Chapter 166 Firing

"Fire!"

Osmonde's roar stirred up the smog in the gray dome!

The artillery fire exploded, blasting out a patch of scarlet!

On the hills covered by heavy snow and bushes, countless extraordinary creatures with outstretched bone wings were caught in the "big guy's" sudden shelling, and a blazing sea of fire spread across the sky above the hills!

Lin Lin remained calm, steering the source-energy skiffs while also sparing mental energy to glance at the extraordinary radar monitoring the deep sea.

"Detected Triumphant Squad members."

This hill was the Triumphant Squad's mission location!

The reason they hadn't sent back any messages was that they were caught in a fierce battle... Seeing these bone-winged creatures was terrible news, meaning that the scenes Fisher had transmitted were playing out in various places, and the twelve [Gates] scattered in the first half of the Doru River were probably continuously transporting extraordinary creatures to the Disaster Zone!

"Keep moving forward."

Osmonde maintained absolute calm and focus. He glanced at the radar and continued to advance towards the mid-section of the Doru River.

The cannon blast just now had greatly relieved the pressure on the Triumphant Squad.

Now, all he had to do was keep driving the "big guy" and let the main control skiff crush the surrounding demons, creating an opportunity for the Reboot Squad members to escape!

The scorching artillery fire spewed out over the gray dome.

The bone-winged creatures shrieked and fell.

They were torn to pieces, exploding into bloody mist. The billowing smoke and the artillery fire that almost shattered the entire dome were all encouragement to the North Continent's extraordinary individuals!

The main control skiff was on its way! The main control skiff knew what they were facing!

All the squads began to flee towards the main branch of the Doru River!

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The earth-shattering cannon fire could even be heard on Black Snow Mountain.

Lu Zhe hovered in the black snow.

He had reached the summit. The thunderous roar made him open his eyes, but the mountaintop was shrouded in mist and black dust, so no matter how hard he looked, he couldn't see what was outside.

But the sound of the main skiff firing seemed to be getting closer.

Lu Zhe was thoughtful.

He didn't know exactly what was happening outside, but he could guess what would happen next... It wouldn't be long before the main control skiff's artillery fire reached Black Snow Mountain. Were these cannon blasts a reminder to him?

Or perhaps some kind of hint about external information.

The First Team Captain raised his head.

He inexplicably felt a chill.

It was as if something powerful had set its sights on him.

"Hmm... Is it you?"

Lu Zhe slowly looked towards the summit of Black Snow Mountain. In the heavy snow, a familiar figure slowly emerged.

To be precise, it floated out.

The person's feet were off the ground...

Lu Zhe looked at the "himself" replicated by Black Snow Mountain and smiled softly, "This is an unbelievable power, replicating extraordinary individuals in a dream... Even the abilities can be replicated exactly. Give you some more time, and you might really be able to pass yourself off as the real thing when you return to the Investigation Corps, right?"

The replica Lu Zhe in the darkness smiled slightly, noncommittal.

The next moment.

A crisp snapping sound echoed.

Lu Zhe expressionlessly reached out his palm, pressed down on the fake's head from a hundred meters away, and then twisted his hands.

The fake's eyes widened. Before he could react, his head was twisted off!

"Not you..."

Lu Zhe was a little disappointed.

The strength of this replica was too weak.

So where did the powerful aura that had just targeted him come from?

He continued to walk forward. Just as he was about to cross the summit and descend the mountain, a violent sound of rushing wind suddenly rang out behind him.

"Clang!"

A streak of extremely fast aurora pierced through the black snow, turning into a black line!

This ray of light directly pierced through Lu Zhe's head... But it didn't explode his head. A portion of the space in the middle seemed to be distorted, disappearing into thin air, but the dense smoke swayed in the wind.

The First Team Captain looked gloomy.

He stared intently at the layer of snow in front of him that had been pierced with a pitch-black hole. The power of this attack was extremely terrifying... The amount of extraordinary source-energy it contained wasn't much, but its cohesion was extremely strong. The user seemed to have comprehended some method of efficiently operating source-energy.

Compressing the source-energy, compressing it again, and finally shooting it out!

If he hadn't mastered "spatial abilities," he would have been killed instantly...

Wait...

This is light?

On Black Snow Mountain, all those who ignite with light will be enveloped by the "Mirror Dream" and pulled into another nightmare world.

Lu Zhe turned his head and saw the figure floating in the air.

He frowned, somewhat puzzled.

The figure looked like a human, but it wasn't human... That naked, athletic, burly body and huge bone wings were too oppressive. If horns grew on both sides of its head, it would look very much like the "demons" rumored in Light City.

But what really caught Lu Zhe's attention...

Was the blood dripping little by little from the tip of the demon's finger.

It had just experienced a battle.

And it had won.

As a mental-type extraordinary individual, Lu Zhe was very familiar with the mental aura of every captain of the Reboot mission, and he could identify them through blood and sweat...

That drop of warm blood landed on the snow.

It splashed, making a sizzling sound.

He recognized the mental aura in the blood. It was the blood of the Deep Scale Squad captain.

"Fisher..."

Lu Zhe's voice was a little hoarse. He raised his head and looked at the demon, "What did you do to him?"

The demon floating in the air smiled when it heard this voice.

It held out a finger and slowly shook it.

Meaning... this person, no good.

Then it looked at Lu Zhe, revealing an interested and provocative look.

"So... you can understand human speech..."

Lu Zhe said coldly.

He understood the mental fluctuations that this creature was transmitting to him, and he also understood the reason why the main control skiff was firing so intensely outside... The simultaneous loss of contact with the twelve [Gates] indeed foreshadowed a major disaster.

This guy was from the [Old World].

Obviously, there were probably a large number of extraordinary creatures pouring into the area outside Black Snow Mountain, but "elites" like this one should be very rare... Otherwise, the main control skiff wouldn't have a chance to fire; it would be directly sunk.

Was this thing here specifically to hunt down the strong?

Lu Zhe's thoughts were interrupted by the long and complex chanting of ancient texts.

He frowned.

The tall figure floating in the air suddenly muttered something in a low voice.

The next moment—

The obscure sounds of ancient verses stirred up a huge storm on Black Snow Mountain. The huge creature suddenly grasped the snow from the void, clenched it into a spear, and then stabbed down fiercely.

"Whoosh!"

Lu Zhe began to move at the first moment.

He teleported to the side almost instantly—

But the speed of the black snow spear was even faster, and it also teleported along with his teleportation!

This spear crossed a distance of several hundred meters, directly piercing through his shoulder, shooting him down from the air, and nailing him to a stone wall at the summit of the snow mountain!

A muffled sound echoed!

Lu Zhe lowered his head, and his scattered hair concealed his expression.

The extraordinary creature floating in the air shook its head when it saw this scene.

It slowly landed, looking at this "New Human powerhouse" that it had nailed into the stone wall. This was the "strongest" it had sensed since its descent, but it was so vulnerable... The tall figure's eyes were full of disappointment.

Just one spear.

Almost killed him... It couldn't even sense his mental aura much anymore.

It held out a finger and shook it again.

"You're no good either."

This mental fluctuation made no attempt to hide its contempt and ridicule.

In the [Old World], the law of the jungle was pushed to the extreme.

The weak should be killed.

It was a pity that these people living in a peaceful world had lived too comfortably and had long forgotten what real fighting was.

It reached out its palm, wanting to press down on Lu Zhe's face.

"I'm curious..."

A very soft, puzzled voice sounded hoarsely.

It paused slightly.

"With your strength, you shouldn't have been able to kill Fisher..."

Lu Zhe, who was nailed to the stone wall, slowly raised his head.

A strong wind blew, and his broken hair fluttered.

The rear end of the spear snapped with a crack and fell to the snow.

And Lu Zhe still maintained his posture of being nailed to the stone wall with his feet off the ground. For him, floating in the air had long become a habit.

And the "spear" that should have pierced through his body was directly cut into two pieces by the power of spatial distortion the moment it made contact. It looked like it had pierced through his shoulder, but in reality, not a single drop of blood had flowed from his body...

"Heh..."

After a brief moment of thought, Lu Zhe roughly understood the meaning of this drop of blood.

"Fools living in the [Old World]."

He said with some pity, "Perhaps you don't know what an Undying is..."

Every drop of blood that Fisher shed would burn his life.

The Living Fish at this moment would only become stronger after experiencing another "reignition."

"You don't even know how foolish it was to find me..."

A real sneer appeared on the First Team Captain's face.

The tall creature's pupils contracted.

He didn't show even a trace of distraction, but Lu Zhe, who was "nailed" to the wall, disappeared into thin air!

The intense sense of crisis made him subconsciously take a step back.

"Plop."

He bumped into someone.

Lu Zhe said softly, "Although I'm a Fourth-Order extraordinary individual like you... there's a 'chasm' between Fourth-Order and Fourth-Order."

The tall creature turned around suddenly, extending its five fingers fiercely, but it grabbed at nothing.

Then, it began to chant ancient texts. The figure that had disappeared in an instant returned and slammed a palm hard onto its face, knocking it to the ground.

A mental force as vast as the sea instantly squeezed into its mental sea.

Lu Zhe used both physical and mental methods to completely suppress this creature's "ancient text chanting."

"You probably don't know... many years ago, Her Majesty the Queen had already thought of a title for me."

Lu Zhe murmured.

He didn't take the title.

Simply because he didn't want to.

Title-bearing extraordinary individuals should receive a higher status, but the position of First Team Captain of the Investigation Corps was too low. However, Lu Zhe didn't care about fame; he cared more about the development of the entire Corps.

This secret was only known by the Corps Commander.

The reason why the Corps Commander could guard the Ancient Castle with peace of mind all these years was that there was Lu Zhe, an absolutely stable First Team Captain who would never fail.

This was a monster at the peak of the Fourth-Order who still maintained a "Transcendent Realm."

The tall creature struggled desperately.

But the man's five fingers were heavier than mountains.

Lu Zhe said expressionlessly, "Farewell."

A cloud of blood splattered open.

The Fourth-Order extraordinary creature's mental sea was detonated just like that. Lu Zhe still maintained his posture of pressing down with one hand, but his clothes were spotless, without a single drop of blood on them.