Chapter 15: No Martial Ethics, Fleeing for His Life! Turning the Tables

No martial ethics at all — they actually used an Armored Vehicle against me!

Chen Yusheng sprinted for his life, mentally cursing the He Family for eighteen generations.

Never in his wildest dreams did he imagine that the people hunting him would not only send Ability Users, but actually deploy an Armored Vehicle.

That was an Armored Vehicle! A hunk of iron that could take heavy machine gun fire head-on, even small-caliber shells.

This He Family really thinks far too highly of him, one single man.

Behind him, two Armored Vehicles clung to his tail relentlessly, mowing down nearby Sangshi with mounted machine guns as they chased.

Chen Yusheng was already running as fast as he could, but compared to the Armored Vehicles, he was no faster than a crawling turtle.

In less than a minute, the two vehicles had closed to within a hundred-plus meters behind him.

Bang bang bang!

A stream of bullets whipped past right behind him.

The devastating Armor-piercing Bullets instantly dropped several Sangshi.

Chen Yusheng felt as if his heart were bleeding.

Every one of those shot dead was a Sangshi underling he controlled with his own hands!

"No good — if I keep running blind like this, I'll be killed sooner or later!"

His gaze swept rapidly over his surroundings.

In one glance he spotted a fire-escape stairway leading upstairs.

Without a moment's hesitation, Chen Yusheng charged straight for the stairwell with a horde of Sangshi.

"Boss, the target's entered the stairwell — watch out!"

"Copy that, keep clearing Sangshi!"

……

Chen Yusheng burst into the stairwell and bolted straight for the first floor.

But the instant he reached the first floor, a gust of fierce wind suddenly smashed toward him!

He whipped his head around and caught only a flash of blue light streaking past.

The next second, a searing pain shot through his thigh, and a bone-chilling cold exploded inside his body, as if trying to freeze him solid.

"Holy shit! An ambush, is it?!"

Chen Yusheng was scared out of his wits and scrambled backward desperately.

Retreating, he hurriedly circulated his True Qi to suppress the injury.

Only then did he see clearly — standing at the stairway leading from the first floor to the second was a young man in his twenties, dressed in white.

That blue attack just now had been launched by this kid.

Chen Yusheng had been far too careless — he hadn't expected at all that someone would be hiding on the stairs.

"Boss, the target's at stairwell number three, get over here quick!"

After calling for backup, the white-clad youth looked at Chen Yusheng in surprise: "Huh? How are you still moving?"

The words barely fell before he hurled another blue ice attack at Chen Yusheng.

Chen Yusheng immediately sent two Sangshi forward to tank the hit.

The blue ice force slammed into the Sangshi, and in the blink of an eye it was frozen into a solid block of ice.

"Move your ass, my foot!"

Chen Yusheng cursed viciously and gave his Sangshi a direct order:

"Go! Kill him for me!"

At the command, a dark mass of Sangshi surged toward the white-clad youth like madmen.

The youth's expression didn't change as he retreated upstairs with composed ease.

But even as he withdrew, his eyes still looked puzzled.

He had clearly not seen Chen Yusheng use any ability — so how could he withstand his ice attack head-on?

What he didn't know was that the True Qi inside Chen Yusheng had circulated once, and the cold energy had been expelled directly.

Chen Yusheng's True Qi was far higher in grade than his ability, and had simply repelled the ice force outright.

With the cold energy purged, Chen Yusheng directed the Sangshi in pursuit while staying alert to his surroundings.

He had heard that kid's shout perfectly clearly — he was obviously calling for backup.

He had to relocate immediately.

The basement was absolutely off-limits — those two Armored Vehicles were something he couldn't afford to provoke at all.

His only option was to run upward — no matter how fierce the Armored Vehicles were, they couldn't drive up a stairwell.

Suddenly, the screech of brakes came from outside the first-floor stairwell.

Immediately after—

Bang bang bang bang bang!

A dense barrage of gunfire erupted.

"Damn it!"

Chen Yusheng heard the gunfire right outside the stairwell and, without a second thought, charged for the second floor with his Zombie Group.

This time he'd learned his lesson, sending Sangshi ahead to clear the path so he wouldn't get ambushed again.

But the moment he charged up to the second floor—

Bang bang bang! Rat-tat-tat-tat!

Instantly, gunfire on the second floor exploded.

"How could they be this fast?!"

Chen Yusheng was completely dumbfounded.

From the moment the white-clad youth called for help until now, less than half a minute had passed, yet several people on the second floor were already set up with guns, waiting.

He could clearly sense that the sangshi he controlled were being gunned down in droves.

"Retreat!"

Chen Yusheng let out a great roar, and the sangshi that had charged out immediately pulled back to the stairwell, sprinting desperately toward the third floor.

Fortunately, after rushing up to the third floor, no one attacked.

But the gunfire from the first and second floors seemed to chase after them every step of the way.

Because Chen Yusheng's sangshi were too numerous, the pursuers were separated from him by several stairwell turns, and Chen Yusheng couldn't even see them.

He hurriedly directed the sangshi to rush into the third floor and didn't keep running higher, because it would be too high and hard to escape.

The third floor wasn't that high—if things really got dangerous, he could still jump out a window.

A floor that high—he wouldn't dare jump even if you gave him ten guts; he wasn't an Ability User, with no ability to run on walls or leap across rooftops.

After Chen Yusheng reached the third floor, he first had the sangshi spread out to scout, confirmed no one was on the third floor, and only then followed them in.

Once inside, he didn't rush to run either; instead, he had the sangshi hide on both sides while he ducked behind a corner.

Those people firing guns just now had killed over thirty of his sangshi, causing him heavy losses.

Today's grudge—he had to get some payback.

Whoever dared to chase out would have the sangshi swarm them to death on the spot.

Bang bang bang…

The gunfire behind him drew closer and closer.

The sangshi that hadn't yet made it out of the stairwell were still being sprayed by the pursuers.

Soon, footsteps and gunfire had already reached the stairwell entrance.

Behind the corner, Chen Yusheng rapidly formed a hand seal.

A few seconds later, three figures rushed out?

One was wrapped in pale blue light, two in red light—all Ability Users.

Each held a machine gun in their hands, and the moment they came out they started spraying wildly at the sangshi's heads.

The one with the blue light was precisely the white-clad youth who had ambushed him earlier.

Seeing that face, Chen Yusheng's eyes went red.

Enemies meeting face to face—eyes blazing with hatred.

Earlier this kid had only used abilities; now he'd somehow gotten his hands on a machine gun, and the firepower was even fiercer.

"Go!"

At Chen Yusheng's command, the sangshi ambushed all around lunged out at once, surrounding the three tightly.

The three weren't flustered at all, firing as they tried to retreat back to the stairwell.

In that very instant—

"Soul Capture!"

Chen Yusheng barked lowly, and the long-prepared Soul Capture Art blasted straight out.

With this strike, he poured in a full twenty strands of True Qi, betting everything on whether he could pin down these Ability Users.

The moment the Soul Capture Art activated, the three who had been about to retreat froze mid-step.

The wildly spraying machine guns instantly fell silent.

Roar roar roar!

The Zombie Group howled as they lunged, reaching the three in the blink of an eye, then pounced them to the ground.

One swipe from a sangshi's claw, and the light on one Ability User's body flickered rapidly, yet they weren't injured.

It seemed the light on the Ability Users' bodies also had a protective effect.

But there were too many sangshi, the attacks coming in an endless wave.

In less than two seconds, the light on the three Ability Users' bodies was worn away by the attacks.

At that moment, Chen Yusheng saw one Ability User's dazed eyes regain clarity.

But the next instant, a sangshi sank its teeth straight into his body.

"Ah—"

A piercing scream rang out.

In less than two seconds, the three Ability Users on the ground became corpses.

Bang bang bang bang bang…

Suddenly, dense gunfire rang out again.

At last, the reinforcements behind the Ability Users had arrived.

"Kill!"

Seeing the situation, Chen Yusheng directly issued an attack order to all the sangshi.

Following Chen Yusheng's command, all the sangshi rushed swiftly toward those firing.