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Chapter 543 What the hell? What kind of monster is this?!
A sense of unease welled up in the lieutenant colonel's heart.
He glanced at the dome-shaped wall on his left.
That is one of the outer load-bearing structures of the entire underground city, made of high-density reinforced concrete.
It is over three meters thick, and is also wrapped with a waterproof layer and a rock anchor support system.
According to design standards, it can withstand at least two close-range explosions of a bunker-buster nuclear bomb.
But at this moment, dust is constantly falling from the wall that was designed to be "impregnable".
Some of the rubble has already started to fall off.
At the nearest location, there is a four-man fire team.
The leader was a private named Brian, a Kentucky native who had been in the army for less than two years.
He was less than five meters away from that wall.
The shaking grew more and more violent, and large clumps of dust fell, choking him and causing him to cough.
"Hey, did you guys hear that?" Brian turned his head to look at his comrades beside him.
"What?"
"There seems to be a sound coming from inside the wall."
Brian frowned and listened intently for a few seconds.
Amidst the rumbling sound, he vaguely heard another sound.
It was very low and heavy, like... something was gnawing at it.
No, that's not right, it looks like it's grinding!
It sounded like a giant drill bit grinding through rock, but it also had a kind of frictional sound that wasn't mechanical, but rather organic.
That sound made his hair stand on end.
"Report!"
Brian shouted toward the command post, but his voice was drowned out by the ever-growing roar.
After hesitating for a second, he picked up his rifle and walked to the wall.
Once you get closer, the sound becomes much clearer.
"Crunch... crunch crunch..."
The sound of concrete being peeled and crushed layer by layer by some force was right next to his ear, less than half a meter away.
And it's getting closer and closer!
"Fuck..." Brian's pupils contracted sharply.
He saw it.
There were cracks on the gray-white concrete wall right in front of him!
Fine, spiderweb-like cracks were spreading at a speed visible to the naked eye.
It quickly spread to one meter, three meters, five meters...
"Back off! Back off! Back off now!!"
Brian yelled at his teammates at the top of his lungs while running backward as fast as he could.
But he only had time to take two steps.
boom--!!
The three-meter-thick high-strength concrete dome shattered from the inside with a muffled thud, like a cookie!
Large, thick chunks of rubble mixed with steel bars collapsed outwards, and soldiers within a radius of several meters were thrown into the air by the shockwave and tremors.
Right in the center of that cloud of dust and rubble was a giant mouth, several meters in diameter!
It has no lips or face, only a ring of densely packed, cone-shaped fangs!
Each one was the size of an adult, covered with a layer of dark gray keratin, and covered with crushed rock powder and steel rebar fragments.
These teeth are still turning.
Like a living tunnel boring machine, it rotates at a terrifying speed, crushing and swallowing everything in front of it, including concrete, steel bars, rocks, and air.
Brian, a private who had been in the army for less than two years, didn't even have time to let out a scream.
The moment the giant jaws fell, he was like an insect being crushed by a shoe sole.
The sound of bones shattering was drowned out by the roar.
"Oh my God!!"
"What the hell is this monster?!"
Someone exclaimed in surprise.
All five thousand-plus men in the Third Army Battalion witnessed this scene.
The thing that emerged from the wall was like a runaway subway train, constantly pouring out of the shattered opening in the dome.
Five meters, ten meters, twenty meters... it's still coming out!
Its dark gray skin was covered with a thick carapace, segmented and connected, each segment as big as a truck.
Its surface is covered with protruding bone spurs and pores that secrete mucus.
Its body moved forward with a slow, unstoppable crushing force, carving a half-meter-deep trench in the concrete floor with just its body brushing against the ground.
A nauseating, fishy stench filled the air, like rotting mud mixed with sulfur.
Everyone was stunned.
Five thousand fully armed British soldiers stood there dumbfounded, watching as the thing crawled out of the wall section by section.
Everyone experienced a brief period of mental blankness.
"Fire!!!"
The lieutenant colonel on the command platform finally realized what was happening, and his voice changed.
"Everyone, open fire!! Fire!!"
The roar was like a match thrown into an oil drum, and gunshots rang out in an instant!
"Tap tap tap tap tap—!!"
Five thousand rifles unleashed a terrifying barrage of bullets from all directions.
The tracer rounds from several machine guns were so dense they resembled a luminous rain curtain, all slamming into that massive gray body.
The sound of the copper-cased bullet striking the armor was dense and piercing.
"Ding ding ding ding ding ding!"
It's like striking an anvil with a hammer, but that's about it.
The 5.56mm NATO standard round, when it hit that dark gray armor, only left a white spot.
The same applies to the 7.62mm full-power round.
The bullet bounced off the target, and the shattered cartridge cases flew everywhere, injuring several shooters who were positioned too close.
Armor-piercing rounds from a 12.7mm heavy machine gun can penetrate armor and cause considerable damage.
However, given its terrifying size, killing it is not easy.
Faced with the overwhelming hail of bullets, the monster, in pain, moved even faster, trying to squeeze out of the wall.
Twenty meters... thirty meters... fifty meters...
The lieutenant colonel stood on the command platform, looking at the soldiers below who were firing wildly but to no avail, and then at that gray body that seemed to be able to penetrate forever. All the blood in his body rushed to his head.
"Bang!!"
The tail of that thing finally detached completely from the dome, and the tail slammed down with a dull thud.
The entire behemoth appeared completely intact in the open space of the military camp.
That's over a hundred meters long!
One hundred meters, longer than a standard football field!
It was perched in the center of the military camp, its massive body occupying most of the assembly area, its dark gray armor gleaming with a cold metallic luster under the lights.
The rubble of buildings crushed by it, overturned vehicles, and flattened fortifications were scattered all over the ground.
The head, composed of countless rotating fangs, slowly rose and swayed blindly from side to side, as if sensing its surroundings.
Each swing brought with it a suffocating, fishy gust of wind.
The lieutenant colonel looked up at the monster; the gunfire seemed to have stopped, and his lips trembled as he spoke:
"Oh my God..."
"What...the fuck...is that?"
He was certain that this was not a weapon of the Great Xia Dynasty.
This is not something any human could make!
"My God..."
A sergeant, holding an anti-tank rocket launcher, was about to pull the trigger when he froze in place.
Deep within the cave entrance shattered by the earth-burrowing dragon, countless pairs of dark red eyes were lighting up in the darkness.
There's more, inside the walls, deep within the rock strata!