BXBX NOVEL Chapter 299: Bait and Trap
Chapter 299: Bait and Trap
Why are they still not here yet?
Adam had completed his exploration of Chen Yanyan's psychic world, but the people that he was waiting for still hadn't arrived.
He had come to Area 8 with two objectives, the first of which was to hunt down a target, while the second of which was to be hunted himself.
Hebi no Miko had already laid low for quite some time, and he had a feeling that she was about to resurface.
As opposed to having this threat constantly hanging over his head, he much preferred to seize the initiative and actively lure her out.
With all of these electricity networks present, Mechguard units were going to be significantly impeded here, so this was the best opportunity for Hebi no Miko to strike.
Furthermore, Adam had a legitimate reason for coming here, so there was no reason for Hebi no Miko to suspect that he was intentionally doing this to lure her into some trap.
Prior to coming here, he had made extensive preparations, and all that was left was for Hebi no Miko to take the bait.
With that in mind, Adam continued to wander aimlessly throughout Chen Yanyan's psychic world.
Having already completed his investigation, this had become purely a waiting game.
He had almost been killed by a single punch from Hebi no Miko last time, and having learned his lesson, he invoked Sludge before jumping onto its shoulder.
Of course, the sudden emergence of a stone giant immediately caused all of the residents of Chen Yanyan's psychic world to fly into a blind panic.
At this moment, Sludge was making its way down the streets of Sandrise City, while all of the surrounding pedestrians were fleeing for their lives. However, due to the fact that the logic in psychic worlds was rather tenuous, the mass panic didn't incur any attention from the news, nor did it trigger any chain reactions.
However, this type of panic did attract something else that was rather unexpected, namely an anomaly.
The anomaly was a nightmarish black shadow that was still yet to complete its evolution.
I suppose it's no surprise that he would be suffering from some mental problems, given that he's living in fear every day, but this anomaly is so weak that it's barely worth killing.
As soon as the nightmarish anomaly appeared, a transparent shadow suddenly emerged behind it, instantly rooting it to the spot.
Immediately thereafter, its entire body became twisted and warped, and it was almost instantly killed by Distortion.
At this stage, Distortion was virtually invincible even among level four anomalies, let alone this level two anomaly.
After the nightmarish anomaly was killed, its anomalic power was devoured by Distortion, and it was also right at this moment that Adam detected something.
Someone's invaded this psychic world!
He had been on high alert this entire time, so his telegnosis was immediately able to pick up the slight disturbance.
It was only a very subtle feeling, so he couldn't be certain whether someone had actually invaded this psychic world, but he still immediately withdrew Distortion while instructing Sludge to prepare for battle.
Sludge's shoulder slowly melted away at his behest, allowing Adam to enter its body.
Right after he completed those preparations, he immediately spotted a woman on top of a building in the distance.
The woman was like a superhero, flying over from another psychic module before landing atop the tallest building in the area. Her eyes then began to release scintillating radiance like a pair of searchlights as she scoured through the entire area, and the top of the building that she was standing on exploded as soon as she caught sight of Adam.
Just the force with which she had propelled herself off the building alone was enough to cause it to explode as if it had been struck by a missile, and she flew directly at Adam like a cannonball.
Finally, the person that Adam had waiting for had arrived. It was naturally none other than Hebi no Miko!
She's finally here!
Adam was feeling both elated and apprehensive at the sight of Hebi no Miko. She was too fast for his eyes to follow anyway, so he closed his eyes and withstood the attack head-on with Sludge's body.
Several seconds after Adam closed his eyes, an earth-shattering boom rang out, and both he and Sludge were sent flying back through the air.
Sludge's enormous body was airborne for a brief moment before it began to skid along the ground. Deep trenches were scratched into the reinforced concrete ground by its body, while all pedestrians and cars unfortunate enough to get in its way were instantly destroyed.
Even though Adam was situated inside Sludge's body, the devastating impact from Hebi no Miko's attack still caused him to throw up a mouthful of blood.
Only after sliding back dozens of meters did Sludge finally come to rest as it crashed into a wall. Adam looked down to find that a huge section of Sludge's chest had already been shattered, but thankfully for Adam, Sludge was a level 5 anomaly that specialized in defense, so it possessed superior defensive prowess even compared with anomalies of higher levels.
The cracks on its chest were slowly beginning to heal, and it had successfully endured the attack.
"You've grown stronger since last time, but I'm not going to make the same mistake as I did back then."
Hebi no Miko's voice rang out from up above once again while Sludge was regenerating itself.
Adam looked up to find Hebi no Miko descending out of the sky like a shooting star, following which a torrential barrage of punches rained down upon Sludge's body.
Every single one of Hebi no Miko's punches was imbued with incredible power, and her attack frequency was also extraordinarily fast. Within the span of just a few seconds, Adam had already been struck by over 100 punches.
Even Sludge was unable to hold itself together in the face of such a violent and rapid barrage of attacks.
Its regeneration was unable to keep up with Hebi no Miko's rate of destruction, and countless chunks of stone had already fallen from its body onto the ground it.
However, Hebi no Miko still wasn't satisfied with the rate at which Adam was sustaining damage.
Having already learned her lesson from last time, she knew that she had to kill him before Mechguard reinforcements arrived.
"Lightning!"
"Thunder!"
It was taking too long for Hebi no Miko to tear through Sludge's defenses by hand, so she was turning to technomancy to enhance her punches with the power of thunder and lightning.
With each punch that came crashing down, a large section of Sludge's body would be charred black, and electricity would fly in all directions along with shards of stone.
The power of the lightning and the shockwaves from the thunderclaps were able to pierce through the layers of rock and directly impact Adam's body.
Even though Sludge's body was withstanding the majority of the impact for him, this was still far too much for Adam to bear, and his bones and organs were on the verge of shattering.
"Help me! I'm gonna fucking die soon!" Adam roared.
As if in direct response to his desperate cry for help, the sky abruptly dimmed right at this moment as a black dragon descended out of the heavens.