9 Chapter 9 Roots Titan_1

The pale purple Mecha stood at the edge of the rooftop, observing the purple ocean below.

The next moment, he actually stepped forward, plummeting down from the top of the kilometer-high building as if to merge into the purple glow!

However, this was just an illusion.

The pale purple Mecha fell only five stories before grabbing the edge of the wall and leaping back into the high-rise.

"Whew, jumping from such a high building is really thrilling."

"The passageway on this level shouldn't be blocked by corpses, I can start hunting now…"

Jiang Chen felt his adrenaline surge and couldn't help but exhale a breath of relief.

Even though night had fallen, now that he had regained control of his Mecha, he didn't want to wait any longer and was ready to start hunting the mutated monsters directly.

After all, the Model Zero Mecha he was wearing belonged to the Light-weight Exoskeleton Armor category.

It was essentially an auxiliary type of Mecha, which could provide attribute bonuses to the mecha pilot, thus allowing them to exert incredible strength.

In this process, the pilot's own strength and attributes naturally were also considered.

Usually, however, the mecha pilot's own strength and attributes could be negligible.

But Jiang Chen was different.

After he had absorbed the power of the Model Zero Mecha once, his body also acquired a panel similar to a Mecha.

[Attributes: Strength 4, Agility 3, Defense 2, Enigmatism 0.]

[Ability: Uncontrollable Mutation.]

In such a state, wearing the Model Zero Mecha: Balanced Form.

Just in terms of basic attributes, he had reached an extremely exaggerated level.

[Attributes: Strength 8, Agility 6, Defense 2 (+2), Enigmatism 0.]

To put it bluntly,

If another muscle Mutant came along, Jiang Chen could easily crush it to death.

"The Model Zero Mecha can only load three modules, and there is a cap on the attributes."

"Now, I am like wearing two sets of Model Zero Mechas, loaded with six modules, and have completely broken this cap!"

"Among all the basic trial mecha pilots, even if I'm not the strongest, I'm definitely T0 level."

"In this situation, to sweep a basic trial is absolutely a breeze."

"The question is, how to get the maximum return in the basic trial, and achieve a higher degree of rating."

Jiang Chen walked down the emergency stairs toward the lower floors.

Along the way, he took down the emergency lights hanging inside the passageway and held them in his hand.

These emergency lights had their own power source, barely usable as a flashlight.

However, it seemed that it was because of the excessive monster grinding beforehand.

Continuing down over a dozen floors, the monsters inside were extremely sparse.

Only a few early-stage Mutants were casually crushed to death by him.

It wasn't until after the fiftieth floor that the numbers of monsters gradually increased, and a new special Mutant appeared—

It was vastly different from the muscle Mutants.

Its size was only twice that of an early-stage Mutant, but several slender arms grew out from both sides of its body, like a gigantic humanoid spider.

Moreover, it could not only climb on the walls but also moved at an extremely rapid pace.

In the floor shrouded in the faint purple light, it became a ghostly shadow!

At the first encounter, it darted behind Jiang Chen.

Then...

It was caught by Jiang Chen by the arm, flung to the ground, and had its head crushed beneath his foot.

Eight points of strength, six points of agility, are you kidding me?

What special Mutant, in the presence of absolute attributes, was a joke!

Of course, as an elite monster, this Mutant also brought a new drop for Jiang Chen.

[Killing special Mutant, obtained module: Spider-Form Arm.]

…

[Spider-Form Arm]

[Rank: Zero]

[Quality: Excellent]

[Type: Back Module]

[Effect: Additional two spider-form arms, slightly increased scope of mecha operation, and weapon count.]

[Description: They… they are speaking into my ears!]

This was undoubtedly a fairly practical mecha back module.

Acquiring two additional mecha arms meant being able to operate more devices and use more weapons.

Wielding four Desert Eagles wasn't a dream!

The problem was…

Jiang Chen had neither a Desert Eagle nor any weapons.

When mecha pilots entered the basic trial, they could only bring their clothes and the initial mecha.

Otherwise, Senior Xie wouldn't have needed to remind the new recruits to avoid combat as much as possible. He could have represented the Mecha Alliance and provided them with some weapons, devices, or even modules as assistance.

In that case, everyone would easily steamroll through the abyss, and the basic trial would become a joke.

Therefore, although the spider-form arms were very practical mecha modules,

Jiang Chen could only store it within the Abyss Rune and continue his hunting journey.

...

This skyscraper was over a kilometer high, with at least four hundred floors.

The noise Jiang Chen had previously made on the rooftop attracted only about fifty floors' worth of mutated monsters.

Now, as he continued downward through the emergency stairwell, the number of mutated monsters increased, and special mutants began to appear frequently.

The bloated fat ones, the aliens with scythe-like arms…

However, Jiang Chen didn't linger for battle but instead dashed down the emergency stairs.

Unless he encountered spider-like mutants that could be eliminated in one strike, he didn't bother to stop.

After all, there were simply too many mutants in the floors.

Each floor had at least a hundred early stage Mutants, and the number increased the further down he went.

Jiang Chen roughly estimated that the number of mutants in this kilometer-high building was close to a hundred thousand!

It was outrageous!

If Jiang Chen hesitated even a little and stopped to fight with the special mutants,

he would quickly be overwhelmed by countless early stage Mutants, getting stuck in the middle of the passageway, trapped in a dilemma of no retreat.

Even if he could hold out relying on the terrain, he most likely would run out of time.

Therefore, Jiang Chen painfully let go of those special mutants.

Compared to elite monsters, obviously the boss had a higher priority.

He would first try to deal with this massive vine and then consider other matters!

As for why he had to go to the bottom of the building…

Both the term "Roots" and the category "Plant" implied that a more powerful monster would likely appear near the lower roots.

The situation in the emergency stairwell also confirmed Jiang Chen's guesses.

The lower he went, not only did the number of monsters increase, but fine vines began to appear inside the emergency stairwell as well.

They crept up from the bottom, covering the surface of the walls, until the walls were completely engulfed, forming a corridor woven from vines.

Until a certain moment—

Jiang Chen paused in his steps.

Looking down, he saw no further path beneath the emergency stairwell, only a gap covered with vines.

Peering down through the gap, a vast plant cavity came into view.

This plant cavity was lit by a light purple fluorescent liquid, spanning the height of three or four stories.

Inside the cavity, there were neither early stage Mutants nor special mutants.

Only a strange giant six to seven meters tall.

It had a human shape but skin like the emerald green of the vines; it resembled a plant more than a mutant.

Its hair was like strands of vines flowing down its back, connecting to the ground.

The round shadows Jiang Chen had seen earlier were continuously flowing into its head through these vines.

At the same time.

The Roots Titan noticed Jiang Chen. It swung its right hand and a vine turned into a green whip, lashing towards him from afar!