Deadly Crisis

"The tendon in the tail of a Tiger Cat monster is quite valuable." Luo Feng's Blood Shadow Battle Blade sliced open the Tiger Cat monster's tail with a 'chi' sound, extracting the transparent tendon. He glanced at Wei Tie beside him and chuckled, "Tie Ge, you truly live up to your name. That charge from the Twin-tailed Tiger Cat made you cough up blood; it scared me for a second. But it looks like you're perfectly fine now, Tie Ge!"

"Are you an idiot? Should I have just endured it without spitting blood? That would've caused even more damage!" Wei Tie retorted with a laugh.

"Alright, everyone, hurry up and collect the materials," Chen Gu said with a smile.

The six members of the Fire Hammer Squad were in high spirits. Their captain, Gao Feng, was squatting beside the Twin-tailed Tiger Cat's corpse, dissecting it. When it came to dissection difficulty, the Twin-tailed Tiger Cat's corpse was, of course, the hardest to handle.

"Luo Feng has brought luck to our squad too. On our very first day, we've successively killed two beast general-level monsters," Gao Feng chuckled as he dissected.

"Haha, Captain, you owe me a reward for this. I was the one who strongly advocated for Luo Feng to join," Chen Gu said playfully.

The group was in high spirits.

"Hm?"

Luo Feng's eyes instantly widened, as if his tail had caught fire. With his reaction speed, capable of dodging numerous rubber bullets in the 'Neural Reaction Test', he instinctively determined—the blurry phantom causing air vibrations ahead was a bullet!

Its speed was more than ten times faster than the rubber bullets in the Neural Reaction Test! Luo Feng had no time to shout a warning.

Extreme tension instantly flooded Luo Feng's body with adrenaline, his heart rate surged to an astonishing speed, every hair on his body stood on end, and his nerves stretched to an unprecedented limit! Even the mental energy deep within his sea of consciousness spontaneously and rapidly spread throughout his entire body!

A deadly crisis!

His survival instinct pushed Luo Feng's body and mind to their absolute peak in an instant!

"Pfft!"

An armor-piercing bullet tore through the air, heading straight for Luo Feng's head.

Luo Feng's Blood Shadow Battle Blade, which he had been using to cut the Tiger Cat's tail, instinctively swung out. His entire body's strength erupted to its absolute maximum, and after unleashing this first burst of power from his core (waist and hips), he surprisingly had enough reserve to instantly unleash a second burst of power!

It was a natural progression! In the face of a deadly crisis, at the very moment his mind and body reached their peak, Luo Feng's body naturally unleashed a second burst of power.

Ninefold Thunder Blade – First Tier!

He had actually succeeded just like that!

The Blood Shadow Battle Blade's speed instantly soared!

"Accelerate!" Luo Feng's mental energy instinctively acted upon the battle blade, causing its speed to surge once more!

"Decelerate!"

His mental energy, without the slightest hesitation, directly acted upon the rapidly approaching armor-piercing bullet. The bullet's speed instantly plummeted from Mach 4 to Mach 1. With a "clang," Luo Feng's Blood Shadow Battle Blade directly struck the armor-piercing bullet.

The tip of the armor-piercing bullet dented, and it ricocheted away.

"Thump!"

Another armor-piercing bullet, however, was aimed at Captain Gao Feng's head. According to the Tiger Fang Squad's plan, Zhang Zehu had ordered Luo Feng's death, and Gao Feng was the strongest member of the Fire Hammer Squad, so these two bullets were prepared for Luo Feng and Gao Feng respectively!

Gao Feng, who was squatting beside the Twin-tailed Tiger Cat's corpse, had his back to the bullet's direction and didn't see the armor-piercing bullet at all.

"Pfft!" Gao Feng's dagger suddenly cut through the Twin-tailed Tiger Cat's fur with force. This sudden exertion caused his body to sway, deflecting the bullet that was originally aimed at his head. Just as he was about to marvel at the toughness of the Twin-tailed Tiger Cat's fur—

Whoosh!

The high-speed armor-piercing bullet almost grazed Gao Feng's ear, and the powerful rotating airflow instantly caused his ear to bleed.

"Thump!"

The armor-piercing bullet violently struck Zhang Ke's shoulder, right next to Gao Feng. That single shot, powerful enough to shatter the scales of a beginner-level beast general, instantly pulverized Zhang Ke's shoulder muscles and bones. With a 'boom,' Zhang Ke's right arm was directly flung into the air, and blood gushed out like a fountain with a "puchi" sound!

"Ah!" Zhang Ke cried out in pain.

"Sniper bullet!"

Gao Feng stared at the blood gushing from Zhang Ke's severed arm, some even splattering onto his own face. His eyes turned bloodshot, and he roared, "Enemy attack!"

"Which bastard was that?!" Wei Tie and Wei Qing also bellowed.

As they roared in anger, almost all members of the Fire Hammer Squad moved quickly. No one dared to stand still under a sniper's aim. Captain Gao Feng had just been lucky; his body swayed when he forcefully cut the fur, causing the bullet to merely graze his ear.

"Thump!" "Thump!" "Thump!" "Thump!"

Four consecutive gunshots!

"Over there!" Gao Feng, Luo Feng, and everyone else stared with bloodshot eyes in the direction of the gunshots.

On a distant rooftop, several shadows flickered and then vanished.

"It's the Tiger Fang Squad!" Gao Feng gritted his teeth, "Hu Ya!!!"

Luo Feng, however, couldn't see clearly... The distance was too great, and the Tiger Fang Squad vanished instantly. To see them clearly would require astonishing vision! A warrior's hearing and vision improve with their physical fitness. Among the six members of the Fire Hammer Squad, Captain Gao Feng's physical fitness was close to that of a 'mid-level Warlord'.

Only he had seen them clearly.

"The Tiger Fang Squad? Zhang Zehu's Tiger Fang Squad?" A surge of anger rose within Luo Feng. He had, of course, looked into some information about Zhang Zehu before, knowing that Zhang Zehu was a member of the Tiger Fang Squad. "They actually want to kill me?"

A chilling realization!

Luo Feng truly felt that the relationship between warriors was not always harmonious.

"Zhang Ke!"

"Old Zhang!"

Everyone rushed over, and Luo Feng also ran to Zhang Ke's side. Zhang Ke lay on the ground, his face ashen. His right shoulder was completely pulverized by the armor-piercing bullet, and his right arm had already been flung away. Even his combat uniform had slight tears. The power of that shot was simply too immense. Zhang Ke himself was pale, and Chen Gu was frantically trying to stop the bleeding beside him.

"It was me, Zhang Ke, you took that shot for me!" Gao Feng said, clutching his ear.

"Zhang Ge," Luo Feng said, his fists clenched and eyes bloodshot.

It was Zhang Ge and Chen Ge who had brought him into the Fire Hammer Squad in the first place.

"This is bad!" Gao Feng's expression changed drastically. "Run!"

The Tiger Fang Squad had fired a total of six bullets just now. Two were aimed at Luo Feng and Gao Feng, and the other four were fired into the surrounding monster horde. Now, the roars of monsters echoed all around, and everyone in the Fire Hammer Squad immediately understood why the Tiger Fang Squad had fired those extra four shots.

"How insidious."

"They want to kill all of us."

"Run!"

Wei Qing hoisted the heavily bleeding Zhang Ke onto his back, and the group immediately sprinted away.

"Rumble~~" Ahead on the street, a massive number of Iron-furred Wild Boars appeared. Each Iron-furred Wild Boar was enormous, and hundreds of them charged forward with a thunderous roar, as if an earthquake had struck. The Fire Hammer Squad members were aghast. Just as they were about to change direction, violent tremors also came from behind them.

An even more astonishing number of beasts came charging. This horde not only included groups of Horned Wild Boars but also, more predominantly, groups of Lion-Mastiff Beasts. The combined beast hordes, front and back, numbered over a thousand.

"Big trouble."

The expressions of everyone in the Fire Hammer Squad changed drastically!

"Over the wall!" Gao Feng commanded.

Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!

The Fire Hammer Squad quickly scaled the dilapidated wall. At this moment, the monsters, enraged by the four sniper bullets, knew only one thing... that such insidious and terrifying projectiles could only come from humans! When they saw those few humans climbing over the wall, almost in unison—

"Rumble~~" The Horned Wild Boars lowered their heads and slammed into the wall. The wall, weathered by decades of wind and sun, instantly collapsed with a crash, and a dense horde of over a thousand monsters charged towards them.

The Fire Hammer Squad looked back, their expressions changing drastically.

"Brothers, this time it's a near-certain death for us! Run for your lives, save whoever you can. If we stick together, we'll all surely die!" As he fled, Captain Gao Feng shouted with bloodshot eyes, "That damn Tiger Fang Squad! If I, Gao Feng, survive this, I swear I'll make them pay for this blood debt!!!"

"Everyone, scatter and run!" Wei Tie and Wei Qing gritted their teeth.

Facing an encirclement by over a thousand monsters, even a Warlord-level expert could only flee in disarray.

"Tiger Fang Squad, Zhang Zehu!" Luo Feng vaguely felt that their attack this time was likely because of him, because he had forced Zhang Zehu to spend a hundred million last time. "The Tiger Fang Squad wouldn't attack without reason? Is it because of me... because of me, that Zhang Ge is like this?"

A wave of guilt, and murderous intent, surged within Luo Feng's heart!!!

"Zhang Zehu! Tiger Fang Squad!" Luo Feng's eyes were bloodshot.

"Captain! Chen Ge!" Luo Feng roared.

This roar made Captain Gao Feng, the Wei brothers, Chen Gu, and the others look at Luo Feng in astonishment. Luo Feng gritted his teeth and growled, "Follow me! We can all get out of here alive!!!" With a series of whooshing sounds, the throwing knives strapped to Luo Feng's thigh instantly flew up, hovering around him.