Chapter 477: A Young Man to Be Regarded With Respect!
‘In another five years... No, perhaps in just two or three years, this boy is going to be a top-cla.s.s hunter stronger than us!’ Xue Rui thought out of the blue.
Then, he noticed that he was sorely mistaken.
There was no need for them to wait for another two or three years. It was now.
Meng Chao’s arms disappeared while he was falling.
In reality, they did not disappear. Instead, they turned into hundreds of afterimages from moving too fast. They tore through the air and turned into a gray fog around him.
Countless sparks of cold light shot out from the gray fog.
His killing intent was like bone-chilling, icy spikes. It pierced the three veteran hunters’ minds, eyes, and hearts at the same time.
When a powerful gust came charging at their faces, the sound that tore through the air turned into a screech that struck their eardrums.
Meng Chao had not been struck by the fourth pellet.
He had predicted its trajectory and made his spirit energy gather at the part between his chest and shoulder. It formed a magnetic field serving as a shield and diverted as well as neutralized the pellet’s destructivity.
Then, he used his muscle fibers to release more than one hundred tremors per second, evenly distributing the destructivity of the pellet to all of Black Soul.
Even though the pellet was embedded in Black Soul, it did not break his defense and affect his mobility.
Besides, he also used Bullet Xue Rui’s trick and made them fall into his trap. He fired his own bullets.
With Ultimate Level Basic Gun Technique and Perfect Level Advanced Gun Technique, Meng Chao was also an ace sharpshooter.
Even though his main weapon was chain sabers, this was because he liked fighting alone and seldom had the chance to bring a large amount of guns and ammunition.
But in the virtual battlefields and his previous life, he had long since mastered the calculation of bullet trajectories and ways to control bullets.
Even if his shooting technique was not as good as that of Bullet Xue Rui on paper, he had delivered fatal shots into the heads of elves, dwarves, magicians, and even dragons in his previous life. It effectively covered the flaws in his technique and made all those who underestimated him pay a great price.
Every ace sharpshooter had a secret technique to practice the dexterity of their fingers.
Bullet Xue Rui loved using the destructive shrapnel from anti-monster grenades to practice, while Meng Chao loved using knives to do it.
When it came to harvesting monsters, he used lancet knives shaped like scalpels that were as thin as cicada wings.
Once this sort of blade was corroded by monster blood and acid, its flexibility and st.u.r.diness would plummet, so it was a consumable that needed to be switched out often.
Meng Chao had gathered a large number of discarded blades from Superstar and polished them until they were in the shape of triangles, diamonds, circles, and others so that he could play with them between his fingers day and night or use spirit energy to have them attach to his skin. When his skin and body hair trembled, they rolled from his head to the tips of his toes, then from the tips of his toes back to his head.
This could train his senses, and it was also an interesting game.
At that moment, the power of his game was displayed to its fullest.
Meng Chao used his hands to fire dozens of blades, and this deceptive movement attracted the three people’s attention.
When his hands turned into a gray fog and created a piercing sound of air being pushed through, dozens of blades rolled onto his skin in secret. They were fired by the tremors of his muscles and charged at the three veteran hunters silently.
It was the exact same strategy as what Bullet Xue Rui’s had just used.
Xue Rui’s expression changed.
Dense, profound, and complicated spirit tattoos appeared around his eyes and arms.
A string of pellets shot out like rain. They charged forward and stopped most of Meng Chao’s blades in the air.
Their clashing “bullets” created dazzling sparks.
Xue Rui was more skilled, but he missed his chance and suffered some loss due to the “bullets”. Both were tools to train the dexterity of their fingers, but his pellets were all of the same size and not that much different from each other.
Meng Chao’s blades were of all shapes and sizes. When they spun at a high speed in the air, they traveled at varying speeds and in waves, so they looked really strange.
Xue Rui managed to avoid most of the blades. As for those he could not avoid, he struck them away with his pellets.
However, there were still a lot of those he missed that went flying at Snake Eye Mo Lan and Multi-armed Bear Hong Li.
Mo Lan was agile and had sharp senses. She managed to instantly realize just how terrifying Meng Chao was.
Like a startled octopus, she swung her long and frail limbs to move and dodge. The attack forced her to retreat eight meters through the complicated terrain. Only then, by a hair’s breadth, she avoided all of the blades. Just a few strands of her hair fell.
Multi-armed Bear Hong Li wanted to avoid the projectiles as well, but that meant that he would inevitably knock into the wind chimes beside him or crush the gla.s.s under him. So, he decided to just growl, cross his arms, light up his spirit tattoos and form a faint golden magnetic shield in front of him.
Most of the blades were affected by the magnetic field, and their speed instantly fell to zero. They swayed in the air as if they were being toyed with by an invisible hand.
A small number of blades broke through Hong Li’s defense and struck his arms, which were thicker than Meng Chao’s thigh.
Hong Li’s arms were like two pillars refined by metal, but they were covered in body hair that looked like steel brushes, so the blades could not cut him.
However, one final blade shot past Hong Li weakly and ricocheted off the steel pipe behind him. Then, for some strange reason, its speed increased, and it went for his neck artery from behind.
Hong Li’s expression was filled with shock.
He did not expect that Meng Chao would do this.
Honestly, even if the blade cut his neck artery, with a Heaven Realm superhuman’s great control over his muscles and the regeneration speed of his cells, it would not be a fatal wound. It would not even affect his fighting strength.
The only problem was, it would be very embarra.s.sing!
He had friends he had known for around twenty years down below. Forget about not being able to catch a boy who had just entered Heaven Realm, if he even had his neck artery cut while they were fighting three against one and bled, his friends would definitely laugh until they died.
Hong Li instinctively hunched his shoulders.
To make best use of their eyes, ears, and other organs that helped to gather information to survive, humans had to evolve and form a long cervical spine. But this was not good for close-quarters combat.
Melee fighters like Hong Li not only used bulky muscles to protect their cervical spine and neck arteries, but also tried their best to push their heads into their bodies. It might not look good, but it was practical.
But that was not all. Right then, in Hong Li’s heart, Meng Chao had already turned into an opponent who was of equal strength with him, but was incredibly devious. To prevent him from playing any other tricks, such as having a second blade clashing and ricocheting off somewhere else, Hong Li decided to move half a meter to the side in an incredibly exaggerated fashion.
A mound of flesh that was nearly 150kg moved by half a meter out of the blue in a narrow s.p.a.ce filled with wind chimes and gla.s.s, but it did not make a sound. It showed just how great Multi-armed Bear’s control over his muscles was.
Unfortunately for him, his reaction fit into one of the nineteen most possible reactions that Meng Chao had predicted.
Meng Chao could generally predict the changes in his heart based on his microexpressions.
Hence, when Hong Li jumped on the steel pipe half a meter away, Meng Chao had already occupied the offensive spot above him 0.1 seconds ahead of him. He used Dragon Snake Force, the acc.u.mulative stance, to make his right arm swell to the max.
His Black Soul started ripping, as if it was about to tear.
His muscles bulged out with clear lines, and it was as if his entire arm was covered in a bulky armor.
Spirit flames gathered on his fist, and it was as if an exploding grenade was in his grasp. It delivered waves of impact that were each stronger than the last.
The fierce flames from his apocalyptic self burned like layers of waves in his eyes.
Meng Chao subconsciously released Fear Bomb, causing Multi-armed Bear Hong Li to shudder. He remembered how his ankle had been bitten by a Marsh Crocodile the first time he entered the fog and how he was nearly dragged into a bottomless marsh.
Meng Chao’s Fear Bomb was a mind attack given to him by the Demonic Abyss Eye. It could activate and endlessly magnify a person’s memory that they feared and did not want to face.
Hong Li felt the ankle wound that had healed more than twenty years ago start aching.
It was as if an invisible crocodile was using its saw teeth-like fangs to cut into it once more.
With the interference by the illusion, his reaction speed slowed down by another 0.1 seconds.
The two 0.1 seconds overlapped with each other. When he finally growled and delivered a heavy punch, Meng Chao had already activated his Demon Subduing Pole with additional power granted by Dragon Snake Force. While still high above, he threw his fist down with a force that could make the ground crack.
Boom!
It was as if two Tyrant Mammoths had rammed into each other at a speed of more than 200 km/h. A wave swept through everything.
When it blew into everyone’s faces, they fell into a moment of shock.
If some said that Meng Chao only dared to ambush Snake Eye Mo Lan because her specialty was not strength but agility and nimbleness, then at that moment, they were surprised and shocked when they saw him being able to fight bravely against Multi-armed Bear Hong Li, who was known for his monstrous strength in the hunter circle, because he knew that only bravery would win.
Many people were also able to see clearly that their fists had clashed into each other without any superfluous movements. Yet Meng Chao did not crumble at the moment they exchanged blows, which was what they had expected. Instead, he lasted for half a second against Multi-armed Bear Hong Li.
There were not many superhumans who were able to last for even half a second against Hong Li in all of Dragon City.
The monster known as the Multi-armed Bear had once punched a hole through two layers of armor of a main battle tank with just one punch!
Crack! Crack! Crack!
Clang! Clang! Clang!
Facing Meng Chao who had gone absolutely berserk, Multi-armed Bear Hong Li finally lost control over himself and released his most powerful spirit energy magnetic field because of the joy he felt from the fight.
The gla.s.s and mirrors around them immediately shattered, and the wind chimes started trembling madly.
Both of them knew that things were about to go bad, but they could not pull back. Because of the stimulation from each other’s vitality magnetic field, the pleasure of meeting someone who was their equal rose in them, and they released an unstoppable force.
In the end, not only were all the water balloons, gla.s.s, and wind chimes destroyed by an unstoppable wave of air, even the parts connecting the steel pipes became loose.
A loud crash resounded, and the thirty meters tall 3D maze collapsed!