Chapter 407: Chapter 23: Jue Technique!
Su Xiao, sprinting quickly, heard the rumbling behind him and knew without looking back what was happening—the monster was chasing him.
"Take care, bro."
A cross-dressing character beside him chuckled softly, looking adorable. Sure enough, he’s such a cute boy.
The cross-dressing character ran off into the distance without looking back, having left their so-called temporary ally behind.
Boom, boom...
The ground began to shake slightly; the behemoth was on its way.
"Roar!"
An angry roar sounded from behind, accompanied by the swift whoosh of cutting wind.
Su Xiao dove forward, and with a swish, stones whizzed over his head like bullets from a shotgun, firmly embedding into the ground.
In midair, Su Xiao kept the momentum going forward, nearly fell, and knew he couldn’t afford to fall with that monster in pursuit behind him.
With one hand on the ground, Su Xiao spun into a somersault, landing stably on his feet, continuing to sprint forward.
The Chimera Black Gorilla behind him was furious, it had its reasons for pursuing Su Xiao.
Initially, there were two Chimera Black Gorillas, siblings.
Driven by the mutual disdain of "my brother thinks I’m ugly, and I think he’s ugly," the two chimera brothers fought at their inception, resulting in one survivor, who devoured the other and became stronger and more uncontrollable.
The Chimera Black Gorilla possessed intelligence and its own dignity, refusing to follow human orders and harboring deep hatred for humans due to prolonged captivity.
Su Xiao didn’t want to know the life story of this Chimera Black Gorilla. He just wanted to know why it was chasing him. Was it due to low Charm? Unlikely. Bad luck? Even less likely.
In truth, it was precisely due to these two reasons that the Chimera vehemently pursued him~.
The cross-dressing character ran further and further away, and Su Xiao realized one thing—the cross-dresser ran slower than him.
Realizing this, Su Xiao had an idea; he didn’t have to outrun the gorilla, just the ’Meng Mei.’
With this clarity, Su Xiao immediately changed direction, sprinting toward the cross-dresser.
The rumbling behind him grew nearer; Su Xiao’s Agility attribute was 37, the Chimera’s was 34, and the cross-dresser’s was 29.
Among the three, the Chimera ran the fastest, a result of its size. Each of its strides was equivalent to a dozen of Su Xiao’s. Not getting caught immediately was only because Su Xiao’s Agility was 3 points higher, but getting caught was inevitable.
The gap in Agility between the cross-dresser and Su Xiao was quite large, a full 8 points difference.
The cross-dresser was running delightfully ahead, suddenly hearing rumbling sounds behind.
’She’ turned back, almost crying.
"Hey, you’re running in the wrong direction, you... don’t come over, please."
Su Xiao dashed, ignoring the cross-dresser’s words.
"I..."
The cross-dresser was desperate; earlier, ’she’ mocked Su Xiao, never expecting karma to hit so swiftly.
Just as Su Xiao was about to overtake the cross-dresser, a rapid swoosh came from behind.
Looking aside, an iron pillar-like arm swung down, aimed directly for Su Xiao’s head.
Running at high speed, Su Xiao immediately sidestepped.
Boom!
Like a meteor plummeting from the sky, the Chimera’s arm smashed into the ground, triggering an explosion of earth like an underground ’bomb,’ forming a solid pit two meters deep and five meters in diameter.
Shards grazed Su Xiao’s cheek, leaving a burning sensation and a bloodstain.
Absolutely cannot take a direct hit from this gorilla, or it’s certain death.
"Don’t come! If you get any closer, I won’t be so polite."
Though the cross-dresser was threatening while speaking, there was a tremor in ’her’ voice, indicating panic.
But ’she’ was overthinking it; at that point, Su Xiao couldn’t even approach. His forward momentum was disrupted, trapping him in the Chimera’s pursuit.
In less than 0.1 seconds of hesitation, with a thud, Su Xiao dropped to the ground, compressing his aura to the extreme, ceasing to breathe, and slowing his heartbeat to the lowest.
Unable to face the enemy head-on, he gambled on his luck.
Su Xiao wasn’t closing his eyes, awaiting death; he held his Dragon Slash tightly in one hand, two Special level Alchemy Bombs in the other, with the Boundary Line ready to be launched.
Noticing Su Xiao fall, the Chimera’s footsteps halted, and it looked down at Su Xiao.
Rubbing Su Xiao with its thick finger, it found that the human on the ground had already stopped breathing, seemingly dead from the shock of a single blow.
"Hee-hee, hee..."
The Chimera bared its teeth, seemingly laughing, yet terrifyingly.
Seeing no more of the eyesore human, it began pursuing the one it found pleasing.
The Chimera Black Gorilla looked toward the cross-dresser, pushed off the ground with its robust lower limb, and leapt toward ’her.’
Bang.
The Chimera landed squarely in front of the cross-dresser.
"Damn it, even if you die, don’t drag me with you."
The Chimera was right in front of him; although the cross-dresser wanted to play dead, too, ’she’ lacked Su Xiao’s skill in concealing ’her’ aura.
Unexpectedly, the Chimera didn’t immediately attack the cross-dresser. Instead, it curiously observed the small creature in front of it.
The cross-dresser wore a pair of silver earrings on ’her’ earlobes, now emanating a milky white glow—an item of Dark Purple Equipment.
"Confusion worked?"
The cross-dresser showed a jubilant expression. Ever since buying these earrings, they had never activated, and to ’her’ disbelief, they succeeded on this day.
"Stand straight."
Attempting to command the Chimera, the cross-dresser only drew a puzzled look from the Chimera.
Seconds later, the Chimera pinched the cross-dresser’s head with its two furry fingers, leaving ’her’ feeling conflicted, debating whether to resist.
Resistance would negate the earring’s effects immediately, but not resisting—what if the Chimera crushed ’her?’
As the cross-dresser hesitated, the Chimera already held ’her’ in its grasp, seemingly not planning to kill, yet not intending to release.
Putting aside the cross-dresser for now, Su Xiao’s side was also getting ’lively.’
Two seconds into playing dead, Su Xiao noticed something amiss nearby; a Contractor not far off was also feigning death.
Seeing the familiar face, Su Xiao was stunned, recognizing him.
With features rivaling Kizaru, the familiar face was that of Brother Five Fireballs, much younger but with a face full of wrinkles.
Their first encounter was in the Arena, the second on a War World spaceship. Somehow, this guy survived War World, even though the Loner squad should have perished.
"Brother, keep quiet, let’s play dead together."
Brother Five Fireballs spoke; he’d forgotten about Su Xiao, since Reincarnation Paradise had erased memories of Su Xiao post-War World.
Brother Five Fireballs lay three meters away from Su Xiao, both sprawled among the rubble.
Hissss~.
A slithering sound scraped against the ground as Bubu Wang crawled over to Su Xiao.
Bubu Wang’s appearance was quite amusing, wrapped in a rag; upon first glance, anyone would think it was a long-haired stone.