Zhang Heng did not know who had fired the shot, but the mysterious gunman had likely used the Godslayer Bullets that had previously attacked Thor and Miss Succubus, because ordinary bullets clearly could not have inflicted such damage.
Zhang Heng had already recognized the person blocking his path as Hephaestus, the god of fire and craftsmen in Greek Mythology. Though Hephaestus was far less famous in modern times than Thor or Zeus, he was hardly unknown—yet a single bullet had taken him down. The bullet's destructive power was even greater than that of the original Godslayer Bullets Zhang Heng had seen before.
And that was not all. As Zhang Heng continued forward, gunshots rang out one after another, and there was more than one gun. It seemed an armed squad was following alongside him, silently escorting him.
Zhang Heng simply did not understand it. He had not had much interaction with that mysterious organization, and he could now be called an enemy of humanity. Why would they help him?
Still, the squad's appearance did make his escape much smoother. He did not even need to act; the supernatural creatures rushing toward him fell one after another beneath the squad's gunfire.
But the gunfire also exposed their location. The gods were not fools, and they soon realized that if they wanted to stop Zhang Heng, they first had to deal with the squad at his side.
Thus, fifteen minutes later, the gunfire suddenly intensified, and the center of the battle shifted away from Zhang Heng.
Zhang Heng hesitated for a moment. He knew that stepping in might save some of them, but doing so would likely bog him down in the fight. In the end, however, he still chose to run toward the gunfire.
But he had barely taken a step