284: Chapter 284 Super Machine Gun Fist (12)

Fang Cheng fixed his gaze on it.

Moonlight pierced through the gaps in the dark clouds, outlining an inhuman silhouette on the slope.

His figure was far taller and broader than a normal person's. At first glance, he looked like an extremely muscular man.

But upon closer inspection, he was filled with grotesque terror.

What covered his body was less like skin and more like a living, fearsome armor woven from dark red and pitch black.

The "muscles" of his limbs bulged unnaturally, forming twisted fibrous bundles like countless steel rebars tightly wound together.

Beneath the surface, one could even see a faint writhing under the moonlight, containing explosive power.

A dark luster gleamed at his joints, which were sharp bone spurs that had grown out extra.

His head was a fully enclosed helmet resembling some kind of insect, with two thick horns growing from his forehead.

The entire armor surface was covered in peculiar bone spurs, carapaces, and tendon-like structures, its lines full of aggressiveness and power.

Simply standing there quietly made the surrounding darkness thick and oppressive!

It was as if a monster had crawled out of the abyss, exuding a cold, cruel, and intimidating aura stemming from the very essence of life.

"Special Investigation Team on official business. Identify yourself immediately."

The monster referred to as "Officer Gao" spoke, his voice cold and stiff:

"Attacking law enforcement officers and obstructing special duties violates Article 7 of the Special Affairs Act. It constitutes a major criminal offense."

Beneath his mask, Fang Cheng's eyes flickered slightly.

Knowing this matter could not be resolved peacefully, he deliberately lowered his voice and spoke:

"I don't know what this Special Investigation Team is. Could you introduce it to me, Officer?"

"Fine."

Officer Gao's response was simple and direct, carrying a trace of icy intent to kill.

Before his words even died away, the hideous armor on his chest squirmed violently like a living thing and split open, revealing a crystal-like core embedded within that resembled a vertical pupil.

The core suddenly lit up with blinding red light, and in the next instant—

Swoosh!

An extremely condensed dark red beam shot out like a high-energy ray, tearing through the air and pointing straight at Fang Cheng.

Fang Cheng's pupils contracted sharply. Almost the instant the beam appeared, his body instinctively burst with peak speed, shifting several meters to the side.

The dark red beam grazed past his side and struck the muddy ground behind him, blasting out a scorched pit that gave off a pungent, burnt energy odor.

Having missed with one strike, the figure standing on the highway had already moved.

His legs kicked off the ground violently, instantly blowing apart the soil beneath his feet. His massive body possessed agility and speed completely mismatched with his size, plunging down the slope like a dark red meteor and crashing fiercely toward Fang Cheng with the whistling wind.

Mid-air, he whipped his right arm, which was covered in fearsome armor, causing the front portion of the armor to rapidly deform, extend, and vibrate at high speed.

It surprisingly transformed into a buzzing, dark red "Vibration Sword" nearly two meters long, glinting with cold light.

Wherever the blade passed, even the air was sliced open, producing an ear-grating, sharp screech!

Facing this unprecedentedly strange weapon, Fang Cheng's eyes narrowed. Instead of retreating, he advanced.

The muscles in his thighs bulged as he stamped down hard with his soles.

Bang!

The muddy ground beneath his feet caved in at the sound.

His entire body shot out like an artillery shell, turning into a blurry white figure as he charged head-on toward the dark red "meteor" falling from the sky.

The two blazingly fast figures crossed paths in mid-air in an instant!

Slash—

The dark red Vibration Sword slashed down diagonally with destructive force, so fast it almost surpassed the limits of visual perception, violently striking Fang Cheng's body.

It surprisingly cleaved him in two!

However, where the blade passed, the sliced body suddenly dissipated like vapor and disappeared.

Because...

That was merely an afterimage.

Officer Gao reacted astonishingly fast, possessing what could be called an inhuman combat instinct.

The moment his right arm's Vibration Sword swung wide, he exerted force with his waist. The blade carved a swift crescent arc in the air, sweeping horizontally toward his side and rear almost by instinct to intercept.

Swish!

Fang Cheng, who suddenly appeared behind him, was sliced open by the sharp blade once more.

But that was still just an afterimage.

Fang Cheng was simply too fast, dodging lethal strikes several times in a row by a hair's breadth, circling to Officer Gao's blind spot like a ghost.

He finally seized a momentary flaw when the opponent's previous momentum spent itself before new force could rise!

Thump!

Without any flourish, Fang Cheng's fist slammed like an autocannon past the side of the retreating Vibration Sword's arc, landing squarely on the armor at Officer Gao's waist.

Terrifying force erupted in an instant, compressing the air into a dull, piercing explosion!

Fang Cheng attempted to use this punch as a Breakthrough point to directly shatter his defense.

What followed immediately was a ready-and-waiting combination strike that showered down like a tempest.

Da-da-da-da-da!

In less than half a second, like a rapid autocannon barrage.

However...

The recoil passing through his fists and feet startled Fang Cheng; it felt as if he were hitting a resilient, horny layer of hide.

Even stranger, the dark red bio-armor was covered with a layer of sticky living tissue. The instant his fist made contact, it squirmed and twisted violently, neutralizing at least forty percent of the impact force.

Right at that moment, the armor on Officer Gao's left arm instantly morphed into a bone claw studded with barbs, raking toward Fang Cheng's throat with a howling wind, while the Vibration Sword swung back in defense—switching from offense to defense with lightning speed.

Fang Cheng felt a chill in his heart, recognizing the risk of fighting brute force with brute force.

He immediately flickered, floating backward like a gust of wind to temporarily open up distance.

Tear—

Yet another blurry afterimage shattered along with the air seized by the claw.

His attack had missed again, and he had even allowed his opponent to capitalize on a vulnerability to counter, but this didn't cause Officer Gao the slightest hesitation. Instead, it incited an even fiercer onslaught.

His left bone claw swung like wind while the red glare of the right Vibration Sword surged, weaving together into an airtight hurricane of death.

Fierce gusts of force scattered, slicing surrounding weeds cleanly at their roots and shredding them into airborne debris, intending to completely block Fang Cheng's room to dodge.

The sharp bone spurs on the armor's surface constantly adjusted their angles like countless venomous snakes poising to strike, ready to shoot out at any moment to deliver a fatal blow.

Bursts of air even squirted from the gaps in his armor at times, providing extra explosive thrust and allowing his massive body to perform incredible, high-speed directional changes, lunges, and spins.

His speed and agility were completely unlike what a heavily armored warrior should possess.

Fang Cheng similarly pushed his own speed to the extreme, dodging and weaving within a tiny space like a skiff in roaring waves, continuously evading the opponent's storm-like attacks.

His fists and feet hit the opponent's armor from time to time, making dull thuds like heavy hammers pounding a leather drum, yet failing to inflict decisive damage.

Not only was Officer Gao extraordinarily agile, but his reactions were also startlingly fast, as if he could even predict the flow of air.

Every one of his movements seemed like a precisely calculated optimal solution, muscle memory and neural reflexes in perfect sync, like a killing program running on a body of flesh and blood.

The slashes of the Vibration Sword, the tearing of the bone claw, and the collisions of his body were all perilously close, nearly hitting Fang Cheng every time.

The defensive power of the armor covering his whole body was insanely eerie, functioning like a living creature that constantly absorbed and dissipated the impact from fists and kicks.

"I must break this shell first!"

Fang Cheng's eyes remained cool as he swiftly evaluated the situation while moving at high speed.

Officer Gao seemed to sense Fang Cheng's intention as well; his offense abruptly intensified, leaving him absolutely no room to breathe or think.

The Vibration Sword swung even faster, its surging red glow carving clearly visible, smoke-belching furrows into the ground whenever it missed.

Just as another powerful sweep of the Vibration Sword came slashing horizontally, forcing Fang Cheng to retreat rapidly to dodge its edge—

The opportunity appeared once more!

Brighter light flashed in Fang Cheng's eyes, and he took a deep breath.

Deep within his Dantian, the crimson True Qi that had been dormant like a volcano erupted completely without reservation!

Boom!

A heat wave hot enough to distort the air suddenly expanded outward from his body.

It was as though magma was surging inside him, running along his Bloodline from his Dantian straight up to his right arm, finally gathering upon his tightly clenched fist!

Flame Breathing—activated at full power!

In the instant after dodging the lethal edge of the Vibration Sword, Fang Cheng's waist spun back like a steel cable stretched to its limit, pulling his right arm along.

Then, his right fist broke completely free of restraint, its speed soaring another level as it tore through the air and blasted forward!

Swoosh—

The air in front of his fist was violently compressed, producing a sharp, piercing sonic boom.

It even far drowned out the hum of the Vibration Sword.

The highly concentrated crimson True Qi was no longer a hazy glow, but tangible crimson flames burning fiercely on his fist!

Breaking the sound barrier, this punch carried flames that seemed capable of incinerating all creation.

Beneath the demonic helmet, Officer Gao's pupils shrank suddenly; he felt an unprecedented, lethal danger.

Almost by instinct, he jerked up his bone-spike-covered arms, crossing them in front of his chest to block.

At the same time, the crystal core on his chest flashed rapidly, attempting to mobilize energy to counterattack or interfere.

But it was too late!

Fang Cheng's Iron Fist, burning with blazing flames, was like a missile locked onto its target.

Arriving second but striking first, ignoring distance, it smashed cleanly into the armor at the junction of the opponent's left arm and chest!

Boom!!!!!

A deafening roar exploded, as if real explosives had been detonated in a confined space.

Terrifying impact force poured out instantly like a bursting dam.

Centered on the point of contact, a visible circular shockwave expanded violently, sending soil, gravel, and grass debris flying from the ground!

Even Officer Zhou Liang and A-Li in the distance were shaken so violently by the shockwave that they scrambled to hit the dirt to take cover.

Under this punch, Officer Gao's seemingly indestructible and terrifyingly durable bio-armor actually let out a dense series of tooth-grating crunches and cracks.

The armor blocking on his left arm shattered from the middle, sending chunks of flesh and shell-like fragments flying everywhere.

Carrying a destructive aura, the crimson flames clung like maggots to bone, madly spreading and boring into the cracks, burning the internal biological structures of the armor into sizzling black, foul-smelling smoke.

"Ugh—"

Even with his inhuman body and armor, he could not withstand such terrifying impact and burning, finally letting out an unsuppressible grunt of pain.

His massive body was blown backward like an artillery shell as if hit head-on by a heavy truck at high speed, completely losing balance and tracing a miserable arc through the air.

"Officer Gao!!"

On the ground, Officer Zhou Liang and A-Li lost all color in their faces at the sight and gasped in alarm.

Their eyes were filled with incredible shock and horror.

However...

Just as Officer Gao reached the apex of his arc after being sent flying, on the verge of crashing heavily onto the ground, another anomaly occurred!

A burst of extremely dense red light, appearing as if flowing blood, suddenly erupted from his whole body.

The red light rapidly condensed and expanded, forming a massive, translucent red energy shield.

Smooth as an eggshell on the outside, viscous energy seemed to flow within, wrapping his entire body completely inside.

In the next second, an unbelievable scene unfolded right before the eyes of Fang Cheng and the two Special Investigation Team members. (End of Chapter)