The terrifying power of a pair of fleshy wings granted it unparalleled speed.
With a "boom," it left behind a dense sonic boom cloud at the original location, and its massive body completely disappeared.
In the next instant, its body crashed heavily into the crowd, and the concrete ground shattered like brittle cookies.
Not to mention the surrounding soldiers, even the Martial Artist who had just shot an arrow couldn't react in time. His body was knocked away like a ragdoll, twisted unnaturally, clearly lifeless.
The embankment was struck by this monster, leaving a long gully nearly half a meter deep.
It shook its head and rapidly stood up, letting out an angry roar, its golden eyes holding a trace of displeased brutality.
It had just entered Earth, and the low-gravity environment made it unable to adapt for a moment, resulting in excessive speed and complete loss of control.
A young soldier nearby scrambled on hands and feet, fearfully watching this nearly two-story-tall behemoth, retreating continuously.
It exuded a suffocating aura, its fur reflecting an oily luster under the blinding midday sun. Though it had just come out of the sewage, its body was free of a speck of dust, with no trace of filth at all.
Suddenly, a gust of wind blew, and a clawed, washbasin-sized foot stomped heavily on the soldier's chest.
Accompanied by the dense sound of bones breaking, the soldier's eyes bulged as he spat out a mouthful of blood and went silent.
"Such weak creatures!"
Its golden eyes flashed with disdain; its tongue rolled the corpse, and as soon as it swallowed the body, blood splattered on its body.
"Boom boom boom..."
The sound of the machine cannon finally rang out.
"Roar!"
The armor-piercing bullets from the machine cannon didn't penetrate deeply into its flesh, and for a creature of its size, they couldn't penetrate its muscles, only causing minor flesh wounds. But the intense pain infuriated it beyond measure. It roared, the air rippling like waves, the sound booming like thunder.
Immediately, it leaped into the air, its wings flapping, quickly ascending.
In mere breaths, it had soared several hundred meters into the sky.
"Boom boom boom..."
Over a dozen machine cannons arranged around the reservoir opened fire simultaneously, turning into long, fiery whips aiming at the monster.
Unfortunately, the monster was extremely fast, its massive body maneuvering in the air with unmatched agility, quickly twisting and spiraling.
A pair of golden eyes coldly watched the strange yet fragile creatures below.
It was attracted by the intense scent of blood, leading it inexplicably to this bizarre place.
Even now, it didn't understand where exactly this was.
However, that didn't stop it from killing these ants that dared to offend it.
"Boom boom boom!"
With only slight inattention, a few shells struck its abdomen again, leaving a row of arm-thick holes, blood gushing out.
It really hurt!
Its golden and violent eyes blazed with fury.
With a low, ferocious roar, energy surged within its body, and then its body began to expand in an incomprehensible way. Its bones started thickening and lengthening, muscles and skin becoming more dense and solid, the elongated head sprouting several sharp bone spikes, teeth growing ever sharper...
In just one second, it expanded from its original eleven or twelve meters in length to fourteen or fifteen meters.
It looked somewhat unsatisfied at its own imposing figure.
This world is so bizarre.
Why has my innate ability become so weak?
As a fierce beast that occasionally fed on giants, this transformation was hard for it to accept.
At fourteen or fifteen meters in length, excluding the tail that occupied nearly half its length, the body was only seven or eight meters long—hardly fit for a giant's meal.
"Boom!"
A shell exploded ten meters away from it.
The shockwave, mixed with shrapnel, sent it tumbling through the air.
The anti-aircraft rapid-fire cannon stationed not far from the reservoir finally opened fire.
With a sudden flap of its wings, it quickly regained control over its body, feeling the scorching pain on its body, the fury within it uncontrollable,
Its wings flapped once and then retracted, its body instantly turning into a streak of light, rapidly diving toward one of the machine cannons.
The sonic boom echoed across the sky.
...
By now, all the soldiers were frantically busy.
The incident at the reservoir happened suddenly; only a regiment was deployed, and the peculiar geography delayed the setup of many heavy weapons. Apart from eight 20mm machine cannons dismantled from armored vehicles, only some machine guns, rocket launchers, and flamethrowers were available.
As for the previously fired anti-aircraft cannon, it was initially set up nearby to defend against invading otherworld flying creatures.
The two-meter-long slender barrel fired "boom boom" repeatedly, shell casings flying, creating a jingly sound.
The dense smell of gunpowder smoke permeated the air.
"Quick, quick, quick!"
"Aim!"
"Die for me!"
The soldiers' eyes were bloodshot, faces twisted with ferocity, operating the machine cannon desperately.
The army's machine gunners were typically Martial Artist Apprentices, as there was no automatic fire control now, and ordinary people found it challenging to operate such a heavy weapon and react to high-speed targets.
Yet, facing a supersonic diving high-speed monster, even so, it was difficult for the cannons to capture it promptly.
Just two seconds.
With a loud "boom," a machine cannon exploded, parts flying in all directions.
The gunner had no time to react, struck in the head by metal fragments, skull shattered, as several nearby soldiers were knocked away by the monster.
It plowed a long trench on the embankment, standing again.
Just as it stood up,
a single rocket flew in its direction.
"Boom!"
A huge fireball engulfed half its body.
"Roar!"
With a flap of its wings, it blew the flames away in an instant.
The soldier who had just fired the rocket stared in terror at the creature, retreating continuously.
"Impossible... Impossible!"
He muttered nervously to himself.
He was horrified to find that the creature hit by a rocket had barely any injuries.
In fact, though the rocket was powerful, its destructive force per unit area was far less than that of a 20mm machine cannon using armor-piercing bullets.
In the next moment, the furious monster pounced in a rage, stomping down with a large foot, the soldier's flesh and blood bursting apart.
...
Chen Shouyi ran for a while and then gave up the futile back-and-forth running.
"Damn it!" He stopped, cursing as he watched the monster fly toward another machine cannon.
With a flying creature possessing superlative mobility, running fast on the ground was pointless, especially when his speed was far inferior to that of the monster.
Some newly advanced Martial Artists on the battlefield looked tense and panicked.
Hedong City had been calm for a long time since the Barbarian God invasion, and these new Martial Artists usually only dealt with common invading creatures around the area; they'd never seen such a terrifying beast and brutal fight.
They were just a bunch of rookies, much like his younger sister.
Chen Shouyi quickly glanced around and then, with a swift motion, headed for a nearby machine cannon position.
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