My Stand-in is Steve
Chapter 11

Monster Battle

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"This... this is..."

When they saw Fang Mo suddenly appear before them, the two soldiers froze. But soon, the joy of surviving the disaster filled their chests. Their legs gave out, and they sat down, gasping for breath.

Only then did they realize their backs were soaked with cold sweat.

"What the hell is that?!"

General Ross, who had witnessed everything from afar, was also stunned.

He had seen it with his own eyes. Though this guy looked no different from an ordinary person, he had appeared out of thin air. No matter how he thought about it, it was just too bizarre. Where the hell had this guy come from? Was today some kind of monster carnival?

But unlike everyone else, Abomination was even more excited.

Even having a car smashed into his head had only made him lean back slightly. He quickly adjusted his posture and revealed an eager, savage grin.

"A little bug... Good."

Abomination said excitedly, "Before I defeat Hulk, I'll use you to warm up."

The moment he finished speaking, a terrifying killing intent locked onto Fang Mo.

Of course, Fang Mo wasn't about to be intimidated. On the contrary, he was faintly excited, because an electronic notification suddenly rang out in his mind after such a long time.

System Prompt: New mod traits detected. Download permission may be obtained after research.

Hearing that heavenly sound, Fang Mo grew excited as well. Abomination radiated a terrifying aura, and memories of battling bosses in servers flashed through Fang Mo's mind one by one, making his blood boil.

Steve emerged from behind him like a ghost. Fang Mo then smiled at Abomination. "Trash mob, come die."

"ROAR!!!"

The instant Abomination heard Fang Mo's words, he flew into a rage and charged straight at him.

Though excited, Fang Mo wasn't stupid enough to trade punches with Abomination. It was the same principle as playing a game: before a player's gear was fully built, fighting a boss required skill more than anything else.

Fang Mo twitched a finger, and the pavement before Abomination was suddenly ripped up from thin air. Unable to react in time, Abomination slammed headfirst into it. Unfortunately, asphalt was clearly nowhere near as tough as his body. The next second, the road shattered, and Abomination charged out with a savage grin.

But when he looked up, Fang Mo had already vanished.

"...?"

Abomination paused. Then he suddenly felt a faint sting on his back, as though something had scratched him. He immediately spun around and threw a punch, only to find nothing behind him.

Abomination was confused by the sight.

He instinctively touched his back. His fingertips came away slick, and when he looked at his hand, he found it smeared with thick yellow-green blood.

"You despicable bug!"

Realizing he had been injured, Abomination was instantly consumed by rage. He began destroying everything around him indiscriminately. "You think this can hurt me?! Come out! Fight me!"

As Abomination fell into a frenzy, the surrounding cars, streets, and even buildings suffered. Countless cars were crushed beneath his feet, and every fire hydrant was smashed open. The entire street was burning while rain poured down on it. It was complete chaos.

Meanwhile, Fang Mo stood atop a nearby building, observing Abomination's every move.

It had to be said that his Stand was still a little weak.

Though the Iron Sword in Steve's hand could easily kill terrorists like cutting open watermelons, against a thick-skinned monster like Abomination, its attack power was clearly lacking.

Fang Mo's plan had been simple. He would use the Ender Hand to draw Abomination's attention, then have Stand-in Steve circle around behind him and stab him in the back.

The idea had been perfect, but Fang Mo had still underestimated Abomination's defense.

Steve had put everything into that jumping slash, yet it had only left a wound a few inches deep in Abomination's back.

For a monster more than three meters tall, such a wound was nothing. It was like being poked by a toothpick for an ordinary person. The pain would only anger him and make him even more violent.

Even so, Fang Mo wasn't discouraged.

In the Twilight Forest mod, Hydra had far more health than Abomination. But what had that changed? Fang Mo had still stabbed it to death with a sword.

"Today, I'll show you what it means to get cut in the ass with a little knife."

With that thought, the corner of Fang Mo's mouth curled up.

He reached out and made a grasping motion. A water tower on the rooftop was suddenly yanked into the air by an enormous force, then hurled straight at Abomination.

"Hm?"

Abomination, lost in his rampage, seemed to sense something. He abruptly looked up and saw the water tower flying toward him, so he pushed off with both legs and dodged to the side.

The water tower crashed heavily into the ground, sending countless waves of water splashing outward.

Taking advantage of that opening, Steve, who had been waiting for some time, stabbed out like a phantom. Abomination only felt darkness cover his left eye, and the piercing pain in the next instant forced him to howl.

"AARGH!!!"

After his eye took a heavy blow, Abomination went mad and launched wild attacks at the space before him.

Without other mods installed, Steve's movement speed wasn't actually very fast. Faced with Abomination's rapid barrage, he clearly couldn't dodge. But Fang Mo's combat awareness was incredible. He instantly controlled Steve to raise his shield in defense.

With a thunderous bang, a shockwave suddenly burst through the air.

"Hm?"

Abomination felt as though he had punched an alloy wall. Waves of pain shot through his fist, and he raised his head in surprise, only to find nothing in front of him. It was as though everything that had just happened had been an illusion.

But Abomination had once been a soldier. After connecting the signs from before, he immediately realized that his enemy was invisible.

"Bug! I know your secret now!"

Abomination roared excitedly. He grabbed a massive concrete pillar beside him and spun it wildly like a windmill, apparently intending to force his enemy to reveal himself through a wide-area attack. "Come out! Let me grind you into pulp!"

Fang Mo naturally ignored him.

In fact, he was currently aching over his shield's durability.

Abomination's punch damage was truly ridiculous. His shield's durability had dropped by a huge chunk in an instant. Luckily, Minecraft rules allowed a shield to use durability to block attack damage. Otherwise, if his Stand took a punch like that, it would probably be left with barely any health.

"Looks like I need a different approach..."

Fang Mo slowly raised his hand, and a faint purple glow lit up in his palm.

A car in the distance suddenly rose into the air and smashed toward Abomination.

Abomination swung the concrete pillar and smashed it into the car. With a boom, the car shattered into pieces. But the next second, another car flew at him, and Abomination swung the concrete pillar again.

When the third car flew over, Abomination raised the concrete pillar as usual. But the next second, his foot found nothing beneath it. For some reason, the ground had suddenly collapsed into a pit. Abomination lost his balance and stepped into it. Steve, hiding underground, immediately drew his Iron Sword and hacked fiercely at his Achilles tendon.

Fang Mo generously called it... giving him a pedicure.

"ROAR!!!"

Feeling the searing pain in his foot, Abomination immediately tried to pull his leg out of the pit. But a car suddenly slammed into his head. Fang Mo clenched his hand, and the car was instantly compressed by immense force into an iron shell, firmly jammed over Abomination's head.

By the time Abomination finally tore off the iron shell around his head and pulled his leg out of the pit, Steve had already chopped his Achilles tendon into a bloody mess.

Before he could even get angry, a green figure suddenly pounced from the side. It grabbed Abomination and pinned him to the ground, then climbed atop him and began hammering him with a barrage of wild punches. Fists the size of washbasins rained down like a storm, cracking the asphalt apart. It felt as though the entire street could feel the ground shaking.

"Another... another one?"

The fleeing civilians were dumbfounded by the sight. This was already the third monster they had seen today. Everything had become a complete mess. What the hell was happening to New York?

"Hm? Hulk?"

The instant Fang Mo saw that huge green figure, he understood. Yes, this battle should originally have been between Hulk and Abomination. He had merely inserted himself into it. It seemed Hulk had indeed made his entrance after all.

Unfortunately, although Hulk's entrance looked imposing, Dr. Bruce Banner had just injected himself with a drug that suppressed gamma energy. This meant Hulk's strength had weakened considerably. That entire flurry of attacks hadn't caused Abomination any real damage, and Hulk was instead kicked away by the enraged Abomination.

"Get lost, Hulk!"

Abomination roared, "You're not my target right now! I'm going to kill that damned little bug first!"

But before Abomination could finish speaking, a tremendous burst of gunfire rang out. Abomination, who had just risen from the ground, staggered again. He raised his head furiously and discovered that a helicopter was attacking him.

It was General Ross's personal helicopter. At that moment, Bruce Banner's girlfriend Betty was aboard it, looking worriedly at Hulk. Beside them, a soldier operated a Gatling gun, pouring a stream of fire at Abomination in an attempt to suppress him with firepower.

"Ross..."

Disgust and hatred flashed in Abomination's eyes. He suddenly grabbed a sheet of metal nearby and hurled it at the helicopter with all his strength.

"Evasive maneuvers!"

General Ross shouted in panic, but a human pilot's reaction speed simply couldn't keep up. The next second, the sheet metal struck the helicopter's tail rotor. A burst of flames erupted, and the helicopter spun toward the ground.

Hulk, who had been kicked away by Abomination, shakily climbed back to his feet. He happened to look up just in time to witness the scene.

When he saw Betty's frightened, terrified expression, his eyes instantly turned bloodshot.

From now on, I'll try my best to maintain two chapters a day, around 3K words each. As a new author with a new book, you all probably understand that a novel in a style like Minecraft is incredibly difficult to write well. Letting chapters pile up isn't a good habit; new authors really can slowly die off...

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