"Don't worry, I'll save him," Zhang Chen nodded, then instantly flashed towards Peter's indicated direction.
These beetles were classified as mutated Type VI creatures, and Zhang Chen couldn't instantly kill them with a single blow, so snapping his fingers wouldn't work.
However, this was a good opportunity to train his troops, allowing Zhang Wenwen's True God Sect army to grow rapidly with the help of Xiaobai and Moyan.
In about ten days, the colossal phase would arrive again, so time was indeed tight for growth!
Fortunately, the biological attractant was stuck to the city wall, so most of the beetles were flying towards the wall. Under the attraction of Zhang Wenwen and others, their attention was successfully diverted.
However, a small number of beetles still managed to land inside the city.
The beetles that entered the city were like walking into a buffet. The survivors lay prostrate on the ground, with very few capable of resisting.
They opened their mouths and with a crunch, bit off the survivors' heads, chewing them greedily.
Zhang Chen wanted to save these survivors, but he didn't forget his more important task: finding the newborn.
A three-year-old child would be incredibly vulnerable when the surrounding guards lost their defensive capabilities. He had to find the child before the monsters did.
Thinking about it, the natives' actions were quite brainless. If the child was eaten by monsters, wouldn't their hope of procreation be extinguished?!
Zhang Chen mused erratically.
He soon arrived at the location Peter had indicated, a luxurious hotel.
The newborn was on the 17th floor of the hotel.
Zhang Chen looked up. On the exterior wall, two beetles were twisting their massive bodies, trying to climb through the shattered glass windows.
"Soul Burn" Level 3!
Zhang Chen didn't activate Divine Soul Burn; that consumed too much [Hyper-Crystal Core], making it unaffordable.
For these mutated Type VI monsters, ordinary Soul Burn was enough.
"Instant Flash"!
Zhang Chen instantly appeared behind the two beetles.
"Energy Concentration Strike"!
Spreading his hands, two energy waves penetrated directly through the beetles' bodies.
Chirp! Chirp!
The beetles let out pained screams, and their carapaces began to vibrate.
"Shell Shatter Vibration": It will resonate with the surrounding air or buildings. If it resonates with the air, it will produce infrasound that stimulates nerves. If it resonates with buildings, it will quickly destroy them. If it touches armor under high-frequency vibration, it will cause an additional 5 times vibration damage to the armor.
"Energy Concentration Strike"!
Zhang Chen casually unleashed another energy wave.
This time, the energy wave directly blasted through the beetles' vulnerable abdomen.
Splat!
Yellow-green liquid splattered everywhere, and the two beetles finally died completely.
"What a troublesome fellow!"
Zhang Chen muttered to himself.
He walked out of the room and checked the room number, 1503. The 17th floor was two floors above him.
Zhang Chen walked back to the window, lightly gripping the upper edge of the windowsill. With a gentle push, he flew up the exterior wall.
He stood lightly on the balcony of the 17th floor.
"Is anyone home?"
Zhang Chen pulled open the window leading to the bedroom. Although it was locked, with Zhang Chen's strength, such a lock was useless. He leaned in and called out.
No one responded.
Zhang Chen took two steps towards the door and found it ajar. A bearded man lay on the floor, his face purple, already dead.
There were two needle-like bite marks on his neck.
A snake?
A snake had attacked from within the camp.
Zhang Chen's snapping fingers had a range limit, and it was impossible to cover such a deep area of the camp.
"Oh no, I hope the little boy is alright!"
Zhang Chen remembered Peter saying it was his grandson, and grandsons were naturally boys.
He hurried out of the room and into the corridor.
There were originally seven or eight guards here.
Now, all of them were dead from poison, their bodies lying scattered on the ground, their expressions contorted in pain.
Indeed, once the ring's ability was lost, survivors' strength would be greatly reduced. Watching oneself be bitten to death by a venomous snake must be such a desperate situation.
Following the bodies, Zhang Chen arrived at the door of a room at the end of the corridor.
This door had several bloody handprints on it, and two severed mutated snakes lay by the entrance.
It seemed there was still a strong individual here who, even in a weakened state, could still put up a fight.
He wondered if this strong individual was still alive.
Zhang Chen gently pushed open the slightly ajar door.
Suddenly, he heard a young boy's tender voice:
"That's for biting me!"
Zhang Chen looked closely and saw a three-year-old mixed-race boy with black hair and blue eyes, fair skin, holding the head of a giant snake over five meters long and twenty centimeters in diameter.
Strangely, this snake was too large for the little boy. The snake's head could easily swallow the boy in one gulp if it opened its mouth slightly.
But the boy's tender hands were gripping the snake's neck, preventing it from moving even an inch.
Its long body twisted in pain in place, but it didn't wrap around the boy!
From the snake's eyes, Zhang Chen could even feel its deep fear!
"Let's see if you can bite me again!"
The boy exerted force with both hands, and his ten fingers pierced through the giant snake's tough scales, embedding themselves into the flesh.
Squelch!
With a sudden spread of his hands, the snake's neck was split in two!
Following that, a green energy flowed out from the giant snake's energy core, slowly drifting into the boy's body. As the giant snake's energy crystal core depleted, its entire body became dull and lusterless, instantly shriveling considerably.
In contrast, a golden glint flashed in the boy's eyes!
He leveled up?!
The boy didn't have a ring, but he could directly absorb energy from defeated monsters!
Zhang Chen activated his intermediate True Sight to examine the boy.
His current strength was Divine: Beginner Transcender, Stage Three!
A three-year-old with the strength of a Beginner Transcender? And with a "Divine" prefix?!
Zhang Chen felt an incredible sense of disbelief!
With his ability to fight monsters above his level, his leveling would be incredibly fast!
The boy, focused on his fight with the mutated giant snake, did not notice Zhang Chen's presence.
After just eliminating one giant snake, another one quickly rushed in from the balcony and attacked again.
The boy stood up and immediately re-engaged in combat with the second giant snake.
It was then that Zhang Chen noticed that the boy had several needle-like bite marks on his thigh and the back of his forearm!
This indicated he had been bitten by venomous snakes, yet he hadn't died from the poison and was instead getting stronger with each battle?!
Whose child was this? And why did he have a "Divine" prefix like himself?!
As Zhang Chen was marveling, a red-haired woman stumbled out from the side, her knees buckling, and collapsed into Zhang Chen's arms.
"Save our child..."
It was Katerina?!