by <unknown>
"Do it now."
Right then, Long Yangjun patted his bottom softly. "I've already locked onto Yue Wushuang's position!"
Chapter 2411: Cut the Head of the Snake! |
Li Jialing's heart turned from extremely scorching to extremely calm instantly.
Helical brilliance was slowly circling inside his eyes, eventually condensing into two brilliant stars that shined at the same pace with his breath and heartbeat.
On the scope, the veins on the arms of the executioner wearing a metal mask were already protruding high like snakes. He was obviously exerting his strength.
Under the saber, Xu Zhicheng closed his eyes and exhaled in great relief, facing the destiny that did not have any hope or miracles.
Li Jialing pulled the trigger.
The trigger had been modified to a very sensitive point. It was more like touching than pulling when the attack rune arrays inside the barrel of the gun were activated to the maximum. The tiny force field immediately expanded dozens of times, pushing out the explosive bullet that contained infinite fury!
The bullet that was thicker and longer than his finger, which almost looked like a mini cannonball, covered the few kilometers in between all of a sudden without leaving any sound, moving like a rushing ripple.
The bullet had been crafted by Li Yao in person. Not only did it boast the features of anti-shield, anti-equipment, and anti-interferences, but it also entailed certain stealth and anti-detection abilities. It was not sensed by the Immortal Cultivators until it broke into the defense rune array around the Great Iron Plants that had been temporarily established.
But there was no time!
Hiu!
Dazzling light spurted out of the rear of the bullet, further doubling the speed, when it turned into a flash and lunged at the executioner who was raising the saber high!
The Immortal Cultivators responsible for the security of the prison and the suppression of the workers were mostly Li Minghui's unworthy subordinates. Yue Wushuang's elites couldn't have cared less about the lives of the swine and the ants.
Therefore, when the bullet leaped out of the void and revealed the most aggressive appearance, nothing could possibly stop it from roaring.
BOOM!
The executioner meant to dodge, but there was no time. The bullet hit him right in the chest. Faced with the bullet that Li Yao had crafted carefully with super high-purity marrow crystals, the spiritual shield that he condensed in a hurry was no different from a piece of paper. After a blood-freezing explosion, the entire upper half body of the executioner was blown up into pieces, showering on all the captives and the onlookers with the broken flesh.
"This is—"
Dumbfounded, everybody watched the lower half body of the executioner cramping for a long time in disbelief, before it finally fell to the ground.
Xu Zhicheng was the first to jump up. The relief and desperation on his face were entirely gone, and unprecedented flames beamed out.
"Enemy incoming!"
Li Minghui's subordinates had just been through a cruel battle half a month ago and were just intimidated by Li Yao, Long Yangjun, and Li Jialing back then. They were still not entirely recovered from fear yet and screamed loudly.
Hiu! Hiu! Hiu! Hiu! Hiu!
Li Jialing did not intend to stop at all after he shot out the first bullet. When the bullet was still flying, he had opened fire at all the other targets that he had locked onto, shooting out all the nineteen bullets in the magazine.
Just now, he had aimed for a long time and determined all the shooting parameters. Also, the targets he chose were almost all sentry posts, fixed firing points, and immobile crystal tanks. Naturally, he could not miss them at all.
Hardly had the Immortal Cultivators been back to themselves from the shock of the executioner's horrible death when their torsos, heads, or at least arms were blown away. The bullets that Li Yao crafted in person were certainly not something that any random armor or spiritual shield could resist. Even the crystal tanks protected by the reactive armor was still left with a hole the size of a little finger. Then, the metal rays exploded radially inside the tank with an extremely high temperature. There was no place to hide at all, and all the Immortal Cultivators inside the tank were shot apart into pieces!
For a moment, the Immortal Cultivators under Li Minghui's command were all fleeing in panic, suppressed by only one sniper rifle.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
The elites of the Imperium Guards and the devil huntresses brought by Yue Wushuang, however, were certainly incomparable for those people. Even though they might be at similar levels, their training, battle experiences, and mutual trust were much better than Li Minghui's subordinates. Almost at the same moment when the third bullet flew out of the barrel, a lot of the Imperial Guards and the devil huntresses had located Li Jialing. Hundreds of crystal cannons raised fiery snakes that drowned the rocks where Li Jialing and Long Yangjun were at like a torrential rain.
In terms of firepower coverage, even the most advanced sniper rifle could not be compared with a hundred cannons.
The forsaken mine where the two ambushers were hiding were soon reduced into a vulnerable beehive that was riddled with holes before it completely collapsed.
Dozens of experts of the Imperial Guards and the Tribunal of Extraterrestrial Devils, on the other hand, dashed at the forsaken mine at the earliest chance, blocking every possible entrance and exit of the cave.
Thankfully, the moment Li Jialing shot out all the bullets, Long Yangjun dragged him back, and the two of them hid in the deepest part of the cave.
The caves around the Great Iron Plants were complicated and interconnected. Nobody except for the old locals such as Xu Zhicheng could know the specific route.
When Long Yangjun arranged for the Nepenthe believers to evacuate a few days back, she had figured out every detail of the mines and tunnels around with the old locals. So, by the time the enemy came at their first shooting location, they had already moved on to the second spot several kilometers away.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
The first shooting location had naturally been planted with tremendous crystal bombs, whose heat and blast consumed quite a few Imperial Guards and devil huntresses that failed to dodge in time. Both Long Yangjun and Li Jialing had been hanging around with Li Yao long enough to pick up his bad habit of stuffing a few crystal bombs into the corners wherever they went.
The two of them had been setting their ambush outside of the Great Iron Plants for two hours. Before they shot out the first bullet, they had already made careful arrangements in tremendous mines outside.
At this moment, Long Yangjun activated the magical equipment they deployed in the mines previously, and abundant smoke grenades whose targets had been preset were immediately thrown at the Great Iron Plants like hails. In squealing sounds, the Great Iron Plants was immediately enshrouded in smoke, turning into a world of chaos where one could not see their own finger.
"Remember, your mission is to sabotage!"
Long Yangjun grabbed Li Jialing's ear and left a lot of heavy magical equipment for him. "Try your best to distract the Immortal Cultivators and create an opportunity for me to kill Yue Wushuang! Only by killing Yue Wushuang will we have a one percent opportunity of rescuing ourselves and the people here. Do not be a fool, and do not be blinded by petty kindness, or you won't be able to save anybody!"
"Got it!"
Li Jialing bellowed. Every cluster of golden hair was rising aggressively like sharp daggers, surrounded by cracking electric arcs that further added to the intimidating vibe. What happened in the previous half month made the well-talented young man grow significantly yet again. The strength of the Imperial Fire Pearl had been completely digested and absorbed by him, transforming him from a boy gradually into a real man.
Even if Brother Yao is not here, I still have to fight on!
Li Jialing thought to himself. Biting his lips hard, he activated the three-ph
ase transformative crystal suit that Li Yao built for him, carried the heavy magical equipment that was even thicker than the crystal suit, and ran where the Imperial Guards and the devil huntresses were densest.
In a head-on clash, the brave ones were more likely to win. His damn fate had blessed him with so many things, and he would certainly not die in such a place.
He was Li Jialing. His legend had only just begun!
Hearing Li Jialing's roars coming from the smoke, mixed with the sounds of exploding bullets, spluttering shrapnel, twisted crystal suits, and screaming enemies, Long Yangjun set the crystal suit into the stealth mode and disappeared into the deepest part of the forsaken mine like a ghost.
She zigzagged in the mine and soon found a door covered in dust.
Plucking the crude wood plate, she found a small tunnel back there that had been excavated in secret.
Through the secret tunnel, it was possible to enter the Great Iron Plants directly.
The secret tunnel had been excavated by the workers for smuggling purposes originally. Thorough examinations were performed every day before and after the work to make sure that the workers did not steal the assets of the factories.
However, the days of the workers were really difficult. When they could not make ends meet, they would smuggle some faulty products and the leftovers and sell to the merchants in exchange for the agricultural products that the merchants brought from deeper underground. It was sort of an improvement for their poor life.
There were a lot of such secret tunnels in the factories of the Great Iron Plants. Generally speaking, as long as the production missions were accomplished in time, the Immortal Cultivators never bothered to care about such trivia. They even intentionally indulged the workers to do that as some sort of "relief valve" to reduce the tension.
As the Grand Guardian of Nepenthe and a miner with decades of experience, Xu Zhicheng naturally knew most of the secret tunnels.
When Long Yangjun craned her head out of the exit of the secret tunnel, she was only one kilometer away from the office where Yue Wushuang was commanding the battle.
It was exactly the moment when the smoke in the Great Iron Plants was densest.
The workers had already fallen into a mess. Some were running about like headless flies, and some emboldened themselves to rescue Xu Zhicheng and the rest of them inside the smoke. Their shackles were ringing aloud, adding to the anxiety in the atmosphere.
Li Minghui's subordinates were more or less overwhelmed, too. Although they did not suffer new attacks after the first round of shooting, they only felt even more pressure, as if a god of death could emerge out of the dark smoke any moment and claim their lives that should've been lost half a month ago.
It was indeed possible for Long Yangjun to take down all of Li Minghui's subordinates in half a minute.
But she did not do that. Instead, she floated toward Yue Wushuang's office like a weightless ghost, determined to catch the enemies' leader first!
Chapter 2412: Long Yangjun against Yue Wushuang! |
At this moment, Yue Wushuang was observing the chaotic situation under the protection of three crystal tanks and a dozen devil huntresses.
She was still wearing a huge cloak, but behind the cloak was a fine crystal suit. Her mouth, nose, ears, and eyes had been covered carefully too, without leaving any weakness.
Having been the leader of the Tribunal of Extraterrestrial Devils for decades, and with her prowess in stealth, ambush, and assassination, Yue Wushuang certainly would not do such an idiotic thing as to enter the dangerous tunnels or the mines recklessly.
The dozen devil huntresses around her would not be separated from her in any case, either.
Realizing that it was impossible to wait for a perfect opportunity, Long Yangjun had no choice except to attack!
Shua!
Her skin turned clear all of a sudden, as if she were made of translucent glass that was absorbing the light around, melting herself into the environment.
Like a block of ice without the slightest impurities that had been thrown into the water, it was impossible to distinguish her at all without careful sensing.
Even her spiritual waves had been concealed to almost nothing. It was barely perceivable in the scorching fire and the intense smoke.
Her feet pressed the ground. The air seemed to be seawater that had a high density for her, as she turned into a fast and agile mermaid, cutting into the crowd through the gaps of the elite Imperial Guards and devil huntresses.
Quite a few devil huntresses were observing the surroundings in full wariness only one foot away from her. Some people had even activated high-sensitive detectors, scanning the environment again and again. But none of them noticed Long Yangjun.
There was only the last fifty meters between Long Yangjun and Yue Wushuang.
She opened her fingers, and the fingernails grew quickly like crystals, soon into ten thin but sharp daggers.
Yue Wushuang had been staring at Li Jialing's direction all the time. It was not until this moment that she finally sensed an uncanny wave and glanced at where Long Yangjun was at.
After only a quick glance, Yue Wushuang's pupils were reduced to the size of needle tips. Without any sign, she fell backward straightly, stabbing her feet into the rocks and raising thousands of cobbles, before she shattered them into burning powder with her spiritual energy and sprayed them forward. In the meantime, she glided underneath the chassis of a crystal tank with the counterforce and hid behind the crystal tank!
Before any of the other devil huntresses realized what was going on, a daunting shadow had already appeared in the cobbles and burning powder that Yue Wushuang raised with her feet.
It all happened too fast. With unstoppable auras condensed in the darkness, Long Yangjun jumped to the front of the crystal tank where Yue Wushuang was hiding. In ten dreamy, glittering curves, her fingers ripped the crystal tank, which weighed dozens of tons, into pieces more than easily. The elite Imperial Guards inside ended up in pieces before they had the opportunity to even scream.
Hu!
The sloppy black robe that Yue Wushuang had been wearing was tossed out to Long Yangjun like a wriggling cloud. After a bam, colorful, corrosive gas was flowing at Long Yangjun's crystal suit.
Long Yangjun's body immediately turned into a dozen broken crystals, and the broken crystals then turned into rushing streaks of brilliance. Without meeting the least hindrance, they dodged at Yue Wushuang's black robe and venomous fog and attacked Yue Wushuang's eyes, throat, heart, and abdomen.
Clink! Clink! Clink! Clink! Clink!
Dangerous yet exceptionally glamorous sparks were bursting out between the daggers of the two heads of special agents who were equally adept at stealth, ambush, and assassination.
Yue Wushuang had been on the losing side almost since the first second. After persisting for only three seconds, her left wrist had a hole from being stabbed by Long Yangjun, and the dagger that looked like a crescent moon fell to the ground.
Long Yangjun turned around and kicked at Yue Wushuang's throat, with bluish brilliance spurting out of her heel.
Yue Wushuang's loyal and fearless devil huntresses, however, lunged at her and forced her to slightly adjust the direction. The sharp brightness that should've cut Yue Wushuang's throat left intimidating arrows of blood when it wandered among the critical parts of the many devil huntresses like a dragon.
"You've been hiding your strength!"
Yue Wushuang stepped back into the protection of the devil huntresses, covering her throat with both hands, her face pale.
She was not surprised at Long Yangjun's arrival, but she was truly taken aback by Long Yangjun's sudden increased strength. "In the last two battles, you hid your strength and did not carry out your highest combat ability at all. You even got wounded on purpose… Why?"
"Idiot. If I had not been wounded on purpose, would you have been stupid enough to think that two guys in the Divinity Transformation Stage were enough to h
unt me down?"
Long Yangjun grinned hideously and blinked past a few devil huntresses like a transparent octopus in a deep ocean.
The few demon huntresses were all frozen as if they had been spellbound. Very soon, their heads were all folded backward weirdly, and blood rose to the sky like blossoming flowers.
Long Yangjun shook the bloodstains off her fingernails and bent, evading the crossfire of two crystal tanks before she dashed to the top of one of the crystal tanks from the blind angle.
No matter how the crystal tank shifted the turret, it was impossible to lock on Long Yangjun. In the end, Long Yangjun stomped on the reactive armor of the crystal armor heavily, gaining a higher speed by the explosive force of the reactive armor. While kicking the crystal tank to almost a hundred meters away, she was able to dash to Yue Wushuang's front like a lightning.
Yue Wushuang raised the seemingly stupid question only to buy herself more time. She was actually retrieving the Colossus in her cosmos ring in an inconspicuous gesture.
Long Yangjun, however, had foreseen her plan. Three sharpest streaks of brilliance were snapped out from her fingertips and slashed at Yue Wushuang's right hand brutally. In the meantime, she kicked Yue Wushuang right in the chest, forcing Yue Wushuang to abort the retrieval and defend herself. Even so, she was still kicked to almost fifty meters back, and her pace was completely disrupted.
Long Yangjun was in the level where she could fight Blackstar the Great in a head-on battle for hundreds of rounds. Had it not been for her concerns that she was now by herself and it would be troublesome if she were heavily wounded or ran out of supplies, even three experts in the Divinity Transformation Stage together wouldn't necessarily be enough to defeat her.
Right now, she was determined to fight a bloody way of survival, and her enemy was only one person in the Divinity Transformation Stage. Naturally, she was unstoppable.
"You are not Dongfang Mingyue!"
Yue Wushuang's bones were almost all broken because of her kick. She vomited blood crazily and changed her face color. Even her voice became extremely panicked as she said, "Neither the Dongfang family nor the Association of Demon Hunters can raise such a monster like you. Who are you exactly?"