Meatball Crash

The tunnel entrance had been successfully blown open, but the Snowwhite Thunder Bear flew into a rage as well.

The arcs of electricity crawling over its body finally went out of control, turning into bolts of lightning that shot wildly in every direction.

For a moment, the Spirit Martial Practitioners from the two squads were thrown into a frantic scramble.

Su Wuming's side was doing better. Rubber did not conduct electricity, so he directly blocked the lightning strikes for Qin Ming and Brother Li.

But it was not over yet. After releasing the lightning, the Snowwhite Thunder Bear repeatedly slammed its paws against the ground.

In an instant, the surrounding snow began gathering toward it. In the blink of an eye, more than a dozen enormous bear paws formed from snow condensed into ice appeared out of nowhere and came crashing down at everyone under its control.

However, half of those bear paws were aimed at Su Wuming.

The Snowwhite Thunder Bear intended to give special attention to the human brat who had destroyed the passage behind it and let him experience its boundless fury.

Its talent for controlling ice and snow was similar to Qin Ming's Earth Bear Battle Soul. As long as there was snow and ice around, it could keep fighting continuously, unleashing attack after attack.

Su Wuming was groaning inwardly. Fortunately, he could use the surrounding terrain to maneuver, barely managing to evade several of the bombardments.

At that moment, he could not help turning his head and cursing at the Snowwhite Thunder Bear.

"Stupid bear! Are your damn eyes blind? Why are you focusing on a little Black Iron like me? Can't you see the twenty-plus people over there?"

"Damn it, little brother, listen to yourself. Is that something a human should say?"

"Enough. He helped us out, after all. Brothers, we can't let the little brother help for nothing. Let's hold this stupid bear back first and let him retreat."

"Fine, no problem. We'll listen to the captain."

"Su Wuming, you bastard, can you stop carrying the two of us while you run? It's attacking you, not me and Brother Li!" After Su Wuming shouted those words, Qin Ming started cursing as well.

"Damn it, Qin Ming, I'm saving you out of kindness, and you still don't appreciate it? Say another word and I'll use a rubber shield to offer you up as a shield!"

Qin Ming: ...Fine, I'll shut up. I'll be obedient.

Fortunately, the people from the two squads helped block the subsequent bear-paw strikes, giving Su Wuming a chance to use the terrain and quickly escape the battlefield.

This was a Silver Rank battle. It was not something a Black Iron like him could take part in. Helping blow open the tunnel was already doing them a favor.

He still had to find Lin Pangpang and the others. He had no idea what was happening over there. Hopefully, they were all okay...

After running for a while, Qin Ming's walkie-talkie rang. The person on the other end replied that they were fine. The Snowwhite Thunder Bear's lightning had interfered with the signal earlier, which was why the call had been cut off.

They were currently hiding inside a concealed building. The bridge had already been occupied by the Snowwhite Thunder Bear and a large group of Nunu Beasts it led.

As for the military's Spirit Martial Practitioner unit, it had been struck by suddenly falling ice spheres and was almost completely wiped out. For the time being, they could not break through Dry City Bridge.

But the worst part was that, for some unknown reason, the Safe Zone on the other side had yet to send out more troops.

After learning the situation, Su Wuming gradually calmed down and began considering how to break through the bridge.

They had to break through the Snowwhite Thunder Bear's blockade before all the beasts in the city gathered at Dry City Bridge.

Suddenly, an idea flashed through his mind. A plan was born, but he needed to make some preparations first.

So he took the walkie-talkie from Qin Ming and spoke with the people on the other end. After receiving confirmation, Su Wuming turned his gaze toward Qin Ming.

"Qin Ming, I remember your family's Monster Hunters' Office is nearby. Can we still exchange Beast Crystals there?"

"Don't worry. The Beast Crystals inside Beast Cards won't disappear. You can exchange them anywhere in the country."

Qin Ming thought Su Wuming was worried that the Beast Crystals in his Beast Card would become invalid after this disaster.

"You misunderstood. I know all that. I have another use for exchanging Beast Crystals."

"To restore spiritual power? I still have more than ten here. Use them first. It should be enough."

"I have more than ten too." Brother Li took them out immediately. He knew this was not the time to be stingy.

"No, it isn't enough. I don't mind telling you two—I want to reach Bronze, but these Beast Crystals aren't enough."

"What did you say?" Qin Ming looked at him as if he were an idiot.

Su Wuming answered with the look of someone dealing with a country bumpkin, then snatched the Beast Crystals from Brother Li's hand and, under their dumbfounded stares, stuffed them all into his mouth.

As chewing sounds rang out, Qin Ming's mind went blank.

"Are you crazy? You can't eat those things!"

Before his words even fell, Su Wuming swallowed them.

"That's for you guys. I crunch them down one at a time, and there's no waste either. My body absorbs them well."

"Absorbs them well, my ass! Wait, you're really okay?!" Qin Ming was genuinely shocked now. If an ordinary person swallowed even one, their stomach would explode. Yet Su Wuming was completely fine!

Moreover, he could clearly sense that Su Wuming's cultivation had improved a little.

"Now will you tell me whether the Monster Hunters' Office can still exchange Beast Crystals?"

"No. It was transferred to the Safe Zone long ago. Come to my house. Today happens to be the day Beast Crystals are distributed to the younger members of the family. This emergency happened at just the right time, so they haven't been taken out of the safe yet. They should still be there if we go now."

"That'll do. Hurry, lead the way. Oh, and give me the ones on you first. I'll eat those first and pay you back later, along with Brother Li."

"No need. Consider them payment. We'll still have to rely on you to cross the bridge later."

Qin Ming was extremely generous now. Those Beast Crystals had been meant to be divided among the younger family members anyway, so he might as well do Su Wuming a favor.

After getting the Beast Crystals, Su Wuming began his crunching performance, occasionally using chicken legs to wash them down.

Because he was eating too urgently this time, the energy he had not had time to absorb was tearing his stomach apart.

The Black Iron-to-Bronze stage could be reached entirely by piling up Beast Crystals. There was no need to worry about an unstable foundation. That only became a concern after Silver Rank.

Now at Black Iron Nine-Star, he absorbed them much faster than before.

Even so, it took an hour to absorb them all. After everyone regrouped, they gathered together and waited for Su Wuming to advance.

As the final Beast Crystal was digested and absorbed, the barrier between Black Iron and Bronze shattered. An aura completely different from before spread from Su Wuming's body.

Feeling the power within himself multiply, Su Wuming gained even more confidence in charging the bridge.

As they had discussed beforehand, Qin Ming's people began contacting the Spirit Martial Practitioners hiding nearby, forming a team of several dozen whose main task was to hold the beasts back for a while.

Meanwhile, Su Wuming chose the space between two buildings as his point of leverage. It was also the attack point they had selected beforehand. He gripped both sides tightly with his arms and pushed off with his feet, running backward.

After running roughly two hundred meters, Su Wuming stopped in front of a KFC on one side.

Inside, Lin Pangpang and Qin Ming led several people out, each carrying paper buckets in their arms.

At the same time, the battle at the bridge began.

After Lin Pangpang's group came out, Su Wuming opened his mouth wide, and everyone began dumping all kinds of food into it.

Burgers, fries, fried chicken—anything edible was poured into his mouth.

The sight made several ordinary people nearby gasp sharply, their hands holding fried chicken buckets trembling uncontrollably.

Could this really work?

Su Wuming had no time to care about their gazes. He swallowed the food entering his mouth with all his strength, his belly visibly beginning to swell.

"Damn, Pangpang, are you sure Wuming can swallow ten pieces of fried chicken at once?" Qin Ming eyed Lin Pangpang suspiciously as he stuffed ten pieces of fried chicken into Su Wuming's mouth.

"No problem. Don't just stand there. Come help pull his mouth open wider."

"You animals..." Qin Ming said it, but his body honestly went over and pulled Su Wuming's mouth open.

Su Wuming's ridiculously swollen face was clearly filled with reluctance and disbelief.

Pangpang, you've changed. You're definitely taking this chance to get revenge on me!

"Huh? Can't swallow it?" Lin Pangpang asked in confusion.

"It's fine. Just use a stick to shove it down." As Qin Ming spoke, he somehow found a stick and made as if to help poke the food down.

"Good idea. You do the poking, and I'll stretch his neck. Brothers, don't just stand there either. Come help stretch his neck. Can't you see he's choking up tears? Oh, right, go get a ladder. Once these go down, we won't be able to reach them."

Su Wuming: ...These are tears of humiliation!!!

The reason for all this was Su Wuming's original plan.

He would eat until his body swelled up, reaching a certain size, then use the rebound force to unleash Rubber Meatball Crash.

Killing the Snowwhite Thunder Bear was naturally impossible, but knocking it off the bridge was absolutely possible. They could use the bottomless rift beneath the bridge to kill the Snowwhite Thunder Bear.