signingbooks Chapter 26 Tier 2 Black Bear
Chapter 26 Tier 2 Black Bear
Song Chen glanced at Wang Hai, the bespectacled young man, who had good eyesight, but he didn't explain. Instead, he looked at Captain Lei and said, "Captain, I want to act alone."
Captain Lei paused for a moment, then asked, "Alone?"
Song Chen nodded: "Yes, I've become familiar with the battle outside the city yesterday. I'm more efficient and agile on my own, and I can run away by myself if I encounter danger."
He had thought this through carefully. After last night's enhancement, his strength had improved significantly, so there was no need to form a team anymore.
Captain Lei remained silent for a few seconds, looking at Song Chen with a thoughtful expression. He knew in his heart that the team couldn't keep this powerful figure, but he still asked again, "Are you sure?"
"Sure."
He suddenly laughed: "Alright, with your skills, it's a waste for you to stay in our team. You can definitely kill people alone, which is faster."
Then he took something out of his pocket and threw it to Song Chen.
Song Chen caught it; it was a small communicator.
"This is an emergency distress call device. Press it if you encounter danger, and a nearby team will come to your rescue. It can also sound an alarm if there are high-level alien beasts nearby. Don't be reckless, and come back alive."
Song Chen put the emergency call device into his pocket: "Thank you, Captain."
After saying that, he turned and walked towards the wilderness.
Behind him, Captain Lei watched his retreating figure and said, "I think this kid is destined to be a prominent figure in the entire Anning City, no, in the entire Great Xia."
Zhang Lie nodded: "Me too."
……
Song Chen walked alone into the wilderness. This time, he didn't go to the ruins from yesterday, but went deeper into the wilderness.
The area surrounding Changqing City is vast, and the distribution of the strange beasts is uneven. Yesterday, they had almost cleared out that area, so today they need to find a new place.
He walked for more than an hour and arrived at an abandoned industrial park. The park was full of collapsed factories and rusty machines, overgrown with weeds, making it a perfect hiding place for strange beasts.
As soon as Song Chen stepped inside, three mutated wild dogs rushed out of the ruins. Without even drawing his knife, he raised his hand and unleashed three bolts of lightning. The three wild dogs fell to the ground, their bodies charred black.
[Slay 3 Tier 1 Beasts, reward 15 Kill Points]
He stepped over the corpses and continued walking inside. In one morning, he killed more than forty first-tier alien beasts, and his kill value rose to 218 points.
At noon, he found a clean spot to sit down, ate some dry food, drank some water, and then continued.
In the afternoon, Song Chen was clearing out an abandoned warehouse area when he suddenly heard a fierce fight, the roar of a strange beast, and screams of people coming from afar.
At the same time, the communicator that Captain Lei had given him rang, indicating that someone was calling for help.
He frowned slightly; someone was in danger. He hesitated for a second, then ran in that direction anyway.
If he were in danger, he would immediately call for help. Now that someone else is in danger, of course he should go too.
The sounds of fighting grew closer. He walked around a collapsed factory building, and the scene before him made him stop in his tracks.
On the open ground, a six-person team was being besieged by a giant mutated black bear, not an ordinary beast.
The black bear stood upright, reaching a height of four or five meters. Its jet-black fur stood up like steel needles, and its blood-red eyes shone with a mad light. Each of its strikes carried terrifying force, leaving several large craters in the ground.
Judging from its aura, this is a second-tier low-grade alien beast. According to human calculations, its health value should be around 20, indicating considerable strength. However, all the members of this team are below the second tier, with the strongest captain being only at the peak of the first tier.
They fought back desperately, but they couldn't stop the black bear's attack. Two people had already fallen to the ground, covered in blood, their fate unknown. The remaining four struggled to hold on, but it was clear they wouldn't last much longer.
"Captain, take them away!" a young man roared, brandishing his knife as he charged toward the black bear.
The black bear slapped his knife away with one paw and struck his head with the other, causing him to close his eyes.
"Bang!"
The expected death did not come. He opened his eyes and saw a figure blocking his way.
It was a young man, dressed in ordinary combat gear, holding a standard combat knife. His knife sliced into the black bear's claw from the side, dodging the fierce attack while simultaneously cutting the blade a foot into the bear's paw, causing blood to drip down.
He subconsciously swallowed, wondering what kind of swordsmanship this was.
The person who arrived was Song Chen.
The black bear roared angrily and swung its other paw at him. He didn't dodge; instead, he raised his left hand, and a bolt of deep blue lightning shot out from his palm, striking the black bear squarely in the eye.
The black bear screamed and retreated, its eyes blackened by the electric shock. He seized the opportunity to rush forward and slashed the black bear's neck with his knife, the blade sinking half a foot into the ground.
The black bear's skin was too thick, and its neck too swollen; this one cut wasn't enough to kill it. But Song Chen didn't stop. He withdrew the knife and made another cut, and another, and another.
Each strike landed in the same spot, each strike deeper than the last, the blade crackling with lightning, paralyzing the black bear's body and rendering it utterly helpless.
The seventh cut, the eighth cut... the fourteenth cut.
The black bear's neck was finally severed, and its massive body crashed to the ground, shaking the earth.
[The Tier 2 mutated black bear has been killed, granting 60 kill points.]
Song Chen stood beside the black bear's carcass, his body splattered with blood, but his eyes were calm, as calm as if nothing had happened.
The open space was deathly silent.
The four members of the squad stared blankly at the scene, speechless. The two men lying on the ground struggled to lift their heads, their faces filled with disbelief.
The young man who had almost been killed gaped, unable to close his mouth for a long time: "A...a second-tier beast...killed...no, just like that?"
His voice was trembling.
The captain, a man in his thirties, swallowed hard and began with difficulty, "Brother...you, you are..."
Song Chen wiped the blood off the knife and sheathed it: "Just passing by."
Just passing by? The four people looked at each other in bewilderment. Just passing by, and then casually killed a second-tier alien beast?
Song Chen walked up to the two wounded men, squatted down to check them over, and found that one had two broken ribs and the other had a broken left arm, but neither was in life-threatening danger. He took out two healing pills from his pocket and handed them to them.
"have eaten."
The two accepted the pills: "This...this is far too precious..."
"You ate it, and you also deserve credit for killing the black bear," Song Chen repeated.
The two dared not refuse any longer and swallowed the pills. The effects were rapid, and their complexions visibly improved.
The captain walked over and bowed deeply: "Brother, I will never forget your life-saving grace. My name is Chen Shi, the captain of the Iron-Blooded Squad. If you need anything in the future, just let me know."
Song Chen waved his hand: "No need."
Then he turned around and stabbed the black bear in the heart with a knife, taking the second-tier life crystal core inside, and then turned and left.
Chen Shi quickly called out to him, "Brother, could you leave your name? That way we'll know who saved you..."
Song Chen didn't even turn his head: "Song Chen."
His figure disappeared into the ruins.
The six members of the Ironblood Squad stood still for a long time.
After a long pause, the young man who had almost been killed murmured, "Song Chen... why does that name sound familiar?"
Chen Shi was silent for a few seconds: "I remember now. Yesterday, the news went viral in the mission hall that a newly promoted martial artist killed more than sixty first-tier alien beasts all by himself."
"It's him?"
"It should be."
The crowd fell silent again, their eyes filled with awe as they looked in the direction where Song Chen had disappeared.
With first-tier strength, he killed over seventy first-tier beasts and slew a second-tier black bear in ten seconds. What kind of monster is this?
Soon, as darkness fell, Song Chen immediately returned to the city; he dared not stay in the wilderness at night.
On the way back, it got dark, and the city walls in the distance were already lit up. He looked down at the system.
[Current kill count: 703.]
More than half more than yesterday, firstly because the skill level has increased, and secondly because they are solo kills without teammates stealing their kills.