Blade Hunter believes that persuasion should be gradual, so he starts by trying to get close: “Hey, miss, how should I address you?”

Dongdong: “My surname is Grass.”

“Surname Cao?” Blade Hunter thought for a moment, then asked, “What’s your name?”

Dongdong: “Call me Dad.”

“Cao… Ni… Ba…” Blade Hunter murmured, suddenly realizing, his fierce eyes flashing with anger, “You damn well want to die!”

His sharp claws scraped across the ground, causing dazzling sparks, rushing straight toward Dongdong.

Halfway through the charge, he suddenly felt a blur in front of his eyes, Dongdong’s figure disappeared.

His fierce eyes searched around and quickly detected the high-speed running afterimage.

“Can she still activate her Artificial Spine?!” Blade Hunter was somewhat surprised.

This kid had been piloting her mecha for a long time, and got stabbed in her side, her body should be seriously injured.

Moreover, according to information previously provided by Dorne, her prosthetics overheated when fighting Violent Wolf, and she’s only a Prosthetic Implanter with minor enhancements to her arms and spine.

With so many negative effects stacking up, being able to stand is already a miracle, and she can actually enter bullet time?!

Is this guy truly human?!

While Blade Hunter was in a daze, Dongdong had already rushed up to him.

She suddenly leaped several meters, nearly parallel to the tall Blade Hunter, swinging her baseball bat fiercely at his skull.

“Dong!”

Blade Hunter’s head suffered a heavy blow, but he merely shook his head and quickly opened his eyes, coldly staring at Dongdong.

Clearly, as a “Hui-level Special Tier” Mechanical Ferocious Beast, primarily focusing on vitality and resilience, being hit like this is hardly noteworthy.

Facing the second swing of the bat, Blade Hunter met it head-on, his sharp claws collided with the bat, creating dazzling sparks, and with a strength advantage, he directly sent Dongdong flying.

“Overestimating yourself, a blunt weapon of this level is useless against me.” Blade Hunter rushed toward the fallen Dongdong, his claws striking down sharply, but hit empty air.

Dongdong flashed to the distance with the speed of bullet time, spitting out a mouthful of bloody foam, saying, “You big lizard, your skin is tough. If you’ve got the guts, don’t hide in the dark, come out for a real man’s duel!”

Blade Hunter: “You are really humorous.”

He ignored Dongdong’s provocation, quickly charging forward with his claws sweeping across.

Dongdong barely avoided the claw strike, suddenly realizing that as Blade Hunter spun around, he flung out his stinger tail. Like a swift steel whip.

This hidden move is daunting, Dongdong could only hurriedly raise her baseball bat to block.

“Clang!” A violent shock came from the baseball bat, making Dongdong’s hands numb.

The force of this blow was really too great, she couldn’t fully resist it, the tail momentum still scraped across her body, leaving a long bloody mark on her abdomen.

Dongdong, with a tougher head, knew that continuing to fight head-on would lead to certain death.

Hitting the opponent was like scratching an itch, while the opponent barely touching her led to bleeding profusely, how could she continue fighting?

Dongdong once again dodged a sweep, rolled and crawled through Blade Hunter’s crotch, running toward the distant transport platform.

“Now you know fear? If you’d surrendered earlier you wouldn’t be on a path to death!” Blade Hunter let out a sneer, chasing after Dongdong.

Both sides were very fast, for a while there was no telling who was ahead, forming two afterimages in the underground space.

Approaching the transport platform, Dongdong’s pace wobbled, and her speed started to slow.

Her body couldn’t hold up! Blade Hunter, with his experience fighting Prosthetic Implanters over the years, reached this conclusion.

He charged at Dongdong at full speed, preparing to kill her in one go.

The two shadows continued to run, but the distance was continually shortening.

Dongdong reached the entrance of the transport platform, and Blade Hunter also caught up to her.

Just as Blade Hunter’s claws were about to pierce through Dongdong’s back, something unexpected happened.

Dongdong suddenly lowered her body, her shoe soles dragging two black streaks against the ground, forcibly interrupting her running trend.

Immediately, she turned and lunged at the Blade Hunter, swinging the baseball bat fiercely at its ankle.

“Bang!”

The situation changed too quickly for the Blade Hunter to react.

Combined with the inertia caused by its heavy mass, the swing at its ankle directly knocked it off balance, causing its massive body to crash forward uncontrollably.

“Boom!” The Blade Hunter fell heavily, stirring up dust, with several of its tusks breaking.

Moreover, Dongdong timed it perfectly, as the Blade Hunter fell right on the edge between the transport platform and the ground, with its upper body inside and lower body outside.

Dongdong forcefully threw the baseball bat at the transport platform’s control panel, hitting the ascent button.

“Rumble—” Amidst the loud sound of mechanical transmission, the transport platform began to rise.

The Blade Hunter was caught at the juncture of the inner and outer edges, with half its body being lifted up.

It tried to struggle and get up, but Dongdong was quicker.

Dongdong flipped and jumped above the Blade Hunter, pressing her knee against its neck while gripping tightly onto the recesses of the transport platform’s edge, pinning it to the ground.

The Blade Hunter possessed strength far beyond that of a human, something Dongdong normally couldn’t hold down, but it was stuck on the transport platform, with its lower body hanging in the air, rendering it unable to exert force and get up.

“Roar! Roar—” The Blade Hunter struggled madly, its massive body causing great impact with every slight movement, shaking the transport platform continually.

To hold down the Blade Hunter, Dongdong gritted her teeth almost to the point of breaking them, with veins bulging on her forehead and neck, as the artificial spine and prosthetic arms emitted bursts of overload currents, exerting all her strength in this confrontation.

A few seconds felt like years.

Finally, with astonishing willpower, Dongdong gained the upper hand, securing enough time for herself.

Once the transport platform reached a certain height, the Blade Hunter’s body was wedged into the gap between the platform and the wall.

“Creak! Creak! Creak!…” The sound of metal twisting and bones cracking echoed one after another.

The edge of the transport platform twisted under the obstruction of foreign objects, while the Blade Hunter’s body gradually deformed under the compression.

The Blade Hunter roared, with thick blood gushing continuously from its mouth and nose.

As the nictitating membrane on its eyeballs slowly rolled back, its body suddenly slackened, lying there motionless.

“Huff… huff…” Staring at the blood-soaked behemoth beneath her, Dongdong felt her consciousness waver, as if she couldn’t believe her desperate counterattack had truly worked.

Not daring to relax, she flipped over and rushed to the transport platform’s control panel, frantically pressing the acceleration button.

However, due to a malfunction in the circuit system caused by the obstruction, the transport platform remained stuck, unresponsive no matter how hard she pressed.

So Dongdong picked up the baseball bat from the ground and charged at the Blade Hunter’s head, smashing it hard again and again.

Finishing blow! Only these two words remained in Dongdong’s mind.

When faced with a formidable enemy, one must never lower their guard just because the opponent closes their eyes.

Especially since the opponent is a Mechanical Ferocious Beast, who knows what kind of resilience such a monster possesses.

As long as there is any strength left, execute the finishing blow, again and again, hitting until all vital points of its body are reduced to pulp!

“Thud! Thud! Thud!…”

The sound of the baseball bat being swung furiously filled the air.

Just as Dongdong was frantically smashing the Blade Hunter’s head, the nictitating membrane covering its eyes suddenly retracted, revealing its fierce pupils shining with a cold light again.

“Swoosh—” In the next instant, a distorted afterimage emerged from the wall gap, shooting towards Dongdong like a bullet.

“Puh!” Unable to dodge in time, Dongdong’s left shoulder was hit directly, sending her entire prosthetic arm flying, exposing the amalgamation of human flesh and prosthetic circuitry at the severed end.

She was thrown to the ground by the impact, struggling to retreat to the corner, gritting her teeth as she looked ahead.

The Blade Hunter remained stuck at the edge, continuously bleeding from its mouth and nose, yet its fierce eyes still emitted a coldness, revealing tenacious vitality.

That tail, designed specifically for slaughter, was emerging from the wall gap, hanging high in the air, its barbs covered with the blood and metal scraps torn from Dongdong’s shoulder.

Subsequently, the tail recoiled into a bow shape, filled with stored power, and lunged like a venomous snake, once again aiming for Dongdong’s head.

The severe injury left Dongdong unable to move for the moment, forcing her to watch as the tail approached, unwillingly welcoming the arrival of death.

Source: Webnovel.com, updated by NovelKeep