Du Long's triumphant expression gradually faded away.
No matter the old man behind him who had risen again, or the burly man walking towards him, both made Du Long increasingly feel that this small town was a bit eerie.
Looking at those people standing by the roadside, their faces wearing eerie smiles as they watched him.
Suddenly, Du Long could hardly hold his gun steady.
"Boss, this, this place... seems a bit off..." His underling's concerned words actually calmed Du Long down a little.
That's right, he still had around 180 men behind him!
No sweat!
Du Long glanced at the old man he had just shot, who had stood up from the ground, but showed no intention of attacking him.
Compared to the old man, the burly man walking towards him posed a greater threat in Du Long's eyes!
Click—
Du Long tilted his head and swapped a new magazine into his rifle!
"Take down that dumb big guy!"
At Du Long's command, the entire mercenary convoy opened fire!
Rat-tat-tat-tat-tat—
Countless bullets with bright tracer lines sped towards the approaching Niu Ben wielding a spiked club!
Clang clang clang clang!!
But what made these mercenaries gawk was that every single bullet that hit Niu Ben's body sparked a burst of fire!
"Heh heh..."
"Even if Dr. Lu doesn't operate on me, your toys can't hurt me!"
On the other side, Niu Ben, whose muscles had turned metallic, lowered the spiked club from his shoulder and accelerated into a run, dragging his feet on the ground!
Weighing nearly 300 pounds originally, after his entire muscular body turned metallic, Niu Ben's weight instantly exceeded one ton!
Thump, thump, thump—
With each step Niu Ben took, he left a deep footprint on the ground behind him!
Seeing this, the mercenaries gulped!
Some of the more cowardly ones had already quietly tried to pull open the doors of the armored vehicles!
But Du Long didn't panic too much, for he was an ability user himself.
Du Long calmly set down his rifle, taking off his camouflage T-shirt to reveal a sinewy, dark body, and stepped to the front of the formation to face the charging Niu Ben!
"Let me see how tough you really are?!"
As the words left his mouth, a vicious grin spread across Du Long's face!
Then, he took a sumo wrestler's starting stance, stomped hard on the ground, and charged at Niu Ben!
When the two neared each other, Niu Ben swung his spiked club at Du Long, but Du Long deftly sidestepped and grappled the arm holding the club!
Sizzle—
Instantly, white smoke arose from Niu Ben's arm!
At that moment, Niu Ben's eyes went wide, as if shocked by what was happening!
Du Long was very pleased with this effect and tightened his grip on Niu Ben's arm!
Sizzle—
The white smoke intensified!
And Niu Ben's arm was gradually being corroded!
Strong acid corrosion!
This was Du Long's ability!
Seeing the big guy in front of him harmed by his own power, Du Long became exceptionally excited!
The feeling of conquering a powerful ability user by his own hand was irresistible to the bloodthirsty mercenary!
But soon Du Long realized something was off!
He felt the brawny arm he was grappling gradually becoming thicker and harder!
And the steel-like muscles he had already corroded were slowly regenerating!
He looked up at Niu Ben to find his eyes had turned blazing red!
The bloodthirsty, frenzied look flickering in them would chill anyone to the bone!
Niu Ben's other hand swiftly grabbed at Du Long, but Du Long agilely tried to dodge!
But before he could move, Niu Ben's iron grip had seized him firmly!
Du Long found it hard to comprehend how such a huge bulk could move with such nimbleness?!
"If I didn't know Dr. Lu would like you, you'd be a splatter of meat pulp right now!"
Niu Ben said in a slow voice, then flung his arm forcefully, and swish—
Du Long was hurled like a bowling ball, rolling a long distance across the ground!
Crack—
Crack—
Crack—
The sound of snapping bones rang out repeatedly as Du Long rolled!
This was Niu Ben holding back a bit of his strength!
Finally, Du Long stopped rolling and lay motionless on the ground, alive or dead, it wasn't clear.
Niu Ben turned to face the remaining 180 or so mercenaries and flashed a slight smile.
When this one-ton steel man charged into their ranks, those guns and grenades became meaningless.
Swinging his spiked club in a sweeping arc took down a whole row!
Niu Ben swung his club down hard on an armored SUV, WHAM!!
The SUV's four tires exploded instantly from the impact, and the whole vehicle slammed down low to the ground!
Some mercenaries turned to flee, but Niu Ben grabbed an armored sedan with one hand and flung it violently towards the road ahead!
CRASH!
The sedan rolled over several times after landing, and no one dared run anymore.
Niu Ben strode into the mercenary crowd, clutching his spiked club, and bellowed in his slow voice, "Anti-vice raid!"
"Everyone get down on your knees! Hands on your head!"
With that, he swung his club at a mercenary trying to throw a grenade at him!
SPLAT!
That mercenary's head was smashed into a pulp by Niu Ben's club!
"Anyone who doesn't get down, I'll smash their head in!"
Seeing their lively comrade turned into a headless corpse in mere seconds, the mercenaries obediently got down on their knees in rows along the roadside, hands on heads.
Niu Ben's big brass bell-like eyes scanned over the mercenaries and he barked, "Stay down! Anyone moves, I smash them!"
Then Niu Ben glanced behind him as Dr. Lu Yuan walked over in his white lab coat.
The tardy Dr. Lu looked at Du Long lying motionless on the ground with concern and asked, "Brother, can you still live?"
Du Long remained silent, only twitching a finger slightly.
"Oh, looks like there's still hope..."
Dr. Lu said as a sharp surgical knife appeared in his hand.
With a casual flick—
The blade cleanly sliced through Du Long's carotid artery.
After finishing, Dr. Lu stood up and glanced at the crowd by the roadside.
Immediately, the onlookers shrank back a step in unison.
Dr. Lu frowned, looking down at Du Long's corpse in puzzlement, "What unforgivable crimes did you commit to make everyone so afraid of you?"
"Seems you were guilty of misdeeds."
Then he called out to the crowd, "Who set up the spiked strip on the road to the eastern suburbs?"
Silence fell over the crowd until an employee of the Xia Group stepped forward, "Dr. Lu!"
"It, it was us who set it..."
Dr. Lu pointed back in the direction they came from, "Get the vehicles with flat tires repaired and sent back, and take this too."
He kicked Du Long's body, "Find a vehicle to transport this one back as well."
"Yes, Dr. Lu! We'll have it taken care of promptly!"
"Mm."
After giving those instructions, Dr. Lu walked to the front and asked the crowd, "Who got beaten up earlier?"
The old man Du Long had shot raised his hand trembling.
Seeing the old man's frail, shaking figure, Dr. Lu couldn't help feeling sympathetic.
"Aiya... These people are too brutal, laying hands on an elderly man."
Dr. Lu looked over at Niu Ben's battlefield and said concernedly to the old man, "All right, grandpa, we'll still follow the rules."
"But the one who hit you is useful to me, so I'll take him. As for the dead bodies here, you can take two back however you want to deal with them, okay?"
The old man's face was deathly pale, and his head was nodding like he was pounding garlic. He didn't dare say a word.
Du Long raised two fingers and instructed, "Uncle, remember this well—two of them, and they have to be dead ones, not a single extra one! And don't find any living ones!"
The old man's legs went weak, and he collapsed straight to the ground.
Seeing this, Du Long immediately went to help him up, but by the time he approached, the old man had fainted, his eyes rolling back.
Du Long: "......"
Resolve] Gu Yang was once a true disciple of the Falling Cloud Sect, but after failing to break through to the Foundation Establishment stage, his cultivation regressed, his foundation was damaged, his lifespan was nearing its end, and he was about to be demoted to a menial servant. At his moment of despair, he awakened the [Daily Intelligence System]. By refreshing it daily, he could learn about countless hidden opportunities and secrets within the cultivation world! [Today's intelligence has been refreshed] [White Intelligence: One month ago, the Foundation Establishment spiritual item "Profound Ice Spirit Marrow" used by the host to attempt his breakthrough contained a trace of the poison "Bone-Corrobing Spirit-Dissolving Powder".] [Purple Intelligence: Tonight during the Yin hour (3-5 AM), a wisp of "Golden Crow Primordial Flame" will overflow... If this flame is devoured, it can recast the shattered cultivation foundation, fully restore cultivation, and awaken the one-in-ten-thousand—Primordial Supreme Yang Body. [Click to view coordinates]] [Golden Intelligence: Shen Qingyue, a Golden Core elder of the Falling Cloud Sect who possesses the Nine Yin Body, suffers from backlash of cold energy every full moon night, causing her strength to plummet and excruciating pain. Grand Elder Zhao Wuji has secretly bribed Shen Qingyue's personal maid, Hongxiu, and learned the rear gate array node of the protective formation "Clouds and Mist Veiling the Sun Array". Tomorrow late at night, he intends to take advantage of Shen Qingyue's flare-up of the cold poison, when she is weak and unable to resist, to use a secret technique to refine her into a cauldron and force her into a Daoist partnership. [Click to view coordinates]] The cultivation world is a jungle where the strong prey on the weak, and human hearts are as treacherous as ghosts? Sorry, but I can read the script! From then on, relying on his informational advantage, Gu Yang proceeded step by step with careful planning. Seizing opportunities, plundering fortunes. Selling intelligence. Playing rivals against each other. Step by step, he ultimately became the Immortal Emperor!
lities. One day, Qi Yuan was buying groceries when he unfortunately came face-to-face with a monster. Just when he thought he was going to die on the spot, he suddenly heard the monster's thoughts... "This aura, he's definitely not an ordinary master!" "So terrifying, so terrifying." "A fight with my back against the wall, I can't take it anymore." Qi Yuan: Ah, no one told me that my awakened ability isn't telepathy, but rather the stronger my enemies imagine me to be, the stronger I truly become. PS: Zhou Hai in the first chapter is not the protagonist.
th】 【No prior gaming knowledge required】【The First Cultivation + Game Design Novel on the Platform】 In a world where the righteous path dominates and crushes the demonic sects, Lu Ze unlocks the "Son of the Demon Path" system. Killing righteous cultivators now grants him power-ups. Wait—deaths in illusions count too? As a former game designer, Lu Ze decides to give the cultivators of this world a little—no, a massive—shock... Sect Elders: "What is this 'Escape from the Demon Sect' game? Why have all our disciples abandoned cultivation to play it??" Elite Disciples: "You're saying... mastering 'Demon Slayer' can help us counter demonic schemes?" Reclusive Masters: "Why did I leave seclusion? Ask that backstabbing rat who ambushed me in 'Eternal Strife' yesterday!" Rogue Cultivators & Civilians: "'Immortal Abyss Action' is addictive! You can even earn spirit stones by loot-running..." Sect Prodigy: "My Dao heart is unshakable... except for that cursed black hammer." Royal Scions: "Can skins have stat boosts? I’ll pay 10,000 spirit stones for one!!" Sect Leader: "WHO IS CORRUPTING MY DISCIPLES?!!!"
grated, and just when he finally managed to get into an elite academy, he discovered that he actually had a system, and the way to earn rewards was extremely ridiculous. So for the sake of rewards, he had no choice but to start acting ridiculous as well. Su Cheng: "It's nothing but system quests after all." But later, what confused Su Cheng was that while he was already quite ridiculous, he never expected those serious characters to gradually become ridiculous too. And the way they looked at him became increasingly strange... (This synopsis doesn't do it justice, please read the full story)
