The Ultimate War Of The Apocalypse
Chapter 482 - 475 Cooperation

Chapter 482: Chapter 475 Cooperation

Rifle bullets piercing the armored beast’s shell? Unlikely.

The only effect of Gao Yang’s shot was to divert the Armored Beast’s attention.

This wasn’t Gao Yuan’s first time battling an Armored Beast, but it was his first time fighting one at such close range.

With the experience of dealing with two Armored Beasts just now, Gao Yuan felt that taking on an Armored Beast might not be very difficult; first of all, he was small but fast and strong. As long as he could dodge the Armored Beast’s simple attack routine, defeating it would not be hard.

The only problem was that the Armored Beast’s attention had been drawn to the top of the tower, and Gao Yuan needed to draw its attention back to himself once again.

Wanting to attack Gao Yang, who had fired the shot, the Armored Beast bent its limbs, and, unless something unexpected happened, it would make a leap.

At that moment, Gao Yuan rushed forward and dealt a fierce blow to the Armored Beast’s leg.

With a loud boom, the Steel Mace still echoed, but the Armored Beast’s leg didn’t break as Gao Yuan had hoped.

His entire arm and half his body seemed to be trembling; the reverberation from the strike was too great—the shock caused Gao Yuan to loosen his grip, and the Steel Mace fell to the ground.

But successfully, the Armored Beast’s attention was now on Gao Yuan.

As the Armored Beast lowered its head again, Gao Yuan bent down to pick up the Steel Mace with his left hand and then started to run to one side.

His right arm was numb and weak from the vibration, so he couldn’t deliver another heavy blow right away. Since his left hand was much weaker than his right, he could manage with a knife, but using a blunt weapon like the Steel Mace, which required direct hits, was out of the question.

After running a few more steps, Gao Yuan suddenly turned and was about to leap at the Armored Beast’s head again when he saw the beast raise its two front limbs, and there were already arcs of electricity between them.

If he continued to jump towards the Armored Beast’s head, he would land right into that electric arc.

Remembering the armored vehicle that had been sliced in half by the Armored Beast, Gao Yuan forcibly stopped his leap, plunged forward in an awkward and ugly posture, and then rolled and crawled under the belly of the Armored Beast.

Just then, Gao Yuan heard Li Jinfang suddenly bellow, "Loose grip, loose grip on the handle..."

Gao Yuan snapped out of it.

When he was learning the Thirteen Techniques from Xiang Weiguo, Xiang had taught him to hold a stick with a loose grip and to freely switch between tight and loose grips; and when Sun Yunxiang taught Gao Yuan Tai Chi Fist and Tai Chi Sword, he also showed him how to hold a sword.

However, real combat differed from practice, and knowing a skill and mastering it in battle were also different. Gao Yuan had learned and remembered the techniques, but in the heat of battle, especially when fighting for his life, he tended to forget all those skills in his desires to put all his strength into the fight.

But Li Jinfang’s shout made Gao Yuan finally remember what he should do, since he had indeed practiced it.

The Steel Mace was transferred back to his right hand, controlling the handle with the edge of his palm, and with a fierce strike, as the Steel Mace hit the Armored Beast, Gao Yuan could feel the vibrations of the Steel Mace and the handle in his palm.

The Steel Mace emitted a crisp vibration sound, like a light tap on a bronze chime, but as Gao Yuan clenched his right hand tightly, the crisp sound immediately turned dull and then disappeared.

The key was that the vibrational force was mostly absorbed at the wrist, so Gao Yuan’s arm was almost unaffected by the rebound in this heavy strike.

"That’s the sound!"

Li Jinfang shouted again, and Gao Yuan raised the Steel Mace once more, delivering a powerful blow.

The armored beast had incredibly tough legs, and it seemed that striking from the back was more effective than hitting it from the front.

The armored beast suddenly kicked its hind legs, but Gao Yuan dodged to the side in the nick of time, mysteriously avoiding the strike.

Gao Yuan no longer dared to remain under the armored beast’s belly; subconsciously lowering his head, he ran again to the side of the armored beast when, at that moment, gunfire erupted from above.

Why are they still shooting, Gao Yuan thought anxiously and angrily. But this time, the armored beast began to swing its head in pain.

"Yes! I knew it would hit!"

Gao Yang roared in fury, causing Gao Yuan to startle, and then he noticed that the armored beast had lowered its two front limbs, which had just been creating electric arcs — Gao Yang’s shot had disrupted the armored beast’s electric attack.

But the armored beast had only been hit by a single shot, and that wasn’t enough to be fatal, only enough to make it even more ferocious.

The head of the armored beast flailed wildly, its four legs swinging wildly, and while its enormous size was an advantage for the armored beast, it now became a disadvantage.

"Let it discharge electricity! As soon as it does, I’ll shoot its eyes!"

Gao Yang shouted again.

It was difficult to hit the eyes of the armored beast while it was moving quickly, but before discharging electricity, the armored beast would momentarily stop.

Gao Yang had just seized this opportunity to shoot the armored beast in the eyes.

The current problem was that the injured armored beast wasn’t likely to discharge electricity again. After observing for a moment, Gao Yuan noticed that the beast’s limbs swung in a pattern. So, he once again approached the armored beast and, at the moment its front limbs touched down, he swung his steel mace down fiercely.

It seemed the shell on its back was thinner than the front, and now Gao Yuan was gradually applying the secretive techniques he’d learned from martial arts into practical combat.

With a loud crack, the enraged armored beast lost its balance and toppled onto the ground.

Gao Yuan was about to rush forward to strike at the armored beast’s head when another loud bang came from the rooftop.

This round of gunfire sounded different, and its effects were visibly dissimilar as well; a burst of blue-green fluid exploded from where the armored beast’s eyes had been, and then the beast started to flail wildly, but this time its movements were utterly disordered.

With both eyes destroyed, the armored beast was either dead or had lost its capacity to be a threat.

It seemed that for Gao Yang, taking down the armored beast wasn’t hard at all.

Gao Yuan looked up in surprise, and then, wanting to seize the opportunity to finish off the armored beast, he began to approach its head. But just as he did, he heard Xinghe shout from above, "Careful, the eyes are just the armored beast’s auxiliary organs."

Gao Yuan was startled and immediately stopped, quickly abandoning the idea of approaching the armored beast from the front.

Being modified by the Serpent People, it was hard to say whether the armored beast’s eyes were even used for seeing. However, based on past experience, the armored beast surely had the ability to use infrared to search, so caution was still necessary.

Seizing the opportunity, Gao Yuan leaped from behind onto the armored beast’s back. After landing several heavy hits in quick succession, he heard Xinghe’s piercing scream again, "Get up here! Hurry!"

Something bad must have happened again. Gao Yuan turned his head to look and saw a dense mass of monsters rapidly approaching him.