Chapter 122: The Invincible Underground Fighter

"Thud, thud." Two muffled punches landed. Wu Hua collapsed, and Azure Starry Sky lay on the ground, gasping for air. The two were less than three meters apart.

Azure Starry Sky felt as if her head weighed a thousand pounds; she couldn't even lift it. Breathing was agonizing, and her chest felt like it was about to explode. She still had over 7,000 HP, but her stamina was a mere 28/5,850, and her fatigue level had reached 94.5%.

She had hit her limit—her absolute limit. But she couldn't understand why.

Wu Hua wheezed a laugh. "Can't keep up anymore, can you? Ha, hahaha..."

Azure Starry Sky suddenly realized the truth. She had fallen into a massive trap set by Wu Hua.

The altitude here was over 3,000 meters, and with such a fierce snowstorm, it would be a miracle if anyone didn't suffer from altitude sickness after intense physical exertion. No wonder their stamina had dropped so drastically.

At that moment, she finally understood why Wu Hua had insisted on tanking her attacks. It was a trade-off: he was using his HP to exhaust her stamina. While genetic serums enhanced a warrior's attributes, they couldn't bypass the mechanics of stamina, fatigue, and hunger. The faster and more aggressive her combos and skills were, the quicker she was digging her own grave.

She realized this too late, but Wu Hua had anticipated it the moment he climbed the mountainside and looked through his sniper scope. The data displayed a "20% vacuum" level; he knew the oxygen was extremely thin. No matter how strong your stats or how top-tier your gear, you couldn't fight against nature itself. That was the charm of *Star Wars*—it was rooted in reality, yet transcended it.

Therefore, when experts clashed, it wasn't just about force and equipment. Intelligence was the deadliest weapon of all.

Azure Starry Sky suddenly laughed. "My constitution is superior to yours. My stamina will recover before yours does. You’ll be the first to die."

Wu Hua chuckled back. "Is that so? But I’m currently on top." With that, he lunged at her. Azure Starry Sky desperately tried to roll away.

Wu Hua didn't have much strength left either, but he grabbed her ankle, dragged her back, and pinned her beneath him.

This was a move of desperation. Since both were exhausted—where stamina and HP dropping below 100 points rendered one immobile, and below 50 left one like a dead weight—Wu Hua still had about 150 points left, leaving Azure Starry Sky at his mercy.

Wu Hua sat squarely on her chest, almost like riding a horse, and brought his sandbag-sized fist down onto the bridge of her nose with a loud "thud." The punch nearly knocked her unconscious; stars danced in her vision, and blood splattered.

"I'll teach you to loot my gear! I'll teach you to act all high and mighty! I'll teach you to be a smug jerk!" Wu Hua rained muffled blows onto her face. His Black Hawk tactical gloves were useful after all; at least his hands didn't hurt.

Azure Starry Sky was furious. Being straddled and beaten like a horse by a man was a first in her life.

Every time Wu Hua remembered being forced to commit suicide by this woman, his rage flared. He landed every punch with full force. As he got into the rhythm, he ripped open her helmet visor, revealing a stunningly beautiful face. Under normal circumstances, Wu Hua would have been mesmerized, but seeing such a beauty now only fueled his anger, and he punched even harder.

"I'm going to master my self-created fist technique using you today!" Wu Hua hammered away until her face was completely swollen and unrecognizable.

His punches were no different from molesting her.

Wu Hua went wild and tore open her armor, revealing a fiery red bra. Azure Starry Sky's chest was fair and smooth, her curves impressive. The bra was a system-default garment that couldn't be removed, though Wu Hua was tempted to try.

"I'll keep hitting! I hate women in red bras—serves you right for it being your zodiac year!" Wu Hua showed no mercy, striking at her chest. "You dared to loot my bullets? You dared to ambush me? If I don't make you suffer today, you 'Seven Fairies' won't know how dangerous 'Explosive Madman' can be!"

"-120, -121, -125..."

Azure Starry Sky felt like she was going insane. At this rate, with no armor protection, the damage to her body was doubled, and she might actually be beaten to death.

Unable to take it anymore, she let out a roar, gathered every ounce of her remaining strength, heaved upward, and kicked Wu Hua off.

Wu Hua’s stamina finally hit rock bottom. After stumbling and face-planting into the snow, he laughed heartily. "Wahahaha! I feel great! Die, you bitch!"

Azure Starry Sky’s face turned green, her eyes burning with murderous intent. "If I don't tear you limb from limb later, I'll take your last name!"

Wu Hua laughed. "Then go ahead and take it." He tossed a dark object toward her.

"Trying that trick again?" She quickly raised her hands to protect her eyes.

Strangely, she didn't hear the blast of a flashbang. Lowering her hands, she saw a pack of "Black Cat" cigarettes lying in the snow.

"You..." Azure Starry Sky was livid.

"Haha, time to say goodbye! Goodbye, beauty!" Wu Hua tossed another dark object—this time, it was the real deal.

At that moment, Azure Starry Sky’s pupils contracted—it was a grenade with the pin pulled.

"BOOM!"

A massive explosion erupted at the edge of the cliff, painting the horizon red. The ground shattered, and countless tons of snow and rock slid into the abyss below. The blast of the G4 grenade and the howling snowstorm merged into a wailing sound, like demons screaming from hell.

Caught in the shockwave, Wu Hua was blown toward the center of the snowfield, a "-500" damage marker appearing over his head. He had a reason for bombing himself...

At the same time, Azure Starry Sky was launched seven or eight meters into the air, flying over twenty meters away. But her trajectory was different; she was blown backward off the cliff. She clawed at the air in panic, letting out a shrill, miserable scream as she plummeted into the bottomless white mist, eventually turning into a tiny point of light—presumably smashed to pieces.

"Hum-ha-hey, I only use grenades! Hum-ha-hey, martial artists take heed, the grenade is supreme... Wahahaha!" Wu Hua stood at the cliff's edge, singing like a madman before throwing his head back in a wild laugh. The sound echoed across the sky; standing at the peak of the snowy mountain, he truly felt the pleasure of being the sole master of the world.

However, after a few laughs, Wu Hua collapsed with a "thud." His stamina was at 17/3,000; he was no different from a corpse.

Just then, Yiyi performed a backflip out of the pet space and landed on Wu Hua's chest. She pressed her palms together in the air, manifesting a red energy orb. With a flick of her wrists, the orb turned into a beam of red light that shot into Wu Hua's forehead.

It was Yiyi's support skill—"Eight Directions Origin Return"—which restored 100 stamina and increased resistance by 3%.

Ten seconds later, Wu Hua, glowing with a faint red aura, performed a kip-up and stood in the snow, laughing toward the heavens. "I am invincible! Hahaha!"

Yiyi stood on his shoulder, let out a disdainful huff, but still gave him a thumbs-up with her left hand.