Chapter 122: Sky Show

"Within ten minutes, our core strategy is simple: lure these animals to attack the South Gate, rather than letting them spread out across the entire perimeter."

"The South Gate's durability is already down to four-fifths; it’s going to be breached sooner or later," Hu Xiaoruan asked, puzzled.

"We will open the South Gate, have all players surround the entrance, and eliminate them as they come in," Li Nan said.

The group suddenly realized the brilliance of the plan.

With the gate open, the monsters would keep charging toward it instead of forcefully assaulting the walls, piling up like human ladders, and eventually overwhelming the entire perimeter—a repeat of the tragedy that befell Hongyao Town and many others.

"With Dahuang here, he's worth half an army! By blocking the South Gate and using his knockback skills and the inherent concussive power of his rocket launcher, he can significantly alleviate the pressure on us," Yu Shiyin said with a smile.

"Where is Dahuang?"

Ye Piaoxue looked around curiously, unable to spot Huang Yunshuo.

At that very moment, Huang Yunshuo pushed off with his legs and leaped from the city wall.

Wind Soar!

His Soaring Wings unfurled. Hovering in the air, Huang Yunshuo looked down to assess the battlefield. The Sloth Knights had not been completely wiped out, but there were few left, and most only had two or three nuts in their hands...

"The number of Sloth Knights doesn't seem high anymore. I might as well finish you all off right here. Even if a few stragglers happen to survive, they shouldn't pose much of a threat."

With this in mind, Huang Yunshuo launched another taunt from mid-air.

The piglets with their short legs followed Huang Yunshuo as he ran along the ground. The sloths lazily lifted their heads, waving the nuts in their little claws with a look of pure provocation.

"Go to hell, you brats."

A barrage from the rocket launcher sent a dozen sloths tumbling off the backs of their piglets.

Huang Yunshuo kept firing. He noticed he was only five or six meters above the ground, while the Sloth Knights were approaching a dangerous distance.

"Please, don't fail to take off now."

He prayed silently and engaged Vertical Jet!

Huang Yunshuo shot into the sky like a rocket. The earth shrank rapidly in his vision; he was now 25 meters in the air.

"Hahaha, my guess was right!"

Huang Yunshuo was triumphant. He controlled his hovering jets to fly toward the eastern suburbs, leading a massive herd of piglets thundering along behind him. However, the shooting range of the sloths on their backs remained insufficient. The sloths were frantic, but they couldn't throw their nuts from such a great distance.

As his flight speed dropped to just under 20 meters, Huang Yunshuo bombarded them from mid-air. The pursuing Sloth Knights were blown into disarray, with sloths and nuts flying in every direction amidst screams and tumbles. The visual effect was quite impressive.

"What is that?"

The group stared blankly at Huang Yunshuo, who was showing off in the sky, feeling both shocked and awestruck.

Huang Yunshuo could fly before, but that was limited to jumping off the walls and gliding slowly down.

When did he learn to take off from flat ground and zip, zoom, and maneuver in the air?

This was too much of a bug, right? Should they report him?

"What's going on?"

The group instinctively asked Ye Piaoxue.

"How would I know?"

Ye Piaoxue was frustrated too. Dahuang hadn't told her what he was doing; where was she supposed to find the answer?

"It must be that his thrusters are finished," Chenlu Qingshuang speculated. "No wonder he kept running out of the city to pick up copper coins earlier; perhaps he didn't have enough money for the thruster materials."

Even as she said this, Chenlu Qingshuang still had her doubts. His rocket launcher and alloy armor both took two hours to craft, but how long had Huang Yunshuo even been logged in today?

"Does this mean his equipment is finally complete?"

Ye Piaoxue, Yu Shiyin, and the others let out a sigh of relief. It looked like Dahuang could finally be relieved of some burden.

"Don't get too happy yet. His equipment will surely need constant upgrades. The money he spends in the future won't be any less than now, and the pressure will likely be even greater," Li Nan cautioned them.

"..."

"Chen Juanfeng, aren't you incredibly envious of him? What do you say now?" Song Na asked.

Chen Juanfeng: "I'm not envious of him at all! I'd have to be crazy to be envious! I just wanted a hidden class, and besides, if they really gave me this hidden class, I'd play it just as well, no worse than him."

"Oh, give it a rest!" Jin Xiong laughed. "Even if they gave you the Frost Cold Eagle, you couldn't handle it. You probably couldn't even craft a rocket launcher right now."

"What the hell do you mean by that? You think if I had the Frost Cold Eagle, I wouldn't have dominated every server-wide announcement since the game launched?"

Jin Xiong repeated, "Oh, give it a rest!"

Flying in the sky was exhilarating, but there was always a time to land.

Cutting his hovering jets from a height of five meters, Huang Yunshuo landed on the ground, fired a knockback shot behind him from his rocket launcher, and launched himself forward with the recoil.

With 121% movement speed and the rocket launcher's 94-point high agility boost, how could the short-legged piglets keep up?

Huang Yunshuo dashed forward while comfortably firing backward, watching as rows of sloths were flipped over. He was having a blast.

"A bunch of brats. Sloths riding pigs—what kind of moron would come up with such a brain-dead setting?"

*Tat-tat-tat...*

Macaque Knights were flanking him. The macaques on the pigs' backs crouched anxiously, their eyes fixed on Huang Yunshuo with desperate intensity. As soon as they got within five meters, they would pounce on this arrogant jerk!

Sensing the time was right, Huang Yunshuo took off again.

The area where the southern and eastern suburbs met had nothing else, but it was vast, giving Huang Yunshuo plenty of room to lead the pig knights in circles.

*Boom, boom, boom!*

The sky became his stage. The number of pig knights dwindled. Once the sloths on their backs fell off, the piglets lost interest in chasing Huang Yunshuo and would return on their own to rejoin the main pig army.

The number of Sloth Knights continued to shrink.

Finally, the Macaque Knights caught up to Huang Yunshuo.

Having landed and toyed with them for a while, Huang Yunshuo used a knockback shot, a charged assault, a dash, and a polearm thrust—four displacement skills—to force his way out of the perimeter the Macaque Knights had just formed.

The macaques missed their mark and, in their frustration, jumped back onto their respective pigs to continue the relentless pursuit.

"Truly a bunch of brats."

Shaking his head helplessly, Huang Yunshuo flew forward for twenty meters before landing on the city wall with a thud, turning back to unleash a barrage of fire with his rocket launcher.

"I just want to ask, am I awesome or what?"

Huang Yunshuo roared at his livestream interface while pulling out equipment maintenance spray to repair the rocket launcher, which had suffered significant durability loss.