Boom!

Xun Zian punched into the cement road, barely stopping his retreat.

His arms trembled slightly, bones bent and deformed, skin turned blood-red from the massive rupture of capillaries, fine blood beads slid down his arms and dripped between his fingers.

"Captain!"

An anxious call came from the side, Chu Yin took a step forward and threw three syringes from her palm, which flew and stabbed into Xun Zian's back.

The syringes automatically compressed and injected a light red liquid into Xun Zian's body, gradually healing the injuries on his arms.

Li Ang, riding on the back of the Fearful Warhorse, did not continue his pursuit. He twisted his wrist, producing the sound of bones resetting with a crack.

Swish—

The sound of breaking air came from behind, Ash, also part of the Mobile Detachment Five, passed through the barrier, silently appearing behind Li Ang.

He held a simple short sword in his hand,

Gray particles filled the surroundings, vaguely forming three identical figures holding short swords, rushing from the left and right front.

[Shadow Technique: Cross Kill]

Li Ang slightly tilted his head, his vision surrounded by gray mist, the air stagnant and solidified,

Through the weaker part of the mist, he could faintly see at the crossroads, several Mobile Detachment officers rapidly chanting spells,

Behind them, two laser cannon towers composed of four crystal blades each were slowly charging.

"Sigh..." 𝘧𝓇𝑒𝑒𝑤ℯ𝑏𝓃𝘰𝑣ℯ𝘭.𝘤ℴ𝘮

A soft sigh seemed to come from within the mist from Li Ang.

Rapidly charging Ash felt an inexplicable chest pain, his vision suddenly chaotic.

An overwhelming force slammed into his chest, ribs instantly crushed and fractured, causing him to involuntarily fall to the ground.

The standardized armor defense, the gray mist cover, the passive trigger defensive tools he carried,

all failed to prevent him from being pierced by the spear shaft emerging from the mist, firmly embedding him into the ground, creating a human-shaped indentation.

The gray mist dissipated in response, Li Ang maintained the pose of thrusting out the spear shaft, turned his head to look toward the crossroads, ignoring the incapacitated Ash.

Seemingly feeling his gaze,

The Mobile Detachment officers standing at a distance separated by a translucent barrier shuddered in their hearts, hastening their spell chanting.

The high-altitude weather rapidly changed, the entire sky suddenly darkened,

Clouds accumulated and stacked, thunder danced and swayed, producing rumbling thunder.

Summoning thunder?

Li Ang swung the Tyrant Halberd, pushing away the Transcendent trying to save Ash who rushed in,

Riding forward, sprinting toward the crossroads blocked by the Sky-Lifting Barrier.

What is he trying to do?!

Behind the barrier, Mobile Detachment officers looked shocked, firing long guns and short cannons, weaving a dense rain of bullets.

Various bullets and shells roared forward, yet Li Ang threw out a sphere with purple on top and white below, emblazoned with the letter M.

Perfect Level item, [Minor Master Ball]

The PokeBall automatically opened, accompanied by a flash of white light, the Fenix Pit Beast floated in the Mortal Realm.

Compared to its previous appearance, this biological weapon had undergone extensive modifications,

Its originally tough and sturdy gray-white skin was clad in multiple layers of heavy alloy armor,

Sharp claws akin to blades were equipped with protective gauntlets that revealed the claw spikes.

The body part most resembling a weak point, the neck's cross-section (the Fenix Pit Beast has no head, with a ring-like mouth split into three petals and six eyes on the neck cross-section),

was covered by a seemingly crude yet actually durable and sturdy barrel-shaped semi-hollow helmet.

"Roar!!"

The Fenix Pit Beast roared in fury upon appearance, its strong arms hanging down like a monkey, pounding heavily on the ground.

The bombardment of bullets rained on the Fenix Pit Beast's body surface,

Solid projectiles were deflected or blocked by the alloy armor,

Energy bullets lost momentum through thick metal plates, quietly extinguishing, or leaving shallow white marks on the Fenix Pit Beast's skin.

The very few bullets that continued toward Li Ang were all blocked by the concrete debris shattered by the Fenix Pit Beast's arms.

Everything happened too quickly,

The clouds above the crossroads just charged full of thunder, the laser cannon tower just completed its charge,

Li Ang, riding the Fearful Warhorse, had already reached the barrier front holding the spear.

The remnant blade of the Long Spear, rotating to pierce the Sky-Lifting Barrier.

Contact, collision, erupting in dazzling sparks.

Buzz—

Water-wave-like patterns emerged on the barrier's surface,

Its color rapidly changed from light blue to red.

The bismuth metal column inclined atop the armored vehicle, which maintained the barrier, vibrated violently, causing the heavy vehicle below to tremble slightly.

Visibly, the entire barrier slowly bent, deformed,

Little by little, the armoured vehicle, whose wheels had long been locked, was pushed towards the back, heavy tires skidding on the ground, producing harsh noise.

Finally.

Clang!!

The Sky-Lifting Barrier, deformed to the extreme, exploded,

The deafeningly loud noise erupted at the crossroads, enough to shatter human eardrums,

The floor-to-ceiling windows of surrounding shops shattered simultaneously,

Unmanned vehicles unable to evacuate in time also beeped loudly after their windows shattered.

"..."

Li Ang took a deep breath, pointed left, releasing the Disintegration Technique, blasting the laser cannon tower unable to redirect,

The Long Spear swept right, slicing another tower in half.

The surrounding Mobile Detachment officers tried to rush forward to block, but were each slapped away by the quickly pouncing Fenix Pit Beast from behind—

This biological weapon without pain perception, without sanity, moved as if in an uninhabited realm,

Its massive body shielding Li Ang from above, casually tossing away vehicles, slapping away foes,

Regardless of impenetrable gunfire and spells hitting its body, as armor gradually peeled away, its body marred with wounds, it did not retreat a step.

Bang—

With the final armored vehicle being slapped into a roadside cafe, crushing the wooden bar,

The road ahead was completely unobstructed.

"Return."

Li Ang pinched the PokeBall, releasing a white light to take the Fenix Pit Beast back into its hidden space—the scene behind him turned chaotic, like a demolition site, filled with fragmented ruins.

Li Ang did not linger even a glance behind,

The Fearful Warhorse accelerated to full speed, galloping along the city streets urgently evacuated by the Special Affairs Bureau.

The Special Affairs Bureau had long prepared numerous detailed contingency plans for various types of mutation crises. In a short time, they had informed all city strongholds,

They guessed that Li Ang's destination was the Special Affairs Bureau headquarters,

Preemptively clearing and evacuating all streets along the way, opening up an empty road.

The once bustling cityscape became silent and still as he passed, as if frozen in resin, static and frozen.

The entire city had to make way for him.

The Fearful Warhorse's hooves trampled on the cross-sea bridge,

Several armed helicopters hovered high above and gently descended,

Just as one approached slightly, its rotor blades inexplicably shattered, the crew frantically bailed, and seconds later, the rapidly descending helicopter was engulfed in a fireball, its wreckage crashing onto an unmanned vehicle, causing a cascading explosion.

Within the line of sight, nothing could evade the Colt Revolver's inevitable shot.