Chapter 59 - 58: First a Smash, Then a Dash
Over fifty extraordinary individuals carrying anti-tank grenades jumped directly off the Pujiang Bridge.
They then turned to the dumbfounded trainees lying on the ground and said,
"The upcoming battle is not something you can take part in. Get back on the bridge, and don’t cause any trouble."
"SWOOSH!"
A dozen or so rockets, trailing long tails of fire, slammed into the giant crocodile.
"BOOM!" "BOOM!"
"GULP!"
He Xiaotian swallowed hard. ’Lying low and getting stronger really is the best way to go,’ he thought. He was glad he hadn’t gotten arrogant and started committing crimes just because he had a Golden Finger.
Seeing the scene tonight, even if he were ten times bolder, he probably wouldn’t dare to face it.
Never mind the volley from the dozen-plus heavy machine guns; just these RPG rockets alone would be more than he could handle.
Even if he didn’t die, he’d be severely injured.
"ROAR!!"
The giant crocodile let out a mournful cry. It was clear that this time, it had been badly hurt.
The smoke gradually cleared, blown away by the wind, revealing the behemoth.
On its once-hard Scale Armor, more than a dozen craters had been blasted open.
"Good. Prepare the grenades."
The man who was both the dean and Minister Qingdaofu nodded, giving orders to the extraordinary individuals at the bottom of the river.
"Bombard it!"
The fifty-plus people all threw the anti-tank grenades in their hands toward the giant crocodile.
"BOOM!" "BOOM!"
Fifty consecutive violent explosions rang out. Firelight and shockwaves filled the bottom of the Pujiang River.
"Keep bombing. Don’t stop with the grenades."
He Xiaotian then witnessed a new kind of battle: extraordinary individuals coordinating with modern weaponry.
The fifty-plus people continuously hurled powerful grenades.
Ran out?
No problem. The soldiers on the bridge would deliver more.
Crates upon crates of grenades were neatly lined up.
"A Wolf-level Disaster is completely helpless against modern weapons." Lei Yang had a strange expression on his face. He never expected this; they had prepared as if for a great enemy, but after arriving, it was just a matter of casually tossing explosives.
"Heh heh, what do you expect? This crocodile isn’t a disaster of the evil spirit type. As long as it’s a creature of flesh and blood, it has to tremble before modern weapons. Besides, it’s not that simple.
"Could a normal soldier throw an anti-tank grenade this heavy several hundred meters? Even the strongest ordinary person could only manage about twenty meters.
"At such a short distance, their lives couldn’t be guaranteed. A single charge from the giant crocodile could wipe out a huge number of them. Unlike us, who can stand far away and bombard it to our hearts’ content."
The burly man standing next to Lei Yang said with a laugh as he continuously grabbed grenades from an ammo crate.
The crocodile’s body was enormous, so its speed was relatively slow.
A single charge, with all four limbs moving, only covered about twenty-something meters.
But the extraordinary individuals were a full four hundred-plus meters away from it!
By the time it had charged to within a hundred meters, it had already endured a full fifteen waves of bombardment.
On top of that, the soldiers on the Pujiang Bridge had never stopped firing their RPGs.
At this moment, the giant crocodile, which had looked so ferocious and monstrous, was covered in tattered Scale Armor and had long since lost its former viciousness.
In some places, even its bones were exposed.
It was clearly very heavily injured.
"Cease fire! If the fifty-plus of you can’t even finish off a critically injured, dying Wolf-level Disaster, then all of you will have your current police ranks revoked! You’ll go back to being rookie cops and patrol the streets of Shanghai for me every single day!"
Minister Qingdaofu said in a cold voice.
He Xiaotian, who had long been hiding by the riverbank, had eyes that were now radiating with infinite light.
Against an unharmed giant crocodile, he could only stand by and watch helplessly.
But a heavily injured crocodile, with barely a few intact scales left on its body...
That was no different from a toothless tiger.
’If I kill this thing, how many Experience Points will I get?’
At this thought, the fighting spirit in He Xiaotian’s chest surged.
"HEY! Unhand that giant crocodile! Let us fight three hundred rounds tonight!"
He actually shouted such a shameless line.
In that instant, everyone’s attention was drawn to him.
Then, they saw He Xiaotian charging out, thunderously swinging his twin hammers.
"SWOOSH!"
All they could see was a figure flashing past them like a bolt of lightning.
He Xiaotian bent his knees, then sprang up, swinging his hammers.
The giant crocodile was in a terrible mood after being bombarded by a whole group of people. The phrase "seething with rage" wasn’t even enough to describe its fury.
It was just about to fight back viciously when a little squirt appeared out of nowhere.
That’s right.
In its eyes, He Xiaotian was no different from a little squirt.
Its enormous eyes glared, and it opened its massive maw to roar.
"ROAR!!"
"Who the hell are you yelling at?!"
He Xiaotian wasn’t afraid in the slightest. As the saying goes, a phoenix that has landed is no better than a chicken.
’You’re already in such a sorry state, what are you trying to show off to me for?’
He swung his heavy hammers in a full circle and smashed them down viciously on its forehead.
points of Strength—a force of over eight tons.
Add to that 4 points of Explosiveness and eighty years of Inner Strength.
How devastating was the power when all of it erupted at once?
The giant crocodile demonstrated with its head.
And He Xiaotian was there to personally show you the result!
"BANG!"
Its hard skull couldn’t withstand it at all.
It shattered instantly, and brain matter shot thirty feet into the air!!
The crocodile’s eyes stared viciously at the little squirt who had landed, like a volcano about to erupt.
But it would never erupt again.
Like a mountain of gold toppling, a pillar of jade collapsing.
"BOOM!"
The massive crocodile crashed headfirst to the ground, as dead as could be.
[Ding! You have slain the critically injured and dying Wolf-level Disaster—Tailless Crocodile. You have gained 50,000 Experience Points.]
’I’m rich!’
Everyone present was dumbfounded.
’What the hell?!’
’We worked our asses off to beat it half to death, and just when the mission was about to end, we were waiting to divvy up the spoils and get our rewards.’
’Then you suddenly pop out of nowhere and take it down with one goddamn hammer strike!’
’Wait, you’re actually trying to run away?’
That’s right. Having reaped the greatest reward, He Xiaotian’s long legs spun like pinwheels as he vanished in a puff of smoke, sprinting to the bank and disappearing into the night.
’Not run?’
’Should I wait for you guys to recruit me?’
’When faced with so many extraordinary individuals and all that heavy weaponry, would I be able to refuse?’
Minister Qingdaofu was also completely stunned.
He couldn’t for the life of him figure out what He Xiaotian, who had suddenly leaped out and killed the giant crocodile with one hammer blow, was after.
’And why did you have to run?’
’We’re the guardians of the people, not man-eating demons.’
’Was that really necessary?’
’Don’t you want the bounty?!’
’That’s a whole pile of shiny Spiritual Energy Crystals!’
In short, He Xiaotian’s flashy and bizarre move left everyone completely bewildered.
[Experience Points: 73,600
Functions: Scan, Enhance
Martial Arts: *Fire-refined Golden Body* - ∞ (Godlike Technique: Supreme Heaven-Burning... expand↓) *Iron Sand Palm* - 0/500+ (Mastered: ... expand↓) *Eight Steps Chasing Cicada* - 0/1000+ (Outstanding: ... expand↓)]
In a hidden alley, He Xiaotian stared at the 73,600 Experience Points in the upper-left corner of his vision, completely ecstatic.
’From now on, please call me the King of Kill-Stealing, the man who got rich overnight.’
