Wu Chen was now in the descent phase, and his body had changed shape. He looked like a ball with a few sticks stuck to it. This was a trick that Zhang Lei had just taught him. It wasn't very complicated; it was just a small application technique.
Moreover, this allows him to slightly change his posture in the air, ensuring that he can land accurately on the target deck.
Wu Chen was wearing nothing but a Japanese-style loincloth. Although he didn't like the Japanese, in this situation, only a Japanese-style loincloth could expose more of his skin to the air.
"There's an energy fluctuation above!" Several pirates on the deck noticed the energy fluctuation coming from above, but it was too late. Before they could finish their warning, Wu Chen had already pressed himself against the deck.
His body shrank dramatically on the deck, spraying a thin mist from his pores, making him look like a sprinkler in an urban green space, except that what he sprayed might not be welcomed by the grass.
"This fog is poisonous!" Panic erupted on the pirate ship's deck, but by the time they realized it was poisonous, it was too late to escape.
The sea breeze was light, and although the thin mist had faded and its color was no longer visible, it had already filled the entire deck in the blink of an eye.
"Shoot him! Quick!" Some pirates were a bit further away and still had time to hold their breath, but opening their mouths would certainly mean certain death; no one could guarantee that speaking would be entirely exhalation. The pirates' guns weren't the small handguns the police carried; even now, they were still quite lethal.
Wu Chen suddenly felt like a god. He had taken on dozens of people by himself in the past, but he had never felt so powerful. Those people were just ordinary people, but these were pirates, and they should all have superpowers.
Some of these pirates possess powerful combat abilities. If Wu Chen were to fight them head-on, the outcome would be uncertain.
In reality, if they had been allowed to strike first, Wu Chen would likely have been the one to die. It's essentially a matter of who strikes first. It's like two people wielding auto-aiming laser guns; whoever fires first will inevitably die. Now, Wu Chen suddenly descended from the sky and used his supernatural ability first, so these pirates on the deck are doomed.
Almost instantly, most of the pirates on the deck had fallen, and the rest were clutching their throats, their faces ashen, clearly beyond saving.
Several pirates who could hold their breath quickly pounded on the cabin door beside them. The cabin door was relatively sealed, so they should be safe once inside.
Unfortunately, the people inside the cabin had already locked the door. Although the amount of poison gas released when the door was opened was negligible, no one could say for sure. Clearly, the people inside were not planning to risk their lives.
It's impossible for all the pirates to be on deck. No matter how potent Wu Chen's poison gas is, it's impossible for it to kill the people inside through a barely perceptible crack in the door during a large-scale attack. This is already his limit.
"Damn it! I'll kill him!" Due to the explosion of energy, the pirates' guns had to be very large to have enough killing power, and the gun that this pirate raised definitely deserved to be called a large gun.
"Are you crazy? If you shoot through the glass, the poisonous gas outside will get in, and we'll all be dead!" Several pirates immediately rushed over and pressed down on the gun in his hand.
The air inside the cabin wasn't very good; it was a bit stuffy, and there might have been a small amount of toxic gas seeping in. However, since no one had died yet, this small amount of toxic gas shouldn't be fatal. But if someone broke the glass, that might not be the case!
"But am I just going to stand by and watch my brothers outside get killed?" the pirate with the big gun protested.
“Fine, go ahead and shoot, but let us in first. You can handle shooting all by yourself!” said one of the pirates who was holding down the gun in his hand.
“That’s right, let’s go in!” the other pirates chimed in.
"Hey, wait for me!" No one tried to dissuade him, and the pirate who wanted to die with Wu Chen stopped his impulsive act. "I've thought about it. What if we can't kill him with one shot? We might as well wait for the effects of his superpower to wear off, and then we'll attack together. At that time, he'll be a fish on our chopping board."
"Let's go, let's go!" Seeing the disdainful looks from the other pirates, the impulsive pirate felt a little embarrassed.
"If you don't go crazy, what's the point of us going in? Isn't it more convenient to watch from here? Once his poison gas dissipates, we'll go out and catch him. We absolutely can't let him die a quick death!" The leader of the pirates slammed his fist on the table.
"Boss, should I turn on the ventilation system on the deck? That way the poison gas might dissipate faster," one of the pirates suggested.
"Are you crazy? The ventilation system will just suck all the poison gas into the cabin! Oh no, the automatic ventilation time is almost up! Quick, turn off the automatic ventilation!" His words reminded the pirate captain, who jumped so hard he almost hit the roof, startling the other pirates.
"Once the poison gas dissipates, I'll make sure you suffer a terrible death!" the pirate captain said viciously to Wu Chen.
Unfortunately, Zhang Lei didn't have that much time. The pirate ship shook violently, and someone else boarded the ship. This time it was Zhang Lei!
Episode 4: An Eye for an Eye, a Blade for a Teeth - Chapter 87: Light Fight (Part 1)
The range of direct-fire machine guns is not very long to begin with, and these pirates were not advanced enough to use electronic controls; their costs simply did not allow it.
Zhang Lei was already outside the range of the machine gun, but he used his inner energy circle to detect and throw Wu Chen out first, so the distance wasn't too far.
During the time Wu Chen unleashed his superpowers, Zhang Lei's super speedboat was running at full speed. Although it couldn't reach Wu Chen before the poison gas dissipated, it at least reached a distance Zhang Lei could jump over. It's worth noting that the pirate ship didn't stop during this time either; typically, pirate ships prioritize speed.
With the momentum of the speedboat, Zhang Lei finally arrived before Wu Chen's poison gas dissipated.
Although Wu Chen's superpower can gather poison gas around himself, maintaining it requires additional internal energy due to the sea breeze and headwinds while sailing. Even so, it is still inevitably gradually thinned by the sea breeze.
The pirates were afraid of poison, but Zhang Lei wasn't, so he could board the ship before Wu Chen's poisonous gas had completely dissipated. Although Zhang Lei wasn't afraid of the poison, the smell was unpleasant; he felt like he was smelling a fart, which was extremely uncomfortable.
Zhang Lei hurriedly waved to Wu Chen, signaling him to step back, but his feet didn't stop. While the ship was still rocking violently, he had already reached the entrance of the shipyard where the pirates were hiding, and punched the hatch door hard.
"Huh?" The hatch wasn't completely smashed as Zhang Lei had imagined, although there was a deep fist dent and the hatch was twisted and deformed, indicating that the material of the hatch was quite extraordinary. Unfortunately, Wu Chen was at this moment...
"Again!" Zhang Lei's stubbornness kicked in.
Just as Zhang Lei was about to throw another punch, a bullet was fired from inside the cabin, piercing through the thick glass of the cabin door.
Although the ship was still rocking violently, the pirates inside, who spent at least half the year at sea, quickly returned to normal.
Zhang Lei was impressed by their stability in finding the target under such conditions. After all, even Zhang Lei himself couldn't guarantee the accuracy of his rope marker in this situation.
If it hadn't been so sudden, these people probably wouldn't have even had that moment of panic and loss of footing. Being a pirate isn't easy.
Zhang Lei's fingers suddenly appeared in the path of the bullet, as if they were already there before the bullet was fired, and there was no trace of his hand moving at all.
With a crisp "thud," like metal clashing, the bullet, accompanied by a whistling sound, flew back along its original trajectory.
That valiant pirate suddenly has a new anus in the middle of his forehead. He'll never have to worry about constipation again, but he'll have to be careful that it doesn't show up from the other side, because this anus is through him.
"Bang!" Perhaps it was his dying command, but his finger pulled the trigger again, though this time it didn't touch the hatch's glass window.
Zhang Lei flicked the bullet with his finger, his feet not pausing, and kicked the door open, sending it flying. The bullet just happened to grazed the door, flew out at an angle, bounced a few times on the cabin wall, and ended up as an anal plug for a pirate.
"Damn it!" A fierce curse came from the cabin, along with several different supernatural energy fluctuations.
Although Zhang Lei acted quickly, it had been quite a long time since he boarded the ship, so the pirates' reaction was no longer very fast.
Zhang Lei dared not be careless. Although most people's superpowers were newly developed and their effects were not very powerful, there were just too many types of superpowers in the world. Even before the explosion of Yuan Qi, there were dozens of categories, not to mention the specific details. Now, there are probably no people who can say for sure how many types of superpowers there are, and it would be difficult to even give a rough estimate.
In this situation, it is of course best to be cautious. No one can say for sure what strange effects a superpower might have. Zhang Lei immediately started a self-examination. He no longer needed to conserve his little bit of internal energy.