Hunter of Immortals

Chapter 184: Snake Team

Chapter 184: Snake Team

"Should we go in as well?"

Medusa didn't give chase right away. Instead, she turned to Adam, and it was clear that she was quite wary of him, so she didn't want to pursue the others recklessly.

In the battle royale, one had no friends aside from their teammates.

Adam was the powerful adapter here, and she was afraid of being backstabbed by him.

"Of course. Otherwise, why did we come to this supply point?" Adam could tell what she was thinking, and in order to put her at ease, he suggested, "Let's go in together."

"Sounds good! Communicating with smart people really makes things a lot easier," Medusa praised, then opened up some distance between herself and Adam before entering the supply point.

Adam allowed her to enter first, then slowly followed along.

This supply point was completely different from the ones that Adam had encountered before. Those supply points only had several dozen buildings at most, but this one had several hundred, and there were all types of different buildings, giving the place the appearance of a run-down small town from 100 years ago.

Not only was there a large number of buildings in this supply point, it also took up a massive area, and Adam had already lost sight of the four mecha brothers.

After entering the supply, the four mecha brothers had immediately separated themselves so that they were able to hide more discretely among the buildings.

However, that wasn't going to be enough to stump Medusa. She had already participated in the battle royale on three previous occasions, and not only had she managed to survive each one, she had always been able to kill the people that she wanted to kill.

"Rattlesnake, find our opponents."

"Yes, Mistress."

It was unclear which organization Medusa and her teammates came from, but all of their psychic bodies were related to snakes, and they also referred to one another in rather strange ways.

Rattlesnake was a half-human, half-serpentine creature, and she raised her tail as she spoke, shaking it in a brisk back-and-forth motion to create a rattling sound. This ability seemed to be able to release some type of soundwave that spread through the area before reciprocating back to her, allowing her to receive certain signals that the average person wasn't receptive to.

"They're hiding in a building in that direction."

"Are they not searching for resources?"

"No. Perhaps they're worried that they'll alert the anomalies in the area if they begin searching for resources. If that happens, they'll be in big trouble, but what they don't know is that they're in trouble anyway," Rattlesnake chuckled. "This is my first time participating in a battle royale, so those idiots don't know about my abilities."

"Should we take them all down at once, Mr. Lean Mean Killing Machine?"

"Sure."

Perhaps it was due to Raven's influence, or perhaps he had simply grown accustomed to the nature of the game, but Adam was becoming more and more decisive about killing.

In any case, the battle royale was full of enemies, and very few people could survive to the end.

With that in mind, Adam followed Rattlesnake to a theater.

An old promotional poster from over 100 years ago was plastered to the outside of the theater, and the poster was promoting an eastern kung fu film. The stars of the film were wearing activewear on the poster, and they were rather familiar to Adam.

So those kinds of films really were popular in that era...

In this day and age, there was no audience for action films anymore. After all, watching battles in the psychic world was far more thrilling than watching action movies.

"They're hiding in there?"

"That's right!" Rattlesnake replied with a smile, then turned to Medusa. "Mistress, I'm ready when you are."

"Let's begin!"

Medusa slithered into the dark theater right away, and as soon as she did so, some type of mechanism that had been set up in advance was immediately triggered, alerting the people inside to her arrival.

"So be it, looks like we don't have to sneak around anymore. Let's go all-out and end this as quickly as possible!"

Medusa let loose a high-pitched shriek that shattered all of the surrounding panels of glass, and the wallpaper also began to peel away.

"If you want a fight, then a fight is what you'll get!"

The four mecha brothers fused back together to form a giant mecha.

Thankfully, the ceiling of the theater was over 10 meters tall. Otherwise, there was no way that it would've been able to contain the enormous mecha.

After fusing as one, the four mecha brothers raised their weapons and began firing them at Medusa.

As an adapter who ranked in the top half of the S tier, not only did Medusa possess extremely impressive offensive prowess, she had no weaknesses in the defensive department, either. With a wave of her hand, the entire ground in front of her was raised to form a stone wall that blocked all of the oncoming bullets.

"Your bullets are way less powerful than Clown's!"

The offensive prowess of a psychic body was directly related to the power of the psychic body itself. Cowboy was a perfect example of this, and he was able to blast buildings apart with his revolvers.

However, offensive prowess wasn't just related to the absolute power of a psychic body. In addition to that, there were also other factors like the power of the psychic body's abilities and the amount of psychic power expended.

"Is that right? Then why don't you have a taste of this!"

Seeing as their guns were proving to be largely ineffective, the mecha opened its mouth to reveal a cannon before firing off an energy blast.

The energy blast was extremely penetratively, and it passed directly through the stone wall with a resounding boom before blasting a crater that was three to four meters deep onto the spot where Medusa was standing.

However, Medusa herself was already nowhere to be seen.

"Whatcha lookin' at, big boy?"

While the four mecha brothers were frantically searching for her, her voice suddenly rang out from the ceiling. The giant mecha immediately looked up to find that Medusa had already slithered onto the ceiling and was hanging upside-down from there.

In the instant that the four mecha brothers raised their heads, they were suddenly struck by a sense of foreboding. Sure enough, Medusa's face immediately took on a twisted and horrifying appearance, and she let loose another sharp screech, one that was unavoidable for the four mecha brothers in such close proximity.

"Don't use the energy shields! Sacrifice some modules instead!"

The four mecha brothers knew Medusa quite well, so they were aware that her petrification ability was the most annoying weapon in her arsenal. The attack couldn't be kept at bay using energy-based defensive measures, and if one were to withstand the attack with their physical body, they would be turned to stone unless their defenses were so tremendous that they surpassed Medusa's offensive limits.

The best way to deal with this attack was to sacrifice some modules to ward off the attack.

With that in mind, the four mecha brothers reacted very quickly, releasing two metal nets out of the giant mecha's chest before the waves of petrifying energy arrived. Electric currents were surging over the pair of metal nets to prevent the waves of energy from passing through.

In the end, the two metal nets bore the brunt of the damage, and the trace amounts of energy that snuck through only petrified the outermost layer of a small section of the giant mecha's body, so the effects were quite minor.

"She's too damn agile! We're at a disadvantage fighting her indoors like this!"

"What the fuck are we waiting for then? We have to blast off!"

The four mecha brothers had a telepathic connection, so they were able to instantly communicate their ideas with one another.

Right after warding off the petrification attack, the giant mecha immediately sprang up, blasting out a jet of fire like a rocket as it crashed through the roof of the theater before flying into the sky.

"Prepare the high-explosive cannon!"

"Now commencing power accumulation... 3... 2... 1... Fire!"

A loud bang rang out as an enormous ball of energy flew out of the mecha's arm, descending into the hole in the roof that they had just flown out from before exploding inside the theater.