Chapter 72: Soul Quelling Tower (Part ?) (1/2)

Chapter 72: Soul Quelling Tower (Part ½)

“Grenade!”

Luo Nan’s soul observed from above. He could see that the two cup-shaped toys were clearly military-standard grenades. He recalled that a defensive grenade had put Crag Burst in a precarious situation a while ago and he was stupefied for a time when faced with the potential might of these grenades in this confined environment. He just instinctively gave Rui Wen a warning. His mind was just a blank on what to do next.

He saw Rui Wen rapidly turn around in the next instant, increasing her speed by pushing off her foot. She actually forged towards the grenades in a rush.

Could it be that she was going to hit them back like in the movies?

Before this thought could finish forming, Luo Nan could only watch helplessly with his all-encompassing view at the explosive power coming from within the grenade. He saw the outer shell warp, split, fragment, and finally explode into the air.

He observed all the details of the entire course of events. It was so precise that time seemed to move in slow motion. But the problem was that the explosion occurred the moment when Rui Wen increased her speed, in an instant faster than the blink of an eye!

Shrapnel didn’t spray out, but there was a strong flash of light and an enormous boom. In addition, electrical arcs flickered about as well.

A shock grenade and a pulse grenade. Two tactical grenades were superimposed. Even a tiger would topple from it.

The explosion exceeded 170 decibels, causing all the glass items indoors to shatter simultaneously. The surrounding neighbors’ windows above and below couldn’t avoid it and the entire apartment story went into a commotion.

Actually, Rui Wen had finished her maneuvers in the instant the two tactical grenades exploded. Her entire body had already leaped in mid-air and was bursting out towards the balcony.

But Rui Wen took the explosive sonic wave like taking a hammer. Her body, which was filled with tension, lost its balance. The distance between the entrance hall and the balcony was seven meters. She would have made it in a single leap normally, but this time she fell halfway there.

Rui Wen displayed great tenacity and persistence. She rolled the moment her shoulder touched the ground and leaped up forward again towards the balcony. She deviated slightly, but the difference wasn’t big.

No wonder she did this. The entrance door behind her had opened up and Jack came charging back in with a body wrapped entirely with dark red flames

In a state where she had taken on a shock grenade and a pulse grenade, it would be hard for her to face Jack in a frontal fight no matter what. She needed to get some time, some space, to adjust her breathing.

But right when Rui Wen had leaped through to the balcony and was about to stand up, a two-meter bulky silhouette came hovering up from below the balcony without a sound.

It was an exoskeleton armor formed from joining together metal modules. It was painted with a layer dark light-absorbing material. It was a bit indistinct with the night scene as the background. But a deep and dense air extended noiselessly from this steel body and temperature of its stored scorching heat caused the air to subtly warp.

Luo Nan could even vaguely see a fuzzy complicated structure appear from the ripples of the warped air, inside and outside the exoskeleton armor. It grew clear until recognition.

Format structure…… Deep Blue Walker.

Luo Nan’s mind turned thoroughly cold: “Yan Yongbo!”

This fellow obviously wasn’t Yan Yongbo, but this fellow had released a deadly smoke shell. Yan Yongbo had said that reinforcements will need five minutes to arrive, but the total amount of time from the end of the communications until the appearance of this Deep Blue Walker did not even exceed forty seconds!

And the Deep Blue Walker and Jack were implementing a pincer attack. One look would say that this was a discussed tactic.

Right now Rui Wen had enemies both in front and at the rear. Although she was rapidly adjusting the tempo of her breathing, she had to recover before the Deep Blue Walker would crash into her. This was certainly an impossible mission

Right now the body of water that was formed from the merging of body and soul was going through changes over and over. Surging waves were no longer rising, instead, the entire foundation was rocking. How hard would it be for Rui Wen to recover her merged-as-one feeling under these circumstances?

The Deep Blue Walker on the balcony extended his hand, seeking to seize Rui Wen who was in a dizzy and unbalanced state.