Chapter 393: The Mediocre Army (Part 2)

Guo Yutu concentrated his mental strength to the extreme. He saw the Rusty Blade Soldier who caught up with the target being chopped into pieces by a sword, and then red and black lightning lit up on the battlefield!

Burning scarlet and black marks sliced ​​through the battlefield like blades, instantly dismembering every soldier in their path. The Black Death Army's evolutionary speed couldn't keep up with his explosive power. Judging from information from previous battles, the Sacrifice Serpent had likely already utilized all the secrets of martial arts cultivation, and now displayed an extreme speed that could not be sustained for long.

"Open all gun ports and fire!"

Twelve Destroyer Cannons were mobilized by his thoughts, their roaring fire weaving into a web of annihilation. Snakes darted through the beams, swiftly surpassing even the speed of a double butterfly. He precisely grasped the trajectory of each Destroyer Cannon, dodging them with precise timing. Eight. Nine. The uncrossed battlefield was pierced at breakneck speed. Ten. Eleven. He closed the distance at the theoretical limit, closing in beneath the impending city walls.

The 12th Corpse Cannon fired directly at Guo Yutu's target at the shortest possible range. With no room for evasion, Chu Hengkong swung his sword to meet the barrage. He used the tenacity of his Divine Slash to create a fulcrum, using the near-perfect parrying technique he had demonstrated in the battle with Huan Ge to deflect himself from the fire! He slashed the fire into the air!

Time practically stood still at this moment, the two assassins' gazes locked in mid-air. Chu Hengkong's blade pointed at the system's sole loophole, an unbreakable flaw created by Fander. Guo Yutu slammed his blade against the workbench and shouted his final command.

“—Transfer!”

Then, a beam of spiritual power, faster than lightning, flashed across the surface of the Great Lily. That light swept away the flaws in the system, allowing it to immerse itself in the sea of ​​information, leaping and weaving across the surface of the Great Lily. The moment the blade fell, it had already been transported by the light, arriving at the other side of Mansa Star Fortress, 6,000 kilometers away!

Indeed, that beholder's skills were so advanced they were completely incomprehensible. With Guo Yutu's abilities, there was no hope of solving the bug.

So, he took emergency measures. Since he couldn't crack it, he would move it, using a pre-written maze program to create a random landing point, and it would randomly jump across the surface of the defense system at a frequency of 37,000 times per second!

All preparations had led to this moment. They were willing to personally step onto the battlefield, deliberately deciding the outcome on the borderline, all to give the other side the illusion of "going all in." To make them feel they had played all their cards, they had to use themselves as bait.

Now that the maze program had successfully launched, Chu Hengkong was already too late to rush to his destination. In other words, even if he could locate the bug, he couldn't chase the fast-moving landing point under the intensive attack.

Because at this moment, the second round of artillery fire is about to be launched, and Chu Hengkong, who failed to break through the defense wall, has nowhere to escape!

"You and Velus both underestimated me!" Guo Yutu shouted, "I win this time, Chu Hengkong!"

The divine blade failed to work, sliding like a leaf across the defensive wall. It was clear he was doomed, yet Chu Hengkong smiled.

"You are wrong. No one underestimates you."

"You haven't realized this yet, and that's the reason for your failure!"

Then, the barrier was broken.

Under Guo Yutu's shocked gaze, the pale white defense wall disintegrated into countless snow-like petals.

A flaw thousands of miles away was precisely penetrated, and a pure gray bullet, never before observed, flew into the city. The monitoring system did not respond, and none of the key targets took action. All the countermeasures he had prepared in advance were ineffective.

Because it was a sniper attack from outside the city-state, across the ocean!

Ignoring the assassin before him, Guo Yutu quickly summoned intelligence from the border. He saw the misshapen aircraft floating above the sea, its unusual design completely abandoning defense in favor of attack, and the religious-style sniper rifle placed in the center. Only one person could design a world-breaking wheel like this, and only one person could possess such absurd marksmanship—

"Shax ibn uld!"

In the center of the Wheel of Judgment, Shaxx casually discarded his cigarette butt and laughed heartily at the distant city.

"It's getting more interesting, Black Death Army."

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From the very beginning, Velvet believed that Guo Yutu would be the biggest obstacle to breaking through the encirclement.

Strength, mentality, and essence have nothing to do with the above. Velvet attaches great importance to him because Guo Yutu is the enemy's strongest Floating Light Path Transformer.

Manipulating public opinion and leveraging it as a force of strength was naturally Parriman's forte. However, when it came to leveraging equipment and coordinating the overall situation, even Wang Quan wasn't as adept as Guo Yutu. The Great Lily, a city defense system, could only be fully realized in his hands. Had Benningtik not stopped him early under the guise of an inspection, Ji Huaisu and his group wouldn't have been able to infiltrate the First Order.

Without breaking the Big Lily, all subsequent actions would have no theoretical basis. And to break the Big Lily, they must also defeat Guo Yutu, the defender of the city. To ensure success, they must use an unexpected joker in this action—a trump card not previously on the board, not within the enemy's considerations.

That is Shax who is far away overseas.

Before the wanted list was launched, Chu Hengkong had communicated with him via a tablet, and at that time he had commissioned him to defeat the Big Lily. Fortunately, the Alien Gunner never dragged his feet.

He successfully reached his destination on this night of heavy gunfire.

Thousands of miles away on the sea, the probability of hitting the target was over 1 in 37,000!

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Unable to control himself, Guo Yutu recalled his past setbacks.

It's really ridiculous.

Velus who locked onto him halfway across the country.

The sacrificial snake that caught up with the Shinkansen in the flesh.

And, the strange gunman who fought with him with only two guns.

All the excuses that could be used to quibble and evade were shattered by the ruthless facts.

He lost in terms of talent, but his wisdom outside the chessboard was also inferior to others.

The outcome depends on technology, but it is no match for two modified guns.

As a military strategist. As a killer. As a technician. All that was a source of pride met with defeat. This humiliating defeat revealed reality.

You are not the first.

There is always someone stronger than you in this world.

Guo Yutu looked up indifferently, gazing at the petals dancing in the air. Chu Hengkong had broken through the vanishing barrier, surviving the artillery fire. He had landed thousands of meters away, a mere moment for a snake.

What a disastrous defeat.

From the perspective, he was not on the same level as the enemy. He was concentrating on the chessboard called the city-state, but he didn't know that Velus was watching the entire battlefield.

He was constantly distracted by observing the other reinforcements; of course they wouldn't come. The Corpse Cannon's output was too high and too frequent, and anyone other than Chu Hengkong would be courting death. Chu Hengkong was the only one on the front lines. If all went well, he would exploit the flaws. If a trap was unforeseen, the Special Gunner would be responsible for killing them with a single shot.

All of his calculations came true, and at this point he had no chance of winning.

Guo Yutu raised his hands silently, as if wanting to surrender.

He clenched his hands into hard fists.

"explode!"

The eastern wall of Mansa Star Fort collapsed with a bang, and the massive amount of explosives planted in advance activated simultaneously, destroying Chu Hengkong's landing point. The numerous Black Death troops maintaining the last line of defense simultaneously stepped forward, their bodies disintegrating and reorganizing into countless tortoise-shell-like iron fragments.

Guo Yutu's psychic power was unleashed at full overload, forming a gleaming "skeleton" roughly ten meters tall. Iron fragments, formed from the disintegrated Black Death Army, surged toward the psychic skeleton, transforming into armor and forging into a broadsword, forming a mighty suit of armor resembling a general's. The general, with a skull-like face, stood solemnly, sword in hand, and let out a mighty battle cry!

He was an ascender from the Floating Light Road, always prepared for anything, even if all plans failed, he could use it as a last resort to protect himself. During the Jingsha Festival, it was a stand-in soldier who replaced the original body, and now it was this giant general who had expended his last strength.

Blood streamed from the corners of Guo Yutu's eyes. He pointed at the distant enemy and roared at the machine: "Undead General, march!"

The Undead General responded with a swipe, slicing down a five-meter-long Legion, clashing head-on with Chu Hengkong's divine slash. His burning spirit shattered the Legion, and the offensive should have been crushed. However, the Undead General refused to retreat. The highly compressed spiritual power at the core of his Legion held it together, ensuring it would not be damaged as long as it remained powered.

Then, the broadsword and divine slash clashed in rapid succession, momentarily halting Chu Hengkong's attack. The gusts of wind from the clash of weapons surged, creating two-colored scars around the battlefield. The undead giant's sword winds transformed into a psychic plague, forming a formless swarm of skeletons that opened their mouths and bit down. Chu Hengkong, however, forced forth a bloody aura, burning the diseased skeletons with his Burning Night.

He forced the power of Yiqi Qianqiu to the limit, brandishing the Divine Slash to drive the giant back. The distance between the two closed with each passing second. 1000 meters. 500 meters. 300 meters! Like a mythical hero, he repeatedly repelled the giant with his tiny body!

Guo Yutu coughed up shiny blood, and Chu Hengkong's eyes were also filled with blood. The distance between the two sides was too close, and at this distance, the spiritual power plague was amplified twice, and his ghost body was severely damaged.

But neither could stop. If Guo Yutu retreated, he would be beheaded by the Divine Slash, and if Chu Hengkong changed his tactics, the Plague would take advantage. Therefore, relying on willpower and perseverance, he pressed himself, burning his life to close the gap. Like a duelist charging through a suffocating fire!

Chu Hengkong laughed hoarsely: "Hey! Why are you still fighting?"

Yes, it's quite unnecessary. Using force is too inefficient. If you prepare ahead of time, you'll have more options. Trigger traps, demon-like spells, or a massive force that wins by sheer numbers—that's the true combat style of the Floating Light Path.

But he hadn't prepared for this beforehand, and the decisive line he had drawn for himself was only until the big lily was broken through. He knew that at this point, he had already lost, and no matter how hard he struggled, he couldn't escape defeat.

Ultimately, this was just a reluctant task, no reason to risk my life. Simply giving up would increase my chances of survival. Even pretending to be dead wouldn't be a big deal.

Why fight an opponent you can't defeat? Do you have anything to prove?

Do you want to prove that your technology is superior? Do you want to prove that you are smarter? Do you want to prove that you are the best?

How is that possible?

It was just a trivial obsession. It was something adults should have abandoned long ago, a childish obsession.

"Just pure!"

Control the giant general to swing the sword.

Transform all your mental strength into a roar that shakes your body.

"——I don't want to lose to you again!!!"

The moment he said this, his frozen heart seemed to come back to life.

Guo Yutu laughed at himself.

There's no such thing as a high-sounding reason. It's just a refusal to admit defeat.

I just don't want to lose again!

Overstimulated mental energy briefly controlled the murderous blade. The undead giant's fist seized this opportunity to strike down fiercely. Chu Hengkong met his fist with his own, single-handedly shattering the giant's fist. He spun, drawing his sword, and slashing with lightning speed. With incredible speed, Yang Yi decapitated the giant general and simultaneously shattered Guo Yutu's shield.

Guo Yutu roared, charging forward with his powerless fists raised. Chu Hengkong sheathed his sword and struck with swift force.

The divine slash severed the joints, causing the man to lose his balance and fall, falling in a pool of his own blood.

"It's much better than before."

The sacrificial snake said to him.

"Come challenge me again when you become stronger."

He sheathed his sword and departed, leaving Guo Yutu lying quietly in the ruins. The clamor gradually faded, and his vision gradually faded. Before he passed out, his mind, uncanny and liberated from victory and defeat, fell into a state of calm.

In the approaching darkness, only a boring thought flashed through my mind.

Screwed up the job again.

(End of this chapter)