America: The Cremator

In an instant, the black mud in the bathtub began to churn violently, bubbling up countless fist-sized bubbles. As if being pulled upwards by an invisible hand, it slowly broke free from the constraints of the bathtub and condensed in mid-air into a huge, writhing mass of flesh.

The surface of the mass of flesh was stretched and deformed, eventually shaping into the silhouette of a woman.

She floated silently in mid-air, her proportions extremely distorted, a pale and smooth face perched on a slender, long neck, her chin so sharp it was almost inhuman.

A wide-brimmed hat, formed from pure darkness, covered the upper half of her face, leaving only her pale lips tightly pressed together.

Fine black raindrops seeped from her body, dripping onto the dry concrete floor with a series of subtle "sizzling" sounds, corroding shallow pits.

The temperature in the entire underground parking lot suddenly dropped, and the cloying, rotten smell in the air was replaced by a cold and damp atmosphere.

Dania raised her right hand, put her index finger in her mouth and bit it, and a drop of bright red blood seeped out.

She gently sucked the blood, then a golden light flashed in her eyes, and a violent aura erupted from her body.

The fibers of his tactical jacket and work pants tore under the strain of his bulging muscles, and the fabric snapped at the seams, revealing the black sports bra underneath, made of a special elastic material.

Her height was increased to nearly 1.9 meters, and every inch of her muscles was filled with explosive power. Her fingernails extended and deformed, turning into black claws capable of tearing through steel.

A thick tiger tail covered with black and yellow stripes extended from her tailbone, while a pair of furry tiger ears stood out and popped up among her brilliant golden hair.

Dania bent down, grabbed the starter cord of the heavy chainsaw, and pulled it back sharply.

"roar--!"

With a deafening roar, the four-stroke rotary engine was fully activated, and the high-octane fuel mixture burned violently in the cylinder, instantly filling the air with thick black smoke and a pungent smell of engine oil.

The silver-tungsten alloy saw chain spun rapidly under the engine's power, turning into a blurry silver afterimage.

At the same moment the chainsaw started, Sulong raised his right arm. The muzzle of the Colt Python revolver was steadily pointed at the woman's pale face in the rain.

Gunshots.

The pure silver bullet tore through the air and hit the target with precision.

The woman's head exploded with a bang, and her entire body collapsed instantly, turning into a sky full of black rain that scattered in all directions, splashing onto the concrete ground. As if it had a life of its own, it quickly crawled and gathered, and then reformed itself next to another load-bearing column a dozen meters away.

Just as she regained her footing, a blur of motion, accompanied by the roar of an engine, rushed toward her.

Dania's shapely legs unleashed astonishing power, even sending two rings of air ripples through the concrete ground beneath her feet, propelling her across a distance of over ten meters like a cannonball.

She gripped the roaring chainsaw tightly with both hands and brought it down from above, headfirst.

The woman in the rain immediately raised her arms, which were as thin as withered branches, in an attempt to block the rain.

The moment the rapidly spinning silver-tungsten alloy saw chain made contact with her arm, it was like a hot knife cutting into butter; her limb, made of highly concentrated, eerie energy, was easily torn apart and pulverized.

Countless black droplets splashed everywhere, like spilled ink, and evaporated rapidly under the heat of the silver saw chain, turning into wisps of pungent white smoke.

The woman's entire upper body was violently cleaved open, and the shattered black water quickly fled backward, reforming in the shadows further away.

Just as she regained her full form, two bursts of black water erupted from her chest and neck – Su Long calmly completed two follow-up shots, nearly scattering her again.

"ah--!"

An invisible shriek echoed throughout the underground space. It was not a sound that traveled through the air, but a spiritual impact that directly affected the soul.

For a moment, both Sulong and Dania froze.

At that very moment, the brand-new metal drainage pipes on the top of the parking lot began to emit a sickening metallic twisting sound.

Numerous raised bumps appeared on the surface of the pipe before it suddenly burst open.

A massive amount of cold rainwater, mixed with urban grime, poured down like a flood bursting its banks, instantly turning the entire underground space into a swamp.

Su Long clicked his tongue in surprise and said, "She managed to break through like that? It's a good thing Dania found this place. If they had fought in the open rain, it would have been even more troublesome."

Before the rainwater could gather into a deep pool, it was quickly pumped away by the high-powered drainage system that runs throughout the parking lot.

However, a considerable portion of the rainwater was captured by the invisible force field of the rain-soaked woman the moment it fell, turning into streams of water that surged wildly into her body.

She swallowed the rainwater, and her already extremely distorted body began to change even further.

Her height suddenly increased to about 2.5 meters, and her limbs became more slender, like some kind of arthropod, with sharp bone spurs even growing at her joints.

The woman in the rain turned her distorted, featureless face and locked onto Su Long's location.

She raised her right hand, and a drop of crimson rain, as red as blood, gathered at her fingertip. Then, it transformed into a fierce red line and shot towards Su Long's brow.

Su Long's pupils contracted sharply.

He clearly remembered that on that rainy night, it was just a single, inconspicuous drop of blood that easily severed the arms of two federal agents.

He immediately cast [Gift of Blood Rain], mobilizing the blood in his body and forcing it to rush to his brain at an accelerated pace.

In an instant, a massive amount of oxygen and energy was delivered to the central nervous system.

Su Long felt as if his brain was being immersed in a cool menthol solution, all distracting thoughts were washed away, leaving only extreme calmness.

The world seemed to slow down suddenly in his perception, and every subtle change on the field became clearly visible to him.

The drop of blood that shot towards us at high speed seemed to be slowed down at this moment, and its spinning trajectory and the tiny ripples it created when it broke through the air were all clearly visible.

He swiftly raised his arm, and the pale blue crosshair generated by the [Floating Holographic Scope] on the muzzle of the Colt Python precisely aligned with the drop of blood.

The moment the trigger was pulled, the pure silver bullet accelerated and spun inside the barrel, carrying an unstoppable momentum, and collided violently with the drop of blood in mid-air.

A small cloud of mist, a mixture of blood and black, suddenly exploded and was then completely washed away by the surrounding rain.

At the same moment that Suron fired his gun, Dania took out a flat metal vial from the side pocket of her armor belt, unscrewed the cap, and slowly poured the viscous liquid inside, which emitted a pungent odor, onto the chainsaw chain that was still spinning rapidly.

"Holy water mixed with oil, an absolutely fantastic combination!"

She winked at Su Long, her voice muffled by the roar of the engine.

"Cover me!"

The next moment, with a soft "boom", a burst of intense flame suddenly shot up from the chainsaw, engulfing the entire chainsaw. The flame had an eerie pale white color, as if it could ignite the soul.

The aftereffects of overclocking the brain soon followed.

A strong sense of dizziness swept over Su Long's consciousness, and the scene before his eyes began to spin. He even felt his stomach convulsing.

Without any hesitation, he immediately pulled out the Raphael flask from his waist and took a big gulp.

The wine, imbued with divine power, slid down my throat, and the dizziness and nausea vanished instantly.

Just as he regained consciousness, the woman in the rain once again flung out two drops of blood, which shot towards his heart and head respectively.

Gunshots rang out one after another, and two drops of blood were accurately shot and exploded in mid-air.

As the Rain Maiden unleashed her third drop of blood, Dania launched another attack.

Her explosive body created a series of huge waves on the shallow water, and the flaming chainsaw in her hand, like a burning warhammer, went straight for the red line.

The blood rain was completely evaporated the moment it came into contact with the flames.

However, just as Dania rushed to the woman in the rain, ready to cut her in half again, countless streams of black water surged from all directions, like living venomous snakes, instantly coiling around her face and forming a spherical water shield that completely blocked out the light!