Volume 1 Glacial Relics Chapter 16 Hundred-meter Gate
After just a face-to-face encounter, Layton flew back at an even faster speed and slammed heavily into the wall - fortunately, he had just put down Zhuo Ligetu who was on his back, otherwise the latter would have been crushed into a meat paste.
Layton's entire mechanical arm, along with half of his shoulder, disappeared. Blue-green arcs of electricity kept jumping at the broken end, and hydraulic oil mixed with blood flowed out, quickly gathering into a small puddle under his body.
Ke Lan couldn't even see the moment when the robotic arm was torn off.
The completely deformed metal limb was now being held in the monster's hand. The smooth metal surface had been corroded by the strong acid secreted by the monster and was full of pits and holes. From time to time, slight explosions were heard inside the mechanical arm, accompanied by sparks flying everywhere and metal fragments scattered on the ground. This valuable mechanical arm was completely scrapped.
"Run! Run!" Layton struggled to get up from the ground and shouted to Ke Lan, "I'll help you hold it back! Run, Ke Lan! Take Lao Gou and the others and get out of here!"
But before Layton could shout out the next sentence, the monster had already jumped in front of him and pierced his chest with one of its scaly arm!
Layton fell down, but a bloody figure suddenly emerged from under the platform, with a knife light like a meteor, and rushed straight to the monster's vest!
"Ding! Ding! Ding ding ding!"
The sound of metal clashing continued. The monster was holding a bone sword that he had pulled out of his body and was fighting with the figure that suddenly appeared for dozens of moves!
It's Asano Akira!
Ke Lan tightly gripped the gun in his hand and watched the fierce fight with bated breath. He didn't dare to make any sound for fear of causing any impact on the young warrior in front of him.
Asano Akira kept trying to move forward and close the distance, but the bone knife in the monster's hand formed an impenetrable knife circle, constantly repelling Asano Akira's attack.
I have to say, this thing's learning ability is extremely terrifying. Not only is the shape of the bone knife completely imitated from the Nino alloy battle blade, even the sword moves it uses are almost exactly the same as Asano Akira - and it is still constantly improving!
At the beginning, Asano Akira could occasionally find a few flaws of the monster and leave some scars on its body, but gradually, the monster's flaws became fewer and fewer. Although it was still in a passive position, it was no longer as forced as at the beginning.
This didn't seem like a fight, but more like a performance of highly difficult swordplay with exquisite coordination. The monster was just like Asano Akira's shadow. The speed, angle, and change of moves of the two were exactly the same. Every collision between the bone knife and the battle blade seemed to have been rehearsed countless times in advance. Even the intersection of the blades was at the same point...
Wait, the same spot?
Ke Lan's eyes suddenly lit up. He originally thought that Asano Akira 's chances of winning were gradually being narrowed by the opponent, but in fact, all of this was still within his design and control!
No matter how strong the bone knife is, it cannot compare with Nino alloy. After so many collisions, although it cannot be seen from the outside, the internal material must have reached its fatigue limit. What's more, Asano Akira slashed at the same point every time.
"break!"
After a cassock slash, Asano Akira quickly stepped back, turned his right wrist, clamped the sword under his left rib, shouted loudly, and slashed out horizontally!
This is a practical variation of the ancient Japanese swordsmanship of Iaijutsu - slashing with the sword with one hand!
The bone knife broke with a sound! Along with the broken blade, the head with a look of astonishment also flew high into the sky.
The monster imitated nearly a hundred sword moves of Asano Akira, but there was not a single real killing move among them - a real killing move, if used, must be a fatal blow!
Having lost its head, the monster's body began to twitch violently, and the stratum corneum and scales on its surface were falling off at a speed visible to the naked eye, revealing the bloody flesh underneath.
Those pieces of meat seemed to come alive. In the blink of an eye, they changed into dozens of mouthparts of different shapes and started biting each other frantically. The decapitated human torso was split in the middle and turned into a giant mouth full of sharp teeth. It curled up its body and bit the piece of meat at the end.
It is like the Ouroboros in human mythology, swallowing its own tail in big mouthfuls.
Piece after piece of bloody flesh was torn off from its body by its sharp claws and greedily stuffed into the nearest mouthparts, chewing hard... The swollen glands burst one after another, and the smelly pus and blood were burned by the splashing strong acid making a "hissing" sound.
This crazy scene lasted for about a minute before the monster's last bit of vitality was completely drained. Its almost shattered body fell heavily to the ground, and there was no movement anymore.
After sheathing the sword, Asano Akira walked over to Layton, gave him a quick check, then stood up and said to Ke Lan, "He's not dead yet."
"Layton is still alive?"
"Well, he had two hearts, and that thing only destroyed one of them...but his condition was still very bad. At least six ribs were broken, one of which pierced his lung, and a lot of metal fragments entered his trachea." said Asano Akira.
"This kind of injury requires surgery." Although Layton used an artificial lung and was not killed immediately by the puncture, if it could not be repaired in time, the prolonged lack of oxygen would inevitably lead to brain death. By then, even the emergency cabin on the Ark would be unable to save him.
"The entire chest cavity needs to be cleaned out, the trachea needs to be replaced, and then the hole in the lungs needs to be patched...Where's the doctor? And that...hound?" asked Asano Akira.
"They were poisoned and didn't follow us." Ke Lan replied, "We have to take Layton over. By the way, where did you go before? If I'm not mistaken, you crawled out from under that platform, right? The entrance to the passage is hidden under the platform?"
"Yeah." Asano Akira nodded slightly, "There is a door downstairs, a very big door."
"A very big door? So you need so many crystals to activate it?" Ke Lan suddenly understood why Asano Akira took away so many crystals. It seemed that he had indeed discovered something.
"Yeah, but it wasn't enough... so I came back and ran into you guys... and that thing."
"It's still not enough..." Ke Lan was stunned. Could it be that five thousand units were not enough?
"Not enough. Although I can't see how high the door is, I can touch its edge. It's about... a hundred meters wide." Asano Akira said after thinking for a moment.
A huge gate that is 100 meters wide... This size must be the main gate of the ruins! And behind the gate is the "absolute core area" of the ruins!
That is the heart of the ruins and the ultimate goal of any hunter who explores the ruins!
