87: Chapter 87 A Hundred-Meter Falling Star! The Great Fortune King Descends from the Sky!

At a hundred meters in the air, Su Ming's figure was just a rapidly enlarging black dot.

The wind howled shrilly in his ears, and the ground rushed up toward him at high speed.

He was upside down, arms crossed to protect his front, his entire being like a tungsten-core armor-piercing projectile imbued with a soul, his target precisely locked onto the massive head imprisoned by black ice below, as well as the gap in the cervical vertebrae cleaved open by Shen Qingci!

"Mass Heavy Cannon", fivefold kinetic energy amplification, activate!

Ten tons of base mass, bolstered by the potential energy from a hundred meters in the air, multiplied by a fivefold instantaneous burst!

At this moment, Su Ming was a walking "space-based kinetic energy weapon"!

"Boom!!!"

The first collision was a savage clash of pure power.

The terrifying impact force of fifty tons smashed through the Iron-Spine Rhinoceros's remaining protective red glow with overwhelming force.

Inside the giant beast's remains, that phantom belonging to the Tier 6 Iron-Armored Dragon Turtle let out a final, tyrannical roar, and a counter-shock force far exceeding Su Ming's imagination, carrying the power of law belonging to a Tier 5, surged back up along his fist!

This force was enough to instantly shatter the bones and internal organs of any Tier 3 awakened one into a puddle of mush.

However, the moment that counter-shock force touched Su Ming's skin...

"Second-Stage Echo", activate!

Su Ming's body, the density of which far exceeded steel, began to vibrate at a high frequency on a microscopic level.

The dense bones and muscle fibers formed a perfect "solid-state resonance chamber".

That lethal, violent counter-shock kinetic energy was actually perfectly absorbed, limit-compressed, and re-converted by his body!

0.1 seconds later.

Thud!!!

The second loud sound was ten times duller than the first, like a doomsday bell striking within everyone's chest!

One hundred tons. A full one hundred tons of counter-shock force, having been absorbed, compressed, and doubled, exploded violently inside the gap in the Iron-Spine Rhinoceros's cervical vertebrae!

The hundred-ton level instantaneous collapse pressure vented violently inward, defying all common physical laws.

The massive corpse, having lost its head, was like a section of a toppled city wall, slamming heavily into the frozen earth, shaking the black ice for a three-mile radius until it was covered in cracks, spreading like a spiderweb.

That mountain-like giant beast head, along with the lethal rhinoceros horn capable of piercing super-alloys, was hammered off and torn away from the cervical vertebrae under the internal collapse resonance!

Accompanied by scalding plasma spraying across the sky, the giant beast's head soared into the air, tumbled for a dozen meters, and then, with a "thud", crashed heavily onto the ice in the distance.

[Warning: "Second-Stage Echo" release complete, host's bones have entered "overload" state, duration 10 seconds.]

[Warning: Micro-cracks detected in multiple bones throughout the body, repair requires 800 "mass points".]

"Damn it..."

Su Ming knelt on one knee on the steaming severed neck of the giant beast, motionless, feeling as if every bone in his body had been pounded by a sledgehammer again, the pain piercing his heart.

But as he looked at the rolled-away beast head, the cruel smile at the corner of his mouth did not diminish by even half.

This wave was worth it!

The entire battlefield fell into a dead silence.

Behind the ice shield in the distance, Station Chief Zhou Ke and the group of mercenaries who had luckily survived all had their mouths wide open, their eyeballs nearly popping out of their sockets, collectively petrified.

High in the air, inside the military aircraft that had been on standby, the young adjutant stared fixedly at the energy monitoring readings on the screen that had already burned off the charts, so scared that the control stick nearly slipped from his hands.

He turned his head to look at his colleague, his voice trembling.

"That peak just now... exceeded the upper limit of our instruments, preliminary estimation... instantaneous energy reaction... comparable to... comparable to Tier 6..."

Lieutenant Colonel Chu Feng blinked his large eyes, feeling very helpless. His body was trembling violently from the overdraft of "Source Energy", but at this moment, he could no longer feel any weakness. He was frozen in fear.

He stared blankly at the center of the large crater, at the back of the youth kneeling on one knee on the giant beast's corpse, his body emitting blood-colored steam. He wanted to confirm if he was dreaming.

He had been a soldier for over a decade, rising from Second Lieutenant to Lieutenant Colonel, and had seen his fair share of bizarre experiences. But he had never seen a Tier 3 brat use pure physical violence to hammer the head off a quasi-Tier 5 mutated "Source Beast".

Is this something a human can do?

"Enhancement Type"... Is this that "Enhancement Type" everyone judged to have no future?! What the hell kind of god-tier "Enhancement Type" is this?! Even a human-shaped Gundam isn't as tough as you, right?!

A sense of the absurdity of a hero in his twilight years rose in Lieutenant Colonel Chu Feng's heart. He remembered the embarrassment of having to risk his life just to cut a gash earlier, then looked at the head in front of him that had been broken off at the root.

How was he supposed to hold his head high in the military district after this? How was he going to write the mission report when he got back? Should he just write... the command headquarters' intelligence was wrong, the "Source Beast" was quasi-Tier 5, he fought with all his might but was defeated, and was later sanctioned by a Tier 3 student with a punch of moral and physical development?

If he submitted this report, Lieutenant Colonel Chu Feng would either be sent to the Federation's headlines of bizarre events or sent to a mental hospital.

He tremblingly took out his military terminal and sent four words to Jiangcheng City Defense Commander Qin Luo: [Mission accomplished.]

Then he looked around at everyone present. Today's events could not be spread... too much!

The dead silence was broken by a hurried cry. "Su Ming!"

A golden-red figure rushed over from the flank; it was Shen Qingci.

She leaped off Da Huang's back and landed steadily beside the giant beast's corpse. Looking at Su Ming, who was kneeling on one knee and covered in blood, her eyes, which had just regained their coldness, were filled with lingering fear and worry.

She wanted to reach out to help him, but stopped halfway, afraid of touching his wounds.

"Are... are you okay?" Her voice carried a tremor she didn't even notice.

The ten-second overload time had just passed. Su Ming felt the cement-like sensation in his bones recede, replaced by a warm current. Although it was still extremely painful, he could at least move.

He slowly raised his head, grinned, then immediately retracted the smile, putting on a pained expression: "I'm seriously injured; I need senior sister to help me up to get better."

"..."

All the worry, lingering fear, and emotion that had just welled up in Shen Qingci's heart were instantly choked back by this sentence.

Looking at this jerk in front of her, who had clearly just crawled back from the gates of hell but still had the mind to be a smart-aleck, her chest heaved with anger. She gritted her teeth and squeezed two words through them: "Serves you right!"

"Hey, if you won't help, you won't help. You look so good but have no heart..."

Su Ming doubted the decline of his acting skills. He struggled to stand up and moved his right hand, feeling his bones clicking, "This beast has no sense of martial virtue; it dared to fight back even when it was about to die, making me waste a bit more effort."

Shen Qingci: "..."

You call that punch "wasting a bit more effort"?

Seeing that Su Ming's condition was indeed not good, her heart softened. "Your injuries... are you really okay?"

"Just flesh wounds, nothing serious." Su Ming waved his hand and eyed Shen Qingci. "Senior sister, how come it feels like your temperament is different after advancing?"

He rubbed his chin, looking serious, "Before you were an ice-cold beauty, now you are..."

Shen Qingci's heart skipped a beat. "A Valkyrie."

Su Ming gave a thumbs up, "Matched with your long legs, it's perfect."

"...Shut up."

"I'm complimenting you."

"Shutting up is the best compliment."

Da Huang's two heads turned toward Su Ming simultaneously, the right head rolling its eyes, the left head looking thoughtful. No matter how powerful the master is, he still gets shut down when he meets the mistress. Now he knows whose leg to hug in the future.

Su Ming tactfully changed the subject. When he looked at the Iron-Spine Rhinoceros, the light in his eyes was even brighter than when he was fighting. He licked his lips. The corpse of a quasi-Tier 5 "Source Beast"! How many "mass points" would this be worth? He was rich! He was rich!

He took a step, limping toward the beast's head. Shen Qingci looked at his money-obsessed appearance, feeling both angry and amused, and finally had to helplessly follow. Da Huang also shook its two heads and trotted along behind.

Lieutenant Colonel Chu Feng took a long time to recover in mid-air, finally regaining a bit of the dignity of a Tier 5 powerhouse. He landed and looked at Su Ming, who was walking toward the spoils, his expression extremely complex.

"Ahem." He cleared his throat, trying to attract attention.

Su Ming didn't even turn his head, like an old farmer who had just finished harvesting crops, happily circling the rhinoceros head that was bigger than an off-road vehicle. His gaze finally settled on the base of the ferocious horn. There, a dark red diamond-shaped crystal was pulsing slowly, deeply embedded in the bone. It was exactly that "beast soul brand"!