"Do monsters feel pain too?"
Xi Nian, clad in female armor, asked expressionlessly. His feet pressed down on Abomination's raised arms as both hands drove the Retro Longsword downward, plunging its patterned blade deeper into the eye socket!
"Aaargh!!"
Its right eye was directly stabbed apart. With a splitting headache, Abomination could not help letting out a miserable howl, finally releasing Spider-Woman from its grasp.
Just as Spider-Woman was about to fall onto the rubble-strewn ground, Xi Nian yanked out the longsword with lightning speed, sending scalding, rancid green blood spraying outward. His left hand swept back and caught Spider-Woman around her slender waist, fleeing toward the outskirts of the smoke-filled city as fast as he could!
After he carried Spider-Woman dozens of meters away, Abomination stood where it was behind them, clutching its endlessly bleeding right eye socket and roaring at the sky like an erupting volcano!
The piercing, terrifying roar nearly formed tangible soundwaves, shaking the air across a hundred-meter radius. Even the burning flames seemed to fearfully retreat from Abomination's vicinity. Countless glass objects shattered under the humming vibrations, and abandoned cars parked along the road began honking their alarms in unison!
This time, the wounded Abomination was truly enraged!
Before Xi Nian and Spider-Woman had even escaped a hundred meters, he sensed something whistling toward them from behind. Looking back, he discovered that it was a military four-wheel-drive vehicle, racing through the city's night sky!
No, there was more than one!
Besides the military four-wheel-drive vehicles thrown by Abomination, there were taxis, vans, and even a massive long-distance bus!
Four or five vehicles fell like meteors from beyond the sky, carrying immense momentum.
Holding Spider-Woman and carrying the longsword, Xi Nian leaped forward at extreme speed, narrowly dodging one vehicle after another.
The missed cars crashed thunderously into the ground, scattering sparks and flying stones before finally exploding into fireballs!
He barely avoided a van that rolled past his shoulder, but the space available for Xi Nian to move was greatly restricted. Before he could catch his breath, the bus, its alarm blaring continuously, followed close behind!
The enormous shadow cast by the falling bus covered Xi Nian and Spider-Woman first. This time, there was nowhere to evade!
In that instant.
Xi Nian, dominated by divinity, was unnaturally calm. Holding Spider-Woman in one arm, he abruptly stopped. His sharply braking feet gouged two trails into the ground. Turning to face the crashing bus, Xi Nian drew a deep breath and swung the Retro Longsword in his right hand forward with all his strength!
Sshhk!!
The air, smoke, dust, firelight... everything three meters ahead was cleaved in two!
The bus was also severed by Xi Nian's sword. Its body split down the middle, the metal at the cut smooth as a mirror. The two halves continued rolling backward past either side of him, turning into two heaps of flaming scrap metal.
"Whew." Xi Nian's hand holding the Retro Longsword trembled slightly. He had only just exhaled a breath of hot, murky air when a gigantic greenish-yellow figure suddenly landed nearby behind him. The surrounding ground instantly sank beneath the unbearable weight!
It was Abomination!
The silver glow in Xi Nian's pupils contracted slightly. He immediately understood that throwing the vehicles had merely been a way to conceal its own movement!
He had still underestimated Abomination!
With its right eye injured and in a state of extreme rage, the creature had actually abandoned its previous recklessness and used a battle tactic that even ordinary people would not have thought to use!
Abomination's face twisted hideously. The instant it landed, it punched Xi Nian in the back!
The air exploded, and the wind pressure went wild.
The Retro Longsword flew from his hand and embedded itself in the ground. Xi Nian and the Spider-Woman in his arms were both sent flying heavily by the punch. After flying twenty or thirty meters through the air, they smashed through an outer wall and entered a building.
"Cough, cough." Xi Nian coughed a few times and climbed up from the ground, holding Spider-Woman tightly in his arms. He had taken the impact with his own body.
He only felt his blood and energy churning within him. Yet against Abomination's punch, powerful enough to collapse a high-rise building, he had suffered no obvious injury.
As if thinking of something, Xi Nian reached behind his back and removed the retro round shield he had been carrying. Faint energy ripples subtly flowed across the Dark Gold Round Shield before quickly dimming into stillness. The unknown material and patterned shield surface bore no trace of damage.
"It was this shield." Xi Nian's eyes lit up slightly. He had nearly forgotten about the shield he had carried from home.
Since that intermittently appearing Golden Rope contained supernatural power, able to freely extend and retract, manifest and vanish, and bind anything tangible or intangible; and since the Retro Longsword was unnaturally sharp, capable of easily cutting through objects including metal.
Then this shield was naturally no ordinary shield either! Now, having endured and neutralized Abomination's punch, it had proven its extraordinary nature as well!
Besides that, the remaining combat boots and bracelet might also possess hidden supernatural abilities!
Was I wearing Divine Equipment from head to toe? Xi Nian was speechless, yet he finally understood something.
Now, escaping while carrying someone was no longer realistic.
And if he wanted to bring down the monster before him, he, this fake goddess, had to bring out the proper power of the equipment and weapons on his body!
"You, don't come over here!"
At that moment, inside the building Xi Nian had been knocked into, a man in a U.S. military uniform curled up on the floor in a dark corner of the second-floor hall. Seeing Xi Nian and Spider-Woman appear, he panicked.
"It's you?"
Xi Nian recognized him at a glance. Wasn't he the soldier who had nearly been killed by Abomination? Perhaps because Abomination had been rampaging through this area, the American soldier had not managed to escape and had chosen to hide here while waiting for military reinforcements.
Xi Nian did not dwell on it. He placed Spider-Woman on the sofa and said to the American soldier, "Protect her!"
The American soldier nodded in panic.
He looked back at Xi Nian and saw him carrying the Dark Gold Round Shield as he turned and leaped out through the second-floor window!
The American soldier supported himself against the wall and rose to look outside. As his eyes followed Xi Nian's figure toward Abomination, his mouth involuntarily fell open in astonishment, his worldview continuing to collapse and rebuild.
After a moment of silence.
The American soldier switched on his communicator again and reported in a trembling voice, "Reporting to the general, this is front-line Zone Zero. Our forces have been completely defeated. Right now, a mysterious person is fighting Abomination. I repeat, someone is fighting Abomination! Please respond if received!"
The communicator crackled with static. Perhaps the signal was poor; there was no reply.
On the street, where both earth and sky were burning.
Seeing Xi Nian emerge, Abomination could not understand it for a moment.
Under its invincible strength, a full-force punch had failed to kill its opponent, or even seriously injure him!
What Abomination found even more incomprehensible was that Xi Nian now actually dared to take the initiative and attack.
This was the greatest insult to it!
Abomination's furious roar rang out through the city night once more. It seemed to transform into the most primitive, savage, violent beast, charging at Xi Nian with utter disregard for everything!
It no longer used any so-called clever tactics, for those were things only weak humans relied upon.
With this invincible body, standing at the top of the biological pyramid, it could rise above schemes, technology, and all such things!
This was Abomination's unparalleled faith in its own invincibility!
Xi Nian's sprint grew faster and faster. His silver eyes were cold and merciless, like an Old God awakened from ancient times.
Facing the oncoming Abomination, he made only one move—
Shield Bash!
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