novelraw Chapter 703 15: Tower Crane (Part 2)
Chapter 703 15: Tower Crane (Part 2)
No!
No! No!! No!!!
Sun Hang suddenly remembered that when he entered this construction site, the crane's boom was facing in a different direction! And there was nothing hanging from the hook!
"Get out of the way!" Sun Hang shouted, "Avoid above your head!"
Almost the moment he shouted, the crane's boom suddenly moved a bit.
The delicate balance of forces was instantly broken, and the entire bundle of steel bars began to tilt. Accompanied by a thunderous noise loud enough to knock the site safety officer unconscious, the cables bundling the steel bars snapped instantly, and hundreds of steel bars slid down from one side!
These steel bars were like hundreds of long spears thrown by spear throwers. In just a moment, they could turn the Floating Car below into a piece of swiss cheesed iron!
Sun Hang stomped hard on the accelerator, activating his "wish comes true" ability. Before the main system could take countermeasures, he forcibly took control of the Floating Car — the motor's power was pushed to the maximum within half a second, propelling the entire car like an arrow from a bow.
This Floating Car had excellent performance, going from zero to a hundred in less than 1.5 seconds — but that was far from enough for Sun Hang!
As hundreds of steel bars scattered, they seemed influenced by an invisible force, forming a "scattershot-like" spread, with a radius expanding to over seventy meters!
No time to dodge! Sun Hang's brain immediately reached this conclusion — he pressed his palm onto the top of the Floating Car, its metal shell liquefied instantly, then rapidly restructured into a special reinforced structure for defense against piercing attacks.
"Boom! Boom boom!"
A series of relentless booms echoed overhead, and the Floating Car suspended in mid-air was continuously hammered downwards by tremendous forces — if Sun Hang hadn't directly controlled the car's metal frame, it would have long lost balance and overturned.
Sun Hang glanced at the rearview mirror and saw Xue Yue crouched in the backseat, clutching her head tightly — she was greatly terrified, yet fortunately unharmed.
"Anna, are you crazy?!" Sun Hang yelled viciously, twisting the steering wheel, attempting to steer the Floating Car out of the construction site. However, at that moment, the boom of another crane turned towards the Floating Car making a sharp turn in mid-air while Sun Hang was busy dealing with the falling steel bars.
From a third-party perspective, it seemed as if Sun Hang was intentionally driving the Floating Car into the crane's boom.
The thick crane boom was like a baseball bat, whereas the Floating Car was the baseball flying towards it.
In the next second, this "baseball" would be fiercely knocked away.
"Prepare for impact!" Sun Hang shouted low, gripping the steering wheel tightly, as countless mycelium extended to wrap Xue Yue in a cocoon in the back seat.
Sun Hang desperately tilted the car's nose down, reshaping the Floating Car's frame again, concentrating all the weight at the front, making the whole Floating Car perform a "cobra maneuver" like a fighter jet, plunging sharply towards the ground!
Anna's reaction speed was fast, but the crane's was limited. Even if she could control those mechanical components, it was impossible to lower the crane's boom by several meters to intercept the Floating Car's flight path in such a short time.
"Whew..." Sun Hang had just exhaled halfway when his eyes suddenly froze.
The Floating Car did avoid the crane boom but failed to evade the large hook hanging below it.
The hook had slid to a third of the way to the boom's front end, perfectly blocking the Floating Car's path.
No way to avoid.
Sun Hang's heart sank — although the Floating Car he was operating could use its maneuverability to avoid these cumbersome engineering machines, Anna anticipated his dodging actions and preemptively set up obstacles along his evasion route.
Was she reading his mind?
No, even if she read his mind, it would be impossible to react in time — these emergency evasion maneuvers were entirely instinctual for Sun Hang, many operations were not even processed by the brain...
Instinct... Damn, instinct!
Sun Hang couldn't help but curse inwardly.
He suddenly realized a problem — human instinct is the easiest thing to predict.
Just like how one instinctively draws a sharp breath when scalded by boiling water, or how one instinctively supports themselves with hands when losing balance and falling… all his instinctual actions were predicted by Anna.
Only head-on collision left.
However, the expected violent crash didn't happen. The liquid metal car shell reinforced by Sun Hang collapsed without warning the moment it touched the hook, the entire shell tearing apart like a piece of paper, exposing the car's occupants.
The next thing to "collapse" was the cocoon wrapping Xue Yue.
The Taisui mycelium withered into powder in less than 0.1 seconds, followed by the non-sharp hook, driven by immense force, penetrating Xue Yue's thin body, hanging her entirely on the hook and smashing through the other side of the car shell.
The front half of Sun Hang's Floating Car remained almost undamaged, while the back half was torn into metal twists — some were still attached to the front half, some were caught between the hook and Xue Yue's body, and more metal twists fell from the air, crashing onto the chaotic construction site.
Sun Hang didn't have time to continue cursing. He leapt from the half-destroyed car, and dozens of mycelium strands shot out, coiling around the ascending hook in an instant.
A pulling force from the mycelium flung Sun Hang's body towards the hook.
But Anna's "ability" on the hook hadn't faded yet. The mycelium coiling the hook withered into white powder like the earlier cocoon around Xue Yue.
More mycelium shot out from Sun Hang's body.
A flash of cold light sliced the large metal hook in two, and Sun Hang landed on the ground holding the nearly split-in-half girl.
Abundant vitality continuously poured into the girl's body. Those horrific wounds were healing at an accelerated, even more terrifying speed, dmaged organs regenerated rapidly, and cringe-worthy small granules sprouted from the flesh, patching the lacerated areas.
The girl's breathing gradually resumed, and the newly formed heart thudded within her chest.
Sun Hang looked up at the far-off crane,
He was really a bit angry.
He raised his hand and made a pressing motion in the void.
"Crack... Crack..."
The crane tower emitted a groan, straining under immense weight, as if thousands of pounds burdened it. The steel structure of the tower began to deform and collapse… when the load-bearing structures were completely destroyed, the entire crane fell with a deafening crash as if a giant had all its bones removed.
Sun Hang felt his metal manipulation ability had suddenly improved a notch, but as a trade-off, the mental energy consumption of activating the ability also increased over tenfold.
"Ah... is this the power of anger?" Anna's voice sounded in Sun Hang's ear, "This feeling is simply wonderful… the only flaw being..."
"Haven't you played enough?" Sun Hang interrupted her harshly, "Are you trying to kill me?!"
"I'm not trying to kill mom, only it," Anna replied.