Chapter 285: Chapter 17: Taking Fate into One’s Own Hands
Thinking of this, Su Xiao secretly breathed a sigh of relief. It seems that the ’technologically advanced’ label in the world’s introduction refers to advanced biotechnology.
It makes sense. After wandering in space for so many years, if the Kara Aliens developed thermal weapon technology, they would lack materials. But biotechnology is different; as long as there’s a living organism, research can proceed.
When Su Xiao battled the enemy Ruler, the opponent was a Kara Alien. If the Kara Aliens had developed thermal weapon technology, the Ruler’s outfit might be similar to an Iron-blooded Warrior, and not just relying on spiritual power to fight.
The Human Alliance used a nuclear bomb to stun the Kara Aliens. If the Kara Aliens’ thermal weapon technology was truly advanced and ahead of Earth’s, intercepting a nuclear bomb would be easy.
This reassured Su Xiao a lot. He wasn’t afraid of alien life forms on the biological side, just the scenario where a bunch of thermal weapons come roaring in. Large-scale destructive thermal weapons are unsolvable in the early stages, but not so strong in the later stages. In higher Derivative Worlds, many strong individuals can ignore nuclear bombs.
Like that fool **** (Kaguya) who got screwed over by his son, or that Baldy.
While pondering, Su Xiao arrived at the setup point of the third World Coordinate. Looking around, his expression was somewhat grim.
This is not good. There’s no cover on the ice field, and it’s already the edge of the Asian Continent, so the Kara Aliens can go all out.
If you were to have hundreds of Contractors defend this place, Su Xiao shook his head. Those guys could besiege a strong creature or defend against a few Parasitic Beasts, but if they were to face the Kara Aliens head-on...
Contractors could defend here for an hour, and Su Xiao would then spell and read his name backwards.
"This place... is not for Contractors to defend, damn this Ruler identity!"
Su Xiao stomped the snow beneath his feet, sending flakes flying up.
A solution must be found. Following the normal task flow absolutely won’t work, and Su Xiao doesn’t believe Reincarnation Paradise would set a coordinate in an indefensible location.
Could it be that they want the Human Alliance to help defend this place?
Also not possible; without any benefits, the Human Alliance wouldn’t engage the Kara Aliens on the ice field for no reason, especially since the war between the two just ended and the Human Alliance also needs to recuperate.
If this were the center of the Asian Continent, it might be possible, but this is just an ice field, and beneath the ice layers is filled with sea water.
"Sea water..."
Su Xiao looked down at his feet, his expression even uglier as he considered a possibility.
"If the rewards this time aren’t rich enough, I’ll never be a Ruler again. Bu Bu, dig down."
A somewhat crazy plan formed in Su Xiao’s mind, possibly the intention of Reincarnation Paradise as well.
After inquiring about the maximum movement range of the third coordinate, Su Xiao was even more certain.
The third coordinate can be placed within a 40-kilometer radius!
Following Su Xiao’s command, Bubute Ni raised its rear, stretched out its two front paws with sharp claws, and began digging in the snow.
The snow was thick, and it got harder the further down it went. After digging over ten meters deep, Bubute Ni was exhausted, sprawled softly in the snow pit, with its front paws worn to the point of bleeding.
Su Xiao jumped into the snow pit, stomped his foot, and found ice layer just further down; Bubute Ni couldn’t dig too deep into the ice layer.
Su Xiao took out Dragon Slash, inserted it into the ice layer, cut out a one-meter wide circle in the ice, and made a cross in the center of the circular ice layer. He stomped and shattered the ice layer.
With a cracking sound, ice shards flew everywhere. With Su Xiao’s 29 points of strength, the ice layer was easily shattered.
Half an hour later, Su Xiao was somewhat breathless sitting in a vertically downward ice cave; the ice cave had already been dug dozens of meters deep. He was drilling in the ice layer.
Initially, Su Xiao directly threw the broken ice out of the ice cave, but after digging fifty meters deep once failed to throw the ice out, the falling ice hit his head, so he stopped doing that.
Using Dragon Slash to break the ice and then storing the broken ice in the storage space, which is nine cubic meters, Su Xiao emptied the ice out of the storage space using the Boundary Line after it was filled.
An hour later, dripping with sweat, Su Xiao sat in the ice cave, shirtless and steaming with heat, having dug about two hundred meters down.
Although it sounded a bit incredible, Su Xiao managed to achieve this with his strong physique and various tools.
Most importantly, Dragon Slash was sharp enough to cut the ice like tofu.
Lighting a cigarette, Su Xiao leaned against the ice cave wall and looked at the floating screen beside him.
The scene on the screen was very bloody. Contractors were desperately defending that cave entrance, outside of which swarmed Parasitic Beasts, occasionally spotting a small War Beast.
[Time remaining for coordinate setup: 3 hours and 22 minutes. Contractor casualties: 143/289.]
There were only about one hundred remaining Contractors, with over half of them dead. The War World was extremely brutal.
The numb expressions of the Contractors showed they were on the brink of collapse.
At this moment, Divine King’s face was pale, eyes full of bloodshot veins.
Adam lay in the cave, missing an arm and a leg.
Flash Silver no longer had his usual smile; his clothes were tattered and occasionally seeped blood.
Golden Demon was worse off, with only a third of his body remaining, surviving solely on a Life Support Device.
Seeing the Contractors’ miserable state, Su Xiao was expressionless. If not for his choice of cave terrain, the Contractors might have been wiped out.
Reincarnation Paradise calculates based on the strongest potential of Contractors. Over 30% of Contractors didn’t give their full effort, intending to save their trump cards for survival, causing the casualty number to surge when everyone thought that way.
Ignoring the Contractors’ miserable state, Su Xiao continued to dig down through the ice layer.
Several hours later, Su Xiao had lost track of how deep he had dug. Each time he transported ice upwards, it took several minutes.
Mechanically raising Dragon Slash, Su Xiao lightly stabbed downward.
Crunch~.
Su Xiao raised an eyebrow; the sensation this time felt different from before. Continuing to cut, he carved a circle in the ice layer.
The circular cut was about four-fifths complete when a crisp crack sounded, and Su Xiao’s footing gave way, causing him to fall down.
With a splash, Su Xiao landed in the ice-cold sea water.
"Finally here."
Su Xiao took out a small oxygen tank hanging from his waist. This was an essential item for all Contractors. He took a deep breath of oxygen. In such a deep ice cave, the oxygen was already very sparse, more so during high-intensity activity, consuming more oxygen.
Su Xiao wore a headlamp and looked up towards the top of the ice cave. At his line of sight’s end was pitch black, a confined darkness that would drive one insane if claustrophobic.
Not only must you be ruthless to the enemy, but you also cannot survive in Reincarnation Paradise without being ruthless to yourself.
The ice cave was too small, so Su Xiao had already put Bubute Ni away.
"Twelve hours, success or failure hinges on this."
Taking out a Detonator, Su Xiao bit the plastic tube of the small oxygen tank, taking a deep breath. The plastic tube tasted salty and bitter with sea water.
Pressing the Detonator in his hand, the above ice cave roared with explosions continuously approaching downward.
Su Xiao collapsed the only exit, trapped underwater below the ice layer. It’s do or die. He planned to set the World Coordinate beneath the ice and see how the Kara Aliens would find it.
Since the Contractors lacked defensive strength, Su Xiao would figure out a solution himself. He wouldn’t let fate rest in others’ hands.
In the Giant world, he could hold off dozens; now in the War World, he sought to hold off hundreds.
As a Ruler, he couldn’t directly participate in the war, so Su Xiao placed the coordinate in a spot to drive the Kara Aliens mad with rage.