Crow Man: Invading Earth Is a Piece of Cake

Infiltrate Earth, capture a batch of humans, then leave the planet before anyone notices. Easy peasy.

Why did they run into such a powerful enemy as soon as they arrived on Earth and started their operation?!

This was way too hard! (Flips the table in anger)

Tiga rushed into the Command Room, but there wasn't a single Crow Man inside. There was only a box holding a group of humans.

It didn't look like the Crow Men's Command Room, just a room where they kept hostages.

"Mind your own business." A hoarse voice rang out. Tiga turned and saw a Crow Man with blood-red eyes.

The Crow Man's crimson eyes made Xiao Bai jolt. He immediately hid behind some discarded metal.

By then, Zhou Hong had finished off all the enemies outside and emerged from another corner.

Tiga slowly set down the box in his hands, then charged at Boss Crow Man.

Unlike those frail Crow Men who went down with a single punch, this one was different. Compared to his kin, he had absolute dominance.

His claws and Tiga's heavy fists were evenly matched, while his fighting skills were only slightly inferior to Tiga's. Yet even in his Power Type form, Tiga couldn't take him down right away.

Unable to overwhelm each other, the two kept trading blows, searching for weaknesses.

The Crow Man narrowed his huge eyes. His trembling hands were raised tensely in front of him, and all his attention was focused on Tiga.

Just then, a beam of light suddenly pierced the darkness.

It glinted against the Crow Man's forehead.

The Crow Man's blood-red eyes flew wide open. In disbelief, he looked at Zhou Hong, who was spinning his gun before sliding it back into its holster.

"Why would I follow some code of honor with a guy like you? A fistfight? Come on, don't assume that just because I've been fighting hand-to-hand all this time, that's all I can do. This thing works great."

Before Zhou Hong could finish speaking, the red-eyed Crow Man had already fallen backward.

He didn't even get the chance to start the spaceship.

Tiga hadn't expected his opponent, who had been locked in a fierce struggle with him, to get taken out just like that. He stood there, stunned.

Meanwhile, when the GUTS members burst into the room, they found a group of Crow Men with gruesome injuries.

"This is brutal. Half their heads are gone," Shinjoh remarked. "If Rena were here, she'd probably scream."

Unlike Shinjoh, Horii threw himself into his work. "Stop talking nonsense and hurry up with the search. I can't believe Ah Hong fought his way over here from the other side."

Munakata's brow lifted with delight. "We'd been planning a strategic retreat, but judging by this place, it doesn't look like we need one anymore."

He's got them all! (Fist pump)

The group moved quickly, keeping a wary eye on their surroundings, but they didn't find a single Crow Man who had escaped.

"Ah Hong really is terrifyingly strong," Munakata said with a sigh as he looked at a Crow Man hanging on the wall.

After seeing the scene, Shinjoh decided he wouldn't spar with Zhou Hong ever again. He was afraid Zhou Hong might accidentally punch him to death during training.

After taking out the last Crow Man, Zhou Hong let out a long breath. The frustration from getting beaten up every day went with it, and he instantly felt much better.

After giving Zhou Hong an Ultra Clean, Daigo left his Tiga form. His face was flushed, and the "thrilling" battle had clearly sent his heart racing.

During this fight, he'd felt the power of his muscles.

"The commander and the others should be getting here soon. They're taking their time."

"While we wait, I'll go see which unlucky souls were captured over there." Zhou Hong casually wiped away some blood, then picked up a suit jacket someone had deliberately left behind and put it on.

Even with his muscles relaxed, Zhou Hong's frame was still too big for the jacket. He could only drape it over his shoulders.

With the jacket on, he looked even less like a good guy.

As soon as he picked up the box and looked inside, Zhou Hong's expression turned strange.

Uncle Li, who claimed he'd once chopped up aliens, was lying in the box like a dead pig, along with those weakling alien underlings.

They still smelled of alcohol. It looked like they'd gone drinking together after work, as was customary in Japan, and then the Crow Men had scooped them all up.

They smelled so bad that even the Crow Men didn't want to eat them, so they'd just tossed them aside.

It was strange, all right. Zhou Hong could understand these aliens losing to the Kyrieloids, but getting captured by Crow Men this pathetic?

That was completely unexpected.

Looks like I'll have to train them next time, so they don't embarrass themselves out there.

Just then, the three GUTS members and Hibiki Gousuke followed the trail to the room.

"Hey, Commander. You're late. The fight's already over." Zhou Hong handed him the box.

Munakata was envious of Zhou Hong, who wasn't even one of his subordinates yet was such an outstanding fighter.

"Are these the hostages?" Munakata carefully and gently took the box. "They've all been shrunk."

"Horii, how long will it take to turn them back to normal?" Zhou Hong asked. "I know a few of them."

"Don't worry. They'll be fine."

"I've already analyzed the Shrink Ray Gun. It won't take long for me to make a device that can reverse it."

Horii thumped his muscular chest. Making them big again was no big deal—no problem at all!

No matter how many times it happened, Zhou Hong still found it absurd. Aliens traveled all this way with advanced technology, only for Horii to invent something that took them down in no time.

Aside from Daigo, this guy was the most ridiculous one on the team. He was like Doraemon, pulling all kinds of high-tech gadgets out of nowhere.

"If you can, please hurry," Zhou Hong said, shifting uncomfortably.

Horii looked like a boss who'd punch him the moment he said no.

"I'll give it everything I've got and get it done as fast as possible." Horii straightened his back, as if he were a new recruit standing before his drill instructor.

"By the way, if this is the Crow Men's lair, their spaceship might be here too."

"Even if we can't crack it completely, we should at least be able to preserve the star charts."

Munakata's eyes lit up. He suddenly felt a lot warmer toward these aliens who'd traveled all the way to Earth only to lose their lives.

"I'll contact the Command Room right away and have headquarters send a support team to take over."

The group didn't chat for long. Together, they headed toward the edge of the ruins.

Hidden behind some discarded metal, Xiao Bai watched those six muscular humans walking among the corpses.

He couldn't help trembling again.

Young Master Ah Yan, I've brought shame upon the monsters.