Feng Xuan, who was watching the battle from the mountaintop, knelt on the ground, one hand supporting himself on the ground and the other hand holding his sweat-drenched head.
"Holy crap, is the area affected this far? Even though I'm standing this far away, it still has an impact."
Feng Xuan bit his tongue, forcing himself to regain some clarity.
He looked at his teammates who were struggling, and at the Variant who hadn't suffered any real damage at all.
After hesitating for a moment, I took my phone out of my pocket.
He removed one of the Satellite mounts and slowly pressed the button on it.
The Satellite pendant emitted bursts of green light.
"Request the use of artificial intelligence [Satellite] to deploy [ Heavenly Tribulation ] to kill the Variant!"
He leaned closer to the pendant and spoke.
The Satellite pendant flashed green and responded with a voice filled with electronic noise:
"The conditions for using [ Heavenly Tribulation ] are not met; execution is not possible."
"What?!" Feng Xuan stared in astonishment at the Satellite pendant in his hand, and couldn't help but start cursing.
"What the hell doesn't fit! Sparsely populated, no important buildings, and this Variant has such poor mobility yet such a high level—it fits perfectly!"
The Satellite widget simply replied, "Sorry, it does not meet the usage requirements of [ Heavenly Tribulation ] and cannot be used."
Feng Xuan sensed something was amiss and tentatively spoke.
"As the developer of [Satellite], I hereby command you, using [Satellite]'s command authority, to use [ Heavenly Tribulation ] to kill the Variant before you."
After a moment of silence, [Satellite] continued its electronic reply.
"I'm sorry, [ Heavenly Tribulation ] is currently under special conditions and cannot be used."
"Damn it!" Feng Xuan turned off the Satellite and put it back in his pocket.
"Something's definitely wrong. I'll report to my superiors after this mission is over."
He looked at the fighting crowd again, and could only silently cheer them on in his heart.
Under Si Xiaobei's command and with Nanming's assistance, the Special Investigation Squad continued to leave wounds on the Variant's obese body.
The Variant's expression grew increasingly furious.
"A swarm of annoying flies! Why can't I swat you!"
The Variant's hands waved wildly in the air in a fit of rage.
Suddenly, he looked at Si Xiaobei, who had been directing everyone, and his chubby face immediately showed a look of sudden realization.
It crawled towards Si Xiaobei using both hands and feet, while chuckling incessantly.
Si Xiaobei sensed the Variant crawling towards her, and her face instantly turned deathly pale with fright.
"Brother Nanming!" he shouted, and immediately ran in the opposite direction.
Upon hearing the commotion, Nanming quickly turned to look at Si Xiaobei.
His pupils contracted instantly, he put Liu Xiaogang down, and ran towards him like lightning.
However, the Variant's obese body allowed it to crawl at an extremely fast speed.
They were suddenly directly above Si Xiaobei.
Hehehe!
The Variant raised its large hand and slapped it down.
Si Xiaobei flipped over and barely dodged, but then another hand slapped down.
Si Xiaobei lay on the ground, sensing the giant hand getting closer and closer to her, her face filled with despair.
Just as the large hand was about to fall, Nanming suddenly pounced over, grabbed Si Xiaobei's hand, and threw him away.
Si Xiaobei was thrown out of the attack range and crashed heavily to the ground, her clothes covered in dust.
Ignoring his own pain, he hurriedly used [ Divine Detective ] to probe over.
A loud bang!
The Variant, bluish-green hand slammed down, and bright red blood flowed from its palm.
Si Xiaobei stared wide-eyed at the scene in disbelief.
His mind went blank for a moment, his lips trembled slightly, but he couldn't say anything. In that instant, he seemed to have his soul taken away and slumped to the ground in a daze.
The Variant smiled slightly, "Hehe, although it wasn't that one, I still killed one, not bad..."
Suddenly, a piercing pain shot through its palm, followed by a tremendous force that blasted its hand away.
"Roar--!"
A half-human, half-beast creature blasted away the Variant's hand and stood within the giant handprint, roaring angrily.
Its claws and fangs were stained with blood, making it look like a wild beast in the midst of a battle.
Si Xiaobei was stunned again. He could sense that the creature in front of him was Nanming, but why had he suddenly become like this?
"Brother Nanming..."
Si Xiaobei called out to the other person timidly.
But what responded to him was a pair of scarlet eyes and Nanming's incessant low growls like a wild beast.
"Roar--"
The half-human, half-beast Nanming let out a low growl, though this time it sounded slightly painful.
Pfft!
A shark fin, sharp as a blade, suddenly grew out from his back.
Then, the teeth in its mouth began to fall out one by one, and then serrated, sharp teeth like those of a shark grew in.
The Variant was also somewhat stunned as it watched this scene. It sensed that the person exuded an aura that belonged entirely to the Variant, but at the same time, it also contained a human aura.
Its expression turned to disgust, and it clenched its fat fist and smashed it directly at Nanming, who was still struggling in pain.
With a deafening roar and a tremor of the earth, Nanming was slammed into the ground by a punch.
The Variant raised its fist, preparing to deliver another punch.
Another punch landed, and this time, Nanming, who had been knocked to the ground, suddenly vanished.
The Variant's eyes twitched, and it turned its head, which had no visible neck, in a panic, trying to find Nanming.
"Roar!"
A roar rang out, Nanming had somehow appeared behind the Variant, leaped up and climbed onto its head.
Sharp claws and fangs relentlessly tore at its hair and scalp.
The Variant creature let out a painful howl, grabbed Nanming with both hands, and threw him to the ground.
He struggled to his feet and stomped down.
The weight, like a small mountain, crashed down on Nanming, creating a small crater in the ground.
But the Variant didn't stop; instead, it continued to trample on them relentlessly.
The fat feet landed again and again, and Nanming's body sank deeper and deeper.
As the foot landed again, a pair of large, blood-soaked hands suddenly grabbed it and forcefully blocked it.
The Variant's expression changed in surprise, and it looked down in disbelief.
A humanoid shark, nearly five meters tall and bulging with muscles, was angrily gripping the Variant's foot, its scarlet pupils seeming capable of killing.
The humanoid shark exerted its strength, and the giant Variant was flipped to the ground.
The Variant collapsed to the ground, raising a cloud of dust.
It braced itself on the ground with its hands, trying to sit up, but something like a cannonball suddenly slammed into its face.
A large amount of blood gushed from his mouth and nose, and his fat face was also somewhat deformed from the impact.
Nanming grabbed the other man's neck, opened his mouthful of fangs, and bit down without hesitation.
As a jet of blood rose, a large chunk of flesh was bitten off alive, but due to the thick layer of fat, the blow was not Life- threatening.
But it was enough to frighten the Variant.
The Variant grabbed Nanming and slammed him into the nearby rock wall with all its might.
He swung his enormous fist and slammed it down.
At the moment of impact, another spurt of blood appeared.
Its thumb was bitten off by Nanming.
"Ah!" The excruciating pain in its ten fingers made it cry out and retreat repeatedly.