"Bang... bang..."
Heavy and powerful impact sounds continued to be heard, and the whole earth was shaking.
“Pah…Pah…Bang-dang~!”
"Dingling bell~"
Along with the rhythmic loud noise, the shelves in the hardware store began to shake violently.
The wrenches, screwdrivers and other tools that were originally neatly arranged on the shelves jumped out from the shelves one after another, scattering all over the ground with a crackling sound, making bursts of crisp sounds.
Chen Bufan, who was sitting on the sofa, also looked helpless at this time.
He just felt like he was sitting on a small boat in rough waves, tossed up and down by the strong vibrations. If he hadn't held on to the handrail, he would have been thrown to the ground.
However, the situation did not improve. On the contrary, the amplitude of the vibration was gradually increasing, and even some heavier items in the store began to shake.
He clearly saw that the tattered signboard on the door of the store opposite had fallen entirely onto the street.
After a while, the vibration did not stop. Such strong and continuous regular vibrations could not be caused by an ordinary earthquake. Without thinking too much, he guessed that some huge monster was approaching him.
Thinking of this, he sighed, mobilized the spiritual energy in his body, and slowly transferred it to the acupuncture points beside his ears.
In an instant, his hearing became extremely sharp, and all the sounds around him were transmitted to his ears with incredible clarity.
"Jiang Tong...you...take...Li Fei'er to go first...let's...hurry up..."
"Uncle Hou! I want to...stay...to help...you..."
"Just walk...faster...don't...lag behind..."
"I don't…"
"Xu...Lei...you take...Fei'er away...I'll stay..."
"Tong...Sister...you guys..."
"Do not talk nonsense…"
“Don’t…Uncle…Li…!!”
At this moment, it was raining heavily outside, and the sound of the rain was like thousands of horses galloping.
Amid the noisy sound of rain, there were also the intermittent roars of anger and despair from men and women and the sharp cries of an unknown animal.
The roar was like that of a giant beast from ancient times, deafening and carrying a powerful pressure.
In addition, there was a whistling sound similar to that produced by a large knife blade cutting through the air, but this knife seemed to be extraordinarily large, so that the sound of the wind it created when it cut through the air was as shocking as cutting through space.
This really made Chen Bufan extremely curious!
What kind of person would wield such a huge knife?
Full of curiosity, he walked quickly to the door, first raised his head to look at the rain pouring down like a waterfall, and then mobilized the spiritual energy in his body, continuously transporting it to all parts of his body, forming an invisible protective layer.
He stretched out a hand and gently reached into the dense rain.
A magical thing happened. The raindrops seemed to be guided by a mysterious force and slid to the ground along the flow of spiritual energy, while his palms were not stained with any rain.
After this attempt, Chen Bufan was sure that he had taken rain protection measures, so he took a step forward without hesitation, with his entire body completely exposed to the rain.
At this moment, he seemed to be wrapped in a transparent and invisible film. No matter how hard the rain hit him, it could not stay on him for a moment.
Then, Chen Bufan quickly turned his gaze towards the direction where the sound came from.
At the far end of the street where he was, under the inky black sky, a gigantic beast about six meters tall stood in the pouring rain.
The giant beast held two giant sickles that were more than ten meters long and covered with serrated edges. It was waving them madly at the little people around it who were wearing black combat uniforms. Every slash could cut through the rain curtain, making the rain in that area seem to have stopped.
"Oh my god... Dadao is stunned..."
He had picked up normal knife blades and played with them when he was a child, but this was the first time he had seen one this big.
The giant mantis is not the usual emerald green color, but its body is a withered yellow color just like the dead branches and leaves.
On that huge triangular head, there were two eyes that were much larger than millstones. They emitted a blood-red light in the dark rainy night, like two red flames from the abyss of hell, staring at the humans who were desperately running away.
Behind this giant creature, four thighs as thick as pillars firmly support its astonishingly huge body.
Every time it took a step, it would cause a deafening noise, and the entire ground seemed to tremble, as if a small earthquake had occurred.
Its back was covered with a thick shell that shone with a cold luster. Even its wings, which were supposed to be light and agile, became like extremely heavy steel plates. It was unknown whether it could still fly.
There were five humans, both men and women, fleeing in panic.
Some of these people held sharp swords, and some held spears that gleamed with cold light, but when they tried to attack this terrifying mantis, they found that the weapons in their hands seemed so small and powerless.
Even if they slashed and stabbed with all their might, they could only inflict some minor injuries on the mantis.
Although each of their attacks could break through the mantis's defense, causing its body to continuously spray blood.
But it was too big. After all, for this mantis with a body as majestic as a mountain, these human weapons were too small and could not reach its vital parts at all.
Unless they could successfully pierce the giant mantis's more vulnerable abdomen, but at this moment it was raining heavily from the sky, and bean-sized raindrops continued to fall, splashing mercilessly on their eyes.
The pouring rain caused them great distress and interference, making their originally agile movements become slow and clumsy, and they were unable to exert their full strength.
The attacks they launched had little effect. Not only that, these futile attempts only further angered the ferocious mantis, causing it to become more beastly and launch even more fierce and brutal attacks.
Just before Chen Bufan walked out of the store, some of them were unfortunately attacked violently by the mantis.
A man's eyes were accidentally penetrated by rain, causing obstruction of vision, and he subconsciously wiped his eyes.
When the mantis swung its extremely sharp, cold and shining sword towards him, he was unable to make an effective evasive move in time.
In an instant, the man's entire body was like a fragile branch, and was cut in half by the mantis's thick and powerful blade arm!