Hei Deng Xia Huo
Chapter 4 Jungle
Below the bridge, seawater surged and churned, boiling with countless bubbles.
Whoosh—
Millions of tons of seawater suddenly rose, condensing into a colossal water elemental giant.
His body was composed of seawater.
A water tornado-like, cylindrical waist stood in the sea, supporting an extremely robust upper body. Atop his head sat a helmet made of blue-brown salt crystals, while his shoulders and arms were adorned with dark gold alloy armor. In his hand, he wielded a sharp trident like a siege hammer.
"Stop! There!"
The water elemental giant overlooked the dust-like Li Ang from above, speaking slowly.
His pace was extremely deliberate, and his voice was incomparably loud.
The sea breeze he exhaled caused the cables of the cross-sea bridge to shake and tremble.
The Special Affairs Bureau's hidden strength, then.
Li Ang wasn't particularly surprised. With the vast resources the Special Affairs Bureau controlled, it would be strange if they didn't have any trump cards.
"Halt here!"
Seeing the ant below showing no signs of slowing down, the water elemental giant shifted his water tornado waist forward, tearing open two V-shaped white waves on the sea surface.
The trident in his hand flowed with water light, carrying a salty sea breeze as it stabbed toward the bridge surface.
Step!
The Fear Warhorse nimbly leaped up, continuously stomping on cars and trucks, surrounded by a layer of faint golden light.
[Bàzhě Héng Lán Shuò – Qiān Jūn Pìyì] (Overlord's Spear – Thousand Armies Routed)
The damaged long spear radiated ethereal golden light.
The Fear Warhorse did not fall in mid-air, but instead accelerated again, colliding head-on with the water elemental giant's sturdy arm.
Whoosh—
The spear, infused with divine power, slashed down vertically, causing the water elemental giant's arm to split like gel, creating a crack.
Li Ang passed through the crack, his eyes clearly seeing the bubbles and seaweed within the water elemental giant's arm.
Thud!
The Fear Warhorse landed heavily. Behind him, the water elemental giant's arm had already healed. It roared and turned to swing its trident horizontally.
Cars on the bridge were cut and pushed aside by the giant trident like children's toys.
The cables maintaining the bridge snapped one by one, whipping through the air with cracking sounds.
Too slow.
Li Ang didn't look back. He slammed the Bàzhě Héng Lán Shuò into the ground, and swamp divine power spread out. A large number of plant vines lifted steel and concrete bricks, growing wildly.
The vines rapidly proliferated, hooking onto the drooping bridge cables in mid-air, climbing up, and connecting into a green net.
The water elemental giant's trident struck the net. The blade of the trident flowed with water light, wantonly cutting through the vine fibers.
However, the growth rate of the plant vines was even faster, spreading along the trident all the way, like dense poisonous snakes piercing into the water elemental giant's arm.
Gurgle, gurgle.
The hollow plant vines transformed into pumps, efficiently extracting seawater and releasing a large amount of viscous, dense venom.
Within the water elemental giant's arm, the purple liquid spread upward at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Wherever it went, the water element emitted billowing steam, unable to maintain a fixed shape, disintegrating into seawater and splashing down, corroding and melting the vehicles below.
The water elemental giant roared in pain, grabbing his right shoulder with his left hand and forcefully pinching it off, finally stopping the encroaching plant vines.
However, this time was enough for Li Ang to drive off the cross-sea bridge and disappear into the steel jungle.
"Aaaargh!!"
The water elemental giant roared furiously. His water tornado-like waist absorbed a massive amount of seawater, causing his right arm to heal as before. He gripped the trident and smashed it into the sea, stirring up monstrous waves, but it was still to no avail.
Ahead was a prosperous city district, full of high-rise buildings. His power system was special, and it was not suitable for him to display it there.
"Hoo..."
The water elemental giant breathed heavily, his chest rising and falling violently.
After he evened out his breathing for a while, he suddenly seemed to sense something, and abruptly turned around to look.
Dozens of figures had appeared in mid-air at some point, standing in the air.
Judging from the clothes they were wearing, these people were not agents of the Special Affairs Bureau.
Instead, they were representatives stationed in the city by other forces.
The European Heavy Industries Group, the Paranormal Accident Department of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Global Supernatural Alliance, the Prometheus Laboratory Company, the GRU Parapsychology Department...
"What are you doing here?"
The water elemental giant held the trident, his expression gloomy and deep, growling from his throat, "Leave!"
"Don't be so impatient, Comrade Xiahou."
The representative of the European Heavy Industries Group, a white middle-aged man wearing a white suit who looked like a business elite, rubbed his palms with a smile and said in fluent Chinese, "No matter what, we are also companions of the Order camp. We should solve any problems we encounter together.
Do you need help?"
"No need."
The water elemental giant, known as Xiahou, clenched the trident and said coldly, "You jump out at this time because you want to be liquidated afterward,
To be collectively dispersed and kicked out of Yin City?"
"Whether or not we are kicked out of Yin City is not up to you or me to decide."
The representative of the European Heavy Industries Group said with a smile, "Besides, we didn't do anything.
The front is the office area that the Special Affairs Bureau has assigned to other forces. We didn't wander around randomly or cause a commotion.
We're just afraid that our base office will be damaged by the aftermath of the conflict.
We're just taking precautions in advance.
Protecting our personal property shouldn't be a taboo, right?"
"Hmph!"
The water elemental giant snorted coldly. How could he not know the calculations in the stomachs of these external force representatives? They were simply gloating, watching the fun,
And seeing if they could fish in troubled waters, obtain benefits from the Special Affairs Bureau, or make the Special Affairs Bureau suffer in silence.
Unfortunately, the chaotic situation is about to arrive, and it is far from time to turn against these people...
"Ah, it seems that our friend is almost at his destination. Let's talk later."
The representative of the European Heavy Industries Group looked into the distance, smiled at the water elemental giant, stepped into the air, and disappeared over the bridge.
The others also used their own methods to follow.
"..."
Standing on the sea, the water elemental giant watched these people disappear from sight with a gloomy expression, slowly lowered the arm holding the trident, and his figure gradually shrank, re-immersing himself into the sea surface.
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Li Ang galloped through the steel jungle composed of skyscrapers, and the bustling street scenes retreated rapidly in his vision.
Sunlight fell in the silent city, and the wind howled.
On the large screens at the bottom of the tall buildings, noisy advertising videos were still playing, rendering the festive atmosphere.
Suddenly, Li Ang seemed to sense something. He pressed lightly on the horse's back, and the Fear Warhorse raised its front hooves, stopping the charge, and neighing up to the sky.
Tap, tap.
The hooves landed. Li Ang patted the Fear Warhorse, which was exhaling like a dragon, dispelled the summoning spell that was about to reach its time limit, and landed lightly on the ground.
His expression was calm as he stepped forward, walking toward the serried ranks of the Mobile Task Force.
"Long time no see."
At the intersection, Xing Hechou, standing in front of the Mobile Task Force members, said slowly with a complicated expression, "Brother Li."