Invincible through Touching Corpses

"There are no specific arrangements. Just rush in as fast as possible," Lin Xinghai said, shaking his head.

However, he felt it would be safer to add a layer of insurance and continued, "After you come in, if you see any enemies still standing, immediately use your Spiritual Shock Ability."

Listening to Lin Xinghai’s instructions, Fu Yuan felt it was as good as saying nothing.

"Uh... okay, but my Spiritual Shock Ability only works on a single enemy. What about the rest?" He could only raise the issues he could think of, hoping to help Lin Xinghai refine the plan piece by piece.

"There won’t be a second enemy left standing," Lin Xinghai said calmly, holding his Mjolnir.

’If there’s even one person I can’t kill instantly, I’ll consider it a major failure.’

’If I run into a random squad and two of them can avoid being instantly killed, then I’ll have to reconsider whether to even continue this mission.’

Since Lin Xinghai had put it that way, Fu Yuan had nothing more to say. He nodded immediately, took out the Sound Insulation Wall Instrument, showed Lin Xinghai how to use it, and arranged for the others to get ready.

Although Lin Xinghai hadn’t given them specific instructions, as the deputy captain, Fu Yuan was no stranger to organizing these kinds of preparations. He handled the arrangements methodically.

Three minutes passed in the blink of an eye. Just as promised, the team member in charge of decryption had cracked the door’s 32-digit password.

But his hands didn’t stop moving. Lines of code flew from his fingertips as Lin Xinghai watched surveillance feeds pop up on the man’s display.

"What’s this?" Sticking to his principle of asking about things he didn’t understand, Lin Xinghai immediately questioned Fu Yuan.

"We’re taking advantage of the opening we created by decrypting the door’s password. We used that vulnerability to get inside their firewall."

"To avoid their detection programs, we have to be subtle, but we can still make minor, unnoticeable changes without issue."

"For example, controlling a few nearby cameras. That will significantly reduce our chances of being spotted," Fu Yuan explained.

After listening, Lin Xinghai couldn’t help but smack his lips. ’I really hadn’t thought of that.’

’It’s a good thing I’m surrounded by professionals,’ he thought. ’Otherwise, with cameras all over this underground base, there’d be no way for me to get around them. Not unless I maintained top speed the entire time, and that would be exhausting.’

Soon enough, the special forces operative had successfully taken control of a dozen or so cameras along their planned route.

Of course, his method wasn’t to simply black out the screens or stop them from recording. That would be discovered too easily.

Instead, he looped footage from the last fifteen minutes, which greatly lowered the chances of detection.

Even if someone did notice, it wouldn’t be for at least fifteen minutes, when the loop repeated. By then, it would be almost time for the main assault, so being discovered wouldn’t matter.

"Captain, we’re ready. Should we open the door now?" Fu Yuan asked, looking at Lin Xinghai with a serious expression.

"Yes, open it." Lin Xinghai fiddled with the egg-sized Sound Insulation Wall Instrument in one hand while gripping his Mjolnir in the other.

He had no intention of using his Tearing Rifle.

After all, the squad inside was fully equipped with Exoskeleton Armor. A standard rifle couldn’t penetrate that thick plating; you’d need a Heavy Machine Gun.

That was precisely why Lin Xinghai had chosen the Mjolnir as his primary weapon. After its modifications, it was comparable to a weapon used by a Divine Demon Realm expert.

Theoretically, if Lin Xinghai possessed Power on par with the Body Shaping Realm, the Mjolnir was sharp enough to pierce even the outer armor of a Rare Level Mecha.

While Power wasn’t his specialty, his target wasn’t a Rare Level Mecha—it wasn’t even a regular Mecha. It was merely inferior Exoskeleton Armor, whose Defense he could penetrate with ease.

As Lin Xinghai mulled this over, the special forces operative finally entered the command to open the door.

PSSSH!

With the hiss of a pneumatic release, the heavy metal door finally began to slide open.

...

The moment the door began to open, the squad stationed in the secret passageway was instantly on high alert.

This secret passage was an emergency escape route. Normally, people went out, not in.

The white man commanding the squad immediately ordered everyone to battle stations. He raised the Heavy Machine Gun attached to his Exoskeleton Armor, aimed it at the entrance, and a mocking smirk spread across his face.

The secret passage was only two meters wide and completely devoid of cover. In this kind of terrain, an attacker would have no way to defend themselves.

’Forget a full squad,’ he thought, ’even if it were just me, I’m confident I could use this terrain to hold off a hundred-man battalion.’

Watching the slowly opening door, he prepared to pull the trigger.

Suddenly, he thought he saw a shadow by the half-open Alloy door.

But it vanished in a flash. The white Squad Leader wondered if his eyes were playing tricks on him.

But for someone like him, it was easy enough to check. He subconsciously went to bring up the AI panel to replay the footage just captured by his Exoskeleton Armor. That would tell him if something had come through.

Just as he accessed the system panel, a rapid succession of soft, wet sounds—PFFT! PFFT!—erupted beside him.

It sounded as if flesh was being pierced.

Already on high alert, he instantly knew something was terribly wrong.

Relying on his vast combat experience, his immediate instinct was to sidestep, get to cover, and then assess the situation.

But the moment he moved, a sharp pain flared in his brain, and he lost consciousness completely.

From start to finish, it took less than a second.

Throughout the entire process, only a single mercenary at the very back of the formation managed to fire a shot, but with Lin Xinghai’s current Speed, the bullet went wide, missing by a mile.

This time, Lin Xinghai had unleashed a good portion of his true power. He didn’t just activate his Time Acceleration Ability; he also used the Phantom Body Technique.

His base Speed was already 670 points. After activating the Phantom Body Technique, that rose to 1340 points. Layering his ten-times Time Acceleration Ability on top of that, his Speed reached a staggering 13,400 points.

A Speed stat over 10,000 was definitively within the standards of the Divine Demon Realm.

The squad guarding this location consisted of a captain and vice-captain at the Blood Qi Realm; the rest were merely the Optimized.

Given the enormous disparity, the fact that even one of them managed to react and fire a shot was a testament to their training.