20demayo Chapter 262: Final Episode 2
Chapter 262: Final Episode 2
“Fuck! I’m on it!” King of Strength leaped off the mining cart as his muscles swelled up all over, his skin on both arms covered in various patterns drawn with luminous stone marrow.
He charged towards the shadow as soon as he alighted from the cart.
The two shadows made no pause, rapidly drawing closer, colliding head-on.
Bang!
King of Strength was knocked over, rolling onto the ground.
Before he could get up, the shadow dashed forward, pulling its legs free of the foam, and delivered a kick right to King of Strength’s jaw.
Bang!
The kick sent King of Strength flying into the wall. He couldn’t get up for a while.
As they got closer, everyone finally saw what this guy was.
The shape was not a living person but a black-haired Sheepman with the head of a mountain goat!
The Sheepman stood two meters tall, with no muscles;under its black fur were dull, shriveled bones.
Its arms were like two giant black scythes that could produce a piercing sonic boom with a casual swing.
Swoosh!
The figure of the Sheepman flashed, and with a vicious slash, it knocked down two nearby team members.
Boom!
The grenades exploded, and the heavy-duty bulletproof suits on the two men were torn open with huge gashes.
They were down on the ground, unable to get up for quite some time.
Swoosh!
The Sheepman swung its blade again, flashed, and another two team members were sent flying, as if struck by a sledgehammer, crashing their oxygen tanks against the stone wall and flattening them.
Seeing the unfavorable situation, the speed-type enhanced humans quickly picked up the pace, attempting to engage the creature in a quick combat.
But to no avail.
The Sheepman was far faster than them. The three attacked together, their short knives made of sunlight materials slashing frequently, but they could only shear off some of the Sheepman’s black hair, proving otherwise ineffective.
Bang.
Bang.
Bang.
At this moment, from the deeper part of the channel, a second Sheepman slowly emerged.
“Yiyi!” Xue Ningning gave a low shout, the first to rush forward.
Lin Yiyi followed, along with another male team member, closing in on the second Sheepman.
The three together started to gang up on the Sheepman.
But the fur on the Sheepman was exceptionally sturdy, and its speed was so fast that of their many attacks, only one could possibly hit the enemy.
As time went on.
More and more injuries appeared on everyone, and many of the team members who had managed to get up couldn’t continue on because their oxygen tanks were damaged.
“Think of something! We can’t hold on much longer!” Xue Ningning shouted loudly to King of Strength.
King of Strength seized the Sheepman’s right arm, the strength throughout his body bursting forth, as he lifted it high and slammed it down.
But the next second he was sent flying by a slash of the Sheepman’s left arm.
“Retreat first! I’ll cover the rear!”
He had never anticipated that aside from the Black Blood People, the Eternal Life Association also controlled a kind of powerful and peculiar creature from the Black Disaster.
This Sheepman’s comprehensive strength was comparable to a Level 5 Black Disaster. Even if they were all top-tier enhanced humans, they couldn’t break through the defense of the two Sheepmen.
“Okay!” Everyone started to retreat en masse, propping up the wounded on the ground, and falling back in the direction they had come from.
And then, at that moment.
The two Sheepmen suddenly roared in unison, freeing themselves from entanglement and rushing towards each other.
Boom.
The two collided, instantly turning into a ball of black smoke that merged into one entity.
“Shit! Run!”
King of Strength grabbed two team members and pulled them back.
But it was already too late.
Boom!!
Suddenly, the ball of black-red smoke exploded violently.
A massive shockwave instantly covered the entire hall, blasting all the investigating team members still standing, flipping them over on the ground, immobilized.
Lin Yiyi was thrown high into the air by the blast and slammed into the cave wall, rolling down to the ground.
Blood gushed from her mouth, spitting it into her helmet.
Groggy, she looked towards the others and was horrified to discover that every team member was down on the ground, unable to move.
Including King of Strength, the strongest team leader, who could barely prop his body up with his hands.
‘The gap is too big!’
Their preparation against the Black Blood People was utterly ineffective against these Sheepmen.
The enemy was too fast, too strong, there was no way to aim properly.
Now everyone was knocked down by the blast, and even if they wanted to retreat, it was entirely too late.
‘What do I do!?’
Lin Yiyi bit her lip, trying to stand, but the intense pain throughout her body made it impossible to support her weight.
‘Is all the preparation up to this point for nothing, to end here without even seeing a member of the Association?’
The Sheepmen’s explosion was too fast, too sudden, preventing them from even deploying other specialty weapons.
All of them were incapacitated.
But how could the higher-ups not have anticipated such a situation before coming? If there were Black Blood People, it was very likely that there could be a second, a third… Some of the team members already had doubts swirling in their minds again.
At this time, the eyes of King of Strength and Xue Ningning met, and both instantly thought of a possibility… that is…
Thud.
Their bodies collapsed heavily back onto the ground.
‘What do I do!!?’
Lin Yiyi’s somewhat dazed brain was frantically congested with the blood rushing to it, pondering, turning.
‘Right, there’s still that thing Yu Hong gave me!’ She hurriedly
“Everyone who can move, get the hell out! I’ll cover the rear!” the Power King shouted angrily.
He had just stood up when he saw the Spearman’s terrifying form and immediately mistook it for a new Black Disaster monster.
“Yiyi! Keep your distance from it!!” Xue Ningning also shouted, recovering, standing up, and aiming her gun at the Spearman.
No one saw how the Spearman appeared, only feeling that in the blink of an eye, the monster was already there.
But alas, it was already too late.
The Spearman had turned around to face Lin Yiyi.
Hiss!
It spread its arms wide, a peaceful smile on its face.
In an instant, its body shrank, defying the laws of physics, and in two seconds, it had shrunk into a dark red bead the size of a marble.
Plop.
The bead fell to the ground, rolled a bit, and came to a stop by Yiyi’s feet.
Lin Yiyi bent over, picked it up, and looked around dully at her teammates, who were staring back at her in the same dumbfounded manner.
The Power King was half-way running with the explosives.
Xue Ningning was about to pull the trigger.
“This… seems like something Yu Hong gave me!” she said, holding up the bead, bewildered.
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Meanwhile,
Black Wind Camp.
Yu Hong, sitting cross-legged and motionless, suddenly opened his eyes.
The Moon Trace Mark, which had evolved into the Infinite River Technique, had been triggered a moment ago.
“The Spearman has been summoned… it seems they’ve encountered some difficulties. They must be close to the Eternal Life Association headquarters by now…”
Through logical deduction, that area didn’t have a high Red Value concentration but had encountered a Black Disaster capable of halting the survey team, leading to the summoning of the Spearman.
This meant that all other methods of the survey team were exhausted and ineffective, prompting the summoning. Of course, it could also have been an accidental rupture that caused the summoning.
‘No matter the situation, it’s time for me to depart…’
Yu Hong stood up, his cheek briefly flashing with a blue cloud pattern.
The first layer of the Taiyuan True Method had further enhanced the strength of his flesh body again.
At this moment, not only was his Inner Qi boundless within his body, but his physical strength had also reached unprecedented new heights.
Leaving the cave,
Yu Hong roughly determined the direction of the mark.
With a single thought,
Multiple dragon lizards materialized behind him.
“Go.”
He gestured in that direction.
Swoosh, swoosh, swoosh!
In an instant, the dragon lizards darted out from the darkness, sprinting at full speed toward that location.
As for Yu Hong, he remained in place, gazing up at the night sky before vanishing from the spot in a whoosh.
The Eternal Life Association may very well have the means to stop the Black Disaster, holding more secrets about the Source Disaster and the Cold Disaster, so… whether it was for Yiyi or to uncover deeper secrets of the Source Disaster, he was determined to make the journey.