harleyscars Chapter 14 The Terrifying Wooden Arrow
Chapter 14 The Terrifying Wooden Arrow
Su Wanyue's eyes were sharp. Without any visible effort, her slender figure had already teleported to the wooden arrow. The dark, black longsword in her hand remained sheathed, as if it were an extension of her limbs. She lowered her stance, drew the sword, and with pinpoint accuracy, aimed the blade at the side of the arrowhead—a powerful strike!
"Ding!"
Almost at the same instant Su Wanyue made her move, Wang Hu let out a deep, muffled roar. His already burly body bulged with muscles, his bones cracking like popping beans, transforming him into a three-meter-tall giant.
Wang Hu stood to Su Wanyue's left front, took a step forward, and slammed his football-sized fist into the shaft of the wooden arrow.
A crisp, yet powerful, impact resounded. The arrow was cleverly deflected, grazing the left side of Xu Wenchu's SUV before striking the concrete road ahead.
The wooden arrow was seen to have been driven a full foot deep into the cement road.
Faced with the bizarre attack of level 2, the two did not intend to take it head-on. Their goal was simply to prevent the wooden arrow from hitting Xu Wenchu. They only needed to deflect the arrow's trajectory.
"Holy crap! This is too powerful! This strange distance is at least six or seven hundred meters away from Xu Wenzhu. Judging from the power of that arrow just now, if Su Wanyue and Wang Hu hadn't blocked it, it probably would have pierced through Xu Wenzhu's off-road vehicle!" Zhao Hai swallowed hard, still feeling a bit shaken.
If that arrow had been shot at his car, it would have definitely pierced through it!
Although the car couldn't possibly be totaled by that arrow, the people inside would definitely have been pierced through! No wonder Su Wanyue and Wang Hu helped Xu Wenzhu block that arrow.
After Su Wanyue and Wang Hu helped Xu Wenchu block the arrow, they immediately got into their car and followed closely behind Xu Wenchu's vehicle.
"Hehe! This is so much fun!"
Seeing that his arrow had missed Xu Wenchu's car, the little boy became interested.
This time, he took three wooden arrows directly from his arrow basket, nocked them on his bow, and shot them towards Xu Wenchu, Su Wanyue, and Wang Hu.
"Damn it, Captain Xu, what kind of weird thing is this? It's one thing for the arrow to be powerful, but now it can even shoot three arrows at the same time!" Even Wang Hu, who usually has a good temper, cursed when he saw the strange three wooden arrows being shot at the same time.
"I don't know what this weird thing is. I just hope I can get rid of this damn weird thing as soon as possible!" Xu Wenchu looked furious but helpless.
"Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!"
Three wooden arrows pierced the air, drawing three intertwined and twisted trajectories in the sky, locking onto Xu Wenzhu, Su Wanyue, and Wang Hu respectively, as if they were alive.
From that single arrow, the three knew that the strangely fired wooden arrow had a tracking effect, accurately pinpointing their location.
Otherwise, Xu Wenchu wouldn't have asked Su Wanyue and Wang Hu to help him with that arrow he just shot at!
"Captain Xu, Wang Hu, the three of us will drive in a straight line. Wang Hu, we'll use the same method as before. I'll block the wooden arrow for a split second, and you'll deflect it so it hits the ground!" Feeling the three wooden arrows behind her, Su Wanyue had already come up with a plan!
"good!"
"good!"
Immediately, the three cars, arranged in a triangular formation, moved into a straight line in just two or three seconds.
"Listen to my countdown!" Su Wanyue's voice came through the howling wind and the roar of the engine.
Under her precise micro-management, the three cars instantly came into a perfect straight line, their rear ends almost touching their front ends, minimizing the exposed side surfaces, like a steel centipede speeding along a forest path. This required extraordinary reaction time and perfect coordination; any mistake could have resulted in a rear-end collision or rollover.
"three!"
Wang Hu let out a low roar, his giant body adjusting its angle in the speeding passenger seat, his thick right arm muscles bulging, his eyes fixed on the rearview mirror, capturing the three rapidly approaching green lights of death.
"two!"
Su Wanyue sat in the passenger seat, her right hand lightly resting on the hilt of the knife on her knee. Her concentration was high; she carefully observed the three wooden arrows behind them through the rearview mirror, precisely tracing their paths in her mind.
"one!"
Just as the three arrows were about to strike the rear of the three chariots—
Su Wanyue moved! No one knew when she had gotten to the back seat of the car, then opened the back door, grabbed the car body with her left hand, and gripped the long knife tightly in her right. Her movements were so fast they were almost a blur; she slashed down the long knife towards her side and rear.
Those streaks of sword energy precisely "pointed" at a specific spot on the side of the shaft of each of the two wooden arrows aimed at the rear of her vehicle and Xu Wenzhu's vehicle. Those two spots were precisely the most subtle and easily disturbed "nodes" in the flow of power during the arrows' flight!
"Buzz—!"
The two wooden arrows that had been "hit" vibrated violently, as if plucked by invisible fingers, and their trajectories were instantly deflected by a slight deviation that was almost imperceptible to the naked eye! It was this slight deviation that turned their originally fatal impact point into a mere graze around the edge of the car's rear!
"Now! Wang Hu!" Su Wanyue shouted softly.
"Give me a hard time—go for it!!!"
Having already prepared to the utmost, Wang Hu unleashed a thunderous roar the instant Su Wanyue successfully interfered. His giant right arm transformed into a bluish-gray afterimage, striking the center of the arrow at an excellent angle.
Wang Hu deflected the wooden arrow that was aimed at Xu Wenzhu and Su Wanyue. The arrow, which had been aimed at the two, fell to the ground at an angle, making a dull "thud".
The wooden arrow behind him was now less than a meter away.
At this moment, Wang Hu wanted to turn around and stop the wooden arrow behind him, but it was too late.
The wooden arrow was about to shoot towards Wang Hu's giant body.
Suddenly, Su Wanyue's ghostly figure appeared behind Wang Hu. She picked up her long sword, put all her strength into it, and slashed horizontally. The long sword drew a pale golden stream of light, leaving a trail of light in the air.
"Smash it!" Su Wanyue hissed.
Under Su Wanyue's full-force attack, the wooden arrow was also split in two.
"Huff! Huff!" After unleashing her full power, Su Wanyue was also panting heavily.
"Walk!"
Immediately afterwards, Wang Hu and Su Wanyue got back into the car and followed Xu Wenchu's vehicle ahead.
"Holy crap! Luckily, my car wasn't in the lead, otherwise I wouldn't have been able to stop those strange wooden arrows!" Zhao Hai sighed from the side.
His car was not far from Xu Wenchu's car, and he could clearly see how terrifying the wooden arrows shot at the three of them were!