Chapter 46: teors and Hero
At dusk, the sky above Steel City was dyed red. A youth was jumping and running around side ways, across the criss-crossing steel roads. His motion looked like a funny crab, and at tis when he rubbed shoulders with passers-by, they would give a teasing smile, while others were rendered speechless.
The youth’s lateral jumps and movent speed were very fast. His running speed was considerable faster than normal people running at full speed. Every ti he leaped, a white mist would appear beneath his feet. The frequency at which he jumped was not fast, and every distance he traversed with a leap was not too far, but for so reason, every ti he leaped, it gave people a feeling that the road beneath him had shortened. Just as you thought he was pretending to walk like a crab to tease a laugh from passers-by, the youth would suddenly disappear from your vision.
The youth jumped laterally for an unknown period of ti before he finally stopped at an intersection. He cocked his head and vexed for a mont. He walked to an intersection and stood there, as though he was waiting for sothing or soone.
“This King’s Crab Steps is destined to be an existence to stun the world!”
The youth was naturally Shi Xiaobai. At this mont, he had stopped at an intersection and bead while looking up at the sky.
When Shi Xiaobai earned 100,000 cash from the [Annihilation] rookies, the fiery voice sounded in his mind. “Congratulations on earning D-level reward: ‘Grasped Basics’ D Class flash motion movent technique, [Crab Steps].”
The mont the fiery voice was done, Shi Xiaobai felt a headache. It was as though many things were squeezed into his brain. By the ti the pain disappeared, Shi Xiaobai was surprised to realize that he had grasped the Crab Steps the voice ntioned.
Not long after Hisith’s ga ended, the rookies dispersed. Shi Xiaobai had spoken to Lingcun and Ye Jiaquan, and also probed them for information regarding Crab Steps.
According to Lingcun, any offensive skill, defensive skill or movent technique that exceeded F Class was extrely difficult to grasp. It required a long period of study and practice in order to reach the “Grasped Basics” realm. Furthermore, movent techniques were divided into “motion”, “evasion”, as well as a combination of the two, “flash motion”. Crab Steps was a D Class flash motion movent technique, but it looked sowhat funny, so few people cultivated it.
Shi Xiaobai was slightly depressed, but he reluctantly accepted the reward Crab Steps. However, on the way back, Shi Xiaobai could not resist trying out Crab Steps. When he began, he found that he could not stop!
“King of Crabs, a step to traverse a thousand miles. Two steps to cross the heavens. Three steps to transcend life and death! Wahaha!”
Shi Xiaobai let out a boisterous laugh, giving a girl, who walked past, a fright. She thought he was mad and, while holding her up her skirt, she quickly ran off with fluttering footsteps.
Shi Xiaobai noticed this and refused to give up on this passer-by he had waited so long for. He began using Crab Steps and laterally jumped in a humorous manner and appeared in front of the girl.
Although his actions looked ridiculous, his speed was redoubtable.
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By the ti Shi Xiaobai returned to Riko’s apartnt, it was already dark.
The lights were not switched on, proving that Riko had yet to return. Shi Xiaobai twitched his mouth and felt sowhat unhappy.
“Where’s This King exclusive chef? Where are you!?”
Shi Xiaobai looked up and shouted. Although he did not spend much ti with Riko, he had tasted Riko’s cooking twice. The delicious taste was still fresh on his mind, so he was particularly longing for Violent Girl, especially when he ate a mouthful of overcooked instant noodles.
Shi Xiaobai hastily finished his dinner with instant noodles and ham, as well as a few slices of cold bread. Then, he eagerly rushed to the living room. On the living room’s wall, there was a forty inch LCD panel that made Shi Xiaobai’s eyes shimr.
The remote control was similar to that of Earth’s. Shi Xiaobai imdiately found the power switch, and pressing it, the LCD TV lit up. At the sa ti, a serious but depressive sounding female voice ca from the television.
“Yet another teor has landed. This is already the 123rd teor ever since this teor shower began. Oh, curses! When will this calamity end!?”
The television screen flickered, and a stunning scene appeared. The cara was slowly moving as it revealed ruined walls and collapsed buildings, a disaster scene filled with devastation on the ground. The picture would occasionally show blood and corpses, but very quickly, people in specific uniforms would stretcher out the corpses as well as the injured.
“Heavens, another teor is coming!”
The female broadcaster’s sorrowful voice sounded once again. The television footage imdiately moved to the sky, and there, in the night sky, a blob of light that looked extrely hot, rushed to the ground. The footage was taken from afar, but when the blob of light landed, it imdiately turned huge. The scene shown on television was stirring.
After the blob of light hit the ground, an explosion happened. A huge crater appeared as dust rose up, causing the footage to turn fuzzy. When the dust cleared, it revealed what the light blob was.
It was a steel carapace. When it stood up, it was a gigantic bug bigger than a building. The bug had a scissors shaped silver horns on its head. The cara gave the bug’s green eyes a close up shot. There were nurous white worms squirming in its eyes which looked nauseating.
“Phew, this teor is just an F Class Astral Calamity Beast—Astral Steel Giant Beetle. Nearby Heroes have already arrived. This teor shouldn’t cause much damage.”
The female broadcaster seed to slightly relax. Following that, there was a switch in scenes. The television’s image flashed a few tis before fixing on a monster about five storeys tall. The monster had three heads, and the middle head was that of a lion, while the right head was a dragon’s head that kept spewing out hot flas. The left head was a goat’s head whose eyes flashed a cold beam. It had lion claws for its forelimbs and ox hooves for its hindlimbs. On it’s back were a pair of bat wings. A huge tail ended with a mouth filled with razor teeth.
“It’s a Chira! Heavens, a B Class Astral Calamity Beast, Chira. This kind of monster needs a Hero at A Class and above to battle it! Wait, it seems like soone is battling the Chira!?”
The female broadcaster acutely noticed a strange aberration with the Chira in the fixed fra. The mont she finished speaking, the cara swung a half circle before coming in front of the Chira. Below the Chira, in the midst of the flas spewing out from the dragon head, a green barrier was protecting soone.
The lens zood in, and the person’s appearance was revealed. He was a middle-aged man dressed in a suit. The man’s face was scrunched up as sweat dripped profusely down his face. Shi Xiaobai was sharp to realize that the green barrier was very similar to Psionic Shield. It looked like a green Psionic Barrier, but the man’s barrier was flashing, as if it was lting under the flas.
The Chira’s goat head was staring intently at the middle-aged man. Its cold eyes seed to lock onto the man, preventing the man from escaping. He could only use his Psionic Barrier to withstand the Chira’s fla.
But clearly, the man was quickly losing Psionic Power.
“This is [Eventide]’s C Class Hero, Mr Zeng Ziming. His Psionic Barrier is about to give up soon. Heavens, soone save him!” The tone in the female broadcaster’s voice turned anxious.
Shi Xiaobai’s turned anxious as well. The blackish-red flas looked extrely hot. If the Barrier shattered, his body would not be able to withstand it.
At this mont, the Chira’s lion head suddenly opened its mouth slowly. A lion like roar sounded like an explosion, as a violent wind blew at the middle-aged man. Dust and debris flew up, and with an indignant grunt, the man’s barrier shattered. His body was consud by the blackish-red flas.
After the flas burned for several seconds, the dragon head slowly closed its mouth. The flas gradually extinguished and the middle-aged man’s figure still remained on screen, but there were no flesh or bones left, only crisp ashes. The C Class Hero, Zeng Ziming, turned to ashes under the Chira’s flas.
The female broadcaster turned silent. The repressive atmosphere from the television reached deep into Shi Xiaobai’s heart. It made him breathe with great difficulty.
Following that, the cara seed to slowly move. Every step of the Chira caused the surroundings to tremble. Its tiger roars, the goat bleating and dragon roar was issued from the three heads, becoming the only sound that existed on screen.
The female broadcaster was silent. The cara also moved away from the Chira’s body, but the screen was still showing the ruined scene of the city the Chira had ravaged. She and everyone else seed to be waiting for sothing or soone.
“Coming!” The female broadcaster’s cold voice suddenly sounded. The voice was filled with hatred and anger.
At the sa mont, the caras pulled away, and far into the distance, a beam of light flew across the caras, like a shooting rocket.
The cara zood in. Zoom, zoom, zoom… The flying rocket-like object finally revealed its true appearance. It was a person.
A flapping white cape, a yellow tight suit and a bald head that reflected light. Those were this person’s most obvious characteristics. The cara suddenly moved forward to fixate on the person’s eyes. His eyes occupied the entire screen, and the look in his eyes were sharper than a blade, colder than snow.
“He’s here, our most beloved Hero, One-Pun man is here!”
The female broadcaster used all her strength to say those words out loud, as though she was trying to conceal the choking in her voice.
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