Chapter 97: Chapter 8: Effortless
The team of hunters rescued by Yan Luo never imagined that a vehicle could be used like this—
Yan Luo attacked the deer-shaped demon from the front, while remotely controlling the motorcycle to collide from behind, effectively making it a two-on-one against the demon.
In this era, most vehicles are equipped with autonomous driving modules; as long as you issue the command, you can make them do anything.
Yan Luo’s combat style was not his own invention; many hunters like to use this method to hunt demons.
Vehicle collisions aren’t blocked by deflecting shields, allowing all kinetic energy to be applied to the demon. The only problem is that demons generally have tough bodies. Repeatedly using vehicles to hit them might damage the vehicle and cause malfunctions.
Therefore, Yan Luo used the vehicle to hit the demon only three times, giving it a deep enough impression of the motorcycle so that when the motorcycle’s roaring sound arose, its attention would be diverted.
Just like now, Yan Luo let the motorcycle sprint towards the deer-shaped demon, while he allowed himself to be sent flying by the demon.
In mid-air, Yan Luo pulled out a grappling gun and shot at the demon’s large antlers, while controlling the leg thrusters to suspend himself in the air.
The demon’s attention was drawn by the sound from behind, and it was inadvertently hooked by the grappling hook on the antlers.
The winch inside the grappling gun vigorously contracted, pulling Yan Luo towards the deer-shaped demon.
The deer-shaped demon jumped up to avoid the motorcycle collision, yet suddenly felt its head heavy, and its body uncontrollably being pulled forward.
Turning its head, the demon saw Yan Luo’s figure rapidly enlarging in its view.
Yan Luo didn’t use the thermal axe. He knew the defense level of the demon facing him, so he drew out a long knife.
The pull of the grappling gun wasn’t strong enough to drag Yan Luo straight to the demon’s head, but that was exactly what Yan Luo wanted.
Yan Luo swung towards the demon’s abdomen. The motorcycle timely made a U-turn, speeding towards the underside of the deer-shaped demon.
His finger suddenly pressed the release button of the grappling hook, and the rapidly contracting steel cable scraped the tip of the demon’s nose. Taking advantage of the inertia, Yan Luo flew into the underside of the deer-shaped demon’s abdomen, his feet landing on the motorcycle saddle.
The long knife raised high by Yan Luo cut open the demon’s belly, creating a long wound extending from the front leg to the hind leg of the deer-shaped demon.
Severe pain came, and the demon leapt up from the ground, but this very leap caused its internal organs to spill out of its belly.
The intestines fell to the ground with a clatter!
Yan Luo sheathed the knife, turned the handlebars, and drove away to the side.
The demon, filled with rage, dragged its intestines on the ground and the internal organs hanging in the air, swiftly chasing after Yan Luo’s silhouette.
Yan Luo did not turn back to deal with the demon again, because with such serious injuries, it was not far from death already. All he had to do next was keep running, dragging the demon till it died.
As Yan Luo expected, the demon closely followed, but gradually, its speed had to slow down.
For a lethal-level demon, internal organs are equally vulnerable. The deer-shaped demon kept running wildly, causing the intestines to be dragged, the skin long worn off, seeping a great deal of blood, while the organ hanging in mid-air was drawn by gravity to dislodge more parts from its body.
The deer-shaped demon stopped, kneeling on the ground, trying hard to contract the muscles in its body to pull back the internal organs that had fallen out.
For a lethal-level demon, this task could be accomplished.
Unfortunately, Yan Luo would not give it time to heal its wounds.
The motorcycle suddenly performed a sharp drift, the body skidding, with the front and rear ends swapping places in an instant.
Aimed at the greater horned deer kneeling on the ground, Yan Luo cranked up the motorcycle’s speed to the maximum, instantly shooting forth from its original location.
Seeing the enemy rushing towards it, the greater horned deer rose with determination, lowering its head to charge.
At this moment, Yan Luo slammed on the brakes, the body swinging horizontally, the kinetic energy instantly converting into inertia, partly channeled by Yan Luo into his arm, swinging back to throw the knife.
The long knife spun towards the greater horned deer, and due to the severe injury drastically weakening its deflecting shield, it couldn’t deflect this projectile, allowing the long knife to pierce straight into the greater horned deer’s forehead, penetrating its brain.
The giant body abruptly lost strength, its limbs going limp, the body collapsing like a landslide, thundering down, inertia propelling the body sliding on the ground, and moments later tumultuously rolling over.
Eventually, the body of the greater horned deer came to a stop in front of Yan Luo, with its large, grayish eyes reflecting the cold, towering figure.
Yan Luo watched as the greater horned deer’s body disintegrated into Magic Power, with some magic power dissipating due to the lack of Engraving, while most of the magic power coalesced again, forming a massive heart.
The heart was as big as an adult woman’s torso, appearing very robust.
Without hesitation, Yan Luo collected the heart, as this was his hunt.
Looking up at the hunter team parked in the distance, Yan Luo sent them a farewell message, then drove off.
The hunters sitting in the off-road vehicle looked at each other, suddenly recalling the words of the hunter who saved them in the channel initially.
"That person... was Yan Luo, right?"
That hunter hadn’t activated any Engravings from start to finish, which isn’t what an ordinary hunter would do.
Considering he said he had no Engravings, his identity was as clear as day.
"Yan Luo is just an ordinary person, right? He doesn’t even have Engravings, yet he effortlessly killed a lethal-level demon..."
Let alone an ordinary person, even a Sequence 5 hunter without companion assistance would find it incredibly difficult to kill a lethal-level demon.
Although Yan Luo’s equipment was visibly exceptional, he was hunting a lethal-level demon!
Yan Luo didn’t know what kind of stir his hunt would cause in the hunter community; for him now, lethal-level demons were no longer ’lethal.’
During the hunt just now, he was considerate of that team of hunters and didn’t display his full strength. Otherwise, he could have met the greater horned deer head-on without resorting to so many tricks.
The heart of the greater horned deer is an ingredient in aphrodisiacs worth fifty thousand each, from this point of view, this time Yan Luo didn’t lose out.
Yan Luo rode the motorcycle, galloping across the Bone-Eroding Plain.
His view wasn’t just attentive to the surroundings and ground, even the sky wasn’t overlooked.
Demons with flight abilities are most numerous in the Crescent Mountain Range, followed by the Bone-Eroding Plain.
Sometimes, certain eagle-falcon demons stay in the Crescent Mountain Range well but would inexplicably come to the Bone-Eroding Plain, which Yan Luo must guard against.
Now, his ground combat ability wasn’t weak, but he lacked anti-air capabilities.
Let alone him, most hunters lacked anti-air capabilities. To effectively harm demons with flight capabilities, one could only wait for the demon to dive down.
The problem is that many flying demons possess long-range attack abilities, forcing hunters to stand on the ground using firearms to attack demons, having to expend large amounts of bullets and Magic to harm flying demons.
Yan Luo had no teammates, and his firearms were all shotguns, making it difficult to deal with flying demons.
But still, when soldiers come, we’ll block with generals, when water approaches, we’ll cover with earth; there’s always a way.
As the motorcycle raced across the land, Yan Luo surveyed the scene; everywhere within view was flat ground below an altitude of fifty meters.
On the road, Yan Luo found traces of some demons. Yet, based on those traces, Yan Luo judged that demons leaving those marks weren’t his targets, so he didn’t pursue them.
Wanting to earn ten million within a dozen days is an exceedingly challenging task; he must exert every ounce of effort.
Whether it is scheduling his time or conserving his energy, everything must be pushed to the extreme.
Fortunately, the Bone-Eroding Plain is a good place to earn money. Half an hour after entering the region, Yan Luo discovered traces left by a demon on his target list.
The Magic Moth, whose scales can temporarily enhance a prey’s magic adaptation, inducing a drunken magic state, while the scales also carry a hypnotic effect, quickly plunging prey with reduced mental resistance into illusions.
The most valuable material on it is its scales, which are hard to collect and drop.
Yan Luo found traces of the Magic Moth outside a forest. He parked the motorcycle outside, took out a container from the tail box, placed it in his backpack, and strode into the dark and deep forest.