Chapter 140: Seven People, Seven Monsters!
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
Meng Chao extended two fingers. “First, I revealed all of my openings to you. Those are the best attack trajectories I prepared for you. No matter which you chose, you wouldn’t be able to escape from my plan.
“Second, and this is the most important thing of all, I can see and hear, you know?
“The summer uniform is really thin, and there are a lot of fine holes on the cloth. It’s basically transparent, so how could I not see anything when it’s just covering my eyes loosely?
“And with the same logic, I just casually rolled up two b.a.l.l.s of cloth and pretended to stuff them into my ears. I didn’t even stuff them that tightly, so of course I can hear you!
“Didn’t you notice that I haven’t even taken out the cloth in my ears, but I can still talk to you?”
As he spoke, Meng Chao removed the cloth fragments. He winked and grinned at Gao Lang.
Gao Lang was dumbfounded. After a long time, he stuttered, “But... You just said—”
“I told you that I won’t use any weapons or items, and I didn’t!” Meng Chao shrugged. “As for me covering my eyes and ears, it’s just an unnecessary move. I didn’t promise you anything, and you shouldn’t believe in your opponent’s promises anyway!”
Gao Lang sucked in a deep breath.
He was shocked and felt wronged.
“Fine. I admit. Your Dark Demonic Wolf is a little difficult to deal with, so I decided to set up this trap in order for you to lower your guard and make you want to get rid of me.
“When you would notice that you can’t defeat me even when I’ve cut off my sight and hearing, you’d get restless, and without even noticing it, you’d step into a swamp.”
Meng Chao smiled. “If you don’t like this sort of strategy, we can compete again using another method, but...”
He looked at the Dark Demonic Wolf whose limbs had burst and which could only whine in pain. His gaze and tone gradually turned sharp.
“But you should prepare a few more Dark Demonic Wolves so that I can fight to my heart’s content!”
Gao Lang gulped down with great difficulty.
The monster controller freshmen felt chills down their spines.
Fang Lin stared at Meng Chao in disbelief. He simply could not understand it. He had seen plenty of martial artists with sinister strategies, but usually, it was because they were not strong enough, which was why they decided to use reckless tricks.
Meng Chao clearly had strength that was above that of Sun Ya and the other three, so why did he need to use tricks?
“It’s late now. It’s boring if I continue fighting like what we did just now.” Meng Chao looked around with an intense gaze. “There are still seven more of you. Why don’t all of you attack me at once?”
“What?”
“You want to fight seven of us at once? Aren’t you looking down on us too much?”
“Do you think we’re made of paper?!”
“We’re seven monster controllers and seven biochemical beasts. You won’t be fighting one against seven, but one against fourteen!”
Even though they knew that Meng Chao had outstanding abilities, when he looked down on them like this, he still managed to anger all of them.
Anger flashed past Fang Lin’s eyes, but soon, that anger cooled down into ice. “Meng Chao, you’ve fought three rounds in a row,” he said darkly. “Even though you don’t show it, you should be exhausted by now. Are you thinking about making a name for yourself by saying that you couldn’t win against a lot of enemies, but at least you lost in a dignified manner? Are you thinking about embarra.s.sing the monster controller course?”
“Senior Fang, you’re overthinking things. I will win.” Meng Chao drew out the handguns and smiled. “Besides, I told you that we’re just having an exchange today, and regardless of whether I win or lose, I will not reveal what happened today. Of course, I can’t keep your mouths shut. I can’t keep the mouths of the students from the resource course shut either.”
His confidence convinced Fang Lin. “Alright!
“The remaining seven people, come forward. You’ll get to know Meng Chao’s Ultimate Style!”
The seven monster controller freshmen had a Demonic Halberd Pig, an Iron-armored Rhinoceros, a Dinofelis, a Blade Shattering Python, a Demonic Dungeon Spider, a Black Patterned Toad, and a Bronze Hammer Crocodile. These seven monsters were fierce, savage, nimble, ruthless, or large.
They surrounded Meng Chao.
As for him, he had two handguns, six cartridges, and one dagger. That was all he took with him.
Even if he fired all his bullets, he might not be able to pierce the Iron Armored Rhinoceros’ thick skin.
The monsters released fierce flames that blended together with the raging fighting spirits from the monster controller freshmen. The flames and fighting spirits charged at Meng Chao like a tidal wave.
But he was like an erupting volcano that rose up from the bottom of an ocean. Even as the wind and waves. .h.i.t him, he remained unmoving.
Then, he shifted.
Dakka, dakka, dakka, dakka!
It was the first time Meng Chao attacked first.
His hands turned into two, then ten, then more than one hundred afterimages. Dozens of bullets were practically fired in an instant.
They did not head for the seven biochemical beasts or the seven monster controllers. Instead, they went at the dozens of lamps on the ceiling.
To ensure that the monster materials remained fresh and perfect, the storage was airtight. It did not have windows nor any cracks in the walls. It was illuminated purely by the lights above.
With Meng Chao’s Perfect Level Basic Gun Technique, it was as easy as breathing for him to destroy the stationary lights.
All of them were instantly extinguished.
The storage immediately became dark, and even if a person reached out, they could not see their own hand.
The only things that could be seen were the monsters’ red, green, or yellow eyes.
“Ah!”
“Careful!”
“What happened?”
The new students cried out in surprise in the dark. They felt lost.
Then, they heard Meng Chao firing his gun rhythmically and in an orderly fashion.
Bang, bang, bang! Bang, bang, bang! Bang, bang, bang!
He always fired three shots in a row. His handguns sounded like a semi-automatic rifle in burst mode.
After every group of shots, the roar of a monster losing control rose in the dark. The sound of flesh crashing into flesh was accompanied by the monster controllers’ screaming.
After seven groups of shots, the monsters’ roars and the monster controllers’ screams intersected with each other. All sorts of sounds coming from tendons and bones being crushed rose along with the sound of blood spilling out. Some people even started staggering away, but they ended up running into something and grunted, then fell to the ground.
All the monster controller freshmen watching the fight were completely flabbergasted by the sudden change.
They widened their eyes and had their spirit energy gush into their eyes to the point that they felt a bloated feeling in them. Even so, they could only vaguely see seven large, black figures crashing into each other.
Fang Lin was the only one who could see somewhat clearly. The seven biochemical beasts had gone completely out of control and were fighting among themselves in a strange manner.
The monster controllers who should be controlling them ran around like cowards. If they were the slightest bit careless, they would be dragged into the biochemical beasts’ whirlpool of blood and flesh.
Meng Chao was the only one dancing about as the seven biochemical beasts fought each other.
He jumped from the Demonic Halberd Pig’s tusks to the Iron-armored Rhinoceros’ horn. Then, he dodged the corrosive liquid the Demonic Dungeon Spider spat out, and it fell on the Bronze Hammer Crocodile, which led to the crocodile swinging its morningstar-shaped tail at the Demonic Dungeon Spider.
Next, he whistled on the Bronze Hammer Crocodile’s back, which made the Demonic Halberd Pig and Blade Shattering Python, both creatures with bad vision but really good hearing, crash into the Bronze Hammer Crocodile.
Just like that, he led their movements, and the seven biochemical beasts fought madly against each other.
The seven monster controllers had to withstand great pain. It was as if their heads were about to split open and as if there were wounds covering their entire bodies. They covered their heads and knelt on the ground while trying to control the situation.
Meng Chao, naturally, made use of the dark to deliver vicious chops on their necks, which sent them on the ground, before he kicked them away.
Three minutes later, the emergency red light revealed an unbelievable picture.
Seven badly wounded monsters were entangled with each other. Their claws, fangs, and other parts were in others’ wounded sides.
The Iron-armored Rhinoceros’ horn had rammed into the Demonic Halberd Pig’s stomach; the Demonic Halberd Pig’s tusks had torn the Dinofelis’ lower limb; the Dinofelis had its claws dug deeply into the Bronze Hammer Crocodile and refused to let go; the Bronze Hammer Crocodile’s morningstar had reduced the Demonic Dungeon Spider to a b.l.o.o.d.y mess; but the Demonic Dungeon Spider had released a huge amount of sticky liquid before its death, which bound the Black-patterned Toad and Blade Shattering Python together; the Blade Shattering Python could not move, so it bit the Iron-armored Rhinoceros’ throat.
The seven monsters had piled up into a huge mountain of flesh.
Meng Chao sat on the mountain of flesh like the king of monsters.
This scene was straight out of a nightmare. It left behind an unforgettable memory in the monster controller freshmen’s brains.
A few hours ago, the joy they had after winning the tournament disappeared without a trace.
Even their belief that they were the strongest fighting occupation in Monster University and the glory they had from it started to shake.
“You destroyed all the lights and used darkness as a protection.” Fang Lin looked at the shattered controller rings on the monsters’ heads. “Then, you destroyed the controller rings to make the monsters lose control.
“Our numbers then became a disadvantage. All the monsters descended into a frenzy in the dark and could not tell who was friend and who foe. While you just had to protect yourself, because everyone else was an enemy to you!
“Is this the reason why you suggested fighting against seven people at once? You weren’t being c.o.c.ky. It’s just a strategy. It’s how you could win against the remaining seven opponents and complete the mighty act of fighting against ten people alone.
“Wait, right from the moment you chose to use the material storage room as the arena, you had planned everything out! Since the material storage room is completely airtight, no natural light will spill in. We must use lights to not be in the dark, which allowed you to create a completely dark battlefield!”
The upprecla.s.sman’s a.n.a.lysis made the freshmen descend into a ruckus.
They only started calculating their moves before they stepped on the arena, and at most, they were able to plan three steps ahead.
But from the moment Meng Chao said his first word, he had already planned ten steps ahead.
They were all naive freshmen, so why was the difference between them so great? Was this guy really just eighteen years old?
“I see!” One of them flew into a rage. “If you were going to fight one against one according to the rules and it were back-to-back fights, you wouldn’t have been our opponent!”
“That’s right. I wasn’t completely confident that I could win against ten monster controller elites in a go,” Meng Chao said with a sweet smile. “You’re still very strong, you know?”
The monster controllers turned red.
After all, they were freshmen and still cared about their dignity. If ten of them fought against one person one after another and won, would it even be a glorious feat for them?
But Fang Lin was more concerned about another problem. “The biochemical beasts’ controller rings have all been strengthened. They can resist crashes, tremors, water, and fire. It’s usually very difficult to destroy them.”
“It’d be difficult for me to destroy them with just one bullet, but what if I fired three bullets at the same spot?” Meng Chao threw a question back at him.
Fang Lin’s expression changed. “You’re this good with a gun? It was completely dark, so you couldn’t see a thing!”
“Well, no matter how perfect my basic gun technique is, it would have been very difficult for me to do that,” Meng Chao said. “But after I cleared all 1024 branch meridians, all of my senses improved, and the sensitivity of my nerve endings and the stability of my muscle fibers increased, so everything is possible!”