Wasteland Hideout: Upgrading from the Sewers

Chapter 216: A Clash of Titans: Containing and Imprisoning Shiva, Fear

"That was... what?!"

A sense of danger and death flashed through Shiva's mind.

"Damn it!"

Shiva used all his strength to twist his body, changing his target.

"RAAAAAAH~~~"

With a furious roar.

Shiva had already entered the room, his right fist, fully charged, blasted toward Yu Yuan with explosive force, the light on his fist instantly reaching its peak.

And just as Shiva threw his punch, Yu Yuan, who was hiding in a dead corner of the room, had already moved.

Under Shiva's shocked gaze, Yu Yuan leaped toward him, his whole body like a fully drawn bow.

His entire body stretched backward, both hands gripping the heavy hammer's handle tightly. When his body reached its maximum extension.Yu Yuan's eyes widened with fury, as if every feature of his face was straining. He no longer suppressed the churning steam kinetic energy of the [Ruined City No. 15 Steam Kinetic Heavy Hammer]. His whole body, like a tightly stretched rubber band, snapped back rapidly.

The long-charged [Skull-Crusher Hammer] ejected an exceptionally violent blast of air, carrying an unmatched, overwhelming force. Under the control of Yu Yuan's arms, the entire heavy hammer seemed to enter a concussive mode, instantly accelerating.

With surging energy, it smashed toward the right arm Shiva had swung out, the air itself seeming to crackle with explosive sound.

"Skull—Crusher—Hammer!" A low, furious roar erupted from Yu Yuan's mouth.

The heavy hammer entered a red-hot state, its body glowing crimson.

It directly collided with the mechanical right fist Shiva had thrown.

At this moment.

A direct clash of titans was completely ignited.

BOOM——

The explosion from the intense energy collision enveloped the room, immediately followed by a visible shockwave spreading out in all directions.

Smoke billowed.

The entire battlefield fell silent. Many had witnessed Shiva's actions just now and were waiting for the outcome.

Inside the room, Yu Yuan, grimacing in pain, was bandaging his two arms.

He used only Rare-tier bandages and recovery drinks scavenged from Freedom Tower. The burst skin and blood vessels on his two arms were rapidly healing and recovering.

But Yu Yuan couldn't afford to care about that now. After quick treatment, he jabbed a morphine injector into his own neck, then looked toward a wall on one side of the room.

He saw a human-shaped hole had appeared in the original wall, penetrating completely through it and continuing backward. Yu Yuan grabbed the heavy hammer and rushed out of the room.

Carmen, meanwhile, was just getting up from the ground, covered in dust and grime, shaking his head.

The two thugs behind him were already lying in pools of blood.

When Shiva appeared outside the window, Carmen had already lunged toward the door behind him.

But the two thugs behind him had reacted a beat too slow.

"Carman, organize an attack immediately! The Jackals will coordinate!"

After throwing out these words, Yu Yuan had already crossed two rooms and saw the collapsed mechanical transformer lying on the ground.

Shiva's right arm was now completely destroyed, severed at the elbow.

At the jagged break, high temperatures, electrical discharges, and sparks caused by energy overload flickered constantly.

The confidence and disdain that were once in his sole remaining Mechanical Eye were gone, replaced by deep self-doubt and disbelief.

And because of the energy overload and the heavy hammer blow, his mechanically enhanced body was also continuously flickering with electrical sparks, twitching sporadically.

Not just blood, but also coolant was seeping out from the mechanical joints.

Shiva struggled to get up, but it was futile after several attempts.

When he saw Yu Yuan approaching, a trace of barely perceptible fear actually flashed in his eyes.

"You... are you really human? Impossible... this is impossible...."

At this moment, Shiva's faith was shattered. His long-held belief of "machinery supreme, flesh weak" had been utterly pierced by this ordinary human before him.

But Yu Yuan didn't care about Shiva's thoughts. He only knew that to eliminate evil, one must be thorough, and to cut weeds, one must remove the roots.

And on the Combat Detector's display, the information for the mechanical transformer before him was clearly marked with the words — Bronze-grade, further solidifying Yu Yuan's resolve.

It met the conditions for eliminating the Bronze-grade [Slaughter Card].

And just as he had raised his hammer again, ready to test whether a mechanical transformer's skull or a Leader-level Infected's skull was harder.

A symbol on the mechanical transformer's chest caught his attention.

It was a logo composed of three colors: red, black, and silver.

The background was bright red. In the center was a silver mechanical chainsword with its tip pointing downward, and on the chainsword was a black gear.

Below the pattern was a line of text — Ad Victoriam.

Yu Yuan's gaze paused. As thoughts churned in his eyes, the heavy hammer came crashing down again with brutal force.

THUD— THUD— THUD—

While Yu Yuan was continuously swinging his hammer here, the thugs of the Black Shield Police Department, under Carmen's orders, launched another attack.

This time, the Burning Fortress and Thug Prison forces seemed to realize something was wrong. They had no intention of fighting at all and fled in haste.

But Carmen had long been prepared. The contingency plans left earlier began to take effect, and the encirclement and suppression of Thug Prison and Burning Fortress officially began.

Carmen then ran toward the room where Yu Yuan was, only to see him putting away something resembling a Rubik's Cube.

Several human-shaped indentations had already appeared on the floor, faintly revealing the room below.

All that remained of that mechanical transformer was a severed lower half of a mechanical body.

Yu Yuan pointed at that piece of wreckage.

"With this, you should be able to report back! I'm leaving first!"

"For matters regarding the [Jackals], communicate directly with Alpha!"

Carmen gave a slight nod.

"Go quickly! Leave the rest to me!"

Yu Yuan didn't linger any longer.

And after he left the building and ducked into the nearest sewer, he also received a message sent by Alpha.

[Alpha: King, we caught that Burning Fortress leader you mentioned — Hans!]

Yu Yuan also saw the message in the [Jackals] group chat within the Commander System. Hans was caught by Shadow and Trap.

[Wolf Den · King: Find a safe place to hide. I'm coming to you.]

Yu Yuan quickly locked onto the [Jackals] squad's location, summoned Mie Mie within the sewer, and traveled swiftly.

Soon, he met up with Alpha and the others.

He also saw that familiar figure on the ground. He had seen him before in the parking lot outside the Green Forest Light Supermarket in District 10.

Back then, the Flame Knights were so domineering that Yu Yuan could only avoid their edge.

But now, over twenty days later.

The tables had turned!

Hans's legs and hands were bound, and he had been shot in the left arm.

Yu Yuan took out the [Wow! Loser's Cube] and stored Hans inside.

As Victor's confidant, this person might yield important intelligence.

Then Yu Yuan looked at Alpha and the others.

"Alright, go find Carmen now! Be extra careful from here on out, especially regarding Hogg. He's very dangerous. Try not to draw his attention if possible."

"Understood!"

....

Watching the departing figures of the [Jackals] members, Yu Yuan stored the TRGM10 Sniper Rifle that Eagle Eye had returned into the Rabbit Ring, then quickly ducked into the sewer and ran toward Fang's location.

This skirmish between the Black Shield Police Department, Thug Prison, and Burning Fortress was soon learned by the various factions of Green Forest City. Especially the Black Rock Caravan of the Northern District, who had detected the situation and dispatched intelligence-gathering teams at the first moment the fighting broke out.

The scale of this battle, the intensity of the combat, and the severity of the casualties were second only to the great battle ten days ago.

However, this time, the result was that the Black Shield Police Department directly crushed the combined forces of Burning Fortress and Thug Prison.

Consequently, the other factions' wariness toward the Black Shield Police Department, and the Aurora Animal Assistance Association behind them, grew even more intense.