Gusster chased Xu Fang relentlessly, not giving him a chance to escape. However, Xu Fang wasn't trying to flee; he just wanted to cross the coastline and lead Gusster to an area with even fewer people - the vast expanse of the open sea.
Fighting on the ground would cause unnecessary harm to innocent bystanders, and even if there were no people around, it wouldn't be ideal to damage the flora and fauna.
More importantly, in the city, Gusster could easily blend in with the crowd, disguising himself as anyone. At that point, it would be even more difficult to eliminate Gusster.
So now was the best opportunity.
Gusster flew at an incredible speed, and it wouldn't be long before he caught up. Xu Fang knew that close-quarters combat was not in his favor.
However, Gusster only sprouted feathered wings, but he didn't transform into a bird with the speed of a plane, like a peregrine falcon. Otherwise, Xu Fang would have been caught long ago.
Although Xu Fang couldn't match Gusster's speed, whenever the distance between them closed to within a hundred meters, Xu Fang would quickly change direction or create an explosion with his energy to create distance again.
Gusster also tried to intercept Xu Fang with explosions, but the effect wasn't very noticeable.
...
An hour had passed, and the pursuit continued. The Boston coastline had become a thin line, hidden within the Earth's arc, leaving only the vast sky and ocean around them.
A few white clouds hung high in the blue sky, observing the battle of the two strange creatures below.
They were far enough now. Next, Xu Fang would have to rely on adapting to the situation. If all else failed, he would have to resort to using the invincible Horror Novel Web.
Xu Fang kept a close eye on the tentacle monster behind him. Suddenly, he noticed a faint white light appearing on the surface of Gusster's body. The light converged towards the center, gradually turning into sharp cones.
A sense of danger surged within Xu Fang, and he flapped his "wings," forcefully changing his flight path.
At that moment, the cones took shape, and Gusster, controlling the tentacles, swiftly threw them towards Xu Fang.
The sound of breaking through the air narrowly missed Xu Fang's back. Most of the attacks missed. However, two of the cones pierced through Xu Fang's "wings," directly penetrating the energy shield on top.
Xu Fang was somewhat surprised: these attacks could bypass the energy shield? How did it do that? Did its "energy perception" level reach Grade C?
When Gussy was first sent to Xu Fang, the energy perception was only Grade D, and even then, it had formidable destructive power. If it reached Grade C, it could probably materialize energy.
In other words, the attack just now was the materialization of energy - the energy shield was completely ineffective against attacks that were also energy-based. Fortunately, Xu Fang was only punctured and didn't lose any body tissue. His memory wouldn't be affected.
By analyzing the genetic sequence, Gusster learned another application of energy. Seeing that this attack method was effective, it felt delighted, ready to use the same trick again. But Gusster found that Xu Fang changed direction and dived into the sea.
The cones of energy faced resistance when passing through the air, indicating that matter still had a significant impact on them. Thus, the energy cones in the water would definitely face even greater resistance, making it difficult for Gusster to hit Xu Fang easily.
Gusster followed Xu Fang and dived into the sea. As it entered the water, its wings disappeared, and its elliptical body transformed into a streamlined shape. Its tentacles grew thicker, quickly taking on the appearance of an octopus, which, combined with its eyes all over its body, became even more horrifying.
Gusster clearly saw Xu Fang swimming deeper into the water.
"You're so slow; I could catch up to you in less than 30 seconds."
Swinging its tentacles, Gusster pursued Xu Fang.
This time, Gusster didn't chase in a straight line, but instead sank to a depth similar to Xu Fang's and swam over. Because Xu Fang was limited by the human form, unable to have a 360-degree view, unless Gusster communicated through consciousness, Xu Fang wouldn't be able to quickly detect its location.
Xu Fang quickly descended to the weak light layer below the sea surface, about two hundred meters. Here, most of the sunlight was filtered out, leaving only a few blue lights. In the eyes of the demon, the underwater world was almost a grayish marine environment.Flowing water, large particles in the water, surging dark currents... all matter is in motion, generating the gray spots that Gussy detests.
Xu Fang looked back but couldn't see any trace of Gusty, but he knew Gusty must be rapidly approaching him from some direction.
Does it also want to flank him?
Xu Fang remained calm. Although he only had two eyes, locating Gusty's position was not difficult, it could even be said to be easy. Ultrasonic waves could substitute for his eyes.
Xu Fang reached into his throat and retrieved his vocal cords, emitting sound waves. Immediately, he received an echo feedback - a squid-like object approaching him rapidly.
So, it was in that direction.
Xu Fang ceased his downward descent and swam towards the surface at an angle.
Gusty held a 10-meter long energy sword, planning to sneak close enough to Xu Fang and then, catching him off guard, rush forward and chop him into pieces. However, after emitting a sharp noise, the opponent immediately fled in the opposite direction.
"Human, come back!" Gusty's voice sounded in its consciousness, realizing that its position had been exposed.
"How did you find me?"
"Do you think I'm an idiot? I won't tell you unless you tell me how to overclock, transform, and that thing about the cone attack..."
Gusty transformed the long sword into a rain of arrows, shooting towards Xu Fang and using it as its response.
Xu Fang immediately absorbed the nearby light points, freezing the flowing water around into an ice wall. The rain of arrows collided with the ice block, disintegrating and decomposing into the most fundamental light points. The water temperature rapidly rose, but the increased water temperature provided Xu Fang with energy.
Being chased by the enemy, Xu Fang emerged from the sea surface, holding a clump of ice. Seeing Gusty about to catch up, Xu Fang froze a portion of the water into ice cones and rapidly shot them towards Gusty.
Gusty's tentacles turned into sharp blades, forcefully facing the rain of ice cones, rushing towards Xu Fang and viciously striking down with its sword.
The calm sea surface exploded with huge waves as ice and water soared into the sky. Gusty's energy sword was embedded in the ice wall, rapidly melting at the point of contact between the ice and the sword.
Gusty had too many tentacles, Xu Fang couldn't engage in close combat. Utilizing the impact force, he flew into the air again.
Xu Fang, in mid-air, extended a pair of "wings". A dense barrage of energy throwing knives surged towards him from below. Xu Fang dodged the attacks, using the ice shield in his hand to block when he couldn't avoid them. The hardness of the ice shield was clearly inferior to the flying knives. With each block, large chunks of ice fell off.
He soared higher and flew towards the kilometer-high sky.
Gusty chased after Xu Fang, feeling extremely angry. Although Xu Fang couldn't beat it and was weak upfront, he was slippery like an eel and couldn't be killed easily.
"Come chase me, is that all you can do?" Xu Fang didn't forget to provoke while fleeing.
"You coward, if you have the guts, don't run away, come and face me!" Gusty was infuriated and increased its flight speed again.
While launching a frantic attack, Gusty deciphered Gussy's genetic sequence, searching for more powerful attack methods. It didn't realize that with the passage of time, its energy was rapidly depleting and had already dropped below 50%.
When Gusty was less than a hundred meters away from Xu Fang, it knew that Xu Fang wanted to make a sudden turn to create distance. So, it predicted and launched a concrete attack. Countless arcs of white ripples tore through the sky, interweaving into a giant net, flying towards any direction Xu Fang might possibly dodge.
Compared to cone-shaped attacks, the arc-shaped attacks seemed slower, but they had a larger coverage area and changed from piercing to slicing in terms of attack style.
Such attacks consumed half of Gusty's existing energy. It had lost patience and wanted to deliver a fatal blow to Xu Fang.
Seeing that there was nowhere to hide, with all retreats sealed off, Xu Fang seemed to be prepared and calmly gathered a pile of dense light points behind him, allowing the light points to explode uncontrollably.
With a loud bang, the explosion created a strong blast. Xu Fang was propelled like a cannonball by the explosion's waves towards the distance. But that was not enough. Xu Fang created another explosion, further enhancing his acceleration.The arc attack ultimately failed to hit Xu Fang and dissipated in the air in a hot form before catching up with him – the time of its materialization was too short, so once it detached from its source, it quickly dissipated into its original energy.
The heat wave in the air surfaced within a few seconds, causing the temperature around Xu Fang to rise to over 100 degrees Celsius, with an even higher temperature at the point where the arc dissipated.
Xu Fang gradually slowed down and stopped, absorbing the light particles from his clone in order to not waste anything.
The body controlled by Gest felt a warning, suddenly realizing that it only had 20% of its energy remaining. Although it was uncertain about Xu Fang's energy level, it was certain that he had more than enough compared to itself. If this continued, it would lose.
Energy needed to be replenished!
Gest immediately turned around and flew towards the city.
Xu Fang certainly wouldn't allow it to succeed. He mobilized the energy within his body and launched energy beams, detonating them around Gest to wear down its energy and slow down its flying speed. Although this attack method was inefficient, it was sufficient to deal with a severely wounded clone.
Twenty minutes later, Gest had been worn down to only 10% of its energy, and it was still far from Boston. As it flew at high speed, it resisted wave after wave of shocks, with each explosion slowing down its speed.
Occasionally, it angrily retaliated with a "True Silver Slash" towards Xu Fang, only to be evaded.
Now it faced two choices: finding an energy source to absorb quickly, or engaging in close combat with Xu Fang.
However, there was still a long way to go to reach the coast, with only the sky above and the sea below. Where could it find an energy source? Xu Fang was extremely cunning, always keeping a distance of one kilometer and hanging far behind, never giving it a chance to get close.
Once possessing a body through possession, Gest couldn't change to another body unless the occupied body died, so it couldn't escape through electromagnetic waves either. Moreover, having finally obtained such a perfect body, why should it give it up for anything!
What to do? What should it do? It could only seek help from Josiah and have him use his magical tools to eliminate Xu Fang.
Gest took out its phone and dialed Josiah's number, but...
The call couldn't get through – there was no signal at sea!
This was just adding insult to injury.
"Don't waste your energy, even if you had a signal, he wouldn't answer the phone," Xu Fang's voice sounded in Gest's consciousness.
"...Do you know him?" Gest's dozens of eyes stared intensely at Xu Fang.
"I do, and we've already discussed this," Xu Fang said as casually as if it were an everyday matter, uttering words that filled Gest with fear. "Without his cooperation, how could it have been so easy to capture you?"
