Chapter 69: Bullying the Weak and Fearing the Strong
The two men's fight transformed into a childish snowball fight, one throwing a clump, the other returning the favor, only their snowballs had been replaced by the steel, concrete, and rocks ubiquitous in the ruins.
Bai Mo relied on his psychic power to nullify the kinetic energy of De Bu Luo Yi's long-range attacks, while De Bu Luo Yi continuously healed the wounds that frequently appeared on his body thanks to his super-regeneration.
Under Bai Mo's deliberate guidance, both sides fell into a war of attrition.
"My close-combat abilities are completely useless!" De Bu Luo Yi lamented. He possessed formidable strength, but if he couldn't land a blow, it was all for naught.
"Officer De Bu Luo Yi possesses such terrifying power, yet he's still being beaten down by that guy!"
"No, that's not right. He's not being suppressed; it's just that his opponent dares not engage Officer De Bu Luo Yi in close combat, which is why he keeps harassing him." Another supporter tried to find an excuse for De Bu Luo Yi.
"Let's get out of here first." After Bai Mo moved more than twenty meters away from them, the two still-shaken hooligans finally managed to scramble to their feet.
"Just now, I wonder who was brainless enough to interfere in their fight, and now he's the first one to run away. I really don't know who the real coward is." Someone who had previously argued with the two hooligans said, his voice dripping with sarcasm.
Having just been abused by Bai Mo, the two already felt incredibly disgruntled. Now, hearing such sarcastic taunts, how could they possibly hold back? The two of them immediately lunged like arrows towards the one who mocked them, tacitly delivering one punch to the face and another to the gut.
"You two sons of bitches!"
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A torrent of ugly words spewed forth, causing the few people nearby to frown in unison.
"How can you make a living on the streets if you don't bully the weak and fear the strong!" the two hooligans shouted as they fled. After teaching the other a lesson, they didn't dare to linger; there were too many people present, and they could easily be surrounded.
Some of the surrounding onlookers secretly applauded. "That's what you get for having a foul mouth, you keyboard warrior!" they muttered, completely oblivious to the fact that they themselves had been just as cowardly moments earlier. As for chasing after the two, no one even entertained that thought. After all, they were just strangers who had known each other for half a day, having formed a temporary team for some special reason, with no strong bonds between them.
Bai Mo, on one hand, was toying with De Bu Luo Yi like a cat with a mouse, and on the other, he was enjoying the farce unfolding. He had no intention of chasing the two who fled; even if everyone else scattered, it wouldn't matter. As long as his experimental subject, De Bu Luo Yi, couldn't escape, it was fine.
"Super-regeneration, gene lock, and that eye ability... It would be a complete waste not to capture you as experimental material. Killing you is easy, but how can I capture you alive?" What he was thinking about was no longer how to win, but how to capture his opponent alive.
"Without the appropriate equipment, or anesthetics and the like, achieving this goal will be very troublesome. It seems I'll have to keep such things prepared at all times in the future, otherwise, I'll just have to slowly wear down their stamina like this time."
Once everyone realized Bai Mo seemed to have no energy left to pay attention to the two hooligans' departure, they all quickly slipped away, embracing the mindset of "when immortals fight, mortals suffer." The sight of Bai Mo instantly pinning down seven people was too terrifying; in the face of their own safety, face and pride were irrelevant. After all, they had just barely survived a nuclear attack, making each of them cherish their lives even more.
"Officer De Bu Luo Yi will definitely win!" a few of them muttered as they fled in the direction away from the battlefield.
"Go, Officer De Bu Luo Yi!" The remaining people, seeing this, also shouted a few slogans before leaving in twos and threes.
Hearing the surrounding declarations of escape, De Bu Luo Yi was helpless to stop their departure, constrained by his earlier words, "It's fine if you don't want to uphold justice." Furthermore, even if he wanted to stop them, he no longer had the energy to do so. He now had to fully concentrate on Bai Mo's endless stream of harassment, completely unable to pay attention to the small fry around him.
"Gasp, gasp, gasp." After thirty continuous minutes of high-intensity combat, De Bu Luo Yi was finally showing signs of fatigue, ceaselessly panting heavily. Yet, he still couldn't even touch a hair on Bai Mo. At this point, his intuition had already detected something amiss—his opponent showed no signs of fatigue whatsoever!
"Did you notice?" Bai Mo thought, observing the bewildered expression on De Bu Luo Yi's face.
"If that guy were a pure long-range ability user, his stamina couldn't possibly be better than mine. His movement speed is faster than mine, and the distance he's covered in these thirty minutes has also surpassed mine. My stamina is already nearing critical levels, so how could his body show no reaction at all!"
"His true stamina absolutely surpasses mine! Fighting only at long range was all an illusion he fed me, his purpose being to continuously drain my physical energy! Damn it!" After realizing this, De Bu Luo Yi's tactics grew conservative; his attacks became half-hearted, and he began ceaselessly searching for an opportunity to escape.
Bai Mo observed his opponent's sudden shift in combat style and felt even more certain of his hypothesis.
"It's time to reel him in." Bai Mo drastically increased the frequency of his attacks, further depleting De Bu Luo Yi's already meager stamina.
"Bastard! My change in combat style inadvertently exposed my intentions!" De Bu Luo Yi could only grit his teeth, wringing out every last ounce of strength from his body to contend with the rain-like barrage of long-range attacks.
The storm-like long-range bombardment persisted for a full five minutes. Towards the end, De Bu Luo Yi had completely run out of time to block and could only endure by relying solely on his super-regeneration.
"Truly an enviable ability," Bai Mo murmured idly. "To be able to withstand such an assault."
After that round of bombardment passed, De Bu Luo Yi was already unsteady on his feet. Although his wounds healed quickly, his faintly trembling body betrayed his state of exhaustion.
"One last strike." Bai Mo, once again like a villainous final boss, ceased his long-range attacks and instead stepped forward, intending to finish De Bu Luo Yi with a single punch.
Bai Mo swiftly closed in on De Bu Luo Yi, and just as he was about to unleash a devastating blow, De Bu Luo Yi smiled eerily, erupting with 120% of his full body strength, launching an attack at Bai Mo, who had foolishly engaged him in close quarters.
"You should have already guessed that my stamina is better than yours, and my speed is faster. Why didn't you consider that my physical strength would also be greater than yours? Or did you guess it, but your subconscious refused to believe?" With his other hand, Bai Mo exerted all his strength and steadily caught De Bu Luo Yi's final retaliatory punch.
Bai Mo's devastating punch directly plunged into De Bu Luo Yi's body, tearing through the reinforced skin and Life Field defenses as if they were paper. At this point, however, De Bu Luo Yi was already half-dead, incapable of resistance, with only his super-regeneration instinct ceaselessly squeezing the foreign fist within him.
Suddenly, Bai Mo was surprised to discover that while his fist remained inside De Bu Luo Yi's body, his psychic power could penetrate the opponent's Life Field and directly act upon De Bu Luo Yi's insides.
"If I had known this earlier, I wouldn't have had to fight for so long."
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