"Do you want to die knowing why?" Sun Hang asked.

"I..."

"Then keep wondering." With that, Sun Hang directly opened the car door and jumped off the car that was speeding along.

"Huh?" Seeing Sun Hang jump from the car, the Hunter with glasses was momentarily stunned, then his gaze quickly shifted to the body of the old snake.

"Did he... did he spare us?" the Hunter driving the car asked tremblingly.

"No... he didn't..." the Hunter with glasses shook his head in despair.

The old snake's corpse had now turned into a pile of overlapping blood bubbles, resembling a puddle of blood-colored human-shaped foam. The larger blood bubbles had swollen to the size of fists, and their surface membrane had become completely transparent, revealing the liquid inside bubbling as if it were boiling.

"Quick! Stop the car!" The Hunter with glasses immediately reached to open the door, only to find it had been completely welded shut; no matter how hard he tried, it wouldn't budge.

"I can't... can't stop the car!" exclaimed the Hunter driving, "The brakes seem to have malfunctioned!"

"It's over!" The Hunter with glasses turned ashen-faced.

With a soft "pfft," the largest blood bubble burst, unleashing deadly spores in a blood mist.

...

...

"Hand me the rocket launcher!" shouted the spirited girl standing on top of the all-terrain vehicle, "I refuse to believe this ice wall can block machine gun bullets and rocket missiles!"

"Didn't we agree to spare the little girl's life?" hesitated the fully-equipped female mercenary in the passenger seat.

"At this point, if we don't take down Candle Dragon, we all die! Hmph, you might want to spare her now, but Dubhe Tower won't show mercy then!" the spirited girl exclaimed loudly, "Everyone listen up, once we've started, we're on a path of no return! It's them or us! There's absolutely no room for compromise!!"

In fact, Candle Dragon's defenses had greatly exceeded the expectations of this group of Free Hunters and mercenaries... According to the original plan, they should have eliminated Candle Dragon while the enemy was off guard, then dealt with Ya Qiaoxi and the other Dubhe Tower Hunter...

"That damn Fifteen!" the spirited girl cursed her teammate inwardly, feeling that if Fifteen's first shot hadn't been blocked by another Dubhe Tower Hunter, Candle Dragon would already be dead—she had completely forgotten the assassination plan had long been leaked to others in the Dubhe Tower, and the intensifying battle had pushed her rationality and patience to the brink of collapse.

Not just her, but the other people involved in the siege had also become anxious... Seven or eight minutes had passed since the first shot was fired by the Sandthorn Rose, and apart from the initial Dubhe Tower Hunter killed, they hadn't gained anything further—the Dubhe Tower Hunter's off-road vehicle had been riddled with bullet holes, yet a layer of ice stronger than steel covered the inside of the car shell, impervious to armor-piercing or explosive rounds.

"Alright." The female mercenary in the passenger seat grabbed a box from under the seat, assembled the three-piece rocket launcher, and loaded a rocket through the sunroof.

"Watch the direction of the tail flame, don't hurt our own people," she warned.

"Got it!" The spirited girl impatiently snatched the rocket launcher, didn't even use the launcher's sights, and aimed at the off-road vehicle ahead, pulling the trigger!

The rocket shot out with a whistling sound, but at the same time, a gigantic arm made of icy water reached out from the off-road vehicle.

When the rocket was five meters away from the off-road vehicle, the flowing giant hand intercepted it midair, then crushed it!

"Boom!!!"

The scorching blast wave surged in, scattering metal fragments that carved deep gashes into the spirited girl's face, flipping her across the ground.

"Damn it!" The blood-covered spirited girl crawled up from the ground, letting out an inhuman roar as her muscles swelled like inflating balloons, her body hair sprouting wildly, and within seconds she transformed from human into a gorilla-like monster.

"Third Sister has entered beast transformation." said the cheongsam woman, opening her suitcase and taking out a handgun.

"You have enough suppressant, right?" gasped the female mercenary, "Last time she transformed, she tore several sisters apart..."

"This time we're using a different injection method." replied the cheongsam woman as she lifted her cheongsam hem, revealing two smooth long legs.

She inserted the handgun into the thigh holster, then opened the second layer of her suitcase.

The second layer contained some oddly shaped bullets, two sealed containers of drugs, and a syringe.

She mixed the drugs using the syringe, then inserted the needle into the special bullet rear plugs, slowly injecting them with the mixed drugs.

"We've prepared twenty-four units of the suppressant." the cheongsam woman said while injecting, "If this can't calm Third Sister down..."

She stopped speaking, but the other two Sandthorn Rose members already guessed the unspoken end of the sentence.

The beast-transformed spirited girl used her hands and feet to quickly catch up to the convoy still attacking Candle Dragon. She jumped and landed atop another car.

With a loud crash, the car roof caved in a large area, and the people inside had just popped their heads out, not yet getting a chance to curse when a giant, hairy hand smashed their heads!

"Hiss..." The female mercenary watching this scene clenched her fists, "Beast-transformed Third Sister... can she distinguish between friend and foe?"

"I don't know." cheongsam woman shook her head.

The female Hunter driving lightly tapped the brake, and the all-terrain vehicle quickly distanced itself from the battling convoy.

"Whether she can distinguish is not important." said the female Hunter coldly, "As long as the mother gorilla kills them all, she's completed her mission."

The beast-transformed female Hunter had already pulled out the last survivor from the car, smashing him to the ground. Then she let out a low roar, jumping towards another car!

"Has the Sandthorn Rose gone mad?!" shouted the other participating Free Hunters angrily, "What the hell is this?! Are you trying to backstab us?!"

The beast-transformed female Hunter gave no response, instead tearing into the car and biting off the heads of two mercenaries within!

Quickly, other than Candle Dragon's off-road vehicle, the beast-transformed female Hunter became the new siege target.

Rounds of ammunition poured onto her, unable to withstand Candle Dragon's ice wall, blood spraying from her with every hit.

But when infected and transformed, each and every one possesses great vitality, able to keep fighting even when mortally wounded... these bullets only intensified her ferocity a hundredfold!

[P.S. I've been battling a persistent fever of 39°C for three days, eventually had to be hospitalized today, typed this chapter on my phone at the hospital, please help catch any typos... I'll likely stay for some days, updates may be slower.]