Cut off my way home? You'll sacrifice the entire other world in return!

Just then.

A faint engine roar drifted over with the sandstorm.

Li Fan paused for a moment.

His ears twitched.

"Is anyone there?"

Li Fan's lips curled up slightly.

"We just happen to need a mentor."

..........

On the other side, three modified off-road vehicles were speeding through the rugged ruins.

The car body was covered with rusty iron plates, which supported a crude heavy machine gun.

There were seven or eight fully armed men sitting in the car.

Most of their bodies have been mechanically modified; some have prosthetic eyes, and some have mechanical arms.

This is a hyena scavenging team.

The most notorious gang of robbers in the area.

"Boss! The energy reaction has disappeared!"

A thin man with an electronic prosthetic eye in the passenger seat stared excitedly at the detector in his hand.

"That mechanical lizard must have burned itself out from overload!"

"Haha! I'm rich!"

In the driver's seat, a burly man with a face full of scars and his entire right arm made of hydraulic pliers burst into laughter.

"A complete mechanical lizard, with its C-grade energy core, could sell for at least five thousand credits!"

"Brothers, hurry up! Don't let those bastards from other teams beat us to it!"

The vehicle crashed halfway up the garbage mountain.

It then came to a sudden stop.

Amidst the rising dust, the members of the Hyena Squad jumped out of the vehicle, guns raised, and greedily gazed at the mountain.

Then they were stunned.

The mechanical lizard that was expected to malfunction did not exist.

All that remained was a pile of scrap metal, dismantled into pieces.

The terrifying mechanical behemoth seemed to have been violently dismantled by something even more terrifying.

His head was smashed flat, his limbs were torn off, and his body parts were scattered all over the ground.

And at the top of that pile of scrap metal.

A man was sitting there.

A pure "organic human" that appears to have no signs of mechanical modification.

He was wearing tattered black clothes and was... eating iron?

"Boss..."

The skinny man swallowed hard, his prosthetic eye flashing wildly as if he were analyzing data.

"That guy... is eating the lizard's armor plates..."

The burly man, known as the boss, frowned.

In this wasteland world, there are only two kinds of purely organic humans.

One type is the superior class who hide in underground cities and enjoy life.

One group consists of the lowest-class people who cannot even afford prosthetics.

The man in front of me looks like a madman.

"Damn it, what bad luck!"

The burly man spat.

"Where's the core? Where did the core go?"

He glanced around and finally his gaze settled on Li Fan's feet.

There was only a pile of blue crystal fragments there.

It was bitten into pieces.

The burly man's pupils suddenly contracted.

The core was destroyed?

Five thousand credits gone?

An unnamed rage surged up to his head.

"Kid!"

The burly man raised his right finger and pointed at Li Fan, roaring angrily.

"Did you break that core?"

Li Fan glanced indifferently at the group of people from his elevated position.

"Broken?"

Li Fan patted the crumbs off his hands.

No, I ate it.

"The flavor is a bit strong; remember to bring some cumin next time."

The entire room fell silent.

have eaten?

What nonsense is this madman spouting?

That's a high-energy compressed battery; it would explode if swallowed!

"Are you kidding me?"

The burly man grinned maliciously, his fleshy face twitching.

"Since the core is gone, then you'll pay with your life!"

"Organs from purebred humans can fetch a good price on the black market!"

"Do it! Don't damage his kidneys!"

Da da da da!

No nonsense.

The hyena squad members pulled the trigger immediately.

Several modified rifles spat out tongues of fire.

A hail of bullets rained down on Li Fan.

In the wasteland, human life is the cheapest consumable.

Li Fan did not dodge.

He just sat there, too lazy to even stand up.

Ding ding ding!

A series of rapid metallic clanging sounds rang out.

The bullets hit him, sending sparks flying as they struck his skin.

Then..........

The bullet flattened and fell to the ground.

Not a single white mark was left on Li Fan's skin.

The gunfire stopped abruptly.

The members of the hyena squad stared wide-eyed as if they had seen a ghost.

"This...this is impossible..."

"Is he a Terminator-type lifelike robot?"

Even heavy armor will show signs of wear and tear!

Li Fan stood up.

He glanced down at his chest, where his clothes were torn, revealing his well-defined muscles.

"These clothes are from my other world."

Li Fan's face darkened.

"Even though it's a bit broken, it's still a keepsake."

He looked up, a glint of red light flashing in his eyes.

"Can you afford to pay for it?"

boom!

Li Fan's figure vanished from the spot in an instant.

too fast.

This is just the terrifying speed generated by pure physical force.

next second.

He appeared before the burly man who was leading the group.

The burly man didn't even have time to lift his hydraulic shears.

A hand, a human hand that looks clean, slender, and without any signs of mechanical modification.

He gently squeezed the strong man's thick mechanical arm.

"This thing..."

Li Fan tilted his head.

"It looks like it has a high iron content."

Click!

A sickening metallic creaking sound rang out.

The hand that could easily snap steel bars was flattened like a fried dough stick in Li Fan's hands.

"Aaaaaaah!!!"

The burly man let out a bloodcurdling scream, like a pig being slaughtered.

That was the excruciating pain from the disruption of nerve connections.

"Monster! He's a monster!!"

"Fire! Use the rocket launcher!!"

The remaining team members were terrified, and some pulled out their individual rocket launchers.

call out--

A rocket with a trail of flame hurtled straight toward Li Fan's face.

Li Fan didn't even glance at it.

He simply raised his left hand and waved it casually, as if shooing away a fly.

Snapped.

He swatted the rocket away in mid-air.

Boom!

The rocket exploded in the open ground next to it, creating a large crater.

"It's noisy."

Li Fan grabbed the burly man's broken mechanical arm and swung him around.

It looks like a giant human-shaped hammer.

Bang!Bang!Bang!

"Since you guys like customizing cars."

"Then let's turn you all into spare parts too."

One minute later.

The battle is over.

Or rather, the one-sided massacre has ended.

The three off-road vehicles were reduced to scrap metal.

Except for their burly leader, all the members of the hyena squad were embedded in the garbage heap and couldn't be pried out.

Li Fan sat on the deformed front of the car.

He took a bite out of a drive shaft that he had taken off the car, like eating sugarcane.

"It tastes good, but it's quite high in carbohydrates."

The burly leader lay sprawled on the ground, trembling all over, staring at Li Fan as if he were a demon crawling out of hell.

"No...don't kill me..."

"I...I know I was wrong..."

"I have money! I have credit points! They're all in the car..."

Li Fan swallowed the metal in his mouth.

He looked at the burly man and gave him a kind smile.

"I don't want money."

Li Fan pointed to the outline of the ruined city in the distance.

"Tell me, where is that?"

"besides."

"Where can I find this kind of thing...?"

Li Fan pulled out a piece of blue core fragment that he hadn't finished eating from his pocket and waved it in front of the burly man.

"A delicious battery?"

The burly man swallowed a mouthful of bloody saliva as he looked at the fragment.

"That...that's Iron Fortress..."

"As for the core..."

"The 'big shots' in the city have... a lot..."

Li Fan's eyes lit up.

"a lot of?"

"very good."

He stood up and patted his butt.

"lead the way."

"Let's go buy some goods."