nycdaug Chapter 750 Kretron
Chapter 750 Kretron
Chapter 750 Kretron
Tatooine, South Dune Sea.
Fu Qinghai streaked across the sky.
A certain feeling guided his direction.
Asagi Ventress used the Force ability Blood Tracking to track bounty targets, and could sense the Latatak warlords marked by her blood across several star systems. Fu Qinghai found his target on Tatooine with ease, following the Force's guidance deep into the desert.
It flew at cruising speed for less than an hour.
Fu Qinghai quickly spotted his target.
From high above, the mountains in the desert looked like dark scars rising on the Gobi Desert. These barren mountains were also devoid of vegetation. In a valley formed by the intersection of several mountain ranges, Fu Qinghai spotted a group of Tusken raiders.
The Tusken raiders, also known as the "sand people" or "sand folk," are among the earliest inhabitants of this planet, along with the Javans. However, unlike the relatively peaceful but somewhat unsavory Javans, the Tusken raiders are extremely violent and xenophobic, frequently attacking the wetland farmers of Tatooine, believing these new settlers have encroached upon their homes and stolen their precious moisture. The Tusken raiders themselves are one of the main dangers travelers encounter in the desert.
The Tusken raiders were easily recognizable by their attire: they were wrapped in tattered strips of cloth from head to toe, and carried either captured blaster rifles or a traditional stick-like weapon called a "Gardfi," while riding a Bansa.
"One, two, three, four... fifty-eight sand people."
Fu Qinghai quickly counted the number of people by glancing over the table.
This is roughly the number of adult males in a tribe.
"There are two other guys..."
Fu Qinghai zoomed in and magnified the field of view through the eyepiece.
Sure enough, it was the same two reincarnators I had met in the tavern that day. They were directing the Sand People to carry and unload some heavy metal cans from Bansa's back. Red danger warning signs could be vaguely seen on the cans' shells.
Lai Dengsu.
Fu Qinghai knew what was inside.
Raidanol is a common spaceship fuel in Star Wars. It is characterized by its extremely high calorific value but also its extreme instability; even violent shaking can cause it to explode, making it similar to a science fiction version of nitroglycerin. Due to its widespread availability, some rebel groups frequently use it as an explosive.
Fu Qinghai overheard a term in the tavern—deuterium nitrate. Deuterium nitrate is also a type of spaceship fuel in Star Wars, but it is much more stable than radium. Its disadvantage is that it is extremely radioactive.
These two reincarnators had clearly watched the American TV series "The Mandalorian," which is why they thought of using explosives to kill Kretteron. However, the main characters in "The Mandalorian" almost failed when they used this method, because they did not expect that Kretteron's outer skin was tough enough to withstand the explosion of so much ridenite. In the end, thanks to the extraordinary performance of the male protagonist, Ding Jarin, who used himself as bait to lure Kretteron into swallowing a Bansa with a ridenite storage container, they were able to kill the giant beast from the inside.
That reincarnator had obviously seen this scene as well.
His solution was to continue increasing the amount of explosives used, raising the amount of radium nitrate to a full ton, and also adding heavy radium nitrate as an additional explosive.
To create more, bigger, and more complex explosions.
Cretosaurus is a large carnivorous reptile, divided into two subspecies: Canyon Cretosaurus and Giant Cretosaurus. Canyon Cretosaurus is relatively small, averaging about ten meters in height and forty-five meters in length. It has four legs, a face covered with horny bony plates, and claws capable of tearing through steel. Giant Cretosaurus, on the other hand, is much larger, reaching lengths of over a hundred meters when fully grown. It possesses ten paddle-like legs, allowing it to slither through the desert like a sandworm from the movie "Dune."
Kretdragon is a very famous creature, the fifth of the Jedi Seven, and the one that emphasizes power and counterattacks most, called "The Way of Kretdragon" by Sheen/Djem Thor. This is because this sword style emphasizes power, and Kretdragon is a powerful creature that symbolizes surging power.
It is said that the coming-of-age ceremony for the Tusken raiders included hunting a Kreit Dragon alone. Fu Qinghai expressed his doubts about this, because from various perspectives, no underage Sandman would have the ability to kill a Kreit Dragon alone, even a small Canyon Kreit Dragon.
At this moment, the two reincarnators were leading the group of Tusken raiders to set up explosive traps in the valley. Although the target had not yet appeared, Fu Qinghai guessed that they wanted to hunt a large Kreit Dragon, because hunting a canyon Kreit Dragon would not require so much explosives.
The Reincarnators clearly learned from the lessons of The Mandalorian. Instead of placing explosives on the Kretro Dragon's inevitable path, they concentrated all the explosives on the three-headed Banza, intending to lure the Kretro Dragon into swallowing the three-headed Banza and then kill it through an internal explosion.
Fu Qinghai's heart stirred slightly. The metal particles on his arm armor piled up and formed a device with a screen on his arm. Then he pressed the button on the device, and his figure quickly turned into a flash of optical camouflage and disappeared.
After activating optical stealth, the output power of the flight backpack on Fu Qinghai's back began to decrease, lifting him slowly downwards and landing on a ridge one kilometer away from the valley, hiding in a depression between two boulders.
Using the helmet goggles and visual enhancement devices, Fu Qinghai crouched in the gaps and secretly observed the dragon-hunting operation.
This is a science fiction universe. No matter how powerful a beast like the Kreta Dragon is, it can never compare to an intelligent race that has mastered technology. In Fu Qinghai's view, the key to hunting the Kreta Dragon is not how to kill the behemoth—besides explosives, humans have many other ways to kill it—but how to successfully lure the Kreta Dragon out and ensure that the behemoth does not choose to flee upon sensing danger. It's a matter of degree, and very difficult to grasp.
On the one hand, they needed to lure the Kretosaur out, but on the other hand, they couldn't let it feel a strong threat. Because once the Kretosaur sensed the danger, it could simply burrow into the desert. The Reincarnators didn't have any burrowing vehicles like assault drills, so trying to find this giant beast in the vast sea of sand was simply wishful thinking.
So the reincarnator chose to cooperate with the Sand People and use their knowledge of the desert to find Kretron.
For the desert dwellers, eliminating a large Kretadragon would also improve their safety in the desert.
The sand people drove two wooden stakes deep into the ground, then tied the three Bansa beasts firmly to the stakes with reins. The Bansa's backs were piled high with radensu storage jars, so heavy that the beasts' hooves sank into the ground. In the middle of the three Bansa was a three-meter-long, heavy, lead-sealed metal box, which Fu Qinghai guessed contained radioactive radium nitrate.
This is a complete dirty bomb.
Fu Qinghai thought to himself as he witnessed this scene.
The explosion of heavy radium nitrate will produce radioactive dust. Even if these sand people successfully kill Kretron, they will have a high probability of developing cancer in the future. These two reincarnators are just taking advantage of the sand people's lack of physics knowledge—they themselves are wearing full-body protective suits.
After the explosive traps were set up, the fifty-eight Sand People, armed with various weapons, turned and retreated, spreading out in a semi-circle about a hundred meters away from the Three-Headed Bansa. The two Reincarnators hid far behind all the Sand People.
At this moment, a sandman carrying a blaster rifle stepped forward. He passed the three-headed Bansa and headed towards the depths of the valley. At the junction of the two mountain ranges, there was a wide, dark cave, which Fu Qinghai estimated to be about fifty meters in diameter.
The sandman stood alone at the entrance of the cave.
A breeze was blowing out of the cave.
Fu Qinghai noticed that the sand tribesman's calves were trembling slightly, clearly indicating his fear. Even so, he still raised his rifle high and brayed loudly in the dark cave entrance, making the donkey-like sound characteristic of the sand tribes.
"Roar! Roar! Roar! Roar!"
After shouting a few times, the Sandman raised his blaster rifle, aimed it at the cave entrance, and pulled the trigger repeatedly. The red blaster beam disappeared into the dark cave with a sharp explosion. The Sandman used up all the blaster gas in one go. A moment later, the valley trembled with a rumble, and the breeze blowing out of the cave turned into a raging gale, making the Sandman's tattered clothes fly wildly.
Without hesitation, the sandman turned and ran.
coming!
Fu Qinghai stared intently at the cave entrance.
"Roar----"
A deafening roar came from the cave, and rubble fell from the top of the cave entrance. Amidst the earth shaking, a giant black dragon head, as big as the cab of a heavy-duty truck, suddenly burst out of the cave. The enraged Kreit Dragon had just emerged from the cave when its eyes locked onto the group of sand people in the distance.
Fu Qinghai estimated that the head and neck of the giant Kreit Dragon exposed on the ground were more than 50 meters long, and speculated that its body buried in the sand, including its tail, might be more than 300 meters long—this was definitely a Titan unit! At this moment, Fu Qinghai suddenly missed his four-armed Titan "Po Jun Jin Jia".
"Biu!" "Biu!" "Biu!"
The sandman raised his gun and fired while retreating.
It constantly attracts Kreteron's attention.
For this Kreitron, the power of the energy beam was too weak to even tickle it; the sand people who disturbed its sleep only annoyed and angered it.
The Creteosaurus stretched its neck forward, half-buried in the soil, with sand waves rolling on both sides of its neck. Its body, like a giant ship, cleaved through the sea of sand and rushed out of the cave.
Kretron then saw the three-headed Bantha.
And the metal cans piled up on Bansa.
However, things didn't go as the reincarnator had expected. Kretron didn't devour the three Bansa in front of it like a greedy and mindless beast. Its movements paused noticeably, as if it hesitated. Three seconds later, Kretron chose to bypass the three Bansa and continue its pursuit of the Sand People.
Oh no, it's over...
Fu Qinghai thought to himself.
Oh no, it's over...
The two reincarnators thought to themselves.
Kretron slightly changed direction, and the sand waves it stirred up seemed to make the sand in the entire valley boil and churn. The three-headed Bansa helplessly slid into the sunken sand and was buried and covered by the towering sandstorm stirred up by Kretron.
"Roar---"
The Kreitlong opened its massive, fanged mouth again, revealing two distinct glandular ducts beneath its tongue. The surrounding flesh then contracted violently, and a large amount of thick, murky green liquid gushed forth from the ducts like water being released from a dam. Two jets of green water washed over the fleeing sand people, who immediately turned into jelly-like clumps of bone amidst agonizing screams. The bones quickly dissolved in the highly corrosive liquid and disappeared.
"run!"
The tall reincarnator turned and roared at his companion.
They casually tossed the remote detonator aside, and without a word, the two jumped into the A-A4B truck-mounted boat. After starting the boat, they quickly turned around, floored the accelerator, and disappeared into the valley in a flash.
Wait, no, they're leaving already?
Fu Qinghai stared at the two people in disbelief.
Are you not going to try again? Aren't you going to think of other ways?
He was shocked by the two people's decisiveness.
It seems I'll have to take matters into my own hands...
Fu Qinghai stood up from behind the ridge, activated his flight backpack, and propelled himself into the air by the airflow and flames, transforming into a blurry figure shimmering with optical camouflage.
Sandstorms raged through the valley as Kretron continued his pursuit of the fleeing sand people. Fu Qinghai landed steadily where the three-headed Bansa had sunk. He crouched down, dug through the shallow layer of sand, pulled out a Laidensu storage jar, wiped away the sand covering the metal jar, examined it closely, then pressed the latch and rotated the jar to open it.
A bright yellow liquid was sloshing inside the container.
This must be the legendary Lai Dengsu.
Fu Qinghai raised his right hand, and the metal particles on his arm armor began to accumulate, build, extend, and expand again. Three seconds later, a double-barreled thermoelectric cannon appeared in his hand.
Fu Qinghai opened the storage tank of the hot melt cannon, carefully poured in the lyedensu, then slammed the tank lid shut with a "clack" and locked it, before trying to pull the trigger.
Two bright yellow jets of flame shot out from the muzzle of the twin-barreled cannon with a "whoosh," and the fire jets surged onto the ground, where they quickly melted the sand and gravel into a glassy liquid.
Hehe, it really works!
Fu Qinghai picked up the hot melt cannon with satisfaction.
The rotating turbofan at the rear further propelled the takeoff.
The terrifying Meltman is back online.
……
"Rumble, rumble..."
Suddenly, the flat sand dune in the valley rose up. The dune continued to move forward, and then the Krete Dragon burst out of the ground like a whale leaping out of the water. It opened its big mouth and swallowed the three sand people running on the ground along with the surrounding sand and stones, and then continued to dive into the sand.
The Kretosaur seemed to possess some kind of vibration perception, able to sense objects on the ground beneath the sand. It chased after fleeing sand people, devouring them one by one. As the Kretosaur's giant head burst from the ground again, stretching its neck and swallowing a sand person who couldn't dodge in time, one of its eyes suddenly caught sight of a small armored figure floating in mid-air beside it.
And the iron pipe that the little man is carrying.
"Whoosh—"
Fu Qinghai had been lying in ambush for some time, and pulled the trigger, aiming at Kretron's eyes. A stream of bright yellow flame rapidly magnified inside its eyes, filling half of its field of vision.
Although Kretron instinctively closed its eyelids the moment it sensed danger—its eyelids, also covered with thick scales that could withstand the friction of burrowing through the sand and attacks from small- to medium-caliber explosive weapons—its eyelids were almost instantly pierced by the molten jet that could melt the hull of a warship. This exposed its fragile eyeballs to extreme heat, and the lens was inevitably burned through. The contents of the eyeball and the optic nerve bundle were also roasted, charred, vaporized, and disappeared.
Kretron felt a sudden, intense pain, and then half of his vision went completely black.
"Hooo!"
The fear caused by the loss of vision and eye pain made Kretron immediately choose to sink into the sand, and its huge body quickly disappeared into the rolling dust and sand.
Fu Qinghai landed on the ground, took big strides and ran forward, deliberately stomping heavily on the sand.
Kretron probably won't just escape like that; losing an eye will only make the monster angrier.
Fu Qinghai thought to himself.
As Fu Qinghai ran, he raised his hand in a grasping motion in one direction, and the remote-controlled detonator buried in the sand "whooshed" out of the gravel and flew into his palm.
In the opposite direction from the fleeing sand people, Fu Qinghai ran towards the valley. All the sand people were dead; the valley was filled only with scattered piles of bones and remains submerged in a thick, green liquid, making it impossible to distinguish the exact number of bodies. The valley suddenly became quiet, with only the echoes of Fu Qinghai's footsteps reverberating through it.
It was eerily quiet.
Fu Qinghai thought to himself as he ran.
Did Kreitron really escape?
The moment that thought crossed his mind, Fu Qinghai's right foot suddenly slipped, the sand in front of him caved in, and then a jaw full of sharp teeth rose up in front of and behind him, completely surrounding him.
Fu Qinghai darted sideways with an acceleration that almost defied the laws of physics, then his power backpack, at full power, propelled him into the sky, narrowly avoiding the Krete Dragon's gaping maw that snapped shut with a "crack".
Fu Qinghai turned around in mid-air.
"Ow--"
The Kretaosaurus roared with its jaws wide open, its body swiftly emerging from the sand, stretching its neck to reach for Fu Qinghai's head. Fu Qinghai twisted and swooped down, slowing his speed and gliding close to the ground, always keeping himself within striking distance of the Kretaosaurus, thus luring it into a relentless chase.
The man and the dragon gradually approached the valley cave.
The Kreitlong suddenly stopped chasing, raised its neck like a venomous snake, and then opened its mouth to spew out two streams of corrosive liquid.
Fu Qinghai had anticipated this move, and the instant the murky green liquid sprayed out, he executed a barrel roll to dodge it. He appeared somewhat disheveled as he rolled onto the sand, his body scraping the ground and leaving a deep crater, before quickly flipping himself to his feet and facing Kretron. His hands were empty; the molten weapon had vanished as metal particles at some point.
How could Kretron let this opportunity pass? It immediately lowered its head and bit down hard. At the same time, Fu Qinghai raised his hands as if to lift it up, spread his legs, and suddenly lowered his shoulders to exert force. In the sand pit in front of him, a dying Bansa with a back full of Laidensu storage jars suddenly broke out of the ground and floated in mid-air, blocking the Kretron's big mouth as it bit down.
"Click!"
The Kretosaurus bit the Bansa. Because it did not expect its bite to suddenly become larger, the Kretosaurus's upper and lower jaws got slightly stuck. However, the jaw muscles quickly exerted force and swallowed the entire Bansa, along with the radens storage jars on its back, into its mouth and then sent it down its neck into its stomach.
Taking advantage of the slight pause in Kretron's mouth, Fu Qinghai lunged to the side, avoiding the massive jaws that were about to bite down on his head. He lunged towards the side of Kretron where it was blind, and in Kretron's vision, Fu Qinghai seemed to have vanished completely.
Fu Qinghai lay on the ground and pulled out the remote detonator that was attached to the magnetic belt, then gently pressed it down with his thumb.
"boom---"
The long neck of the Kretedra and the sunken sand beneath it exploded simultaneously.
The entire valley shook violently. Fu Qinghai felt as if he had been punched hard. The shockwave lifted him off the ground, and he was flung around like a plastic bag in a typhoon. He then slammed into the hard rocky cliffs surrounding the valley. Amidst the flying debris, a sharp pain shot through his chest, and Fu Qinghai couldn't help but spit out a mouthful of blood.
Fu Qinghai tumbled down the cliff, blood blocking his breathing valve. He raised his hand to take off his helmet, shook his head hard, and finally figured out which way was which. He found himself sitting crookedly next to a cracked boulder.
Then he looked up at Kretron.
The giant beast revealed its entire body, lying prone on the ground, its scarlet blood completely soaking the sand in the valley.
The neck of the Kreitlong was blasted open with a large gash, bent at a ninety-degree angle, almost completely severed, with only a thin layer of scales connecting it. At the same time, its huge body, buried in the sand, was also ripped out of the ground by the shockwave of the explosion. Only now could we know just how enormous this monster was.
It looked like a mountain of flesh piled up in the valley.
"call……"
Fu Qinghai let out a deep breath.
A wave of fatigue and exhaustion slowly washed over his brain and body. Recalling the entire dragon-slaying process, the most tiring moment was when he used the Force to quickly lift the entire Bantha. His muscles were tense, his mind was highly focused, and success or failure hinged on this moment...
"Well……"
Fu Qinghai put on his helmet and struggled to his feet, leaning on the boulder. He couldn't wait to open the box.
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