All Heavens: Starting with the Predator, I'm No Longer Human

The intense pain in his wound momentarily slowed Toruk's movements.

Indigo blood seeped from the wound, standing out starkly against the red and yellow skin.

The Chu Ci songs did not give it a chance to breathe.

He took the round frisbee from his waist and activated it.

The frisbee's edge sprang out serrated blades, and it began to spin rapidly, emitting a deathly hum.

"call out--"

The frisbee flew out of his hand, tracing a strange arc, heading straight for Toruk's left forelimb joint.

Toruk tried to swat it away with his claws, but the disc changed speed and direction at the last moment, bypassing the claws and precisely cutting into the white mark left by the spear.

This time, the frisbee cut in two centimeters.

Although it was only a superficial wound to Toruk's massive limbs, the high-frequency vibrations of the sharp blade were transmitted to his bones, causing excruciating pain and temporary paralysis.

Toruk's left forepaw twitched involuntarily, causing his entire body to lose its balance slightly.

Chu Cige seized the moment and sprinted forward again.

His target this time was Toruk's head.

Toruk realized the danger.

This tiny creature not only has an impenetrable defense, but its attacks are also precise and deadly.

Each attack targets vulnerable points such as joints, nerve plexuses, and eyes.

This is an opponent it has never encountered in decades—not one that relies on size and strength to fight head-on, but one that uses technique and strategy to gradually weaken it.

It must change its tactics.

When Chu Cige rushed in front of it and thrust his spear straight at its right eye, Toruk did not dodge or parry with its claws.

It did something unexpected: it suddenly lowered its head and used the hardest double crowns on its head to meet the spear.

"clang--!"

The spearhead collided with the keratinous crown, bursting into dazzling sparks.

The impact jolted Toruk backward, but its crowns withstood the blow, leaving only white marks on the surface.

At the very moment of impact, Toruk's tail silently attacked from another direction.

This time it wasn't a sweeping attack, but a direct thrust.

The spear-like bony spikes at the tip of its tail, like battering rams, pierced Chu Cige's back with astonishing speed.

Alice sounded the alarm, but at that moment she was wrestling with Toruk's head and could not break free immediately.

At the critical moment, Chu Cige released his spear and fell forward.

The tail spike grazed his carapace, leaving a mark on the nanoarmor, and a piercing metallic scraping sound rang out. Although it wasn't a direct hit, the shockwave generated by the tail spike still struck Chu Cige hard.

He felt a churning in his internal organs, and his balance system was briefly disrupted.

This was the first real shock he experienced after entering the cave.

Toruk seized the opportunity.

Instead of giving chase, it spread its four wings—though they couldn't be fully extended, they still generated tremendous thrust within the cave—and charged forward like a train at full speed, directly ramming its shoulder into Chu Cige, who had just gotten up.

This is a pure combination of quality and speed.

The six-ton ​​behemoth crashed at a speed of forty kilometers per hour, generating enough kinetic energy to destroy a stone building.

He had no time to dodge, so he could only concentrate all the energy of his nanoarmor on the front, forming a concentrated arc-shaped shield.

"Bang----!!!"

The impact sounded like a mountain collapsing.

Chu Cige was sent flying by the impact, shooting backward like a cannonball, smashing through three stalactite pillars hanging from the cave ceiling before crashing heavily into the rock wall, sinking into a human-shaped crater.

The readings on the nano-armor mask were jumping wildly:

Structural integrity: 88%

"Energy Shield: Overloaded, currently on cooldown"

"Life support system: Minor damage"

"Motor enhancement system: Partial malfunction"

Chu Ci Ge felt his entire body groaning.

Although the nano-armor absorbed most of the impact, the remaining force still caused him to experience brief dizziness and weakness in his limbs—this was the limit of his biological body.

His visual sensors showed double images, his hearing sensors were buzzing, and his limbs were losing strength rapidly.

Chu Cige struggled to free himself from the rock wall, but stumbled when he landed and knelt on one knee.

Toruk's condition wasn't much better either.

The spear struck its head with its crown, causing it to suffer a concussion and some blurred vision.

Although his shoulder was not injured in the impact, it consumed a lot of his energy.

The wound on his back was still bleeding, and the numbness in his left forelimb had not completely subsided.

More importantly, the continuous use of bio-plasma flow and full-force impact has depleted its energy reserves and stamina.

It was panting, its golden vertical pupils fixed on the dark monster kneeling thirty meters away.

The Chu Ci songs were the first to be restored.

The nanoarmor's medical system was injected with a mixture of stimulants and painkillers, temporarily suppressing dizziness and muscle soreness.

He stood up and took the last two weapons from his waist—plasma grenades.

This is not meant to be thrown directly.

Alice was rapidly calculating the cave structure, the target's movement patterns, and the blast radius.

One second later, the optimal solution was determined.

He started running, not straight toward Toruk, but along the curved path at the edge of the cave.

Toruk turned around warily, always keeping his face directly towards this dangerous enemy.

Its wings were slightly spread, ready to dodge or retaliate at any moment.

Chu Cige threw the first plasma grenade while running.

But instead of throwing it at Toruk, it threw it at the rock face above its head.

Toruk instinctively looked up, and in that instant, Chu Cige changed direction, suddenly accelerated, and leaped up at an almost vertical angle, pushing off the side rock wall with one foot, using the momentum to jump onto Toruk's back again.

It's the same tactic again!

Toruk was better prepared this time.

Instead of trying to shake off its enemy, it rolled to the side—using its six-ton ​​body as a weapon to crush the Chu Ci Ge that jumped up beneath it.

But this is exactly what the Chu Ci songs are waiting for.

He adjusted his posture in mid-air, not landing on Toruk's back, but just before making contact, he tapped Toruk's shoulder with his foot, changed direction again, and jumped towards the center of the cave.

At the same time, he threw a second plasma grenade.

The target was three meters directly below the rock face where the first grenade was about to hit.

Precise timing.

"boom!!!"

The first grenade exploded.

The plasma explosion blasted a crater two meters in diameter into the rock wall, and countless pieces of rock fell like rain.

Toruk was rolling around and was directly beneath this "rain of stones".

It had to stop rolling and raise its wings to protect its head.

At that very moment, the second grenade exploded at a height of 1.5 meters above the ground.

This explosion did not propel upwards, but rather was a specially modulated directional shockwave that diffused primarily horizontally.

The shockwave struck Toruk's raised forewings. Although it couldn't break through the tough wing membrane, the enormous thrust pushed its entire body backward, causing it to lose its balance and fall backward.

This was the first time in the battle of Toruk that the team had truly lost its balance.

The Chu Ci song had already landed and was rushing towards them at full speed.

His target was clear: Toruk's exposed abdomen after he fell backward—where there was no carapace for protection, and the skin was relatively soft, making it theoretically the most vulnerable spot.

With the elders' spears in front, the Chu Ci song was like an arrow released from a bow.

Toruk realized the deadly danger.

It struggled frantically to get up, but its six-ton ​​body needed time to adjust after losing its balance.

It flailed forward with its still-functioning right forepaw, trying to block, but Chu Cige deftly ducked, sliding under the forepaw and thrusting the spear straight into its abdomen—

"Pfft—!"

This time, the spear pierced deeply.

Fifteen centimeters, twenty centimeters, thirty centimeters...