My Computer Leads to an Instance Dungeon-Chapter 145 - 120: LPG Explosion! The Victor’s Experience

Mark immediately opened the tactical backpack on the ground and took out two Molotov Cocktails.

Fang Zhen took them and rushed out of the cave.

After running a few steps, he placed one Molotov Cocktail on the ground, held the other in his right hand, and pulled out a Windproof Lighter with his left to light the fuse of the bottle in his hand.

The flame ignited the cloth strip. His eyes suddenly sharpened, and he hurled it forward with all his might.

A precision throw.

The incendiary bottle flew over forty meters, its trajectory precise, landing right above Madici, who was still chasing Jilenna.

Maticvia had never seen a Molotov Cocktail before and wasn't sufficiently wary. It simply swung the Double-Bladed Scythe of Death in its hands upward, shattering the bottle.

And then, Madici's luck ran out.

"BOOM!"

The Molotov Cocktail, having exploded in mid-air, ignited and burst into a fireball, sending a rain of fire showering down.

Madici didn't react in time, and patches of flame instantly stuck to its body.

Fang Zhen had used a new recipe. In addition to sugar, he had mixed in a good amount of polyethylene plastic pellets into the Molotov Cocktail.

These adhesive substances stuck to Madici's body as they burned, making them impossible to shake off.

Madici howled in pain.

A ripple vibrated through the air. Madici had used the Gang Zan Seal again.

The surrounding flames were pushed back more than four meters from Madici by the Gang Zan Seal, creating a vacuum in the fiery area. However, the flames on Madici's body could not be extinguished.

Madici roared and struggled, but the flames on its body clung to it like maggots on a rotting bone, impossible to get rid of.

Fang Zhen decided to strike while the iron was hot.

He picked up the other Molotov Cocktail from the ground, lit it, and threw it again.

The incendiary bottle flew down from the sky, its trajectory once again aimed precisely at the head of Madici, who was still trying to put out the flames on its body.

Madici activated its Gang Zan Seal instantly.

Flames shot out in all directions, obscuring its vision.

A second later, Madici suddenly burst out from the flames.

Its face contorted in fury, and with the adhesive flames still burning on its body, Madici charged toward Fang Zhen like a demon emerging from Hell.

Fang Zhen turned and ran.

In just a few steps, he was back inside the cave.

"Fall back!" 𝙛𝓻𝒆𝒆𝒘𝙚𝓫𝙣𝙤𝒗𝙚𝓵.𝙘𝙤𝙢

Mark, who had been on alert, immediately picked up his backpack, compound crossbow, and the Liquefied Gas Cylinder, and started running back.

Fang Zhen, meanwhile, picked up a Molotov Cocktail that Mark had left on the ground, casually placed another one in the center of the cave, and then also began to retreat deeper inside.

Just six or seven seconds later, the still-burning Madici arrived at the cave entrance, roaring. It didn't care that the space was too narrow to maneuver and forced its way inside.

Outside, the shouts of Jilenna and Gwendolyn could be heard. It seemed they had returned to help Fang Zhen.

But Madici had suffered greatly from the incendiary bottles. Blinded by rage, it was possessed by a determination to kill Fang Zhen and wouldn't rest until it did. It ignored Jilenna and Gwendolyn behind it and single-mindedly charged into the cave.

What greeted Madici was another Molotov Cocktail flying right at its face.

Fang Zhen lit the fuse on the last Molotov Cocktail in his hand and threw it.

A flicker of fear was evident on Madici's face.

Madici had suffered a great loss to this thing; it didn't dare underestimate it now.

An invisible force field expanded outward.

It was the Gang Zan Seal.

The Molotov Cocktail wasn't deflected. Instead, it exploded, turning the inside of the cave into a sea of fire.

Madici kept its Gang Zan Seal active, not daring to stop.

Some of the sparks flew past Madici, deflected behind it by the Gang Zan Seal's force field.

As luck would have it, a spatter of burning adhesive from Madici's body landed on the last Molotov Cocktail on the ground.

As it retreated from the flames, Madici wasn't paying attention to where it was stepping and crushed the cocktail bottle on the ground underfoot.

"BOOM!"

Instantly, a fireball erupted.

Madici shrieked as it was engulfed in the blaze.

Fang Zhen wasn't surprised at all.

He had observed that when the Gang Zan Seal was used, not all debris was repelled.

Anything directly beneath the Sealer's body, whether it was debris or something else, would not be blown away.

He had casually tossed that Molotov Cocktail there as a gamble, betting that Maticvia's attention would be so focused on him, its enemy, that it would neglect what was at its feet. It was highly likely it would step on and crush the bottle, turning it into an incendiary trap.

The odds weren't low, and his gamble had paid off.

Inside the conflagration.

Maticvia was screaming, but it hadn't been burned to death.

The monster's vitality was extraordinarily tenacious.

It charged out, enduring the flames, and continued to rush deeper into the cave, still on fire.

'It can even survive that?'

Fang Zhen was some distance from Maticvia, and the latter was clearly struggling to move.

Still, it made Fang Zhen want to grimace.

Fortunately, he still had a contingency plan.

"Gas cylinder!" Fang Zhen yelled.

Mark, the perfect fourth man, came up from behind. With perfect coordination, instead of handing the Liquefied Gas Cylinder to Fang Zhen, he rolled the round cylinder across the ground like a bowling ball.

The Liquefied Gas Cylinder rolled toward Madici's feet.

Fang Zhen began to draw a circle in the air with his left hand, and a fiery light started to gather at his fingertips.

He could feel the three red leaves in his consciousness, and he activated one of them.

It was the Ruby Clover Necklace!

The power of fire continued to gather at Fang Zhen's fingertips.

Soon, the flame took shape.

He flicked his left hand forward, and a Flaming Arrow shot out, aimed at the Liquefied Gas Cylinder that had already rolled to Maticvia's feet.

After releasing the Flaming Arrow, while controlling it with his Spirit, Fang Zhen suddenly clenched his left hand into a fist, raised his thumb, and tapped his chest.

"Gang Zan!"

The incantation left his lips.

Immediately, he sensed an invisible force field.

He was positioned at a C-shaped turn inside the cave. The moment he was sure the Flaming Arrow would hit the Liquefied Gas Cylinder, he immediately spun around to take cover from the direct blast of the gas explosion.

Mark had already retreated after rolling the Liquefied Gas Cylinder. Seeing how things were developing, he also activated a Gang Zan Seal.

Since the cost of maintaining the seal was the same anyway, Fang Zhen moved to shield Mark behind him and kept the Gang Zan Seal active.

The Flaming Arrow struck the Liquefied Gas Cylinder.

The searing flame instantly burned through the cylinder's steel casing.

The gas spread and instantly detonated.

"BOOM!"

A violent explosion erupted in an instant. The shockwave blasted outward, fire flared, and the entire cave seemed to tremble.

Fang Zhen felt the Gang Zan Seal rapidly draining his stamina, but it blocked the shockwave and the deadly spray of steel fragments and stone shards.

However, a searing heat and a sensation of oxygen deprivation washed over him.

Fang Zhen suddenly felt dizzy, his respiratory tract burning, and he quickly ducked down.

A few seconds later, he felt the air around him begin to circulate faster, and the burning sensation gradually subsided.

He stood up again and looked toward the center of the explosion.

The epicenter of the blast was a scene of utter devastation.

The violent explosion had extinguished many of the pre-existing flames.

The air was filled with the smell of liquefied gas and a scorching heat that made it difficult to breathe.

And at the center of the explosion, Maticvia had collapsed to the ground.

Even though this monster had superior stamina, and even though it could use the Gang Zan Seal, the continuous drain—especially the burns from the Molotov flames caused by two consecutive mistakes—had exhausted most of Madici's strength.

For the final explosion, Madici didn't even have time to fully deploy its Gang Zan Seal and took the full force of the gas cylinder's blast.

Fang Zhen looked at Madici.

Maticvia was lying on the ground.

Its body was mangled. Four of its eight insect-like legs had been blown off, its entire body was charred black, and flames still licked at its form, emitting a burnt stench.

A third of its scorpion-like body had been blasted open, revealing green, writhing entrails.

Its left arm was blown apart, hanging on by just a shred of flesh and sinew, completely immobile.

Black blood streamed from its facial orifices.

Maticvia wasn't completely dead yet, but it no longer had any capacity to fight.

Fang Zhen walked out from the C-shaped bend and looked at the fallen Maticvia, a strange feeling welling up inside him.

During the battle, Fang Zhen had felt a mix of tension, the thrill of combat, and occasional flashes of fear.

He had been able to control these emotions and convert them into motivation for the fight, with no time to overthink.

But it had still put him under immense pressure.

Now, seeing Maticvia on the ground, Fang Zhen felt a sense of release and relief.

It was as if a heavy burden had been lifted from his body and Spirit. He felt completely at ease, a sense of profound mental release, even a faint, pleasant buzz like one would feel after drinking fine wine.

'I won.'

'It was a tough fight, a really hard fight, but in the end, I won.'

'I'm pretty damn good.'

Fang Zhen felt his confidence being nourished, his self-assessment rising.

Whether in reality or in an instance, Maticvia was the most formidable opponent Fang Zhen had ever faced. Defeating such an adversary in a strategic battle gave Fang Zhen a feeling of spiritual ascension.

「Outside the cave.」

Gwendolyn and Jilenna also entered the cave.

Gwendolyn looked exhausted, but her expression was relaxed. Jilenna, however, wore a look of amazement as she stared at Fang Zhen.

"Was that explosion just now the 'alchemical product' you mentioned? That was incredibly powerful."

"If I'd been at the center of that blast, I probably would have been blown to smithereens."

"Where did you get your hands on something like that?"

Jilenna asked Fang Zhen, her voice full of intense interest and curiosity.

"Independent channels. Heh. If you want one, I'll sell it to you for, say, 10 Gold Coins," Fang Zhen said to Jilenna with a brilliant smile, half-joking.

Jilenna pressed her lips together.

"If I could save up ten Gold Coins, I wouldn't have to run around working as a hired thug for such hard-earned money," Jilenna said.

"Don't worry. Just because you don't have it now doesn't mean you won't in the future. Come find me when you want one; the offer is always open," Fang Zhen said with a laugh, in a great mood.

Jilenna didn't pursue the topic. She glanced at Gwendolyn, then said to Fang Zhen, "This world is very interesting. This veteran Swordsman just used a special Magic ability to shield me."

"That's an Incantation Seal," Fang Zhen said.

As he spoke, he said to Mark, "Give me the spear."

Mark walked forward and handed the spear to Fang Zhen.

"Thank you. I saw you shield me during the explosion just now."

"My Gang Zan Seal is immature. If you hadn't helped shield me, I might have been seriously injured," Mark said earnestly, his eyes full of gratitude.

Fang Zhen nodded slightly.

It hadn't cost him anything extra to do it; he had simply wanted to, and it didn't matter to him whether others thanked him or not.

But Mark's willingness to acknowledge the favor showed that he knew how to be grateful.

Maticvia was on the ground, breathing its last.

On the verge of death, Maticvia kept repeating a single name.

"Huna, Huna... Since I was going to die anyway, why did I betray you back then? What was it all for..."

"I think I've finally found you, Huna. Is that you?"

Fang Zhen watched the barely-breathing Maticvia for a moment.

Then he plunged the spear into its neck.