Chapter 523 - The God of Death Who Hunts the Reapers
Chapter 523: The God of Death Who Hunts the Reapers
A’ji gasped and covered his ears. Like the villagers around him, he had an expression of extreme pain.
They might have deformed appearances, but their ear drums were just as fragile as a normal human’s. When the motorized armor released sonic booms above their heads, no one was able to handle it.
Meng Chao narrowed his eyes and stared at the area above his head.
Around eight motorized armors flew past without caring about the possibility of destroying more buildings in their charge. They just continued chasing after a superhuman with a non-motorized glider.
The seemingly panicked superhuman was someone Meng Chao was familiar with. It was Tsunami Wan Zhuiyun, one of the three guards of the Deification Capsule pharmacy!
On the surface, the law enforcers who came from the world outside were chasing after an incredibly fierce wanted criminal.
But if Tsunami Wan Zhuiyun was forced into a corner and created a large-scale, destructive spirit energy magnetic field and the captors were eager to contribute to the war effort, they would not care about hurting the bystanders. In fact, they would not be able to stop the wanted criminal from hurting Ms. Mulian.
That… made sense.
Meng Chao’s mind raced, and he immediately registered the situation. ‘They’re a group!
‘Tsunami Wan Zhuiyun, the lost person, is working together with the former Reaper Squad members, the ones in the skeleton masks. They’re all claws of the Vortex. They’re putting up a two-man act to take the chance to kill the villagers and Ms. Mulian, who’s very important to Wild Wolf!’
Just as he expected, right when this thought appeared in his mind, Tsunami Wan Zhuiyun shouted and charged toward the normal villagers on the ground.
By the looks of it, he wanted to blend into the crowd and use the innocent villagers as his meatshield.
A non-motorized glider was naturally not as nimble as a motorized armor, because non-motorized armors had a lot of exhaust pipes for their crystal engine.
The eight captors clearly had the chance to stop him or strike him down from the air, but they just watched Tsunami Wan Zhuiyun land on the ground.
Shick, shick, shick, shick, shick!
The moment Tsunami Wan Zhuiyun landed on the ground, he threw dozens of tear bombs in the area, and along with the smoke that kept coming endlessly from the fires in the depths of the ruins, a circular area of hundreds of meters was shrouded in smoke.
The captors only charged in when the smoke spread out.
Then, loud crashes came from the smoke. It was the sound of fighting. It seemed like both sides were fighting with their lives on the line.
However, with the black smoke and poisonous smoke filling the air, the normal villagers’ eyes turned red and swollen from the irritation. They started crying and coughing nonstop.
There was no way they would be able to see just what Tsunami Wan Zhuiyun and those “captors” were doing!
Tsunami Wan Zhuiyun’s best skills were making the air fluctuate and creating high-frequency sound waves.
The sound waves within the area where his spirit energy magnetic field affected would not just tear the eardrums, but also the brains and organs of all normal people.
The two sides might be fighting fiercely, but the “captors” were showing no signs of stopping Wan Zhuiyun from creating his spirit energy magnetic field.
Tsunami Wan Zhuiyun’s fatal and brutal sound waves continued spreading through the area and making the innocent villagers around him cough up blood. They fled in a panic.
The buildings nearby had tilted after the super crystal bomb, so when they were attacked by Tsunami Wan Zhuiyun’s high-frequency sound waves, they let out rattling sounds and started swaying viciously, as if they would collapse at any moment.
The situation descended into chaos in an instant.
A number of villagers panicked and started running everywhere.
But most of them ran to the medical tent regardless of the cost and started shouting, “Hurry! We have to protect Ms. Mulian so that she can leave!”
By the looks of it, A’Ji was not lying. Ms. Mulian did indeed have prestige that made her equal to the village chief of Leprosy Village. She was an existence equal to a living Buddha who saved the suffering people, which was why many villagers cared more about protecting her than their own lives.
Unfortunately, the villagers did not know that the escapee and “captors” who were fighting fiercely in the smoke belonged to one group.
Their loud shouts allowed the ill-intentioned escapee and “captors” to learn where Ms. Mulian was.
Thud, thud, thud, thud!
A few more smoke bombs shot through the darkness.
These smoke bombs could make the people feel faint, numb, and start tearing up. Like a black, demonic claw, they instantly captured the medical tent and the flag with the Ford’s manglietia.
“Go!”
Meng Chao crudely helped A’Ji put on the goggles and stuffed the filtration chip he had removed from Corpse-eating Dog Du Ming’s helmet into his mask.
“I-I have to go too?” A’Ji stuttered. The scene in front of his eyes was too terrifying. He seemed to want to retreat.
“Duh. Without you, how am I supposed to know who Ms. Mulian is?”
Meng Chao grabbed A’Ji and rushed into the smoke, traveling against the direction of the crowd.
Both of them were instantly surrounded by darkness. Heatwaves and the vicious blackness assaulted their senses.
A moment later, the piercing screams, gunshots, and explosions became faded and blurry.
Meng Chao used Walking Corpse to reduce his breathing, heartbeat and temperature to the point that he was like a dead person.
He blended into the darkness like a ghost.
Unless someone was so close to him that their noses touched, no one would discover him.
But A’Ji was so terrified beside him that his face was pale, he shuddered, his breathing was like a pair of bellows, and his heartbeat was as loud as a drum.
The closer they got to the medical tent, the thicker the suffocating smoke became. They could not even see their fingers.
A’Ji could not withstand this. Even though he was trying his best to not scream, his teeth kept clattering against each other, and he could not stop it.
The next moment, a captor in motorized armor appeared in the smoke.
A’Ji’s breathing and heartbeat were so strong, and the sound of his teeth clattering was so loud that anyone could hear it even five meters away.
Naturally, the former Reaper Squad member whose senses were incredibly sharp could hear him clearly.
A’Ji saw the white skeleton mask that appeared in the black smoke, but “Uncle”, who was supposed to be beside him, had disappeared without a trace at some point in time.
A’Ji broke down. He screamed, his knees became weak, and he fell to the ground.
The former Reaper Squad member did not think of A’Ji as anyone important.
In truth, he did not regard anyone in Leprosy Village aside from the people from Wild Wolves as anyone important.
After all, they were currently acting as law enforcers. Their fighting strength was far greater than that of the deformed people. They could wilfully release the murderous intent they had been suppressing for long, and no one could stop them.
The mission of the former Reaper Squad members was to find and eliminate Ms. Mulian. There was no need to kill the boy, especially when he looked like he was about to pee his pants.
But there was also no reason to NOT kill him…
A brutal smile appeared on the former Reaper Squad member’s lips, though the white skeleton mask hid it from sight. He brought his gun up and aimed at A’Ji’s forehead.
Then, he sensed a cold wind blowing from behind him.
Immediately after, a cold chill descended on his neck. The cold wind seemed to have traveled from his neck artery to his brain, causing the blood vessels in his brain and all his brain cells to turn into ice.
His finger was on the trigger, but he could not pull it.
In shock, A’Ji watched a ghost hold the “captor” from behind, and with a sharp blade as thin as a cicada’s wing, he accurately stabbed the gap at the neck area of the motorized armor. Then, he yanked the blade left and right, and the terrifying skeleton mask practically turned 180 degrees.
The former Reaper Squad member did not even have the time to scream. In 0.1 seconds, he was killed by the real God of Death.
Then, Meng Chao calmly removed the man’s armor and put it on with familiar ease. It was only then that A’Ji registered the situation.
“Y-You lied to me again!” the Leprosy Village boy said in exasperation. “You didn’t need me to find Ms. Mulian, but to be bait and lure in those captors!”
“Can’t help it. I’m injured. I don’t want to fight against these people for too long. You were a great help this time. I have nothing to give you as a reward right now, but once the matter is settled, all your grievances will disappear into your steak!”
Before the boy could protest any further, Meng Chao shut the motorized armor’s helmet with a whoosh.
To make sure that Leprosy Village and Golden Tooth Lair faced signal interference at all frequencies, the enemy had detonated a super crystal bomb. It might have even activated a lot of signal interference equipment that blocked everything indiscriminately.
So, the communication system, tactical data chain system, real-time video system, and physiological parameter monitoring system in the motorized armor were also shut down.
The enemies could not contact each other.
Besides, they had thrown a lot of smoke bombs into the area, which severely affected their field of vision and other senses. Now, the entire battlefield was basically a black box.
And in a black box with no information, the side with fewer people would have a greater advantage.
There were few enemies in Leprosy Village villagers, so the “captors” had decided to take advantage of the situation and satisfy their murderous desires.
But Meng Chao was alone. He was the most cunning hunter in the darkness!
No “captor” at that moment knew that the roles of the hunter and prey had already changed. The true God of Death had descended among them.
The “captors” did not hide and let their spirit flames gush out madly. They released all sorts of fierce spirit energy magnetic fields while they pressed toward to the medical tent.
It was especially the case for Tsunami Wan Zhuiyun.
His mission seemed to use large-scale sound wave attacks to kill innocent people indiscriminately and stir up the anger in the villagers.
As the source of the “tsunami” of sound waves, his vitality magnetic field was as bright as a lighthouse. Meng Chao immediately found this malice-filled criminal.
He sucked in a deep breath and went straight for his target.
Wan Zhuiyun had noticed his skeleton mask a long time ago, but was not wary of him in the slightest. He let his eyes close as if enjoying himself.
Meng Chao scowled under the helmet and asked through gritted teeth, “How many did you kill?”
He still had to verify the relationship between the “escapee” and “captors” one last time.
“Can’t count.” Wan Zhuiyun did not suspect anything. He just said excitedly, “Now, that Wild Wolf or whatever his name is will definitely go mad, right?!”
“Yeah.” Meng Chao looked at the corpses lying all around them. They were too horrible a sight to bear. “He will definitely go mad,” he said clearly.
Every word he hissed out contained a sharp killing intent, and they sank into Tsunami Wan Zhuiyun’s heart before his saber did.
The criminal shuddered, and his face filled with shock. Endless despair and fear appeared in his dazed eyes.