Chapter 36

Huang Quan actually blocked the Flame Devil without a single injury! The previous attack had clearly left a wound on his arm, but he was now completely fine.

Not only was Ye Daying curious, but Lin Qing was as well. He put away his sword and asked, “How did you do it?”

In his previous life, he had only evolved five times, so he didn’t know many things at the higher levels.

“The first few times, I only used my arm to resist your blade. This time, I mobilized my crystal energy and focused it on my fist.”

“You can do that too?” Lin Qing’s jaw dropped in shock. As expected of the Battle God, his combat instincts were extremely strong. Lin Qing simply couldn’t compare to him.

It had been a few days since Lin Qing had evolved for the sixth time. He had always been armed and ready to fight, but he had never studied his techniques like this before.

“Then let’s try it out. I’ll use my Armament too.”

Lin Qing’s arm turned black. Then he and Huang Quan punched each other. Lin Qing took half a step back, but Huang Quan didn’t.

The difference brought about by your innate strength and foundation slowly disappeared as your level increased. So even without the Flame Devil, Lin Qing felt that he could win against Huang Quan with his powerful combat skills.

Of course, under normal circumstances, a normal heavy truck would still not be a match for Huang Quan if they were of the same level. The ratio of being killed to surviving would be 40:60.

In Lin Qing’s previous life, Huang Quan had relied on the Flame Devil to forcefully suppress the ratio from 40:60 to 20:80 and then to 10:90 before eventually becoming an invincible existence among those of the same level.

At the side, Ye Daying saw how strong the two of them were and silently clenched his fists. He wanted to become stronger too.

But as his opponents got stronger, he could clearly feel that his sniper rifle was a little insufficient. Unless it hit the eye socket of his opponent, a single shot wouldn’t kill them.

If he faced someone like Huang Quan, his opponent wouldn’t die even if he shot them a dozen times.

As though he read his thoughts, Huang Quan said, “Everyone has their strengths. Little Ying, your strength is not in your power. Instead, you should practice your marksmanship well. I’ll get a friend to get you a Barrett when we arrive in Qingzhou.”

“Really? Thank you, Brother Huang!”

“Work hard. You still have a lot of potential.” Lin Qing bent down and patted Ye Daying’s shoulder. “It’s not impossible for you to destroy a Lord in the future.”

“Is that possible?” Huang Quan pouted. “Don’t try to trick him.”

The Barrett was considered very strong among the anti-materiel sniper rifles, and even adult Motorbots wouldn’t be able to withstand a shot from it. But this seemed to be Ye Daying’s limit.

“What? Don’t you believe me?” Lin Qing pointed at his Flame Devil. “Don’t you know how my sword came about?”

“You mean…” Huang Quan was shocked by Lin Qing’s boldness. A Flame Devil was already very scary. How terrifying would it be if a modified sniper rifle could be used to destroy a Lord from 1,000 meters away?

At a distance of 1,000 meters, no one would be able to see him. His opponent would die without even fighting or knowing how they had died.

“That’s not impossible.”

“What are you two doing?”

Ye Daying was itching to know this inside story, but Lin Qing simply didn’t say anything. He only smiled mysteriously and said that Ye Daying would find out later.

“Let’s not talk about this anymore. Have a good night’s sleep and rest up. We’ll set off for Qingzhou tomorrow.”

…

The next day, when Lin Qing and the others woke up, the sky and the earth were snow white, and a layer of silver frost covered the entire town. Icicles draped from the eaves of roofs, while trees, roads, and houses were all frozen.

The entire world was white, and even the light became brighter.

It had been nearly a month since the Cataclysm, and the temperature was dropping every day. It was now close to -20°C, and the fields were desolate. No crops could be planted, and ordinary people were unable to move about outdoors. The true disaster was coming.

In the near future, food shortage would be the biggest problem. If this problem remained unsolved, many people would die.

It was no longer possible for anyone to act alone. You could only hope to survive by joining a large base.

In a month, Motorbots would also face danger as steel beasts grew. After all, the steel beasts who could live until now had either joined a group or had become powerful.

Motorbots could survive for a few days without eating crystals, but steel beasts couldn’t. Beasts had no human nature, and if they were hungry, they would hunt.

On the way to Qingzhou, Lin Qing and the others saw too many tragedies among the people. Human corpses were everywhere, and Motorbots had been broken into scrap metal and piled into small mountains. Only broken wells and ruins were left in the once beautiful cities, and the entire world was brimming with a rotten aura.

“Haha, retribution!” On this day, Huang Quan was looking at the newspaper he snatched. The newest bounty notice had been published on it.

Jiang Yanjun, Reward: 3,000 crystals. Dead or alive.

It appeared that Jiang Tianyun was really angry and would rather spend money to kill this traitor.

“Captain, we don’t seem to be having a good time either, right? Please make way.”

Ye Daying pulled out the Motorbot that Huang Quan was stepping on and dug out its crystal skillfully. Meanwhile, there were about 50 Motorbot corpses behind him.

Even though a bounty notice had been put up for Jiang Yanjun, they couldn’t idle around either. Every day, they were either killing or being killed.

There were times when there were only one or two waves of troops, but there were also times when there were as many as eight waves after them. Furthermore, there were many fugitives among them who had simply been sent to their deaths.

“What’s there to be afraid of? With our strength, as long as it’s not a battalion of aircraft and tanks, anyone who comes will be courting death.”

Seeing Huang Quan being slightly complacent, Lin Qing warned him, “Don’t lower your guard. There are experts among the people, and there may be people stronger than us.”

“I want to battle them too, but none of them can fight. Sigh, experts are lonely!!”

“Amitabha, may this monk come and meet you, benefactor?”

The three of them were shocked and looked up at a tall building. At some point, a Motorbot had been standing there with a string of iron beads around his neck, each the size of a watermelon.

It was a sports car that was only ten meters tall and snow white all over. Strangely, he had pulled a few bedsheets from somewhere and draped them over his body as a kasaya.

He wore Buddhist beads and a kasaya while chanting ‘Amitabha’. If he hadn’t been standing on the shoulders of an adult steel gorilla, they would have thought he was crazy.

Lin Qing and the others had seen this 20-meter-tall great gorilla before. It was present on the night they had attacked Yang City.

Compared to its savage and violent nature back then, the current gorilla was extremely docile.

Looking at the completed 車 (vehicle) on the Motorbot’s chest, Huang Quan retracted his smile and asked seriously, “Who are you?”

With a faint smile, the white sports car Motorbot placed one hand in front of his chest. “I am Zhi Zhang, a monk. I have come for the bounty. After traveling for five hundred kilometers, I have finally caught up to you.”

“Idiot[1]?” Huang Quan laughed when he heard this name. “Even you want to get the bounty? I’m afraid you won’t have the rest of your life to spend it.”

“Don’t worry about me, benefactor. I have my own ways to spend the bounty. Please!”

Zhi Zhang gently patted the head of the gorilla. Then the gorilla jumped from the tall building toward the three of them.

Ye Daying had just raised his sniper rifle when Lin Qing stopped him. “You can’t do it this time. Stand aside and watch.”

One of them was a monk Motorbot, and the other was a steel beast. There was no other pair in the world like this.

Demon Monk Zhi Zhang was a famous Overlord in Lin Qing’s previous life. He came from the Shaolin Discipline Hall and had practiced martial arts from a young age. So he was proficient in the 72 Secret Arts, and his combat strength was off the charts.

Other than his own combat skills, his greatest feature was the steel beast he was riding on. This steel beast changed every now and then.

Lin Qing had seen him once in his previous life. At that time, he was riding a Lord-level flood dragon.

[1] in Chinese, “Zhi Zhang” sounds like “idiot”