...

BOOOOM!!!

The sphere of light expanded, releasing an immense wave of heat.

"HOLY SHIT!!!"

Chen Yuan immediately spun around and dove into the building's entrance, pressing his body against the wall.

AAAAAHHHH~~~~

A chorus of screams came from outside, lasting only for a second before falling into an abrupt silence.

When Chen Yuan stepped back out, he was completely stunned by the scene before him.

"Fuck... it's that strong?"

He stared at the incomplete corpses littering the ground, blue smoke rising from their scorched remains, and silently swallowed.

So that's what "Powerful, please use with caution" means!!!

That one shot had directly eliminated more than thirty people. The resulting high temperature had melted all the ice and snow in a ten-meter radius.

Well, I'll be damned, Chen Yuan thought. I'll be damned.

With this superweapon, what was there to fear from zombies?

He looked excitedly at his left hand, his breathing growing ragged.

「Fuel: •••」 「Deuterium: ••」

One of the three solid black circles indicating the deuterium charge was now gone. In other words, he had two shots left before he needed to replace the deuterium. However, the solid circles for the energy cells hadn't changed; there were still three.

"Not bad..."

The material consumption was high, but the power was immense! It had wiped out thirty to forty people in one go. If they had been zombies, he conservatively estimated he could have taken out thirty. One shot, thirty zombies. Three shots, a hundred zombies. He would only need to swap out a hundred deuterium cells to eliminate ten thousand zombies!

Uh... a hundred deuterium cells. That hurts!

He tore his gaze away from the plasma cannon and looked down the alley. "Damn, I can't live here anymore..."

He was too lazy to clean up this many corpses. Maybe he should move.

Chen Yuan was about to turn around and pack his things, but his footsteps halted. He looked at the smoking corpses on the ground, and a sharp glint flashed in his eyes.

Why move?

With this many bodies, how many zombies will they attract?

He could seal off the building and stand on the upper floors, looking down. If there were only a few, he could use the high-explosive incendiary arrows. If there were many, he could use the plasma cannon. He could play around for a few days. If everything went smoothly on Lan Ya's end, he would wait a bit longer. Most importantly, he wanted to know what she was hiding from him. So, he was in no hurry to rendezvous with her now.

Brilliant. This idea is absolutely brilliant!

After this shift in perspective, Chen Yuan found the corpses on the ground to be more and more pleasing to the eye.

He took Tieniu and Tiedan and headed straight out of the alley. Since he was going to be guarding corpses and waiting for zombies, he might as well get more wood. The snow in the alley had been trampled so many times by those people that it had long since turned to hard ice. Fortunately, the boots of his thermostatic suit had an anti-slip function; otherwise, he didn't know how many times he would have fallen on his face in this short five- or six-hundred-meter stretch.

When he reached the main road, Chen Yuan's mindset had completely changed.

Before, when he went out, he was cautious.

Now, when he went out, he swaggered.

His thermostatic suit was stab-proof, corrosion-proof, and blunt-force resistant. He had a plasma cannon on his left arm and a Flame Dagger in his right hand. Two loyal robot dogs served as his guards.

Come on. You send one, I'll kill one. You send two, I'll kill a pair. He didn't care if they were zombies or humans trying to steal his supplies. He wasn't afraid.

Why settle for the small greenbelt trees on the side of the road when there was a small park right next to him?

Having made up his mind, he swung himself onto Tieniu's back. He set a navigation point in his visor, and Tieniu began to move forward on its four legs.

Along the way, the cold wind whistled and the snow fell heavily. It was hard to see any footprints. By now, the sky had gradually begun to dim, and the temperature, already at negative seventy degrees Celsius, showed signs of dropping even further.

Little Mountain Park. Looking at the stone lion at the park entrance, now half-buried in snow, memories flooded back to him like a tide.

In his previous life, Chen Yuan had often come here for a walk. Not because he was at leisure, but because he was too frustrated. Don't be fooled by his current twenty-something appearance; in his heart, he was thirty-five. He had lived in that rental apartment for ten years and still hadn't saved enough money to buy a house. He had worked diligently, only to be "optimized" by his company. At thirty-five, he was too early to retire, too old to find a new job, stuck in the middle. He would walk in the park every night, lap after lap, venting the depression in his heart. Sometimes he would walk until the sky began to lighten before dragging his exhausted body back home to sleep.

And that roommate of his...

"Sigh... what's the point of thinking about all this..."

He shook his head, slid off Tieniu's back, and walked into the park. Looking at a massive tree that had been growing for nearly a hundred years, he pointed. "That one. Chop it down!"

Tiedan received the command, extended its offensive mechanical arm, and began to smash it against the thick trunk.

THUMP! THUMP! THUMP!

Chunks of snow fell from the branches. The tree, so large it would take two people to wrap their arms around it, was snapped in half after just a few blows.

Tieniu's towing capacity had now increased from 110kg before the upgrade to 330kg—a full six hundred and sixty pounds. And Tiedan now had a towing capacity of 240kg. Two dogs were more than enough to pull the wood. Besides, the ground was frozen, reducing friction, which would make it even easier once they got going.

"Tiedan, drill a hole at the base of the trunk. We'll put the rope through it."

「Roger.」

Tiedan extended the conical drill of its offensive arm and bored into the end of the trunk. Soon, a round hole the size of a baby's arm appeared. The next step was to thread the tow rope from the Apocalypse Store through it and then tie it to the two robot dogs.

After all this was done, Chen Yuan turned and headed out of the park. On the dim road, his searchlight illuminated the path ahead, stretching his shadow long behind him.

The journey back was uneventful. After about half an hour, he arrived at the entrance to his alley. When the man and his dogs turned into the alley, the light from their lamps illuminated it completely.

Looking at the scene below his building, Chen Yuan's steps paused slightly, and a smile spread across his face.

Heaven has a road, but you refuse to take it. My home has no door, yet you come crashing through!

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