"Big Shot"

"What are you..." The young man had barely gotten halfway through his sentence when his expression suddenly changed drastically. "What is your relationship with that individual?!"

"I don't want to answer you." The mysterious girl said coldly, then raised a hand and made a grasping motion.

With a soft bang, the young man's body exploded directly into a cloud of Blood Mist, which slowly dissipated.

Cheng Ming felt as though his brain had been struck by a blunt blow, and the whole world spun around him... By the time the intense dizziness faded, the mysterious girl had vanished completely.

"Hello... hello?" Cheng Ming looked around. "Are... are you still there?"

But the only response he received was the ground beginning to tremble.

Cheng Ming looked upward and saw that the tens of millions of fungal-thread puppets sealing off the entire collapsed area above the cavity were rapidly disintegrating into nothingness...

It was already noon. Strands of sunlight shone directly through the gaps between the puppet remains, falling onto the bottom of the pit and forming countless mottled patches of light. Only the giant aberration's body remained unchanged, preserving a massive shadow amid the growing sea of light.

"So that's it?" Cheng Ming looked around in some confusion, but he soon noticed that among the hunters who had been shot in the head, one of them was still struggling weakly. He hurried over and crouched beside him.

The man had been shot twice in the forehead. The upper half of his face was a bloody mess, but the two deformed bullets were lodged in his frontal bone and had not penetrated his skull.

"Are you okay?" Cheng Ming touched the man's arm. "Can you hear me?"

"Hiss... It hurts, it hurts, it hurts..." The man groaned from deep in his throat,