Reborn Action Star: Starting in Hollywood

"boom--!"

Bloodfang Gam's 2.25-meter-tall steel body slammed into the edge of the iron cage, causing the entire gantry crane to tremble.

The deafening clang of metal clashing plunged the set into a deathly silence; even the sound of the desert wind seemed to freeze for a moment.

"Holy shit!" Old Bill, the cameraman, nearly dropped his Steadicam. His eyes widened as he stared at the monitor. "That kick felt like a cannonball!"

In the replay, the moment Lin Yuan's military boots accurately hit the Bloodfang breastplate, sparks even flew from the seams of the armor.

Assistant director Jackson ripped off his headphones: "Is Ryan really alright? That kick was a bit too hard, wasn't it?"

He turned to look at director Miller, only to find that the notoriously eccentric director was equally dumbfounded.

It was director Miller's first time working with Lin Yuan, and he was not sure what to do. After regaining his composure, he could only look to Meng Tao for help.

Meng Tao leisurely took a lit cigar from Scarlett Johansson, put it in his mouth, and gave director Miller an "OK" sign with his right hand.

"Lin Yuan's flying kick," Meng Tao's voice echoed across the set through the loudspeaker, "looks like it could kick through a tank, but it wouldn't even break a watermelon."

"Impossible, right? How could such a powerful kick not cause any injury?" the assistant director said skeptically.

“I don’t know how Lin Yuan did it either. That guy’s kung fu is completely unreasonable. Look, Ryan has stood up.” Meng Tao pointed to the field with his cigar in hand.

To the astonishment of the crew, Bloodfang Garm's exoskeleton suddenly emitted a burst of compressed gas, and the steel behemoth slowly stood up—the electronic voice changer beneath the mask emitted a distorted laugh:
"That's more like it! Again!"

Seeing this, the crew breathed a sigh of relief: Ryan was really completely alright.

Moreover, not only was he unharmed, but he was also in excellent condition. He was completely immersed in the life-or-death struggle that Lin Yuan had drawn him into.

Only after director Miller was completely relieved did he realize that he had just crushed a prop blood bag.

Bright red liquid dripped from between his fingers, spreading into startling flowers on the sand.

Not only did director Miller and the crew experience a rollercoaster of emotions, but Ryan felt the same way.

Just now, when Lin Yuan's extremely sharp and fast kick, which was so fast that it was impossible for the naked eye to catch, landed on his chest.

"Boom!"

The tremendous impact felt like a giant hammer slamming into his heart.

Immediately afterwards, a powerful force came, with an irresistible force, and he was sent flying.

At that moment, an idea inevitably arose in Ryan's mind:
"Am I crippled by that kick?"

"Definitely, right? Even Tyson couldn't withstand that kick, so I won't be much better off."

But when his back hit the iron cage and his body slid to the ground, Ryan was surprised to find that he did not feel any pain in his chest.

I wasn't injured?

Recalling the feeling of being kicked, Ryan felt as if the kick had first landed seamlessly on his chest before suddenly exerting force.

Because there was no impact distance, the force was powerful, but it only pushed him backward violently and had no destructive power.

Is this Lin Yuan's strength?
Simply unbelievable.

Ryan didn't know how Lin Yuan had done it, but the words Lin Yuan had said to him before filming began echoed in his ears again:

"I'm telling you to go all out, don't hold back, otherwise it'll seem fake. I'll hold back when I hit you, don't worry."

All his worries and doubts vanished, and Ryan felt an unprecedented excitement.

This means that during the filming of the upcoming fight scenes, he can completely unleash his full potential and make the fight scenes as exciting as possible.

He didn't need to worry about getting hurt, nor did he need to worry about Lin Yuan getting hurt.

So he roared and lunged at Lin Yuan with ferocity.

At this moment, the camera shifts to the war boy in the audience.

"Wow! Bloodfang took such a powerful kick and he's completely unharmed? It seems the latest exoskeleton armor really does have amazing defensive capabilities."

"That's not fair! Lin Yuan only has a thin shirt on, how is he supposed to fight like that?"

"Hahaha, serves you right for being so unlucky, you could only bet on Lin Yuan to win. I'm definitely going to win today!"

"Don't be too happy yet. Didn't you see that Furiosa isn't worried at all?"

The camera then cuts to Charlize Theron, whose face shows no sign of tension or worry, but rather she watches with great interest the life-or-death struggle between the two men in the iron cage.

Bloodfang Gam's swift pounce missed, but Lin Yuan, even more agile, leaped aside.

After his first attack missed, Bloodfang Gam made several more lunges, all to no avail.

Their hands couldn't touch a single hair on Lin Yuan's head; they could only grasp the sand on the ground.

"Bloodfang, you can do it! I'm betting my entire fortune on you to win!"

"You coward, you only dare to dodge like a girl, can't you be a brave man and face this head-on?"

"You guys are shameless! Didn't you see how much of an advantage Bloodfang's exoskeleton armor had?"

"Lin Yuan is playing to his strengths and avoiding his weaknesses. He wants to exhaust Xueya's strength in this way."

"What nonsense are you talking about? The cage will sink completely in 5 minutes. That's not even a fraction of a minute!

Just as the spectators on the sidelines were exchanging insults, Bloodfang Gam suddenly erupted!

His massive body suddenly leaned forward, his arms sweeping out like steel gates.

Lin Yuan was prepared and dodged to the side...

This time, however, Bloodfang Gam had no intention of catching him at all.

"Whoosh—!"

A cloud of sand suddenly burst forth from between Bloodfang Garm's metal fingers!
It turns out that his previous feints were actually a way to secretly fill his palms with sand.

At that moment, yellow sand shot out like shrapnel, directly covering Lin Yuan's face!
"Cough—!" Lin Yuan groaned, his vision blurring instantly.

Fine grains of sand got into my eyes, and the stinging sensation spread like fire.

He instinctively closed his eyes tightly and rubbed his eyelids hard with his fingers, but the sand seemed to sink deeper and deeper as if it were alive.

"Despicable and shameless!!" someone roared from the sidelines.

"Brilliant! That's how you should fight! Well done, Bloodfang!" Others shouted excitedly.

Beneath the mask, Bloodfang Gam grinned in a sinister smile.

The opportunity is coming!

His massive body surged forward like a chariot, his exoskeleton joints emitting sharp whistles of compressed air.

Before Lin Yuan could open his eyes, a pair of hydraulic iron arms had already wrapped around his waist and abdomen like giant pythons.

"Bang!!"

Lin Yuan was slammed hard into the iron cage. The moment his back hit the metal mesh, the entire cage groaned under the weight.

The chunks of meat hanging from the top of the cage were shaken off and fell bloodily onto the sand.

But it's not over yet.

"Bang! Boom! Boom!"

Bloodfang Gam, like a mad rhinoceros, repeatedly rammed into Lin Yuan while holding him.

Each impact caused the iron cage to shake violently, and the quicksand at the bottom surged and churned, as if it could swallow the two of them at any moment.

The crew members on the sidelines were once again stunned:

"Isn't this... a bit too much?" Some people even unconsciously touched their lower backs, as if the impact had hit them as well.

"Will Lin Yuan get hurt? Should we stop filming?" The assistant director became worried again, but this time his concern shifted from Ryan to Lin Yuan.

Director Miller's monitor screen was splattered with coffee, but he was oblivious, his eyes glued to the screen as Lin Yuan's muscles contorted during the impact.

"Don't worry, this kind of force won't hurt Lin Yuan. Have you forgotten? This guy has been in close combat with anacondas and Siberian tigers." Meng Tao's relaxed voice came through the communicator again.

"Chiliu~"

There was even the sound of him leisurely sipping his coffee.

At this moment, Meng Tao's ego was not just slightly inflated, but had swelled to an unbearable level:

I love seeing your naive and ignorant attitude! Don't you know how awesome our Lin Yuan Films are?

It's beyond your imagination.

Lin Yuanjia and I together will forever be the pinnacle of human action scenes!

Meng Tao completely overlooked the fact that this conclusion still holds true even without him.

"Wow, amazing!!!"

Wow! Unbelievable!

The exclamations of surprise from the crew members made Meng Tao feel as if he had received a mental spa treatment, feeling completely relaxed from the inside out.

Actually, it's not his fault; it's because he's been feeling resentful for many years.

The filming teams for every Lin Yuan film in the past have been the same internal team at Lin Yuan Film Industry for many years, so everyone is used to it and nothing new.

This has always been a regret for Meng Tao. Despite making such an awesome action movie, everyone took it for granted and felt no excitement.

Today, it was director Miller's team that took over, and Meng Tao really enjoyed the feeling of broadening their horizons.

At this moment, an unexpected turn of events occurred during the life-or-death struggle in the cage.

"boom!"

Just as Bloodfang Gam's fifth strike was about to succeed, Lin Yuan's body suddenly shrank like a fish.

His legs wrapped around his opponent's neck with lightning speed, but it wasn't a head-on collision of strength—it was Tai Chi's silk-reeling energy!

Lin Yuan's right inner leg precisely locked onto Blood Fang Gam's jaw joint, while his left leg lashed out like a whip toward the hydraulic tube node of the exoskeleton.

Using the opponent's brute force as they charged forward, he twisted his waist and hips sharply—

"boom!!"

The 2.25-meter-tall steel behemoth flew out at an angle like an out-of-control spinning top, with blinding sparks erupting from its exoskeleton joints.

Bloodfang Garm's breastplate slammed heavily against the iron cage bars, causing the chains of the entire gantry crane to rattle loudly. A rusty railing suddenly broke, and half of the steel bar fell into the quicksand and disappeared without a trace in the blink of an eye.

The camel's liver hanging from the top of the cage exploded with a "pop," and blood rained down on the two men.

At this moment, the camera zooms in on Bloodfang Gam.

The mask's breathing valve was knocked askew, hissing and spewing mist that looked even more grotesque and terrifying through the blood-soaked mask.

This appearance could definitely become a childhood nightmare for countless children.

The camera then cuts to Lin Yuan.

"Hoo~ho~ho~"

Lin Yuan was breathing heavily, clearly having expended a great deal of energy in that attack.

The camera then pans down.

The quicksand had unknowingly covered Lin Yuan's knees.

This means that the duel between the two has lasted for more than two minutes.

The cage will then sink even faster, and they don't have much time left.

Bloodfang Gam snapped the twisted breathing mask back into place with a click, and the hydraulic system emitted a muffled hum.

The steel behemoth shrugged its shoulders, and a few sparks flew from the joints of its exoskeleton—the blow that would have broken an ordinary person's spine was nothing more than a scratch on its armor.

A low, crackling laugh, tinged with static, came from the useless electronic voice changer: "This armor can't even be penetrated by rifle bullets."

Despite some setbacks, Bloodfang Gam remained calm, for wearing this exoskeleton armor made him virtually invincible.

He grinned maliciously and approached Lin Yuan again. Lin Yuan took a half step back, trying to create distance, but his right leg suddenly went down—

The quicksand was up to my knees!
The murky slurry, like countless greedy hands, gripped his calves tightly.

Every time he tried to pull one leg out, the other leg sank deeper.

Grains of sand seeped into the gaps in the combat boots, rubbing against the skin and making a teeth-grinding "rustling" sound.

Lin Yuan felt that his movement speed was more than five times slower than on flat ground.

Can't run away!

Lin Yuan clenched his fists and gritted his teeth.

Facing this invulnerable steel monster, he knew his chances of winning were slim, but he still tensed all his muscles to gather strength.

Just as he was preparing for a desperate fight—

"laugh--!"

Suddenly, the sand surface two meters in front of us rose up strangely, and the sand grains jumped as if boiling.

The next second, a blazing white column of air burst through the sand, shooting straight to the top of the iron cage with a piercing shriek!

This scene gave Lin Yuan the illusion: "Is the water boiling?"

High-pressure steam pierced through the sand like a sharp sword, tracing a twisted path through the air.

The wolf hanging from the top of the cage was hit head-on by the blast wave, and the dark red flesh instantly turned pale.

The blood droplets that were originally hanging there instantly turned into pale yellow blood foam, dripping onto the sand with a "sizzling" sound and rising up smoke carrying the aroma of meat.

"There are geothermal wells underground in this quicksand?" Lin Yuan exclaimed in surprise, "The temperature of the high-pressure steam is so high!"

This is information that the audience needs to know.

Bloodfang Gam's exoskeleton alarm blared, and the mask display flashed a high-temperature warning.

Even more fatally, the eruption caused the entire sand layer to churn violently, and his legs sank another ten centimeters!
Seeing this scene before him, Lin Yuan felt as if he were witnessing the dawn of victory.

The enemy's armor was indeed an impregnable fortress.

But this heavy burden will become his death warrant at this moment!

Lin Yuan's pupils suddenly contracted: two meters behind Bloodfang Gam, the sand surface was strangely bulging.

Another geothermal vent!
Without the slightest hesitation, Lin Yuan lunged forward.

The quicksand slowed his movements, but the explosive power in that life-or-death moment still allowed him to crash into Bloodfang Gam's chest like a cheetah.

Caught off guard, the steel behemoth and the two of them crashed heavily onto the raised sandbag.

"boom!!"

The sand layer exploded, and a column of blazing white gas, half a meter in diameter, shot into the sky, hitting Bloodfang Gam, who was pinned to the nozzle!

At this moment, the camera zooms in for a close-up.

Ultra-high pressure steam, like a raging silver dragon, poured wildly into every crevice of the exoskeleton.

The hydraulic hose burst at high temperature, and the pale yellow lubricant that had just seeped out was vaporized.

The mask's viewing window was instantly covered with a milky white mist, and a hissing sound of burning flesh could be heard from inside.

"Aaaaaah—!!"

Bloodfang Garm's screams came through the voice changer, the electronic voice mixed with the terrifying muffled sound of boiling flesh.

He struggled frantically, digging deep trenches in the sand with his hands, but Lin Yuan pressed him down firmly, his arms locking his shoulders like iron clamps.

Lin Yuan's cheeks were scorched red by the steam, and the back of his tactical uniform was soaked with sweat.

If simply being exposed to the outer steam is this painful, imagine how much more painful it must be for Bloodfang Gam, who is pressed right into the center of the nozzle?

The steam jet lasted for a full twelve seconds.

As the air column finally weakened, a strange aroma of meat filled the iron cage.

Lin Yuan staggered to his feet, and the camera followed his perspective to Bloodfang Gam on the ground.

A pale pink liquid seeped from the gaps in Bloodfang Garm's armor; it was a mixture of steamed blood and tissue fluid.

The mask snapped off, revealing half of a thoroughly cooked face: the right eyeball was cloudy and white, and the lips were stuck to the gums, like overcooked hot pot meat.

(This scene was later cut by 7 seconds due to its graphic cruelty, but the remaining footage still sent chills down the spines of theatergoers. The props team used pigskin wrapped around heated gel to create the "steaming effect," and according to regulations, the production team had to provide proof that it was not a case of actual harm.) (End of Chapter)