Chen Shouyi jumped out of the vehicle, and the steam-powered car immediately turned around, heading off in the distance, clearly to summon other Martial Artists.

He was only accompanied by a Captain.

He looked up at the city government building.

This fifteen-story new city government building was originally an office building, with all glass walls. However, at this moment, all the glass here had been shattered, with a large amount of broken glass on the ground, not yet cleaned up.

Dozens of machine guns were cross-deployed on each floor, their nearly two-meter-long slender barrels extending out like sharp spikes.

Seeing Chen Shouyi's gaze, the nearby Captain introduced, "This is a 30mm caliber land combat machine gun, dismantled from armored vehicles. It can easily penetrate ordinary armor!"

However, these arrangements did not make Chen Shouyi feel any relief. If it were really that easy to deal with, the Barbarian God would have been resolved long ago, and wouldn't be waiting until now.

Moreover, these weapons were still manually aimed, and even for a large Martial Artist like him, as long as he moves quickly, these weapons might find it difficult to hit him, let alone the rumored terrifying Barbarian God.

Before the anomaly, humanity's main large-scale weaponry had almost all become automated and semi-automated, mainly relying on fire control radar and electro-optical detection systems to find targets, fire control computers to calculate target location and gun aiming coordinates, and command drive devices to control the gun's aim and fire.

High mobility, beyond-visual-range, and intelligent warfare, combined with satellites, could completely annihilate enemies a thousand miles away.

However, after the mutation, humanity's combat power seemed to regress by decades overnight.

Facing conventional warfare, these weapons still held massive power, but facing such extraordinary beings, it was like a clumsy, lame strongman, unable to exert his strength.

Chen Shouyi withdrew his gaze and, stepping on the glass, entered the city government building with a heavy heart.

The lobby was filled with a tense and anxious atmosphere, and many soldiers hurried about, even running half the time.

Chen Shouyi followed the officer all the way to the eighth floor, which was a spacious hall occupying the entire floor. There were already many Martial Artists and quite a few soldiers, with two machine guns set up.

"Hello, General Manager Chen."

"General Manager Chen, you're here too."

...

Seeing Chen Shouyi enter, many nearby Martial Artists greeted him one after another.

Most of these Martial Artists were unfamiliar to Chen Shouyi, but that didn't prevent them from knowing who Chen Shouyi was. Since the last meeting, all Martial Artists had quietly remembered this young Martial Artist in their hearts.

Chen Shouyi nodded to each in acknowledgment and then stood at the edge of the floor.

At this moment, the last ray of sunset light had been swallowed by the horizon, as night slowly descended.

The number of incoming Martial Artists kept increasing to dozens soon; Song Jieying also arrived and exchanged a few words with Chen Shouyi before standing solemnly to the side.

Not long after, Qin Liuyuan also walked in with a stern look. He glanced around, saw Chen Shouyi, and walked straight over, asking in a low voice:

"Brother Chen, are you confident?"

Chen Shouyi did not look at him, shook his head, saying he had no confidence at all.

Qin Liuyuan sighed heavily and said no more.

As time ticked by, more Martial Artists entered, but the other great Martial Artist Cui Ziweng had yet to appear.

During this time, the first in Jiangnan Province, led a group of high-ranking military and government officials to inspect, specially shaking hands with Chen Shouyi and Qin Liuyuan, the two great Martial Artists, saying a few words of encouragement before leaving swiftly.

...

Throughout, no one mentioned who would command this Martial Artist unit.

A burst of fireworks in the distance shot up into the sky, exploding into a red glow.

Someone shouted, "The enemy is here, everyone, get ready!"

Chen Shouyi's heart tightened as he suddenly faced an enemy. He swiftly drew an arrow from his quiver, held it in his hand, and looked into the distance, but perhaps due to the buildings, he saw no trace.

Just then, he noticed a plume of smoke billowing from the gaps between distant buildings, rapidly spreading.

A few seconds later, he finally saw a massive figure, swiftly closing in along the avenue.

It was a giant about thirteen or fourteen meters high with bulging muscles all over its body. Every time it pushed off the ground, a cloud of white vapor formed at the spot. One moment, it was a kilometer away, but within a breath, it was only five or six hundred meters away.

The sound of machine guns finally erupted.

Countless bullets rained down in dense barrages, yet despite its massive size, it was unexpectedly agile. Some shells, it didn't even dodge, blocking them with its huge war axe, creating bursts of sparks and easily deflecting them.

Five hundred meters, three hundred meters... In just a second, it was two hundred meters away.

Meanwhile, a disconcerting aura began to permeate the air, a divine oppression.

Some Martial Artists had already started shooting arrows, but Chen Shouyi remained motionless.

He watched the giant figure, feeling somewhat puzzled inside.

It was undoubtedly extremely powerful, possessing incredible agility to easily reach supersonic speeds and strength so fearful that in a head-on confrontation, he'd likely be crushed to pulp in an instant.

The two were not on the same level at all.

But compared to the divine beings in the memory space, it was vastly weaker, like a firefly to a full moon.

At that moment, Chen Shouyi took a deep breath and moved instantly. At this life-and-death moment, he cast aside all fear, achieving a deep calmness.

His hand, like a phantom, instantly drew the bowstring and fired an arrow.

Then a second arrow, a third... each arrow locked onto the opponent's silhouette.

His speed was unparalleled, the roar from his arrows formed a continuous stream, launching an arrow every 0.1 seconds. With Chen Shouyi joining the fray, the advancing figure of the giant was immediately slowed down.

The giant swung its war axe, shattering some arrows that were heading its way, letting out an angry roar.

The massive sonic wave even created visible ripples in the air, like a terrible sonic boom weapon, causing some soldiers' ears to bleed, and the firing noises of the machine guns to thin out.

Just as Chen Shouyi felt the situation was dire, a steam truck suddenly crashed through the building's first-floor wall, heading towards the giant.

Not just one, there were more steam trucks coming from the various corners around the city government building, seemingly to encircle the giant.

The giant seemed to sense danger, decisively halting its advance, and with a single step, it leaped over several dozen meters. As Chen Shouyi's eyes caught its figure, the nearest steam truck was already smashed into pieces, debris shooting out in all directions.

The giant destroyed three trucks in quick succession, but as it approached the fourth, the steam truck exploded violently, engulfing its figure in flames.

Each of these self-destruct trucks carried several tons of TNT. Compared to a conventional cruise missile, which has only half a ton of TNT in its warhead, though TNT's power diminished after the mutation, the sheer quantity made up for it all.

A huge blast wave swept across the building, shaking it fiercely, and the glass windows of nearby residential buildings shattered one after another.

Chen Shouyi watched as the giant figure flew backward in the flames of the explosion, rapidly heading their way.

His eyes suddenly shone.

Now is the time!

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