Chapter Thirty-Eight: The First Battle

  They gained a rich harvest this time, so they left the Dragon Cave with excitement and prepared to head towards the ancient capital of Mahaya Town. At the same time, in reality, Old Zhou and Old Xia were busy dealing with the parasite.

  Lao Xia saw that his special alloy steel balls, which were more powerful than bullets, couldn't easily penetrate the hard shell on the monster's body in front of him. He knew things had taken a turn for the worse. These alloy steel balls could easily pierce tempered bulletproof glass at the time, yet they couldn't cause any visible damage to their opponent, showing just how ridiculously high the enemy's defense was.

  The monster, after being suddenly attacked from the air, directly turned its big head towards Old Xia who was attacking it and opened its big mouth, apparently preparing to launch another attack.

  Lao Xia didn't wait for the enemy's attack to come, he remembered the phrase "to take the initiative is to be strong" very clearly, and directly used his ability to lift up the heavy steel bars on the roof and slammed them down at the parasite.

  The heavy steel bars came crashing down with a loud bang, heavily hitting the parasite that was just about to launch an attack. The massive force brought by the weight of the steel bars easily knocked the opponent off the rooftop and slammed it heavily onto the ground.

  Lao Xia saw from the air that the impact force, which could have severely injured an elephant just now, had not caused any substantial harm to the parasite. The opponent was now preparing to get up from the ground.

  "Since his own attack was ineffective, Lao Xia directly told Alice: "Alice, immediately shoot and kill the guy below!"

  At this time, the several machine guns that remained on the roof immediately turned their muzzles to the parasites that had climbed up and began a fierce sweep. The bullets that could easily turn people into sieves hit the opponent's metallic shell, but only sparks were emitted. The strong kinetic energy carried by the bullets did not even repel the opponent one step back, and instead, they didn't move at all.

  And the parasite, facing the machine guns that were attacking it, immediately spat out several clusters of red sticky liquid from its mouth towards the still firing machine guns.

  Then a terrifying scene began to unfold. The machine gun made of gold steel was corroded away like a lump of solid butter in high temperature after being stained with those red sticky liquids, and its strong corrosiveness was more powerful than any chemical reagent that Lao Xia had ever seen.

  "Old Zhou is too difficult to deal with, come out and help!" Old Xia shouted loudly at Old Zhou who was still in the institute.

  His words had just finished when the parasite was suddenly hit by a sudden burst of energy and flew out like a fly swatter.

  "I arrived just in time!"

  Lao Zhou appeared outside the institute wearing an acceleration armor suit. It turned out that before crossing over to Muxin Star, he had left the entire acceleration suit set behind for safety considerations. This was in preparation for unexpected situations like this, so Lao Zhou and Lao Xia would not be without a powerful weapon for self-defense.

  Although the parasite can withstand machine gun attacks with its robust body, it is still blown away by the powerful pulse weapon's attack.

  "On time! But that monster in front of us isn't going to fall down so easily, wait a minute and be careful!" As soon as Old Xia finished speaking, he hastily controlled the steel bar from just now as a weapon and pressed it down on the parasite that was about to climb up.

  Feeling something coming towards itself, the parasite immediately turned around and sprayed a mouthful of red corrosive mucus onto the steel bar that was pressing down on it. The hard steel bar began to corrode rapidly from the middle section at a visible speed after being sprayed with the parasite's red saliva.

  Seeing his overwhelming attack destroyed by a single mouthful of saliva from the parasite, Old Xia immediately felt a burning sensation on his face and cursed: "This damn thing, since you like spitting saliva so much, this disgusting bad habit!"

  Lao Zhou took advantage of the accelerated armor's speed and immediately charged towards the mutant who was dodging the precision steel attacks in the sky, firing multiple pulses of energy bullets at him once again.

  But just as the energy bullet was about to hit the parasite, two bone-like protrusions suddenly appeared on its back and stabbed towards Old Zhou at a speed that left him no time to react.

  The powerful force of the bone spur instantly knocked down Old Zhou, who was wearing an acceleration suit, to the ground. The parasite, however, faced even more intense attacks. After being hit by multiple close-range pulse energy shots in a row, the parasite had clearly suffered severe damage, with green blood splattering everywhere.

  However, this unlucky guy's misfortune apparently had yet to end. In the blink of an eye, several thick steel bars flew over from the sky and smashed onto his body.

  Lao Xia rushed to Lao Zhou's side after finishing what was in front of him, extremely anxious to see his friend's condition. But before he could get close, Lao Zhou had already stood up as if nothing was wrong, and seeing this situation made him feel relieved. As long as the person is fine, that's all that matters; if Lao Zhou were injured, he would definitely tear the motionless parasite in front of him to pieces.

  Lao Zhou rushed to the side of the parasite that had been crushed to the point of being on its last breath, without even saying hello. He immediately began reading his opponent's memories and found out that except for hunger, all he could think about was evolution, with no other useful information. This heavily injured guy still had a fierce glint in his eyes as he desperately tried to break free from the steel bars, killing both of them.

  Since capturing the opponent alive was already hopeless, Old Xia and Old Zhou didn't insist on it anymore. The strongest mind control skill was launched mercilessly at the brain of the host body, and in the blink of an eye, the opponent immediately bled from all seven orifices and fell to the ground motionless.

  "It seems that our abilities need to be strengthened! We're already this exhausted from dealing with a third-level parasite, if we were to face the fourth-level parasite that will appear soon, our current strength would be far from enough!"

  Lao Xia glanced at the completely withered parasite and said very seriously, "Not bad, if our abilities were as powerful as those characters in the movies, then we wouldn't have to use so much effort to deal with this saliva-spitting guy."

  I remember that the abilities of Magneto, apart from being able to control metal and disrupt the Earth's magnetic field through magnetic fields, canceling out gravity, and flying at high speeds, also include creating protective shields and spatial channels; perceiving and controlling the electromagnetic spectrum around him; interfering with human neural currents; manipulating iron elements in the body, causing pain and obedience to commands, etc., some of which are powerful extension abilities.

  "And now I only have the basic abilities of the Magnet King, so in the time to come, we'd better focus on strengthening our own abilities and make preparations for the fourth-level parasites that will appear later."

  Lao Zhou felt that Lao Xia's words were very good at this moment, and the two of them had transplanted heterochromatic abilities that were top-notch even in movies. Although his mental powers could not produce various physical attacks, for all living beings, his abilities were extremely lethal. As long as his abilities could reach the level of Professor X in the movie, dealing with the life force of this exceptionally tenacious parasite would be a simple matter.

  Lao Zhou calmly said to Lao Xia: "Alright, we'll start by stopping the research in our hands tomorrow. Before Mu Xiaozi and the others return, let's do our best to improve our abilities. By the way, we need to clean up here immediately. All the bullets and destroyed metal objects on the ground are yours, Lao Xia. As for the bodies of those parasites, just leave them to me!"

  Lao Xia smiled and nodded in agreement, then immediately began to gather all the scattered bullets on the ground with his ability, collecting them neatly and efficiently into a pile.

  Lao Zhou then controlled the flame thrower on the accelerated armor, starting to annihilate the parasites in front of the institute. Before long, all the parasites had disappeared without a trace, except for the corpse of the third-level parasite. The first battle between Lao Xia and Lao Zhou ended in victory like this!