Free Web NovelChapter 778: Chapter 688: The Subway Hong Shadow (3)
March took out the copper watch, gently set the timer, and tossed it toward Chichu Chun.
Chichu Chun caught the copper watch, and the flesh on her blown-off chin regrew at a speed visible to the naked eye, soon restored to its original state.
She slowly stood up, her face obscured by shadows, making it hard to discern her expression.
"Cough, cough." Chichu Chun spat out a mouthful of blood and wiped the corner of her mouth.
"What was that just now?"
March raised an eyebrow slightly, realizing moments later, and wiggled the grenade caught between her fingertips.
"It’s the Undead Armament, of course, updated by me. This new armament is called Entropy Candy~"
As she spoke, March suddenly turned her body, narrowly evading a sharp black spider-leg slash that bisected her previous position.
"This little trick is useless, dear."
"So distasteful, lacks any of my style."
Chichu Chun manipulated the spider legs from her chest to slash toward March repeatedly, all expertly evaded by the girl with ease and grace.
The compartments she left behind bore fine slash marks, splitting instantly as she departed.
"Get it straight; that’s my style."
March reminded, firing a hand cannon to blast open the wall of the compartment beside her, disappearing into the enveloping smoke and dust.
"You have fifty seconds remaining."
Chichu Chun waved away the dust before her with a sweep and, without holding back any longer, released the "Lightning Mirage."
The Undead Armament transformed into the Steel Gaze Demon Slayer Blade, which she swung fiercely, slicing through all obstacles in her path.
No time for her to dwell on why there was an identical self at the subway station; she could feel the crisis approaching.
If she couldn’t capture the opponent within the time limit, her reality would face real danger.
Chichu Chun’s cross-shaped pupils focused, capturing March’s silhouette at a corner.
Without hesitation, she charged forward with the Giant Blade, initiating a chase in the subway station.
"Hey, did you get something wrong? Your favorite food is clearly bitter melon candy!"
March laughed heartily, tossing a grenade behind her.
A series of explosive firelights ignited; Chichu Chun shielded herself with her hands as she lunged forward. The barbed whip blades danced like a mad serpent in the air, surging from the ground to the sky, dragging left and right, occupying the entire passageway.
A support column, tightly bound and shattered, hurtled through the dust towards March.
"Because that’s just a snack!"
Chichu Chun shouted, descending from above and landing in front of March, a red light flickering across her compound eyes.
She planted one foot firmly on the ground, gripping the sword hilt with both hands, spinning to swing the Giant Blade in a heavy slash toward March.
March, with a calm expression, lifted a pinky nail forward, slicing smoothly and diagonally upward, colliding with the Giant Blade, sparks flying in the passing afterimages; remarkably managing to block Chichu Chun’s onslaught.
The walls of the passage where they fought were sliced like tofu, crumbling down in fragments.
Debris flew, sand and dust danced. The fierce wind stirred by their clash flashed past in an instant, leaving scars on the walls.
As their exchanges grew more frequent, so rapid that the average person could barely keep up, the walls were now densely scarred, resembling a grimacing face under the dark red lights.
"What’s the difference? Would someone who eats chips with rice even care about that?"
"Oh, there’s a significant difference!"
Seeing that close combat was ineffective, Chichu Chun retreated a step, and the Black Forbidden Woman and Commander Bai, one black, one white, the two pistols appeared in her hands, targeting March.
The next moment, she crisscrossed the pistols, the Black Forbidden Woman aiming at the ceiling, the Commander Bai aiming at the floor, consecutively firing.
The bullets ricocheted upon contact with the walls. Chichu Chun kept pulling the triggers, unleashing an unending barrage in the confined passageway, weaving an intricate web of fire.
March stood motionless, expressionless as the emergency power light overhead shattered, her blood-red pupils lighting up in the darkness like ghostly flames.
Bullets grazed past her several times, but she remained unfazed, seemingly admiring the ballistic performance.
"Thirty seconds left."
As she spoke, March raised her hand, and the wall beside her simultaneously burst open. Multiple sets of sharp spider legs emerged, slicing through space in an instant to reach March.
Chichu Chun maintained a slightly stooped posture, as the previous gunfire was just a feint; she had already extended her spider legs into the wall, all for this moment.
With Divine Gift’s blessing, the monster within her was her most lethal weapon!
"Trying to use bullets as a distraction."
As the dark red arcs of electricity burst from March’s palm, the spider legs caught in the electric field emitted a piercing shriek, dense red data clinging to their surface.
In the blink of an eye, the spider legs were devoured by the red data, turning to black ash.
The moment Chichu Chun witnessed this, her pupils trembled violently.
This is...
The Power of the Key!
Suddenly, she remembered something.
The final showdown with the Queen’s Armament, frames of dark red images flashed by, memories beneath the water surged into her mind at this moment.
A massive influx of information flooded Chichu Chun’s brain instantly, and she remembered everything!
She had seen the opponent before, during the tournament.
The opponent appeared last and killed everyone in the Queen’s Armament!
The opponent possessed a second Key!
Through the Power of the Key, she spread a mimetic virus across the network, making people subconsciously accept the predetermined fact that Light Chasing Garden had won the tournament, gradually forgetting everything about the Queen’s Armament.
As the world truly forgets about the Queen’s Armament, the truth will be buried forever.
Including the Black Box during the final showdown with the Assassin’s Creed, the Black Box they fought over from the beginning had its data erased and lost its original purpose. The real Black Box had always been in March’s hands!
"Dear," March smiled, "it seems you’ve remembered something."
"Just a reminder, you have twenty seconds left."
"It seems you can’t tell them the truth now."
Chichu Chun’s pupils refocused, biting her lip slightly, the twin guns merged into one, expanding at the front with the integration of precise components, forming a multi-segmented transformation.
As the cannon was restructured, the pitch-black barrel extended and deployed layer by layer, two rows of electromagnetic acceleration rings lit up suddenly, the humming sound like the roar of a giant beast from the abyss!
Matrix Crusher Cannon, maximum power output!
From the start, she intended to force the opponent into the tunnel, such a narrow space that the opponent couldn’t evade.
If the opponent was to use the Key, to dispel an attack of this scale, You would definitely notice the commotion here!
Vast energy poured out, illuminating the tunnel in an instant, the terrifying recoil forced Chichu Chun back, her twin ponytails flying through the air. The blazing red energy beam flashed and disappeared, roaring from the right side of the tunnel to the left, the raging electric arcs scorching everything in their path!
She had to get out of here.
She had to get this information out.
The maximum power output lasted for more than ten seconds, until Chichu Chun was exhausted, almost consumed by weakness.
To drive the Undead Armament required the consumption of her Spiritual Power, under such a scale of bombardment...
"Is this as far as it goes?"
Hearing the provocation, Chichu Chun looked up in disbelief.
As the dust settled, March strolled out unscathed.
"You wanted to force me to use the Key?"
"How adorably naive." March slightly tilted her head, "An attack of this level, I don’t even need to dodge."
At this moment, March appeared utterly different from before, her gothic gown seemed to awaken, covered in living scales that clad her entire body, with the right half of her face covered in black.
Her claw-like right hand moved, and the bronze watch, tightly clenched by Chichu Chun, had unknowingly appeared in her hand.
"Time’s up, dear."
Chichu Chun ran towards March in a daze, trying to reach for the pocket watch, but March evaded by lifting her hand.
"You lost."
Chichu Chun’s expression was obscured by black lines, difficult to discern. March watched with satisfaction, seemingly wanting to savor the girl’s expression of despair.
Suddenly, Chichu Chun laughed, grabbing March’s hand, proudly baring her canine teeth.
"Wrong, I won."
"Before the chase started, I set the time on the bronze watch back by ten seconds."
"The time you’ve been observing was wrong."
"Now it’s only been a minute."
"And also."
An arc of dark red electricity flashed from her palm as Chichu Chun locked dead-staring eyes with March, who showed a look of astonishment.
"To dare get this close to me."
"Did you think the Key was in You’s hands?"
"From my world."
Frenzied red electric arcs erupted around Chichu Chun, rushing toward March in a sweeping cascade.
"Get out!"
