NOVPUBChapter 154: Chapter 153 Are You Satisfied With Such a Departure?
Chapter 154 -153 Are You Satisfied With Such a Departure?
Zhang Zhiyuan and the others had also spotted the strange creature at the camp’s entrance. In their shock, they had even forgotten to shoot.
“Holy moly, if this thing were taken back to Earth, it would definitely be the discovery of the century!” Zhou Zhi murmured as he put down his binoculars.
Cui Zhen’en didn’t think so.
“No, you’d just be strangled to death by those old biology experts.”
“Paradise has released a new mission. We have to confirm that this thing has something to do with Aibuvich and destroy it. We’ve only been given five minutes,” Qianyuan Mingzi said, noticing the information window that had popped up in the upper left corner of her vision, and reminded everyone.
“Just five minutes? I’m afraid the City Defense Force has been mobilized.” Zhang Zhiyuan turned to look towards the city – although it was still silent there, they had been blocked at the camp’s entrance for nearly twenty minutes, and the continuous sounds of explosions and gunfire were bound to alert the two watchtowers to the east.
As for Black Steel Security… After over a hundred of their men had been killed blocking the entrance, their morale had long since collapsed, and they couldn’t even organize a proper counterattack. Moreover, now that an extremely ominous monster had appeared, it indicated that someone inside Black Steel was a follower of a Heretical Cult. If word of this got out, Black Steel could forget about ever establishing a foothold in Magnificent Castle again.
“Five minutes? I only need one, just watch me!” Anthony inserted the last grenade into the launcher, crawled out of hiding, and made a beeline for the gate.
“What’s he trying to do?” Zhou Zhi exclaimed in astonishment.
“Who knows, just make sure to cover him,” Zhang Zhiyuan said helplessly, “There might still be some who are putting up a last-ditch resistance in the enemy camp.”
But the truth was that no one was paying attention to the Russians anymore; the mercenaries ran faster than anyone upon seeing the monster, regretting not having been born with an extra pair of legs. And so, Anthony approached the creature alone, coming within just ten meters.
Now everyone knew what he was planning to do.
He aimed the RPG right at the creature’s “forehead”!
“That distance is too close; the warhead won’t even detonate,” Qianyuan Mingzi frowned.
“He isn’t planning on detonating it. He’s probably trying to use the thrust of the rocket engine to blast a hole directly into the creature,” Zhang Zhiyuan said, having come to understand more about Anthony Chekhov’s nature through the rounds of the game. Anthony didn’t just enjoy thrilling fights; he also liked to show off. According to Zhou Zhi, he was a man in his forties in the real world, who would be expected to be more composed, but now it seemed he acted younger the more he played.
And Anthony did just that.
He crouched in front of the monster, settled the RPG, and eagerly pressed the trigger.
The rocket-propelled grenade immediately burst out with a dazzling tail flame, flying towards the potted-plant-like monster – but the creature’s reaction was dramatic. Almost simultaneously, it lashed out with its slender black tendrils, knocking the warhead away with a clang and simultaneously slicing Anthony into three pieces.
The remaining people were stunned.
So… so fast!
The initial speed of a grenade might be slow, but it could still travel over a hundred thirty meters in a second, which was hard to follow with the naked eye, yet the monster nonchalantly deflected it!
“Did you notice… it seemed to wait for Anthony to make a move before it reacted,” Cui Zhen’en said quietly, “Does that mean it doesn’t have sensory organs, and instead acts based on hostility?”
“Shall I give it a try?” Qianyuan Mingzi offered, picking up a sniper rifle and running out of the ditch with a crouch.
She moved about a hundred meters to the west before lying down again and aiming the rifle.
At the sound of the gunshot, the monster indeed moved – everyone saw the bullet hit the humanoid body below the monster accurately, the enormous kinetic energy tearing one leg into two halves, but the creature also launched all its “ribbons” towards the ground, springing up like a spring and heading straight toward Mingzi’s position!
The distance of a hundred meters was instantly leaped over by the monster.
Seeing no chance to escape, Qianyuan Mingzi drew her dagger, intending to fight the monster to the death, but before she could get close, both her legs were severed, and then a black line went straight through her forehead.
Watching Mingzi’s limp body fall to the ground, everyone realized that the creature was not so easy to deal with.
And there were only three minutes left.
“What should we do?” Zhou Zhi instinctively looked towards Zhang Zhiyuan.
The latter also fell into deep thought, given the current situation, bullets were not suitable for dealing with this type of monster, and bladed weapons were even less worth mentioning. The host had mentioned the weak point of the potted plant monster was its lower body made of flesh, so the only thing that could strike the weak point without arousing its hostility in advance was—
“Explosives,” Cui Zhen’en was the one who spoke.
The two exchanged a glance, clearly thinking the same thing.
“Explosives?” Zhou Zhi asked.
“Yes… We make a triggerable explosive package with a sufficient amount of TNT, approach the monster with it as if we were just passing by and looking at an exotic animal at a zoo, and then—boom!” Cui Zhen’en gestured an explosion with her hands, “It’ll look just like suicide, but we won’t die, the monster will.”
“There’s no time to hesitate, let’s exchange for the TNT packages first.” Zhang Zhiyuan immediately converted all his remaining points into cylindrical explosives and used his belt to tie them up. The fuse was an easy fix, a high-explosive grenade could set off the explosives.
Two minutes later, each person had received an explosive package.
“I’ll go first, then you decide based on the situation,” Zhang Zhiyuan said, then without any hesitation, he ran towards the monster.
The latter had only moved less than ten meters in such a long time, and since one of its legs was shot off by a sniper rifle, it could only dangle another soft “strip of cloth” to stand on, walking like a cripple. Just by looking at the monster’s current movements, it was hard to imagine that it possessed extremely high agility.
Zhang Zhiyuan quickly caught up with it and pulled the pin out of the grenade.
A thunderous boom sounded, and flames swallowed both man and monster in the blink of an eye! When the smoke and dust cleared, all that was left of the monster’s lower half was a length of intestines and a broken leg. Despite the upper part seeming intact, it had clearly been severely damaged; it lay motionless on the ground, unable to even stand upright as before.
“Awesome, it worked!” Cui Zhen’en decisively copied the action and rushed to finish off the monster.
Soon, another earth-shattering explosion occurred!
Zhou Zhi felt as though he heard a wail emanating from the depths of his soul.
Finally, the monster stopped moving; the remaining organs in its lower half rotted away at a visible rate, turning into pitch-black dust.
Should it be over now?
Just then, Zhou Zhi heard the urgent sound of horse hooves coming from the road behind him.
The guns and casings left in the pit were rapidly disappearing, clearly, Paradise did not want the newcomer to see these weapons that did not belong to this world.
Zhou Zhi shrugged his shoulders; it was undoubtedly too late to evacuate now, so the quickest way to exit the scene was obviously only one.
“Sigh, if I had known, I would have chosen to go first.”
He pulled the pin of the grenade and ran towards the monster’s silent corpse.
“No, wait—” a woman’s voice called out from behind him.
He turned his head and, on a whim, smiled at the figure behind him, then the intense explosion severed his connection in an instant.
