392: Locust Monster

"You... how is this possible?" Hooke was instantly terrified.

"This is the ability of the Dream Source Thousand-Thread Lock given to me by my teacher. It is impossible for you to break it with mere Physical Body strength!"

"Then did your teacher not tell you that even with mere Physical Body strength, I could still easily kill you?"

Tang Ku flexed his wrists and sneered, "Did you really think that with just your meager skills, you could capture me? You are too naive!"

Hooke said in a deep voice, "Was your capture earlier just an act?"

"What do you think?" Tang Ku asked back with a smile. "I wonder if you noticed a detail: the expressions of my Disciples when I was controlled by you?"

Hooke frowned, suddenly looking at Tang Ku with even greater shock, his face full of disbelief.

"Heh, it seems you've already thought of it!" Tang Ku smiled and said, "Didn't you notice that after their initial shock, they showed a hint of disdain? Heh, don't forget, I am their Master, and also their hope for getting out. If I were captured, wouldn't they have any desire to pursue? In fact, it's not that they didn't want to pursue, but that I waved my hand at them, not letting them come after me!"

Hooke roared and punched the triangular aircraft. Immediately, a golden light spread out. Tang Ku suddenly felt the ground beneath him vanish, and his whole body felt as if it had fallen through, plummeting toward the ground.

"Huh? There clearly wasn't an opening under that aircraft... Hmm, it seems to be an ability to change at will within the dream, huh, that's quite interesting!" Tang Ku said without the slightest panic as he fell.

"Hmph, no matter how strong your Physical Body strength is, it's impossible for you to fly in the sky..." Hooke sneered. "Monk, accept your fate. This machine requires at least two living people as sacrifices, and you will be the first one..."

As he spoke, he clapped his hands gently, and countless strange-looking figures suddenly appeared in mid-air.

They were wearing metal armor, but their appearance was not human at all. Although they had all four limbs, they were extremely thick, with explosive muscles, but the muscles were covered in skin that seemed to be cast from metal, shining with a metallic luster under the lights. Their heads were even more like some kind of insect, with two huge compound eyes on the sides. The thing below the bridge of the nose was less like a mouth and more like the mouthparts of some kind of insect... Hmm, thinking carefully, it was basically the same as a locust.

Tang Ku flipped over, landed steadily on the ground, and looked up, only to see these hundreds of blue-green guys jumping down from the sky while doing somersaults, landing around Tang Ku, each posing in a combat stance.

Smacking his lips, Tang Ku couldn't help but smile bitterly: "Hmm... an enhanced version of Kamen Rider? Heh, this kind of big muscle will get sued for copyright!"

Whoosh!

These monsters suddenly pounced on Tang Ku, each one extremely ferocious, and their speed was shockingly fast. A rough estimate suggested that the attack speed of these guys could almost reach the speed of sound.

What was even more outrageous was that these guys, like him and that crazy scientist in the sky, had entered this world in their Physical Body state, so their combat power was the real deal.

Hooke's combat power, in the data Tang Ku saw, was actually just ordinary white, with values: Intelligence 68, Strength 79, Technique 90, Agility 85, Speed 70, Defense 64!

And the basic values of these monsters were: Intelligence 15, Strength 60, Technique 50, Agility 80, Speed 90, Defense 60.

All the monsters had these values, without the slightest deviation.

In other words, these guys were low-intelligence, high-combat-power clone warriors!

The battle was imminent. As soon as it started, Tang Ku was actually forced into a tight spot by these monsters, seemingly completely unable to fight back.

"These guys have strong combat power. In terms of pure Physical Body strength, any one of them could cause a huge disaster in the world of ordinary people... And the reason for their low intelligence is because they are being controlled?"

Like real locusts, they attacked Tang Ku overwhelmingly. Even the flying kicks often used by Kamen Rider became common minor moves, and their attack power was not weak; the steel plates protecting the surroundings would be kicked to pieces by their attacks.

In the sky, Hooke smiled disdainfully: "Hmph, I don't have time to fight you. I have to get the machine running first. Once you are exhausted from being entangled, I will kill you and offer you as a sacrifice! By the way, that Pigsy also has to die..."

As he spoke, a translucent light panel suddenly appeared in front of him. A row of things resembling Greece letters flashed on the light panel, looking crooked and very strange. He then started typing on it like a keyboard, continuously inputting certain data.

"Heh, it seems this guy doesn't think much of me!" Tang Ku squinted at his surroundings and suddenly laughed, "Such a guy is all bark and no bite. Apart from being able to provide me with Iron Fist Points, he has no other use... He's not even qualified to be a whetstone!"

Without needing any energy boost, Tang Ku grabbed the leg of a guy who had jumped up, then used him as a weapon and swung him fiercely at the surroundings.

Bang, bang, bang...

A dozen monsters were swept away in the blink of an eye, and the guys rushing up behind them were instantly knocked down in a large group. This wasn't the end of it; the heads of a few of these monsters blossomed like watermelons. It turned out that the head of the guy in Tang Ku's hand had slammed fiercely into the heads of a few other monsters, creating intimate contact between them, causing them to be knocked dead before they could even react!

"...Hmm? The points for this thing are so high?"

A series of 0.01 point values appeared in Tang Ku's mind, and he couldn't help but be a little astonished.

Having fought so many small fries, he hadn't encountered small soldiers with values before the decimal point in a long time; basically, most were six digits after the decimal point.

"That's right, if this thing appeared in reality, it would definitely pose a huge threat... So the System judged that the danger level of this thing is very high, which is why it gave me such high points..."

Dropping the corpse in his hand, Tang Ku turned around and punched, blasting a monster's head, then turned back and kicked, smashing one of the monster's chest bones to pieces.

His speed was shockingly fast. Even these monsters with extremely sensitive reactions couldn't react in time. Basically, it was one punch per monster. In less than the time it takes to burn an incense stick, all hundred or so monsters were killed by him.

"Hmm, just right, these monsters gave me a full 1.23 Iron Fist Points, which is an unexpected gain!"

As he said this, he clapped his hands, looked at Hooke operating in the sky, and couldn't help but curl his lips and sneer: "You didn't take me seriously? Heh, then I'll make you regret it..."

Bang!

Tang Ku's figure instantly vanished from the ground, leaving behind nothing but a deep crater over half a meter in diameter in the metal floor!