Chapter 118 - 101: A Monster in Human Skin

Chapter 118: Chapter 101: A Monster in Human Skin

At the bald man’s command.

The men in front of him brandished steel pipes and advanced on Gu Qing. ℯ

The rest of them kept their guns trained on Gu Qing, ready to open fire at a moment’s notice.

One step.

Two steps.

Three steps...

Gu Qing’s pace quickened.

The men with the steel pipes also sped up to meet him.

In just a few seconds.

They were nearly on top of each other.

"Get him!"

The scar-faced man in the lead roared, swinging the steel pipe in his hand down hard on Gu Qing’s shoulder.

Unsure of Gu Qing’s strength, he deliberately aimed away from his head, not wanting to accidentally kill the pretty boy his boss had taken an interest in.

"CLANG!!!"

The steel pipe struck Gu Qing’s shoulder with a resounding crack.

Gu Qing’s shoulder was unharmed. Instead, the steel pipe in the scar-faced man’s hand had bent.

The moment the pipe bent, a powerful shockwave shot up the scar-faced man’s arm. The webbing between his thumb and forefinger split open, and blood began to flow.

"Boss, this guy’s an Extraordinary Being!!!"

The scar-faced man yelled, his face a mask of horror. Without a second thought, he turned and fled.

Seeing this, the other men with steel pipes also turned and ran for their lives.

"No wonder you dared to charge in here alone. So you’re an Extraordinary Being."

The bald man said with a sneer, "Heh. But no matter how tough an Extraordinary Being is, can they really be tougher than bullets and grenades?"

He himself was an Extraordinary Being.

In fact, he had become an Extraordinary Being five years ago after coming into contact with an Extraordinary item from He Haikun.

Even though his body had been enhanced for five years, he still couldn’t fully withstand attacks from sharp weapons.

A knife to the eye would blind him.

A slash to the throat, if done with enough force, would still break the skin and draw blood.

So in his eyes, Extraordinary Beings weren’t all that special.

At best, they could only boost their Physical Strength a little.

As for becoming invulnerable to blades and guns, that would require at least twenty years of continuous physical enhancement to even be possible.

This was his understanding of the Extraordinary.

It was an understanding he had slowly pieced together from years of dealing with low-tier Extraordinary items.

And this Gu Qing before him looked to be in his early twenties at most.

Unless Gu Qing had been exposed to Extraordinary items since the womb, his body continuously enhanced by Extraordinary Power for over twenty years, there was no way he could be invulnerable.

Even if Gu Qing was that lucky—enhanced daily since birth and having actually achieved invulnerability—there was still no need to worry.

Because being able to stop bullets didn’t mean you could stop heavy hitters like grenades and rocket launchers!

"Open fire!"

"Just kill him!"

"Don’t leave him alive!"

Seeing that the men with the steel pipes had returned, the bald man immediately bellowed his orders.

Now that he knew Gu Qing was an Extraordinary Being, he had abandoned his plan to have his way with him. He just wanted to kill him quickly, eliminating the threat and leaving no risks for his future.

"BANG! BANG! BANG!"

"BANG! BANG!"

"BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG..."

The deafening roar of gunfire echoed nonstop.

A dense rain of bullets, trailing gunpowder smoke, flew toward Gu Qing.

Gu Qing didn’t even bother to dodge, simply continuing to walk toward them through the storm of lead.

Countless bullets slammed mercilessly into his body.

The moment the rounds made contact with his skin...

...these highly lethal bullets all seemed to hit a sheet of solid steel.

The projectiles twisted and deformed instantly.

Then they were all sent ricocheting away.

They clattered to the floor.

’How is this possible?!’

Seeing Gu Qing emerge completely unscathed from such a hail of bullets, the faces of everyone present drained of color.

Among them, the bald man, their leader, reacted the quickest.

He quickly snapped out of his shock and yelled to his men,

"Quick, throw grenades at him! And get my rocket launcher! We’ll blast him with a rocket!"

At his command, his men pulled out grenades, yanked the pins, and hurled them at Gu Qing.

The destructive power of grenades was immense.

To avoid making a huge scene and causing unnecessary trouble,

...Gu Qing’s figure blurred. In an instant, he had snatched every grenade from their parabolic arcs in mid-air.

Then, right in front of the dumbfounded criminals, he stuffed the handful of grenades into his mouth and swallowed them with ease.

And then—

"THUMP! THUMP! THUMP..."

A series of muffled explosions went off inside Gu Qing’s body.

But Gu Qing remained standing, perfectly still, his body not even twitching.

Smoke merely puffed from his ears and nostrils.

"This smoke sure has a kick."

Gu Qing opened his mouth and blew out a series of smoke rings, a look of pure, relaxed enjoyment on his face.

"A mon-monster!"

"He’s a monster in human skin!"

"Run!"

The criminals were so scared they pissed themselves. One after another, they broke and fled, all will to fight gone.

The bald man in the lead was also terrified, completely dumbfounded by fear.

But after a moment, he recovered. He felt a surge of indignation, unwilling to be scared off so easily.

So, he decisively shouldered the rocket launcher that had been dropped on the floor and locked the sights squarely on Gu Qing.

"You punk!"

"No matter how tough you are, you can’t possibly eat a rocket, can you?!"

"Just die!!!"

The bald man roared, about to fire the rocket launcher on his shoulder.

But before he could pull the trigger, Gu Qing’s figure flickered and appeared right in front of him.

Gu Qing’s fingers curved into a claw. Moving faster than the eye could see, he seized the rocket launcher on the man’s shoulder.

Then, with a gentle squeeze...

...CRACK! The supposedly indestructible rocket launcher snapped in two. The pieces fell to the ground with a THUD, now just two chunks of scrap metal.

"You, you..."

The bald man was so scared he was stuttering, unable to form a complete sentence.

He pissed himself on the spot—literally pissed himself, a dark patch spreading across his crotch.

"THWACK!"

Gu Qing knocked the bald man unconscious with a single punch.

With an explosion of energy, he became a blur, shooting off to recapture all the criminals who had just fled.

In less than half a minute.

All the criminals had been rounded up.

He had also brought back the two critically injured Fox Women from outside.

When they saw the two Fox Women—limbs broken, mouths covered in blood—the criminals began to tremble in terror, not daring to even breathe.

"WHAM!"

Gu Qing kicked the bald man, jolting him awake with a sharp cry of pain.

"Where are the members of the Peach Pink Boy Group?"

Gu Qing asked, his sharp gaze fixed on the bald man.

The bald man’s skin crawled under that stare. He answered with a tremor in his voice,

"In... in the basement..."

The words had barely left his mouth when the wail of sirens sounded from outside.

A moment later, a group of armed Security Officers swarmed into the building.

Among them were two figures in black trench coats.

A man and a woman.

They were the Night Court Members stationed in this district.

As soon as they entered, they saw Gu Qing and the pile of people lying at his feet.

When they saw the two Fox Women, beaten half to death, among the pile of people on the floor...

...shock instantly filled their faces.

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