Chapter 1706 A Certain Kind of Merger

"Nani?" Likoom, the most "mischievous" member of the special forces team, immediately looked at Lu Bu upon hearing this, and asked with a frown, "You think you can?"

As he spoke, he raised his hand and pressed the combat power detector on the side of his head a couple of times. (Before they set off, they had all gone to the ship to retrieve new detectors to wear and turned off the automatic search mode, which would prevent the detector from exploding due to a target at an extreme distance.)

Beep beep beep...

Lu Bu's combat power quickly displayed on Likoom's detector, causing the latter to burst into laughter. "Ha! Hahahaha... Combat power of only fifteen thousand, and you dare to boast shamelessly about taking down Sabo?"

"Trash, if you know what's good for you, get out of my way." Lu Bu looked at Likoom with disdain. "This daddy's target is Orochi; I don't want to waste time on you pieces of garbage."

"What did you say?" Likoom glared at Lu Bu upon hearing this. "Are you looking to die! You littl—"

"Hold on... Likoom." At this moment, Ginyu waved his hand, interrupting Likoom's words. "I think he looks... serious." He paused for a moment, reminding him, "Don't be too careless... You must know, these guys' combat power may not be fixed." Despite his words, there wasn't a hint of apprehension toward Lu Bu on Ginyu's face; his expression was still very confident.

"Oh? Is that so?" Likoom clenched one fist and slammed it into the palm of his other hand. "That's perfect; let me test his strength then..."

"Lu Bu, and the others... you guys go first." At this moment, two figures suddenly stepped forward, standing between the Ginyu Force and the crowd. One of them said, "These five guys, just leave them to us to deal with."

As soon as these words came out, everyone's gaze naturally focused on those two people.

These two were both sturdy and fierce-looking men.

The one who spoke just now was none other than Rugal Bernstein.

And the man who stood out with him... had a face like a demon, eyes that flashed with red light, a body like a Luohan (arhat), and bulging muscles. He had a head of red hair shaped like a lotus flower, and his hair was tied into a ponytail that reached the sky. He wore a set of dark blue karate uniform, the sleeves of which had been torn off, and the edges and corners were tattered. Around his neck, he wore a string of large Buddhist beads, and around his waist, he wore a thick hemp rope. His fists were also wrapped with hemp rope, and he didn't even have shoes on his feet.

This man was called Gouki (Akuma). He was an unparalleled martial arts prodigy, known as the "Fist That Massacres Gods and Demons," and also known as the "Ultimate of the Fist."

He was a successor of the assassination fist fighting style, possessed a violent "killing intent surge," and had a nearly unprincipled, insane pursuit of the "limit of martial arts."

"Hmph... this is a surprise." Lu Bu looked at the two men, then revealed a strange smile, and then looked at the five members of the special forces team. "Very well... I'll leave it to you then."

After saying this, he put away his halberd and ran forward, bypassing the five members of the special forces team.

"Hold on! Who allowed you to..." Naturally, Likoom wouldn't let Lu Bu go just because those two inexplicable guys had said something. He wanted to chase after him.

But at that instant...

Boom—

A purple beam of energy whistled over, as fast as a flowing wind, and as powerful as a collapsing cliff.

Likoom's attention was focused on Lu Bu, and for a moment, he was distracted and was struck in the back by this move.

"Ugh..." After being hit, Likoom groaned in pain, staggering and almost falling. "Wh... what..."

While muttering, he turned his head to look in the direction from which the energy beam had flown. The combat power detector showed that Gouki, who had launched the attack... only had a combat power of thirteen thousand, which was even lower than Lu Bu's. But just now, that [Zankuu Hadouken (Air Gouken)] had actually inflicted minor injuries on Likoom, the number two figure in the Ginyu Force with a combat power of around fifty thousand, which made Likoom very puzzled.

"Oh?" Seeing this, Ginyu's expression changed slightly, but his composure remained. "So that's how it is... you're all the type whose combat power can change... No wonder Sabo was taken down." He muttered thoughtfully, then snorted coldly and said to Likoom, "Hmph... Likoom, let them be..."

"But... Captain..." Likoom still seemed unwilling to give up.

So, Ginyu glared at him again. That one look made Likoom shrink back.

In any case, Ginyu was a man with a combat power of one hundred and twenty thousand, and his combat power... was also variable. Therefore, everyone (from the time node when the Ginyu Force first appeared in the *Dragon Ball* universe), including himself, believed that he was the "second strongest warrior in the universe" after Frieza. In the special forces team, Ginyu undoubtedly had a lot of prestige.

"Ugh... okay..." Likoom reluctantly glanced at Lu Bu's back. "Since you've said so, Captain..." He turned around helplessly, giving up on chasing after the other party.

And just as they were talking, the other members of the Super-Dimensional Army also followed Lu Bu's pace, rushing past from both sides.

The five members of the special forces team did not stop them from doing so.

Ginyu's idea was: there was no need to impatiently kill everyone they encountered, because Frieza's order was "to scout the north," not "to kill everyone there." To put it another way... what could these people do even if they went to the martial arts arena? Anyway, they would still meet a dead end when they encountered Frieza.

Beep beep beep...

"Captain..." A few seconds later, Jeice, the most faithful believer in combat power detectors among the special forces team, pressed the instrument in front of him a couple of times and said to Ginyu with a disdainful expression, "Are we really going to play with these two guys whose combined combat power is less than thirty thousand?"

"Hmph..." Ginyu snorted coldly, not answering Jeice's question, but looking at Rugal and Gouki and saying, "You two... I can see that you've decided to stay behind and fight to the death so that your companions can pass. However, I still want to advise you... give up." He spread his arms and said with a smile, "There are five of us here. In terms of combat power, the total on our side is almost ten times that of you two. You don't even need to fight to know the result."

Unexpectedly, Ginyu didn't seem to plan on fighting them, but chose to negotiate: "We... don't have a reason to fight..." He pointed to the backs of the two men. "How about this... as long as you tell me what exactly happened over there earlier, we'll let you leave."

"Hmph hmph... hahahaha... hahahaha..." After hearing Ginyu's words, Rugal and Gouki unexpectedly sneered in unison.

"Hmm?" Seeing this, the smile on Ginyu's face disappeared instead, and he asked with a slightly angry tone, "What's so funny?"

"You're thinking too much..." Gouki replied in a deep voice.

Rugal laughed and said, "The reason why we stood out is simply because... we don't want to share prey with others."

"Nani?" This time, the five members of the special forces team reacted with surprising consistency.

"Tch... two ignorant pieces of trash, still acting so arrogant when death is imminent..." Likoom muttered viciously.

"Hmph..." Jeice also chimed in. "It's a waste of words... these frogs in a well run rampant on their own planet, and think they're invincible in the universe. Without combat power detectors, they won't understand how powerful we warriors whose combat power far exceeds theirs are... unless they're taught a lesson."

"Sigh... there's no helping it." This time, even Ginyu lost his patience. He looked at the shortest of the special forces team and said, "Guldo, I'll let you play with them."

Upon hearing this, Guldo blinked his four eyes and revealed a sinister smile. "Hehe... alright, leave it to me! Captain."

After saying that, Guldo jumped forward and stood in front of Rugal and Gouki.

"Prepare to die! You two pieces of trash!" Although Guldo was short and ugly, and had the weakest combat power among the special forces team (less than twelve thousand), his attitude towards outsiders was quite arrogant.

"Burter..." After Guldo stepped forward, Ginyu quietly said to Burter beside him, "If Guldo is in any danger, go up and help him..."

"Understood, Captain." Burter also lowered his voice and replied.

From their words and actions, it was not difficult to see that... Guldo was indeed very weak (relatively speaking to the other members of the special forces team). However, there was a reason why he was able to occupy a place in the Ginyu Force. Although his combat power wasn't that great, he had many very sharp superpowers, and could win even against opponents with higher combat power than himself by relying on his abilities.

"Hoi~ Hoi~" Guldo, standing in front of Rugal and Gouki, two fierce men who were several times taller than him, was not afraid at all. He was still wiggling his barrel waist and swinging his stubby body to warm up, as if he was mocking the other party.

"Gouki." And Rugal didn't even look at Guldo, directly turning his head to Gouki and saying, "Those guys behind us (referring to the Super-Dimensional Army who were still entangled with Abandoning Heaven Emperor)... won't be able to catch up for too long. If they do, there will be complications..." His eyes narrowed. "I think... we should make a quick decision."

"Hmm..." Gouki pondered. "Alright, let's move!"

Before his voice faded, Rugal and Gouki suddenly stood side by side, each unleashing their fighting spirit.

Beep beep beep—

"Hmm?" Jeice looked at the data feedback on the detector, and his expression changed. "What! Th... thirty-nine thousand..."

"Hey... I'm not seeing things, am I..." Burter said to Jeice from the side (the two were partners, and their combat power was both around forty thousand). "Isn't this about the same as our combat power?"

Likoom and Guldo also showed surprise when they saw this change.

"Hmm... able to greatly increase combat power without transforming..." Only Ginyu remained calm, thinking to himself, "...increasing it by as much as three times. But... this still can't pose any threat to us."

However, what happened next immediately refreshed his worldview...

"Ha!"

"Ha!"

At this moment, Rugal and Gouki both shouted, raised their arms, and extended them flat to one side of their bodies.

Then, they slightly bent their legs, stepped with small steps, quickly approached each other, and drew a semicircle with their arms, over their heads, and placed them on the other side of their bodies.

While doing this action, they began to chant, "Fusion—"

When the two approached within a meter or so of each other, they each bent one leg, stood on one foot, and put their arms back to the "outside."

Then, they made a lunge towards each other, bent their upper bodies to the side, and each extended one index finger.

Finally, the two touched their four fingers together and shouted the word "sion!" at the same time.

Throughout the entire process, the two people's postures, movements, and even aura were completely synchronized, standing on the opposite side and observing, it was as if they were watching a mirror image.

This move... was undoubtedly the legendary [Fusion].

As long as two warriors of similar size and not too far apart in combat power raise their qi to almost the same state, and then make this special, embarrassing activation posture, they can obtain a temporary fusion effect.

And the combat power of the "two-in-one" warrior born from fusion will explode in growth.

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Here, let me say something extra. In the *CvS* (i.e., *Capcom vs. SNK*) series, there are two super-strong characters who can be called bugs: one is "God Gouki," who absorbed the power of Orochi from Rugal, and the other is "God Rugal," who was born by absorbing the killing intent surge.

The fused warrior in front of him was equivalent to a monster that was produced only after stacking the various abilities of these two characters four dimensions.

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The moment [Gougal] (here, the first half of Gouki's name "gou" and the last half of Rugal's name "gal" are taken to form the name "Gougal") appeared, his fighting spirit soared into the sky, piercing the clouds.

Beep beep beep beep beep—

The combat power detectors of the five members of the Ginyu Force all emitted a buzzing sound, and the soaring numbers on the lenses made them greatly shocked.

"F... four hundred thousand... four hundred and fifty thousand... five hundred thousand... five hundred and eighty thousand..." Jeice stuttered a few times, following the numbers, and stopped speaking when the value exceeded six hundred thousand.

About ten seconds later, the light on Gougal's body dissipated, and the fighting spirit entered a saturated and stable state. At this time... his combat power stopped growing and settled at the number 2,400,000.

"Wh... what's going on..." The tall and burly Burter said tremblingly, "It must be a mechanical failure... this is impossible!"

"Yes... y... yes!" Jeice chimed in. "This guy has been mystifying for half a day, but he's actually using some kind of illusion... or he's using a special ability to interfere with the combat power detector." He muttered to himself in self-deception, and then laughed a few times with great difficulty, looking at Gougal and saying, "Heh... hehe... don't think you can fool us! This kind of trick can't scare us!"

"Hmph..." Gougal stood in place with his arms crossed, and snorted coldly. Two overlapping voices came from his mouth. "A bunch of ignorant frogs in a well, running rampant in their own universe, and thinking they're invincible." He returned Jeice's previous words. "You who only know how to rely on the so-called 'combat power detector'... will not understand how powerful we are."

While speaking, Gougal's eyes moved slightly, and he focused his gaze on Guldo.

"Ee—eee!" The Guldo who had been very arrogant just now became like a toad stared at by a snake, stiff in place, not daring to move at all.

"Then... let's start with you." As Gougal spoke, he turned his body to the side, retracted his arms, and placed the roots of his palms against each other, posing in a stance. "God Hadouken!"