Yan Luo stood tall on the ground, straightening his spine and glaring ahead.
He couldn't possibly match the speed of the Silent Hunter Lizard, and his neural response was inferior. If he wanted to survive, he had to play to his strengths and avoid his weaknesses, limiting the Silent Hunter Lizard's advantages!
The Silent Hunter Lizard's figure arrived in an instant, its right front claw swung upward while running, slicing through the air in an arc, then fiercely smashing towards the ground.
As expected, it was the right side!
Yan Luo had already jumped away before the Silent Hunter Lizard reached him, and he leapt in the direction of the creature's right side.
The Silent Hunter Lizard's left claw was injured, making it difficult to use, so Yan Luo determined it would attack with its right claw.
The massive claws hit the ground, causing dirt to explode like a cluster of water droplets, splattering everywhere.
Chunks of soil rained down on Yan Luo like raindrops, but he remained unmoved, raising his shotgun toward the front.
The Silent Hunter Lizard's right claw dug deep into the soil, but the soil's grip was far weaker than the creature's own strength. It didn't even bother pulling its claw out, simply twisting its wrist to swipe at Yan Luo.
The soil layers pushed up by the Silent Hunter Lizard's claws slightly reduced the power of the swipe, lessening it to a degree that Yan Luo could react.
The moment the slanted shield field swept from Yan Luo's fingertip, he pulled the trigger, firing two shots.
The booming sound echoed through the forest, fiery tongues propelling hundreds of pellets toward the Silent Hunter Lizard's claws.
Despite the powerful energy being enough to blow up a Dangerous-level Demon's head, it couldn't even harm the bones of the Silent Hunter Lizard; some pellets pierced the skin and embedded in the claw's muscles, but it didn't affect the claw's ability to hit Yan Luo, flinging him away.
Even though he assumed a defensive posture before the claw struck him, Yan Luo's body was still hurled from the spot, crashing into a giant tree fifty meters away.
Sensing that the impact force exceeded the threshold, the backpack suddenly inflated, mitigating the injuries as Yan Luo collided with the tree.
"Cough cough cough cough!"
Yan Luo slid down the tree trunk, his feet landing heavily, coughing violently, turning crimson with a contorted face.
Despite the backpack mitigating the impact, Yan Luo still felt as if his internal organs had shifted, with his brain erupting in a sensation of swelling.
His left arm hung limply by his side as if it had no bones, the intense pain from the arm breaching Yan Luo's psychological defenses, spawning the thought, 'Maybe it's just better to die like this.'
The airbags from the backpack retracted, and Yan Luo hung the shotgun on the side of the backpack. He then drove his broken bellows-like lungs to inhale deeply, drawing a stun grenade from his side waist, and hurled it with all his might.
Due to his injuries, Yan Luo lost much strength, and the stun grenade didn't travel far, only about ten meters. Yet, the Silent Hunter Lizard's front claws were both injured, affecting its speed, and as the stun grenade exploded, the creature was just above it.
With a radiant flash, the explosion pushed air in all directions, violently spreading.
The Silent Hunter Lizard, closest to the stun grenade, bore the brunt, as if a nuclear bomb exploded in its brain, throwing its nerves and consciousness into chaos, its limbs weakened, body collapsing and sliding forward.
Yan Luo couldn't escape the stun grenade's impact either, worsening his already dire state.
What's next, what's next, what's next...what do I do next?!
Yan Luo had long prepared a plan to counter the Silent Hunter Lizard, even though every step of the plan was a tightrope walk over a cliff, but it was the only method he conceived as a common man to slay this deadly Silent Hunter Lizard.
A fractured left arm wasn't part of the plan! The stun grenade wasn't thrown far enough wasn't part of the plan! His condition being so poor that he couldn't figure out the next step wasn't part of the plan!
At this moment, Yan Luo's logical thinking was in disarray, and he couldn't deduce his next action from his fragmented knowledge and consciousness.
He struggled to breathe, retching, while nearby, the Silent Hunter Lizard gradually recovered, its limbs slowly gaining strength, supporting its massive body inch by inch.
Yan Luo stared widely at the Silent Hunter Lizard, tears involuntarily streaming down his face, muttering, "Kill, kill, must kill... shotgun, firearm, weaponry... explosion — yes, explosion!"
Suddenly, Yan Luo realized, reaching back to smack the bottom of the backpack.
The bottom opened, dropping a landmine.
Yan Luo activated the landmine, slamming it onto the ground, then turned to run.
With one arm fractured and his head dizzy, his strides stumbled at first, but after six or seven steps, he corrected his pace.
By this time, the Silent Hunter Lizard had regained its composure, watching the tiny prey fleeing, letting anger cloud its mind, it pursued directly.
"Boom!"
The landmine, already connected with the goggles, was detonated by Yan Luo the moment the Silent Lizard passed by. Flames and shrapnel violently surged up, slicing through the skin and muscle of the Silent Lizard, blasting off two toes on its left hind paw.
The Silent Lizard howled in pain, and its pursuing footsteps came to a halt.
Yan Luo didn't even turn his head. He had already activated the radar of the exoskeleton, allowing him to see the movements of the Silent Lizard without looking back.
If it stops chasing and lets him escape, that would be great. It's good not to have to deal with a deadly demon using only human strength.
Because Yan Luo did not have absolute confidence that he could kill the Silent Lizard!
But the Silent Lizard harbored a strong hatred for Yan Luo. After pausing for two seconds, it charged again.
This time, the Silent Lizard was smarter. It no longer chased along Yan Luo's path, moving through the forest like a fish swimming flexibly among coral reefs, weaving between the tall trees.
Its actions were silent, appearing and disappearing on the radar. But now Yan Luo's mind had cleared, allowing him to deduce the demon's next moves from its gait and actions.
The Silent Lizard leaped onto a giant tree, using the trunk as leverage to jump onto another tree, repeating this several times until it was ahead of Yan Luo.
The demon hid on a branch, so Yan Luo twisted his ankle and ran in another direction.
Using the turn as cover, Yan Luo pulled out a grenade, setting the detonation time to five seconds. At the same moment, the Silent Lizard leaped from the branch, lunging fiercely downward.
Yan Luo held the grenade without immediately throwing it. When the detonation time was down to just two seconds, he suddenly turned around and hurled it with all his might, quickly taking cover behind a tree.
In mid-air, the Silent Lizard couldn't dodge. Having suffered from a grenade before, it certainly didn't open its mouth again.
Only to see the Silent Lizard close its mouth, swinging its long neck to use its head as a hammer, trying to swat the grenade aside. But Yan Luo had anticipated its reaction accurately.
As the Silent Lizard's head collided with the grenade, the grenade exploded with a thunderous roar.
The demon's head was like it had been bludgeoned by a heavy hammer, violently flung sideways, crashing into a tree, with its body flipping away awkwardly and falling to the ground.
The Silent Lizard landed with a thud, rolling several times before coming to a stop.
Yan Luo drew out his shotgun and charged toward the Silent Lizard from behind the tree.
The head was not the weakness of the Silent Lizard; given enough time, it could regrow that part.
The true weakness of the Silent Lizard was the 'heart'!
Enduring the sharp pain of his broken left arm, Yan Luo ran to the Silent Lizard, seeing it rolling and howling on the ground. He stowed his shotgun and pulled out another landmine.
He activated the landmine and threw it, then pulled out his shotgun and fired a shot at the Silent Lizard.
Even with its hearing severely impaired and its brain buzzing, the Silent Lizard still keenly detected the gunshot.
The Silent Lizard crazily turned and pounced toward the direction of the gunshot.
The hefty body landed on the landmine, which exploded even without Yan Luo's manual detonation.
Despite the weight of the Silent Lizard counted in tons, it was still lifted by the blast force of the landmine.
The scales at the damaged area were shattered completely, leaving flesh and blood exposed, with its white skeleton faintly protruding through the wounds.
The large-yield landmine capable of sending a car flying into the air only managed to blast part of the Silent Lizard's left flank. Such is the nature of a dangerous-level demon!
Firing the gun was only to attract the Silent Lizard's attention. To kill it, bombs were necessary.
Yan Luo slung the shotgun back into his backpack and took out a stun grenade, quickly retreating while pulling the pin and throwing it at the Silent Lizard.
The stun grenade landed near the Silent Lizard, but at that moment, its thick, long tail suddenly whipped, sweeping the dirt and the stun grenade away together.
The stun grenade exploded not far away, and the Silent Lizard struggled to open its remaining good eye, imprinting Yan Luo's shadow in its sight, using its limbs to rise again.
Watching this scene, Yan Luo's heart sank...