Chapter 2242: Did Those Slaps Just Go to Waste?
"Smack!"
A crisp sound echoed through the venue. Chong Ruhua's furious slap was backed by all her strength—she even used the energy she'd save for childbirth!
Yet unsurprisingly, the moment her palm, as big as an electric rice cooker, touched Omega's cheek, it slid right off!
Because of the sheer force, the deflected mega slap was completely out of control!
It shot straight toward Atiya, who was watching the excitement nearby!
Atiya: ???
Even though Chong Ruhua realized something was wrong, it was already too late to pull back!
With a "puchi," her palm, having slipped off course, slammed directly into Atiya's face!
Her head, without any surprise, exploded like a watermelon, splattering red and white matter everywhere!
Blood spurted two or three meters high from her neck!
This scene made quite a few young girls cry, as they were splashed with blood and shrieked loudly!
She had straight-up blown Atiya's head off!
Jiangnan's forehead was drenched in sweat. This was really an unexpected gain. Why did you have to stand so close to watch the fun?
Got caught in the crossfire, huh?
Atiya's headless body flickered with golden light, and her shattered skull grew back in less than a breath!
Her eyes were exceptionally dark:
꒰ঌ(▀̿̿Ĺ̯̿̿▀̿̿)໒꒱ "Are you blind? Were your eight eyes grown for nothing? Were you aiming at me on purpose?"
"Did you do it deliberately? How dare you hit a director of the Star Mine Bureau?"
Chong Ruhua's hand froze midair, and she wiped it on her clothes, looking extremely awkward.
ᥬ(๑)מּൠמּ)᭄ "S-sorry, I missed. How could I have done it on purpose? That one doesn't count. Let me try again. I'll definitely—"
Omega quickly interrupted: "Hey hey hey, what do you mean it doesn't count? You just aimed and hit just now. If that doesn't count, then if I hit one that doesn't count, and hit a hundred that don't count, that's just playing dirty, isn't it?"
"Are you just trying to weasel out?"
Chong Ruhua ground her teeth so hard they almost broke, her eyes blazing red with rage. "Damn it! How did it slip? What kind of sorcery are you using? Fine, that one counts!"
"Next round! I'm going to kill you!"
Omega grinned: (՞ټ՞) "Now! It's my turn!"
His eyes flashed with a crimson glow, fixed on Chong Siyu.
"Domain Expansion • Crimson Death Ray! Light Drive • Pierce the Galaxy!"
In that moment, Omega fully converted his body into energy, transforming into a crimson laser, warping space itself. After expanding his domain, he compressed it back into his body!
Raising the power of the laser by another level!
Raising his death ray palm, he brought down a light-speed mega slap on Chong Siyu!
Chong Siyu's eyes bulged as she gritted her teeth and endured!
"Insect Guard!"
Her face even grew counter-attack armor, but it was completely useless against Omega's laser mega slap!
The armor was burned through, and the laser palm, like a red-hot branding iron, slammed onto her face!
"Ssssss—"
Like scorching pigskin, after the slap, Chong Siyu's cheek swelled up, exuding a smell of cooked meat, with a charred handprint branded on it!
ᥬ(ლ)థൠథ)σ "You damned human! You dared leave burn marks on my perfect face? I'll kill you!"
Omega ran away at light speed:
ﾚ(ﾟ益ﾟ;)ﾍ=͟͟͞͞=͟͟͞͞ "Hey hey hey! You hit the next one! Why are you hitting me? Don't be a cheat!"
Chong Ruhua gritted her teeth: "Siyu! Calm down! Go all out!"
Chong Siyu covered her cheek, her eyes full of hatred, and then locked onto Ying Shi!
ᥬ(ꐦຈ益ຈ)᭄ "What are you looking at? Die!"
This strike, Chong Siyu pushed beyond her limits, swinging down at Ying Shi!
Ying Shi's eyes widened:
༼(*͡■皿■͡*)༽ "Multi-layer Energy Shield! Anti-Gravity Field • Repulsion! Energy Counter Shield! Strong-Phase Alloy Defense!"
At this moment, Ying Shi had all defenses maxed out, but up close against the enraged Chong Siyu, it was useless!
Energy barriers were shattered layer by layer, and the slap landed squarely on Ying Shi's head!
"Boom!"
Ying Shi's head was flattened, severed from the neck, and shot off like a cannonball or a batted baseball!
It flew across the entire venue, smashed through the ceiling, broke through the atmosphere, and was literally launched into space!
A clean head homerun!
Everyone stared at Chong Siyu in terror—that's what you call slapping someone's head off, isn't it?
Jiangnan: (•́ω•̀٥)
Sparks flew from Ying Shi's neck, and a cold mechanical voice came from the body:
վ•ܫ•ի "How do we count this? My face is gone. Let me change to a new mechanical prosthetic, and then—"
Chong Siyu glared: ᥬ(#)ຈ益ຈ)᭄ "Change what? No face, no face to slap, you're out. No swapping allowed! You agreed to accept the loss!"
Ying Shi: …
He had hoped to survive another round and study human defense methods, but it seemed there was no chance.
Giving up was no loss; taking the 666 mining area was just a safety net anyway. In the end, they'd force Chong Bishi to hand it over anyway.
Since the Bose clan had withdrawn, he could withdraw too.
After weighing the pros and cons, the headless Ying Shi turned and walked back to his seat.
"Silicon-based bidding withdrawn!"
Chong Siyu sneered: "Little bitch, your turn now! Die!"
With that, she swung a slap at Alpha. Of course, the result was the same—it slid off.
Alpha, after being slapped, turned and delivered a B-Bomb to Chong Ruhua! Chong Ruhua's face swelled even more, and she furiously unleashed on Omega.
Still slid off!
Thus began an endless clockwise slap contest. The four grew angrier with each slap, as if they wanted to throw their own arms at the other's face.
The sound of slaps crackled without end!
Chong Ruhua and Chong Siyu's eyes were bloodshot. As long as they killed these two humans, the 666 mining district would belong to the insect race!
Although the humans' defense had some tricks, they didn't believe there was an absolutely unbreakable defense in the world.
With enough force, miracles would happen!
Besides, if they stopped now, they'd already been slapped so many times—wouldn't that be a huge loss?
They had to beat these two to death!
ᥬ(๑)מּ益מּ)凸ᕤ "Ruhua!"
ᥬ(ლ)ຈ益ຈ)凸ᕤ "Siyu!"
"Fight to the death with these two dogs and bitches! Aiyaaaiyaaa—!"
At this point, the clockwise cycle had turned into a blur, and the four slapped faster and faster!
The bidding spectators below broke into gasps of astonishment!
(*ﾟﾛﾟ) "Tsk—are these two humans' faces thicker than the Wuxian Great Wall? They can take this much slapping?"
"No wonder they insisted on this competition—they've trained for it. In the future, when fighting humans, never hit their faces. Otherwise, you might go all out and not even break their defense. How embarrassing would that be?"
Fifteen minutes passed in a flash. The four on stage never stopped!
Venus felt a chill run down her spine. Good thing she hadn't joined, or she'd have lost Bose face.
Nobody expected this slap fight to turn into a prolonged standoff!
Atiya's forehead dripped with cold sweat. For a poor mining area, you guys really threw away all your face, huh?
꒰ঌ(͡°ก͡°)໒꒱ "Ahem—let them keep slapping over there. We'll continue the bidding here. Next up is mining area 10638. Opening bids..."
While the slaps blurred into phantoms, the bidding continued.
Jiangnan watched with sweat pouring down his forehead. Hey hey, could these two insect ghosts actually survive half an hour of slap war?
Do they really have to go this hard?
Once the half-hour was up, it would be the dogs and bitches whose heads got blown off, right?
With this kind of scraping attack, can they really beat these two ghosts in half an hour?
Pang Badi was also getting nervous. These two insect clan members were way too ferocious!
Chong Feiyu narrowed her eyes: (≖～≖) "Chong Ruhua and Chong Siyu are already evolving—toward head impact resistance, anti-dizziness, and defense."
"At this rate, it's going to be hard to win."
Jiangnan covered his face. Even cheating couldn't win—there really was no other way!
At this point, Omega and Alpha were exhausted. Their hands were sore from slapping!
(￢皿￢◦) "Hey, I say, isn't that enough? You can't beat us anyway. Why do you insist on holding on and losing face? What's the point?"
Chong Ruhua's left cheek was swollen like a pig's, perfectly round, missing half her teeth, but her eyes blazed with fury!
ᥬ(థ#)༥థ)᭄ "No way! I can keep this up for a whole day! Give up? Absolutely not!"
Chong Siyu's left cheek was cooked:
ᥬ(థ#)3థ)᭄ "Exactly! Otherwise, those 19,877 slaps I took would be for nothing, right? Eh, 19,890 now!"
Alpha shrugged: ╮(•́～•̀)╭ "Then let's drag it out. I can keep going for a month!"
Wang Youzhi covered his face. A month, my ass. You two don't have many minutes left. The invincibility only lasts 30 minutes, for crying out loud!
Jiangnan was racking his brains for a way out, but unbeknownst to him, Chong Bishi was calling Chong Ruhua on a communication insect.
"Ruhua? Did you secure the 666 mining area? Hmm? What's that noise over there? What's that crisp sound? Slap... tsk, so fast!"
"Are you breeding? That's excellent material. Remember to introduce me later."
Chong Ruhua's face was nearly swollen to bursting:
ᥬ(థ#)༥˂̶́)᭄ "No! Reporting to Her Majesty the Insect Emperor, we're still bidding. It hasn't been secured yet. It'll take some time. Siyu and I are prepared for a long battle."
Chong Bishi: ???
What's going on?
"Did the Bose and Silicon clans make bids?"
"They did, but they just withdrew one after another. Now we're competing with the humans. Hmm... it's intense."
Chong Bishi frowned. Those two clans both withdrew from the bidding? She sneered inwardly.
They were determined to make me hand over the Paradise Realm, weren't they?
Then taking 666 would be useless.
As the eighth sequence, if Bose and Silicon were set on making me give it up, I couldn't withstand the pressure anyway.
Holding 666 would be meaningless now.
"What's the current bid?"
"Currently three thousand trillion..."
"Tsk—why did it get so expensive? Hmph! Trying to bleed the insect clan, are they? Good calculations!"
"Forget it. We'll let go too. Judging from the attitudes of Bose and Silicon, securing it doesn't matter much anymore."
"I'll make one last attempt to develop it. If it works, fine. If it fails again, I'll have to hand it over anyway. Taking 666 would just be a waste of money."
"Our eighth sequence can't afford this game. Let the humans take the fall. Let them stir things up. It'll help share the pressure on the insect clan."
Hearing this, Chong Ruhua panicked:
ᥬ(థ#)益థ)᭄ "What? You're not bidding anymore? Let's... let's keep bidding!"
If they didn't bid, how would she account for the over twenty thousand mega slaps she'd taken?
That would be the loss of the century! Getting slapped for nothing, right?
Wasn't this screwing the insects over?
"You're defying my order? Can't you understand the command I just gave?"
Chong Ruhua looked like she was about to cry:
ᥬ(≥#)༥≤)᭄ "Yes, Mother Empress!"
"The insect clan withdraws! We're out! Take this lousy poor mining area, you humans!"