The middle-aged woman pleaded urgently, "Don't be angry anymore; it won't do any good no matter how upset you get.
You only have this one daughter—what else can you do? The most important thing now is to figure out a way to separate our daughter from that cripple, and do it while hurting her feelings as little as possible." "I understand!" The middle-aged man frowned in silent contemplation, taking heavy drags from his cigarette.
Smoke filled the hall, settling into a temporary silence, broken only by the rhythmic tick-tock of a mechanical wall clock.
The next morning, City 003 was enveloped, as always, in a cold, grim atmosphere, punctuated by heart-stopping roars of strange beasts echoing intermittently through the concrete canyons.
If Jiangnan Base City was a brand-new metropolis brimming with vitality, then this city—once the most prosperous in Huaxia decades ago—had devolved into a paradise and lair for monsters.
Traces of dried blood were everywhere; skeletal remains lay scattered in every direction.
This was a demonic pit! In the top-floor room of a derelict, eighteen-story building coated in dust, Luo Feng, clad in his combat uniform, held a pair of binoculars, staring down intently with one hand while chewing a piece of jerky in the other.
Chew, swallow.
In the entire room, aged and marked by time, the only sound was Luo Feng masticating the dry meat, emphasizing the deep quiet.
Gurgle~ He took out his water pouch and sipped a small amount, pausing for a moment before taking another tiny drink.
In the wilderness zone, Luo Feng couldn't carry excessive amounts of food or water, necessitating strict rationing every day. "Seven of them going out together again!" Luo Feng clearly saw seven figures departing the six-story residential building beneath the pervasive morning mist through his binoculars.
His brow furrowed, and with a flash of annoyance, he tossed the binoculars aside with a thud.
Luo Feng massaged the pressure points around his eyes; squatting all day made them particularly fatigued. "They go out together every day—seven of them—giving me absolutely no opening," Luo Feng grumbled. "If this continues until that young master's training plan concludes, I’ll likely have waited for nothing! What on earth should I do?" Luo Feng quickly started thinking; right now, there was no chance to make a move.
Should he just wait bitterly? "No chance." Luo Feng's eyes lit up, and he gritted his teeth, "If there's no opportunity, and I can't wait for one, then I'll create one!" "Aren't they always together? I'll force them to split up!" Luo Feng gently tightened the stopper on his water pouch.
...
Approximately three hours later, the seven members of the Thunder Squad, hunting in the suburban area of the monster lair, carefully advanced and retreated, finally returning to the six-story residence where they had previously rested. "Action...
Commence!" Fully armed, Luo Feng permitted himself a slight smile, walked directly out of his room, and then scurried downward like a monkey.
Once outside the eighteen-story building, even Luo Feng dared not be overly brazen; instead, he began cautiously scouting the surrounding area with meticulous care.
Avoiding monsters was hard; finding them was easy! Fifteen minutes later, Luo Feng located a pack of canine-type monsters, numbering between two and three thousand, clustered inside the confines of a large machinery factory complex.
Normally, no human warrior dared provoke such a massive horde; the threat posed by two to three thousand monsters was terrifying.
Hoooh~~ Monsters of immense size lay sprawled on the factory ground, their snores echoing, emitting a thick, pungent odor that permeated the vicinity. "Tsk tsk tsk...
quite a formidable pack," Luo Feng observed through a gap in the courtyard wall. "Let's begin!" Soon after— "Roar~" "Roar! Roar! Roar~~" Dozens of beasts within the complex roared madly.
The demise of several monsters only enraged the massive pack further, making them feel insulted beyond measure.
Even the leaders—two high-ranking Beast General level Lion-Mastiff monsters—roared in fury, and the entire pack immediately gave chase with frenzy. "They run fast!" The hexagonal shield strapped to Luo Feng's back received a powerful mental propulsion, transforming him instantly into a gale, tearing across the ground with a whistle.
Rumble~~~ Interspersed within the main Lion-Mastiff pack were some Tiger-Mastiffs.
This colossal horde chased relentlessly, their speed astonishingly high; those in the lead were already moving at seventy to eighty meters per second! At such incredible velocity, the nearly four li distance from the factory to the six-story residence was covered in only thirty seconds! Thirty seconds only! Luo Feng darted into the six-story residential building like a bolt of lightning.
On the sixth floor of the residential building, in one of the dusty, four-room, two-living-room units, the seven members of the Thunder Squad were resting.
Initially, when the monster pack first began its enraged pursuit of Luo Feng, the seven members of the Thunder Squad hadn't felt the slightest alarm...
because first, the distance was a full four li, and second, what day in City 003 wasn't punctuated by the roars of warriors fighting monster packs? But after about ten seconds. "A battle seems to be breaking out to our east," the one-eyed middle-aged man remarked with a slight smile. "Don't bother yourself with it.
What day passes in City 003 without warriors fighting monster packs? This must be some warrior who provoked a certain group," Captain Huya, Pan Ya, said calmly, showing hardly any fluctuation of emotion.
After more than ten years as a warrior, he had seen far too many instances of monster packs hunting down humans.
Yet, in the few moments it took to exchange these few words. "The pack seems very close now!" "The floor is faintly vibrating." Almost instantly, all seven members of the Thunder Squad rushed to the northern windows and looked down.
They saw large numbers of Lion-Mastiff monsters, interspersed with a few Tiger-Mastiffs, furiously surging toward the staircase entrance of the six-story building.
In just those few seconds, the entire structure trembled as if struck by an earthquake, and the roar of countless monsters echoed everywhere. "Boom!" The door to the room where the Thunder Squad was located burst inward with force.
Lion-Mastiffs, each the size of a Hummer SUV, charged in one after another.
Not only was the door smashed to splinters, but the walls cracked and collapsed.
Under the onslaught of over a thousand monsters, the entire building shuddered, seeming as if it might collapse at any moment.
Outside the building, one to two thousand more Lion-Mastiffs and Tiger-Mastiffs, unable to squeeze inside, completely encircled the structure.
Just imagining a fortress-like building hemmed in by one or two thousand Hummers provided a glimpse into the terrifying reality of this surrounding beast horde. "What in the world is happening!!!" The mixed-race youth shrieked and roared, his face ashen white.
Anyone would panic under these circumstances: standing in a trembling building about to collapse, facing an influx of charging monsters inside, and seeing the ground floor completely packed with a dense mass of beasts outside. "Protect the Young Master! Tiger Fang Squad, cover the rear!" Elder Liu roared. "Rat-a-tat-tat-tat~~~" Dong Zi's machine gun began its frenzied roar, shell casings bouncing wildly.
The powerful bullets pierced the bodies of the Lion-Mastiff monsters, but even hit, the beasts continued their charge, driven by sheer momentum.
Captain Huya, Pan Ya, the bald strongman, and the one-eyed man could only resort to melee weapons to deflect the incoming monsters. "Bang!" "Bang!" "Bang!" Elder Liu and the strong white man, along with the mixed-race youth, immediately jumped out of the window. "Let's go!" Captain Huya bellowed, leaping out the window first. "Dong Zi, hurry up!" the one-eyed man roared.
After all, the gunman had the weakest physical constitution.
Dong Zi, gritting his teeth, jumped out the window after him.
Finally, the one-eyed middle-aged man and the bald strongman jumped out in succession.
Truthfully, a beginner War General warrior could generally jump from the sixth floor, even burdened with several hundred pounds, and absorb the shock without injury.
But below them was not flat ground—it was a mass of over a thousand monsters! ...
On the second floor of the residential building, the walls and structure had already collapsed into ruins.
Tucked away in the corner of one room on this floor, Luo Feng was concealed.
When Luo Feng first rushed into this second-floor room, he used his mental power to levitate the wall concrete, marble tables, and other debris, using them to heavily barricade the front of the restroom where he was hiding.
He had also deliberately caused the third-floor slab above him to cave in, sending cement pillars crashing down, turning the entire room into a wreck.
Monsters charging in failed to even notice Luo Feng.
Once the horde discovered the Thunder Squad on the sixth floor, their entire focus shifted there.
Standing at the restroom window, Luo Feng stared out intensely, listening carefully. "They're fighting!" Luo Feng could faintly hear the furious roars emanating from the sixth floor.
As three shadows plummeted rapidly from above. "They're jumping," Luo Feng's eyes brightened, and two black throwing knives immediately hovered before him.