Chapter 350: The Hunt BeginsTranslator: Larbre Studio Editor: Larbre Studio
“Thunderlord, Ape G.o.d, there"s something out there!” At the edge of the steps, the staff in charge of guarding the surroundings suddenly roared.
At the same time, all the people in the palace stood up with their hairs on their back, and a great sense of crisis rose in their hearts.
“What happened?!” Thunderlord spit out his cigarette b.u.t.t, got up and strode to the steps.
Among the ten G.o.ds of Baoze, there were only three leading figures: Thunderlord, Ape G.o.d, and Fire G.o.d. The rest of the S-cla.s.s were standalones. The senior employees were basically led by them, and they were the team leaders by default.
The wind blew up Cui Hua and she floated up like a wild geese. Standing at the top of the pillar, she looked down and exclaimed, “Li Xianyu, come and see this, it"s spectacular!”
She turned around and beckoned. A supporting force garnered at Li Xianyu"s feet. He felt that he was rising in the wind, flying gently to the thick pillar at a height of 100 meters.
Li Xianyu and Cui Hua stood side by side, looking down on the vast wasteland, and his face changed.
The sculptures that vaulted the palace had resurrected at this moment. Looking down from a height of nearly 200 meters, they were as small as ants, but their numbers were huge. There were countless “ants” in the wasteland.
One by one, the black spots came rus.h.i.+ng to attack the palace, just like groups of marching ants looking for food outside.
“It"s spectacular,” murmured Li Xianyu.
“Yes, it"s spectacular.” White G.o.d floated onto the pillar, staring with her beautiful eyes. Her beautiful face showed an expression of wonder.
“If only I brought a video camera. I"d take a picture of this section, and my next movie will be the next big hit,” she said.
“Are you still an actor?” Li Xianyu was surprised.
“Of course, being an actor is my part-time job. We have a film company under Baoze. I occasionally play a supporting role to earn extra money. You think S-cla.s.s people are rich? Although it is lucrative, I also spend a lot of money.” Speaking of this, White G.o.d continued, “How can I buy so many luxury goods and sports cars to show Battle Lady without a part-time job?”
“It turns out that Battle Lady"s habit of moonlighting was created by you.” Li Xianyu, like a girl that had accidentally gotten pregnant, found the “debtor” who had “made his belly bigger”. He covered his chest and lamented, “I hate you, I hate you!”
At this time, some of the lizard-man statues suddenly spread their membrane wings behind them, holding their forks and flying in the air.
Looking at the lizard-men who were flying towards them, Li Xianyu said, “But I don"t remember you.”
White G.o.d, who was such a charming and beautiful woman, should have been very popular in the entertainment circle.
“I said that I acted in a supporting role. I"m not very well-known. In two or three years of my career, I played a heroine. It was a small-budget movie with a horror and suspense theme, which was screened at the Qingming Festival. Originally, I thought the theme and the festival scene suited the occasion.” White G.o.d showed a playful expression.
“And then…?”
“The box office sales were so bad.” Her little face broke down.
“Pfft…”
Indeed, it suited the occasion. The atmosphere of the festival was solemn.
“Later, the big boss didn"t invest in me to play the heroine. He asked me to do a good job and be a supporting actor.” White G.o.d said, feeling ashamed. “However, I have talent in acting as a famous brothel prost.i.tute.”
“In real life?”
“Scram!” White G.o.d scolded. As she roared, a mental storm rushed out and hit the lizard-man sculptures.
The lizard-man flapped his membrane wings and ignored the shockwave. The stone forks dashed towards White G.o.d"s chest.
White G.o.d was stupefied, unable to accept the result, and her response lagged.
“Pui!” Li Xianyu saved White G.o.d with a mouthful of old phlegm. The lizard-man"s head cracked. Then, the hurricane appeared to envelop the lizard-man"s body, breaking it apart.
Cui Hua had struck.
“What"s the matter?!” Li Xianyu was astonished.
“It doesn"t have any soul, it is a dead thing.” White G.o.d frowned.
Her spiritual power was not a kind of condensed physical power, but only aimed at bombarding the enemy"s mental state. The Shen family"s power was pure and did not appear fancy.
No soul? Li Xianyu raised his eyebrows. It was no wonder that when they entered the world, they couldn"t find out anything different, because these sculptures were dead things as they were in slumber. However, due to some unknown reasons, these dead things came back to life.
The number of sculptures was too large. They were densely concentrated as they sieged.
The lizard-men were divided into two groups. One was climbing the steps, the other was flying and attacking from the sky.
Their appearance had changed a lot. Their stone bodies seemed to be endowed with life. Their joints could move freely, and their muscle lines became more smooth. It was like a living thing made of rock.
If this scene was filmed from 1,000 meters up, the picture was as follows: in the sky, numerous lizard-men surrounded the bronze palace in all directions, and on the steps, ant-like lizard-men held up stone forks to break internet restriction laws.
“Prepare to face the enemy!” Thunderlord roared.
He conjured up a ball of electricity, throwing it towards the approaching lizard-men. Five lizard-men suffered from the impact of the electric ball, but only the two lizard-men in the center were torn apart by the powerful impact of the electric ball. The three lizard-men on the edge were wounded and fell on the ground. They continued to attack bravely, but were killed by the senior employees, and their bodies were smashed.
Powers had little effect on them. Fortunately, the individual strength of the lizard-men was not strong.
“Guns!” Thunderlord ordered all the employees to switch to heat weapons, and then looked at the three people on the pillar. “Don"t stand there, you will be attacked! Come down.”
The senior employees had taken out heat weapons, all of which were heavy weapons, some of which were heavy machine guns, and some of which were light machine guns. Submachine guns like SHAK-12 could only be regarded as light weapons here.
This time, Baoze opened up their a.r.s.enal and equipped every member with sufficient weapons.
Boom, boom, boom!
Forty muscular men held up their machine guns and aimed them at the sky. The bullets were interwoven into a dense fire net, smas.h.i.+ng the lizard-men into pieces.
The rubble rained down.
White G.o.d was right. If someone was in charge of filming at this time, it could be directly used in Hollywood movies without special effects or editing.
The ten G.o.ds of Baoze and Li Xianyu, as well as his harem, were responsible for eliminating those who managed to bypa.s.s the fire net, so that the senior employees could shoot at ease. Occasionally, they would use their abilities to help the senior employees deal with the lizard-men in the sky, but the effect was greatly reduced. Those revived monsters seemed to have strong resistance to powers and abilities.
Two “GAU-21” heavy machine guns were placed at the steps. This kind of machine gun was a very cla.s.sic hatch machine gun, which was generally equipped at the hatch position of the helicopter, and were very strong complements for military helicopters.
The 12.7mm large caliber heavy machine gun had the same barrel length as its gun body, its tripod could stand level with one"s chest, and bullet velocity could reach up to 1,100 kilometers per hour.
As the lizard-men who could not fly made their way up the steps, an overwhelming amount of firepower suppressed them. The two heavy machine guns crossed to form a barrage, smas.h.i.+ng all lizard-men in their sight.
There was a basket of high-explosive grenades by San Wu"s feet. She stood behind the two machine gun operators, and threw out the grenades.
The high explosive grenades exploded amongst the lizard-men, and fire burst into the sky. The explosion made a huge impact. Each high explosive grenade could decimate the lizard-men within a ten-meter radius and empty the s.p.a.ce temporarily.
Lizard-man sculptures had high ability resistance, but they could not resist weapons made by human technology.
Heat weapons had been regarded by demon descendants to have a single purpose, mainly flaming and impact force. However, at this time, the single purpose had made a great contribution. The sculptures were greatly immune to abilities, but it wasn"t immune to pure power.
In short, it meant that they were resistant to the unorthodox, but not to the unorthodox.
In less than ten minutes, a layer of lime formed under the feet of all the people, and the fallen sculpture limbs would quickly turn into powder.
The one-sided advantage only lasted for a quarter of an hour. These sculptures, which had no intelligence but did not fear death, suddenly made a move that caught Baoze by surprise. They stopped charging, held up their stone forks, leaned back and threw the stone forks towards the humans below.
All of a sudden, the stone forks rained down, creating an audible swoosh sound in the air.
There was no shelter in the broad bronze palace. The stone forks approached from all directions, and there were a large number of them. Hence, they were difficult to avoid. Three senior employees had their vitals punctured and died on the spot, while seven senior employees were wounded.
The lizard-men who lost their forks continued to attack fearlessly, while the lizard-men from the second wave held up their forks and prepared to throw them.
“Kill them in one breath!” Ape G.o.d shouted as he executed Heavenly Dharmakāya. The sixteen meter tall giant ape roared towards the sky.
“Wind!” Cui Hua exclaimed. The wind formed in the mid-air. As the currents moved, it destabilised the postures of the lizard-men, causing them to stop their a.s.sault.
At the same time, Fire G.o.d stepped on the great ape"s body and rushed into the air, stepping on its head and jumping into the sky.
Among the ten G.o.ds of Baoze, the only ones with area of effect skills were Fire G.o.d, Earth G.o.d and Thunderlord. At the bronze palace 200 metres high, the power of Earth G.o.d couldn"t be executed, while the power of Thunderlord was only effective towards living matter, not these sculptures.
Only Fire G.o.d!
Fire G.o.d"s eyes were red and bright and his skin turned red and hot. A terrifying aura emanated from him. In this moment, he broke through the peak S-cla.s.s realm and vaguely touched the realm of Half-Step Gokudo Path.
He had taken Real Man For Five Seconds, which could stimulate the potential of demon descendants. In a short period of time, his strength skyrocketed, but the cost was huge. Demon descendants who took this medicine rarely survived. Even if they were lucky enough to, there would be permanent side effects.
In Baoze, this kind of medicine could only be used in desperate situations. Its developer was Bian Que, one of the four great doctors in the medical department.
Boom!
It was like a volcano erupting. The flame centered around Fire G.o.d and spread like a ripple. The blazing waves of fire carried with them a terrifying air of qi and blew up the lizard sculptures in the air.
The sky was clear.
Ape G.o.d caught the fallen Fire G.o.d, unexecuted Heavenly Dharmakāya and reverted back to his original form. He held Fire G.o.d horizontally in his arms and roared, “Li Xianyu!”
“Coming, coming!” Li Xianyu rushed over as he stabbed his neck artery with a syringe while running. He drew out a tube of black and red blood, and injected it into the big artery of Fire G.o.d.
Fire G.o.d"s pale face recovered at a speed visible to the naked eye, with a stable heartbeat and pulse. However, he seemed to be drained of energy and looked pale and wilting.
Li Xianyu was about to inject a second syringe. Fire G.o.d waved his hand weakly. “It"s useless. Your blood can restore my solar plexus and meridians, but I hurt my origins…”
Hearing this, Li Xianyu"s heart sank.
Fire G.o.d said, “I need a good rest to recover.”
Li Xianyu was speechless. You could speak with one breath? You scared me, I thought you were going to die.
Li Xianyu breathed a sigh of relief. The so-called origin injury was just that his qi and abilities had both been drained. Although there were no wounds on his body, he was unable to fight again. For example, ordinary humans who suffered from excessive fatigue were not wounded or sick, but they could not move because they were too tired. They were like corpses.
Fire G.o.d is crippled. He won"t recover in a while, Li Xianyu thought to himself.
The effect was huge. All the lizard-men with long membrane wings had been killed. There were none left. The lizard-men by the stone steps were still frantically attacking. They learned from the lizard-men with membrane wings and threw their stone forks at the employees of Baoze.
Stone forks from the bottom to the top did not pose a huge threat to Baoze"s employees.
After half an hour of prolonged fighting, the lizard-men around the bronze hall were completely eliminated. Looking around, the wasteland was empty and there were no sculptures.
Stepping on the thick stone powder, Thunderlord cremated the bodies of the three senior employees into ashes and collected them in wooden boxes.
They died on the spot. There was no chance to rescue them. Their cause of deaths were the same, their brains were destroyed by the stone forks.
The wooden boxes were put together, and the staff stood in two rows, bowing to the three colleagues who died.
A silent, sad atmosphere enveloped the surroundings.
Three fresh lives had fallen. Three colleagues, who interacted with each other day and night, had departed.
In the world where survival of the fittest prevailed, they had seen a lot of deaths, but had not been able to acclimatize to it.
“Brother, rest in peace!”
Thunderlord carefully put the wooden boxes into his wallet. Before the wooden boxes disappeared, the people bowed again.
Li Xianyu looked at San Wu beside him. Her nose was sweating as she panted.
The girl had no expression, no sadness and no worry from the beginning to the end. Even a calm person like Li Xianyu couldn"t help but feel a little melancholy, but she was so quiet to the point where he thought that the three people were unrelated to her.
Probably, in her mind, only a few of them were her teammates, while most of them were only nominal teammates. They did not occupy a place in her heart.
Even now, Li Xianyu still didn"t feel that he had entered San Wu"s heart.
Maybe, but not too deep. It was Li Xianyu"s unilateral decision to include San Wu in the harem. In San Wu"s mind, he was just a teammate, just like those teammates she had lost previously.
But even so, he was number one in San Wu"s heart.
“It"s time to hunt.” Food G.o.d licked his lips. “Who will stay and look after them?”
“I"ll stay with Thunderlord and Equal.” Earth G.o.d pondered for a moment and made a proposal. “The three of us are not good at close combat and a.s.sa.s.sination. Ape G.o.d, Combat G.o.d, Food G.o.d, Black G.o.d and White G.o.d, the five of you can strike.”
Thunderlord nodded and agreed. His ability was that he could manipulate electricity. It would create a commotion. Furthermore, a leader like him needed to stay behind to a.s.sume control of the situation.
“You know how to do things.” Thunderlord warned.
“I know. If there"s a witness, kill him.” Combat G.o.d remarked lightly.
Li Xianyu turned on the walkie talkie. When it was just turned on, the green light flashed. Victoria"s anxious voice floated over. “Li Xianyu, help me…”
She kept calling for help.
Li Xianyu said immediately, “Where are you?”
Victoria has a surprised voice. “You finally answered, you finally answered.”
“Are you experiencing the resurrection of the sculptures?”
“Well, we"ve sacrificed a lot of people. It"s dangerous, help me.”
“Where are you?”
“After leaving the bronze palace, we walked to the southwest for about half an hour, for about 40 kilometers. Then, we encountered the resurrected sculptures. We can"t hold them off anymore,” Victoria replied as she panted.
“Okay, you wait up. We"ll be right here.” Li Xianyu ended the conversation in a hurry, and saw the people looking at him with varying expressions.
“You gave that girl our walkie talkie?” Earth G.o.d raised his eyebrows.
All of a sudden, there was a sense of fl.u.s.ter about communicating with foreign enemies. Li Xianyu said, “I gave her the walkie talkie on purpose, so as to quickly locate them and reduce the trouble for our task.”
Otherwise, finding someone was a big problem.
Earth G.o.d was speechless for a while. Although he knew that he was lying, he could not deny that he had made a contribution by mistake.
Wald Jones was a peak S-cla.s.s expert who had hopes of attaining Half-Step Gokudo Path. The lizard-men would not trouble him for a while. If he were to manage to break out of the siege and return to the bronze palace, it would be hard to attack him.
There were still thirty seven senior employees present. Their loyalty was not to be doubted, but once many people knew of a secret, it would definitely leak out.