Chapter 77: Unbeatable Even at Full Strength

Chapter 77: Chapter 77: Unbeatable Even at Full Strength

Xiang Yi had encountered countless dangers over the past few days.

His instincts took over, and he reflexively raised the Laser Rifle hanging at his waist, attempting to threaten the middle-aged man who had suddenly appeared before him.

But the middle-aged man suddenly burst forward again with a speed that was terrifying even under the acceleration of Xiang Yi’s Spiritual Power, pushing aside the barrel of the gun Xiang Yi had just raised at him.

At the same time, he seized Xiang Yi’s arm, completely locking its movement. He turned, lowered his stance, and violently threw him.

A perfect shoulder throw sent Xiang Yi flying.

Xiang Yi had only ever felt such strength from Shi Tie.

He was powerless to resist and was slammed onto the ground.

A shattering pain shot through his entire body, as if his bones were coming apart.

Fortunately, he hadn’t dropped the Laser Rifle.

Just as Xiang Yi tried to raise the gun again, two powerful arms pinned him firmly to the ground, immobilizing him. The rifle slipped from his grasp.

Xiang Yi was momentarily stunned by the man’s expert fighting skills and irresistible strength.

He had assumed the junkyard owner was just some rich, ordinary person, but reality was proving to be far different from what he’d expected.

No matter how he struggled, he couldn’t break free from the man’s hold. He even felt himself starting to suffocate.

In fact, if his own arm hadn’t been wedged against his carotid artery, he would have been choked unconscious the instant he was restrained.

Suddenly, heavy footsteps echoed from behind the small hill.

It was Shi Tie.

The moment danger struck, Shi Tie had received Xiang Yi’s rescue command, sent via Spiritual Power.

Hearing the footsteps, the middle-aged man noticed Shi Tie. He casually released his hold on Xiang Yi and tossed him aside.

As Xiang Yi gasped for air, coughing incessantly, the man suddenly glanced back and kicked him in the chest.

Xiang Yi’s mind accelerated again, and he quickly crossed his arms to block his chest.

But the kick carried an inhumanly terrifying force, rendering his block completely useless. Even with his arms to cushion the blow, the violent impact from the military boot still slammed into his chest.

Xiang Yi was sent sprawling to the ground, a dull, throbbing ache spreading across his chest.

But that was immediately followed by a far more intense pain from his arms.

From that single kick, both his arms were broken, leaving them completely useless.

The middle-aged man paid Xiang Yi no more mind, turning to face Shi Tie instead.

Wincing in pain, Xiang Yi looked up. The middle-aged man’s powerful, upright figure stood before Shi Tie like a fortress wall.

The man casually dodged a straight punch from Shi Tie. Then, like a nimble snake, he wrapped himself around Shi Tie, using what seemed to be an extremely well-practiced martial art to lock the creature in place.

Even with its immense strength, Shi Tie was completely unable to break free from the man’s grapple.

The man even used a combination of leverage and his own raw power to brutally snap Shi Tie’s joint.

It was the crisp snap of a breaking bone, a sound Xiang Yi had just heard twice from his own body. There was no mistaking it.

But Shi Tie felt no pain, even with a broken bone.

The man tried to put Shi Tie in a rear-naked choke, but the creature wouldn’t suffocate.

The man quickly realized there was something strange about Shi Tie and abandoned his attack on its neck.

He leaped off Shi Tie’s body, using his momentum and savage strength to twist its right arm into a pretzel with his bare hands.

Then, despite seeming to have no intention of using a weapon, he suddenly drew a combat knife from his waist and plunged it through Shi Tie’s mangled arm joint.

The effect of the stab was immediate, crippling Shi Tie’s right arm for some time.

The combat knife itself was an ordinary melee weapon, nothing special. The man had simply used it to pin the bones and muscle in a way that prevented Shi Tie’s recovery, completely immobilizing its right arm for the time being.

His practiced movements made it seem as if he had done this a thousand times before.

But judging by the fact that he had initially tried a rear-naked choke, this was clearly his first time fighting a monster like Shi Tie.

’Is he even human?’

The middle-aged man continued, using the same method on Shi Tie’s left arm.

As a result, Shi Tie’s left hand suddenly broke off near the wrist and fell to the ground.

After all, its left arm had been broken before because of Xiang Yi and had already begun to rot, which was why this happened.

Seeing this, the man didn’t hesitate for a moment, continuing to weave and dodge around Shi Tie.

Another combat knife plunged into its leg joint.

Shi Tie dropped to its knees, able only to attack with its half-severed arm and its teeth. It was a pathetic sight.

Nearby, Xiang Yi wasn’t just watching, despite his broken arms.

He was already channeling his Spiritual Energy into the Mind Pulse Generator, cranking it to its maximum overload setting.

The generator overloaded the instant it was activated, and black smoke billowed from the device.

The intensity of the Psychic Pulse it produced in that moment was comparable to that of a standard, single-burst Mind Pulse Generator.

Xiang Yi himself felt a sharp, stabbing pain in his own brain, and even Shi Tie’s ferocious, desperate struggles paused for an instant.

But for the middle-aged man, the Mind Pulse Generator had no effect whatsoever.

It was completely useless. He didn’t even glance back at Xiang Yi.

’Is he really human?’

’What’s his story? Why would someone with such terrifying combat strength be at a junkyard?’

Seeing no further chance to fight back, Xiang Yi scrambled to his feet and tried to run.

But in the brief moment it took him to try and escape, the man had pinned Shi Tie’s last leg with a combat knife, completely neutralizing it.

Only fifteen seconds had passed since the middle-aged man first engaged Shi Tie.

The middle-aged man vanished from Shi Tie’s side. He reappeared in front of Xiang Yi, moving at a speed impossible to track without accelerated thought.

Gritting his teeth against the pain, Xiang Yi’s fingers had just brushed against the fallen Laser Rifle, but he hadn’t had time to lift it.

The middle-aged man launched another straight kick at Xiang Yi’s chest.

A mortal threat!

Xiang Yi felt a sense of mortal danger even greater than when he had faced a hail of bullets at the hospital entrance!

His Spiritual Power instinctively began to accelerate his thoughts, trying to buy himself time to react.

But he couldn’t react. The distance between them was too short; he couldn’t possibly dodge an attack that was faster than he was from this close.

He also couldn’t enter the state of complete control over his body like before.

Although he hadn’t consciously felt it, his body had fallen into a state of profound exhaustion after the incident at the hospital.

If this kick landed squarely on his chest, it would kill him, bulletproof vest or not.

’I can’t win. I can’t fight back. I can’t escape.’

’Am I going to die here?’

’And it seems my accelerated thoughts are just dragging this out...’

’No, wait. I have one last thing, something to take him down with me. In my backpack... the Blood Crystal Worm Eggs.’

A crazed look flickered across Xiang Yi’s face.

He prepared to release the Blood Crystal Worm Eggs, relying on the special properties of his blood to drag the man before him down to hell.

But just then, the speed of the kick suddenly slowed, and the suffocating feeling of impending death eased.

The middle-aged man had pulled his kick.

Xiang Yi immediately halted his attempt to use Spiritual Energy to open the container.

Still, the kick landed solidly on his chest. Xiang Yi, who had been half-kneeling, was sent flying backward three meters before sliding another meter across the ground.

The Laser Rifle flew from his hand and was picked up by the middle-aged man.

He carefully examined the Laser Rifle’s construction, fiddling with the two triggers.

"Nice gun. Where’d you get it?"