CHAPTER 75: CHAPTER 44: DROWNING EXECUTION

Yan Luo clutched the knife handle tightly, hanging on the mountain wall with the long knife.

Beneath him was the foaming sea water, into which the giant bull had fallen.

The sea surface beside the cliff was fifteen meters deep from the bottom, with no places to climb on either side; this is the best location to kill the giant bull.

Poof!

The sea surface suddenly surged, and the bull’s head pierced through the water, sensing air once again.

It was at this moment that Yan Luo kicked off the mountain wall, releasing the long knife, and jumped down aiming at the bull’s head.

If on land, the giant bull would have no fear, but now it floated in the seawater.

Yan Luo jumped down, landing on the bull’s head, his weight immediately pushing the bull’s head into the water.

The bull happened to be inhaling; its nostrils and mouth were pressed below the water, allowing a large amount of seawater to rush in.

Blurp!

The bull panicked, flailing its limbs wildly, wanting to lift its head again, but Yan Luo wouldn’t give it the chance.

Yan Luo clenched his right fist and delivered a fierce punch to the bull’s forehead, plummeting its entire body underwater.

This was in the water, not on land, and there was nowhere for the bull to tread on even if it could swim, but in panic, its movements were not so orderly.

Its body had a high density, and it couldn’t naturally float on the sea surface, needing to swim to keep its body above water.

What Yan Luo was doing was depriving the bull of the chance to breathe fresh air.

As he acted, Yan Luo calculated how long it would take for the bull to completely perish.

And the result he came up with was — at least ten minutes!

Yan Luo had to battle with the bull in the seawater for ten minutes before this city-breaking level mutant creature would die.

Even with a large amount of seawater already in the bull’s lungs, and it consuming lots of oxygen while moving, this was a city-breaking level mutant creature, and once it recovered and regained composure, it would be difficult for Yan Luo to restrain it with his strength.

Just as Yan Luo expected, the bull’s panic lasted only ten seconds before it quickly calmed down.

Its limbs started moving regularly, slowly pushing its body toward the sea surface.

The bull could feel the blows from above, but for a city-breaking level mutant, Yan Luo’s full-strength hit was like a tickle, insignificant.

Its nose and mouth broke through the surface first, and the bull couldn’t help but take a deep breath, unaware that Yan Luo had been waiting for a long time.

Yan Luo actively jumped off the bull’s head, grabbing its horn to sink into the seawater.

The bull hadn’t had time to hold its breath, and its mouth and nostrils were once again dragged underwater by Yan Luo.

This time, even more seawater flooded into the bull’s lungs; although the corrosiveness of the seawater was ineffective on the bull, the seawater in the lungs blocking the trachea was enough trouble for it.

Blurp!!

More bubbles emerged from the bull’s mouth and nose. It didn’t fall into panic again but quickly adjusted its posture to expose its nostrils and mouth above water.

The bull’s power was beyond what Yan Luo could compare, and if he couldn’t find a better way to help digest his Magic Power, it might take years for Yan Luo to grow strong enough to challenge a city-breaking level.

Luckily, Yan Luo had a plan early on and knew what to do to harm the giant bull.

Yan Luo let go and swam under the bull’s neck, pulling out a short-barreled shotgun and pressing the trigger close to the bull’s neck.

The impact repeatedly struck the bull’s neck at the trachea position, instantly making the air it just inhaled scratchily expelled.

The giant bull coughed uncontrollably, unable to keep its body from sinking below the surface again.

Underwater, awaiting it was a soon-to-explode grenade; Yan Luo had already tossed aside the shotgun, swimming a distance away.

The grenade’s shock wave mostly dissipated underwater, propelling seawater toward the bull’s front, flooding into its nostrils.

Though this couldn’t tangibly harm the giant bull, combined with its previous choking coughs, more seawater re-entered its lungs.

The bull was extremely furious, shaking its head underwater, trying to locate Yan Luo, only to see Yan Luo already swimming several meters away.

Even for the giant bull, swimming several meters underwater required time; Yan Luo took advantage of this time to get to the edge of the cliff.

Yan Luo pulled out two axes hanging at his thigh, connecting them to his wrist’s exoskeleton, then broke the surface, swinging the axes to embed them into the mountain.

The two axes alternated in swings, slowly pulling Yan Luo’s body up to the sea surface.

He hung five meters up on the mountain wall, gasping for air, turned to glance at the sea surface, and saw the giant bull’s head emerging again, glaring at him angrily.

Seeing this, despite being utterly exhausted, Yan Luo couldn’t help but smile.

The bull panted heavily, wanting more oxygen to restore its body.

The cold seawater wrapped around the giant bull’s body, constantly draining its body heat.

To maintain body temperature, the giant bull needed to absorb more oxygen, accelerating cell respiration to generate heat.

However, the seawater in its lungs blocked the bull’s absorption of oxygen, and as time passed, its condition worsened instead of improving.

The giant bull noticed something amiss, glaring fiercely at Yan Luo, then turned and swam away.

It needed to find a place to get ashore, otherwise, the loss of heat and oxygen scarcity would kill it.

Though the bull lacked the concepts to understand these things, instinct told it had to leave quickly or die.

Though the bull wanted to leave, Yan Luo wouldn’t let it succeed!

Yan Luo kicked off the mountain wall again, pulling out the two axes, jumping from five meters high and landing on the bull’s back.

With two steps, he reached the bull’s neck, leaping abruptly to stomp the bull’s head back into the seawater.

Blurp!

The bull sensed Yan Luo’s arrival, yet underwater, its body was too cumbersome, making movements difficult whenever it tried turning over to shake Yan Luo off its back.

Just as it planned to move, Yan Luo stomped on its head ahead.

The body with high muscle and bone density let the giant bull rampage freely on land, unimpeded by anything, but in the seawater, its weight was a burden.

The bull choked again, a lot of seawater pouring through its nasal and trachea, flooding into the lungs.

Most crucially, the seawater in its lungs drastically reduced the bull’s oxygen absorption rate, now it started showing signs of weakening limbs.

The bull’s ability to float relied entirely on its swimming skills; unable to swim, its body would sink directly to the seabed.

Given the current situation, if the bull were delayed any longer without reaching shore, it would surely die.

Instinct told the bull it had to leave immediately, regardless of what that little thing was doing, it couldn’t afford any distraction.

Being distracted had only one outcome —

Death!

The bull ignored Yan Luo stepping on its head, even without surfacing from underwater, glared with big eyes, flailed its limbs, desperately seeking a place to land.

But this was the burial site Yan Luo had specially chosen for it, how could there be any place to get ashore?

From the bull’s current location, stretching hundreds of meters to either side, there wasn’t any place to land, nor any footing for the bull.

The giant bull swam underwater, bewildered with a touch of despair, and as its body strength gradually waned, its activity frequency decreased.

Realizing it couldn’t stay underwater any longer, the bull attempted to surface for a breath of fresh air.

But at that moment, Yan Luo’s big foot stomped again.

The giant bull was already too weakened to contend underwater with his strength, and Yan Luo’s stomp finished the bull’s limb power to rise.

The bull glared fiercely, struggled desperately.

Yet it was consuming its remaining body oxygen, the more intense the activity, the faster the consumption rate.

Blurp...

Suddenly, the bull lost its strength, no matter how it moved its limbs, the body kept sinking.

The sight gradually darkened...