Chapter 777 A Fierce Battle Against the Death Worm in the Ruined City, Victory

Ruined City.

This was a world that had long since died.

The once-prosperous world of mechanical armor had been reduced to nothing but broken walls and rubble.

And endless yellow sand.

Mechanical parts lay scattered everywhere, alongside destroyed mechanical armor and weapons that had melted down.

There were also weathered white bones.

As space twisted, Yu Yuan and the others appeared in this world.

The scorching sunlight made it hard for Yu Yuan to keep his eyes open.

But the scene before him still left him a little surprised.

He summoned Mie Mie and flew into the air to survey the surroundings.

A massive mechanical city had crashed into the desert.

The mechanical city stretched for several kilometers and was made entirely of metal machinery. To Yu Yuan, that was truly inconceivable.

Xiao Xi and Hogg also surveyed their surroundings.

Under Alpha's command, the Pioneering Group spread out to keep watch and scout the area.

After getting a basic understanding of the surroundings,

Yu Yuan released Diona from the Loser's Cube.

The instant she saw the mechanical city, she froze.

Her emotions surged violently.

Alpha came to Yu Yuan's side.

“Leader, the air here contains a potent biological hormone. It seems to be a territorial marker released by some kind of creature.”

“A territorial marker?” Yu Yuan frowned slightly.

“It’s the Death Worm...”

Yu Yuan turned to look at the woman. “What?”

Diona had already calmed down. She gazed across the desert.

“This potent biological hormone is a territorial marker released by the Death Worm...”

She looked at Yu Yuan.

“It’s the Gold-tier creature I told you about, the guard the Mechanical Leader stationed here.”

“A guard?” Yu Yuan looked toward the city’s ruins.

“You mean... it’s guarding this city?”

“Yes. This city is the Ruined City, and its real name is the Mechanical Floating City.”

Diona stared blankly into the distance, as if lost in memory.

Just then, the ground began to tremble faintly.

Diona’s expression changed.

“The Death Worm has found us...”

A raging sandstorm had already risen at the far edge of the horizon.

That was where the Death Worm was.

“Alpha, take Diona into the Ruined City at once.”

Alpha immediately led the Pioneering Group away.

Hogg and Xiao Xi also entered combat mode.

“This Death Worm’s abilities are related to sand control. Same as before, Xiao Xi, probe it with an attack. Hogg, look for an opening. I’ll control it.”

After quickly assigning their tasks, Hogg and Xiao Xi charged toward the sandstorm.

The Destiny Armor enveloped Yu Yuan completely. He flew after them atop Mie Mie.

The air, which had grown murky, cleared once more under the effect of Hoofprint Spring.

The effect was ridiculously powerful.

As the sandstorm drew closer, Yu Yuan caught sight of the enormous worm lurking within it.

The giant worm was dozens of meters long, ferocious and terrifying, with unmistakable signs of mechanical modification.

Then came the oppressive force of Gold-tier life energy bearing down on lower-level lifeforms.

But instead of being alarmed, Yu Yuan and the other two were delighted, because the Death Worm’s pressure was indeed stronger than Mary I’s had been.

But... not by much.

They could fight it!

A gleam flashed in the three of their eyes, bright with excitement and anticipation.

ROOOAR!

The Death Worm, swimming through the sea of sand, had spotted Yu Yuan and the other two as well.

Seeing that they dared to challenge it, it let out an angry roar.

The sandstorm transformed into a terrifying face. Its mouth gaped wide as it lunged at the three of them.

At the same time, it sprayed potent acid.

But Yu Yuan had already made his move.

The Death Worm’s mental resistance was clearly low.

[Diagnosis: Amnesia]

Psychic Ability struck. The Death Worm’s movements halted, but it soon started moving again.

That wasn’t normal. The duration of the control was far shorter than the five-second forced-control period.

A jumbled mass of memories also surfaced in Yu Yuan’s mind.

There was no pollution, no hidden secret, just a disordered and chaotic memory.

Hogg and Xiao Xi had already reached the Death Worm’s side.

“Leader, this Death Worm shows signs of mechanical modification. That may have something to do with it.”

Just as Xiao Xi and Yu Yuan had suspected,

the Death Worm had already been controlled by the Mechanical Leader. Only its most primitive instincts remained in its original memories. The Death Worm was now controlled by its mechanical core.

Its mechanical core had taken over the Death Worm’s conscious control of its movements.

But it controlled only the core command hub, the “interneurons” responsible for decision-making in the brain. Other neurons, such as the motor neurons that transmitted commands, might... not have been replaced by machinery.

Once Yu Yuan realized this, he immediately changed his strategy.

[Diagnosis: Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis]

The next moment, the Death Worm, which had been spraying acid at Xiao Xi and Hogg, stopped moving.

ALS affects the motor neurons throughout the body. Under its effects, a large number of motor neurons became paralyzed, and the worm lost control of its muscles.

Thud!

The Death Worm’s enormous body crashed heavily to the ground, kicking up a cloud of dust.

The potent acid in its mouth also flowed backward because of the sudden halt and the relaxation of the muscles in its mouth and throat.

Although the Death Worm could spray acid, that was only because it had an acid sac in its mouth.

Its internal organs weren’t immune to acid corrosion.

The potent acid flowed from its mouth into its body and began eating away at its organs.

A pungent vapor rose into the air.

The five seconds of forced control passed quickly, and the Death Worm writhed in agony.

But Hogg and Xiao Xi had already taken the opportunity to prepare.

Hogg went to the Death Worm’s back entrance, while Xiao Xi readied her Corrupted beam.

As Yu Yuan unleashed a second [Diagnosis: Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis],

the Death Worm lost control again and fell to the ground, motionless.

Hogg transformed into a proctologist and launched a frenzied assault on the back entrance, which was no less than three meters in diameter.

As everyone knows, no matter what kind of creature it is, even if its whole body is hard as iron, certain vital areas remain soft and vulnerable.

The internal organs are like that, and so is the back entrance.

Especially when all its muscles are relaxed and out of its control.

Hogg had no trouble getting inside the Death Worm.

Xiao Xi’s Corrupted beam also began corrupting it from its mouth.

Xiao Xi and Hogg’s two-pronged assault proved highly effective.

When the Death Worm regained control of its body, the discomfort was impossible to ignore.

Even under the mechanical core’s control, its instinct as a living creature still urged it to flee.

But the mechanical core’s objective was to eliminate all intruders.

The Death Worm was caught in a state of fighting itself.

Yu Yuan kept flinging out Psychic Ability, while Xiao Xi’s Corrupted power and Hogg’s internal assault made the Death Worm suffer unbearably.

At last, the Death Worm’s struggles slowly stopped.

It was on the verge of death.

Hogg crawled out the way he had come. His body was already coated in slime, and his Mechanical Armor was pitted and dented.

A foul stench clung to him.

Looking at the Death Worm, now unable to resist, Yu Yuan felt dazed.

“So we’ve already become this powerful.”

Xiao Xi and Hogg were just as dazed.

The Death Worm wasn’t some half-baked opponent like Mary I. This was a bona fide Gold-tier creature.

This was the first time they had defeated a Gold-tier creature fair and square.

In the glow of the Loser’s Cube, the Death Worm grew smaller and smaller, then finally disappeared.

The completion requirement for the Gold-tier Fate Card... had now been met.