With a hiss.
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The man lit the explosive fuse without hesitation.
Dazzling Light Fire burst through the dim room.
Like a moth, he sprang up from the chair, vaulted over the long table, and lunged at Gu Shen. At the same time, the Solemn-Eyed Stone Sculpture carved with an evil ghost sent out mental ripples that compelled people into dreams—
It was a crudely executed killing trap.
But it was effective.
Mental Affinity Transcendents could resist the Solemn-Eyed Stone Sculpture, but they could not stop the explosives from detonating.
Assault Types and natural types might have been able to prevent the explosives from going off.
But... the Solemn-Eyed Stone Sculpture would drastically reduce their efficiency of movement.
Gu Shen watched the man pouncing toward him, filling his entire field of vision—
A shadowy gloom bore down on him.
Yet his thoughts remained incomparably calm.
At that moment, the world before his eyes seemed frozen in time. Everything around him slowed to an extreme degree. Every object... the papers swept up by the wind in the room, the storage cabinet tilting and swaying, the recording pen tumbling through the air—all of it halted within this frame, frozen into a splashed-out painting.
In Gu Shen's vision.
The central figure in this frozen painting was the fanatic who had lit the explosives and lunged at him.
But from a perspective overlooking the entire room.
The central figure of the painting was the youth who had already gripped the ruler, Blazing Fire appearing between his brows.
"1.5 seconds..."
Gu Shen's focus had never been sharper. His entire gaze fixed on the fuse at the other man's waist. At that moment, his Mental Power seemed to condense into a single point.
He recognized the explosives the man carried.
They were High Explosives made