The darkness receded, and the scene reconstructed.
The sll of gunpowder rushed into his nostrils as one person opened his eyes, and the scene of disaster ca into view. People were screaming as they fled, city streets burned, skyscrapers tilted, gunfire broke the silence, explosions erupted from unknown origins, and alarm sounds gradually faded into the horizon.
A notorious villain sat atop an armored vehicle, operating a heavy machine gun to spray bullets at the distant Titans. Monsters invading the city and alien spacecraft were locked in fierce combat. Sharks, carried by the city's incoming seawater, flew into the air, tearing at pedestrians. Bomber planes dropped bomb after bomb, and distant streets were engulfed in explosive flas, sinking down in segnts.
A white waterfall cascaded down the edge of the moon, gravity's tides pulled teors down to the city, transforming into land air vehicles enveloped in flas upon impact.
They looked up to see the fiery land air vehicles break through the barrier of the caution tape, leaping from acceleration ramps overhead. Under a leaden sky, it all seed like a surreal, destructive dream.
"Uh, where is this?" the person asked.
"Not sure, I rember we weren't here just a mont ago."
"She's over there."
The Saviors glanced toward Chichu Chun in the distance, as the girl's silhouette stood beneath the gray sky. Digital walls rose behind her, and a blazing ard helicopter crashed behind her, the explosion's shockwave blowing her red twin-tails into the air.
It was then they noticed Chichu Chun had changed her attire at so point. Martin boots wrapped around her slender legs, the spiked Alice skirt brushed across the ground, collecting ashes that ignited from sparks amidst the ashes, like an unending cluster of dandelions.
A pair of skull earrings had their fras filled with flas as well. Chichu Chun's cross-shaped pupils automatically focused on the confused group, her arms' Undead Armant opened thermal conduits, and the loader ejected.
She loaded several incendiary grenades into it, calmly looked at the group, and tilted her chin.
"What does she an by this?" one person asked in confusion.
"Not sure, it looks like she's hostile towards us."
"Could it be that the Holy Daughter wishes to test our strength?"
"Huh?" Chichu Chun elongated the end of the word, "Don't tell you don't even know what an unauthorized combat invitation is, and you just entered Skyline City?"
"Skyline City, is that what this place is called?"
"Not sure."
"What does she an by unauthorized combat invitation?"
Chichu Chun was dumbfounded. Were these five people just here for laughs?
They didn't even know what an unauthorized combat invitation was, yet they ca to join the preliminary competition?
She started to admire their resolve; they really ca to the Oasis just to find the so-called Saintess, didn't they?
Chichu Chun felt reluctant to make a move.
"Consider it as my test for you guys."
"If the five of you can defeat , I'll beco your Saintess. If you lose, the Saviors will disband on the spot and go back to training, how about that?"
"No." The leader shook his head, and Chichu Chun noticed the large 'Yi' symbol on the person's face mask, which she hadn't noted before.
"Our mission is to liberate people from this contaminated world."
"This is our Saviors' mission, and we cannot agree to the Holy Daughter's request to disband."
"If we lose, we will return and train again until you acknowledge us."
Chichu Chun exhaled deeply, raising her baseball bat to point at the five. "Shall we start then?"
"We will give it our all," Yi nodded in agreent.
At the mont the battle comnced, several burning land air vehicles simultaneously approached from four directions on the street, their piercing whirring echoing under the gray sky.
Chichu Chun sidestepped, as a burning land air vehicle scraped past her chest, then she began sprinting toward the five at high speed.
During her run, Chichu Chun's form gradually beca transparent, lding with the environnt under the effect of optical camouflage, entering a stealth state.
The five people, as if practiced nurous tis, shrank into a concentric circle, synchronizing their steps, rapidly moving across the ground, legs exchanging positions, leaving trails of afterimages.
Initially, Chichu Chun couldn't understand what they were attempting, until the five, amidst their footwork, began spinning visibly faster, with the masked numbers 'Yi Er San Si Wu' shifting seemingly like frantically turning gears, becoming a single entity.
From the front, the five had seamlessly beco a Ten-Ard Vajra.
The speeding land air vehicle roared toward them, conveniently facing San, who shouted loudly, his arms' muscles undulating like waves, then rose like a mountain.
He punched the vehicle's front, caving in its sheet tal, shattering the glass, stopping the entire land air vehicle dead. An airblast exploded, the front end sank, flew into the air, carving a crimson arc mid-air, colliding straight into a building not far away.
Chichu Chun's mouth gaped slightly.
It wasn't over yet, as a second land air vehicle followed closely. This ti it was Wu's turn, who roared fiercely, the Ten-Ard machine guns behind him firing with a rumble.
"Ora ora ora ora ora!"
The speed of his punches left only afterimages for ordinary people; each punch packed the power to shatter mountains and rocks, forcing the vehicle's front to cave in, the whole vehicle body compressed flatter and flatter under the rapid punching shadows, rapidly crushed into a tal pancake, flung like a frisbee toward the final land air vehicle in mid-air, cleanly slicing out two sections.
Chichu Chun's pupils quaked.
In that instant, only one thought remained in her mind.
Perhaps these five really could save the world.
A piercing siren sounded from behind, jolting Chichu Chun back. She leaped into the air, landing on the top of a land air vehicle, then seized the timing, leaping from vehicle to vehicle.
This combat space seed to unleash a wave of burning vehicles every five seconds, requiring both sides to evade collisions while initiating offensive strategies.
Obviously, such ga rules were more beneficial to high-agility Stalkers or Hunters.
But Chichu Chun was crazily sweating, stealing glances behind while evading, unable to match the monstrous, unified strength of the five. The Ten-Ard Vajra charged straight through the stream of vehicles, smashing a sedan with a single punch, toppling a school bus with a kick, rooting itself in place, holding breath as solid as an invulnerable bell. Trucks crashing into it crumbled like Lego blocks, the fiery tal fragnts like rain in a storm.
"Holy Daughter, watch us prove ourselves!"
The shout of molten iron exploded in her ears, causing Chichu Chun's eyes to almost well up with tears.
Hey, hey, isn't this a bit too much?
What are these five people up to, isn't it a bit too outrageous, hey!
This can't be right, weren't they supposed to be scholars or small intellectuals from Jiulong Street, so why this strange shift in tone when it cos to her?
It was all fine before; why is it suddenly going so wrong when it's her turn?
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