Chapter 4724 — Electric Shock

Ignoring Huo Yudie's astonished look, Wei Zhao immediately took out his phone. The moment he switched it on, he found the situation here was a little better than expected: the signal was very weak, but he could just barely pick up something. This showed that they could not be too far from the main island of West Island—otherwise, the small base station Han Jingyi had set up would never have been able to cover this area.

Only one number was stored on the phone. It went without saying that it had to be Ning Xuefei's. Among all the people on the Five Great Cloud-Tier Islands, the only ones who could use a phone to make calls were her and Han Jingyi.

"Brother Wei Zhao!" Han Jingyi's excited voice came through from the other end almost at once. Clearly, Ning Xuefei's phone had been put under her temporary care so that she could provide Wei Zhao with support from afar at any time. She had carried it on her person all these days, waiting for precisely this moment.

"Jingjing, I've run into a bit of trouble. Help me think of a way to break through it." Wei Zhao had no time for pleasantries and went straight to the point. "I've tangled with Kang Jingming, but that armor of his is like a turtle shell. Even my strongest martial technique does nothing against it—it covers even his head completely. It looks like there's no blind spot at all."

"Is that so..." Han Jingyi could not help falling into thought. After a moment she said, "Put that way, it really is quite a hard problem. If only Jingjing were there on the spot, she might be able to find a solution—but that won't work at a moment's notice either. Since that armor's defensive power is so formidable, normal methods of attack are probably unrealistic. Unless..."

"Unless what?" Wei Zhao asked hurriedly.

"Use an electric shock!" Han Jingyi's voice picked up with energy.

"An electric shock? Why didn't I think of that!" Wei Zhao was stunned for a moment, then his eyes lit up. Against Kang Jingming's turtle-shell metal armor, an electric shock was absolutely the most effective and most lethal method!

No matter how formidable his defenses were, they would be useless. Once the current was running through him, it could simply be ignored. That suit of metal armor would not save Kang Jingming—instead, it would become his death warrant.

And what was truly a stroke of luck: if this had been a few days earlier, Wei Zhao could not possibly have used an electric shock against Kang Jingming even if he had wanted to, because he had no means of delivering one at all!

But now things were different. He had already mastered the power of lightning from the inheritance of the giant electric eel. Even if its might was far inferior to the Five Elements Killing Aura, it was more than enough to deal with Kang Jingming.

Wild with excitement, Wei Zhao was about to hang up then and there, but Han Jingyi said, "Brother Wei Zhao, don't celebrate too soon. I said an electric shock is only one possible countermeasure. Never mind whether you can even generate one—I suspect that armor of his, packed with such high technology, may not be afraid of electric shocks at all..."

"How could that be?" Wei Zhao was startled.

"After all, that flaw is just too obvious. If I were the designer of that armor, I would definitely have done everything possible to fix it. Even if I couldn't make it completely immune to electric shocks, I would at least have done my utmost to make up for that weakness. I dare say that armor must have an insulating protective layer—an electric shock of ordinary strength would definitely be useless," Han Jingyi said with certainty.

"Then what do we do? Does that mean we're really at our wit's end?" Wei Zhao felt as though a basin of cold water had been poured over his head; the bit of excitement he had just felt was snuffed out in an instant. Han Jingyi was an expert in this field. If she dared to assert it so confidently, then it had to be correct.

On reflection, that made sense. Whether it was the smart armor or the laser cannon, both were products of hyper-advanced technology. They could almost be said to represent the highest level of secular-world science. If such things still had such an obvious loophole, that would be far too childish.

"Since I can't get first-hand information, Jingjing can't think of any other way either. For now, it looks like an electric shock is still the most likely countermeasure to work—but it can't be a simple electric shock. We'll have to do some preparatory work first," Han Jingyi said after thinking it over.

"Oh? What preparatory work?" Wei Zhao asked at once.

This and that, and so and so—after Han Jingyi had explained it all over the phone, Wei Zhao's heart was set at ease. He hung up at once, impatient to go try it out on Kang Jingming.

"What on earth is this thing? Is it some kind of secular-world technological product?" Seeing that Wei Zhao seemed ready, Huo Yudie asked一连串 questions from the side.

She had watched Wei Zhao talk a whole stream of words into the thing, and a woman's voice had even drifted faintly out of it—it sounded like Han Jingyi. This was truly marvelous. At that moment her eyes were full of curious little stars, and her heart itched as though a hundred claws were scratching at it. She wished she could snatch it away and study it properly.

"Oh, this is a phone, a very common communication tool in the secular world. You can study it on your own later when you have time." Wei Zhao casually tossed the phone to Huo Yudie. Then, after drawing a deep breath, he carefully re-entered the ring of light of the Five Thunder Tribulation Archway.

Seeing Wei Zhao go in, Huo Yudie was naturally unwilling to be left behind. She promptly stowed the phone Wei Zhao had given her, along with the Thunder Mystic Vine, into her backpack, and tiptoed in after him.

The scene before their eyes shifted, and Wei Zhao and Huo Yudie reappeared one after the other in the narrow passage. Through the string of great holes the laser cannon had blasted out moments before, they could see the innermost situation from where they stood at the entrance: Kang Jingming and Xu Lingchong were just then furiously bent over digging up Thunder Mystic Vine, one plant each, having the time of their lives.

Shh! Wei Zhao made a silencing gesture at Huo Yudie, then his figure flickered. To seize the initiative before the other side could notice and react, he did not hesitate to use the Super-Limit Butterfly Microstep, his whole body like a ghost, closing in on the two men's backs at top speed.

Huo Yudie watched this scene tensely, her heart rising to her throat. She did not know what method Han Jingyi and Wei Zhao had discussed, only that if Wei Zhao failed this time, the two of them would truly be in danger.

Relying on the smart armor and the laser cannon, Kang Jingming was now an invincible human-shaped monster. Unfortunately, this was not his true strength. The moment it came to a field where those two pieces of equipment could not be brought into play, he was immediately beaten back to his original form—spiritual perception, for instance.

Even when Wei Zhao appeared silently behind him, Kang Jingming remained completely unaware. It was Xu Lingchong beside him who was the first to react. Without a word he fled to one side while crying out in terror: "Wei Zhao!"

Only then did Kang Jingming turn pale with fright and belatedly turn around—but by then Wei Zhao was already right before his eyes. (To be continued)