Chapter 1340: Pursuit

"It seems it really wasn't Lanzo."

Under the black hood, a low male voice came out. Light distorted, and the hooded man vanished. Coming without a shadow and going without a trace, his attacks were always like a violent storm, killing the enemy—this was the true stealth type.

Lightning, shield walls, and black shadows shuttled past. Lanzo and the other two had already broken out of the tavern. In reality, there weren't many lone wolves besieging them. One-third of the lone wolves were staring at Barbartere, one-third had already left to pursue Su Xiao, and the remaining one-third were wavering between besieging Lanzo and just watching the show.

After Barbartere was killed, the Contractors in the tavern understood what was going on. Either Lanzo had taken Luo Jie's pistol, or the sniper who fired first had obtained Luo Jie's pistol; there were no other possibilities.

"It's the sniper."

"I feel more like it's Lanzo's melodrama."

"That guy... really knows how to act in a melodrama?"

The Contractors in the tavern flashed and left. A moment later, only Barbartere, who was covered in black blood and twitching on the ground, remained.

*Gurgle, gurgle... *

Muscles surged on Barbartere's body, and with a *snap*, his spine broke open, and a pair of skinless claws, with muscles exposed, stretched out, covered in blood and gore.

"Poison Python! Sniper!!"

The roar spread with the tavern as the center point. The glass windows of the surrounding buildings shattered instantly. The stealth-type Contractor who rushed out of the tavern smiled.

"Barbartere... seems to be angry."

The stealth-type Contractor glanced at the two soul crystals (large) in his hand, feeling a bit of admiration for Lanzo's decisiveness. If it were him being besieged while carrying the blame, although he could also escape, he absolutely couldn't have done it as perfectly as Lanzo, transferring the hatred while retreating unscathed and

Outside the tavern, Lan Zuo and two others stood atop a residential building.

"Chase my ass, we aren't running."

Lan Zuo cursed at the lone wolves behind them. These lone wolves didn't have good tempers either; some gave Lan Zuo the middle finger, while others greeted the female direct descendants of Lan Zuo's ancestors for over a dozen generations.

"Let them follow. If you really didn't take the sidearm, they are all helpers."

Jiamian spoke. The reason she chose to cooperate with Lan Zuo was to guard against him having taken Luo Jie's sidearm. Sometimes being close to an enemy isn't a bad thing. With so many lone wolves behind, Jiamian wasn't afraid of Lan Zuo and Tie Tanke teaming up against her.

Tie Tanke remained silent; he was the type who was ruthless but spoke little. He cooperated with Lan Zuo not for profit, but to keep a certain promise.

"Tanke, can you block a few shots from that guy?"

Lan Zuo looked at Tie Tanke.

"Three."

"That's enough," Lan Zuo shifted his gaze to Jiamian: "Little wildcat, tracking him is no problem, right?"

Hearing Lan Zuo's "little wildcat" nickname, Jiamian's eyes narrowed.

"If you dare call me a cat again, I'll make that recording public. I am a leopard."

The black bodysuit at Jiamian's neck spread toward her head; this was actually a piece of soft-metal light outer armor.

The soft metal wrapped around Jiamian's head, forming a helmet full of technological flair, with two cat ears on top that were particularly conspicuous. This was a wildcat yearning to become a leopard.

After the head armor appeared, the outer armor at Jiamian's tailbone generated a tail resembling that of a feline creature.

The black cat tail swayed, and the detection device before Jiamian's eyes activated. The world turned black and white, with only living beings appearing in red.

Beep, beep, beep...

An electronic sound came, and red light flickered in Jiamian's eyes.

"There are eleven humans heading toward the outskirts of District 21. Excluding eight of them, the biological energy reactions of the remaining four are: 26, 35, 43, 279. It's this one, that's right. The speed is very fast. It stopped. This guy sensed I was detecting him, but didn't sense my location."

"That's him, chase!"

Lan Zuo's fists clenched until they cracked, the lightning all over his body becoming increasingly violent.

"Then let's go."

The ground beneath Jiamian's feet cracked extensively. With a boom, she turned into a black shadow and darted out.

Swoosh, swoosh...

Jiamian leaped between buildings like a black cat. An arc of electricity flashed past her; it was Lan Zuo, his speed even faster.

"Do you even know the way!"

Jiamian, moving at high speed, spoke with a mocking tone.

"Of course not."

Lan Zuo's speed was faster. Although he didn't know where the target was, he could judge the direction Jiamian was rushing toward.

Swoosh, swoosh...

Figures shuttled between buildings. With things having developed to this point, as long as they weren't stupid enough to smoke, the lone wolves basically understood what was going on.

Thud, thud, thud...

Heavy footsteps approached. Tie Tanke was strong, but his speed was a fatal flaw. Every step he took gave people the feeling of the earth shaking.

With a splat, a monster covered in blood and gore leaped near Tie Tanke. The monster looked like an upright lizard, emitting a fishy, sour smell.

"Calm."

Tie Tanke remained as sparing with words as ever. However, the monster was already so angry it had lost its reason, lunging straight at Tie Tanke.

……

On the east side of District 21, atop a domed building, Su Xiao grabbed the spire of the house with one hand and looked toward the west. Enemies were chasing from there.

Although Su Xiao didn't sense who was chasing, a dozen seconds ago, he felt someone observing him. That feeling of needles pricking his spine was hard to ignore, and this feeling was continuous.

"Have I been discovered?"

Su Xiao took out a remote control device, roughly calculated the time, entered a string of complex code, and then crushed the device.

Two kilometers away from Su Xiao, Lan Zuo and Jiamian headed straight for him. Both were moving very fast.

Jiamian stepped lightly onto a glass skylight. Without the glass breaking, she had already leaped far away.

Leaping into mid-air, Jiamian raised her arm. A virtual screen popped up on her left forearm, displaying a map of the entire Sabaody Archipelago.

There were six dots on the map: gold represented herself, blue represented Lan Zuo, cyan represented Tie Tanke, black represented a certain stealth-type Qiyuezhe, gray represented Babatelei, and blood-red represented Su Xiao.

"He stopped."

Jiamian's marking was a type of rare ability. As long as an enemy was detected by her remotely and remained within 20 kilometers of her, she could mark and track their location.

"Good."

Lan Zuo only wanted to do one thing now: kill that sniper and get away.

"The berserk Babatelei is fighting Tie Tanke. Tie Tanke's situation isn't optimistic."

Jiamian tried to zoom in on the map, but because the distance was too great, she couldn't obtain images of that area. She had only launched one small satellite above the Sabaody Archipelago, and its detection range was limited.

"No need to pay attention; he's seeking his own death."

Lan Zuo replied with his facial expression.

"You heartless guy, Tie Tanke was so sincere, and you're abandoning him?"

Jiamian mocked. As a lone wolf, she didn't fear the brigade at all.

"I said Babatelei is seeking his own death."

……

Near the Flame Tavern, a thick smell of gunpowder smoke permeated the surroundings. A man covered in steel, about two meters tall, stood on a pile of ruins. It was Tie Tanke.

Hum~

A powerful suction force erupted from Tie Tanke's hand. With a clatter, building debris flew, and a long sword flew away. Rather than a long sword, it was actually a pointed cone with a blade edge.

The cone sword was sucked into Tie Tanke's left hand. His right arm was wrapped in a giant gauntlet with a hole in the center.

Tie Tanke loaded the cone sword into the gauntlet. The gauntlet arched, and with a crisp click, a shell casing ejected from within.

"One piece, gold set, and we'll consider today's events as if they never happened."

An intermittent voice came from within the building ruins.

Boom!

The cone sword pierced through the building ruins, and a tattered hand claw flew up.

"Die."

After Tie Tanke said the word "die," he slumped to the ground with a thud.