Parry and Block Blade

This was an unexpected encounter.

Without the Cat Demon, without knuckle dusters, even the great killer of bosses, the 'Beast Hunter', was left behind on the war chariot.

The only weapon Gao Gong had in his hand was a finely crafted medium-sized blade.

However, he did figure out one thing: how the other party found them.

Pheromone tracking.

The enemy must have marked some of their people's pheromones during the last battle.

Then the new Reaper family found them.

Gao Gong took a deep breath and once again immersed himself in the mental state of the 'Night Warrior'.

At the same time, he lightly pinched his collar.

That was the button for the 'Open Virtual Projection'.

"A sword in the rain, how can there be no rain?"

The next moment, the surrounding scenery became heavily pixelated, and with each passing mosaic, the surrounding scene would subtly change.

Seemingly real, yet false; seemingly false, yet real, like watching a deeply immersive 3D movie.

The difference was that they were playing the main characters in the movie.

Dull rain fell from the sky, a curtain of rain blocking the space between the person and the beast layer by layer.

The Reaper Queen instinctively shook its body, trying to shake off the 'rain', but to its confusion, there was no sensation of rain?

The intelligence of a C-Class Radiation Beast was no less than that of an adult.

But there were indeed many middle-aged and elderly people who couldn't operate a smartphone.

It wasn't a lack of intelligence, but rather that it conflicted with its behavior patterns.

Gao Gong held his red blade, the micro-motors in his knees roaring.

The Reaper Queen instantly went berserk, its figure like a tracking missile, almost in an instant, it swooped down in front of Gao Gong.

"Lightning!"

The sky roared violently, and lightning illuminated the heavens and earth as bright as day. Pure white electricity descended from the sky, striking the Reaper Queen.

Although its instincts told it that the approaching lightning was 'fake', it still instinctively changed direction, exposing its abdomen, which was protected by blade-wings.

Gao Gong struck after the flash of lightning. The blade light of the Red Unicorn and the falling white electricity formed an X shape.

[You dealt 35 damage to the Reaper Queen]

[You applied a bleeding effect to the enemy, increasing attack power by 5% (1 stack)]

A deep bloody gash appeared on its abdomen.

One of the blade-wings on the Queen's back suddenly extended nearly half its length, like an ancient general wielding a Green Dragon Crescent Blade, slashing down fiercely.

"Fire!"

Amidst the 'rain', Gao Gong's entire body erupted with orange-yellow flames, like a fuel tank igniting.

The 'Steel Slash' faltered instinctively.

The Reaper Queen entered a state of skill-use failure paralysis.

As if being violently pulled, Gao Gong slid in and, holding his blade upright, slashed between the enemy's legs. This was the mother beast's reproductive organ, arguably its most vital spot.

[You dealt 46 damage to the Reaper Queen]

[You dealt a critical hit to the enemy, damage * 2]

[You applied a bleeding effect to the enemy, stacking 10% attack power (2 stacks)]

He retracted the blade light, Gao Gong flicked his wrist, and the monofilament wire claw that was stuck in front of him snapped back. Amidst the furious rain, Gao Gong performed a carp jump, using his waist and abdomen to twist his upper body nearly 180% in mid-air. The blade light took advantage of this to slash diagonally at the enemy's nape.

This area also lacked armor.

[You dealt 54 damage to the Reaper Queen]

[You applied a bleeding effect to the enemy, stacking 15% attack power (3 stacks)]

The Reaper Queen let out a shrill scream.

Gao Gong had no intention of pressing his attack. He flicked his right hand, using the drag of the grappling hook to move sideways three meters, defying the laws of physics.

Almost at the same time, a strong wind attacked from behind. All six blade-wings on the Reaper Queen's back sprang out, and its body spun in mid-air, forming a blade storm within a three-meter radius. Wherever it passed, nothing remained intact. Countless ironwood trees, as thick as a man's embrace, were cut in half, their cross-sections as smooth as a mirror.

The aftermath of the storm tore through the leaves and branches within dozens of meters, leaving blade marks everywhere.

Six-Wheel Slash Lv4: The Reaper Queen's six blades transform into a blade storm, dealing 300*6 damage in a 3*3 meter area, and 10*6 splash damage within a 10*10 meter range.

If Gao Gong had been greedy for another blow just now, he would have been dead.

"Play some background music."

The next moment, amidst the 'storm', a cyberpunk-style song that Gao Gong had heard in his previous life began to play.

In the wind and rain, blades moved like shadows. Two figures, one large and one small, clashed and fought in mid-air.

With his monofilament wire claws, Gao Gong moved like a nimble flea, touching and leaving, slashing and hiding. Under the 'Rainy Night Sword Mode,' his body could perform actions that defied the laws of physics.

After being converted by the 'Special Effects Generator,' Gao Gong sometimes turned into a 'snake' slithering through trees, and other times split into three or four figures. His blade light was equally unpredictable; each slash would either extend for over ten meters or explode into an electronic mist.

[You inflicted a Bleed effect on the enemy, stacking 20% Attack Power (4 stacks)]

[You inflicted a Bleed effect on the enemy, stacking 25% Attack Power (5 stacks)]

[You inflicted a Bleed effect on the enemy, stacking 30% Attack Power (6 stacks)]

The Reaper Queen let out an agitated shriek. The opponent was like a fly that couldn't be killed, someone who should have been finished off in a single blow.

Moreover, it could clearly feel the opponent's threat increasing.

Her gaze swept around, finally finding the figure that annoyed her immensely. She flicked her claw directly, extending over a dozen segments, each segment carrying a massive electromagnetic glow, spanning over ten meters, and directly grabbing the figure hidden behind the tree.

Magnetic storms erupted between the claw shadows.

However, the strange sensation told her something was wrong. She saw that at the palm, a "small speaker" exploded.

The 'Manual Nerve Disruptor,' nicknamed the "aggro-pulling artifact."

The next moment, Gao Gong appeared behind it, his blade light striking the previous wound almost without hesitation.

[You dealt 76 damage to the Reaper Queen]

[Your attack caused a Tear effect]

[Your attack reduced the target's movement speed]

Gao Gong was like a skilled chef, never meeting force head-on, but rather dissecting like a butcher, following the natural grain.

He hummed a light tune amidst the psychedelic electronic music.

"Who is the live feed in the desert feeding machine."

"Who is lubricating the machine's joints with their own bone marrow."

Gao Gong entered a peculiar state. The battle seemed to enter a rhythm that belonged to him. No matter how the opponent attacked, no matter how deadly or wide-ranging the skill, he could always avoid danger in advance.

The rain grew heavier. The 'Special Effects Generator's' effects were turned up to maximum, gradually distorting. raindrops turned into flowing snowflakes falling from the sky, landing on the trees, in the branches, and on people.

In the real and interactive Concrete Forest, predator and prey simulations executed their respective missions.

"And who is feeding the machine with their own flesh and blood."

"Beautiful nerve wires separating from the skull."

"Data is angry, electronics are hungry!"

The Reaper Queen suddenly opened its mouth, and a violent mental shockwave swept outwards, clearing away all electronic illusions.

Gao Gong stood not far from it.

The Reaper Queen exerted force with its limbs. The next moment, a small crater was blasted into the ground, and a sonic boom sounded simultaneously.

A long wisp of white gas trailed from the tip of its bladed limb.

And at the edge of the bladed limb, it was stuck three centimeters before the hilt of the Red Unicorn, three inches deep.

Gao Gong parried the blade perfectly, as if the opponent wasn't attacking him, but the blade itself.

[You have learned the Melee Skill: Parry and Block Blade]

Parry and Block Blade Lv1: Melee weapon blocking technique. When the opponent's attack is blocked by your weapon, there is a 17% chance they will be stunned, and a 9% chance they will take recoil damage.

For a heavyweight like the Reaper Queen, both probabilities were highly unlikely.

It had finally caught this little bug, how could it let it go so easily? It pressed its limb blade against him, pushing forward.

Gao Gong's ankles sank into the ground, his knees emitting continuous engine roars, and the Red Unicorn creaked and groaned.

However, the pressure on the Reaper Queen also increased. Its strength was nearly three times that of Gao Gong, but in a place invisible to the naked eye, a thin monofilament wire was caught on a large rock behind it, the line becoming increasingly taut.

Seizing the moment of the opponent's weakening, Gao Gong suddenly exerted force with both arms, using the 'Parry and Block Blade' technique. The opponent's limb blade was raised high. At the same time, Gao Gong's blade tip, stained with blood, fell to the ground.

[You inflicted a Bleed effect on the enemy, stacking 60% Attack Power (12 stacks max)]

The state was officially maxed out!

With the same strike, weapon damage +25% Night Warrior bonus +60% Frenzy.

A normal attack would definitely exceed a hundred.

This also meant that Gao Gong's current damage was no longer just "crippling."

Gao Gong's status was improving, but the Cable Tribe's situation was not looking good.

Previously, a young woman had controlled three juvenile Reapers, which prevented the situation from deteriorating further.

However, the young woman's mind control was only at a beginner level. The 'Mech Possession' could only last for less than five minutes before it was about to fail.

The controlled juvenile Reapers, while being manipulated, would occasionally turn their heads and look at the young woman with covetous eyes.

"Old man, do something! If you don't help soon, I'll throw you out!"

Huang Yuanli was frantic as she watched tribe members being snatched away one by one, but Professor Han could only offer a wry smile.

After failing to integrate with the Brain in a Vat, his "Mental Control" had been crippled by ninety percent. He couldn't even control Metal Sparrows, let alone Reapers.

"Try to sense that thing," Professor Han suggested, offering a solution that wasn't really a solution.

"Sense what?" Huang Yuanli's expression froze. "Didn't that thing run off?"

"You can't sense it, but it can sense you. You are, after all... the container."

"Damn it, the older you get, the more useless you become!"

Huang Yuanli gritted her teeth, forcing herself to recall the sensation of being treated like a canned brain.

It felt like a long time, or perhaps not long at all. Just as Huang Yuanli was about to despair and give up, her vision suddenly shifted.

Her own size seemed to have become incredibly large.

So large that some of the Mech-Bio Beasts had shrunk to the size of small beans.

A massive tribe of thousands was migrating.

She herself seemed to have become a super-colossus!?