novelhk Chapter 14 Bone Splitting Dog!
Chapter 14 Bone Splitting Dog!
"Even food can't shut you up."
Wang Xing glanced at Sun Donglai.
This kind of thing is all too common in high school. If a boy and a girl talk for a few minutes, someone will start a fight.
If you can't explain it clearly, the more you try to explain, the worse it gets. The best approach is to simply ignore it.
The first class in the afternoon is English.
English has always been a major challenge for Wang Xing, but starting last weekend, he adjusted his study methods, focusing on cloze tests and reading comprehension. Wang Xing copied all the unfamiliar words from the articles into a small notebook and reviewed it repeatedly during breaks and lunch.
The effect is obvious. Before, I only got around 12 points, but yesterday I got 16 points on the English quiz, which is not far from my goal of 18 points.
The school bell rang.
Wang Xing and Sun Donglai walked out of the classroom one after the other.
"See you tomorrow, Wang Xing."
Just as I reached the door, a crisp sound came from behind me.
Wang Xing turned around and saw Lü Mufei standing at the classroom door, her platinum blonde hair glowing warmly in the sunset, smiling and waving at him.
"See you tomorrow," Wang Xing nodded in response.
"Why didn't she say goodbye to me?" Sun Donglai deliberately pouted after Lü Mufei left.
Wang Xing shrugged and said, "Don't overthink it. I just happened to be matched with her in the Beidou Yuan Universe."
"Oh, I see!" Sun Donglai perked up. "What was the result?"
"I beat her to the ground."
Sun Donglai gave a thumbs up: "Damn, you really have no chivalry whatsoever."
"Real combat is real combat. What does it have to do with showing mercy to women?"
The two went down the stairs and walked towards the school gate. As they walked, Sun Donglai took out a bag of snacks from his backpack, tore open the packaging, and the smell of seafood wafted out.
"Ah Xing, if you can match with Lü Mufei in the Metaverse, then if I grind there more, will I also have a chance to match with Bai Lingxue?"
"It's theoretically possible. You can try it more often," Wang Xing nodded.
"Sigh, so what if we get matched?"
Sun Donglai chewed on the shredded squid, a complex expression flashing across his face. "My skills probably won't even pique her interest."
The Xuan Turtle-type mecha is just a human punching bag; going up there is just taking a beating. Although the points earned in the Beidou Yuan Universe aren't determined by wins and losses, Sun Donglai doesn't like the feeling of being beaten, so he's never been interested in the battles in the Beidou Yuan Universe.
The two walked out of the school gate and along the sidewalk toward the bus stop.
As dusk fell, Chengdu was bathed in the orange glow of the setting sun. Pedestrians hurried along the streets. As Sun Donglai passed the entrance to a small alley, he suddenly stopped.
"Ah Xing, look." He pointed to the depths of the alley.
Wang Xing followed his finger and looked in the direction the alley stretched for about twenty meters, ending at a brick wall covered in vines. A black thing jumped out of the manhole at the base of the wall.
"What a big dog."
Sun Donglai took two steps forward, squinting as he looked. "The posture is so strange, and it looks like he's bleeding..."
The giant dog before them was unusually large, its fur filthy and matted with black grime, its limbs twisted and bleeding, its front paws missing, revealing stark white bone fragments. Each step it took left a dark red trail of blood on the ground.
Blood was also flowing from the corner of its mouth, and several teeth had fallen out, with the remaining few crookedly stuck on its gums, making it look miserable and eerie.
But its eyes were bright, radiating a light devoid of reason.
"Waaaaah—waaaah—"
Just then, a piercing alarm suddenly blared overhead.
The two subconsciously looked up at the sky. There was nothing unusual in the sky, but everyone in Rongcheng recognized the alarm sound—Level 5 Abyss Defense Order!
Chengdu is a first-tier city in the Dragon Kingdom. The security satellites monitoring first-tier cities 24 hours a day will immediately lock the target location and sound the surrounding alarm once they detect a monster of level 5 or above. Personnel from the Abyss Defense Bureau will arrive at the scene within three minutes.
This is the defense order for first-tier cities.
"It's a Bonebreaker..."
Wang Xing's mind flashed with the events that had been frequently appearing in the recent news, and his expression changed drastically!
But it was too late. The bone-cracked dog had already stood up, revealing a body over 1.8 meters tall, and pounced.
"Awooo—!"
It is extremely fast, with almost no transition from a standstill to a sprint.
Before Sun Donglai could even summon his mech, he was immediately pounced on by the Bone-Splittering Hound and knocked to the ground.
The split-bone dog opened its mouth and bit, losing most of its fangs, yet it was still fatal.
"Ah-Xing, save me!"
At the critical moment, Wang Xing made a move.
His movements were swift and powerful, his body leaping out like thunder. He pushed off the ground with his left foot, stepped forward with his right foot, and rotated his waist and hips, making him look like a real tiger. This was the first move of the Tiger Leaping Through the Nine Mountains – "Tiger Leaps and Thunders"!
"boom--!"
With a powerful kick to the dog's belly, the 2.5-ton Tiger Stance combined with the explosive force of his blood and qi sent the grayish-white monster flying.
The bone-cracking dog tumbled twice in the air before crashing into the crumbling wall across the alley, creating a dent in the brick wall and sending broken bricks scattering all over the ground.
Sun Donglai scrambled to his feet and hastily summoned the Xuan Turtle Mech.
But the Bone-Splitter had changed its target. It climbed up from the base of the wall, its murky red eyes fixed on Wang Xing. It lowered its body, pushed off the ground with its hind legs, and pounced on Wang Xing.
"Again!"
Wang Xing moved nimbly, dodging and retreating. Suddenly, his center of gravity sank sharply, and his body leaned forward slightly. This was the second move of Tiger's Journey Through Nine Mountains—"Tiger Crouching, Dragon Coiling"—causing the Bone-Splitting Dog to miss its target.
"Aww!"
The dog's muzzle snarled just centimeters from Wang Xing's face, and he could even smell the putrid, bloody stench.
In the instant they passed each other, his sword swept upwards in a single move—the Moon Slash!
"Splash—!"
The blade flashed across the tail of the Bonebreaker, and a bloody, mangled piece of its tail flew off, causing the Bonebreaker to let out a mournful howl in mid-air.
Wang Xing gave it no chance to catch its breath. He braced himself with one hand, did a somersault, and launched Tiger Leap Thunder again, kicking it away and slamming it hard into a lamppost.
"Clang—"
The streetlight bent and broke, then crashed to the ground.
All of this happened in less than two minutes.
At this moment, passersby scattered in fright and screamed. Students leaving school, parents picking up their children, and shop owners on the roadside all screamed, took pictures with their phones, and pulled their children back.
"That's... a level 5 abyss monster?!"
"Who is that student? So strong..."
"It's a Tiger-type mech, and it's made by students from No. 2 High School!"
"Listen to the alarm, it's a Level 6 Abyss Monster! A Level 6 Abyss Monster is generally stronger than a human with the same level 7 mech's health and mana!"
"Even if they're injured, ordinary mecha trainees are no match for a level six Abyss Monster..."
Everyone had the same expression: wide-eyed disbelief.
Meanwhile, Wang Xing felt a slight stirring in his heart.
"The battle just now gave me a different feeling."
These past few days I've practiced the Moon Slash a thousand times, but I still haven't had a real, flesh-on-flesh combat experience... But just now, the barrier between my movement technique and my swordsmanship was torn open with this one strike... Tiger's Footwork in Nine Mountains carries the Moon Slash, and the Moon Slash's sword leads Tiger's Footwork in Nine Mountains; the two mesh together like gears, perfectly aligned.
"Although I have gained some insights, I cannot waste time and must eliminate it as soon as possible."
Wang Xing channeled his vital energy into the blade, charged forward once more, and fiercely slashed down with a sword that seemed to cleave the moon.
The Bone-Splittering Hound was no match for Wang Xing and could only dodge, but large chunks of flesh were still sliced off its hind legs by the sharp blade of Zhan Yue.
"Awooo..."
With a painful howl, the Bonebreaker sprayed blood, rolled twice on the asphalt road, and finally came to a stop by crashing into the curb, completely incapacitated.
Whoosh—!
Just as Wang Xing was about to kill the dog, a disc-shaped aircraft with a diameter of more than 15 meters descended from the sky at near-sonic speed, came to an emergency stop, and hovered more than ten meters above the ground.
People from the Abyss Defense Bureau have arrived.
Wang Xing also stopped what he was doing.
next moment.
With a whoosh, the hatch at the bottom of the aircraft opened, and six uniquely designed mechs jumped out.
The disc-shaped aircraft quickly transformed into a humanoid mech and landed steadily... It turned out to be a mech similar to an aircraft, and the mech was over level 8, capable of freely switching between humanoid and mech forms.
Of the seven mechs, the lead one is the most eye-catching – the Bear II.
The mech is over three meters tall, with shoulder armor as wide as two doors, resembling a mobile fortress.
"Control." The Bear-type mech glanced at the Bone-Splitter and raised its hand to command.
Two Abyss Defenders immediately stepped forward, and one of them popped out a medical spray nozzle from his mech arm, spraying a cloud of pale blue medical mist at the Bonebreaker.
Another guard took out three electromagnetic locks from his waist pouch and fastened them to the limbs and mouthparts of the Bonebreaker. The locks lit up with red lights, completely locking the Bonebreaker's movements.
After confirming that there was no danger around, the Bear-type mech turned around to look at Wang Xing.
As he turned around, the armor plates on his head folded, retracted, and closed layer by layer, revealing the square face of a middle-aged man in his forties.
Wang Xing noticed the three gold stars on his shoulder insignia, which represented his status as a three-star abyss defender!
The recruitment exam regulations of the Dragon Kingdom Defense Bureau stipulate that the minimum standard for three stars is: level 20 in mecha and level 25 in health (the standard can be lowered to level 20 after awakening the power of void). This makes them truly capable individuals who can stand alone.
"Well done, lad."
His voice was deep and resonant, as if an engine was inside his chest: "A high school student, facing a level 6 abyss monster, remained calm under pressure and almost killed it."
"Although this abyss monster isn't at full strength, it's still a level six. Your combat power is rare among high school students."
"I am Lei Zhen, leader of the Second Field Operations Team from the Rongcheng Yuanfang Bureau. Thank you for saving us before we arrived!"
The square-faced man reached out his hand.
Just as Wang Xing was about to raise his hand to shake hands, a blue notification appeared in Xingyuan's in-depth analysis.
Your agility has increased from 91% to 95% at Tier 2.