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Ch. 137 Prohibited Weapons Against Symbiotes
🕑 Added 2023-11-09 16:00:05 +0000 UTCNot long after, Russell arrived with Knull at the North Pole.
Compared to Norway, the North Pole was even colder.
While the Arctic continent wasn't as large as Antarctica, its total amount of ice and snow was only about a tenth of Antarctica's.
But for humans, the North Pole was still an unequivocal land of ice and snow.
After using the radar and search equipment on Endosymbiotic Battle Armor to scan the surrounding environment and confirming that there were no human figures within dozens of kilometers, Russell ceased maintaining the extreme speed of Mach 3.
As he slowed down, Grendel, flying at full speed, quickly caught up to him.
Without any intention of communicating or talking, as Grendel approached him, Knull controlled Grendel to lunge directly towards the "insignificant" Russell.
Seeing Grendel's gaping maw approaching him, Russell raised his right hand and aimed it at Grendel.
Ultrasonic weapon!
Hum!!!
Ultrasonic waves with frequencies between 4,000 and 6,000 Hertz shot rapidly toward Grendel.
Although the ultrasonic attack emitted by Endosymbiotic Battle Armor's palm couldn't be seen with the naked eye, when Russell activated the ultrasonic weapon in the palm of Endosymbiotic Battle Armor's right hand, Grendel, which had previously seemed aggressive and ready to devour him, suddenly became incredibly agonized.
Uncontrolled black tendrils of various sizes surged out of Grendel's body.
His entire body twisted in agony, much like a person undergoing unbearable torture, and he couldn't even maintain a stable flight posture. Succumbing to gravity's pull, he plummeted rapidly toward the icy expanse below.
Knull hadn't expected that Russell would already be prepared with an ultrasonic weapon specifically designed to counter symbiotes.
What surprised him even more was that the ultrasonic waves, which could cause lethal harm to symbiotes, had absolutely no effect on Russell himself.
Due to his soul being attached to Grendel's body, Knull could feel the torment that Grendel was experiencing.
Even though he was the creator of the symbiote race, he was still unable to shield Grendel from the influence of ultrasonic waves.
This was a common weakness among the symbiote species.
Unless Grendel had enough time to evolve gradually, he wouldn't be able to overcome the vulnerability to ultrasonic waves and fire.
Clearly, in the current circumstances, Grendel wouldn't have the opportunity to evolve immunity to these weaknesses.
Russell didn't give Grendel a chance to escape the ultrasonic attacks.
As Grendel descended like a meteor toward the Arctic continent, Russell controlled Endosymbiotic Battle Armor to follow, launching continuous ultrasonic attacks from a position just over ten meters above Grendel's head.
Boom!
Under the relentless barrage of ultrasonic waves, Grendel crash-landed heavily onto the Arctic continent, creating a massive impact crater on the snowy expanse.
Though Grendel appeared to be in a pitiable state, Russell had no intention of stopping his assault.
Grendel was undoubtedly suffering greatly at this moment, resembling a human subjected to electric torture.
But Russell was confident that as long as he ceased the ultrasonic attacks, Grendel would fully recover in a short period of time.
The symbiotes' regenerative abilities were no joke.
Knull attempted to control Grendel to climb out of the impact crater, but under the continuous onslaught of ultrasonic attacks from Russell, Grendel couldn't even stabilize its body, let alone stand.
The mountain-like Grendel curled up, its black body trembling uncontrollably, looking extremely pitiful.
After receiving Bakshi's call, Russell knew that he would likely clash with Knull's controlled Grendel.
Although he was confident in his symbiote abilities, he wasn't so arrogant as to believe he could take on Knull's controlled Grendel with his bare hands.
Knowing that symbiotes had two weaknesses, ultrasonic waves and fire, if he made no preparations, it would be unforgivable.
Therefore, he had equipped Endosymbiotic Battle Armor with some anti-symbiote weapons.
The ultrasonic wave emitter in the palm of Endosymbiotic Battle Armor was just one of the anti-symbiote weapons that No. 3 had prepared.
Apart from this, No. 3 had also prepared a few other anti-symbiote weapons.
However, based on the current situation, just the palm-mounted ultrasonic wave emitter was enough to give Grendel a run for its money.
While suppressing Grendel with the ultrasonic wave emitter in his palm, Russell retrieved two terrifying weapons from the system space, both of which had been classified as prohibited weapons back in 1980.
White phosphorus grenades, and napalm bombs!
Categorized as incendiary weapons, both white phosphorus grenades and napalm bombs functioned through burning.
Though their mechanisms of combustion were different, they shared a common outcome: causing excruciating pain.
When hit by a napalm bomb, the thickened gel-like napalm that splattered on the body would stick and continue to burn like thick lard. Slapping or rolling on the ground wouldn't extinguish the flames; instead, it would make the situation worse, covering the body in fire.
For those hit by a napalm bomb, using bullets to end the life of a burning individual might actually be considered humane.
Compared to napalm bombs, white phosphorus grenades were even more horrifying and dangerous.
Upon contact with an object, a white phosphorus grenade would keep burning until everything that could burn had been consumed, extinguishing only after that.
Thus, when a white phosphorus grenade touched a person's body, there was virtually no way to remove it, and the body would be burned through, right down to the bone.
Apart from the fiery combustion, white phosphorus grenades also produced a pungent smoke.
However, for those already hit by a white phosphorus grenade, the issue of whether the smoke was irritating or not was far from their minds.
Although both white phosphorus grenades and solid-state incendiary bombs were strictly controlled incendiary weapons, various countries' armed forces had a significant stock of them.
Although Russell hadn't used white phosphorus grenades and napalm bombs before, he still had prepared a considerable amount of them in the system space out of caution.
It was better to be safe than sorry.
The system space was vast, and storing a few white phosphorus grenades and napalm bombs wouldn't make a significant impact. You never knew when they might come in handy.
Like now.
After retrieving the white phosphorus grenade and napalm bomb from the system space, several white tendrils emerged from behind Endosymbiotic Battle Armor.
These weren't symbiote-formed tendrils but rather tendrils formed by the full-intelligence liquid metal.
Russell had no intention of personally experiencing the destructive power of white phosphorus grenades and napalm bombs.
Under his control, the white tendrils picked up the white phosphorus grenade and napalm bomb.
Then, he hurled them toward the agonizingly struggling Grendel in the impact crater.
At the moment the white phosphorus grenade and napalm bomb made contact with Grendel, Russell ceased the ultrasonic wave emitter in his palm, and blue and white flames erupted from his feet, propelling him into the sky.
The white phosphorus grenade and napalm bomb instantly detonated, engulfing Grendel in fiery orange-red flames.
If the ultrasonic attack had inflicted unbearable internal pain on Grendel, then the white phosphorus grenade and napalm bomb were delivering inhumane harm from the outside.
The black symbiote dragon had, in the blink of an eye, transformed into a blazing fire dragon.
