Mad Beast smiled ferociously and walked towards the back of Field Ridge step by step.
He didn't deliberately hide the sound of his footsteps.
The heavy alloy boots stepped on the soft soil, making a "creak, creak" sound, and every step made the ground tremble slightly.
This is a game of cat and mouse, and he likes to appreciate the fear of his prey before taking action.
"Captain, the target's vital signs are stable, with a heart rate of sixty beats per minute and no mood swings."
Doctor's voice came through the team channel, with A Trace's confusion in his tone.
"Strange, even if you are deaf, you should have heard the footsteps of Mad Beast. Is this native's reaction too calm?"
"Maybe I'm scared."
Witch chuckled and watched this scene with interest.
"When mortals face incomprehensible forces, their brains will shut down. This is normal. Just like an ant, it will not react to a big foot that is about to step on, because its nervous system cannot handle this level of threats at all."
"That makes sense." Doctor agreed with this explanation.
In their eyes, the gap between themselves and these natives is wider than the gap between humans and ants.
At this time, Mad Beast had walked less than ten meters behind the farmer.
He stopped and moved his neck, making a "click, click, click" sound.
"Hey, old man."
He spoke in a joking, condescending tone.
"Turn around and let me see what you look like."
The farmer in the field paused slightly.
He didn't seem to hear Mad Beast's words. He just straightened up and wiped the sweat from his forehead with a coarse sweat towel hanging around his neck.
He was wearing linen clothes with several patches, and his trouser legs were rolled up to his knees, exposing his two muddy calves.
That face, weather-beaten and full of wrinkles, is the most common face in this land.
He raised his head and squinted at Taiyang in the sky, seeming to be estimating Shichen.
Then, he bent down again, gripped the hoe in his hand, and prepared to continue working.
From beginning to end, he never looked back at Mad Beast.
Not fear, not caution.
It's complete and utter disregard.
"... Huh?"
The smile on Mad Beast's face froze.
Qin Wu, Doctor and others behind him were also stunned.
"This guy..." The corners of Mad Beast's eyes began to twitch, and A Trace's anger rose from the bottom of his heart.
He is [Apocalypse] Team's "Mad Beast"!
He is the owner of the bloodline "Abyss Titan" who can tear apart giant dragons with his hands and crush mountains with his fists!
In the countless worlds he conquered in the past, as long as he appeared, he would bring everyone the most extreme fear and despair!
But now, a dirt-legged person digging in the fields, a mortal who didn't even bother to look at him, dared to... ignore him like this?
"Very good."
Mad Beast squeezed out two words from between his teeth.
He laughed angrily.
"It seems that if I don't give you some 'civilized' shock, you won't know what you are facing."
He had a thought in his mind.
[MK-V type Godslayer Armor, start!]
Buzz--!!!
A low roar sounded from within his body!
The surface of the seemingly ordinary combat uniform he wore had countless Blue One data streams flowing through it instantly.
Immediately afterwards, there was a harsh sound of metal twisting in the space behind him.
A metal module folded in subspace was forcibly summoned!
Click! Click! Click--!
The module is like a Transformer, rapidly decomposing, extending, and covering in a series of dazzling mechanical combinations!
Thick dark gold alloy armor fastened piece by piece on Mad Beast's limbs and torso.
On the shoulder, a ferocious collision angle pops up.
On the chest, a miniature nuclear fusion reactor, emitting a faint Blue One light, was lit, making a "thump-thump" sound like the heartbeat of a giant beast.
Behind him, twelve miniature anti-gravity engines ignited simultaneously, ejecting light Blue One tail flames, allowing his huge body to slowly float half a meter above the ground, preventing his own terrifying weight from crushing this fragile land.
Just three seconds.
A humanoid mecha that is more than five meters tall, covered with streamlined armor, and full of violent aesthetics, appears on Field Ridge!
The sunlight shines on the dark golden shell of the mecha, reflecting a cold and cruel luster.
The face of the mecha is a red eyepiece that transmits light in one direction, like the one eye of hell Demon God, tightly locked on the tiny figure below who is still hoeing the ground.
"Now..."
From the mecha's built-in loudspeaker, the electronically synthesized, cold and distorted voice of Mad Beast came out.
"Old man, are you willing to have a serious talk with me?"
This earth-shattering change finally made the farmer react.
He stopped hoeing and slowly turned around.
He raised his head and looked at the steel giant exuding a terrifying aura in front of him. For the first time, his wrinkled face showed a clear expression.
Not shocked.
Not fear.
But...
A Trace, I am impatient to be interrupted from my farm work.
"I said..."
The farmer's lips moved, and his voice was hoarse with a thick native accent.
"You young men from the city, dressed in fancy clothes, can you stay away from my crops?"
"You stepped on my cabbage."
"..."
"..."
All members of [Apocalypse] Team fell into a deathly silence.
In the team channel, even the sound of breathing disappeared.
They looked at the tactical screen, and the farmer pointed solemnly at a cabbage tree at the feet of the Mad Beast mecha that was being blown around by the airflow of the anti-gravity engine.
They feel that their worldview has been impacted by some indescribable impact.
A full five seconds passed.
"Pfft... haha... hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha--!!!"
Mad Beast's wild laughter burst out from the mecha, making the entire mecha tremble with laughter.
"He... he actually cares about his cabbage? Oh my god! This is the funniest joke I've ever heard!"
"Captain! I take back what I just said! Either this guy was scared out of his mind, he is just a pure, hopeless idiot!"
Qin Wu is not smiling.
His brows wrinkled slightly.
Something is wrong.
Something is so wrong.
Even an idiot shouldn't react like this when faced with a five-meter-tall Slaughter mecha.
This completely goes against the instinct of life to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages.
"Mad Beast, stop playing."
Qin Wu's voice turned cold.
"Break his limbs and bring them back."
"Okay, Captain!"
Mad Beast's laughter stopped abruptly and was replaced by cold murderous intent.
"Old man, since you value your cabbage so much, I will trample you and your shabby crops into a pulp together!"
The voice fell.
God-Slayer Mecha's right arm was raised suddenly!
The armor of the entire arm quickly deformed and reorganized!
A huge drill with a diameter of more than one meter and covered with energy circuits replaced the original fist!
Buzz buzz--!!!
At the front end of the drill bit, an energy compression force field is instantly activated, and the air is extracted at high speed, forming a visible, constantly rotating... gravitational singularity!
[God-Slaying Drill·Overload mode!]
This move is Mad Beast's signature killing move.
Once, he used this move to penetrate a rogue planet made of rock and steel with a diameter of tens of thousands of kilometers!
And now, this drill, which is enough to reach the Destruction planet, is aimed at an unarmed mortal farmer.
"Die!!!"
Mad Beast roared, and the mecha's engine exploded with maximum power!
That huge God-Slaying Drill, with the terrifying power of tearing apart space and shattering everything, crashed down towards the tiny figure below!
Time, at this moment, seemed to slow down.
In Qin Wu's tactical eyepiece, he could clearly see that the gravitational singularity at the front of the drill bit had begun to distort the light around the farmer.
He could see that the coarse linen clothes on the farmer's body instantly disintegrated into countless fragments under the terrifying pull of gravity, revealing the bronze-colored, not-so-robust skin underneath.
He could even see that A Trace seemed to flash through the farmer's cloudy eyes... Helplessness?
Everything will turn into powder in the next millisecond.
It's over.
Qin Wu This thought flashed through his mind.
Then, he saw.
The farmer faced this devastating blow.
He just sighed softly.
Then, he raised the soil-covered... hoe in his hand.