Volume 1, Chapter 64: Can I Borrow a Military Fighter Jet?

Zhang Wei soared violently into the sky, frightening the Mechanical King Bird so much that it beat its wings in a frenzy. Its flight posture instantly fell into chaos, and not only was it unable to stabilize its body, but it even began to descend.

Seeing the thermal greatsword closing in on it rapidly, the Mechanical King Bird hurriedly adjusted its flight posture to steady itself while simultaneously beginning to climb in altitude.

"I refuse to believe you can catch me," the Mechanical King Bird snapped angrily.

In response, a barrage of freezing missiles shot out from the floating cannon.

Having activated the superpower combat power enhancement, Zhang Wei's combat rating had reached 2910 points, just a hair's breadth away from hitting the 3000-point mark.

This level of combat power was already enough to completely overwhelm the Mechanical King Bird.

Although Zhang Wei could not see the Mechanical King Bird's exact combat rating, based on his estimations, it was around four to five hundred points.

A combat power of 2910 against four or five hundred—was this not absolute dominance?

Therefore, the power of the freezing missiles was more than enough to pose a fatal threat to the Mechanical King Bird.

The Mechanical King Bird clearly understood this as well. From the moment Zhang Wei leaped from the ground up to a height of over two hundred meters, it knew that Zhang Wei was not someone it could handle.

Sensing the incoming freezing missiles, it immediately spat out a purple laser in retaliation.

The laser and the freezing missiles neutralized each other upon impact.

Right at that moment, Zhang Wei had already leaped close enough to attack the Mechanical King Bird. He swung the thermal greatsword in his hand, and the scorching wind carved a brilliant red arc through the air.

Daring not to take the blow head-on with its own body, the Mechanical King Bird extended one of its legs directly toward the thermal greatsword in an attempt to block it.

The thermal greatsword cared nothing for such trivialities; whatever stood in its path would be cleaved in twain.

Surrounded by waves of intense heat, the thermal greatsword sliced through the Mechanical King Bird's leg as if cutting through tofu. The process was so smooth that not even a single spark was generated.

It was also partly because the Mechanical King Bird's leg was far too slender; otherwise, it might have offered at least a tiny bit of resistance.

However, thanks to the buffering effect of this single strike, the Mechanical King Bird's body finally began to climb rapidly upward.

At this moment, the Mechanical King Bird harbored no thoughts of lingering. There was only a single obsession in its mind: to fly as fast and as high as possible.

Following this strike, the upward momentum of Zhang Wei's body vanished, rendering consecutive thruster firings entirely useless.

"What a pity!" Zhang Wei muttered inwardly, watching the Mechanical King Bird fly higher and higher.

There was no helping it; being able to leap over two hundred meters into the air using a melee skill was already an incredible feat.

Expecting to leap a thousand meters in a single bound was simply impossible at the current stage.

Even a combat power of tens of thousands couldn't achieve it, unless one obtained a far more powerful thruster.

"Still, I won't let you escape so peacefully."

"Death Ray!"

Purple light condensed in Zhang Wei's eyes, and a beam of thunderous light—strikingly similar to the laser released by the Mechanical King Bird—shot forth from his gaze.

"Damn human, I won't let you off easily." The Mechanical King Bird shouted while unleashing another laser.

You're not going to let me go even after I've already run away?

Fine, just you wait.

Two rays of purple light collided in mid-air.

This time, however, they did not neutralize each other. Zhang Wei's Death Ray was vastly superior in power.

The laser released by the Mechanical King Bird was assimilated by the Death Ray in a matter of moments, and then the beam shot straight toward the Mechanical King Bird.

Upon seeing this, the Mechanical King Bird beat its wings frantically without stopping for a second, increasing its ascent speed even further.

In the end, the Death Ray still failed to catch up to the Mechanical King Bird.

Zhang Wei's body began to plummet rapidly; given his current weight, his falling speed was extremely fast.

In the blink of an eye, he crashed straight down from the sky onto the ground.

A ring of dust and shockwaves erupted alongside a deafening roar at the spot where Zhang Wei landed.

"Big Brother!" Zhang Tao rushed forward immediately.

Falling from such a height—wouldn't that mean certain death?

Zhang Tao had already prepared himself to inherit Zhang Wei's legacy.

Unfortunately, Zhang Wei disappointed Zhang Tao.

Inside a crater nearly two meters deep smashed into the ground, Zhang Wei slowly straightened his posture.

At the very instant of his fall, the thrusters had fired violently to cushion the impact force, while Zhang Wei simultaneously bent his knees to effectively absorb the shock.

Therefore, Zhang Wei was completely unharmed.

"Pity, couldn't finish it off," Zhang Wei said, spreading his hands.

"That was already insanely fierce," Zhang Tao uttered, speaking the genuine thought in his heart.

Lin Qianyi also walked over at this moment and nodded at Zhang Wei. "I know you did your best."

"Still, even though we couldn't kill it, it surely won't dare to linger here for long. At the very least, everyone inside River City is safe now."

Lin Qianyi's mood was quite good; from her perspective, it meant countless lives had been saved from a gruesome fate.

"Big Brother, I need replenishment." Xiaobao didn't crowd around them; instead, it inched closer and closer to the pile of metallic debris.

"Eat your fill," Zhang Wei told Xiaobao, having witnessed everything the little creature had done.

If he were to withhold rations from Xiaobao after all that, Zhang Wei felt he wouldn't even be human anymore.

"You got it!" Xiaobao immediately dashed excitedly toward the metal wreckage, showing no signs of injury whatsoever.

"This guy is full of life. But damn, Xiaobao is truly resilient," Zhang Tao remarked with a hint of envy.

Zhang Tao didn't know what was wrong with him today, but he suddenly felt that Xiaobao actually looked quite pleasing to the eye.

"Human, I'm not leaving. I'm going to keep my eyes on you. If you don't give me peace, I won't let you have peace either!"

The Mechanical King Bird had climbed to an altitude of seven or eight hundred meters, and its voice traveled from the high altitude down to the ground, sounding even louder rather than weaker.

Not only could Zhang Wei hear the voice of the Mechanical King Bird, but the majority of the residents within River City could hear it clearly as well.

At this moment, the fear in countless people's hearts was continuously amplified.

"Is it still acting arrogant?" Zhang Tao stared up at the sky in astonishment.

Logically speaking, a loser should have the self-awareness of a loser and slink away with its tail between its legs.

Why was this creature being so arrogant?

"Because it can fly. Can you?" Zhang Wei glanced at Zhang Tao and retorted.

"Well... no."

"No matter what you do, I'll watch you and disrupt you. I want to see which of us is the truly miserable one."

This Mechanical King Bird possessed an extremely vengeful personality, clearly adopting the attitude of: if you won't let me live in peace, I won't let you live in peace either.

Zhang Wei looked up briefly and offered no response.

Zhang Tao grew somewhat anxious. "Big Brother, what should we do?"

It was impossible not to panic; if they had such a creature hovering over their heads no matter what they tried to do, they wouldn't be able to accomplish anything.

For example, when Zhang Wei went out to hunt, that idiot bird would just need to give a slight warning from the sky, and all the prey would scatter at the sound.

Unable to hunt meant being unable to acquire Source Crystals, and without Source Crystals, how could they grow stronger?

"The military—they have fighter jets, right?" Ignoring Zhang Tao, Zhang Wei turned his gaze to Lin Qianyi.

Lin Qianyi nodded at Zhang Wei. "Yes. Did you think of a solution?"

"Yeah, we might need to borrow a fighter jet from the military. Is that possible?"

"If it's you asking to borrow one, there's definitely no problem," Lin Qianyi promised with absolute confidence.

And indeed, there truly wouldn't be any problem. The military was currently trying every possible means to win Zhang Wei over; wasn't this the perfect opportunity?