Chapter 578: 578

Chapter 578: We’ll Talk in Hell

Meng Chao toppled over from the force of Xiong Wei’s attack, but he fell in Su Lun’s direction. He wanted to use him as his hostage.

Su Lun didn’t seem to be skilled in battle and unable to figure out what was going on in Meng Chao and Xiong Wei’s swift fight. He stood in front of the French window with a dumbfounded expression.

When Meng Chao was about to grab Su Lun’s shoulder, Lu Siya attacked.

Ever since she fought under Raging Waves with Meng Chao, then shone brilliantly in the case regarding Blessed Paradise’s murderous pets and Noble Descent Hotel’s ambush, she had obtained the favor of the Lu family’s patriarch.

Besides, her father’s status in Sky Pillar Corporation kept rising, and gradually, he became a core member of the second generation members, which gave him a lot of power.

Lu Siya became the most highly regarded third generation member in the Lu family and obtained a practically endless amount of resources from Sky Pillar Resources.

As a Spirit Sensor, she also had extraordinary talent.

And just like Meng Chao, she received a baptism from the Red Radiance Jades and Blue Origin Crystals.

Once that was added to an endless amount of support from the Lu family and Sky Pillar Corporation, the speed at which her cultivation realm increased was on par with that of Meng Chao after he went to train in the wild.

In the beginning, when she switched from a mine explorer to a martial artist, she could only control stones and gather them together into a large and clumsy stone dragon.

Every time she wanted to summon it or some spikes, she needed a lot of time to form her spirit energy magnetic field.

After she finished executing her skill, she also needed a lot of time to cool down to ensure that her spirit meridians remained stable.

But now, with a light snap, not only could she control hundreds of stones with different properties within a circular area of dozens of meters, she could even control reinforced concrete at will. They would change between gravel, cement, and stones whenever she wanted.

Meng Chao sensed the spike coming straight at his heart.

He could only pull his hand back and stare at Su Lun pathetically running behind Lu Siya and Xiong Wei.

“You don’t trust me?”

Meng Chao looked in disbelief at the spikes around him, then stared at Lu Siya, who was now very close to him, with a complicated expression.

“What do you think?”

Lu Siya cocked her eyebrows and stared deeply at him.

Their gazes were like two hungry snakes who had just gotten out of hibernation. They intertwined and bit each other. Then, the pain caused them to immediately separate.

Meng Chao was so angry that he let out a bark of laughter, and as if he had given up on himself, he swung his saber to cut at the spikes that Lu Siya had gathered.

The spikes cracked with a loud bang.

But it was useless, because at Lu Siya’s low-spoken word, countless willow-shaped spirit tattoos that seemed as if they were pure energy spread out from under her feet.

Wherever those willows went, the floor cracked. Reinforced concrete shot up and turned into large, monstrous, agile, and lively stone dragons.

Dozens of them pounced at Meng Chao at the same time.

They immediately tore apart his heavy armor.

A few of the stone dragons even tried to crawl around his limbs through the shattered armor and bind his body tightly. They would seal him in a slab of reinforced concrete.

Meng Chao could only escape from the armor by crawling out of it.

The heavy armor was soon devoured by the stone dragons and “swallowed” whole.

Once Meng Chao lost the protection of his motorized armor, he was like a broken boat that had no engine propelling it forward in front of the livid Phantom Bear Xiong Wei. He did not have any strength to fight back in front of the shocking waves.

Boom!

Xiong Wei delivered his second punch.

Even though Meng Chao dodged it in a flurry of motion, a terrifying palm print was left on the floor.

The cracks around the palm print kept spreading and becoming larger. They intersected and overlapped with each other.

And Lu Siya used the reinforced concrete that Xiong Wei destroyed to create even more stone snakes, stone dragons, and stone wolves.

Meng Chao could only roll thrice on the floor and dodge Lu Siya’s fatal attacks. Even so, the skin near his neck artery was torn to shreds.

If his reaction speed had been slightly slower, he would have lost at least a few hundred milliliters of blood, and the fight would have ended early. Everything would have also come to an end.

Meng Chao spat out a mouthful of blood-colored spit.

He blinked rapidly and used his tears to clear the sand that had entered his eyes.

He suddenly noticed something.

Lu Siya’s offense was quick and fierce, but she needed to use stones or reinforced concrete as a medium to bring out the full power of her spirit energy.

It was impossible for her to carry stones weighing hundreds of kilograms along with her, so she had to use whatever was around her, which was the reinforced concrete in the area, to create stone snakes, stone dragons, and stone wolves.

The result was that once she brought more reinforced concrete from the walls and floor around her to serve as the medium for the spirit energy to deliver explosive strength, the walls and floor became thinner and more brittle.

Phantom Bear Xiong Wei’s crazed attacks had also hit the ground time and again, which made the cracks wider.

This led to the floor becoming incredibly brittle. It looked like it had been gnawed down by pests.

Hence, when Lu Siya and Xiong Wei’s attacks came charging over once more and it looked like Meng Chao had nowhere to hide, he decided to risk everything. He gathered all his spirit energy under his feet and stomped down like a railway gun.

Boom!

The floorboard was punctured by his move.

He fell down one floor.

Xiong Wei missed and shattered the special anti-explosion window that was mixed with crystal powder with the shockwaves he created.

Lu Siya moved in front of the hole Meng Chao had created without hesitation and mobilized all the firearms on her motorized armor to start blasting at the hole.

Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom!

Lu Siya’s motorized armor came from the peak research lab in Sky Pillar Corporation. She had also installed dozens of brilliant crystals with offensive spirit energy magnetic fields in them, as if they cost nothing.

Her firepower was so great that it was on par with the heavy powered armor Meng Chao had just snatched.

In just a moment, dozens of lines of fire cut into the lower level where Meng Chao stood like burning scalpels.

Mixed among the bullets were quite a few armor-piercing shells, rockets, and napalm bombs. They blasted the lower level until it looked as brilliant as a fireworks factory that had just exploded.

Meng Chao wrapped his arms around his head.

All his hair was standing up straight like needles, and he brought out the full power of the Ultimate Style’s super endurance and sensitivity. He danced among the swift bullets and fireballs, narrowly escaping Lu Siya’s attacks, which all seemed to be after his life.

Lu Siya’s crazed bombardment did not hit Meng Chao, but it was impossible for her to avoid the floorboards of the lower level.

The firearms of the modern era were far beyond a normal person’s imagination.

The pitiful second basement floor was soon full of holes because of Lu Siya’s crazed bombardment.

The VIP room above it was not big, so even if hundreds of gang members armed to the teeth were gathered in the corridor, there was only a limited amount of space. Lu Siya and Xiong Wei blocked the door tightly, so the others could not come in. Not that they had the courage to do so.

They could not see where Meng Chao had escaped, so aside from pounding on their chests in fervor and cheering, what else could they do?

Phantom Bear Xiong Wei was naturally livid. He wanted to go down and kill Meng Chao in a single blow.

But Lu Siya had a transcendent status among them. It seemed like she had descended into a killing frenzy, and the bullet storm completely blocked the hole in the floor.

Xiong Wei could not exactly ask her to stop firing and jump in front of her guns, right?

When Lu Siya’s crazed bombardment finally came to an end, the space under the hole was filled with smoke, and light surged out of the hole. A large amount of crystal particles that were undergoing a strong reaction were suspended in the smoke. They released shattered spirit energy ripples and interfered with Xiong Wei, Su Lun, and the others’ vision as they tried to scan the area.

Xiong Wei blinked and stared for a long time, but he still could not locate Meng Chao in the smoke-covered space.

He heard cracking sounds.

“No! That brat cracked the floorboards of the lower level and escaped to the second basement floor!”

Xiong Wei growled and jumped down regardless of the cost.

Lu Siya jumped down without hesitation and followed close after him.

Their loyal followers went after them as well.

Then, Golden Tooth, Black Bone, and Poison Scorpion’s elites jumped in, too.

Of course, some of the other people had reacted to the situation quickly and headed underground through other tunnels. They soon arrived beneath the VIP room.

Unfortunately, the underground space of Mutual Gold Coliseum was ten times larger than the surface area.

Meng Chao had also obtained inspiration from Lu Siya’s bombardment. Instead of moving through the same floor, he blasted the reinforced concrete under his feet to escape further down.

A few times, he performed feints as well. He left holes on the reinforced concrete to make it look like he had jumped down to escape.

But in truth, he had gone to the side and lurked in the dark with Walking Corpse. Like a dead man, he observed coolly as his pursuers jumped into the wrong hole.

The pursuers passed him time and again, and gradually, they spread out through the dozens of basement levels under Mutual Gold Coliseum.

Since they lacked smooth communication, this meant that they could not receive effective commands. Aside from the elites Lu Siya and Xiong Wei led personally, everyone else had no unity. They did not pose any threat to Meng Chao.

Even so, the pursuers had the advantage of numbers and were familiar with the terrain under Mutual Gold Coliseum.

The point was, before Meng Chao could determine who was deceived by Red Brows Su Lun and who was the real monster puppet, he could not and would not take the initiative to kill.

He could only dodge and hide.

As the gang members spread out, the space he could use began to shrink.

Still, Meng Chao remained as calm as ever.

In fact, compared to when he had just snuck into Mutual Gold Coliseum, the spark of hope in his eyes had become brighter.

The underground space was dark and looked like hell. Meng Chao’s eyes were on the dark ceiling as he waited.

It seemed like he was waiting for someone to arrive.

However, something unexpected happened again.

“ROAR!”

Suddenly, a deafening roar came from underground.

The incredibly violent roar made the entire corridor shudder. The hunger-laced roar was something a human could never make.

Just as Meng Chao had expected while stuck to the ceiling and his ear pressed against the ventilation pipe, he heard gunshots from the direction of the roars. Humans also started screaming in a panic.

“M-Monsters!”