Infinite Terror: This Middle Continent is Rebellious

Chapter 195: Zhang Xiao's Awakening (Part )
Tentacles spread out from Dracula's body, emitting a bloody light, like a brutal giant python baring its fangs.

These tentacles are as sharp as blades, as hot as flames, as flexible as whips, and as fierce as cannonballs.

Cheng Xiao brushed past the tentacle, and not only was the wooden stake used to seal Dracula destroyed, but even a section of his finger was cut off.

Cheng Xiao's expression remained unchanged, his ten fingers connected to his heart. He released his internal energy through the acupuncture points, pushing the holy water around him. He displayed exquisite footwork and swayed between the tentacles as if walking on flat ground.

Blood splattered from Cheng Xiao's face, and the tentacles flying past him emitted sharp energy, cutting his skin.

Cheng Xiao didn't care about this minor injury.

His eyes were blank, he was already in the state of first-order gene lock, and his bullet time was set to four times the speed.

Cheng Xiao used his strong sense of danger and reaction speed to navigate between the sharp tentacles and avoid fatal attacks.

As for non-fatal attacks, Cheng Xiao will ignore them.

You have to be careful about getting injured because it will cause your condition to decline and reduce the duration of the battle.

Cheng Xiao's situation does not apply to such reasons.

Acupuncture with golden needles and natal Gu were both short-term explosive moves. As long as the injuries sustained during this short period of time were not disabling, the pain and the runaway energy would offset the negative effects.

After this period of time, even if you are not injured, you will feel excruciating pain.

Cheng Xiao pushed out his hands, like flowing clouds and running water, in one go. The internal force released rolled up a circular airflow, and he performed a set of round Tai Chi.

He seemed to be using gentle strength, but the force of his fist cutting through the air was extremely fierce, as if it was pulling at the space. His fist hit the tentacles like a storm, blasting away a bloody shadow.

Cheng Xiao, who used the golden needle acupuncture and the natal Gu at the same time, has upgraded his panel to the level of a fourth-level combat professional, and is even first-class in the range of the fourth-level beginner.

Within three meters, if he is not a warrior, even a demigod-level strongman will find it difficult to knock him down within the effective time of the golden needle acupuncture and the natal Gu.

However, it is just difficult to defeat, not impossible to defeat.

The broken tentacles regenerated quickly, and the blood-black tentacles were more flexible than whips. If I had to describe them, they would probably be snakes with independent thoughts.

Several tentacles circled around Cheng Xiao and attacked his back. His brain's sense of crisis determined the direction of the attack. Cheng Xiao hurriedly twisted his body and made several small movements to dodge with precise angles and distances.

More tentacles attacked from the front. These tentacles looked like slender arms, but when they attacked, they were like blood-red lasers, fast, fierce, and extremely ferocious.

Cheng Xiao punched with both fists repeatedly, his right hand was wrapped in black airflow, and his left hand was wrapped in white airflow. The airflow swirled in the water, turning into a huge Tai Chi diagram.

The Tai Chi diagram generated a strong gravitational force like a whirlpool, and all the tentacles attacking from the front were wrapped up by Cheng Xiao's fists. He walked and swung his fists, and his internal force enveloped the surroundings. His defensive moves could be called perfect.

It’s a pity that although Dracula is not good at martial arts, he knows what it means to use great force to create miracles.

The impact of the tentacles shook Cheng Xiao's body, and the corrosive power of the blood energy dyed the Tai Chi diagram a different color. Cheng Xiao's boxing had no flaws, so Dracula used direct force to make Cheng Xiao reveal his flaws.

"Oh!"

A bloody hole exploded in Cheng Xiao's leg, flesh and blood spread in the water, and the pale bones were exposed.

"Crack!"

Blood spread from Cheng Xiao's back, and a palm penetrated his muscles and cut out a small piece of bone from his body.

In a flash, Dracula's hand took out two organs from Cheng Xiao's body.

Dracula bared his fangs and shouted wildly, "Not enough! Not enough! Human, you are strong, but it is far from enough! Your awareness is not enough to defeat me. With only such awareness, why do you still want to fight?"

"...What...are you...talking about?" Cheng Xiao spoke with difficulty. His powerful fist pushed back the tentacles in front of him. To avoid the subsequent attack, he took a half step back, crossing his legs in an counterintuitive posture, and passed through the interlaced tentacles like a whirlwind. "I have plenty of awareness...I know...I will probably die..."

The tentacles blasted out like cannonballs, forcing Cheng Xiao to dodge hastily.

"That's why I told you, it's not enough! A high probability of death? How can such a level of awareness kill me? To kill an enemy stronger than yourself, and still clinging to the naive idea that even if there's a high probability of death, there's still a chance of survival! Foolish. Without the determination to die, without the awareness to fight for a chance with your life, you'll only end up in a desperate situation!"

A flash of blood passed by Cheng Xiao's side, cutting off a protruding piece of elbow joint.

"Defend? Dodge? If you had that thought, you would no longer be able to kill me. Charge at me with all your might, even if it meant breaking an arm, getting seriously injured, or even having your legs chopped off. If you did that, you could still end my life. But you hesitated. No, not hesitated. You never intended to do that. You thought it was unnecessary, you thought it wasn't worth it. You thought you could find a chance to kill me... So, your chances of winning are gone."

Like a high and mighty judge, Dracula delivered his verdict to Cheng Xiao in a cold tone.

"When fighting the undead, the longer you fight, the lower your chances of success. This is common sense, and you've already lost your chance of victory."

Cheng Xiao was speechless.

He already understood what Dracula meant by awareness and chance of victory.

The determination to die, to seize the opportunity with your life when the chance is greatest.

It's really easy to say. Who would actively lower their chances of survival just for a possible chance of winning when they don't necessarily die and there are other opportunities?

However, things have now turned out just as Dracula said.

The odds of winning have dropped to almost zero.

The battle was now at a stalemate, and it was difficult for him to break through Dracula's offensive and stab the wooden stake on his body into Dracula's heart or brain.

If you do this at the very beginning, with your condition intact and risking your life, your success rate will not be less than 60%.

"Ha...you're right...it's true...I'm not aware enough..."

A bitter smile appeared on Cheng Xiao's face.

The determination to fight to the death, the determination to exchange life for life, if he had not lacked such determination, he would have opened the gene lock before using the T virus concentrate.

"Roar!"

The werewolf's situation is no better than Cheng Xiao's.

Although the two were besieging Dracula, they did not show any signs of bullying the weak. Their tentacles kept breaking and regenerating, always maintaining a sufficient number.

Outnumbered to defeat the few? The lesser ones were Cheng Xiao and the werewolf.

The crisscrossing tentacles formed a blood-red laser net, like a hunter's trap. The werewolf's body was cut with scars, and even one of its legs was broken.

It atomized its body to reunite, but Dracula had dealt with werewolves hundreds of years ago, so how could he not be on guard against the werewolf's atomization ability?
The blood shadow expanded and turned into a wide silk ribbon hanging across the thick fog, covering the sky above and connecting to the ground below, separating the fog that the werewolf had transformed into.

The fog was blocked by the blood shadow and could not gather into one place, so it could only be formed by the fog in one part gathering together first.

However, the werewolves formed in this way lost most of their mass and their strength was greatly reduced.

Several tentacles had already grasped the werewolf's limbs, sharp nails digging into its fur. A dark red shadow spread across its body, the dual restraints of physical and energy preventing it from moving. "If you can be the hunters' hound, you can also be my pet, little pup. Be obedient and let me tame you."

A tentacle pressed its palm against the werewolf's forehead, and the power of domination was activated. Dracula's power penetrated into the werewolf's soul, dyeing it with his own color.

The werewolf tried to break free, but more tentacles captured its body. How could a werewolf with an incomplete body resist Dracula's power?

Suddenly, supersonic projectiles fell from the sky.

"boom!"

Twenty shells accurately locked onto Dracula's body and tentacles.

but……

“It’s useless, useless, useless—!”

Dracula has been on guard against the railgun attacking from the sky. As the railgun was fired, his tentacles swung upwards in a slashing posture.

All the railguns bombarded Dracula's tentacles, colliding with each other, and the shells did not gain any advantage.

The huge amount of blood energy can instantly offset the holy light of the cannonball, and the power released by the tentacles compressed to the extreme is even greater than that of the super-electromagnetic cannon.

The moment the two sides collided, the fist-sized shell shattered into thousands of pieces.

Dracula's counterattack was not over yet, and more than a dozen tentacles burst out into the sky in a slashing arc.

The tentacles stretched a hundred times in an instant, suddenly crossed the gap between the sky and the ground, and attacked the UFO complex suspended high in the sky.

"Defense system, maximum power activated!"

Xiao Honglu reacted quickly and immediately activated the UFO's defense system.

In the blink of an eye, layer upon layer of protective shields wrapped up the UFO, including technological shields and magic shields. More than a dozen defense mechanisms to deal with different situations were deployed at the same time, turning the UFO into an indestructible fortress.

However, no matter how indestructible it is, it depends on who the target is.

The blood shadow that slashed towards the sky cut through layer upon layer of shields. There were more than a dozen kinds of protective shields, and the duration of resistance would not exceed three seconds.

Xiao Honglu felt a chill on his forehead and immediately entered the disintegration command.

The huge UFO platform quickly disintegrated. Three seconds later, more than fifty UFOs scattered in all directions. When Blood Shadow broke through the protective shield, it only shot down a dozen UFOs.

Although there were only a dozen or so planes, it was an extremely serious blow to the war situation.

The UFO platform's disintegration gave the Dead River army an opportunity to take advantage. Without the suppression of the artillery fire, thousands of Dead River troops rushed towards Dracula.

Xiao Honglu's face changed, and he shouted hurriedly, "Oh no! Ming Yanwei, stop them!"

"Cut the corners for a while!"

Ming Yanwei immediately activated the magic circuit super accelerator.

The energy flow of the Golden Skull began to accelerate, one, two, three, four times... Unlike ordinary demons, the Golden Skull's energy was too huge. Just a burst of support from the B-level props could not accelerate the Golden Skull's energy circulation system to a supercritical level in a short period of time.

Upon realizing this, Ming Yanwei's expression changed immediately.

This was the first time that Qi Tengyi summoned a fourth-level skeleton soldier, and it was also the first time that she used a fourth-level skeleton soldier as an arrow. Before this, no one realized that such a problem would exist.

Ming Yanwei shouted anxiously, "Five minutes! It will take another five minutes to strengthen the fourth-level skeleton to the point of explosion!"

"Five minutes? By that time, there won't be a bone left of Cheng Xiao!"

Qi Tengyi was also at a loss.

Xiao Honglu no longer had the energy to speak. All his attention was focused on controlling the UFO's weapon system and launching an attack on the Dead River March on the ground.

Nuclear bombs fell from the sky, emitting dazzling light, a vast sea of ​​fire engulfed the River of Death, and mushroom clouds rose into the sky.

However, this ultimate weapon of mankind does not have the desired effect at this moment.

In order to avoid implicating his teammates, Xiao Honglu only launched a micro-nuclear bomb. Although the power was not weak, the miscellaneous soldiers that could be eliminated by the micro-nuclear bomb had already been cleared out by the original trap.

In the area of ​​several kilometers centered on Dracula, the remaining Dead River soldiers are basically strong men from the second to fourth level. Even the weakest group can escape from the center of the nuclear explosion.

The interference caused by a nuclear explosion can only delay for a very short time.

"It's a desperate situation."

Through the communication in the communicator, Cheng Xiao can understand everything happening in the outside world.

"I don't know if it's too late though... maybe it is."

Cheng Xiao muttered, his eyes changed, his bright eyes were like the calm surface of the water.

Dracula said calmly, "Finally realized it? Unfortunately, as you said, it's too late."

"Well, it's too late. But even if it's late, it doesn't mean I can't take a gamble."

He disregarded life and death, even though he was forced to do so.

Cheng Xiao's eyes were examining Dracula in front of him. Without saying a word, the bullet time X speed was doubled again.

Five times the speed! Cheng Xiao’s physical limit.

But it's not enough.

Cheng Xiao's eyes reflected the movement trajectories of the tentacles. There was no pattern, and he did not have the computing power to make predictions.

He had no choice but to use the stupid method of using faster reaction speed to catch the traces of the tentacles.

In that case... Bullet Time 9x Speed!
Cheng Xiao used his internal force to maintain bullet time. In this way, his body would not be burdened, but he would not be able to use his internal force.

It is equivalent to using physical strength in exchange for nerve reaction speed.

But it suits his situation just fine.

Cheng Xiao's footsteps were strangely and exaggeratedly twisted, just like Chaplin in a black-and-white movie. As his body swayed, the tentacles around him crisscrossed but did not hurt Cheng Xiao at all.

Cheng Xiao stepped out of the Bagua steps and walked towards Dracula step by step. The speed was extremely strange, as if the space was stretching, causing some confusion in Dracula's vision.

(End of this chapter)