Chapter 1390: The Safety Net Provider

The Safety Net Provider

"Gunshots?!"

Inside the camp's tent, Yang Xiao and Su Zhiwei's expressions changed, and they stood up from their seats almost simultaneously.

"It's from the direction Lu Xun and Wu Tongyuan left in..."

"Is it that American suicide squad? Damn it, they still managed to sneak in!"

A streak of aurora emerged in Yang Xiao's pupils, and without any hesitation, he was about to rush out of the tent. Right at this moment, Chen Ling's calm voice suddenly sounded:

"Wait."

Yang Xiao was stunned. He turned around in confusion to look at Chen Ling, who was the only one still sitting quietly in his chair.

The great crimson theatrical robe slowly raised the tea cup in his hand and took a light sip from it.

"But Director Chen... their strength isn't high enough yet. What if something happens to them?"

Chen Ling glanced at the clock on the wall. From his eerie, pitch-black face, no expression could be discerned, as deep as an abyss. "If they can't even handle this level of enemies, then they are not fit to be the Nine Monarchs either."

Yang Xiao and Su Zhiwei exchanged a glance. They opened their mouths but ultimately said nothing.

As if seeing through the worry in their hearts, Chen Ling chuckled lightly:

"Don't worry... Have you forgotten? Even if something really happens, there will be someone to act as a safety net."

As Chen Ling spoke, his gaze looked outside the tent.

Yang Xiao and Su Zhiwei looked simultaneously, only to see the tent flaps dancing wildly in the icy, howling wind. Dr. Wen stood quietly at the doorway, his gaze looking toward the depths of the jungle...

In his pupils, an imperceptible glimmer was silently flickering.

...

When warm blood splattered onto Wu Tongyuan's cheek, he was stunned at first. A moment later, he reacted, roaring with his eyes seemingly about to split open:

"Old Lu!!!!"

The shot Lu Xun fell backward onto the ground. Gurgling fresh blood continuously spilled from his chest, and his face was incredibly pale.

The current Lu Xun was not Yang Xiao. He didn't have that high of a rank, and starlight wasn't faster than a sniper bullet. His chest heaved violently, his gaze fixed deadly on the direction where the gunshot had just sounded...

"Old Lu! Old Lu!!! Are you alright??"

Wu Tongyuan rushed forward recklessly. Looking at that chest already dyed crimson, his face was full of panic and anxiety.

"Care... ful..." Lu Xun spoke weakly. "Someone wants to... assassinate us..."

Bang, bang——!!

Immediately after, two more sniper gunshots sounded!

The direction these two sniper gunshots came from was entirely different from the first shot. This meant that in this jungle, at least three sniper teams had already set their sights on them... Ferocious beasts crawled in the darkness, gradually revealing their hideous fangs.

At this moment, killing intent permeated Shennongjia!

The instant the gunshots sounded, the already fallen Lu Xun barely managed to shroud the two of them with starlight. Almost simultaneously, the second speeding bullet bombarded the surface of the starlight.

The starlight erupted with a blinding radiance, directly deflecting this second bullet. However, its light also rapidly dimmed. By the time the third bullet followed closely behind, this patch of starlight completely shattered!

"Pfft——"

The heavily injured Lu Xun spurted out another mouthful of blood and was already nearing a coma.

"Old Wu... survive..." Using his last ounce of strength, Lu Xun murmured before completely losing consciousness. Only fresh blood continued to stain the earth and Wu Tongyuan's hands.

The three thunderous sniper gunshots from earlier left Wu Tongyuan still unable to recover his senses even now. Having huddled in the ivory tower of academia doing research for so many years, when had he ever seen such a scene... If Lu Xun hadn't used starlight to protect them for an instant in time, he would probably be beaten into a bloody mess by bullets just like Lu Xun by now.

"Old Lu!!!" Wu Tongyuan's crimson hands let go of Lu Xun's body, remaining helplessly raised mid-air. His messy curly hair, stained with bloody water, fluttered in the wind.

"... Damn it!!"

Fortunately, the current Wu Tongyuan had already undergone some tempering in America. His mental fortitude was much stronger than before, and reason overcame a portion of his panic. He cursed angrily and turned back to look at the deathly silent dark jungle.

Lu Xun had already fallen. At this moment, they were completely exposed under the enemy's sniper scopes. If they didn't do something soon, they wouldn't even survive for three seconds.

At this moment, Wu Tongyuan's brain operated at breakneck speed!

Anger, panic, and the desire to survive stimulated Wu Tongyuan's brain to an unprecedented level of activity. He seemed to be madly searching for something within his mind. After 0.5 seconds, he raised a finger and lightly plucked at the void before him...

Wu Tongyuan muttered to himself:

"The refraction of light in the air follows Snell's Law, n₁sinθ₁ = n₂sinθ₂. Add the 'Spiritual Void Coefficient' K to the right side of the equation, and increase the value of K from the initial 1 to 5... No, the adjustment amplitude of the coefficient is too large, I might not be able to achieve it right now... For the time being, I'll adjust the value of K to 1.05..."

Almost the instant Wu Tongyuan plucked the void, three gunshots sounded almost simultaneously this time!!

Bang, bang, bang——!!

Wu Tongyuan subconsciously squatted down while holding his head, but this time, the three bullets deviated upwards by nearly half a meter, whistling over his head and embedding directly into a tree trunk beside him!

At this moment, the three snipers hidden in the dark were simultaneously stunned...

None of the three bullets hit?

What's going on?

They clearly had him in their sights!

One had to know that those able to participate in this assassination were all battle-hardened executioners. The probability of them failing a sniper mission in general was extremely small, let alone three people missing simultaneously, and deviating so ridiculously...

Muttering suspiciously in their hearts, they pressed their eyes against their sniper scopes once more.

"As I thought!" Although Wu Tongyuan was scared into a cold sweat, seeing the three bullet holes on the distant tree trunk, a brilliant light still lit up in his eyes.

"No wonder it only worked sometimes before... It's probably because every time I adjusted the 'Spiritual Void Coefficient,' it was too exaggerated, exceeding the limit of what I can currently bear... If that's the case, as long as I grasp the proper degree of adjustment, I should be able to greatly increase the success rate!"

Amidst his mumbling, three more bullets came whistling over. But this time, the deviation was even more ridiculous, and the bullets flew directly into the sky!

After Wu Tongyuan tampered with Snell's Law in this area, the law of light refraction in the air was also altered. The line of sight between the snipers and Wu Tongyuan was no longer the straight line it appeared to be to the naked eye. Instead, it was as if a lens had been added. The position of Wu Tongyuan that the snipers saw was not his true physical location.

In other words, unless this group of snipers fired randomly, with their "sniper accuracy," it would be almost impossible to hit Wu Tongyuan.

After missing consecutively a few times, those three snipers also realized something was wrong.

"He probably used an ability to alter the trajectory of the bullets. We can't snipe from a distance anymore... While the other Nine Monarchs haven't rushed over yet, kill him in close combat!!"