There was only one last obstacle between the checkpoint and the Asterite!
Qi Yuan "looked" at the top floor. The polluters above were already alerted by the gunshots. They stood up and stared at their feet cautiously.
The four rank three bestial polluters didn't dare to get too close to the Asterite. If they got too close, their strength would be suppressed too much.
They also didn't dare to get too far away. The order they received was to protect the Asterite no matter what and not let others take it away.
After the three of them came out of the hole, their faces became more and more unpleasant.
"My ability has been weakened by at least 30%!"
Ruthless tested his ability and his face changed slightly.
"The extent of the suppression of the Combat Field ability cannot be determined. My perception ability has been weakened by almost half. I can't sense the movements above at all. The Asterite is right above us!"
Feather gently turned the Gatling gun and tried to fire a few shots above her head, but she found that the weapon control system was also affected. She couldn't start the continuous firing mode and could only shoot one shot at a time.
These two Gatling guns that could wildly pour bullets were her strongest means of attack. Without the pouring of firepower, her strength would be reduced by at least half.
Feather's eyes had some unconcealable fear. Compared to the others, she was the most affected.
Qi Yuan suppressed the throbbing in his heart. The three of them were all suppressed. The reactions of the polluters on the top floor proved that they were also suppressed by the Asterite.
But he didn't feel the slightest bit of suppression from the Asterite. Not only was it not suppressed, but it also became more restless.
The energy heart started to beat slowly. It began to become excited. It had already set its eyes on the Asterite embedded in the cement crack!
However, the Asterite didn't have no effect on him. Qi Yuan looked at the weapons he carried with him. The Decapitator and Doomsday Strike were also suppressed. The purple flame had been extinguished. This meant that the Decapitator's energy had been silenced. The Doomsday Strike probably couldn't even shoot bullets.
But for Qi Yuan, these effects were far less than the Asterite's effects on others.
"I'll go up and take a look first!" Qi Yuan said.
The three of them looked at Qi Yuan in surprise as if they were looking at a madman!
Although there was an Asterite above, there were definitely Contaminants as well. If they went up rashly, they would definitely be besieged.
The corrupters hiding in the darkness in the stairwell and the windows that were blocked by the corrupters with various objects gave them a vague idea of what was going on.
Why did Wolf's Teeth Hunt let them occupy the roof of this building?
If they wanted to survive after nightfall, they had to go to the roof. That was the only way to survive.
"Be careful, there might be a Defiler ambush up there!" Feather could not help but remind him in a low voice.
Qi Yuan was just a Tier 1 Ability User. Even if the suppression of the Combat Domain was not strong, there were still Tier 3 Defilers roaming around. If there were a few Tier 3 Defilers hiding above, even Qi Yuan could be killed.
As the strongest person in this temporary team, if Qi Yuan really died on the roof, the three of them could only run for their lives.
Qi Yuan "looked" at the location of the Asterite. He bent his knees slightly and then jumped with force, touching the ceiling of the room. Qi Yuan's right hand slashed with the back of his hand. Steel Strength erupted, and Decapitator easily broke through the cement and embedded itself in it.
Using Decapitator's support to stabilize his body, he then clenched his left hand into a fist and punched a hole in the ceiling.
Ruthless looked at Qi Yuan's actions. His eyes were filled with disbelief. After being suppressed by the Asterite, he could still punch a hole in the ceiling. This kind of strength and defense was simply monstrous!
The four Defilers on the roof stared blankly as a crack appeared on the cement floor under their feet. The crack then protruded upwards and gradually expanded until a hole appeared.
The fallen Defiler One-eyed Qiang took a deep breath and then threw away the bloodstained cigarette butt. He turned around and calmly looked at the hole that was getting bigger and bigger. His eyes gradually revealed a playful expression.
Boom!
A large piece of cement was pulled down by Qi Yuan with his bare hands. Qi Yuan directly flipped through the hole and stood on the roof!
Asterite and the checkpoint were at his feet. The four bestial Defilers surrounded him. One-eyed Qiang stood at the periphery and coldly looked at him.
"We meet again!" One-eyed Qiang said with a smile.
Qi Yuan ignored One-eyed Qiang and stepped on the Asterite to complete the checkpoint.
The long-awaited notification appeared again.
"Checkpoint completed. You have received the Checkpoint reward — — Talent Point x1. You have received a broken Rank 2 Pass x1."
The two broken Rank 2 Passes fused with each other and quickly merged into a brighter light than the Rank 1 Talent Point. The second layer of the Talent Tree also opened.
Qi Yuan noticed that after the second layer of the Talent Tree opened, the bright light did not disappear. Instead, it quietly floated together with the Rank 1 Talent Point.
That was a Rank 2 Talent Point!
The fusion of the two broken Rank 2 Passes not only opened the second layer of the Talent Tree, but also gave him a Rank 2 Talent Point.
At the same time, an inexplicable feeling came from the Asterite under his feet. It seemed that as long as he willed it, he would be able to absorb it.
Qi Yuan tried to move the Rank 2 Talent Point closer and soon received a response.
"Consume one Rank 2 Talent Point and one Asterite to upgrade any awakened talent to Rank 2!"
Finally!
Qi Yuan suddenly clenched his fist.
The Asterite was under his feet. Qi Yuan did not immediately absorb it. Instead, he looked at the four Rank 3 Defilers around him and One-eyed Qiang, who was watching coldly from the side.
Five Rank 3 Defilers had already exceeded his limit. Even if he absorbed the Asterite and strengthened his Iron Defense to Rank 2, it would still be a fierce battle.
If he did not absorb it and used the Asterite to suppress the Defilers, this battle might be a little easier.
However, One-eyed Strong's attitude as a bystander left Qi Yuan somewhat puzzled. If One-eyed Strong really wanted to seek revenge, he could have controlled more defilers to surround and kill him. The defilers in this old city couldn't only be the ones he had encountered. Furthermore, One-eyed Strong didn't seem to have a strong desire to attack. It was as if he was deliberately waiting for him.
Qi Yuan's heart skipped a beat.
"You knew I was coming?"
"There's Asterite here. Of course you would come!"
One-eyed Qiang smiled. There was no hostile atmosphere at all. Instead, it was like two old friends chatting.
Qi Yuan's heart sank. He heard One-eyed Qiang's words. The other party knew he needed the Asterite. This was a very dangerous signal.
"You left those words below. Do you want to take revenge on me?"
"Revenge?
Haha!
Hahahaha! "
One-eyed Qiang looked up to the sky and laughed.
"If it weren't for you, how could I have fallen to this state?
The enmity between us is far more than a debt of blood! "
"I will take my revenge on you, but not now!
You are too weak now. So weak that I don't even have the interest to kill you! "
"These four Defilers are just a small warning to you. If you continue to be so weak, I will soon kill you with my own hands!"
After he finished speaking, One-eyed Qiang took a deep look at Qi Yuan before falling backwards with his head raised.
Qi Yuan: "???"
What kind of operation is this?
Jumping off a building just because of a disagreement?
This is a thirty-seven-story building!
One-eyed Qiang quickly disappeared from the range of Qi Yuan's Regional Detection Perception. However, Qi Yuan vaguely felt that One-eyed Qiang would not fall to his death so easily. His seemingly absurd words seemed to hide other unknown secrets behind them.
Without waiting for Qi Yuan to think more, the roars of the four Defilers quickly pulled him back to reality.
After One-eyed Qiang left, the four Defilers' eyes were filled with ominous glints as they slowly approached Qi Yuan.
Qi Yuan subconsciously took out the Flash Grenade, but when he thought of the Asterite under his feet, he released the Flash Grenade in his hand. Although the Asterite could not suppress and interfere with him, it could suppress and interfere with the items on his body. At this distance, even a gun could misfire, so the Flash Grenade would most likely be a dud too.
After thinking for a while, Qi Yuan quickly made a decision. To avoid any complications, he would first absorb the Asterite and light up the Level 2 Iron Defense.
The fusion of the Talent Point and the Asterite instantly lit up the gray ball that symbolized the Level 2 Talent.
The surging power instantly entered his body. Qi Yuan groaned, and an invisible wave spread out from under his feet. The four Defilers subconsciously took a few steps back. The Defilers who had never known fear had a flash of fear in their eyes, as if they had felt something terrible.
The invisible wave slowly dissipated.
Qi Yuan released his right foot, and the Asterite under his feet had disappeared. It had become his Level 2 Iron Defense!
Qi Yuan pulled out the Decapitator, looked around, and hooked his finger at the four Defilers.
Come over here!
Although the Bestial Defiler's intelligence was low, it still understood Qi Yuan's crude provocation. The bestial instinct in its eyes quickly suppressed its fear, and it madly rushed at Qi Yuan.
Qi Yuan's eyes focused, and his body suddenly stepped forward. In the midst of the thunderous sound, Qi Yuan took a few steps forward, rushing out of the encirclement of the Defilers. The moment he crossed paths with the Defiler in front of him, he held the Decapitator in his right hand and suddenly swept out. Purple flames suddenly blazed, and the air seemed to be ignited by the sword.
A purple line of fire burned in the void, and quickly swept across the chest of the Level 3 Defiler.
Shua!
The Defiler that was swept by the Decapitator suddenly stagnated, and a deep wound appeared on its chest. The purple flames attached to the wound burned, but they were quickly extinguished by the black mucus that gushed out.
Qi Yuan's expression darkened. The attack just now was just a test. Without using Torrent of Energy, the Decapitator could break the Defiler's defense, but it could not cut through the bones and cut it in half.
In the staircase below, the only reason he was able to kill a tier 3 contaminant with a single strike was because it was an executioner's decapitation. That was why he was able to cut off its head in one strike.
In a real battle, with the Level 3 Defiler's speed and strength, and under siege, there was no chance.
The wound on the Defiler's chest quickly healed, and its combat power was not affected at all. This degree of injury might be a serious injury to an ordinary person, but to a Defiler, it was not affected at all.
The four Defilers were as fast as ghosts. Although Iron Speed was powerful, it was only Level 1, and in front of the Level 3 Defiler's speed enhancement, it was still somewhat lacking.
Whoosh!
The Defiler's sharp claws swept past Qi Yuan's back, creating a string of sparks. The Defiler's attack did not break through the defense, only leaving a dark bloody mark.
Feeling the strength of the Defiler's attack, Qi Yuan sneered. No matter how fast it was, as long as it could not break through the defense, it could not hurt him.
The Defiler's other killing weapon, the black mucus that seeped into the body through the gaps between its fingers, could contaminate other flesh and blood lifeforms, but it was also useless in front of him.
The Defiler's black mucus in the bloody mark tried to seep into Qi Yuan's body, but Qi Yuan's flesh and blood cells seemed to have a life of their own, and they directly squeezed the black mucus out of the wound.
When other aptitude users were injured by the Defilers, once the black mucus seeped in and accumulated too much pollution, they would have to undergo decontamination surgery, or else there was a possibility of degenerating into a Defiler. This was a headache for other aptitude users, but Qi Yuan was completely immune to it.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
Under the siege of four Defilers, Qi Yuan seemed to have turned into a stubborn sandbag, no matter how the Defilers attacked, they could not break through his powerful defense.
The Defilers were more difficult to deal with than aptitude users and insectoids of the same rank. Their true strength was that they basically had no vital points on their body aside from their heads, their injuries healed quickly, and their black mucus aggravated the pollution.
However, their frontal attack and defense were not considered powerful.
Under the situation where they could not break through the steel defense, the threat that the four rank 3 Defilers brought to Qi Yuan was even less than the four rank 3 insectoids.
Under the continuous attacks, Qi Yuan's eyes were as calm as still water. Since there was no chance to kill the leader, then he would attack the core of the pollution.
Using the area detection to the maximum, Qi Yuan endured the attacks of the four Defilers and found the core of their pollution.
A Defiler behind him punched his back, and under the powerful impact, Qi Yuan staggered forward. The Defiler in front of him opened its bloody mouth and bit at Qi Yuan's neck.
A thick stench assaulted his face, and Qi Yuan's eyes narrowed. Qi Yuan lowered his body, and while dodging the Defiler's bite, he pushed his right shoulder forward, and at the same time, his left hand quickly drew Doomsday Strike from his waist.
The Defiler in front of him had its abdomen pressed by Qi Yuan's shoulder, and staggered back a few steps. The other two Defilers quickly attacked, making it unable to pursue.
Although the Bestial Defilers were suppressed by their bestial nature, they could still carry out some simple coordination in battle.
Under the area detection, Qi Yuan had already predicted the Defilers' movements. He swung Doomsday Strike behind him, and when the muzzle swept past the side of a Defiler, he suddenly pulled the trigger.
Bang!
With a flash of purple light, the acceleration energy matrix activated. The bullet wrapped in gray light directly pierced through the skin of the target Defiler, sinking deep into its chest, and through the gap between the ribs, hitting the black octopus hidden in its chest.
Puchi!
The black octopus core of the pollution was pierced by the bullet. It twitched violently, and then quickly melted into the black slime.
The Defiler lowered its head, looked at its chest in confusion, and then fell to the ground, black slime gushing out from the bullet hole in its chest.
The price Qi Yuan paid for killing a Defiler with one shot was to take two more heavy blows from the Defiler, leaving behind a few hideous wounds on his body.