Chapter 1 Dāng!

Song Ran swung away the silver-black scimitar of the white-veiled man with one hand, sparks flying from his arm.

His left arm had long been transformed into a metal prosthetic, made of high-grade alloy. In the collision with the scimitar, it only gained a thin scratch.

In the coconut grove.

The white-veiled man opposite him held a blade in one hand and a gun in the other, his body spinning like a top, constantly turning left and right.

Sometimes he struck with the blade, sometimes he fired the gun.

At close range, he wasn't aiming for Song Ran's vitals, but only hitting the edges of his limbs, focusing on inflicting injuries.

This strange style of combat gunnery made it extremely difficult for Song Ran to defend.

Who would have thought that just a few minutes ago, he had been the one overwhelming the opponent?

But ever since the white-veiled man adopted this blade-and-gun fighting technique, he had been caught off guard and continuously injured in his legs and the backs of his feet, his mobility restricted, and he had immediately fallen into a disadvantage.

In the woodland, the tall, straight coconut trees cast increasingly heavy shadows as the sunlight disappeared.

Song Ran retreated, stepping on a hard patch of earth, and his body lost its balance. His expression changed slightly, and he raised his gun, trying to force the opponent back.

Bang.

A gunshot, but not just one, but two.

The white-veiled man fired a split second faster than him.

Two bullets flew out in succession, knocking Song Ran's gun barrel off course, and the muzzle swiveled, firing into the empty space to the right.

This special technique made his pupils shrink, and he instantly thought of a niche fighting method that had been popular more than a decade ago.

"Riga combat technique?!" He retreated continuously, nimbly flipping several somersaults like an ape, and hid behind a coconut tree.

He had barely steadied himself.

Bang! The trunk of the coconut tree he was hiding behind exploded, riddled with three consecutive bullets fired at one spot, piercing through the coconut tree and almost hitting him in the head.

Song Ran raised his hand and returned two shots, but they were easily dodged by the other party.

He was stronger than his opponent, better at hand-to-hand combat, but his gun skills were only average.

'What to do!?' He grew increasingly anxious. The longer he was held up here, the more trouble was likely to occur at the construction site in the distance.

He had to find a way to break the deadlock!

Song Ran's mind wandered, and he immediately felt a sharp pain in his shoulder. He had been hit again.

Even through the bulletproof vest, he could feel his shoulder swelling and congested with blood.

His heart tightened, and he shielded his head with one hand, somersaulting out from behind the coconut tree, firing into the air.

Bang, bang, suppressing the opponent, he landed, charged forward, rolled, and leaped up.

Bang, bang, bang!

Three consecutive gunshots, accurately hitting the center of his chest, sparks flying from the steel plate inside the bulletproof vest.

But the shooting failed to stop him from closing the distance.

Taking advantage of the moment when the opponent was changing magazines, Song Ran bent his knees in mid-air, pressing down.

The white-veiled man below deftly side-flipped, avoiding the downward smash, and the magazine was already changed. He raised his hand and fired three more shots in bursts.

Bang, bang, bang.

Seeing the three bullets blocked again by Song Ran's left arm.

The white-veiled man retreated rapidly, creating distance. At the same time, he pulled a silver-white pistol with a noticeably larger caliber from his lower back.

Raise hand.

Aim.

Suddenly, a purple shadow flashed.

Bang!

His wrist hurt, grabbed by a large purple hand and pulled upwards.

The gun went off, the bullet flying into the air.

The white-veiled man's eyes widened, and the tip of the knife in his other hand aimed at his front, stabbing forward.

Dāng.

The tip of the knife slid across Li Cheng Yi's flower scales, leaving only a thin scratch.

"A cyborg?!"

The white-veiled man's eyes were ferocious, and he slammed his knee forward, hitting Li Cheng Yi's abdomen hard, but only to feel a sharp pain in his own knee.

His expression remained unchanged, and the arm that was being grabbed suddenly detached automatically from the wrist.

The wrist wound was raised, aimed, and a gunshot rang out, actually firing several shots out of thin air!

This guy had actually hidden a pistol in the flesh of his forearm!

Several bullets detonated sparks on Li Cheng Yi's helmet, causing his head to jerk back.

His hand-to-hand combat skills were far inferior to the opponent's, and he had been attacked several times in succession, and only now did he react.

Although he knew that his hand-to-hand combat was only just beginning to be learned, and was basically at the level of an ordinary person.

But being repelled one after another at this time still made a surge of anger well up in his heart.

He simply stood up straight, ignoring all the opponent's attacks, and forced his way forward.

Fine bullets detonated sparks on his body.

In just that second, the opposite side fired three more shots.

'Flower Utterance.'

Li Cheng Yi grabbed the opponent's wrist with his palm and suddenly slapped it to the right, pressing it against the trunk of a coconut tree.

In that instant, the white-veiled man froze all over, a look of horror in his eyes.

At this time, his body was actually completely out of control, and his entire person rushed towards the coconut tree that Li Cheng Yi's hand was pressing against at full speed.

In less than half a second, he had already pounced out into the air, leaping towards the coconut tree.

Before he had even gotten halfway close, a purple-black fist slammed into his forehead.

Bang!!

Everything quieted down.

The white-veiled man was sent flying sideways as if he had been hit by a vehicle, his forehead deeply caved in, and blood gushing from his eyes, ears, mouth, and nose.

He lay on his back on the sand, opening his mouth to say something, but in just two seconds, his pupils dilated and he lost his breath.

Li Cheng Yi glanced at Song Ran behind him, whose face was solemn and alert, turned around and quickly plunged into the woodland, disappearing into the distance.

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Yongnian Town.

A black jeep turned sharply and stopped in front of a silver-white building of more than ten stories.

It was night, and the sky was dim.

The car door slammed open, and a pale-faced gunman in gray got out.

He hurried towards the building, and was about to shout after only a few steps.

Bang.

A gunshot.

The gunman fell forward, blood slowly seeping from his back.

"Who is it?!"

"There's a gun! Call the patrol team!!"

Woo!

A piercing alarm sounded quickly.

The security guards around the building immediately noticed something was wrong and reacted.

Some people quickly pulled out their pistols from their waists and aimed in this direction.

With a muffled bang, a purple shadow rushed out of the jeep and charged towards the building.

A security guard standing in front of the purple shadow opened his mouth to shout, but with a bang, his head was jerked by a huge force, rotating three hundred and sixty degrees, and he stood stiffly in place, falling to the ground.

Bang.

The building's gate was half-open, and the glass door was knocked off its hinges by the purple shadow and flew out, injuring two security guards who had run out to try to stop him.

Li Cheng Yi stood inside the door, raised his eyes and looked over, and a dozen black-clad security guards rushed out in a chaotic manner, some with guns and some with knives.

He grabbed a celadon vase more than one person tall on the right and threw it forward with one hand.

Bang!

The vase, nearly two meters tall, spun and slammed hard into the middle of a group of security guards, exploding with a bang.

Fragments pierced into the flesh of the crowd, and in a flash, a burst of wailing and painful cries rang out.

Without stopping, Li Cheng Yi stepped forward and quickly rushed into the stairwell.

In the Flower Scale Armor state, his speed, strength, physique, and defense were all greatly enhanced.

At this time, with successive attacks, the dense malice around him had just appeared, but it was smashed away by that violent blow just now.

Evil thoughts were transformed into invisible energy, which was absorbed into the Flower Scale Armor.

Before long, according to the gunman's confession, Li Cheng Yi arrived on the ninth floor.

Inside the spacious lounge.

An old man with completely white hair was sitting on the sofa, embracing a slender blonde woman, and holding a silver pistol that he had just taken out in his other hand.

"You!?" The old man's eyes were horrified, staring at Li Cheng Yi, who had suddenly appeared on this floor, obviously not expecting it to be so fast.

Without hesitation, he raised his gun and pulled the trigger.

Bang, bang, bang, bang, bang!!

The automatic weapon fired a dense barrage of bullets, accurately hitting Li Cheng Yi's chest, head, shoulders, and limbs.

But it was useless.

With sparks flying, the purple-black figure flashed.

Boom!!!

The old man was slammed against the floor-to-ceiling window behind him along with the pistol in his hand.

The window shattered, and shards of glass scattered all over the floor with a crash.

He struggled feebly, his eyes desperate, and he was knocked out of the window, falling from the height of the ninth floor.

Poof.

A faint muffled sound came.

Li Cheng Yi stood at the window and looked down, seeing the old man's body twisted and lying on his back on the grass, blood slowly oozing from the back of his head like tomato sauce.

Only then did he turn around and leave calmly, disappearing into the doorway.

The blonde woman beside him only came back to her senses at this time, her face pale, and she screamed in terror.

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On the construction site.

Song Ran spat on the ground, squatted down and checked the body of a little yellow hat (construction worker).

There were four bodies of little yellow hats on the field, all of which he had dragged over and placed side by side.

"Sorry." Song Ran sighed, knowing that these were just ordinary people.

They had just come to do such an ordinary job, but they didn't expect to lose their lives here.

Standing up, he took out his mobile phone and dialed a number.

"How is the situation?" Xindela's voice came from the other end of the phone with a hint of fatigue.

"Several people died. The other side has a lot of manpower. They're local strongmen, and we couldn't hold on. There was also at least one master of advanced Riga combat technique who held me up for a while," Song Ran replied in a low voice.

Xindela was silent for a moment.

"Let's give three times the pension... I didn't expect the resistance to be so great."

"After all, the company headquarters is not here. This is Yi country. A strong dragon can't suppress a local snake. There's no way," Song Ran said.

"If it weren't for the fact that none of your equipment is allowed to enter the country..." Xindela didn't finish her sentence, and sighed. "What about Li Cheng Yi and Ding Chongyi?"

"Ding Chongyi withdrew in advance, Li Cheng Yi... should be hiding," Song Ran was not sure.

He had just walked around the construction site and couldn't find anyone, and then went to the entrance of the underground cave, and the cave cover had been opened, and there was only an untied automatic rope inside, and no one.

So he guessed that he should be hiding.

"He's a very smart person and won't do stupid things. He should be hiding," Xindela said.

"If he dies, we can only focus on the other side," Song Ran said in a deep voice.

The company's power was too limited in Yi country. Many dead corner people had died before because of various reasons that led to insufficient preparation. This feeling of suffocation was much more uncomfortable than when he was on Bai Xing.

"Aixi Real Estate, right? I'll send someone over later, but too many people are watching me, so I can't do anything on the surface," Xindela said.

"Then we can only wait for them to move against us?" Song Ran asked.

"It doesn't matter. We can't move, but we can find someone who can move," Xindela said.

After hanging up the phone, Song Ran sighed, glanced at his feet that had been shot through.

A little trace revealed on the back of his foot, and he could vaguely see a silver-white metallic texture.

His legs had also been mechanically modified, and only half of them were flesh and blood. After being injured, the injectors hidden in the metal interlayer would automatically inject hemostatic gel and antibiotics to prevent wound infection.

Then the metal structure would automatically bear more of its strength load, making it easier to walk.

This was also the reason why he was able to move freely until now.

"Brother Song?" Just as he was about to find a pair of intact Ar and contact Li Cheng Yi.

Suddenly a familiar sound came from behind.

Song Ran quickly turned around and saw a figure slowly walking out of the woods.

When he took a closer look, it was actually Li Cheng Yi.

He was unscathed, his face pale, and his forehead and temples were covered in sweat, looking very tired.

"You're okay!?" Song Ran felt relieved and quickly walked closer.

"After hearing the notice from Expert Ding, I immediately climbed out and hid. I didn't dare to come out slowly until it was over," Li Cheng Yi wiped the sweat from his forehead and said in a low voice.

"It's good that you're okay. The others are already transferring. Have you found any clues?" Song Ran asked quickly.

"I found it."

"That's good. Leave immediately and return to Suiyang!" Song Ran said decisively.