Chapter 60: Magic Blast
The sound of the wind reached the demons faster than words, blasting fiercely in an instant. The wind carried the rusty smell of blood. The elephant-headed demon's left arm was gone, its tusk swirling through the air. The demon's single eye tilted to the left, as if trying to see its wound. A red line flashed in its eye, and half its head fell down the smooth, cut surface.
Murderous blood lines appeared densely, and the three demons were cut into countless pieces!
Chu Hengkong silently swung his blade, the residual blood on the rock blade spreading out, transforming into a red mist in the rain. He stood among the demons, but none of them could see his movements clearly. By the time they reacted, the anxious demon was already dead. The self-deceiving demon behind him shuddered, meeting the killer's cold eyes.
"The possessed person is a minor character, and the original body is just a minion!"
This sentence ignited the demons' emotions, and ferocious shadows danced wildly in the flames. All kinds of attacks carrying abnormal power were launched, and they would rather kill their "friends" than slaughter this arrogant human.
Claws, fangs, knives, hammers—Chu Hengkong's eyes swiveled as he tracked the attacks. His rock blade slashed at a demon's blade, and Chu Hengkong himself, leveraging the momentum, leaped upward, slipping into the fleeting gap between the attacks. He delivered two mid-air kicks, blasting the heads of two demons apart. At the same time, he swung his rock blade, slitting the throat of the blade-wielding demon.
Three demons died instantly. The fourth, the hammer-wielding demon, was the slowest to strike, launching its attack only then. It brought down its twin hammers, shaped like giant eyeballs, sending the ground surging with overwhelming force. Chu Hengkong stepped on the demon's corpse and leaped again to avoid the impact. He sheathed his sword mid-air, then lashed out with a tentacle transformed into a whip. The whip, infused with energy, tore through flesh and blood, cleaving the demon and its hammer in two with a single blow!
It was no longer the same as before, when a mere demon possessed could harm him. In Chu Hengkong's eyes now, demons with only power were not enough to be his enemies.
A blood-soaked area opened up ahead, and a new demon filled the area. This demon, with an orange-yellow body resembling a sea urchin, was a fiery and violent demon, and could not tolerate the killer's provocation. Its body swelled like a balloon, spewing out hundreds of spikes, each one carrying a highly compressed force that would rupture the enemy's flesh upon impact.
Chu Hengkong wielded the Rock Blade, deflecting all the spikes with the essence of the Steel Edge Flow. The irritable demon grew increasingly enraged, gathering all its strength to intensify the rain of spikes. However, the Rock Blade's defensive stance remained unmoved, and instead, numerous surrounding demons were injured. The demons swelled and exploded after being stabbed, showering the irritable demon with blood mixed with visceral fragments.
The irritable demon was furious. Two thick tentacles flashed from its sea urchin-like body and with its extraordinary strength, it broke the nearby Black Stone Tower completely apart. It swung the stone tower down, trying to smash the killer into a pulp, but Chu Hengkong calculated the distance and jumped, dodging the attack and stepping on the top of the Black Stone Tower.
He ran forward along the tower, drew the rock knife from his waist, and stabbed the violent demon through with one blow.
"Ah! Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!" The raging demon roared in rage, its spherical body instantly expanding several times its size. In a rage so intense, it detonated itself, aiming to perish along with Chu Hengkong. Countless spikes erupted from its flesh as it exploded, the surging energy forming an orange-yellow mist. But the killer had already sensed the situation. He simply sheathed his blade and leaped forward, letting the rain of needles rage through the enemy ranks as he quietly vanished into the mist.
The demons' vision was obscured by the yellow fog. They cursed the irritable demon who couldn't stand losing, and used various methods to dispel the smoke. But the curses gradually faded, and instead, the dull sound of people falling to the ground continued to be heard.
The self-deceiving demon behind panicked, blowing air to disperse the poisonous smoke, then widened its eyes in astonishment. It just happened to see the green-clad killer draw his knife, using the fog to conceal himself and continue assassinating demons!
The demon of self-deception dodged behind the black stone tower and unleashed a jet-black water pistol. This attack was several times more powerful than Sansen Wangxiang's that day. The high-pressure water stream pierced the gray stone tower as easily as a needle through paper, heading straight for Chu Hengkong's head. However, the water pistol collided with a steel knife, as indestructible as rock. It slashed through the water pistol, severing the stone tower, and with unwavering determination, it severed the demon's seahorse-shaped body.
Steel Front Style: No Counterattack.
The man and the demon passed each other, and Chu Hengkong sheathed his sword, the hilt of the sword colliding with the sheath with a light snap. As the demon turned his head near death, he realized that he was the last to die.
Chu Hengkong picked up the topaz and adjusted his breathing before speaking. He had previously concentrated his mind to the extreme, because time was of the essence and a quick decision was necessary.
"The first batch has been killed," he said. "The crows are all demons."
"The crow over there is a demon incarnate?" Jie An was incredulous. "Are you sure?"
"I'm not wrong." Chu Hengkong looked up and strode forward.
"I fucking know you're right, but this isn't right..." Xie An bit his nails. The enemy had new recruits, and this intelligence made him extremely nervous. He seemed to have thought of something and suddenly asked, "How many did you kill?"
"32."
"32... The workshop owner took 25 people away from the swamp... almost enough to match them!" Jie An became excited. "You've done a great job. I guess the Black Workshop transformed a group of demon-possessed people into real demons to raid the headquarters. You killed them all!"
"Next step." Chu Hengkong started running.
"Smash that glowing thing." Jie An spoke quickly, "Only by destroying the curtain-breaking device can we have a chance of winning. The sooner the better!"
Chu Hengkong ran, leaped, and his tentacles spun towards a flying vehicle overhead, clinging to its steel hull with his secretions. He retracted his tentacles and slithered up the aircraft's hull. With a slash of his rock blade, he shattered the cockpit glass, along with the crow inside. He leaped into the cockpit, threw the crow's corpse out, and attempted to pull the control lever.
Pulling the joystick didn't raise the aircraft's altitude. The aircraft's balance was abysmal, swaying in the air like a drunk. Chu Hengkong pulled out the Silver Eyed Book and pressed it on the dashboard, but the appraisal document didn't appear. This thing wasn't a relic.
He fiddled with all the moving parts as quickly as possible, and made a judgment based on his intuition: "Accelerate, pull up the left stick, and steer with the right stick."
"What did you say?" Jie An didn't hear clearly.
"I said go!"
Chu Hengkong floored the accelerator, sending the aircraft tumbling like a hamster wheel into the sky. The burning wind lashed his face, the air scorching hot, nearly suffocating. He manipulated the levers by feel, just like he'd mastered the 3,000-set routine, controlling every muscle to regain his ability to walk. He learned quickly, remarkably quickly. In just a few breaths, he had the aircraft stabilized.
Chu Hengkong opened his eyes and rushed into the distance through the fierce wind, rushing towards the direction where the black beam of light rose.
"Ha...ha..." Chu Hengkong gasped for breath. "Ha...ha..." The sound inadvertently overlapped, making him realize that there was another person on the communication channel. A familiar but weak voice. It was Ji Huaisu. "Not dead yet!" she said. "Just finished killing a group of demons." "Great! I only took out one." "How's the battle in the courtyard?"
Silence. A long silence. Only the sound of panting and the blade cutting through the air.
"It's going very smoothly. We have the upper hand," Ji Huaisu said. "You don't have to worry about anything. Just do your best and come back alive, okay?"
"Same to you." Chu Hengkong said, "I'm flying a flying saucer in the sky."
"Wow, so fashionable." She laughed. "It's so cool to be a handyman!"
After a loud bang, the communication was disconnected, and Chu Hengkong gripped the joystick tightly. This girl was no liar. Just by listening to her voice, she knew she was injured. She was not paying attention at all, and didn't even notice Jie An who was also on the channel.
Jie An was surrounded by the noise of the public radio: cries of collapse, weak last words, and roars of people ready to perish together with their enemies. The noises were suppressed, but Chu Hengkong could hear them clearly.
How can the situation get better when it's like this?
"...I don't know when they died. I'll just say whatever comes to mind." Jie An took a deep breath. "The courtyard can still hold on, but the main force of the Crows is the Fire Corpses."
Chu Hengkong frowned: "Another mind-control relic?"
"The relic that covers the entire atrium is too powerful. I don't believe the workshop owner has it. Not to mention there are demons..." An explosion sounded from Jie An's side, and his speech became faster. "I have a guess, but I don't have time to elaborate. There should be a powerful enemy guarding the veil-breaking device. If we can kill it, we will have a chance of winning!"
"I'll try to go faster." Chu Hengkong pressed the accelerator, which had already been fully extended. A nearby aircraft noticed it was approaching abnormally, so he casually launched two water bombs, killing the pilot.
He told himself that it wasn't too late, that with Jie An directing the battle in the courtyard, they could hold on, and that Ji Huaisu wouldn't be easily defeated. But in reality, even a calm man like him was getting anxious, because he didn't know how long his partner could hold out, and he didn't know if the city lord really had a way to resist the powerful enemy outside the city.
A shower of bullets came from below. Chu Hengkong lowered the altitude of the aircraft. He was already very close to the black beam of light, so close that he could clearly see the crow holding a gun on the ground and the shape in the light.
There was a burly and strange alien standing in the light. It had a body shaped like a long snake and a bird's head with a slender beak. There were three eyes on its head, and wings grew on both sides, forming an inverted triangle outline with the beak.
It was a demon. Chu Hengkong instantly recognized the other party's true form. Only demons could possess that sense of dislocation between illusion and reality. The threat it posed to him was greater than that of all the previous demons combined. The bird-headed demon raised its head as the gunfire blazed, spotting the assassin in the air. Its three eyes lit up simultaneously, a fierce azure flame burning within them.
Chu Hengkong lowered his flight altitude, bracing himself for a surprise attack. His heart suddenly sank. The demon didn't attack, only smiled. It was a confident smile, like Kanin's during a negotiation.
"You're late, Chief Inspector," said the devil.
Its body vanished in an instant, dissipating like every demonic illusion. However, the dark light of the shattering veil remained. Instead, the beam deepened, merging with a streak of azure fire that soared into the sky. The infusion of new power doubled the shattering veil's power. In an instant, it completely pierced the swirling dragon's water curtain, tearing a chasm over the city like a natural chasm!
The swirling dragon's water curtain completely stopped, and a violent wind surged through the cracks, swirling endlessly like the fury of a god. Chu Hengkong's heart skipped a beat, his breathing paused, his limbs stiffened, as if the weight of a mountain were bearing down on his back, the indescribable pressure bringing all life to a screeching halt. He forced himself to breathe, taking in deep gulps of the violent air, only to cough again. The air sliced through his lungs like a dagger, the pain a foreshadowing of what was to come.
He looked up and saw the storm whirling and swirling, like some kind of life breathing in the sky, with thick clouds, thunder and lightning, and heavy rain surging within it. The wind of different colors danced at different speeds, layer upon layer, carving wrinkles like a human face.
Dark clouds formed into jet-black features, their eyes like gilded plasma, their majestic beard and hair like rain. A face as large as a city took shape in the storm, roaring with a longing that had lasted for twenty years!
The fourth outer point, the natural disaster seed, the devil's storm!
(End of this chapter)
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