Another One Comes to Die
Did you hear that brat's fart?
With Bao Gu hands on his hips, grinning and showing off his yellowed teeth, Bao Gu shouted loudly at the surrounding SUVs:
He's asking me if I've brought enough coffin straps!
Beside the six armored vehicles, dozens of gangster gunmen clad in leather armor burst into laughter.
A cacophony of vulgar whistles and vicious curses erupted in the rainy night.
"A rat from the Black Street, its brain burned out from being stabbed!"
"Scarface and Skinny Monkey are probably asleep in some ditch, letting this cripple run back to the dilapidated temple to play the ghost!"
"Vice Leader, just blast him into a bloody pulp, save your sword from getting dirty!"
Bao Gu stopped laughing, his face contorted with rage, and a brutal killing intent flashed in his eyes.
He leaped from the roof of the car, which was more than two meters high, and landed heavily in the mud, splashing water up to half a person's height.
"I don't have time to waste with dead people."
Bao Gu pulled the serrated heavy sword stuck in the mud, raised his hand and swung it towards the ruined temple:
"Open fire! Break his arms and legs! Don't smash his head, though. I want him alive so he can watch his sister get sent to a brothel as a blood slave!"
Before he finished speaking, Bao Gu, carrying his heavy sword, strode towards the side of the altar.
He couldn't even be bothered to glance at Chen Fan.
Second Tier Esper never need to give ordinary people a second glance.
Ta-da!
Four heavy machine guns mounted on top of the tank opened fire simultaneously.
Blazing flames tore through the night sky as large-caliber armor-piercing rounds, along with bullets from dozens of submachine guns, intertwined to form a deadly metal net, shredding the wooden doors, earthen walls, and pillars of the dilapidated temple to shreds!
Stone chips flew wildly, and mud and water vaporized.
An ordinary First Tier physical enhancement user would be turned into a pile of minced meat in the blink of an eye if caught in such a crossfire.
However, in that instant when the sky was filled with the light of countless projectiles...
Chen Fan moved.
He slightly lifted his left heel, and his body shifted three inches to the side at an incredible angle.
Two heavy machine gun bullets grazed his cloth clothes and pierced the mud wall behind him.
Chen Fan stepped forward into the hail of bullets.
His gaze didn't fall on the gun barrels, but rather swept across the trails of raindrops, landing on the rotating arms of each heavy machine gunner.
Faced with the ultimate Divine Soul computing power of the Martial God, the entire raging firepower network was filled with countless gaps.
With feet treading on the Bagua (Eight Trigrams), the body transforms into a swimming dragon.
The boy's movements were unpredictable; with each step he took, bullets struck the ground precisely where he had just left.
Dozens of gunmen had their triggers locked, their eyes practically bulging out of their sockets.
In their view, the white-clad child was not only not destroyed, but instead pierced through the metal storm, like a ghostly shadow, chasing straight after Bao Gu!
At this moment, Bao Gu had just stepped onto the collapsed altar.
On the tattered straw mat, Chen Xi, fast asleep, was curled up in a ball, with tear stains still remaining on her small face.
"Small fry, but he's hidden it pretty well."
With Bao Gu grin, Bao Gu's large, fan-like hand whipped up a gust of wind as it grabbed Chen Xi's slender neck.
Sudden.
The hairs on the back of his Bao Gu stood on end!
An indescribable sense of danger surged up my spine and straight to the top of my head!
This was an instinct he had honed through hundreds of battles in the Wasteland.
Something deadly is close to the back of his head!
Who goes there?!
With a roar, Bao Gu forcefully pulled back his right hand that was grabbing Chen Xi, and his massive body twisted in place at an abnormal speed!
Click!
The mutated Genes within him were fully activated, and a series of ear-piercing sounds of bones grinding together rang out.
Suddenly, a layer of pale white bone armor, three inches thick, emerged from the bluish-black skin of the Bao Gu, layer upon layer covering its neck, chest, and arms!
Second Tier Bone-Type Ability - White Bone Battle Armor!
With this bone armor that could withstand armor-piercing bullets, he once tore two Second Tier Mutated Wasteland Wolves apart!
Not only that, Bao Gu swung the serrated broadsword weighing over two hundred pounds with both hands, and with all his violent strength, he swept it horizontally!
The heavy blade pressed down on the air, producing a dull thud.
However, when Bao Gu turned his head, all he saw was a pair of eyes.
Those were eyes devoid of any emotion, coldly surveying life and death.
Chen Fan had already taken to the air without anyone noticing.
The rusty, Broken Saber in his hand was not swung, but merely held horizontally with the tip forward.
Above the broken tip of the knife, a faint gray-white vortex was spinning rapidly.
Life-and-Death Guixu.
The Broken Saber collided with the sweeping, serrated broadsword.
There was neither the clang of metal nor the sparks flying from the impact.
Within a fraction of a breath, the tip of Chen Fan's knife vibrated thirty-six times at an eerie frequency.
Each tremor precisely struck the weak point in the metal during the cooling process of the greatsword's smelting!
The immense physical strength of four thousand jin, combined with the pure internal Hidden Force of Martial Dao, poured into these thirty-six points of vibration.
Click!
A crisp cracking sound.
In the incredulous gaze of Bao Gu, the heavy broadsword forged from high-strength Alloy began to disintegrate from the point of impact.
Spiderweb-like cracks spread wildly along the blade.
The next instant, the two-hundred-pound giant sword exploded, shattering into hundreds of flying iron filings!
"How is that possible?!"
Bao Gu's mind went blank.
That was his Second Tier natal battle blade; how could it shatter from a mere touch of a broken kitchen knife?
Before he could recover from his shock, a tremendous force surged upwards and slammed into his arms.
Click!
The thick bone armor covering his arm shattered instantly, the arm bone twisted and broke, and the stark white bone fragments pierced through the flesh and were exposed to the air!
"Ah!"
Before the scream could even get halfway out of his throat, Bao Gu saw the white figure cling to his chest like a leech.
The broken, rusty Broken Saber slid forward with a slight movement.
The moment the exoskeleton plates at the throat of the Bao Gu came into contact with the grayish-white airflow from the Broken Saber, their once indestructible keratin layer instantly lost its luster and crumbled like rotten wood weathered for thousands of years.
The blade sliced smoothly across the throat.
No blood spurted out.
Because the moment the incision was made, the Deathly Stillness True Meaning emanating from the Broken Saber had completely frozen the surrounding capillaries and life force.
Chen Fan landed nimbly on the other side of the altar, holding the Broken Saber upside down and carrying it on his back.
The massive body of the Bao Gu stood frozen in place.
He stared intently ahead, his mouth agape, making hoarse gasps, trying to lift his hands to cover his neck, but unable to.
Thump.
The head, covered in Black Bone, slid off the neck, crashed into the mud, and rolled three meters away.
The headless, enormous corpse swayed, then collapsed heavily to its knees, splashing up a cloud of filthy mud.
An eerie silence fell over the entire dilapidated temple.
Only the sound of the torrential rain pounding on the metal roof of the vehicle still echoed.
Outside the hall, dozens of gunmen's fingers, which were on the triggers, froze.
The heavy machine gun barrel was still emitting blue smoke.
Everyone stared blankly at the head that had rolled to the edge of the steps.
The deputy gang leader... is dead?
The Second Tier Esper, Bao Gu, who could tear apart a war chariot with his bare hands in the Black Streets, lost his head in less than three seconds from the moment he drew his sword!