A fireball blossomed in midair, and the shockwave it kicked up nearly overturned the bus! Shattered missile fragments were hurled out by the violent explosion, raining metal shards from the sky!
The new recruits inside the bus clamped their hands over their ears. The close-range explosion had nearly ruptured their eardrums. As the vehicle rocked violently, all the luggage stored on top came crashing down, throwing the entire cabin into chaos.
At that moment, Lin Qiye's eyes widened!
The next instant, an utter darkness erupted from his body, rapidly staining the entire bus before spreading outward and swiftly forming a hemisphere around it.
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh—!!
Countless missile fragments shot outward at speeds no slower than bullets, embedding themselves one after another into that mass of night. The moment they entered the Absolute Darkness Divine Forbidden Zone, they froze in midair.
Even the few that slipped through had their speed reduced to the minimum by Lin Qiye. Like blades, they lodged in the metal plating on the roof, not a single one truly piercing into the bus.
Only after every missile fragment had been blocked did Lin Qiye withdraw the Absolute Darkness Divine Forbidden Zone. He dropped to one knee, gasping heavily, his back already drenched in cold sweat.
No one knew what he had gone through in those brief few seconds.
After a missile exploded in midair, its fragments could be propelled by the blast to speeds exceeding two hundred meters per second. In other words, from the instant the fragments burst apart to the moment they pierced the new recruits' bodies, there would be no more than two seconds.
Within those two seconds, Lin Qiye's thoughts flashed like lightning. He first realized that a fragment attack was inevitable, then opened the Absolute Darkness Divine Forbidden Zone at full