Chapter 166: Invincible Enemy
The village behind them was burning. Su Ming and his companions followed Sarah on horseback and soon caught up with Anthony.
Sarah and the others were mumbling something in the local language. Su Ming couldn't understand, but judging from their expressions, they seemed to be troubled by their current situation.
After passing through the woods, they came to a bare, gray valley. There was only one steep mountain road in the valley, which was like a snake coiled on the conical cliff. The width of the road was only enough for three horses to walk side by side, and the speed of the crowd suddenly slowed down.
Sarah told Su Ming not to worry, as they would be safe if they ran so far. The Plague Messenger could not maintain a very fast movement speed all the time, and with the interception of the fire line, the opponent should have lost the target.
But the Plague Messenger just now moved faster than normal, so we can't let our guard down.
Su Ming held Xia Xiaoyu in his arms and began to think about when to find the right opportunity to seize the fire power. When he was sleeping last night, he studied the power fusion function of the system. This function can choose two powers, set one as the primary power and the other as the secondary power.
If the fusion is successful, nothing will happen, but if the fusion fails, the secondary power will disappear directly.
In addition, for any superpower, the more times it is successfully fused, the lower the success rate of the next fusion will be. This is the rule of fusion.
Although Su Ming regretted not keeping [Use Fire], fortunately, the fusion success rate of [Blade Made from Blood] and [Knife Wounds Do Not Stop Bleeding] is quite high, reaching 20%.
He planned to take the risk of merging these two powers later, and then use the empty space to store the new fire power.
"How do we deal with this monster?" Flora asked.
"Burn it with fire." Su Ming said.
Sarah heard Su Ming's words and replied, "It's useless. It takes a very strong flame to burn the Plague Messenger to death. That kind of flame cannot be created by ordinary gods. Anthony's fire can't... Anthony's fire can only burn some insects to death. If he fights against the Plague Messenger, he will only be besieged and poisoned to death by the insects."
Everyone walked along the mountain road leading to the dinner. When they turned a huge bend, Sarah saw out of the corner of her eye a large black blanket emerging from the forest behind her.
His skinny cheeks turned pale in an instant, and he immediately opened his mouth and shouted Anthony's name. Anthony turned around and saw the scene behind him, his face turned pale, and then he jumped off the horse without hesitation and blocked the road behind him.
"Let's hurry up!" Sarah said, "This guy is too fast! We have to speed up! ... Leave this to Anthony!"
Su Ming looked at the terrain they were in. The road was narrow and there were no obstacles. It was the best place to block the pursuers. Even if Anthony was unable to fight the plague messenger, he should be able to buy time here.
"Is there someone in the next village who can use fire like Anthony?" Su Ming asked.
Sarah shook her head: "No more! "
"Then I will stay here and fight with Anthony, while Flora takes Alice and Sarah and continues on!"
"No, Dad! I want to be with Dad!" Alice shouted.
Flora hugged Alice tightly with one hand and said to Sarah, "Let's go quickly."
"Wait, why are you staying here? You can't stop him! Are you going to use one of those explosive weapons? You can't use it here, this road is fragile, we will all die!
And even if the road is blocked, it won’t stop him, he can just follow the bugs and crawl over here!” Sarah warned.
"Don't worry, I won't use that kind of weapon." Su Ming replied.
"You... don't have to, just come with me." Anthony looked at Su Ming and conveyed his meaning in awkward Chinese.
"It is necessary." After Su Ming finished speaking, he turned to look at Sarah and urged, "You want to stay here and wait for death? Hurry up and leave!"
Sarah gritted her teeth and without hesitation, she drove the horse and led the people to continue climbing to the top of the mountain. Su Ming looked at Xia Xiaoyu beside him and said, "You go with me."
"Don't you need me?" Xia Xiaoyu asked worriedly.
"You have to listen to me this time. I may have to use my ultimate move later, and I can't use it with you here. Don't worry, I still have insurance. At least you won't die this time."
Xia Xiaoyu looked at Su Ming deeply, and without hesitation, she rode her horse to catch up with Sarah's team.
"Okay...it's just the two of us now."
Su Ming took a deep breath and turned his gaze towards the swarm of black insects that had just rushed up the mountain road.
"You don't have to stay." Anthony sighed.
The pitch-black swarm of insects spread like a tide along the gray-white mountain road towards Su Ming. From a distance, it looked like a crawling black snake. At the top of the black snake's tail, there was a chair made of insects. A black figure sat on the insect chair, leading the army forward like a king.
Su Ming could clearly see that Anthony beside him was breathing faster. He was afraid.
"Are you scared?"
"I'm not afraid of death... I'm just afraid that I can't stop him," said Anthony.
"Your usage of Chinese is great, only the tone is a little wrong." Su Ming said with a smile.
"...Thank you." Anthony said blankly.
He didn't understand why Su Ming would bring up such an insignificant matter at such a critical moment. Wasn't he nervous at all? They were going to die soon.
Su Ming was silent for a moment, then asked: "If I say I have a way to stop them, but the premise is that you will die, are you willing to die?"
Anthony was startled when he heard this, and replied, "I am not afraid of death, but I feel that even if we die... we can't stop him."
"Anthony, listen to me carefully... I have the ability to take away other people's superpowers, and I can increase the power of other people's superpowers, but the prerequisite for taking away superpowers is that the person whose superpowers are taken away must be seriously injured. In this process, the person whose superpowers are taken away may very likely die!" Su Ming stared at Anthony and said seriously.
Su Ming didn't know why he told Anthony all this, as he had already decided to seize Anthony's supernatural powers.
Regardless of whether Anthony agrees or not, he must seize Anthony's supernatural powers, because only in this way can he have a chance to stop the plague messenger, and the villagers and Xia Xiaoyu will have a chance to survive.
But... Su Ming always felt that for some things, even if the final result remained unchanged, if he attacked Anthony by surprise, Anthony would definitely be very sad when he died in the end.
No matter what, he had to let Anthony know why he died.
Su Ming looked at Anthony who looked dazed, and immediately added: "I will try my best to control it, maybe... maybe you won't die."
Anthony stared at Su Ming blankly, then lowered his head and thought for a moment.
When he looked up again, his eyes had become extremely determined.
"I understand! Come on!" Anthony gritted his teeth.
He knew that his fire could not hurt the Plague Messenger, and all he could do was delay him. He would definitely die in the end. Since he would die anyway, if Su Ming could stop the Plague Messenger... that would be the best outcome!
Su Ming quickly called up the system interface and quickly entered the ability fusion column, then put [Blood-made Blade] and [Knife Wound Does Not Stop Bleeding] on it, and placed [Blood-made Blade] in the main fusion position.
Su Ming pressed the merge button.
[Ding! Fusion successful! ]
[Blood Blade: You can transform your own blood into a weapon. The more blood you use in one breath, the better the quality of the weapon. Use the created weapon to cause damage to the enemy. During the activation of the ability, the wound will not heal and will continue to worsen.]
Great, the bet was successful!
Su Ming turned his gaze to Anthony and took out his pistol and pointed it at Anthony. He had already made up his mind yesterday what to do, but at this moment he still hesitated.
He saw the swarm of insects approaching in the distance and calculated the escape speed of Xia Xiaoyu and the others in his mind.
No matter how he calculated it, if he couldn't stop the Plague Bringer here, he and the others would surely die... so he had to seize Anthony's supernatural powers.
Su Ming wanted to pull the trigger, but the shackles of morality still bound him. Even at the last moment, he was still thinking of a better way... Is there a better way that would prevent both Anthony and himself from dying and enable them to defeat the other party?
Super intuitive, now is the time to use you! Tell me the answer ... Tell me the answer!
...Super intuition had no reaction, and Su Ming was filled with despair.
Anthony looked back at the approaching swarm of insects, then looked at Su Ming.
“What are you waiting for!”
He suddenly pounced over, grabbed Su Ming's hand, and pressed down Su Ming's fingers.
“Bang! Bang!”
Anthony was knocked to the ground.
"ah!"
Anthony struggled to turn over and stared at Su Ming with a determined look.
Su Ming was stunned for a moment before he realized that Anthony had fallen to the ground.
He reacted quickly, leaned over, put his hands on Anthony, and began to take away his supernatural powers. Anthony screamed in pain, but the next second he clenched his lips tightly, blocking the scream in his throat.
Su Ming used his other hand to cover his eyes, hoping that this would relieve Anthony's pain.
Su Ming tried his best to slow down the speed of seizing superpowers, and to strike a perfect balance between the damage to his body and time. He hoped that Anthony could survive after this.
But the swarm is approaching!
"I'll stop the Plaguebringer for you! It'll be quick...you'll be fine!"
"Galasi!" Anthony shouted through gritted teeth.
Su Ming didn't understand the native language, but Anthony quickly added in Chinese: "Fuck... you!"
Until the end, Anthony still had some sanity left and wanted to entrust his will to Su Ming.
"I understand... rely on me... I will stop him!" Su Ming gritted his teeth.
Su Ming held Anthony's body, which was twitching constantly due to the severe pain. The progress of seizing superpowers was slowly loading in his mind. He focused all his attention on the loading bar in front of him, trying not to think about what would happen to Anthony in the end, and whether he could successfully keep Anthony alive.
At this time, Su Ming remembered Sylvie's words. This was the choice Sylvie talked about, and it was a price that must be paid!
The black swarm of insects is still approaching, and the system's loading bar is rushing towards the end.
Su Ming could already hear the sound of thousands of insect legs rubbing against each other on the mountain road.
[Ding! The superpower was successfully seized, and a new superpower [Unnamed] was obtained]
He successfully took away Anthony's superpowers!
Su Ming touched Anthony's neck and felt the pulse, but it was gone. He had failed again. Anthony was dead.
"Name it [Use Fire]!" Su Ming said in a trembling voice.
After obtaining the ability to use fire, Su Ming immediately knew the specific effects and usage of this ability.
This time's fire-related ability is slightly different from the one snatched from the fire man last time. The last ability could not only release flames, but also absorb flames, but this time the ability snatched from Anthony could only release flames.
But it seems to be a little wider.
The dark swarm of insects crawled in front of Su Ming. Just as Sarah said, this plague bringer drove the swarm of insects at a very fast speed.
Su Ming raised his hand like lightning, and dazzling flames were released from his palms. The raging fire burned all the insects on the ground.
"Anthony, I will stop him with you!" Su Ming raised his head and looked at the plague messenger in the distance, "Come on!"
While releasing flames, Su Ming stood up and approached the Plague Messenger step by step. His heart was filled with anger, and all his guilt and responsibility turned into murderous intent and poured into the flames in front of him.
More insects swarmed towards Su Ming. Some climbed up the high rock wall, made a big circle, and tried to launch a sneak attack on Su Ming from behind. Some climbed down the cliff next to him and surrounded him from the mountain road behind.
These bugs were very tactically aware and methodically formed an encirclement net to surround Su Ming.
Under Su Ming's fire attack, more insects no longer charged . Hundreds of them that originally rushed into the flames in one breath turned into charging one by two.
Although the number of insects decreased, Su Ming could not cancel his supernatural power. No matter whether there was one or a hundred insects rushing in front of him, as long as one of them touched him, he would be dead.
A strong sense of crisis stung Su Ming's nerves. He carefully felt the hints from his super intuition and burned all the bugs that attacked him.
"Hahahaha! That's a waste of time! Silas Dharmado~"
The Plague Messenger sitting on the bug chair in the distance let out a heart-pounding laugh, then spoke a few words loudly in an incomprehensible language with a teasing tone, as if mocking.
Su Ming surrounded himself with flames, but his flames could not cover the surroundings 360 degrees without any blind spots, so occasionally one or two insects would escape the burning of the flames and crash into Su Ming's defense range.
At this time, he had to rely on his super intuition to dodge.
At this moment, Su Ming wanted to run to the plague messenger in one breath and burn him to death, but the constant harassment from the swarm of poisonous insects prevented him from acting recklessly.
Every time he approached the enemy for a certain distance, the enemy would control the swarm of insects and retreat the same distance to prevent him from getting close.
The entire Plague Messenger is not only powerful, but also very cunning. Even when facing a "weak" opponent like him, he remains extremely vigilant.
Su Ming realized that he was naive before. The annihilation mode was not invincible, and its drawbacks were now apparent.
The annihilation range of the annihilation mode is only a radius of fifty meters, but the opponent is already more than fifty meters away. Even if the annihilation mode is turned on, the opponent is no longer within the annihilation range.
Moreover, he didn't know whether these bugs had any abnormalities. If these bugs did not have any abnormalities, the annihilation mode would not attack them. After no abnormalities were detected, it was turned on and off immediately. That momentary gap was enough for these bugs to touch him.
If you use a killing move like that, it will become a self-destruction and you will kill yourself directly.
While controlling the flames, Su Ming was thinking in his mind how to kill the monster in front of him.
He believed there was a way, but he couldn't think of it!
