Chapter 358 Sudden Change of Scene

Aside from that fox and a dog, Xia Xinyan really had no other understanding of the events in the mountain village. So now, suddenly encountering such a peculiar-looking creature, they really couldn’t tell what in the world it was.

The aura of magical beasts and demons is quite similar since they are both derived from the same source, so distinguishing between these two types of beings by their aura isn’t very feasible. In the previous world, the only standard for distinguishing magical beasts and demons was whether they had intelligence or not—this is how people referred to them in their past lives, and it must have been the influence of immortal novels.

That being said, the setting of magical beasts definitely appears in immortal novels as wonderfully bizarre entities.

Ahem, off-topic.

Anyway, Xia Xinyan truly couldn’t identify whether this thing was a magical beast or a demon. Its aura was strange and very different from what she had encountered before, but she had seen any bizarre point appearing on these creatures—since these beings symbolized oddities, they didn’t provide any significant references.

Perhaps the only good news was that it meant their mission finally had a substantial discovery—anything was better than constantly dealing with fantasies.

The Chicks team, which had previously responded in the channel, had already arrived before Ling Mo and Xia Xinyan. They were currently entangled with the creature, but the situation wasn’t looking great. That monster was absurdly strong; one punch could create a massive pit in the ground— and it had six of those impressive fists.

Even though the Chicks team had battle armor from Ling Mo for protection, getting knocked by this thing would definitely spell trouble.

At that moment, the area was almost turned into ruins by the monster, with several nearby houses utterly destroyed. Fortunately, since this was a mountain village, there was some limit to the destruction, which might be the only piece of good news.

Ling Mo turned to Xia Xinyan: “What should we do now?”

Xia Xinyan thought for two seconds and said, “Try to communicate with it. If it doesn’t listen, then knock it down.”

Magical beasts are reasonably sentient, and there are various taming methods. Some gentler magical beasts can be tamed through communication, while others that are more violent can only be subdued by force. Of course, there are those completely untamable berserk beasts that can only be pounded to death.

Xia Xinyan didn’t know what this entity was, so she planned to let Ling Mo give it a try.

Ling Mo nodded, “Got it.”

Saying that, he headed straight toward the monster. Almost as soon as he did, countless white lines suddenly appeared before him, gradually forming a gigantic… mecha.

The live broadcast cameras had been following them, and upon seeing Ling Mo seemingly ready to unleash a big move, they locked the perspective on him. Then… all the viewers watching the live stream witnessed a stunning scene—

A massive silver mecha, taller than the monster by a head, appeared before the creature, even making it pause for a moment in surprise.

Meanwhile, out of sight, the Tianji AI on Ling Mo’s battle armor instantly transferred to the mecha. Following that, the mecha slowly crouched down, opening its cockpit, and a platform extended directly beneath Ling Mo’s feet. The mecha core activated with a roar, and all lights inside the cockpit flashed on simultaneously, almost reaching the peak of technological aesthetics.

It felt as if the scene shifted from a horror film to a sci-fi blockbuster in an instant.

Ling Mo boarded the mecha, and the cockpit slowly closed behind him. Meanwhile, the mecha stood up, waving at the already somewhat stunned Chicks team, “Everyone fall back. I’ll handle this.”

The Chicks team immediately turned and ran back to where Xia Xinyan was.

At that moment, the monster responded to Ling Mo, snarling and trying to attack, but it didn’t seem to understand what he was saying.

Ling Mo locked eyes with it for two seconds, then called out softly, “Surrender, or I’ll knock you down first and then you can surrender. Which do you choose?”

The monster responded with action—suddenly charging at Ling Mo, each of its six arms making a different attack motion.

Ling Mo’s response was even more direct—he rushed toward the monster at a nearly mismatched speed for such a large mecha, then delivered a massive punch right to the creature’s head, sending it flying away hard, causing the ground to tremble slightly.

Without giving the monster a chance to react, Ling Mo jumped on top of it, unleashing a flurry of blows to its head—a basic attack method, yet the most effective, rendering the creature almost dazed.

However, the monster was still a monster, and after finally regaining its senses, it forcibly pushed Ling Mo off and got back up to throw punches at him.

Xia Xinyan and the group from the Chicks stood a short distance away, watching the spectacle unfold.

This battle… was completely beyond their ability to intervene.

After thinking for a few seconds, she asked, “What about those Ability Bureau members who called for help earlier? Did you find them?”

Hearing this, the expressions of the four Chicks members became somewhat strange for a moment, but one of them eventually spoke up, “Uh… if we check the pits over there later, we should still be able to find some of them.”

Xia Xinyan understood at once.

No wonder the Ability Bureau had suffered such substantial losses in the previous life. Not to mention that there might be other magical beasts around, just this one alone was enough to give the Ability Bureau folks headaches.

After all, not everyone could pull off a mecha larger than that monster’s to fight it in a boxing match like Ling Mo.

Then the fat guy and the others arrived shortly after. They took a bit of time to step out of the spatial shadows and figure out their location, but with the ruckus here, it was almost like a global broadcast. Finding their way over wasn’t a difficult task at all.

As soon as he arrived, the fat guy was stunned: “My goodness… is this a scene from an Ultraman film?”

This scene was even more exhilarating than some movies.

Bai Yu was quite pleased: “Isn’t this a good thing? Since we want to promote the Chicks, what could be more memorable than a scene like this?”

It’s worth noting that this wasn’t in a dungeon; a super massive mecha in reality, even if its combat power wasn’t as impressive as it looked, was enough to make heads spin.

The most important thing was, seeing Ling Mo so powerful, as his companion, one could also feel a sense of… vain satisfaction?

Perhaps this is the “XX is my big brother” kind of thrill.

Xia Xinyan nodded, “Right, this is indeed a…”

However, before she could finish her sentence, Ling Mo, who was hammering the monster into the ground, suddenly stopped moving.

He then gradually stood up, took two steps back, turned to look at Xia Xinyan and the others, his tone a bit unusual, “I think… I might have made it cry.”