A mob of clones

Chapter 493: Attack and Sweetheart Mask

The world of One Punch Man, City X.

In an apartment building somewhere...

Inside the room of the One Punch Mist Core.

A layer of blue water curtain completely enveloped the small room.

Slowly walking into this water curtain, you will find that in this azure water, the whole world has undergone earth-shaking changes.

The room, which was originally only a few hundred square meters, seemed to extend to dozens or hundreds of kilometers in this water curtain. At a glance, whether up, down, left, right, front or back, it was all an eye-catching deep blue, with no end in sight.

And here...

"boom--"

There was a sudden sound of water explosion.

A figure that did not seem very tall suddenly crossed the surrounding water surface like a cannonball, quickly retreated several hundred meters, and rolled several times in the water before barely stopping its body.

And this figure is naturally the One Punch Mist Core.

He rubbed his arms, which seemed to be broken, in a dangerous and embarrassed manner, and grimaced. The biological organ on his neck, which was similar to a fish fin, kept opening and closing, providing oxygen to his body.

"What the hell, a 30-meter-long turtle plus a 100-meter-long sponge behind it was blown up by a single punch."

"The aftermath alone made my arms numb."

"Isn't it a bit forced to hit something so outrageous right at the start?"

At this time, following the gaze of Yiquan Mist Core, one can see a black shadow slowly approaching in the deep blue in the distance, and then what comes into view is an exoskeleton animal with a colorful glow all over its body.

Anyone with a discerning eye can see that this is nature's strongest boxer - the mantis shrimp.

According to the effect of the One Punch Mist Core Ritual, the Shikigami he summoned would not grow according to the normal laws of nature but would directly magnify all physical values ​​and volumes.

Similarly, if the size of a creature is slightly enlarged, it will basically be a leapfrog crush on the original creature.

The approximately 15-centimeter-long mantis shrimp can punch out at a speed of 80 kilometers per hour.

Then a 1.5-meter-tall mantis shrimp can reach a punching speed of 800 kilometers per hour.

Fifteen meters is eight thousand kilometers per hour, and thirty meters is sixteen thousand kilometers per hour.

Roughly speaking, it is about ten times the speed of sound.

What would it feel like if you found a small building falling towards you at more than ten times the speed of sound?
I didn't have a deep understanding of the One Punch Mist Core before, but I feel it now.

And it was very impressive. After all, in just one test today, several large shikigami were killed by a single punch of the mist core. Almost half of the shikigami that I had conquered with great difficulty yesterday were wasted. This was like throwing money away in a wrestling match. How could it not make people feel sad and impressed...

"The only good news is that the physical constants in this memory space are not the same as those in the outside world. Otherwise, the sonic boom from this punch alone would have shattered all my internal organs..."

"Fortunately, I was prepared, otherwise I would have suffered a huge loss this time."

After some complaints, Yiquan Mist Core stretched out his hand and made a slight move, and another shrimp appeared beside him...

This is a strange shrimp with its left and right claws being completely asymmetrical in size.

The scientific name of this shrimp is pistol shrimp, also known as pistol shrimp.

Normally, pistol shrimps are only three or four centimeters in size, but their unique claw structure allows them to use their huge claws to squeeze bubbles, spit out water at hundreds of kilometers per hour, and emit huge decibels of sound to stun their prey.

According to common sense, as long as the size increases, it is almost impossible for those bubbles to vibrate out such a large flow of water, but the power of the One Punch Mist Core makes it possible.

Looking at the 17-meter-long pistol shrimp beside him, Yiquan Mist Core reached out again and grabbed a transparent Zun Haiqiao, which was like a trumpet blocking the pistol shrimp.

Then he looked at the mantis shrimp slowly crawling towards him not far away, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

"Second Battalion Commander, fire your guns. Shoot that son of a bitch..."

……

The surrounding sea water slowly receded, and Yiquan Mist Core slowly opened its eyes at this moment.

Feeling the gains from this event, I couldn't help but raise the corners of my mouth.

Nearly four days have passed since the giant brother appeared.

However, One Punch Mist Core's S-class hero approval has not come yet. Two days ago, the person in charge of City X came to apologize to him, saying that there was a problem with the procedures and it might take some time to complete the certification.

A Punch Mist Core was not surprised by this.

Even now he has begun to wait for Sweetheart Mask to come and cause trouble.

It's been said that the guy will interview all the people who want to become S-class heroes. How can One Punch Mist Core be exempt from this?

It's impossible that guy just thought One Punch Mist was handsome and left it alone, right? Genos in the original book is not bad looking either...

And he has been preparing for this recently.

If I remember correctly, the strength of the guy named Sweet Mask should be a standard dragon level.

Moreover, the other party can barely be considered a member of the righteous forces. Although the identity of a weirdo is hidden under the righteous mask, he is undoubtedly a righteous person.

How could One Punch Mist Core reject an opportunity to test his own strength in a legitimate way without having to pay any price for the follow-up?

However, there will obviously not be too many such opportunities before the real war comes, so One Punch Mist Core must cherish them.

Therefore, in the past few days, he has been busy taming various large-sized shikigami, ready at any time...

The result of the One Punch Mist Core is...

"There are a number of giant creatures over a hundred meters long, and some creatures that are thirty or forty meters long and have specialized combat capabilities, such as drum shrimps and mantis shrimps."

"This strength is not strong, but it should be enough for a short period of time. And with the configuration of melee shrimp and long-range pistol shrimp, it should be much easier to capture larger shikigami later..."

Just as Yiquan Wuhe was thinking in the room, a burst of abnormal footsteps suddenly came into his ears, causing his brows to raise slightly.

You should know that the apartment where he lives now is still in the area that was once hit by a dragon-level disaster, and a large number of disaster victims around have been evacuated.

Although the technological level in One Punch Man's world is much higher than that of the normal modern world, and because of various conditions, the construction of various houses is more than ten times faster than in the previous life.

However, it would take more than two or three days to completely analyze the destroyed buildings over more than ten kilometers.

Therefore, the only resident of the building where Yiquan Wuhe lived these past two days was Yiquan Wuhe...

"The sound of footsteps at this time..."

"It seems a little abnormal..."

……

At this time, the view came to the other side...

Downstairs in the building where the One Punch Mist Core is located...

At this moment, a figure wearing a baseball cap, a mask and a respirator on his face, and wrapped tightly all over his body appeared here.

He looked up at the dilapidated building in front of him, reached out for the mobile phone at his waist, confirmed the location, and then turned his attention to the only house at the top of the building that was still relatively intact, and walked into the elevator.

Although the entire building has become a devastated place, the elevator still looks relatively intact.

After waiting for a while, he went directly to the seventh floor of the building.

However, after the elevator door opened, the man who was wrapped tightly all over his body showed obvious displeasure in his eyes when he looked at the stairwell which was also full of holes.

"I can't even protect the things around me~"

"I don't know whether this new hero is really capable or just has an impressive resume."

"I hope I won't be like those useless people in the Hero Association. They want to be known as the ones who can defeat monsters, but they only take credit for other people's achievements and don't have their own real strength."

"It's fine if a guy like that is below A-level, but if he dares to reach S-level..."

At this moment, Sweetheart Mask seemed to have thought of something disgusting. His face showed a slightly sinister expression and he walked out of the elevator.

But just as he lifted his foot and walked out of the stairwell, he reached a door and stretched out his hand to knock on it. "Bang~"

A huge roar suddenly sounded.

Then the masked figure suddenly felt a shake under his feet.

Then he saw a figure suddenly smashing the solid wooden door in front of him and rushing towards him like a cannonball.

The figure flew over so fast and with such force that his pupils under his sunglasses couldn't help but shrink suddenly.

Although the power and speed before him were not enough to threaten his life, it was too close.

In order to knock on the door, he was only less than ten centimeters away from the original solid wooden door.

The distance was so close and the speed was so fast that the sound didn't even have time to reach him and he had to respond hastily.

Fortunately, he was very strong. He stretched out his palm and turned it into a knife, and used it to chop off the figure flying in front of him.

The separated body continued to fly up and down like two cannonballs. The lower one directly smashed the reinforced concrete floor and sank deep into it. The upper one also took away the baseball cap on his head and the sunglasses on his face, leaving only a black mask still covering his face.

But at this moment, looking at his hair, his eyes and his general face shape, as long as people who are still using the Internet normally in the era of One Punch Man and are not out of touch with society will basically not fail to recognize his identity - the first A-class hero, and also the national idol of almost the vast majority of people on the earth, Sweet Mask.

However, looking at the lavender blood stained on his body, the face of Sweetheart Mask, which always smiled in front of normal people, now showed a bit of gloom.

He lowered his head slightly, glanced above and below his feet, and then he could see clearly the whole appearance of the strange man who suddenly rushed towards him.

This is a strange creature with very long legs. Its whole body looks a yellowish brown, and it has a strange exoskeleton shell on its body. Its overall appearance looks exactly like a...

"Flea? Is he a weirdo?"

"There's a weirdo in the residence of this newly promoted S-class hero?"

However, just as this thought flashed through the newly built Sweetheart Mask, a voice was the first to reach his ears.

"Damn it! The flea man is dead!"

"Everyone, get started! Let's do it together!"

"Although this guy is very powerful, he may not be able to kill us all before his strength is exhausted."

Hearing this, Sweetheart Mask subconsciously looked up, and then saw more than a dozen weirdos crowded in the not-so-big apartment.

It is said that there are more than ten or twenty of them, but in fact there are only six real weirdos.

In addition to the dead flea man, there are also mantis shrimp people, ant people, barnacle people, turtle people and turbellarian people.

The rest of the weirdos were actually all formed by the fragments of the turbellarians being torn into pieces.

As for why things here have become like this, we have to go back to about a few dozen seconds ago...

……

"Huh? The footsteps seem to be going upstairs. Am I wrong?"

Hearing the footsteps coming from the stairwell, Yiquanwu Core's original expectation suddenly stagnated, and he shook his head helplessly.

One Punch Mist Core was originally expecting Sweet Mask to come to his door~, but now listening to the long series of footsteps, it seems that is not the case.

"Maybe some moving company hired by some accommodation company wants to move some useful things away from the house? After all, this house has become a dangerous building."

He really thought so, so he didn't listen to other footsteps...

"It can't be that some weird guy has set his sights on him, and then ran upstairs to his building out of boredom, intending to use his punches to strike him from the sky, right?"

"There shouldn't be anyone that boring, right?"

However, some people are just that boring.

The next moment, a huge roar was heard above his head when the Mist Core Punch was hit.

In an instant, the originally solid roof exploded as if it was buried with a shell, and huge amounts of dust and concrete mixed with tiny steel bars kept flying around.

And the next moment, a figure suddenly fell from the sky and landed in front of the fist fog core.

This is a weird looking creature.

Half of its body was translucent, and it looked like a large mushroom with four limbs.

Just standing on the ground, its legs and feet kept shaking like earthworms, and it looked like a skinny dog, unable to stand steadily.

But even so, it doesn't stop this guy from wanting to say something naughty.

"I am a noble and powerful turbellarian~, boy, our boss has taken a fancy to your body and is with us..."

But before he understood what this guy meant when he said "let's take a trip", a fist appeared in front of his eyes and it was getting bigger and bigger.

The next moment, this "noble turbellarian man" was like plasticine thrown out by a cannonball, covering half of the wall.

Roof, wall, furniture, floor...

Every venue was covered with this guy's translucent body tissue, which looked extremely creepy...

Such a miserable appearance made the few weirdos who had just jumped down with the other party stunned.

"Fuck, the Turbot died just like that."

"Die! I'm still alive and well!"

"I am a turbellarian who has combined human and turbellarian genes."

"Don't even think about smashing me into pieces. Even if you tear me into pieces the size of a rubber, I can still recover. And the more you kill me, the more of me there will be."

Several puddles of disgusting translucent mucus on the wall were wriggling inward at a speed visible to the naked eye.

After a few breaths, the disgusting mucus that had originally spread all over the room condensed into one human figure after another that was essentially no different from the previous ones.

The recovery ability of the turbellarians is not just about regenerating broken limbs, it's simply terrifying...

However, One Punch Mist Core did not look at the weakling. Just now, One Punch Mist Core had also proved that this weakling could not break through the defense even if One Punch Mist Core stood there and let him hit him.

He has strong recovery ability and will have his own set of countermeasures later.

But at this moment, he turned his gaze to the figure who couldn't help but speak before - the flea man.

He pointed at the few strange people who suddenly appeared in the room, and a dangerous aura suddenly emerged from the smoke...

"There are six here, and there seems to be one more outside the door."

"By the way, you guys should be the weirdos from the House of Evolution, right?"

"By the way, don't you guys go through the door when you come in?"

Hearing Yiquan Mist Core's question, the Flea Man nodded subconsciously, then shook his head.

"Yes, we are indeed the advanced humans of the House of Evolution..."

"But, we are the only ones here..."

"And it was the mantis shrimp's idea to land from the ceiling just now..."

This time, Yiquan Wuhe had no intention of listening to the other party's words and just waved his hand lightly.

Suddenly, a giant mantis shrimp with a body length of nine meters, invisible to the naked eye, appeared next to the flea man.

And the mantis shrimp also slowly raised its arms towards him.

And in the next moment...

"Boom~"

A khaki figure burst out of the door, and at this moment, Yiquan Mist Core fixed his dangerous gaze on the monster among the monsters, who had a multi-colored body and arms with structures similar to the forelimbs of a mantis shrimp. The mantis shrimp monster had a slight low pressure on his body and spoke slowly:
"I heard that you smashed my ceiling just now..."

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(End of this chapter)