"Whoosh—!!!"
With a powerful push off one foot, Lisa's speed burst was even faster this time, and in the blink of an eye, she instantly swooped in front of G2 William, her ribs and mermaid-like membrane wings instantly spreading out, providing a streamlined acceleration.
Looking at G2 William, who was holding up his huge claws as a shield, Lisa didn't hesitate. The reinforced dark gold Plaga parasite tentacles on her back immediately launched an attack. The four-petal flower opened, revealing dense, sharp black poisonous needles beneath its fangs, and fiercely stabbed into G2 William's massive claws.
"Whoosh—!!!!"
It was the exact same attack method, but Lisa's penetrating power, speed, and hardness were all much greater than before.
Therefore,
"Pfft…!!!"
This time, G2 William's hard claws failed to successfully defend against Lisa's poisonous needle attack. The steel-like sharp poisonous needle instantly pierced through his defense, striking the chest where William's head was located. At the same time, a concentrated corrosive toxin was instantly injected.
This was the most suitable corrosive viral toxin that William had screened out after injecting hundreds of virus samples into Lisa's body. After being reinjected into William's head, William, who was already feeling extremely uncomfortable being squeezed within the G Virus Monster's chest, immediately had his face become even more distorted and grotesque. His entire face seemed to rot, slowly turning into a muddy mess and flowing down.
"Ah ah ah… uh uh uh… woo woo woo…!!!"
In an instant, William's distorted face began to emit painful wails. He wanted to struggle and curse, but his voice became increasingly faint because his entire face had begun to disappear, and his remaining sanity gradually vanished.
This was what William least wanted to see. If his consciousness and brain disappeared, he would lose control of this body, and he would be forever devoured by the G Virus. This was the outcome William could least accept.
But unfortunately, things were just as they were.
William's plan ultimately failed. He wanted to stop his mutation and remain in the G2 form, then devour Lisa to obtain a complete G Virus, which would make it possible for him to control the G Virus and return to his original state…
But now, without William's conscious control, the G Virus Monster had completely taken over the parasitic body.
A grotesque smile appeared on its ugly monstrous face—an expression it had learned from William's memories. Then, even larger tumor-like flesh erupted from its body, covering it like mud. It was now evolving towards an even more powerful state.
And the next state… would be the balance of speed and power, G3—!!!!
Chapter Twenty-Three: Hat Trick
"Hoo hoo hoo…"
As William's consciousness gradually dissipated, the infected body was finally completely controlled by the G Virus. The disgusting, grotesque tumorous flesh, like mud, slowly covered the G2's body, gradually encasing it into an elliptical sphere.
"Gurgle gurgle…"
But at this moment, something even more incredible happened.
The original giant G2 Monster body, which was nearly two meters tall, actually began to slowly shrink, as if it were truly condensing. All human features disappeared without a trace.
The ugly white bone covering on its face became more complete, directly forming a full face. Its eyes remained bright orange-yellow, and its teeth gradually became sharp. Its originally reinforced thick, massive arms slowly shifted upwards until they stopped near its shoulders.
At the same time, identical huge reinforced arms emerged from both sides of its shoulders, becoming long and strong, with hanging sharp claws. From a distance, they looked like a demon's wings. The juvenile arms that were previously under its armpits also fully matured, reverting to robust arms. It had now become a four-armed overlord.
Its chest had terrifying teeth like a suction-cup lamprey, which could replace the G Virus's mouthparts to devour more prey.
Its lower legs had completely degenerated into beast legs, strong and explosive. What was even more eye-catching were the grotesque giant eyeballs; they were no longer simply parasitic on its shoulders, but similar large red and yellow eyeballs also grew on its thighs and back.
This way, a 360-degree view could basically be achieved, making this monster even more difficult to deal with. And this was the higher-tier form of the G Virus Monster, G3—!
Overall, it looked much smaller, but its posture was extremely imposing.
Its entire body was composed of solid muscle tissue. The double arms on its back, like wings, resembled demon's wings. Its face, covered by white bone, exuded a cold and terrifying aura. At this moment, the G3 Monster was like a demon that had descended from hell to the human world. It was almost impossible to imagine what could defeat this terrifying creature; it had reached the apex predator of the Earth's food chain!
At the same time, its slightly thinner body also indicated that the G3 Monster's current speed was very fast, no longer as clumsy as before. More importantly, its reinforced double arms, like wings, also foretold that the G3 Monster had signs of evolving towards aerial flight. This evolutionary path… was almost identical to Lisa's current one. Now, it was just a matter of seeing whose evolution was faster!
"Jie jie jie…!!!"
As expected, the villain boss's laughter rang out.
Feeling the immense power within its body, the G3 Monster couldn't help but let out a strange, chilling laugh that vibrated from between its teeth.
Looking at the delicious snack, Lisa, the G3 Monster, as before, could not suppress the greed within its body. It slightly twisted its neck, producing a crisp cracking sound from its joints.
"Crack…"
The next second, the G3 Monster's eyes suddenly became extremely fierce.
With a slight push of its beast legs and a sudden swing of its reinforced wing-like double arms on its back, its entire body shot out like a cannonball, with incredible speed, even leaving blurry afterimages.
This completely changed its previous clumsiness, becoming incredibly agile at this moment, truly becoming the balancer of speed and power—!
"Whoosh whoosh whoosh—!!!"
A ghostly figure shot out rapidly, its four sharp arm claws striking towards Lisa's body and neck. At this point, the G3 Monster no longer cared about Lisa's near-death state; it just wanted to devour this delicious snack as quickly as possible, because having lost its sanity, it no longer had any concept of weighing pros and cons.
Moreover, the current immense power made the G3 Monster fearless. It was confident that it was even stronger than Lisa, so it wasn't afraid of being retaliated against.
Therefore…
"Bang—!"
In the blink of an eye, the G3 Monster's four arms seized Lisa. Its reinforced wing-like double arms held Lisa's body tightly, while the other two gripped Lisa's neck from above. Its white-boned face stared fixedly at Lisa, its eyes filled with mockery.
The relationship between the G Virus and the G Virus was like that of a legitimate child and an illegitimate child.
The G Virus was a perfect virus, while the G Virus itself had been modified by William. Therefore, when facing the truly perfect G-Virus, the flawed G-Virus was filled with inferiority. But now… when the G-Virus evolved to a state stronger than the perfect G Virus, that feeling of inferiority no longer existed.
In fact, looking at Lisa, the G3 Monster felt more mockery. Despite being a more perfect G-Virus than itself, she couldn't defeat it at all. This was simply a mockery, and it also proved that the modified G-Virus was stronger than the so-called G-Virus.
This was the first and strongest emotion the G3 Monster felt after it began to develop self-awareness. Pride, complacency, and joy filled its mind, making it unable to help but let out strange laughter…
"Jie jie jie…!!!"
Facing Lisa, the G3 Monster's reinforced wing-like double arms, which had originally only restrained her, suddenly loosened. Its other two arms moved from her neck upwards, grabbing Lisa's head and fiercely grinding it against the wall. In an instant… Lisa's head was directly embedded in the wall. Countless shattered stones flew, and Lisa's head instantly ruptured, blood staining her entire skull.
In her dying state, Lisa was mercilessly flung away by the G3 Monster again, then slammed heavily against the wall. The two had just clashed, and it seemed a victor had already been decided. The faster and more balanced G3 Monster had directly gained the upper hand.
No… it should be said it was a crushing victory, because before Lisa could even react, she was instantly knocked to the ground.
This was the power of the G3 Monster—!
But…
"Bang—!!!!!!!"
A loud and prolonged gunshot rang out.
It was Javier's Springfield M1903 sniper rifle that had fired again, another sniper bullet piercing through the G3 Monster's chest. But this time, the G3 Monster was unfazed.
Although surprised that an ant could attack him, the damage was simply too low to gain the G3 Monster's attention.
After all, the G3 Monster's recovery ability was extremely strong now. Although ordinary sniper rifle bullets could still penetrate its defense, the bloody wound healed in just one second, rendering firearms ineffective against the G3 Monster once again.
As for why Javier's accuracy was so high, it was mainly due to Gun Kata. Gun Kata could force bullets to curve, allowing them to hit the target from extremely tricky angles. Because no matter how fast the G3 William was, or even with his 360-degree, no-dead-angle vision, he couldn't react to a curving bullet.
Facing the G3 Monster that ignored him, Javier also grew angry, but he simply continued to repeat one action: bolt action, scope, then shoot. Bullet after bullet flew out, and as before, Javier still aimed at the G3 Monster's weak points: its head, chest, neck, eyes, and so on, all were hit repeatedly.
Since Lisa couldn't defeat the G3 Monster now, he would just buy time. After all, from the very beginning, Javier had already prepared for the worst. If Lisa couldn't defeat G William, then it would be his turn. As for the outcome—it didn't matter.
"Bang—bang—bang—bang—bang—!!!!"
Javier struck the G3 Monster's vital points shot after shot.
Although the G3 Monster wasn't harmed by these attacks, being hit by bullets so frequently started to annoy it. After all, people get annoyed by ants that push their luck, let alone the G3 Monster facing Javier, a human?
"Roar—!!!!"
A roar erupted from its mouth.
Seeing Javier still harassing and insulting him with the Springfield M1903 sniper rifle, the extremely proud G3 Monster finally couldn't take it anymore. Its reinforced wing-like double arms spread open, its entire body's muscles tensed, and it instantly prepared to lunge towards Javier!
However, Javier had clearly anticipated this even more thoroughly.
The flashbang on his waist was suddenly unpinned and thrown into the air. Facing this extremely fast monster, Javier had no effective means of control. The only thing he could do was make good use of thrown objects.
After all, the G3 Monster still had vision. As long as it had vision… it would definitely be blinded by the light of up to 6 million candelas.
"Bang…!"
With a muffled thud, the flashbang instantly exploded in mid-air. To predict its movement, Javier didn't throw it very far, because Javier knew he couldn't keep up with the G3 Monster's speed.
If that were the case… then he would use himself as bait to lure the G3 Monster to charge at him. As for the flashbang, he would throw it at his own feet, ensuring a direct hit!
Sure enough, the moment Javier threw the flashbang, the enraged G3 Monster had just lunged in front of Javier. The distance between them was less than three meters, and the flashbang was right in the center!
"Buzz—!"
The white point of light suddenly expanded, blooming like a flower. But facing this mutually damaging flashbang, Javier appeared very calm, because he was wearing a gas mask with dark green lenses that acted like sunglasses.
This way… as long as he turned, rolled, closed his eyes, and covered his ears, he could block most of the white light refraction and sonic boom attack.
But… the G3 Monster was different. It had several giant eyeballs, so the blinding effect of the flashbang would undoubtedly be the most lethal, possibly even causing blindness. Therefore, the flashbang was still the best counter-weapon against most bosses.
This was Javier's own hat trick—always effective…
The white light covered the G3 Monster's face, and its white-boned face instantly creased into a grimace. Its pumpkin-like eyes painfully shut, as did the huge eyeballs on its arms and shoulders; all were blinded, painfully closing their eyes.
And the G3 Monster's recklessly open hearing was instantly assaulted, beginning to ooze blood. Its ears and eyes instantly became useless, leaving the G3 Monster completely in a standby state.
Although its sense of smell could pinpoint Javier's location, the pain in its eyes and ears still prevented it from moving for a while, a typical case of its body not keeping up with its brain's reactions—!
Seizing this opportunity, Javier struggled to get up from the ground, shook his head vigorously, and immediately escaped the flashbang's dizzying effect. Then, he used his most proficient fire magic.
He quickly pulled out a molotov cocktail from his tactical backpack, lit the rag, and then forcefully hurled it at the G3 Monster in front of him. At the same time, he drew the Desert Eagle from his thigh and pulled the trigger, powerfully shooting and shattering the molotov cocktail in mid-air.
"Bang—!"