Ice Age Apocalypse: I Hoard Billions of Supplies Chapter 1688: Bloodburst

The Blood Tide surged. Jagged, blood-red turbines whirred with a hissing sound. Each enormous turbine spanned dozens, even hundreds of meters in radius, and they covered the sky in a dense mass, ready to shred everything before them at any moment!

Newton sensed something was wrong.

“He already used this move once, and it had no effect on me. If he’s using this ability again, it must be different from before. He’s come up with a strategy to counter my ability.”

His mind raced, but he still chose to retreat with Canero while activating his ability.

“First Law, distort the attacks!”

As his ability took effect, the trajectories of all the blood turbines rushing toward him were instantly distorted, sending them careening off in different directions.

But this time, a great many blood turbines still came flying toward him.

The enormous blood turbines whirred as they spun rapidly. It was hard to imagine what terrible consequences even one slash from them could cause.

Newton understood what his opponent had done.

“Water has no fixed course.”

If the Blood River’s attacks were all aimed at the two of them, their trajectories would naturally be distorted and the turbines flung away.

But this time, Silver Armor had twisted the flow of the Blood River, so the blood turbines no longer followed clearly defined trajectories.

As a result, even when Newton used his First Law ability, many of the turbines that should have flown elsewhere ended up aimed at them!

Attacks with no predetermined trajectories could not be precisely blocked with his ability.

“As expected, this opponent has some brains! No wonder he’s a highly intelligent creature hiding beneath the earth!”

Seeing how quickly his opponent had found the flaw in his ability, a glint of admiration flashed through Newton’s eyes.

At the same time, there was a deeply concealed hint of excitement.

He didn’t want his opponent to be strong, but defeating a foolish, weak enemy would only bore him.

Now he could be sure this battle would be magnificent!

At that moment, Canero swiftly and deftly slung the black rifle behind him, then drew two revolvers from his waist.

One was gold, the other silver.

Although he had switched to a sniper rifle, as a top marksman and former special forces soldier, he was certainly no stranger to handguns.

Newton had already weakened the blood turbines considerably. Even so, a vast number of them were still about to engulf the two of them.

But one thing was certain: as a fast-draw gunfighter who revered the quick-draw, Canero could draw faster than the human eye even before he had supernatural powers!

“Dance of the Rainbow!”

As Canero took up the two revolvers, a smile surfaced at the corner of his mouth, as if he had returned to the carefree days when he was a cowboy in the Old West.

He channeled his supernatural energy into both revolvers, raised his hands, and rapidly pulled the triggers!

His fingers seemed to blur. Gunshots rang out without pause, like an endless string of firecrackers.

Every shot shattered a blood turbine!

In the briefest instant, fireworks seemed to bloom all around them. The gunfire of his gold and silver revolvers filled the sky, and the Blood River’s attack, which had seemed to leave no gaps at all, was completely destroyed in less than 1.5 seconds!

“Nicely done!”

Newton praised Canero. “You really are a genius the Navy has invested heavily in! You’ll become a powerful marksman, Canero!”

Newton’s praise made Canero raise an eyebrow. “I already am!”

When the Blood Tide saw that his attack had failed, he didn’t look disappointed. Instead, he laughed.

His test had gone exactly as expected. He had found a way to counter their abilities.

And that attack had only been a probe. The real show was still to come!

While Newton and Canero were talking, the Blood River surging beneath their feet suddenly stirred again. The enormous river, as if alive, surged backward toward the sky!

“Careful, his attack is coming again!”

Newton said in a low voice.

The Blood Tide pointed skyward with one hand. The river of blood surged into the air, then slowly unfurled across the sky!

The viscous blood gathered together and floated overhead, transforming into a red veil that covered the heavens.

The bizarre sight, combined with the thick stench of blood in the air, made the two feel intensely sick.

“Try a taste of what it feels like to have your body explode!”

The Blood Tide gently clenched his fist, then turned his palm downward.

“Crash!”

A drizzling rain began to fall from the Blood River overhead. Drops of blood descended toward the space where the two stood.

Canero’s eyes narrowed. There had to be hundreds of millions of blood droplets falling.

No matter how fast he fired, he couldn’t possibly stop that many droplets.

More importantly, they had no idea what their opponent was trying to do, let alone where the weakness in this move might be.

Newton said, “According to the intelligence, this kind of attack won’t cause much direct damage.”

“Based on my conversations with Xuanwu, he has a method of stimulating the blood inside living creatures and attacking his enemies from within.”

“These drops of blood are probably the medium.”

Canero recalled the same information. The two exchanged a glance and immediately circulated their supernatural energy, coating their bodies in a protective barrier.

The eerie force invaded their bodies along with the falling blood, but the supernatural-energy barrier blocked it completely.

Seeing that the two had been prepared, the Blood Tide didn’t seem to mind at all.

“To block my Blood Control, you have to keep your supernatural-energy defenses active at all times. The moment you let your guard down, I’ll make the blood inside your bodies explode!”

“So you’d better be careful!”

In other words, the two of them had to constantly expend supernatural energy to defend themselves.

That would greatly increase their energy consumption. The longer the battle dragged on, the lower their chances of winning would become.

“It doesn’t matter!”

Newton said calmly to Canero, “We’re only fighting on a secondary battlefield. Even if we can’t win outright, all we have to do is buy time for the Main Battlefield.”

“What’s more, if we drag this out, they’ll suffer too.”

“This world is still our humans’ home turf!”

The Transcendents of the Wuluan Empire couldn’t fight on the surface for long.

Whether it was the mysterious rules they couldn’t quite explain, the surface environment, or Deng Shentong’s Heavenly Dao Star, all of these placed severe restrictions on them.

As Newton spoke, he ran a hand over his hand cannon, the Atheist.

“But if all we do is take a beating, that’s a disgrace to the Transcendents of Colombia!”