America: The Cremator

Chapter 107 It came at just the right time!

Su Long turned his head, his gaze falling on the bleeding gash on Elena's shoulder. He frowned, then looked away. "Elena, it's good that you're alright."

Upon hearing this, Elena nodded: "But our current situation is probably quite bad. On my way here, I alerted a big guy, and I couldn't shake it off no matter how hard I ran."

"And it seems I've—lured it here."

Surong frowned: "What kind of big thing is this? Can it even defeat this demon in front of us?"

Elena looked at the bizarrely grotesque demon before her and shook her head hesitantly: "What's this guy's background? I don't know, but I do know that the guy chasing me is no ordinary person."

"It is an A-level anomaly recorded by the Bureau of Anomalies, Siren Head."

After saying that, Elena looked behind her with lingering fear.

The next moment, Su Long heard the mournful sound of a police siren. He subconsciously turned around and saw a tall, thin figure walking slowly through the thick fog on the north side of the ruins.

The thing was about ten meters tall, with two huge metal siren tubes on its neck. The tubes were broken and rusted at the edges. Below the siren was a neck made of steel cables and organic tissue, which made a low rubbing sound as it moved.

The spliced ​​torso below the neck is thin and shriveled, as if a person had been forcibly elongated. Dark skin with rust clings tightly to the internal bones, making it look like a telephone pole from a distance.

With each step it took, the ground beneath its feet would tremble violently.

Su Long couldn't help but shiver, recalling the enormous, eerie creature he had seen when he glanced back during his first escape from the Otherworld.

This is the one right now!

As his spiritual vision activated, Surong saw a diamond-shaped frame flashing above the guy's head. However, the color was much deeper than the light red of ordinary ghouls and the dark red of Valak's clone, almost approaching black. He was shocked. This Siren Head was much stronger than Valak's clone, probably even stronger than the real thing.

He glanced back at Valack, then at the seemingly unapproachable Siren Head, and a slightly despicable plan suddenly formed in his mind.

"It's alright, Elena, it's just in time."

The next moment, Valak, who was in the distance, saw that the group had started exchanging pleasantries and completely disregarded him, which made him even angrier.

He opened his mouth, and the vibrations deep in his throat began to build up. The muscles in his neck and chest bulged outward under the pressure. His ferocious maw suddenly opened, and the surrounding air rapidly contracted inward before exploding outward, turning into a shrill shockwave that sprayed out in a fan shape.

Hannah reacted instantly, raising the Bible high and chanting aloud: "In the name of the Father, the Holy Spirit, and the Son—to provide shelter for the lost lambs."

The Bible floated up from her palm, and the pages were turned from the middle to the sides by an unseen force. The soft golden light emanating from the edges of the pages quickly spread outwards, taking shape in front of Su Long and the others, and condensing into a nearly transparent arc-shaped light screen.

The shrieking shockwave slammed into the light screen, causing the entire screen to tremble violently at high frequencies. Su Long stood behind the light screen, and the ground beneath his feet trembled slightly. He could clearly see that the surface of the light screen was cracked by the continuous pressure of the shockwave, and the cracks were rapidly spreading outwards.

Hannah kept her hands raised, but her face had paled considerably. She gritted her teeth and said, "This guy is much stronger than the previous clone—I can't hold on much longer."

Su Long didn't answer immediately. He glanced at the density of the cracks in the light screen, then looked behind him at the approaching Siren head, and asked directly, "Hannah, how's your math going?"

"What are you going to do?" Hannah turned her head to look at him.

Surong raised his hand and pointed behind him, explaining, "Make your shield beveled to reflect Valak's sonic waves back onto that big guy."

Hannah looked behind her in the direction Suron was pointing. When she saw the tall Siren head behind her, her face turned to horror. But after hearing Suron's plan, she hesitated for a moment, took a deep breath, and began to carefully guide the holy light to gradually bend and deflect, turning it into an upward-convex slope.

Valak's shrieking sonic waves struck the upward-protruding, curved slope, and the enormous energy was completely deflected, shooting towards Siren Head's head in the distance.

The next moment, a shrill sound wave powerful enough to tear eardrums roared in and struck Siren Head squarely on the head. A huge explosion suddenly rang out in his head, and the deafening roar instantly swept through the entire space.

Two huge metal siren tubes emitted a series of dull metallic resonances. Its entire upper body swerved violently to the left, staggering back several steps. In an instant, rubble flew everywhere and dust billowed. After regaining its balance, the two huge metal horn tubes on its head slowly twisted, aiming at Valak on the other side of the ruins.

"run!"

As soon as Surong finished speaking, he quickly jumped up to retrieve the Bible, then grabbed Hannah's arm and sprinted to the side. Elena and Dania immediately followed, and the four of them quickly escaped the straight line between the two eerie places.

The light curtain shattered completely after losing the support of Hannah and the Bible, and golden fragments scattered on the ruined ground and disappeared in the blink of an eye.

Just as they ran out of the main battlefield, the sirens, filled with extreme anger and terrifying to hear, suddenly blared.

"Waaah—waaah—"

Su Long turned around and saw an arc-shaped shockwave spreading from the foot of Siren Head. Before the impact, the boulders and gravel bounced to both sides, and the ground was pressed down into a visible arc before cracking and extending radially to both sides.

The shockwave swept outwards along the ruins, causing the rubble to tilt and disintegrate the instant the sound waves hit it. Bricks, steel bars, and concrete blocks were thrown high into the air, tumbling in the high-pressure airflow and blocking out large areas of sunlight.

The flying sand and stones formed an opaque curtain at the edge of the wind pressure zone, and the air formed a visible distorted layer in front of it, like a heat wave on a hot road surface. It was horizontal and extremely fast, almost impossible for the naked eye to follow.

The shockwave struck Valak, lifting him off the ground. His massive body tumbled in mid-air before his back slammed into the marble archway behind him, instantly snapping the archway in half. The stone pillars on either side collapsed in succession, and rubble crashed to the ground along with Valak's body, raising a cloud of debris and dust.

He rose from the rubble, bone spurs protruding from his spine, his vertical pupils suddenly shrinking to slits, a low growl escaping his throat. He turned his head and shouted in the direction of Sulong, "Despicable human!"

He took a deep breath, his chest bulging, and unleashed a shrill shockwave of equal magnitude back at the source of his pent-up anger.

Two sound waves collided in mid-air in the middle of the ruins. The impact and shockwave exploded at the contact surface. The surrounding air seemed to be gripped by an invisible hand and then violently shaken apart. The dust accumulated on the rubble and ruins was ejected in all directions, and the sections of the remaining wall closest to the impact point collapsed directly in the shockwave.

However, the siren head's sonic boom had a much stronger aftereffect, instantly overwhelming Valak's resistance and pushing him backward on the ground, scraping two parallel deep trenches in the ruins along the way. Finally, it was pierced by the sonic boom, and his entire body was blasted away again.

Seeing this, Suron turned to the three of them and said, "Alright, Valak can't control us for the time being. It's time to leave. Hannah, bless me with holy light. Elena, raise the lantern."

Elena held the lantern up to her chest height, the flame inside the wick flickering slightly.

Hannah had also picked up the Bible. As the pages turned, holy light once again seeped out from the texture of the paper and landed directly on Suron, forming a thin golden outline along the edge of his clothes.

Su Long extended his right hand, and a golden primordial flame ignited in his palm. The holy light attached to the flame gave it a platinum color, and the light was much denser than usual. He pressed the flame towards the lamp opening and sent it into the wick.

Suddenly, flames burst forth from the lamp, making the entire lantern shine like a small searchlight, with beams of light shooting outwards and illuminating most of the ruins.

Su Long activated his spiritual vision and saw that the network of fissures, which was originally only of fine line density, rapidly expanded in all directions after the light was injected. In the blink of an eye, it had become densely intertwined. After scanning around, he found the area with the densest fissures, and then lifted the two knuckle dusters covered with primordial flames and made them collide with each other.

Once, twice, three times.

Until the fourth impact, the fireball blasted an opening about one and a half meters in diameter in that area, with the edges curling inward. Inside the opening was a vague entrance to a subterranean world that was neither light nor dark.

"Go in, quickly."

Dania was the first to leap in and disappear into the crevice. Hannah followed with the Bible in her arms, and Elena squeezed past her, glancing back at Suron one last time.

Sulong turned around and faced the middle of the ruins.

Valak had just gotten up from the pile of rubble he had been thrown into, his bone spurs protruding from his back, his face, shoulders, and arms covered in gravel and grime. His vertical pupils found Surong's position in the dust and fixed on him.

Su Long pulled out his gun, ejected the magazine, glanced at it, and pushed it back in.

The first shot hit Valak's left shoulder, the impact causing his shoulder to flip backward, and the bone spur pushed outward from under the skin of his shoulder with a crisp sound.

The second shot hit its chest, and the primordial flames exploded at the point of contact, forming a scorching spot about thirty centimeters in diameter. The flames clung to that patch of dark red skin and continued to burn.

The third shot hit its right flank, the skin there cracking with a dull thud as the bullet penetrated, and Valak's body tilted to that side.

Its throat cavity is already gathering strength again, and the low-frequency resonance transmitted from inside the bones is beginning to spread outward.

Su Longping held up his revolver, adjusted the aiming line, and placed the crosshair on the strange fleshy sac structure in Valak's groin before pulling the trigger hard.

The primal fireball shot out of the barrel, leaving a dazzling trail of flame in the air, and plunged into Valak's belly. The fireball exploded on its entire lower abdomen the moment of contact, and golden flames instantly clung to its flesh.

Valak's face contorted instantly. The low frequencies accumulated in its throat were briefly interrupted by the intense pain, and then replaced by a high-pitched howl that echoed for a long time over the ruins.

It endured the excruciating pain in its lower abdomen and looked at Su Long, furious to find him standing at the edge of the rift opening, less than half a step from the rift in the inner world.

Under its gaze, Su Long raised his right hand, slowly extended a middle finger, slightly opened his mouth, spelled out "fuck you," and then retreated into the rift.

The crack closed from the inside out after he entered, the twisted structure at the edges gradually contracted, and finally disappeared completely into the air of the ruins, leaving no trace.

The sirens blared again over the ruins, the sound wave emanating from the siren's horn and striking Valak, who was still standing in the middle of the ruins. It sent him flying off the ground and crashing into a pile of rubble further away, from which debris and dust rose.