Chapter 12: A meeting of golden wind and jade dew (Thanks to the Alliance Leader 'Call Me Train King')

For a moment, Lu Feng almost thought his night-vision goggles were broken.

But since this morning, he had already received enough shocks that he felt he couldn't be bothered by one more.

A novice kid who had touched a gun for the first time in his life, without any pre-aiming, pulled the trigger for the first time and managed to hit a high-speed moving target with three bullets from fifty meters away in less than half a second?

Is he hacking?

Not even pretending to be subtle?

Yet, in that fleeting glance, he looked at Ji Jue's posture—a standard so outrageous it would make an instructor weep with joy, and a cover-fire stance that would make a comrade-in-arms kneel on the spot. For a moment, he even doubted himself... Did he enter a fake Hell Camp?

"Good lad, hey—"

Beneath his mask, Lu Feng couldn't help but laugh out loud. He drew the hand-axe hanging at his lower back with his right hand, split the skull of the person rushing up, and charged forward.

He no longer cared about the figures chasing behind him.

He let Ji Jue's bullets whistle past his ears!

In the distance, Ji Jue fired again.

Continuously.

And then, bullets naturally pried open new skulls, or forced those peeking from corners back, unable to show their heads.

He could feel the trigger being pulled, the firing mechanism operating, the bullet roaring inside the gun body, and the shell ejecting from the slide—it was as easy as grabbing an apple with his palm.

No need to think, no need to focus, it was simply effortless.

That was all.

And even more abundant was the 【feeling】 brought by some kind of communication, an 【instinctive reaction】 he had never had before.

A sensation he had never experienced so thoroughly.

It was as if an invisible person was guiding him hand-in-hand, pointing things out, carving the experience accumulated over a long time into his bone marrow—

The moment Ji Jue's ability was injected into this gun, he felt it instinctively.

It had a soul!

Ji Jue had a mysterious realization: perhaps this was the true way to use his ability—to feel the tool, learn the tool, and then, let the tool tell you how to truly use itself!

So, he pulled the trigger.

Toward the woman who had been watching coldly from the corner of the chaotic crowd from start to finish, he could see the trace of a contemptuous sneer on Zhu Hong's lips, and the scarlet eyes behind her sunglasses.

Those eyes shifted slightly, looking toward Ji Jue's direction in an instant.

Bang!

The loud sound of the bullet breaking the air spread. The brass bullet whirled, sinking into the center of her brow, piercing the skull, stirring the brain into a bowl of foul-smelling tofu, splashing and spraying—it should have been like this, logically, but unfortunately, it didn't happen from the very first step.

The bullet sank into the flesh, but it was as if it had hit a bulletproof plate head-on; it actually bounced off the skull!

Leaving only a rapidly closing wound.

Ji Jue pulled the trigger again.

In that instant, blood and fire erupted in Zhu Hong's eyes, and scales faintly emerged from that beautiful face. She opened her mouth and said something silently.

Ji Jue couldn't hear anything.

But it made him feel as if he had fallen into an ice cellar.

Because the surveillance that had just finished rebooting was frantically sending him alerts—【DODGE DODGE DODGE DODGE DODGE!!!!】

Without thinking, without hesitation, Ji Jue lunged forward like a stray dog grabbing food. It was neither graceful nor cool, but as fluid as a donkey rolling in a mud pit.

An ugly, flowing movement.

And then, the thick concrete ground where he had been standing, along with the parking sign above it, fell to pieces!

A deafening roar.

A long tail covered in scales of strange colors suddenly emerged from the air, appearing for an instant before quickly blurring, hard to distinguish in the gloom. But in the infrared of the camera, it was continuously sending images to Ji Jue.

It was a python!

In the infrared surveillance, the strange giant snake slithered in the shadows, its scales reflecting a brilliant shimmer, crystal clear. But when seen with the naked eye, the colors blended with the environment, making it impossible to distinguish in the darkness.

The giant snake, several meters long, squirmed, coiled in the darkness. On its belly, it dragged one after another of those cumbersome, unfinished limbs, and its face was covered in tumor after tumor.

And what lingered in its eyes was that blood and fire filled with hunger and madness!

"Holy crap, Brother Feng, watch out, there's a hunter here..."

In the fleeting gap, Ji Jue didn't even dare to look back, shouting with all his might. Then he saw the giant snake pounce like a spring.

He instinctively crouched, subconsciously wanting to roll, but as the first half of his body was thrown out, his legs were suddenly yanked up as if tied by ropes!

The giant snake's tail was as flexible as a palm, wrapping around his left leg, pulling it tight, and lifting him into the air. Then, it opened its blood-basin-like snake mouth, and amidst the fishy wind, it closed, biting toward Ji Jue's head.

Bang.

A muffled sound erupted from between the closing teeth. The snake mouth, capable of crushing bones like a guillotine, stopped abruptly... blocked by Ji Jue's arm!

Even the mad snake eyes seemed filled with astonishment and disbelief.

Beneath the torn work clothes, paper scraps cut by the snake's fangs emerged—to prevent another attack from the 'Old Man's Deadly Mouth,' Ji Jue had wrapped thick books layer by layer around his arms with tape. It was that very set of "Thirty Volumes of the Exam King" that could make the Lu family's youngest cry at night!

"How does knowledge taste?"

Amidst the pain of a bone fracture, Ji Jue's expression twisted, and he couldn't help but grin. His other palm suddenly snapped out, the scorching gun barrel thrusting into the giant snake's pupil. After tearing the iris, he pulled the trigger frantically!

Four consecutive bullets exploded inside the eye socket. The giant snake hissed miserably and began to twitch violently. Ji Jue was flung away, hitting the ground, his vision going black, almost losing his breath.

But before he could crawl up, he felt a bone-chilling cold.

The giant snake's massive body crawled out amidst its twitching, suddenly wrapping around Ji Jue, tightening inch by inch!

This was the python's predatory instinct, a strangulation capable of crushing even large carnivores into powder!

Crack!

Ji Jue heard his left arm's unbearable wail. His other hand fumbled around, but could only grab half the tip of the tail, unable to pull it away at all.

Suddenly, Lu Feng observed Ji Jue's miserable state in his peripheral vision. He threw away the empty submachine gun in his other hand and ran wildly, stepping over corpses.

His other hand drew a shotgun. He didn't aim at the python, but turned and aimed at Zhu Hong, who was hugging her arms and sneering in the distance, and pulled the trigger!

Capture the bandits by capturing the leader first!

A rain of metal fire sprayed from the barrel, whistling over instantly and sinking into Zhu Hong's body. But after piercing that high-fashion dress, it was instead swallowed by the squirming flesh, only making her take a step back.

He didn't stop, pulling the trigger repeatedly. The entire parking lot was filled with deafening roars.

Even that slender figure seemed to turn into a mass of rotten meat in an instant, rags of clothing flying, revealing patches of shocking scarlet and heart-pounding whiteness.

Even, three bouncing, flexible conical objects... three?

Making the approaching Lu Feng pause, his vision blurring, as if something had flown past.

Wait, why does she have three breasts?!

Also, what was that that just flew past...

His gun barrel suddenly sank. Two blood-blurred hands lifted and gripped the barrel, hissing.

In the gap at close range, that originally beautiful face slowly lifted, revealing a twisted smile covered in bullet holes and scarlet, so mocking:

"What are you... looking at?"

The next instant, Lu Feng finally understood what the thing that had just flown past was. That thing was stuck in his throat; it was an... arm!

Hidden beneath the dress and disguise, a strange arm!

It gripped Lu Feng's neck and slowly lifted him.

One, two, three...

Lu Feng widened his eyes and counted the number of arms on this woman again. He couldn't believe it, but soon he was relieved: as everyone knows, humans are born with two breasts and two arms. If a person has three breasts, then having three arms seems quite reasonable!

Then, he saw it: a fourth strange limb, sharp as a blade, slowly extended from behind Zhu Hong. And then, a fifth!

Just like a spider finally tearing through the restraint of its skin, revealing its true form.

"I thought it was some ghost thing. I didn't expect ingredients to be delivered to my door. Thanks to you for helping me clean up these burdens and waste."

Zhu Hong grinned, smiling, her fingers slowly tightening, enjoying the pleasure of the prey breaking apart amidst the torment. But immediately after, her vision... suddenly brightened.

The lights flickered.

Finally, the power was back!

But the arrival of that light was not a signal of victory, but a sudden bad omen.

A miserable hiss sounded.

Lu Feng swore this was the first time in his life he had heard a snake scream. It sounded about the same as Ji Jue's scream... but he soon realized that it was Ji Jue screaming.

Because that mass that used to be a strange giant snake could no longer make a sound at all!

Just now, Ji Jue, who was about to be completely strangled to death by the giant snake, made his last futile struggle.

He didn't waste energy biting that ghost thing again, but used all his strength, gripping the strange python's tail... and thrusting it into the socket!

"Hey, buddy."

Ji Jue's face, swollen to the color of a pig's liver, lifted with difficulty, giving the giant snake one last smile: "Do you have a ground wire?"

Snap!

In that instant, drawing spiritual quality from the watch, the ability activated!

Everything that had been shut down was rebooted once again.

Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!

The entire building shook as if in a tremor. The tripped gates seemed to come alive, reconnecting, and the nightclub, filled with darkness and chaos, was shrouded in dazzling light.

Along with Ji Jue.

Amidst the wailing of the transformer box, when the terrifying voltage capable of supplying an entire nightclub's dance floor, lights, sound, performances, booths, kitchen, hall, and even every room followed Ji Jue's call, not hesitating to burn the wires, and rushed in, the giant snake glowed with dazzling light for the first time in its life.

Just like a light bulb.

The rushing current was like a tsunami, instantly burning through the thin shell on its tail, piercing into the giant python's flesh, following the blood and bones, spreading, permeating the whole body, diffusing heat.

In less than a second, the wires were completely burned, having no more effect, and the giant snake's body stiffened completely on the spot, wrapped in the shell scales of a poor conductor, barely maintaining its original posture.

Soon, amidst Ji Jue's twitching, it broke into several sections, no longer looking like the violent and ferocious creature it once was. It was just like foreskin burned into charcoal under an electric knife, emitting a charred fragrance that made one's sanity go awry.

Ji Jue coughed violently, twitching, barely crawling up, then falling down, finally propping up his body, unable to hold back the urge to vomit.

He vomited wildly.

Until he finally came to his senses, panting, lifting his head, only then noticing the corpses that had died all around, and Lu Feng, who was being lifted by the neck in a pool of blood.

And even, Zhu Hong, who looked as if she had seen a ghost.

Looking at him.

He subconsciously touched his face, only to find that in the giant snake's entanglement, his mask had long since disappeared. At this moment, his pale face was stained with saliva and nosebleed, almost unrecognizable.

Only the scar crawling from his neck to his cheek remained so conspicuous.

Unforgettable.

It's over, my cover is blown.

Ji Jue slapped his forehead, sighed, and barely squeezed out an enthusiastic smile toward the car-owner sister who had cordially invited him out to play.

"Hi, boss."

He smoothed his afro, blinking his watery big eyes, trying hard to squeeze out a bit of charm: "Need service?" ===== CHAPTER 13 =====