Chapter 484 - Lightning Fast Attack!
Chapter 484: Lightning Fast Attack!
The nine rollerbladers moved around the maze for a long time before they stopped practically together.
Three of them stopped at a gambling site, monster coliseum, and illegal black market, which were places that had a lot of people. Good and bad people were there, and the atmosphere was foul. Someone might appear at any moment to take their backpacks.
Another three stopped at alleys with really narrow entrances. These areas would only be able to accommodate two people inside. The air above the alleys was sealed shut by illegal buildings, so they could not monitor them from above or tail them.
The last three shot into buildings that looked like mazes.
Then, thick, black smoke gushed out of the nine people at the same time.
Smoke bombs!
The large outdoor survival backpacks they carried contained a large amount of smoke bombs.
The slightly corrosive and poisonous black smoke gushed out like a monster baring its teeth. It instantly covered a circular area of ten meters.
Violent coughs and surprised shouts immediately rose from around the rollerbladers who had stopped at densely populated areas.
The gamblers at the gambling site, the spectators in the coliseum, and the guests in the black market all panicked like headless chickens.
They pushed and shoved against each other, falling over one another, and everything became a mess. More than one hundred hooded people collided into each other, and it was difficult to tell just who were the rollerbladers the veteran hunters had been following.
The rollerbladers who stopped outside the narrow alleys used the smoke bombs to lock down the entire alley. Then, they charged into them at high speed.
If the veteran hunters wanted to chase after them, they had to charge through the smoke.
But no one knew the situation behind the smoke, and it was highly likely that they would be discovered the moment they rushed out.
The last three rollerbladers detonated the smoke bombs in the three buildings.
Humans compressed the spaces in there to the maximum. A container-sized space could have dozens of citizens inside. When suffocating smoke spread out in this sort of place, it was basically a disaster.
Quite a number of residents coughed violently and cried. While they cussed, they swung their arms and escaped from within the buildings.
During their haste, they did not look for the people who released the smoke bombs. The rollerbladers had already bent their backs and vanished behind them.
“Bastards!”
Man-eating Shark Zhou Chong was shocked and angry. He did not expect that the other party would be so cunning.
This was definitely not Big Brother Knife’s plan, but the Vortex’s meticulous scheme.
“After them!” Zhou Chong narrowed his eyes. “Don’t let a single one escape!”
Multi-armed Bear Hong Li, Snake Eye Mo Lan, Bullet Xue Rui, and the other veteran hunters could no longer care about hiding or disguising themselves. They activated their vitality magnetic fields to the max.
Their eyes sparkled brightly, and their auditory as well as olfactory nerves were strengthened ten times in an instant. It was enough for them to find the finest scents left by the rollerbladers in the air.
They were like hunting dogs with bloodshot eyes. They parted the crowds, went into the smoke, and shot into the buildings.
Meng Chao watched the eighteen scenes at the same time.
Four of the veteran hunters located their targets once more.
The feeling of unease grew even more prominent in Meng Chao’s heart.
He felt that something had gone wrong.
Or rather, this method gave him a sense of deja vu.
In his previous life, he used a similar method to distinguish and shake off his pursuers.
He did not have the time to think. “Senior Zhou, something’s not right.
“The nine rollerbladers’ backpacks probably are just smoke bombs; they don’t have any resources in them. Big Brother Knife didn’t ask the rollerbladers to go to the mastermind. This is all just an anti-tracking method!”
Zhou Chong was a little taken aback. “What?’
“Since Big Brother Knife took such great pains and sent nine rollerbladers, it means that he can’t believe the two late robbers completely. If that’s the case, why is there a need for him to send the resources to the true mastermind’s address?” Meng Chao quickly said.
“If I were the mastermind, I’d ask Big Brother Knife to set up a few anti-tracking plans, like this one. I’d intentionally send nine rollerblades with smoke bombs to head to nine fake addresses before I have them suddenly release smoke bombs and leave at a high speed.
“Then, I’d place a few observers at the corners nearby or at the highest spots to see whether there is anyone chasing after them regardless of the cost. The hunters’ attention will be entirely on the rollerbladers, so it’ll be impossible for them to scan all the drunkards, gamblers, and homeless people by the roadside.
“If there were no pursuers and I became certain that there is no one after the nine rollerbladers, I’d send the tenth one with the real goods. It wouldn’t take much time, but I’d be much safer!
“After all, if any one of the nine rollerbladers has a pursuer, that means that Big Brother Knife’s tracks were exposed and there’s something wrong with the two robbers who arrived late!”
Zhou Chong’s pupils shrank to the size of pins.
With an expression of disbelief, he stared at Meng Chao for five seconds.
Then, he pushed down on the neural signal receiver behind his ear with gritted teeth. “All hunters, pay attention. Stop your movements! I repeat, stop your movements! Stop following the targets!”
His words instantly echoed in all of the veteran hunters’ eardrums.
But he was a step too late.
Multi-armed Bear Hong Li had already broken through the smoke and entered the alley.
The rollerblader he had been following had not run away. Instead, he squatted behind the smoke and stared at him fixedly.
Hong Li wanted to pretend to be a normal lair citizen.
But it was just too strange for a normal citizen to have rushed inside instead of running away when there was such pungent smoke in the alley.
Besides, Hong Li was built, and his bone structure was bizarre. His arms were thicker than Meng Chao’s thighs, and his bulky muscles filled out the cloak, so the wide hooded cloak looked like skin-tight clothes on him. It formed an inverted triangle on him. His was the perfect figure of a built man, and he could not hide the presence of a powerful person.
“We’ve been discovered!”
Meng Chao and Zhou Chong cussed at the same time.
The atmosphere in the room beneath them also became tense. They could sense it through the reinforced concrete under their feet.
Crack, crack, crack, crack.
The sound of guns being loaded came from beneath.
Some people also started making a fuss. Uncontrollable power that was like a wild beast’s exploded from their bodies.
‘Big Brother Knife knows that someone went after the rollerbladers he sent out!’
Meng Chao and Zhou Chong exchanged a glance. They instantly knew what the other intended to do.
They had no other choice. They had to force their way into the robbers’ den.
Bang!
Zhou Chong smashed his fist against the floor.
The spirit energy magnetic field of a Heaven Realm superhuman was like a super heavy pile driver. It instantly destroyed the floor that was almost half a meter thick.
The reinforced concrete shattered into hundreds of crushed stones that spilled down on the thirty or so robbers beneath them.
The powder blinded the robbers, then the stones crashed into their heads, making them bleed. They sank into temporary confusion.
Meng Chao jumped down on the robbers like a falcon.
While he was still in the air, his right arm swelled up. His wrist, elbow, and shoulder let out cracking sounds, as if his bones were exploding. Every explosive sound was like a wave, and it gathered on his fist layer by layer.
This was the Ripple Force at the peak of its strength.
Bang!
The first punch landed heavily on the chest of a robber who had a double-barrelled shotgun, and the man’s thorax was gone. His chest caved in, and his heart, lungs, and other organs were reduced to a pulp before gushing out of his mouth and nose. He died on the spot.
Crack!
Before Meng Chao pulled his fist back, he had already swung his right leg, turning it into an axe that could split metal open, and it slammed into the second robber’s waist.
The destructive force was like an ordnance penetrator. It crushed the robber’s heavy bulletproof vest and strengthened porcelain pieces inside, then reduced the robber’s spine to powder, causing his upper and lower body to fold together. Before the man could unfold himself, he stopped breathing.
There were around thirty robbers.
Some of them might have taken Deification Capsules beforehand and temporarily gained the power of Spirit Tattoo Realm, but Meng Chao must end the fight quickly to prevent the robbers from acting desperately and harming the innocents.
Hence, he had to use the most ruthless methods.
Just as he expected, while he instantly killed two robbers, the third robber pounced on him from the back and locked his neck in a tight grip. This robber had already taken the Deification Capsule and was acting like a lunatic.
Meng Chao’s spine let out cracking sounds, as if he was crushed by a super high power capstan.
The robber behind him growled like an animal, and his pores released a powerful, burnt stench.
Meng Chao gnashed his teeth together and grabbed the robber’s arm. He yanked it first, then gripped it tightly to crush the robber’s wrists.
But before the robber could even scream in pain, strange flames gushed out from his orifices, wounds, and pores.
Apparently, to fight against Meng Chao, who was at Heaven Realm, he had instantly drained all his vitality, and his body temperature had far surpassed the boiling point of a human body. Before Meng Chao could kill him at lightning speed, he burnt himself to death.
Most of the robbers had already taken the Deification Capsule.
Some of them even decided to not care about the costs and took in two to three times the dose above their limits.
Their muscles swelled up, their skin was torn, and fur and scales resembling those of wild beasts grew from their wounds. Their eyeballs turned red, yellow, or gained enrapturing light.
Their killing instincts completely suppressed their rationality. Even though they saw that their companion had just burst into flames, they still threw all caution to the wind and growled as they pounced on Meng Chao and Zhou Chong.
Some of the robbers even decided to risk it all and brought out crystal bombs tied together in their backpacks. They attempted to activate them and throw them at the two superhumans.
If so many crystal bombs exploded indoors, even if they did not manage to kill the two Heaven Realm superhumans, they would still cause the swaying building to collapse, because the weight of the ten or so illegal floors had long since made it unstable. It would definitely be unable to bear the explosion.
Meng Chao sucked in a sharp breath and threw a bunch of scattered sparks from his left hand.
They were more than ten discarded harvesting blades that were polished until they were as thin as a cicada’s wings. They drew strange arcs in the air and sliced past three robbers’ wrists and fingers, cutting off their tendons and ligaments completely. The crystal bombs dropped to the floor with a terrifying thud.