58: Chapter 58 These are the shrewdest people! (Part 2)

"You..." The Grey Wolf's brain completely shut down.

The Grade B exoskeleton armor he was wearing was a treasure he had painstakingly acquired from the black market, exhausting his savings and betting his life.

Its core power reactor could support him in unleashing strength exceeding that of a Tier 3 intermediate.

Never mind an F-rank, even an Enhancement Type awakener of the same tier would be stripped of a layer of skin at best if they took his alloy flamethrower head-on.

Yet this kid in front of him... not even his hair was messed up.

Is this a human?

What kind of monster is wearing a human skin?

The Grey Wolf's confidence was crumbling inch by inch.

He roared, and the mechanical structures of his arms clicked and clacked.

The arm armor flipped open to the sides, revealing a pair of high-speed vibrating alloy heavy hammers.

"I don't believe it!"

He pushed off the ground violently, his whole body like a crazed bull.

He smashed fiercely at Su Ming's chest!

Su Ming still didn't dodge or evade.

"Thud."

A dull, heavy sound reverberated, numbing the Grey Wolf's arms.

On Su Ming's bronze-colored skin, there wasn't even a white mark.

He only swayed slightly and took a step back.

The ground beneath his feet cracked in response, spiderweb-like fissures spreading instantly.

The Grey Wolf was completely stunned, red light flashing wildly in his mechanical prosthetic eyes:

"What the hell? My hammers can even flatten an armored car, you..."

Su Ming looked down at his chest, then looked up again, his tone flat.

"Didn't you eat?"

The phrase "didn't you eat" was like the most vicious mockery.

It instantly ignited the Grey Wolf's last shred of sanity.

"Ahhhhh!"

He went crazy.

The alloy heavy hammers on his arms turned into an impenetrable blur of afterimages.

He struck wildly at Su Ming!

"Thud! Thud! Thud! Thud!"

Su Ming crossed his arms to block in front of him.

He let those heavy hammers, capable of crushing alloy, land on his body.

The ground beneath his feet couldn't bear this terrifying force, continuously sinking and collapsing.

After a dozen seconds, he had been smashed into a pit over half a meter deep.

And he was still completely unharmed.

The Grey Wolf was desperate.

He looked at the teenager in the pit who hadn't even messed up his breathing, and then glanced at the flank.

Over there, Lynx was in precarious danger under Shen Qingci's impossibly fast sword.

On the other side, Weasel was being chased by a dog, rolling all over the ground.

Their hunting squad, which they were so proud of, had become a complete joke in front of an F-rank loser and a military school girl.

"Damn it!"

The Grey Wolf roared and retreated two steps.

He pulled that dark red syringe from his waist.

"Use the drug!!"

At his command, Lynx and Weasel in the distance acted simultaneously.

Lynx gritted his teeth and jammed the syringe fiercely into his own neck!

Weasel, in a panic, stabbed it into his thigh right through his pants!

The pupils of all three were instantly filled with bloodshot veins.

Their muscles expanded at a speed visible to the naked eye.

A violent aura erupted with a boom!

"Roar!!"

The Grey Wolf howled at the sky, and the alloy armor plates on his chest slowly flipped open to the sides.

This revealed a miniature energy cannon muzzle flickering with eerie blue arcs.

The ultimate forbidden move of the exoskeleton armor.

[Overload · Annihilation Cannon]!

At the cost of overdrawing the power reactor's lifespan.

It fires an energy beam comparable to the full-strength blow of a Tier 4 awakener!

Su Ming's eyes narrowed slightly.

"Oh? This is interesting."

...

On the other side.

"Die!"

Stimulated by the berserk potion, Lynx's speed soared by more than a notch.

His figure became so fast he turned into a black line.

The three afterimages left in place were as solid as reality.

He was going to gamble everything!

However, Shen Qingci just snorted coldly.

The Tang cross-sword "cold edge" in the girl's hand.

The blade shimmered with brilliant light.

A layer of cicada-wing-thin gold dense marrow covered it.

It emitted a high-frequency hum.

This time, she wasn't just simply blocking.

She didn't even look at the three shadows attacking her.

Her gaze was locked firmly onto the only real shadow that Lynx's main body projected onto the ground.

"Slash!"

She swung her sword!

This strike didn't have earth-shattering momentum, but it was gorgeous and cold to the extreme.

The blade didn't slash at any of Lynx's figures.

Instead, at an inconceivable angle.

It precisely swept across the ground!

Swoosh!

The "head" part of that real shadow.

Was silently split in two by the blade.

"How is this possible...?!"

In mid-air, Lynx, who was pouncing at extreme speed, stiffened abruptly.

The next second, his head and body separated smoothly.

A line of blood sprayed out.

At the severed area, a layer of faint golden ice crystals was attached.

That was Geng Metal Qi instantly freezing the blood.

He didn't even have time to scream.

Lynx, dead.

...

"Ahhhhh help me!"

On the other end of the Gobi, the situation was completely different.

Weasel watched Lynx beheaded and was scared out of his wits.

He had been forced by Dahuang onto a dead giant tree.

He was hugging the trunk and trembling.

Dahuang was frantically digging at the tree roots below.

It looked like it wouldn't stop until it got him down.

Weasel had completely broken down.

He looked into the distance, where his captain, the Grey Wolf, was equally helpless against that monster teenager.

It's over, it's all over.

Seeing the dead tree already teetering, a flash of final madness appeared in Weasel's eyes.

He pulled a pale white bone whistle, neither gold nor jade, from his bosom.

This wasn't equipment given by Zhao Kuo, but his own ultimate trump card.

[Insect Whistle]!

He glanced at the berserk potion in his hand that hadn't been fully injected yet.

A crazy thought surged into his mind.

He couldn't win using the potion.

Then what if... he gave the potion to the insect swarm?

Then let's all go crazy together!

He bit his tongue violently.

He sprayed a mist of blood onto the bone whistle.

The circle drawn with gray-white powder turned into an altar.

It lit up with eerie blood light!

Then he used all his strength to blow it hard!

"Woo!"

A sharp, highly penetrating whistle tore through the deathly silence of the Ash Belt.

After the whistle, from the depths of the abyss.

A hair-raising "rustling" sound immediately came.

The sound of billions of insects crawling came from underground.

Immediately after, on the western horizon, a black "dark cloud" was approaching rapidly.

That was not a cloud at all!

It was tens of thousands of abyss poisonous insects, blotting out the sky!

"Hahahaha!" Weasel collapsed on the tree branch.

Blood was still dripping from his mouth as he let out hysterical laughter.

"Die! Let's all die!!"

...

Su Ming was preparing to raise his fist.

To punch into the muzzle of the Grey Wolf's cannon, which was flickering with electric arcs.

Hearing the whistle, he paused and looked up at the sky.

His expression changed slightly.

Shen Qingci, who had just killed Lynx.

Caught a glimpse of the insect cloud swallowing the daylight.

Her pupils contracted sharply.

Even the Grey Wolf, who had already activated the [Overload · Annihilation Cannon], panicked.

He turned his head and roared in the direction of Weasel:

"Weasel, are you crazy! That thing doesn't distinguish between friend and foe!"

"I can't escape anyway... let's die together..."

Weasel's voice was as weak as a thread, filled with the pleasure of revenge.

Dahuang under the tree stopped digging.

It let out threatening barks at the terrifying swarm of insects.

Its dark golden mane stood on end.

Su Ming slowly lowered his fist.

"It seems I can't play anymore."

The next instant, his figure flickered.

With a speed that the Grey Wolf couldn't react to at all.

He appeared in front of the mecha.

There were no earth-shattering moves.

Su Ming simply placed his right palm.

On the energy cannon muzzle on the Grey Wolf's chest that was about to finish charging.

Talent Sequence — [Mass Resonance]!

Activate!

"Hum!"

An invisible, destructive shockwave.

Instantly penetrated the thick Grade B alloy armor!

Physical implosion, first stage!

Inside the mecha.

Thousands of precision screws, gears, and circuit boards.

Under the extreme high-frequency resonance.

Instantly reached the limit of metal fatigue, collapsing and shattering one after another!

The muzzle that was frantically accumulating energy, the electric arcs suddenly extinguished.

The madness on the Grey Wolf's face froze.

He felt as if his internal organs were being tightly gripped by an invisible hand.

Then shaken frantically.

However, this was just the beginning.

Exclusive hidden trait — [Second-Stage Echo]!

"Boom!!!"

A counter-shock force, twice as violent as the first impact.

Rushed out from within Su Ming's body and poured into the mecha again!

The Grey Wolf's eyeballs instantly burst with countless bloodshot veins.

His internal organs, bones, and flesh.

Under this destructive secondary resonance.

Were directly shaken into the most primitive mush.

The shell of the Grade B exoskeleton armor was still intact.

But the Grey Wolf inside.

Had become a literal "puddle of mush."

The mecha's arms hung down powerlessly.

The tall body crashed to its knees on the ground, the fire completely extinguished.

The insect swarm had arrived.

That sky-filling buzzing sound.

Was enough to make any Tier 3 awakener's heart and gallbladder split.

However, the scene that followed stunned everyone.

Those ferocious poisonous insects attracted by the berserk potion and the smell of blood.

In the moment they were about to pounce on the battlefield, they suddenly seemed to have been pressed on a pause button.

Their target was, shockingly, the summoner who blew the bone whistle!

"No... don't come over!"

Weasel completely lost control of the swarm in his fear.

The swarm went crazy!

They turned around and wrapped their "master" layer by layer!

"Ahhhhh!"

In screams that didn't sound human, Weasel fell from the tree.

In just a few breaths.

The humanoid insect cocoon dispersed.

Only a pale skeleton gnawed clean remained on the ground.

A tragedy of devouring the master!

After completing the frantic devouring of the remaining potion and their master.

Those poisonous insects that had absorbed the [Berserk Inducer].

Their back armor faintly revealed an eerie layer of purple.

They ignored Su Ming and Shen Qingci, who were standing by.

In their arthropod logic.

The living things in front of them were far less important than the chemical instinct boiling inside them.

"Buzz buzz buzz—!"

Thousands of poisonous insects made a high-pitched and uniform buzzing sound.

The sound was filled with a morbid excitement.

They circled in the air in a strange circle.

As if performing some ancient and twisted ritual.

In the air, that sweet purple mist followed their flapping.

Quickly dispersed toward the deeper parts of the abyss.

They no longer gathered in swarms.

Instead, they turned into countless streaks of purple light.

And sped wildly in all directions of the wasteland.

They left as quickly as they came.

Su Ming had already prepared to withstand a wave of impact.

On Shen Qingci's blade, the Geng Metal Qi had also condensed to the extreme.

And the wasteland returned to deathly silence.

The doomsday scene that blotted out the sky just now.

Seemed like an illusion.

Only Weasel's gnawed-clean remains.

Were still silently accusing the tragedy that had just occurred.

"Is this... the end?"

Su Ming was stunned.

Shen Qingci was also stunned.

Even Dahuang, who had just climbed up from the ground.

Whimpering because a tuft of fur on its tail had been bitten off.

Was tilting its dog head, looking confused.

"Is it because you're so ugly that you scared these bugs away?"

Shen Qingci sheathed her sword and looked at Su Ming.

There was a hint of confusion in her tone that even she hadn't noticed.

"Whatever, maybe they bought an expired product."

Su Ming took advantage of Shen Qingci still being confused.

He walked to the corpses of the Grey Wolf and Lynx with nimble hands and feet.

Looting, all in one go.

He picked up the Grey Wolf's terminal phone.

He pressed the deceased's finger on it.

Unlock successful.

On the screen, a green chat software interface was still lit.

The pinned contact was noted as "Young Master Zhao."

The latest few messages.

Were full of condescending superiority.

[Young Master Zhao: Haven't finished it yet? A bunch of losers!]

[Young Master Zhao: Give you one more day, otherwise don't expect the final payment!]

Su Ming looked at these messages and smiled.

His slender fingers tapped rapidly on the screen.

[Grey Wolf: Target resolved, body disposed of. Young Master Zhao can rest assured and pay the money. We will pick up the equipment when we return.]

Sent.

...

Jiangcheng, No. 1 Courtyard Villa Area.

In the luxurious bedroom.

Zhao Kuo sat up from the bed with a "thud."

On his face was irrepressible ecstasy.

"Hahahaha! Dead! That bastard Su Ming is finally dead!"

He shouted excitedly.

The gloom that had been accumulating for three years was swept away.

With this thorn in his side removed,

In the college entrance exam tournament,

No one would be able to block his brilliance again!

He pulled Liu Ruyan up and walked into the bedroom laughing wildly.

...

Three minutes later.

Zhao Kuo was panting.

While picking up a bottle of expensive life essence from the bedside table and downing it.

Liu Ruyan lay on her side, looking at him.

There was a dull emptiness in her eyes.

Zhao Kuo just wanted to say something.

Liu Ruyan, like countless times before,

Endured the disgust in her heart.

Skilfully offered gentle praise:

"It's okay, you were already great! Really amazing."

Zhao Kuo was refreshed,

Humming a tune, he went to the bathroom to take a shower.

Liu Ruyan watched him go in,

The smile on her face faded bit by bit.

Only cold contempt remained in the depths of her eyes.

She finally understood,

Why Zhao Kuo was so patient when he was chasing her.

Because besides patience, he had nothing else that could last long.

"This kind of person is the craftiest!

It was clearly only three minutes!

He insisted it was because the Lava Talent caused his body temperature to be too high,

Afraid of scalding me...

Then why don't you raise the temperature?

It doesn't even have the heat of a hand warmer,

What are you pretending to be a big furnace for?!"