Dual wielding volcanoes, killing through the west

Just as the captain was about to grab her hair, Sofia suddenly let go, allowing the spike to fall freely. At the same time, her toes snapped upwards, and she kicked the spike in the middle with the inside of her toe. With a "clang," the sharp spike sprang back and pierced the captain's thigh.

“Ugh…!!”

Sofia swiftly ducked, pulled out the short dagger, and plunged it into his throat!

"Pfft!"

A spurt of hot blood sprayed onto his face.

……

"Ha ha……"

Shocked.

The captain collapsed, looking somewhat dejected. He immediately used his palm to block the bleeding opening in his throat, but everyone knew that this would only prolong his life by a few dozen seconds.

Inside the entire culvert, only the blood-soaked girl remained, standing upright.

Her hands were still trembling; this was the first time she had killed a real "person" in actual combat. Whether it was from fear or excitement, Sofia didn't know, but one thing was certain at this moment.

"I'm really... really good at this..."

She couldn't tell whether it was a blessing or a curse.

However, she felt no guilt or remorse for killing these people. She believed they should have been prepared for this when they embarked on this journey.

“You’ve lost.” Sofia pointed her short dagger at her captain, who was leaning against the wall with only a few dozen seconds left.

"Heh...heh..." The captain's throat was pierced, and his last words could only be uttered in breathy form.

But he grinned, revealing a blood-stained smile.

Not yet.

The next moment, he suddenly mustered his last bit of strength and slammed his head against the pile of wooden crates next to him!

"Boom!!"

Judging from the sound, it was a real, incredibly fierce impact. His head was smashed open, blood gushing from the wound on his neck, and he died quickly. His desperate, final strike caused the kerosene lamp that had been resting on the wooden box to fall from its edge.

……

"Bang!"

The glass cover of the kerosene lamp shattered.

Using his body as fuel, the flames quickly rose up.

"Wait……"

Sofia was stunned.

The vicious flames were reflected in her pupils, leaping higher and higher. In the midst of the crisis, she made the right decision: she jumped back, rolled, and continued to use the bodies of the private soldiers as cover.

"boom-------!!!"

The explosives in the wooden box were ignited, causing an instant explosion that blasted a large hole in one end of the culvert.

flame.

Explosion.

as well as……

The howling of the hurricane rushed in fiercely from that gap.

The earth is shaking and the mountains are shaking.

The fire was growing larger and larger, and many wooden crates filled with explosives, placed inside the culvert, had not yet been detonated. The flames here would soon engulf them all!

Sofia shook her head, the strong, cold wind making her cough repeatedly. She quickly assessed the situation. The culvert was over twenty meters long, and she was at the very end. If she ran out now, she would likely be blown to pieces before even reaching the entrance!

Life and death are decided in a mere instant.

"No...no..."

She stumbled and ran toward the only path to survival.

……

"boom-----!!!"

The second explosion came faster than expected.

The remaining explosives created a blast behind the girl, almost at the last moment, forcefully pushing her out of the gap.

"what……"

Everything before me was cold and desolate.

In the cold, torrential rain, the girl, like a wounded crested ibis, reached out but could grasp nothing, and thus fell into the dark, turbulent river.

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……

"Stab!"

Lu Aniu grabbed the edge of the suit jacket and gently ripped it off, making a very satisfying sound.

Even the most expensive clothes, once torn, are just a piece of fabric that he can casually toss aside.

"call……"

He closed his eyes, loosened his hair, and his long, silvery-white hair danced wildly in the torrential rain and howling wind.

I took a deep, deep breath.

"Gu Gu!!"

His cheeks suddenly swelled to an unbelievable degree, like an inflated balloon, or rather, even faster and larger! It's hard to imagine that this is something a normal human body could do.

Lu Aniu's pupils suddenly dilated, and from the church spire, he made a sound like a toad croaking.

"Coo coo—!!"

He didn't adopt the toad pose; instead, he squatted down as if gathering his strength.

Breathe in.

Exhale.

"Cuckoo!"

Amidst the strange cries, his arms, wrists, thighs, and calves rapidly swelled up as if inflated, even stretching his shirt and vest to the point of tearing.

The static potential energy was compressed to its limit.

"Thump—!!!!"

The next moment, Lu Aniu leaped into the air, instantly breaking the sound barrier. The enormous reaction force immediately collapsed the church's dome!

In an instant, earth and rocks rained down like raindrops, and the entire church collapsed inexplicably in the midst of the storm. Even if the most professional architectural engineers were to investigate afterward, they probably wouldn't be able to figure out how it happened.

……

Lightning flashed.

Lu Aniu shifted his position in the air, starting from the church in the city center, easily crossing most of Pike City, passing over the elevated road, and heading straight towards the equally dark and turbulent river.

He straightened his posture, took another deep breath, and activated the Turtle Breathing Technique, reducing his heart rate and breathing frequency to the lowest possible level. He crossed his hands to protect his chest, adopting a posture similar to that of a pharaoh being buried, and used his pointed toes to meet the water's surface.

"Boom!!!"

He traversed most of the city and plunged into the turbulent, deep waters.

Chapter 749: Can't Do Anything?

A powerful right hand suddenly emerged from the rising water!

Clench your five fingers together and crush the surface of the dam; each finger will embed itself into the dam, forming a natural grip.

With a handle, there is a support point to exert force.

Grab it, lift it up!

"Boom————!!!"

Lu Aniu grabbed Sophia by the back of her collar with his left hand and leaped out of the water, running on his hands and feet like a running deer, sprinting down the slope of the dam. After a few breaths, he stepped onto the protruding rocks on the outside of the dam, leaped up, and jumped back into the culvert—it was through this gap that Sophia had been pushed out by the aftershocks of the explosion.

After the second explosion, the entire culvert structure was showing signs of further collapse. He could hear cracks spreading silently in corners invisible to the naked eye. Several particularly large and hard rocks barely held the dam in place, preventing it from completely collapsing.

In any case, time is running out.

"About... twelve meters?" Lu Aniu roughly estimated that the culvert had been blown in half, leaving him only about twelve meters to run. Any further and he would crash into a wall formed by the collapsed rocks.

"That's almost enough."

He grabbed Sophia's two calves, hoisted them onto his shoulders, and hung her upside down on his back with her head facing the ground. The posture was quite bizarre, but Lu Aniu didn't care at all. Holding Sophia's calves, he started running through the narrow culvert.

It was only twelve meters long; it was just running from one end to the other, and then back again, in a loop. He was quite fast, and Sophia's body bounced up and down on his back like a pendulum.

A moment later, a slight coughing sound was heard.

Lu Aniu increased his speed and ran even faster, finally forcing the water that had been trapped in the girl's stomach out of her mouth and nose.

"Cough...cough cough...ugh—!!"

He vomited the water, but his eyes remained tightly closed.

Lu Aniu laid her down flat, and using the philtrum as a starting point, he skillfully measured with his fingers until he found the girl's Shenque acupoint, which he then struck with his internal force!

“Ugh…!!”

Sofia frowned, spat out another mouthful of water, but still did not wake up.

"That's not good."

Lu Aniu frowned, gently pressing on her abdomen to confirm that there was no more fluid buildup.

The backward running and tapping of the Shenque acupoint should have made her vomit up most of the water she drank.

If he still can't wake up, the situation is quite bad.

Sofia's breathing was extremely weak, her face was deathly pale, her eyes were tightly closed, and although her heart was still beating, it was growing increasingly slow. Even her body temperature was rapidly decreasing. This is a common situation for drowning victims; even if they are pulled from the water with vital signs, they may not be able to survive for long.

Lu Aniu checked her breath one last time, a complex emotion flickering in his eyes.

……

"Is this really good?"

A little boy with tattered clothes and bright eyes stood in the shadows of the culvert and whispered to him, "Two hundred and twenty-nine years have passed, and you are still the same as before, unable to do anything."

“Shut up,” Lu Aniu said coldly.

He crouched down, took a deep breath, and in this critical moment, he made a very slow starting motion.

His right palm, like a roc spreading its wings, covered her celestial inspiration.

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"ah------!!!"

The screams, loud enough to be described as agonizing, traveled through the ruins and outwards.

"Sophia! It's her voice!"

Lydia's exquisite makeup was completely ruined by the rain, and her luxurious suit was also soaked by the heavy rain, clinging tightly to her body.

She wasn't very good at riding horses, and at times like this, the whole city was practically dead, so naturally, there were no carriages to be found. She had no choice but to run all the way here in the pouring rain. The mountain path to the dam was difficult to traverse; Lydia lost one of her high heels, and her delicate body was covered with scrapes and abrasions of all sizes.

After finally reaching the collapsed culvert, with rocks scattered everywhere, she felt a wave of dizziness and her heart pounded so hard she almost fainted.

Zhang Renfeng arrived even earlier than her and was clearing away the rubble at the entrance of the culvert to create a flat surface for him to exert force on.

At that moment, the screams coming from the rubble and ruins rekindled her hope.

In the throes of extreme joy and sorrow, she disregarded all decorum, grabbing Zhang Renfeng's hand and shaking it violently, abandoning all composure, desperately shouting, "Zhang, did you hear that? Sophia is in those ruins, she must be injured!"

“I know, calm down. The fact that you can shout like that at least means that your internal organs haven’t been injured, which is good news.” Zhang Renfeng was quite calm, noticing another detail.

Cold water was trickling out from the cracks in the rocks and ruins.

They succeeded. The culvert was destroyed, and once the hurricane made landfall, the dam would be unable to hold back the tide, and the entire shantytown would be submerged!