Chapter 1518: Taking Down Liehuo's Second Squad

Using the trunk of the broken tree as cover, Feng Ziyu temporarily escaped Xia Qing's sniper line of sight. As long as he grabbed the rope and steadied himself, he could take out Yang Jin, who was fighting Huo Lin below the tree. Then, paired with Huo Lin—a top-tier sniper and a modified human whose drug-boosted speed reached the top tier—they could absolutely clear out the entire basin!

Why did Feng Ziyu know the one fighting Huo Lin was Yang Jin? Huo Lin said so himself.

Over the years, Liehuo's Second Squad had encountered Yang Jin's squad three times and had long been familiar with the opponent's fighting style. Feng Ziyu had already simulated in his mind countless ways to take Yang Jin down should they meet again.

Today, the simulation was about to become reality.

The tension of the rope checked the speed of Feng Ziyu's falling body. The fleeting weightless sensation of life and death shifted, the instant the rope snapped taut, into the wrenching pain of his organs being displaced. The adrenaline in Feng Ziyu's veins boiled, and his expression twisted with it.

Four more meters, and it would be his moment to hunt... Ah!

Just when he was only four meters from the trunk, a large hand suddenly reached out from behind the trunk, gripped the crossbow bolt buried deep in the wood, and yanked hard.

A strength Evolver!

Close combat was not a sniper's forte. As Feng Ziyu's left hand flicked out and the popping blade sliced the rope attached to the bolt, his right hand had already released the sniper rifle and reached for the pistol at his waist. He couldn't draw as fast as speed or burst-power Evolvers, but he was definitely faster than a strength Evolver!

But before he could even pull the pistol out, the strength Evolver hiding in the tree and launching a sneak attack had already rocketed out from behind the trunk like a bullet. Where did Yang Jin's squad get a dual-system strength-and-elasticity Evolver?

Territory Alliance's Huo Zhun?!!!

By the time Feng Ziyu realized the attacker's identity, it was already too late. He was stomped violently into the thick fog by Huo Zhun, and when his back hit the ground, he clearly heard the sound of his own leg bones shattering. The instant Huo Zhun crushed Feng Ziyu's legs, he swiftly injected a dose of high-potency anesthetic into his body.

Then, without pausing for even a second, Huo Zhun grabbed Feng Ziyu, bounced back up to the big tree in a few leaps, tied him securely into the canopy and hid him well, pressed the walkie-talkie button, and said, "Feng Ziyu captured."

Xia Qing immediately replied, "Copy. Jiang Hongbiao is six hundred meters to your northwest, surrounded by Black Wolf and the Broken-Leg siblings."

"Copy." Huo Zhun leaped down, fulfilling the last wish of Feng Ziyu's life—to vanish into the thick fog.

The moment Huo Zhun dropped down, Xia Qing used her cat-paw shoes to quickly climb the big tree where Does Daigua was hiding. As the other monk-faced monkeys screeched and fled in panic, one small monkey, with an even smaller gray-headed monkey on its back, leaped down headfirst.

Its fur blended perfectly into the night. Taken off guard, it looked as if only a pale face—two shades whiter than the other monkeys'—remained, especially eerie.

But Xia Qing, climbing up the tree, was not afraid at all. Instead, she happily called out softly, "Does Daigua, Ergua!"

The two small monkeys landed precisely on Xia Qing's shoulders, one on each side, and tightly hugged her neck.

"Ee-yoh-ya-ah-chi-oh—"

"Ee!"

"Does Daigua, Ergua, quiet, we still have enemies we haven't caught. Does Daigua, tell your companions to leave this big tree and hide somewhere else."

Does Daigua hugged Xia Qing's neck tighter, wanting to say the companions in the tree had already run off, but Xia Qing had told it to be quiet, and its phone wasn't on it, so it had no way to convey such complicated information to Xia Qing.

Xia Qing, with two monkeys on her shoulders, moved quickly, retreating back into the fog, her gun barrel aimed at the two figures fighting below.

"Boom!" The two rapidly moving figures collided, producing a sound of impact that made one's bones ache just hearing it.

In the dark night and fog, ordinary people could no longer use vision to distinguish the figures of top-tier speed Evolvers. But Xia Qing, a level-nine-and-a-half visual Evolver wearing the night-vision goggles specially supplied by Territory Seven, could break down the extreme speed a human Evolver could reach in the fog into clear, repeated rehearsals of death.

She found the perfect opening and gave the order, "Fall back!"

Seeing Yang Jin retreat, Huo Lin immediately realized the sniper was about to act. He pushed his speed to his own limit and desperately dodged to the left.

But the direction he fled in was exactly the position the top-tier sniper had predicted. The bullet accurately struck the clasp of the protective mask he was wearing.

Huo Lin's protective suit and mask were bulletproof, but the small clasp could not withstand the fierce impact of a sniper round. The instant the clasp was shattered, the modified human Huo Lin panicked.

Yang Jin's twin blades followed right behind the bullet, slashing toward Huo Lin's protective mask.

"Clang!"

Huo Lin raised his dagger to block, sparks flying. His body, borrowing the force of Yang Jin's leg, quickly retreated more than ten meters, then turned and fled.

After the clasp shattered, the airtight seal of Huo Lin's special protective mask was compromised. The high-density Yi element in the pure air inside the mask rapidly leaked out, causing the modified human Huo Lin to be unable to absorb enough Yi element through breathing, and his combat power would soon decline.

He had to retreat into the thick fog and hide before his combat power dropped. He was very familiar with Yang Jin's squad's combat strength and fighting style. As long as he retreated into the thick fog, he could skirmish with Yang Jin's squad and hold out until reinforcements arrived.

The outcome was still undecided!

Having run only a few dozen meters, Huo Lin spotted a pair of gleaming golden wolf eyes in the fog ahead. He immediately changed direction, only to face another pair of green, oily wolf eyes.

"Bang!"

The drum-like sound of top-tier speed Evolver Yang Jin's feet striking the ground behind him, and the two pairs of wolf eyes to his front-left and front-right, made Huo Lin understand he had fallen into a desperate situation. Relying on the potions he carried, he could evade Yang Jin's squad's tracking, but he could not escape the evolved wolves' detection!

Huo Lin roared, "Two million, Yang Jin, let me..."

"Boom!"

"Boom!"

Yang Jin's leg and the Broken-Waist Wolf's claw arrived at the same instant. Under the fierce attack of this pair of sworn brothers from different fathers and mothers, Huo Lin's body deformed in an instant and was sent crashing toward where the Alpha Wolf stood. The Alpha Wolf stood motionless on the spot. Yang Jin followed right behind, his long blade, following the gap in the clasp Xia Qing had shot off, plunging into Huo Lin's neck and pinning him firmly to the tree trunk.

Pinned to the tree, the body of Liehuo Squad's fifth-ranked combatant, the modified human Huo Lin, was still twitching when the Alpha Wolf, the Broken-Waist Wolf, and Yang Jin had already turned and headed toward their respective battlefields.

The Alpha Wolf and the Broken-Waist Wolf went to chase the last enemy. Yang Jin quickly returned to the vicinity of the big tree where the Does Daigua monkey troop was hiding, pressed the walkie-talkie button, and said, "Sister Qing?"

Xia Qing, who had swung on a rope to the base of a nearby big tree, responded, "Does Daigua says there's a person hiding in the big tree in front of you. Brother Jin, retreat thirty meters, I'll blast open the tree hollow. Wait for the person inside to come out before you arrest them. Be careful of sneak attacks and poison."

"Understood." Yang Jin immediately retreated, quickly checked his protective suit and equipment, confirmed there were no breaches, and reported, "You can begin."

Xia Qing, with two monkeys on her shoulders, pulled the trigger. An armor-piercing round whizzed out of the barrel with a streak of light, shooting straight into the trunk three hundred meters away—at the spot Does Daigua had described as the opening—and let out a metallic "Clang" of impact.