"You have successfully reached the Glory Canyon and received your quest rewards: Bingliang Pills x1, Swift Boots x1."
Upon entering the canyon, Bai Ye received the prompt for completing the quest.
Bingliang Pill (Elixir) (Green): Instantly restores 50% of stamina.
Swift Boots (Equipment) (Green): A pair of good-looking military boots. Effect: Gale (When out of combat, your movement speed increases by 50 points and an additional 30% movement speed. The effect will be disabled when entering combat.)
Bai Ye grinned. The Bingliang Pills were decent, capable of replenishing stamina.
As for the Swift Boots...
It couldn't be said they were useless, but since the effect didn't work in combat, they could only be used for travel.
However, with the Steel Slime anyway, even a grasshopper's leg was still meat. He swallowed it directly.
Meanwhile...
"You have received a new hidden quest."
"Prevent the activation of the Ancient Mechanical Giant. Quest Rewards: Fragment of the Heart of Dawn x1, First Level Entry Qualification for the Hero's Tomb x1."
The moment the quest was completed, the next stage of the hidden quest appeared.
However...
Bai Ye looked around.
The Glory Canyon had a touch of the otherworldly. Strange plants grew everywhere, and birdsong could be heard constantly. Some stones floated magically in the air, like steps.
But where was the ancient giant?
Suddenly, as Bai Ye was pondering, the ground beneath his feet began to tremble.
Bai Ye swayed, then knelt to steady himself.
"An earthquake?"
The rumbling sound echoed from a distance.
Bai Ye quickly looked up and saw a pillar of azure light rising in the distance, its radiance scattering.
"Looks like I know where the ancient giant is?"
Bai Ye grinned and quickly ran forward.
However, after running only a hundred meters, Bai Ye suddenly felt something was wrong.
A sense of impending danger!
Bai Ye quickly leaped to the side. The moment he did, gunshots rang out, and a burst of bullets struck the spot where Bai Ye had been standing, shattering the ground.
Bai Ye looked towards a towering rock on the side. A young man with blond hair stood there, wearing a top hat and a medieval ruffled shirt with a suit. He held two strangely shaped handguns.
Bai Ye looked at the man and asked, "Who are you?"
The blond man smiled and nudged the brim of his hat with his gun, saying, "My identity will be answered by these twin guns."
Bai Ye tilted his head and looked at the man. "Alright, then let the twin guns provide the answer!"
Bai Ye suddenly raised his hand. Immediately, the Steel Slime split into mud masses in Bai Ye's palm, quickly solidifying into Pulse Twin Guns.
The moment the twin guns were in hand, Bai Ye immediately pulled the trigger towards the top of the rock.
Bang, bang, bang...
Gunshots echoed. The top of the rock was hit by pulse beams, immediately shattering.
The blond man leaped directly from the rock. In mid-air, he inverted his body and then fired at Bai Ye.
Bai Ye quickly dodged to the side, and a burst of bullets hit the ground, shattering it again.
Bai Ye showed a hint of surprise.
On one hand, he was surprised by the man's marksmanship; could he be so accurate even firing in that posture?
On the other hand, it was because of the man's twin guns. The firing rate of those twin guns was astonishingly fast. They were like ordinary firearms, yet also like technological weapons. They fired bullets, but each bullet was enveloped in light.
Meanwhile...
The blond man landed without even staggering. He stomped on the ground, using the force to leap to the side, and pulled the trigger at Bai Ye again.
Clang, clang, clang...
Metallic impacts sounded from Bai Ye's body. The opponent's bullets continuously hit Bai Ye, and then circles of vortices appeared on Bai Ye's body.
However, because they were solidified by the Steel Slime, the vortices created by the bullets quickly reformed.
Anything solidified by the Steel Slime would not be destroyed by battle damage.
But...
This did not mean Bai Ye would not get hurt!
At this moment, Bai Ye could feel his shoulder bleeding, and a sensation of pain made his expression contort slightly.
The opponent's bullets...
Had an armor-piercing effect that ignored defense!
The blond man smiled and raised his guns, saying, "Show time!"
"Shut up!"
Bai Ye endured the pain and pulled the trigger forward again.
However, the moment Bai Ye raised his hand, the opponent leaped to the side. Then, the pulse beams from the Pulse Twin Guns hit a large tree behind him, piercing through it.
The scene was somewhat bizarre. The opponent seemed to be able to predict the future, dodging in advance, and only then did Bai Ye complete his shot!
But Bai Ye knew that wasn't the case.
The man was extremely familiar with firearms. After Bai Ye's brief firing, the blond man had figured out the firing rate of the Pulse Twin Guns.
And based on Bai Ye's raising speed, he calculated the trajectory of the bullets and the time required to fire, then moved in advance to dodge.
However...
The blond man made a prediction, and Bai Ye...
Predicted the prediction!
"Teleportation!"
Bai Ye suddenly vanished. In the next instant, Bai Ye appeared in the man's direction of movement, raising the Pulse Twin Guns and aiming at his head.
"Game over!"
Bang!
The moment Bai Ye spoke, he pulled the trigger.
At a distance of about two to three meters, at this range, Bai Ye was confident that no matter how agile the opponent was, he couldn't dodge the pulse beam and would surely be headshot.
Then...
The blond man suddenly disappeared.
The pulse beam shot forward, hitting a rock and shattering a piece of it.
Bai Ye stared in astonishment at the blond man who had reappeared three meters away, and couldn't help but curse.
This guy actually had an ability similar to teleportation?
Bang, bang, bang...
As Bai Ye thought, he quickly raised his guns to fire, but the blond man's figure flickered continuously, swiftly dodging the pulse beams.
If Bai Ye's previous statement was a question, it was now a certainty.
The guy in front of him could indeed teleport!
And compared to Bai Ye's teleportation, the blond man's teleportation was short-range and fixed distance, always three meters, unchangeable.
So...
Since the teleportation distance was a fixed three meters, it could be predicted in advance...
Bang, bang!
Bai Ye fired again, but both shots hit the ground.
Bai Ye was speechless. Predict what!
Even if he knew the distance of the opponent's movement, he had no idea in which direction the opponent would move, so he could only guess!