Bai Ye quickly got onto a snowmobile, opened the storage compartment, and soon found the snowmobile key.
"Get on!"
Bai Ye called out to Jin Sha, then quickly started the snowmobile and sped forward.
Jin Sha sat behind Bai Ye and asked, "What about the people at the monitoring station?"
Bai Ye replied, "If they have a way to break invisibility, they can fight. And, Predators are intelligent beings. If their invisibility is broken, they won't fight head-on when outnumbered; they'll choose to retreat. If they can't break the invisibility, then they're as good as dead."
Bai Ye's tone was indifferent, as lives were cheap on the world battlefield.
What concerned Bai Ye more was why a Predator appeared here.
According to Bai Ye's memory, Predators hunted Xenomorphs, so they should have entered the ruins. The ruins should be near the scientific expedition team's base, still some distance from this location. Therefore, there was no reason for a Predator to be here.
There was also the Ice Pillar God-Thunder Geysess, which Bai Ye didn't remember.
What was the connection between the two?
Bai Ye drove the snowmobile while pondering. Just then...
Bai Ye looked ahead, and a faint humanoid silhouette suddenly appeared in the air.
Bai Ye's heart jolted, and he shouted, "Jump!"
The moment he spoke, Bai Ye lunged to the left and rolled rapidly on the ground.
Jin Sha reacted a moment slower but still managed to jump off the snowmobile in time.
In the next instant, the snowmobile skidded, slid forward about three to four meters, and then...
Boom!
The snowmobile suddenly split in half, exploded, and burst into flames.
Bai Ye propped himself up with one hand and looked up.
Had a Predator caught up?
No, a Predator couldn't catch up to a snowmobile on foot, so there must be a second Predator.
On the other side, Jin Sha painfully got up from the ground, pulled a red and white sphere from her waist, and threw it forward, saying, "Come out, Duo Duo Bing!"
As the red and white sphere landed, white light bloomed, and then, a beast appeared from the light.
Bai Ye glanced at it and exclaimed in surprise, "Ice cream cone?"
Jin Sha's beast looked exactly like a large ice cream cone. Transparent ice formed the cone, and white snow was piled on top to resemble ice cream scoops, with silvery frost emanating from its surroundings.
Most magically, as Bai Ye looked, two round eyeballs and a long, thin mouth appeared on the ice cream scoop.
It truly was a beast, a living creature, just shaped like an ice cream cone!
Jin Sha patted Duo Duo Bing's body and said, "Yes, my beast. It's very obedient."
"Whether it's obedient or not isn't important..." Bai Ye's expression changed. "Run!"
Jin Sha was stunned for a moment, then looked at the snowy ground ahead and saw footprints appearing one after another.
In fact, the icy environment wasn't very friendly to Predators. Their cloaking suits had huge flaws in the glaciers. Even if their bodies could be completely concealed, invisibility wasn't complete disappearance; it didn't make the Predator vanish. Therefore, when moving on the snow, they would inevitably leave footprints, creating obvious weaknesses.
Jin Sha was decisive. She didn't run as Bai Ye suggested because, glancing at the speed at which footprints were appearing, she knew she couldn't escape.
So, Jin Sha decisively waved her hand and commanded, "Duo Duo Bing, use Ice Needles!"
Duo Duo Bing, floating in the air, let out a strange cry, then began to spin. Ice-hardened spikes emerged one by one and shot forward.
This move was executed skillfully. The number of ice needles was considerable, indicating an area-of-effect attack, and Duo Duo Bing used its rotation to expand the coverage of the ice needles.
Then...
Clink, clink, clink!
Crisp clanging sounds echoed as the flying ice needles were continuously shattered.
However, the positions where the ice needles shattered clearly revealed the Predators' locations.
Jin Sha immediately waved her hand again, issuing another command, "Freezing Ray!"
Duo Duo Bing swayed in the air, and a large amount of light gathered at the tips of its surrounding horns, quickly forming a luminous sphere.
Then...
Boom!
The sphere shot forward, forming a beam of light that blasted ahead. Immediately, a loud noise erupted, accompanied by the sound of freezing air and sparks of electricity.
"This is a master!"
Bai Ye looked at Jin Sha with surprise. Her beast, Duo Duo Bing, was clearly well-trained and quite powerful. This was completely different from what Bai Ye had expected. Jin Sha looked too approachable, lacking any signs of a master, but her strength proved: appearances can be deceiving, and one shouldn't judge a book by its cover.
Then...
After praising Jin Sha's displayed strength, Bai Ye was immediately delighted.
When the Freezing Ray hit the Predator, frost rapidly formed on its body, damaging its cloaking suit!
A humanoid, masked creature, clad in dark golden armor!
The Predator's form was fully revealed!
"Then it's my turn to shine!"
Bai Ye, who was wary of cloaked Predators, was no longer afraid once they were revealed...
Let's take him down!
"Let me!" Bai Ye drew his Zanpakuto and said, "Roar, Senbonzakura!"
Bai Ye's Zanpakuto entered its Shikai state, emitting a glow and transforming into a broad sword with a fine blade. Then...
With a forceful thrust from Bai Ye, Senbonzakura separated section by section, extending forward like a whip or a long snake, slashing towards the Predator.
The Predator turned its head and immediately raised its arm!
Clang!
Bai Ye's slash struck the Predator's wrist blade, and Senbonzakura was repelled. However, with a quick flick of Bai Ye's wrist, Senbonzakura changed from a slash to a sweep, moving towards the Predator's waist.
The Predator before them wasn't particularly large, standing at about 1.85 meters tall. Its physique was similar to Bai Ye's, considered tall among humans, but among Predators, it could only be described as petite.
However, a petite physique meant the Predator was highly agile.
Facing the sweeping blade, the Predator didn't dodge immediately. Instead, it seized an opportunity, suddenly leaped up, and stomped its feet down with force.
Clang!
The blade was forcefully pinned to the ground by the Predator.
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