Dawn of a New Era - Chapter 37

Chapter 37: Massacre In The Rainstorm

Translator: Lordbluefire Editor: Lordbluefire
Lightning flashed and thunder rumbled. The rain got increasingly heavier, like a torrential downpour.

Chen Shouyi didn’t hear it clearly. “What? What are you saying?”

The shell girl hurriedly got closer to his ear, almost to the point of drilling in as she shouted as loud as she could. “Those giants from before are coming from the sea, there are many of them now!”

RUMBLE~

A bolt of lightning arced through space, directly striking the sea’s surface. It caused a ball of light to erupt and illuminate the area.

What?

His body tensed up. He finally heard it clearly. Wiping away the rainwater on his face, he rapidly rushed toward a nearby giant rock. He crawled as well as climbed, quickly reaching the top of the giant rock and gazing far into the distance.

The rain was very heavy, seriously affecting his vision.

Through the misty and rainy scene, he could only see several long-shaped canoes slowly closing in on the island.

One boat, two boats, three boats.

His heart continued sinking. Even before he recovered from his daze, the shell girl stood on his shoulders and spoke loudly, “There! They are also coming from that direction!”

Chen Shouyi hurriedly glanced in the direction she was pointing at. After staring for a long time, he finally saw a silhouette.

If it wasn’t for her reminding him, he might have neglected it completely

Only now did he discover to his shock that the shell girl’s vision was extremely good. He hurriedly asked, “How many giants do you see?”

Through these few days of learning, Chen Shouyi already had no problems with common conversations. It was like learning English. The junior high standard was already sufficient to support some basic conversation.

The shell girl looked closely for a time before saying, “one, one, one…”

At the start, Chen Shouyi was completely clueless. But he soon came to a realization.

She seemed to be constantly mentioning the word ‘one’. Maybe she wasn’t familiar with the other numbers and didn’t know what they meant.

“Repeat again!”

The shell girl repeated, “One, one, one…one.”

He silently kept count and discovered that she mentioned the word ‘one’ a total of twenty-three times.

There were twenty-three figures!

He couldn’t help but draw in a cold breath as his expression turned unsightly.

He once thought that there would be other barbarians searching for the two missing barbarians here. However, what he didn’t expect was that he would run into a beehive. To think that so many barbarians actually came in a single sitting!

That was way too crazy!

Chen Shouyi couldn’t help it and roared, venting the depression and unease he felt in his heart.

There were twenty-three barbarians, each with a body constitution stronger than a martial practitioner.

In this grim atmosphere covered with heavy rain, they clearly weren’t here to harvest water.

They would search the entire island and check everything carefully.

This little island wasn’t even a square kilometer in size. He discovered that it was soon about to be game over for him.

It was like he was playing a dangerous gambling game and now, he had crashed completely!

If this barbarian headed into the space channel and entered the city, a terrifying massacre would surely occur. Countless innocents would die, and in addition, his house was just a few streets away.

Chen Shouyi involuntarily felt some regret. Because of his own greed and desire, he decided to conceal the fact that he had discovered this space channel.

Sadly, if he rushed back to report now, he wouldn’t be able to make it in time. He saw the nearest canoe gradually closing in onto the shore.

Chen Shouyi instantly jumped down from this giant rock. He ignored the numbness of his feet and pulled out his battle bow and long sword, running toward the space channel.

After ten seconds, he reached the shore where the space channel was located.

Staring at the space channel that was slightly over ten meters away, he heaved a sigh of relief.

This was his final path of retreat. Once he had no way to defend against them, he would evacuate instantly.

As for other stuff, he couldn’t care less.

He swiftly checked the number of arrows in his bag.

There were a total of twenty, and not a single one was missing.

Feeling the cold tactile feel of the arrows, he gradually calmed down.

He wiped away the rain on his face.

At this moment, regret was useless. He took a few deep breaths as his expression grew determined.

Seeing Chen Shouyi not leaving, the shell girl anxiously jumped and continued shouting, “Flee, flee, flee!”

Chen Shouyi ignored it. This place was at the half-way point of the mountain waist and he was standing on high ground which granted him a good vision. He could faintly see the silhouettes of five barbarians that leaped down from the first canoe.

At this moment, his heart stirred, suddenly thinking of striking them while they were crossing halfway.

Right now, there was only a single canoe nearing the shore. The barbarians were walking in the shallow sea and their movements were greatly limited. This was the best chance to fight!

The mountain waist was merely two to three hundred meters away from the sea. If he rushed over now, he could still make it in time.

His mind spun rapidly.

He gritted his teeth and felt it was worth taking the risk. After that, he swiftly rushed down from the mountain waist.

Upon seeing his actions, the shell girl instantly flew up in alarm. She glanced at Chen Shouyi in the distance and the space channel. A look of struggle could be seen on her face, but she didn’t choose to enter the space channel alone.

Chen Shouyi ran down the mountain path, his body cutting through the heavy rain as he galloped frenziedly.

In this little island of the Otherworld, he had never run as fast as he was now. His body seemed to contain a ball of fire, brimming with inexhaustible energy.

In short twenty-plus seconds, he had already arrived at the foot of the mountain.

At this moment, the barbarian in the lead finally noticed Chen Shouyi’s running figure. He roared in alarm like he was warning his companions. After that, he took large strides to cross the shallow waters, moving toward the shore.

Every second counted.

Chen Shouyi was very clear that once they came to the shore, the difficulty to shoot them dead would increase exponentially.

Chen Shouyi’s blood and qi surged to his face. He exerted all his strength and ran like his life depended on it.

100 meters, 80 meters, 50 meters.

Chen Shouyi’s steps suddenly stopped. He didn’t have time to catch his breath. He hurriedly loaded an arrow in his 500-pounds battle bow and pulled the bowstring to a full moon.

At this moment, the barbarian just stepped onto the sandy shore with a single foot.

At the next instant, a sharp whistling noise rang out, and the arrow was like a lightning bolt penetrating the heavy rain, leaving behind a long scar behind.

The barbarian lifted his spear, seemingly to prepare to fight. However, he only lifted his spear halfway and an arrow blasted over with lightning speed, penetrating his head before the sonic boom reached him and exiting from the back of his head.

His entire body trembled and he fell face-first.

Compared to traditional bows, recurve bows didn’t only have higher precision, but they could also store more power and allow a fired arrow to have more kinetic energy.

On earth, a heavy recurve bow specially used by martial practitioners could fire an arrow so fast for a distance of four to five hundred meters with a speed that greatly surpassed the speed of sound.

In addition, due to the quality of the arrows being comparatively higher, their kinetic energy had already far exceeded that of bullets. In a short to mid-range distance, their killing prowess was extremely shocking.

And just when the first barbarian fell, before the other ones behind him could react, the second arrow landed and instantly shot through the second barbarian’s eyes.

Chen Shouyi continued taking out arrows, pulling his bowstring and firing them.

Although Chen Shouyi’s nervous mind felt slightly dizzy from pulling the bowstring, he had practiced firing arrows every day for at least several thousand times. Now, everything had become instinct to him, so there was no need for him to think about it.

In a short few seconds, the five barbarians from the first canoe were all completely eradicated. Their fresh blood gradually dyed the sea’s surface red, and their corpses floated up in the sea.

The opening went very smoothly, causing Chen Shouyi to feel much calmer. The nervousness she felt slowly receding.

Seeing the second canoe was still a few hundred meters away from the shore, he rapidly moved forward and pulled out the arrow stuck in one of the slain barbarian’s heads.

There were a total of twenty-three barbarians while he only had twenty arrows. For every additional arrow he had, it would mean a portion less danger.

Who knew that when he just placed the arrow into his quiver, a sharp short spear rapidly shot over with lightning speed from the sea’s surface.

Just when wariness rose in Chen Shouyi’s heart, a sharp forceful wind already brushed by the side of his face, causing his skin to feel pain.

His scalp was tingling madly.

At this moment, it seemed that he could feel the god of death’s icy breath behind his back.

Chen Shouyi retreated simultaneously while rapidly loading his arrow, aiming before him.

From a distant canoe on the sea, a tall and powerful barbarian stood at the front and was angrily staring at Chen Shouyi with a malevolent expression on his face.

“YOU! DIE!”