xymnovel Chapter 21 Reverence
Chapter 21 Reverence
Logically speaking...
The bearded men's survival wisdom led them to immediately make the decision to scatter and flee, which was undoubtedly the right thing to do.
There aren't many enemies trying to sneak up on us from the outside.
It was pitch black, and the people on the perimeter didn't dare to come out easily, so the chances of everyone escaping alive were very high.
But they didn't consider it at all.
Lu Xingzhou, with a body possessing the physical limits of human physiology, is absolutely monstrous!
The bandits, in their panic, did not flee towards where the horses were tethered, but instead ran haphazardly based on their physical instincts, making them easy targets for Lu Xingzhou's hunting performance.
Lu Xingzhou, who had been keeping a distance of more than 200 meters to avoid being shot, decisively closed the distance and gave chase when he saw the bandits fleeing.
His slingshot wasn't idle either; "whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh~~" he blew up heads one by one.
Seeing that he was in hot pursuit, some of the fierce-looking men dared not offer their necks for slaughter and turned around to fire their guns.
However, due to a lack of training over the years, his accuracy was already low, and under the cover of night, it was even more impossible to lock onto Lu Xingzhou's body, which was almost a blur.
Even more pitiful is...
The few bolt-action rifles that were supposed to be quite accurate were still worn down by the rifling.
With all sorts of unfavorable factors converging, the gunshots rang out loudly, but they couldn't even touch the hem of Lu Xingzhou's clothes.
On the other side, Lu Xingzhou raised his bow and brought it down, and his "prey" fell to the ground, unable to get up.
Before long, the surviving bandits scattered across an area of over a thousand square meters, leaving the enclosure.
The hammer on the fence, listening to the screams fading into the distance, looked excitedly at Zhu Chuanwu.
"Brother Chuanwu, he's retired! The bearded man has retired! It must be our boss showing his power!!"
Another gunner named Shuanzi affirmed, "The boss has already driven the bearded man back, should we give chase or not?!"
Zhu Chuanwu tightened his grip on the rifle, scanned the surrounding wilderness, but couldn't see a single soul.
After hesitating for a long time, despite being worried about Lu Xingzhou's safety, he decided to carry out his master's orders.
"Don't chase after him! The boss said we're not allowed to leave the enclosure without his permission. Stay alert, lest that bearded man sneaks in!"
Hammer and Shuanzi, young and fearless, had no choice but to suppress their enthusiasm and continue their defense.
"Yeah, I definitely can't let that beard get in!"
The vast plain was incredibly open, and if all these bearded men had run to the riverbank where they tethered their horses immediately...
With their speed and stamina, they might be able to escape half of them.
However, lacking this shrewdness, their speed noticeably decreased after they initially relied on an adrenaline rush to force themselves to run 1,800 meters.
The temperature wasn't high at night in April, and the bearded men were still wearing thick clothes.
He had charged towards the fortress with his gun, but now he turned and ran away. He was almost exhausted and his death was practically inevitable.
At a speed of 7 seconds to run 100 meters, which is close to the theoretical limit of human physical strength, Lu Xingzhou, who was frantically roaming and harvesting in the wilderness, did not feel tired at all.
The area northwest and southwest of the enclosure, along with the tens of square kilometers in front of the main gate, was directly turned into his hunting ground.
A bearded man running south, feeling relieved to have escaped after not hearing any gunshots for a long time, slowed down to catch his breath.
Suddenly, a face whiter than a woman's appeared in the darkness.
"A ghost~~ Ugh~~"
After snapping his neck, Lu Xingzhou scratched his ears, which were ringing from the shock, and muttered:
"You're the ghost! Your whole family are ghosts! So what if I'm a little fair-skinned?!"
That deafening scream became the starting gun for the third round of the escape competition.
Many of the bearded men who also wanted to jog and catch their breath had to speed up and run again.
Although it was described as a sprint, after two sprints, the speed appeared to Lu Xingzhou to be like a snail's pace.
If you're too lazy to run, just shoot steel balls to kill; if you feel like it's convenient, just go up and twist someone's neck.
Half an hour later, the last bandit, who had run four or five kilometers and was almost completely exhausted, heard no more of his companions running or screaming behind him, and despair flashed in his eyes.
If there had been a bear behind them, they would have escaped long ago.
Unfortunately, this killer star is not a bear but a human. Even if he kills his companion, he will not stop to eat the meat, but will continue to come to take his life!
His will to survive caused his knees to buckle, and he collapsed to his knees with a thud, raising his hands and wailing:
"I surrender, I surrender!!! Hero, please don't kill me!!!"
Lu Xingzhou, who hadn't intended to kill him, smiled and put the steel balls and slingshot into the space inside the cauldron, then walked forward empty-handed.
"Why don't you just stop running? Give it a try, what if you can escape?"
The bandit, whose two cotton-padded jackets were soaked through, whose lungs were in excruciating pain, and who was so exhausted that he was about to collapse, turned around and saw Lu Xingzhou looking calm and collected, as if he had seen a ghost.
His upper and lower teeth chattered together, and he stammered, "Hero, stop playing tricks on me! Even if I had four legs, I couldn't escape your grasp!"
"Tsk~ Fine! Lie down on the ground with your hands behind your head. You can only get up when I give you permission, understand?"
The bandit nodded vigorously: "I heard it perfectly clearly!"
With a sigh of relief, he crossed his arms over his head and lay motionless on the cold ground.
Lu Xingzhou wandered through the wilderness again, finishing off the remaining Beard with his gun.
On the other hand, the steel balls that have been shot out must be collected. They are all optimized from source energy and cannot be wasted.
Furthermore, maintaining a sense of mystery will enhance his intimidation factor.
Leisurely collecting steel balls from the corpses scattered on the ground, I came to a bearded man lying on the ground groaning.
"Hey~ You're still alive? Let me help you!"
A flicker of relief crossed the bandits' eyes, followed by a chilling scream that echoed across the plains:
"Ugh~~Aaaaaaahh ...
The bandit struggled to turn his head, wanting to open his mouth and ask, "Didn't you say you were going to give me a quick death?!", but he was too in pain to make a sound.
In a good mood, Lu Xingzhou was probing the bloody hole in his hip bone with his index and middle fingers, searching for the steel ball.
Noticing his lips opening and closing, I smiled slightly and explained:
"Don't worry, don't worry, almost there, emmm, found it!!"
The steel ball stuck in his bone was pulled hard, and the friction against the bone produced a dull 'crackling' sound, while dark red blood spurted out with a 'plop plop plop'.
After a long struggle, they finally managed to pull out the steel ball.
Then look at the bandits; they had already died from excruciating pain.
Lu Xingzhou, the living Yama, whose expression was as natural as killing a chicken, shook his head and chuckled:
"Hey~ This guy's obviously impatient, he wouldn't even wait a little longer than die, what a pity!"
The fact that the steel ball failed to penetrate the patella indicates that its power could be further increased.
However, although his maximum pulling force is more than 200 kilograms, using a stronger rubber band would reduce his endurance.
It's barely enough if you're not shooting down planes or tanks, so there's no need to upgrade it further.
On the other side, on the enclosure.
The hammer-wielder who had killed the two bearded men, seeing that a long time had passed with no movement, asked:
"Brother Chuanwu, shall I go down and take a look?"
Despite having the potential to be an outstanding military officer, Chuanwu still wanted to carry out Lu Xingzhou's orders.
"No, the master said we can't leave the enclosure!"
"It's so dangerous for all the bosses out there! Let's all go help them!"
A boss like Lu Xingzhou is one in a million in Guandong, and Hammer really didn't want him to be in any danger.
Chuanwu, who was also feeling uncertain, hesitated upon hearing this.
"Stop worrying about that! Our young master is Zhao Zilong reincarnated, capable of charging in and out of a million-strong army seven times! A mere hundred or so beards won't even touch the hem of his clothes. You all better keep a close watch on him!"
Everyone turned around and saw that it was the Three Rivers that had come from the east after failing to find the enemy.
Having witnessed Lu Xingzhou's skills firsthand, Sanjiangshui had great confidence in him. Besides, since the master had said not to go out, no one could leave.
There was nothing more for them to say, so they could only hold onto their rifles and wait.
Twenty minutes later, Hammer, with his sharp eyes, exclaimed, "There's a figure coming!"
With his index finger on the trigger, he aimed at a figure more than 200 meters away.
Lu Xingzhou quickly spoke up:
"It's me! Put your guns away. I'll check to make sure no one escaped before you come down!"
In the pitch black, they were told to come out and clean up the battlefield. The bearded man, who wasn't quite dead yet, had injured his farmhand, and it would take forever to get a doctor.
"It's the boss! That's great!"
"The employer is alright!"
"The boss single-handedly chased away over a hundred bearded men; he's truly a reincarnation of Zhao Zilong!!"
Seeing their response, Lu Xingzhou approached within two hundred meters of the enclosure.
A dozen or so bearded men lay nearby, the result of the battle fought by the people inside the enclosure.
The Springfield rifle was quite lethal; almost every bearded man hit by it was dead.
Walking more than 80 meters outside the enclosure, I saw a corpse whose outline seemed somewhat familiar. It wasn't crooked or lying face down, but rather lying on its back.
Lu Xingzhou, a veteran of many battles, immediately stopped cautiously ten meters away and silently pulled out a dagger.
The corpse's single ear kept listening for footsteps. When Lu Xingzhou stopped for a few seconds without making a sound, he realized that he had been exposed and decisively opened his eyes and took action.
"You little weed, Tiger Lord will fight you to the death, you little tyrant!!!"