Chapter 476: Snake Eye and Bullet!
“Makes sense. Then, let us see the boy’s limits!”
A huntress with long and narrow eyes came forward.
Her figure was even more unique than that of Multi-armed Bear Hong Li. She was petite and dainty. Her limbs and neck were really long, and at first glance, she looked like a moving snake vine.
Snake Eye Mo Lan was a ruthless person and incredibly difficult to deal with, so she had become famous in the hunter circle many years ago.
She was known for being agile, elusive, and having ever changing tactics.
Her greatest achievement and the one she talked about in delight was when she put on a disguise and lurked in a Black-spotted Viper’s nest in the wild, then spent three days and nights with more than one hundred snake-type monsters, but was never discovered.
In the end, after the Hell Beast Black-spotted Viper laid its eggs, she acted swiftly and stole nine eggs from under its butt.
Apparently, she fled through the wild with the nine eggs without getting caught by the raging snake den.
She had run more than eighty kilometers over uneven mountains and intersecting jungles. When she returned to a human controlled forward operating base, the nine snake eggs were unharmed and not a single crack could be found.
It made clear just how extraordinary was Snake Eye Mo Lan’s speed, agility, and control over her muscles.
She was even more suited to a hunt in the 3D maze and the lair than Multi-armed Hong Li.
During the adaptive training, she had captured hunters whose cultivation realms were higher than hers multiple times.
Meng Chao moved at a high speed between the steel pipes and ensured that he was constantly at a relative distance of more than ten meters from Hong Li.
Suddenly, he heard rustling beneath him.
He looked in that direction with his peripheral vision and saw Snake Eye Mo Lan slithering up like a python with her hands and knees. Color drained from his face.
“No way. Multi-armed Bear and Snake Eye? Aren’t you overestimating me? Vice Director Nie, Big Brother Peng, Senior Zhou, you’re cheating! This is cheating!”
The two veteran hunters closed in on him from two different directions, and the difficulty as well as pressure increased by a few levels.
Meng Chao moved in a flurry of motion and started yelping.
“Over the past few days, more than one hundred robbers ran into the lair,” Nie Chenglong said gravely. “There are lost people who have fled into the lair and been lurking there for decades. We also have abnormal beasts and their puppets. Do you think that they will queue up and fight you one by one?
“Besides, I’m not asking you to capture anyone right now. I’m just asking you to not get captured!”
Meng Chao… had nothing to say to that!
His gaze grew incredibly intense.
It was as if the steel pipes, glass, and wind chimes in front of him had turned into the alleys of the lair.
The two veteran hunters also turned into fierce beasts and zombies.
Naturally, he remembered the hundreds of strategies he learned in his previous life.
Even the weaknesses of the fearsome Multi-armed Bear and Snake Eye flashed before his eyes.
Meng Chao calmed down.
It appeared that he was fleeing upward in a panic through the 3D maze after being surrounded by the two hunters.
The further he went up the 3D maze, the more tightly packed the steel pipes were, and the tunnels between them became narrower.
No matter how much Multi-armed Bear Hong Li condensed his bones and muscles, it would be difficult for him to squeeze in.
Snake Eye Mo Lan did not have this problem. She even overtook Meng Chao and arrived above him.
“Caught you, lad!”
Mo Lan flung her left arm.
The joints of her shoulders, elbows, and wrist let out cracking sounds.
Her originally long arm extended by another half a meter, and she looked like a monster from horror movies. Her arm went to seize Meng Chao’s shoulder.
Meng Chao did not avoid it.
He spun his body like a top.
With the power of the spin, he threw a punch at Mo Lan’s palm.
To the veteran hunter’s surprise, he had actually taken the initiative to attack.
It has to be known that while Snake Eye Mo Lan’s strength was not her specialty, that was only when it was compared to her agility and senses.
In truth, five years ago, Mo Lan had already become a five-star superhuman by reaching Spirit Gaze Realm. Her maximum punching strength could send a heavy fighting vehicle weighing dozens of tons flying nearly one hundred meters and she could tear apart a Hell Beast barehanded, becoming a living example of someone who could tear apart fearsome creatures.
No matter how strong Meng Chao was, he had just become a four-star superhuman.
Was it really the best choice for him to clash fists with Mo Lan?
Bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang!
While everyone was puzzled, Meng Chao and Mo Lan seemed to have engaged each other in a normal exchange of a single blow.
But that one punch stirred up a series of clashes that sounded like a storm.
“It’s not just one punch. They have exchanged at least dozens of punches. Every time they clash fists, they try to drag in their opponent, modify their positions, and use their strength in an attempt to send their spirit energy into the other’s bodies and break their spirit energy magnetic fields so that they would lose their maglev, thereby losing their balance and falling down!”
“How exciting! It’s been too long since I’ve seen such an interesting match!”
“Even Mo Lan has become serious. That kid really has a lot of tricks up his sleeves!”
Everyone gasped in amazement.
In the end, Mo Lan did not manage to break Meng Chao’s defense and grab his throat or shoulder.
Instead, Meng Chao used his toes to grab a steel pipe and delivered a shock wave that made its components scatter. Then, like a longspear, the steel pipe went straight at her face, and she was forced to shift her attention to dodge it.
Meng Chao seized the chance to break free from the encounter, and the trio returned to their original state, where they were in a stalemate far from each other.
Two minutes were gone.
This time, before Nie Chenglong and Zhou Chong said anything, the third veteran hunter jumped into the 3D maze.
It was a middle-aged man with puffy eyes and saggy eyelids. He looked to be constantly sleepy.
But the moment he caught sight of a prey, it would not be able to escape, even if it ran off into the horizon.
Bullet Xue Rui was one of the best sharpshooters in the hunter circle.
But since it was adaptive training, he could not use a gun, of course.
However, if someone had already reached Bullet Xue Rui’s level of mastery, there was no need for them to have real guns. They could even use petals and leaves to hurt others.
With an incredibly bizarre posture, Xue Rui hung upside down a steel pipe like a bat.
He clearly did not curl his toes like Meng Chao, but with just the suction force gushing out of his soles, he stuck himself to a steel pipe and used his eyes and hands to search for the best observation and shooting angle.
He flung his hands, and like a magician doing magic tricks, he brought out dozens of round steel pellets.
They were created with super alloy mixed with monster powder. They were originally supposed to be shrapnel embedded into armor-piercing shells or anti-monster grenades or mines to increase their destructibility.
But in Bullet Xue Rui’s hands, they turned into tools that trained the dexterity of his fingers… and real bullets!
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
Xue Rui instantly located Meng Chao. He curled his fingers and fired three steel pellets.
His fingers were bound by spirit energy, and it was as if they had turned into real gun barrels. They were mini railguns that sent three steel pellets forward with the power of rocket projectiles.
Meng Chao’s pupils, heart, and muscles shrank to their limit at once.
When he was about to dodge, his brain naturally came up with the three steel pellets’ trajectories. They were like three red lines of death that kept intersecting, clashing, and ricocheting off the 3D maze.
He immediately noticed that if he used the optimized posture to avoid the three steel pellets, one of them would ricochet off the steel pipe behind him and hit his spine, causing him to instantly lose his mobility.
This was no coincidence.
It was a trap set by Bullet Xue Rui.
Hence, he could not solve the problem by using the optimized power just because it had the shortest movement distance, allowed him to spend the least time dodging the pellets, and made him use up the least amount of energy.
Instead, he should use the one with the biggest movements that made him look really pathetic…
‘Wait, that’s not all there is to the trap!’
Meng Chao noticed that when Bullet Xue Rui fired the steel pellets, his fingers seemed to have trembled four times.
A special-grade sharpshooter who was above the middle rank of Heaven Realm would not do anything unnecessary during battle to interfere with their bullet trajectory.
‘Xue Rui fired four steel pellets!
‘Three of them traveled forward like lightning or rocket projectiles.One of them will ricochet, and it looks like an unavoidable killing move.
‘But his real killing move is his fourth bullet. It’s a silent steel pellet that has no presence.
‘If my attention was entirely absorbed by the first three steel pellets, the fourth pellet that seems to be traveling forward slowly will suddenly accelerate because of the spirit energy contained in it and will hit my chest!’
The thoughts above actually passed in a flash and were done in 0.1 seconds.
In the next 0.1 seconds, Meng Chao pretended to have seen through the first layer of the trap and moved sideways in a rather ridiculous fashion to avoid the first three steel pellets and the ricocheting attack from one of them.
He did not dodge the fourth pellet, however. A sonic boom exploded in the air, and the pellet seemed to have hit his chest.
Meng Chao cried out and lost his balance, then fell down.
Bullet Xue Rui, Multi-armed Bear Hong Li, and Snake Eye Mo Lan shot forward.
Their expressions were quite unnatural. They showed no excitement of catching their opponent. Instead, they looked really awkward.
With their cultivation realms, experience, and fame, they fought three against one to catch Meng Chao, a young boy in his twenties who had just entered Heaven Realm. There was indeed nothing about this that they could boast about. They would just be laughed at by their friends if they ever mentioned it.
Hong Li and Mo Lan even blamed Xue Rui for being too harsh.
They were just playing with a child. Was there a need for him to fight with his full strength?
As for Xue Rue, his face turned red.
He felt a little regretful.
He never actually thought about firing the fourth steel pellet.
But for some reason, when he exchanged glances with Meng Chao in the cage-like 3D maze, this experienced, veteran hunter suddenly felt his skin crawl.
It was as if he had just run into a bloodthirsty monster in the deepest part of a bloody jungle.
Before his brain even reacted, he had instinctively controlled his nerve endings and, by sheer instinct, fired the fourth steel pellet.
He had never lost control over himself like this in his long years as a hunter.
It was as if a voice in the depths of his brain was telling him that he must use all his skills to fight against this seemingly normal boy. Otherwise, he and his companions might end up being the hunted instead!