Bang—!
The deafening gunshot tore through the forest. After weighing the pros and cons, Ye Shi ultimately chose to strike first.
The other side seemed to have made the same choice.
At the exact moment the bullet left the barrel, a two-meter-tall black shadow shot out of the woods.
It was a ferocious four-legged beast.
It had a low-slung body, sharp foreclaws, powerful hind legs, and dagger-like fangs!
This thing did not look like a mammal. It looked more like a reptile.
Its beastly form resembled a crouching wolf, yet not a single hair covered its body. Instead, it was clad in oily scales!
What made Ye Shi's heart pound was that this creature's ability to sense danger was not weak either.
As though it had foreseen his attack, it predicted and avoided his line of fire a femtosecond before he pulled the trigger.
It looked like a coincidence.
However, as a perception-type player, Ye Shi knew exactly what it was!
"Watch out!"
A belated cry rang out over the comms channel. The distance between them had rapidly shrunk from twenty meters to less than ten.
Not letting his power armor make him overconfident, Ye Shi swiftly moved his muzzle to track the mutant's movements, switched to full-auto, and fired two short bursts at it.
Experience in the Wasteland had taught him that wearing power armor did not mean he was invulnerable.
Especially against "dangerous species" like Deathclaws, which could still beat rookie power-armored soldiers senseless!
"Got you!"
The barrage suppressed the mutant's movements. It darted left and right for a while, but was ultimately hit.
The 7mm rounds pierced its horny scales, leaving bloody bullet holes across its body.
Roar—!
The mutant howled in pain, terror flashing in its mung-bean-sized eyes.
However—
It did not turn and flee. Instead,