American Comics: Tales of Cultivator

Chapter 161: The Demon's Tragic Death, The Mysterious Guest

How could the Horned Demon have anticipated a spear thrusting out from the side? Driven by the inertia of its charge, the Horned Demon saw the spear right in front of it. It was too late to parry with its trident. With a clang, it directly threw away the trident in its hands and desperately gripped the front end of the spear, blocking this fatal blow.

Meanwhile, the Ox-Head's three-pronged fork had been pulled back. With a thrust, it plunged straight into the Horned Demon's throat.

The Horned Demon only had time to swing the dragon tail behind it.

The dragon tail, over three meters long, was as flexible as a tentacle. It wrapped around the front end of the three-pronged fork in the Ox-Head's hand, intending to fling the Ox-headed creature, fork and all.

The Horned Demon clearly underestimated the force in the Ox-Head's hand.

Perhaps, it subconsciously forgot that it was not in the Hell Dimension. Under the rules of the Current World, it could only exert six or seven tenths of its full strength.

Although the Ox-Head and Horse-Face were both transformations of the Ghoul White Bone Banner's restriction formation, their strength was less than one ten-thousandth of that of two Ancient Yin Marshals.

But the Ox-Head race was known for its strength in ancient times. The three-pronged fork in the Ox-Head's hand weighed several hundred pounds, and the force of its thrust was far more than ten thousand pounds.

The Horned Demon's dragon tail wrapped around the spear shaft, exerting its full strength to pull upwards, yet it still couldn't budge the three-pronged fork in the Ox-Head's hand.

Feeling the force transmitted through the spear shaft, the Horned Demon's scale-covered face was filled with surprise and panic!

"Hiss!"

The Ox-Head's empty, lifeless eyes showed no emotion as it plunged the fork straight through its throat.

Immediately after, the Horse-Face used force with both hands. The twelve-foot spear sliced across the Horned Demon's palm and directly pierced into its heart...

At the same time, the figures of Black and White Impermanence appeared beside it without anyone noticing. Two dirge cudgels, one black and one white, heavily struck the top of the demon's head, its heavenly spirit.

The two dirge cudgels, which looked like wooden sticks, smashed down on the Horned Demon's head, instantly breaking the four long horns on its head.

They dented its iron-hard forehead into two concave marks.

Purple-black blood continuously oozed from the demon's nostrils, ears, and eyes...

The Ox-Head and Horse-Face, shrouded in black mist, raised their three-pronged fork and twelve-foot spear, lifting the Horned Demon and presenting it before Tang Song...

Tang Song stood up, leaning on his cane, observing the broken-horned demon, which had died a truly tragic death.

The sharp fork tip of the three-pronged fork in the Ox-Head's hand was stuck in the Horned Demon's scale-covered throat...

The demon scales, which could resist large-caliber sniper rifles, were as fragile as dried fish scales under the sharp three-pronged fork.

The purple-black blood from the Horned Demon's throat dripped continuously along the fork's blood groove. Air rushed into its windpipe through the gaps in the fork.

A gurgling sound kept coming from the Horned Demon's throat.

The twelve-foot spear in the Horse-Face's hand was plunged into the Horned Demon's chest, its heart...

Blood, hot as lava, gushed out from the demon's chest.

When the high temperature demon blood came into contact with the black mist rising from the twelve-foot spear in the Horse-Face's hand, it was like pouring a pot of ice water into hot oil.

White smoke instantly hissed out...

Even for a demon, the heart is a vital point. As the heart lost excessive blood, the amplitude of the demon's dragon tail swings, which were initially violent, gradually ceased.

"Roar!"

The Big Cat, which had been listless beside Tang Song, perked up when it saw the demon stop moving. It opened its mouth and let out a low growl. Sharp tiger claws popped out from its paw pads, eager to strike.

"Hiss!"

Even faster than the timid tiger was Xiao Hei, who was beside Tang Song.

Its body shrunk to the thickness of chopsticks and it plunged directly into the Horned Demon's chest.

When it broke through the Horned Demon's chest and poked its head out, it was holding a fragmented purple-black crystal in its mouth.

In the Hell Dimension, demons killing and devouring each other is a common occurrence.

Ordinary demons who want to gain greater strength can only kill and devour enough of their kindred's hearts to complete their transformation and advancement.

In the Hell Dimension, only the hearts of a few high-level demons crystallize after death. This energy crystal stone is a harder currency than human souls in the Hell Dimension and generally only circulates among high-level demons, demon lords, and Hell-Lords.

Judging solely from the crystallized heart, this unlucky Horned Demon was at least a high-level demon, even in the Hell Dimension where demons are everywhere.

It was the kind that might not appear even among millions of demons across hundreds of miles of demon plains.

However, it's unclear whether this demon's luck was good or bad. The magic array leading to the Current World was about to close, yet it insisted on expending most of its energy to forcibly tear it open again.

As a result, the half-dead Horned Demon had just arrived in the Current World when it was ambushed by a group outnumbering it.

It was beaten until blood flowed from its seven orifices, dying tragically on the spot!...

Xiao Hei's body returned to the thickness of an egg, holding the fist-sized crystal in its mouth and delivering it to Tang Song's hand.

Tang Song looked at the translucent purple-black crystal in his palm, feeling the energy fluctuation within it. He was also somewhat surprised by the energy intensity inside this crystal.

He pondered for a moment, deciding not to use this crystal to refine the White Bone Banner. Instead, he put the crystal into his Five Yin Wallet.

He stroked Xiao Hei's hornless flood dragon head, then poured out a handful of blood pills from a jade bottle and fed them to it.

"Roar"

The Big Cat beside him seemed to know the benefits of the blood pills. It kept rubbing its big head against Tang Song's pant leg, its tail rhythmically swinging back and forth.

"Inferior goods!"

Looking at the Big Cat's pleading tiger face, Tang Song poured out another blood pill from the jade bottle.

He tossed it into the Big Cat's mouth.

"Hiss hiss..."

The Big Cat looked at Xiao Hei beside it, who was spitting its tongue with ill will. It swallowed the blood pill in one gulp and shrank back behind Tang Song.

"Thump!"

The Ox-Head and Horse-Face swung their fork and spear, throwing the dead Horned Demon onto the ground. Tang Song's divine sense moved, and streams of black energy hung down from the White Bone Banner, dragging the Horned Demon's corpse into the White Bone Banner.

Not far away, the crack in the ground torn open by the Horned Demon, filled with firelight, had collapsed and crumbled as the magic array disappeared.

At the Alley exit of the Troll Black Market, a dozen armored transport vehicles were parked not far from the exit. At the collapsed Iron Gate exit of the Troll Black Market, a dozen Big men, working in pairs, were moving heavy-looking wooden crates back and forth.

As each wooden crate was loaded into the transport vehicles, the tires of the vehicles visibly flattened.

Beside each transport vehicle stood two fully armed Paper Soldiers, holding assault rifles, vigilantly watching their surroundings.

On the Highway two hundred meters in front of the armored transport vehicles, not a single car drove near this Alley.

Two hundred meters away, on the road leading to this Alley, stood over thirty Hulking Men in black suits, scattered about.

All of them looked murderous, staring at passing pedestrians and vehicles with the fierce gaze of a butcher sizing up lambs. Many vehicles passing near the Alley saw this setup and quickly turned around, driving towards a side road!

A wisp of enticing cigar smoke suddenly permeated the air around them. From the smoke emerged a tall man wearing a camouflage uniform on his upper body, black training pants and high-top combat boots on his lower body, carrying a struggling bald head strong man.

The bald head strong man being carried was at least two meters tall, and his muscular body indicated he possessed considerable strength.

However, such a powerful Big man was being held by the neck, as if he were a small rabbit in the hand of a giant.

"Leader Kane!"

"Leader Kane!"

"Leader Kane!"

The Outer Guards guarding the outer perimeter greeted the tall man who appeared with such high posture, filled with awe.

"There's a little mouse outside, be careful! Don't let anyone disturb the Boss!"

Kane coldly swept his gaze over the outer Outer Guards. He pressed the burning cigar onto the bald head Big man's forehead and forcefully slammed the struggling, screaming Big man onto the ground, then stomped down with his foot.

The Big man's head exploded like a rotten watermelon. Blood and brain matter splattered several meters away. "Screech—!"

A passing red Camry performed an emergency stop, leaving two black tire marks scraped onto the ground.

"Ah—"

In the driver's seat, a finely dressed middle-aged blonde woman screamed shrilly as she looked at the German Men whose combat boots were stained with brain matter and blood not far away, and the headless corpse on the ground.

An Outer Guard saw this scene, pulled a military pistol from his waist, and quickly walked towards the woman.

The middle-aged woman saw the black suit Big man walking towards her with a sneer. Perhaps it was the potential that erupted between life and death, but she floored the accelerator, putting the car in reverse.

The car reversed at nearly one hundred eighty mph.

"Bang!"

The rapidly reversing red Camry collided with a speeding Dodge. The rear half of the red Camry's compartment and the front of the Dodge were instantly shattered...

By the time the On-duty Police Officers from the New York Police Department (NYPD) finally arrived, the ambulances from the hospital had already transported the injured from the two vehicles nearly half an hour ago.

It's worth noting that for a total of two accident vehicles and three injured people, five ambulances arrived at the scene, belonging to three different hospitals.

The reason for so many ambulances was certainly not due to the efficiency of the Federation's medical system, but because for the Paramedics/Stretcher Bearers, Drivers, and accompanying Doctors on the ambulances, as well as the hospitals.

As long as the injured person was lifted onto the ambulance, it was a source of income for the hospital.

For the Drivers, Paramedics/Stretcher Bearers, and accompanying Doctors on the ambulances, it was also a considerable commission.

The Paramedics/Stretcher Bearers from the five ambulances almost fought each other for performance, and the business dispute only ended when two Paramedics/Stretcher Bearers pulled out two shotguns from under their stretchers.

"Nothing happened, just a regular traffic accident! The injured have been sent to the hospital! Over!"

A Ford Explorer with flashing police car lights stopped by the road. Two chubby New York Police Officers sat in the police car, eating hamburgers and donuts, responding to the Alarm Center's information.

In the storage box in the center of the car were several stacks of green cash. Not far from this police car, over thirty black suit Big men were openly driving away vehicles on the road, waving their high-force military pistols! "Be careful with your work, don't be so ostentatious!"

A black RV drove away from the Alley. Inside the RV, Tang Song's gaze swept across the window, frowning at the Outer Guards who were holding military pistols without any regard.

"Understood, Boss. I'll make sure to educate them properly later!"

Lane took ice cubes from the RV's refrigerator, opened a bottle of tequila as the base liquor, and mixed a Oaxaca Old Fashioned cocktail for Boss Tang! "Boss, should the things in the Vault be transported to our old Vault or to Raccoon City?"

Tang Song casually took the cocktail offered by Lane, took a sip, and asked, "How is the underground Vault in Raccoon City coming along?"

"It's finished. The specifications are built to the highest standard, just like The Hive Laboratory. The Passage leading to the Vault is equipped with a laser passage controlled by Red Queen.

Inside the Vault, as per your instructions, four Skeleton Demons are on daily duty. They will attack any living being that isn't wearing a jade talisman indiscriminately."

A smile appeared on Tang Song's face: "Then tell Kane to transport the things to Raccoon City!"

"Oh, right, tell Kane not to forget to hand over that old gentleman Alexander to Professor Connors. Didn't he want to see his son? Send them father and son to reunite!"

A hint of sinister look appeared on Tang Song's face.

"Yes, Boss!" After Tang Song finished speaking, Lane immediately called Kane.

"Boss, while you were dealing with that group of demons, the Paper Soldiers sent to the Arctic sent back information from Storm Shadow regarding the things you wanted!"

After finishing the call with Kane, Lane handled the daily matters, looking at Tang Song who was sipping his cocktail, and reported.

"Oh? Did you get that system?" Tang Song put down his cocktail, becoming interested.

He was very interested in the Zeus Strike System researched by the Cobra Organization.

If its attack power, capable of destroying an entire city like Paris with a single strike, was real, Tang Song truly wouldn't feel comfortable letting this thing be in someone else's hands.

Unlike those mutually restraining nuclear powers, if these tungsten rods were dropped randomly, it wouldn't be good if they hit the flowers and plants in New York.

Therefore, it was most appropriate for this thing to ultimately be in his hands.

"Boss, it's not information about that system..."

Lane said, "According to Storm Shadow, Cobra Commander hasn't been at the Arctic Base during this time, so the storage hard drive for the system hasn't been found yet!"

Tang Song felt a bit disappointed upon hearing that it wasn't news about the Zeus Satellite Strike System.

"If it's not about the system, what information did Storm Shadow send back?"

"Boss, Cobra Commander brought a Guest back to the Arctic Base from Outside. Storm Shadow thinks you might be interested!"

Saying this, Lane swiped open a tablet, enlarged a photo, and handed it to Tang Song.

A biting cold wind swept across the Ice Sheet. Several polar bears curiously looked up at the sky.

The pitch-black cloud layer was suddenly stirred and shattered by the strong wind lifted by a propeller.

The ice layer below suddenly shook, and a huge crack spread left and right across the Ice Sheet.

The polar bears scattered in terror, and a straight, dark tunnel entrance, leading downwards, was already exposed on the ground.

A helicopter circled and slowly flew into the tunnel entrance.

Two thick metal gates slowly closed after the helicopter flew in. The strong wind brought ice and snow, covering everything again under a vast expanse of ice and snow.

Storm Shadow, who had just finished practicing swordsmanship, stood by the Base's largest Airport, holding his katana. Only Cobra Commander and Zartan were at the huge Airport. All other Sundry Personnel, including the stationed Cobra Soldiers, had been sent away.

Storm Shadow watched the armed helicopter slowly descend. Cobra Commander helped a person wearing a face mask off the helicopter.

(end of chapter)