Chapter 154: Easily Handled

"What is that?"

Following Joe's command, his mecha, the Cyber Sword Immortal, was hurled out of the Mythical Fortress by List.

It crashed heavily to the ground right beside Joe.

This mythical mecha, covered entirely in fresh, pulsating red flesh, stood silently in place, unmoving.

The flesh around the mecha's head was wrapped tightly like layers of crimson bandages, completely sealing its upper portion.

As if sensing Big Mouth's horrified gaze,

the fleshy bandages began to unravel from top to bottom.

They parted to reveal a pair of bloodshot, terrifying eyeballs that stared fixedly at Big Mouth.

Within those eyes, there was not a trace of emotion.

Only endless cruelty and a destructive desire remained.

Even though Big Mouth was safely enclosed within his heavy mecha, he still felt a chill run straight down his spine.

This biochemical mecha stood approximately six meters tall.

It was the most bloated and mutated among all the Corpse Snatchers' biochemical mechas.

Yet, apart from Leilana's Veronica, it was also the only mecha that retained an organic artificial intelligence.

Joe ended his zombie transformation state

and walked slowly to the front of the Cyber Sword Immortal, his height barely reaching the mecha's knees.

Joe curled his lips and spoke to Big Mouth with a helpless shrug,

"It seems my companions are growing a bit impatient."

"So, let's bring today's game to an end!"

With that, Joe waved his hand casually, and twelve Immortals-Slaying Flying Daggers pierced into various parts of the mecha.

Then, seizing the opportunity to show off,

Joe snapped his fingers lightly.

Instantly, a massive, bloody maw filled with sharp fangs ripped open across the mecha's abdomen.

Nauseating fluids continuously dripped from the upper edge of the gaping mouth onto the ground.

Every single drop of mucus emitted a sharp, sizzling sound as it landed, melting away the surrounding ice and snow.

Big Mouth's eyes widened in sheer disbelief.

He could clearly see that behind this giant mouth lay a mecha control console.

The layout of this console was all too familiar to him.

It was the universal configuration used in the mechas manufactured by the Brolly family.

"This... this is a mecha?"

"A biochemical mecha?"

"The ultimate fusion of genetic technology and mecha technology?"

"How on earth did you pull this off?"

Stunned into speechlessness, Big Mouth stared blankly and shouted as Joe was gradually swallowed whole into the giant maw.

Joe smiled faintly and replied,

"It won't be long before you find out for yourself..."

Seeing the greedy, fameless gleam of a starving wolf in Joe's eyes as he stared straight at his own mecha,

Big Mouth suddenly felt that...

Perhaps remaining completely in the dark was the greatest bliss of all.

When the ferocious giant mouth finally snapped shut,

the eyes of the Cyber Sword Immortal instantly flushed a blazing red.

A wave of inexplicable dread washed over Big Mouth.

Driven by the instinctive survival sense of a veteran soldier tempered in countless battles,

even though the Cyber Sword Immortal had not stirred an inch, Big Mouth abruptly drove his mecha to slide sideways.

The very next second, a dense horde of crimson, elongated tongues burst forth from the frozen earth...

They were the tongues of Lickers.

By this time, a slender, whip-like tail concealed beneath the shadow of the giant mecha's massive torso had already burrowed stealthily into the ground at an unknown moment.

Realizing that the surprise attack had missed its mark,

Joe felt a brief surge of astonishment. He never expected that such a heavily concealed strike would be so easily evaded by Big Mouth.

Back when this biochemical mecha was first forged, Joe had used this exact trick to ambush all the other Corpse Snatchers.

Every single one of them had fallen victim to it, getting their ankles ensnared and suffering immediate losses.

Never did he imagine that the fellow before him would successfully dodge the strike.

A grin instantly spread across Joe's face.

The Cyber Sword Immortal swiftly retracted its tail,

and its legs exerted explosive force, charging straight at Big Mouth.

The Cyber Sword Immortal seemed to have inherited Joe's hyper-velocity movement capability.

Despite its colossal stature, it moved with terrifying speed.

In the blink of an eye, it materialized directly behind its enemy.

Big Mouth's reaction time was hardly sluggish either.

He swung his heavy sword around, hacking fiercely toward the oncoming fist of the Cyber Sword Immortal.

Joe refused to dodge or parry, opting to meet the heavy broadsword head-on with a bare fist.

The moment they collided, Big Mouth's blade cut through like a hot knife through butter...

Like slicing tofu, the sharp edge effortlessly cleaved the Cyber Sword Immortal's fist into two halves,

continuing to slash deeper into the arm.

However, after the blade penetrated about a meter deep,

Big Mouth felt a powerful suction force pulling from the wound,

attempting to anchor his sword firmly within the muscular tissue.

Simultaneously, the flesh previously cleaved apart by the blade rapidly knit itself back together, lunging straight for Big Mouth's head.

"Damn it! How on earth does the flesh layer on this mecha possess such an absurd self-healing capability?"

Before the thought could even fully form in his mind,

Joe's heavy punch landed squarely on his mecha.

Instantly, the heavy mecha's feet lifted nearly a meter off the ground,

its torso arching backward violently

before crashing hard onto the earth.

Meanwhile, Big Mouth's broadsword was now swallowed halfway into the arm's muscular tissue at a visible rate.

Just as Big Mouth scrambled to steady himself and prepare for another round,

he suddenly realized he could no longer move.

Looking down, he discovered that his wrists and ankles were tightly bound by a multitude of crimson tongues,

wrapped layer upon layer, pinning him immovably to the frozen ground.

Then, the ground shattered violently beneath them.

The Cyber Sword Immortal's slender tail ripped up through the earth, sending shattered ice crystals flying in all directions.

As the tail fully exposed itself to the air,

Big Mouth finally saw that the tip of the whip-like tail had split into multiple forks,

from which sprouted countless grotesque, resilient snake-like heads.

"What a bizarre and insidious combat style..."

"It's completely impossible to guard against. Even knowing that this bastard can launch sudden subterranean attacks,

the moment you drop your guard for a fraction of a second, you're bound to be thoroughly entangled."

Joe smiled faintly.

This technique was originally designed to dismember smaller-sized mutants.

However, Big Mouth's mecha was clearly not something these Licker tongues could easily tear apart.

Moreover, sensing the strength radiating from Big Mouth's mecha growing steadily stronger,

there was a risk that the tongues might eventually snap under the tension.

Consequently, Joe manipulated the tail to hoist Big Mouth high into the air, slammed him violently back down into the ground,

pulled him up again,

and slammed him down once more.

The sheer force of the impact sent violent shockwaves through the air, making Big Mouth inside the mecha feel nauseous enough to vomit blood.

Instead of halting the assault, Joe escalated it

by beginning to swing Big Mouth around in wide arcs...

Using the Cyber Sword Immortal as a pivot,

he whipped him in a semicircle, smashing him back and forth against the ground from side to side.

Leveraging the extensible nature of the tail, Joe continuously increased the radius of the swing.

Along with the radius, the kinetic force, centrifugal force, and the crushing impact generated by the mecha colliding with the ground multiplied exponentially.

When the tail extended beyond ten meters in length,

one could clearly observe that the Cyber Sword Immortal had shrunk in height by about a meter and seemed a fraction leaner.

Yet, the sheer destructive power generated every time the tail slammed Big Mouth's mecha into the earth was so immense that even Ye Hai and the others standing far in the distance could feel the ground trembling violently beneath their feet.

Finally, when Joe felt the mecha gripped in his tail go completely limp and motionless,

he reeled it back before his eyes and inspected it closely.

He found that the pilot had thoroughly passed out from the concussive force.

With an expression of utter dissatisfaction, Joe muttered to Big Mouth:

"You didn't even manage to last until the Cyber Sword Immortal's 'Sword Immortal' mode!"

"You're really quite pathetic..."