Trickster Hunter.

Chapter 273 Hit the snake seven inches

"Everyone retreat two hundred meters - no! Three hundred meters!" Wang Xiyi, flying in the sky, ordered loudly.

Except for Ye Jiu and Zhu Long, everyone else returned to the car, shifted into reverse gear, stepped on the accelerator, and the four cars quickly moved backwards.

"You two, leave quickly too!" Wang Xiyi looked down at Ye Jiu and Zhu Long who were still there, and shouted angrily.

In her palms, the rising dark blue dragon flame was ten meters away. From a distance, it looked like two flaming spears held in her hands.

"You really don't need help?" Ye Jiu shouted, "This big guy looks difficult to deal with!"

"You can help me best by leaving my attack range! Quick! I'll give you three more seconds!"

But unfortunately, reality is neither anime nor a movie. There is no time stop BUFF when the protagonists are talking. The giant metal snake that was disturbed by Ye Jiu had no awareness of actively disconnecting. Instead, when Wang Xiyi asked the two to retreat, it pounced directly on them!

The metal giant snake's oversized mouthparts expanded again, and its diameter exceeded thirty meters in an instant. From a distance, it looked like a giant metal funnel, covering Ye Jiu and Zhu Long directly!
"Fuck!" Ye Jiu's face suddenly changed. This time, he didn't need Wang Xiyi to remind him. He directly pushed the power of "killing" to the extreme and retreated madly with his body.

As for Zhulong, his entire body turned into a stream of cold water, flowing close to the ground. In a blink of an eye, he condensed into a human form again outside the attack range of the giant metal snake.

"boom!!!"

The front end of the giant metal snake slammed heavily onto the ground. The metal parts that made up its body instantly flew apart. A sharp iron plate smashed the windshield of the lead car and cut the head of the field operator who replaced Wang Xiyi in driving into two halves. The bright red blood and grayish-white brain matter splashed directly onto the faces of Ling Xiao and Jiang Yu in the back seat.

Fortunately, this was a military armored off-road vehicle, and the strength of the two A-pillars was much higher than that of civilian vehicles, so it was able to withstand the impact and cutting of the large iron plate... Otherwise, the two people in the back seat would probably have been beheaded by now,
The tip of the iron plate was less than ten centimeters away from Jiang Yu. On the iron plate stained with blood, minced meat and broken glass, there was a bloody eyeball, and the enlarged black pupil was staring straight at Jiang Yu.

It was not until the strong feeling of suffocation strangled his throat that Jiang Yu realized that he had just completely forgotten to breathe. He suddenly began to cough violently - but as his lips opened and closed, the minced meat with a strong bloody smell fell into his mouth again.

"Cough cough...cough cough..."

Ling Xiao, who was sitting next to her, wiped his face with his hands without changing his expression, took out a bottle of water and a pack of wet wipes from the storage compartment under the seat and handed them over.

"This is car number one." Ling Xiao picked up the intercom hanging behind the door. "The driver was attacked and is confirmed dead. There is no value in rescuing him. I repeat, the driver of car number one is dead."

“…hiss…hiss…two people in car number two were seriously injured, and the engine was severely damaged…hiss…”

"This is... Car No. 3... hiss... We fell into the roadside drainage ditch while trying to escape... The vehicle overturned... My leg is stuck... Requesting for backup... Someone come and help us!"

The situation of several other vehicles was not optimistic either. Although the giant metal snake did not directly attack the convoy, the splashing "aftermath" alone had caused heavy losses to the convoy. Only the multi-purpose engineering vehicle, which was at the end of the team from the beginning and had the heaviest armor, managed to withstand the attack.

"Car No. 4, go rescue Car No. 3 and lift them out of the ditch! Ling Xiao! Jiang Yu! Get out of the car immediately, take the medical kits, and go to Car No. 2 to help! Don't rush to treat the wounded, take them to a safe place first!" Ye Jiu quickly rushed to Car No. 1, opened the door, and dragged out the body from the driver's seat.

"Understood!" Ling Xiao nodded, took the things and rushed out, leaving Jiang Yu sitting there.

"What are you still standing there for?" Ye Jiu glared at Jiang Yu and said in a low voice.

"I...I..." Before Jiang Yu could finish her words, a strong urge to vomit came over her. She pushed open the car door, bent down and began to dry heave.

"Why are you panicking?! Isn't it just a dead person?" Ye Jiu couldn't help but curse, "If you are so scared, you shouldn't have participated in this mission!"

"Yes, I'm sorry..." Jiang Yu said with some difficulty. She unscrewed the bottle cap, closed her eyes and drank a big gulp of water. Then she climbed down from the car using her hands and feet, stood up and ran towards the No. 2 car that was parked across the middle of the road not far away with two thick steel bars stuck on the hood.

"Tsk... The gap in quality between the two newcomers is too big." After complaining, Ye Jiu sat down in the car. The sponge seat that was soaked with blood suddenly made a puffing sound, and a large amount of blood was squeezed out from the pores of the sponge and spilled on the car.

Ye Jiu tried to start the car, but accompanied by a wailing engine sound, the whole car shook violently and did not move under Ye Jiu's operation.

"Fuck it!" Ye Jiu slapped the steering wheel hard and cursed, "Car No. 1 is also written off! Zhulong, how are you doing over there?"

"We're buying them time!" Zhulong replied in the communication channel.

A folded mechanical arm extended from the back of vehicle No. 4. Several field operators were fixing ropes to the hooks at the end of the mechanical arm. Zhulong stood between them and the giant metal snake, using cold water to prop up a water wall five or six meters high to serve as their shield.

Ye Jiu raised his head again and saw that Wang Xiyi, who was suspended in the air, had launched several attacks on the giant metal snake - her flames could instantly melt the metal objects that made up the giant snake's body, but the problem was that the molten iron would flow down the body of the giant snake and would solidify again before falling to the ground, becoming part of the giant snake's body again.

It doesn't even need to solidify - the red-hot molten iron can also be absorbed by the giant snake's body and turn into flowing skin and scales.

"Unless we can melt the entire giant snake in one go, we can't kill it... No, maybe melting it completely won't work. By then, it won't be a metal giant snake anymore, but a molten iron giant snake. I'm afraid its destructive power will be even greater." Ye Jiu muttered as he sat in the car, "Damn... How can we deal with this weird creature?"

"The rescue of vehicle No. 3 is complete!" More than ten seconds later, a rare piece of good news finally came over the communication channel.

"Can car number three still move?" Ye Jiu asked.

"active!"

"While Ye Sha has attracted the attention of the monsters, you should retreat quickly! Zhu Long, you go with them!" Ye Jiu said.
"What about you?" Zhulong asked immediately.

“I… I’ll stay here and think of a solution!” Ye Jiu gritted his teeth. “We can’t go on like this! The Night Fury’s strength will be exhausted, but this monster doesn’t look like it will get tired at all… If we continue to fight, our chances of winning will only get lower and lower!”

"Captain Ye, can't we retreat?" A field operator who was familiar with Ye Jiu asked in the communication channel, "We can choose to take a detour, or simply retreat to the border outpost to reorganize... It's better than staying here and fighting this monster head-on, right?" "He makes sense." Zhulong sighed, "We have lost half of our vehicles, one person died, two were seriously injured, and two were slightly injured... If the seriously injured are not treated in time, they will die."

"I know! But, Zhulong, have you considered one thing - this strange creature looks bulky, but its speed is not slow at all. If we choose to retreat, it can definitely catch up with us... and even have the ability to go around in front of us and block our way."

"I'll hold it back!" Wang Xiyi's voice rang out over the communication channel. Her tone was hurried, and there were also violent gasps in it. "You find a way to bring the wounded back to the outpost. As for this operation..."

"You don't want to be a lone hero, do you?" Ye Jiu asked.

"What's wrong? Is there a problem?" Wang Xiyi asked back, "This is not the first time."

"How confident are you that you can get rid of this guy?"

"Fifty percent."

"After you solve the problem, what do you plan to do? Go find Sun Hang alone?" Ye Jiu asked again.

"We'll talk about what happens next later!"

As she spoke, Wang Xiyi flapped her wings and rose high into the sky, followed by a swift dive. The flames in her hands condensed into a huge dragon claw shape, leaving three cuts on the giant snake's trunk that were nearly half a meter wide, more than ten meters long, and glowing with a dark red light.

Tons of metal objects were melted, but the giant snake was not weakened. Instead, it was constantly tempering its body with the help of Wang Xiyi's flames. Five minutes had passed since the two sides fought, and the torso of the metal giant snake had shrunk a whole circle, but the metal objects that made up its body had become denser. The molten iron seeped into the gaps between those metal objects like blood, making the giant snake's body even stronger.

Wang Xiyi naturally understood this, but her original plan was to use this method to make the giant snake lose its flexibility - this is like welding those moving gears and mechanical structures together with molten iron. Although the overall strength is improved, it has lost its mobility. No matter how hard it is, it is just a big lump of iron that cannot move.

However, the reality was not as she wished - this force that gathered countless metal objects together could not only control the giant snake to attack, but also make the solidified metal change into any shape. At first glance, it seemed as if the metal filling the pores was liquid.

This ability is indeed very similar to Sun Hang's ability to manipulate metal.

"Damn, could Sun Hang be in there?" Ye Jiu murmured.

"No!" Wang Xiyi said firmly, "If it was him, I would be able to sense it."

After Sun Hang absorbed part of the Black Dragon meme, the two not only had a powerful combination of skills, but also gained a wonderful induction - as long as the two were at a certain distance, they could sense each other's existence. In Yang Qi's original words: This is also a form of "memetic resonance".

"We can't go on like this!" Ye Jiu shouted, "You can't kill it, you're just wasting your energy!"

"So you'd better get out of here! If you don't, I won't be able to get away!" Wang Xiyi said angrily.

Ye Jiu looked up and down at the giant metal snake that was still fighting with Wang Xiyi, suddenly slapped his thigh hard, jumped out of the car, and rushed towards the giant metal snake at full speed!

"Are you looking for death?!" Seeing Ye Jiu below advancing instead of retreating, Wang Xiyi couldn't help but curse.

"I thought of a way that might be able to get rid of this guy!" Ye Jiu said loudly while running.

"any solution?"

"Have you noticed that no matter how you attack it, only this part of its body remains above the ground?"

"What do you want to say? Say it now! Don't keep me in suspense!"

"The back half of this snake has been shrinking in the hole and is unwilling to come out. Perhaps its weak spot is there! As the saying goes, you should hit the snake at its weakest point. Maybe this guy's weak spot is hidden underground!"

After hearing what Ye Jiu said, Wang Xiyi thought about it...it seemed that there was some truth to it.

Just now when he was fighting with the giant metal snake, there were several times when the giant snake's body was stretched to the limit, but he still managed to dodge its attacks. At that time, it only needed to crawl out of the cave a little further - not much, just a few meters, and he would be doomed.

The intelligence of this giant metal snake is definitely not low. In the past five minutes, Wang Xiyi's attack method, which had always worked in the beginning, has become increasingly difficult to use.

This strange creature can continuously learn during the battle, and can predict the attack point and dodge direction based on Wang Xiyi's fighting habits...

Not only that, it also understood a very important thing: the opponent's attack could not cause effective damage to itself, but as long as its attack hit, it would make the opponent fall into ruin...

After realizing this, it gave up all defensive moves and went straight for the injury-in-exchange-injury tactic... If Wang Xiyi's attack wanted to hit it, it would have to pay an extremely heavy price.

A creature with this kind of intelligence would definitely understand that if it crawled a little further out of the cave, it could swallow the enemy whole...

It’s not that it doesn’t want to, but that it can’t!

"I will try my best to help you hold it back! You'd better hurry up!" Wang Xiyi shouted. At the same time, she began to increase her altitude and used long-range breath attacks to divert the giant snake's attention.

Ye Jiu’s movement speed was not slow either. He quickly ran to the location where the giant metal snake "emerged" and swung the wolf-fang spear in his hand, smashing it hard towards the ground!

(End of this chapter)