Shi Tian clasped his hands once he realized Mary’s plan.
Despite risking it in agitating the Moles, it was best to lure them all out on the surface than have them remain dormant underneath the ground.
After all, only when they appeared on the surface would they be able to have a chance to attack.
“As expected of our Genius Mary.” Shi Tian praised.
“Save the bootlicking for those who would believe you.” Mary rolled her eyes.
“You might have some skills and abilities, but you need to gain experience in a real fight to learn how to adapt to the situation. Just like now, you have a handful of grenades to use, but instead of thinking about how to utilize them. You stood there like a fool, waiting to be butchered.” She then lectured him harshly, pulling zero punches back.
Shi Tian scratched his head, clearly unable to refute any of her statements.
It was true that he was inexperienced when it came to numerous fights, but that doesn’t mean he couldn’t learn to adapt to them once taught.
“And I’m quite curious about something. How did you even make it to Gearits City?” Mary asked, seemingly dumbfounded at how he was able to travel from afar to Gearits City with how inexperienced he was.
“Um, I snuck around and avoided the enemies?” Shi Tian responded.
“That still doesn’t make sense. Even if you want to sneak around to avoid enemies, some monsters are highly sensitive and can detect your movement. It’s impossible to be 100 percent safe.” She shook her head and doubted his claim.
“But that’s the truth, Mary. There’s no reason for me to hide my ability in front of you.” He shrugged his shoulders.
This time, he truly wasn’t lying and was speaking the truth. He really didn’t need to fight much nor encountered much difficult monsters.
Although Mary still found it somewhat suspicious, she didn’t have the opportunity to enquire further when she sensed the movement of these Moles.
“Forget it, take out your stun grenades.” Mary went into her attack stance and commanded. .𝒄𝒐𝒎
“I don’t need to instruct you on what to do next, right?” She added, provoking him.
“Rest assured, if I’m that ignorant then you might as well kill me here and now.” Shi Tian sarcastically said, changing the gear form of his mechanical right arm.
With a single thought in mind, Shi Tian changed the gear form to one that produced CFM, a good function of increasing his throwing strength by utilizing the air force.
In other words, even if he doesn’t have the strength, with this gear form active, one could even throw like any professional baseball pitcher.
“Good, now on my mark!” Mary shouted and thrust forward, directly going to a more isolated Moles, and swung her dagger.
Meanwhile, Shi Tian utilized a CFM force of 500, throwing the stun grenade at those nearby Moles that attempted to swarm Mary, who was busy killing one of the Moles.
Given such a force, the timing was immaculate, and Mary smirked coldly, quickly spinning around and slashing the Moles numerous times, inflicting a large amount of damage to them.
It was a shame that these Moles’ bodies are tough and just some slashes alone aren’t enough to pierce or cut through their tough skins.
Nevertheless, Mary was quite satisfied with the result and retreated backway before the stunned Moles were able to break free to swarm at her.
Their current attack strategy was a blitzkrieg type, targeting the most isolated Moles and retreating quickly.
“Good, let’s keep this up, Nathan,” Mary shouted excitedly, and increased her movement speed, going after the Moles that couldn’t catch up to the others in time.
“I can do this all day,” Shi Tian replied and threw another round of stun grenades behind Mary, immobilizing the Moles that had just caught up to her.
This went on for a few minutes until the Moles began to realize that chasing after Mary was a pointless effort.
Even if they weren’t stunned by the grenade, they could tell her movement speed alone was quite horrifying. It was difficult for them to even land a hit on her, much less catch up to her speed.
Thus, their focus gradually changed to Shi Tian, who had been standing a relatively safe distance, while chucking down those stun grenades at them.
They were infuriated at seeing their companions dying one by one and being completely hopeless, so without hesitation, they started burrowing into the ground.
The speed of their shovel-like claw digging was rapid, and Mary sensed that they weren’t after her.
“Nathan, they’re finally going after you. Do as we planned beforehand.” Mary shouted, decapitating the head of a Moles with her dagger.
Meanwhile, Shi Tian was utterly confused as they didn’t discuss any of the plans further than him throwing a stun grenade to assist her.
“What did we plan beforehand?” He shouted in confusion.
“You know- the plan!”
Shi Tian took a deep breath and realized Mary was definitely messing with him at this point.
What she meant was that he was on his own and should come up with an improvisation to deflect the Moles coming after him.
‘I knew this would have happened.’ Shi Tian clicked his tongue and hurriedly placed a few traps on the ground.
These were the Claymore mines that he had to personally disarm previously from the minefield that Mary set up.
He didn’t need to set them up meticulously, given that these Moles were coming after him without much of their cautiousness anymore.
Instead, he just placed them directly behind him and started running amok.
And sure enough, a few seconds later, the Moles began triggering the claymore mines, blasting a few of them into smithereens.
“See, what did I tell you? The plan!” Mary laughed when she saw Shi Tian utilizing the Claymore mines to blast the Moles that stupidly decided to group together.
Usually, they would always act individually but with her specifically targeting them for being isolated, these Moles thought grouping up would be the best.
But little did they know, it was all a setup from the start.
As intelligent as monsters could gain from the mutation, they were still far inferior to a human’s scheming mindset.