Gene Evolvers

Ping Qiong carefully examined the radar data and informed them, "The only thing between you and that Blood Kirin is that Gene Evolver and the Griffon Sea Eagle."

Ye Shijie also said over the Squad Channel, "They brought five Humanoids. We've already killed four, and one surrendered, so we can ignore it for now. That leaves only the Gene Evolver."

"He should be a Mental Strength Expert at Rank B Peak. He's extremely dangerous. Everyone be careful—whatever you do, don't lose your Helmets!"

Seizing the opportunity, Xia Chujian, Li Fu, and Song Mingqian began running forward.

Feng Qianzhan saw that his last Humanoid Slave had been killed as well, and fury immediately surged through him.

His Mental Attack had failed, and the five Humanoid Slaves he had brought were completely useless! But he had thermal weapons too! With a grim expression, he raised a Frostfall 100 Assault Rifle, his gaze sinister as he aimed ahead.

He was a Gene Evolver with Mental Strength Rank B Peak. His naked eyes could already see great distances without binoculars.

The blizzard could block the sight of Ordinary People, but not that of an advanced Gene Evolver like him.

He saw with his own eyes that the three people on the snow were charging toward him in a triangular formation.

Raising his gun and bringing his eye to the Scope, he targeted the tallest one first.

His finger curled around the trigger.

The next second, Pitter-Patter!

More than a dozen bullets fired in rapid succession, piercing through the wind and snow as they shot toward Li Fu's chest! Although Li Fu's Mental Strength was only E-Rank, he was still a Gene Evolver, and his agility had long surpassed that of Ordinary People.

On top of that, the wind speed here was simply too high, and powerful magnetic interference greatly affected the bullets' speed and accuracy.

Li Fu therefore had time to twist aside and evade the incoming bullets. He then raised his Assault Rifle and fired several shots back at Feng Qianzhan with a Pitter-Patter! Though the bullets were fast, Feng Qianzhan found them even easier to dodge.

He suddenly sprang into the air. As though he had springs installed in his body, he leaped four or five meters straight up from where he stood and shot onto a Great Tree behind him as if he were flying.

Li Fu narrowed his eyes.

He said regretfully over the squad's Communication Channel, "That man is at least a Gene Evolver at Rank B Peak. Unless we use a Star Gatling Fully Automatic Machine Gun, an extremely lethal heavy Sniper Rifle, or an Assault Rifle that can switch to Plasma Mode, ordinary Assault Rifles and Submachine Guns will have a hard time hitting him."

At the same time, Xia Chujian raised her Destroyer 800 Fully Automatic Submachine Gun and rapidly returned fire at the spot where he had fired from! After firing just one burst, she saw through the Eyepiece's Far Infrared thermal imaging system that he had suddenly leaped up like a bird and "flown" onto the Great Tree behind him.

Watching this, Xia Chujian could not describe how she felt.

Was this the power of a Gene Evolver with top-tier Mental Strength?!

Was this the future direction of humanity after breaking through the Human Body's limits?! Then wasn't she clearly someone who would be left behind by the times? But so what?! Xia Chujian raised her Destroyer 800 Fully Automatic Submachine Gun, calmly loaded a magazine, and aimed at the Great Tree where the Gene Evolver was hiding.

Pitter-Patter!

Burst after burst of immensely powerful bullets targeted a hole pecked into the tree by a woodpecker through the Helmet's high-precision Eyepiece and fired furiously! In only ten seconds, that Sky-scraping Tree, which had stood for who knew how many years, let out a creaking Muffled Sound and slowly toppled backward.

Feng Qianzhan jumped down from the tree in a disheveled state. To cover himself, he raised his hand and opened fire toward Xia Chujian's position as well.

But Xia Chujian's three-person team had already dropped prone and begun crawling forward through the snow.

While the people ahead were engaging him head-on, Ye Shijie had silently circled around to Feng Qianzhan's rear.

In the snow, he retreated slowly like a ghost, gradually raised his hand, switched the Frostfall 100 Assault Rifle in his grip to Charge Mode, and quietly fired.

The Assault Rifle in Charge Mode no longer fired explosive physical bullets, but magnetic Charge Energy Beams! These Energy Beams made no sound at all and were unaffected by the strong wind, making them far more accurate than ordinary bullets.

But Feng Qianzhan was indeed a Gene Evolver with Mental Strength Rank B Peak.

At such close range, against such an unpredictable weapon, he still noticed it immediately.

As he was jumping down from the tree in midair, an immense force suddenly erupted within his body. He forcibly shifted half a body's width sideways to the right, evading Ye Shijie's fatal shot! But at the same time, Feng Qianzhan had moved even farther away from the Blood Kirin.

That was precisely one of the squad's objectives.

Yet Ye Shijie still Shook His Head regretfully.

His Frostfall 100 Assault Rifle was an advanced rifle that could switch shooting modes. Besides conventional bullets, it could also fire Charge Energy Beams.

Unfortunately, firing Charge Energy Beams required energy storage.

The energy module he had brought only allowed him to fire once every half hour.

The next shot would require thirty minutes of Energy Storage Time.

Ye Shijie switched his Frostfall 100 Assault Rifle back to conventional mode and fired several more shots at Feng Qianzhan.

Bronze Bullet Casings scattered through the forest, throwing up bursts of sparks.

Step by step, they forced Feng Qianzhan out of the woods.

Though Feng Qianzhan's dodging became increasingly miserable, he still avoided them.

The conventional Submachine Gun bullets did not hit him.

Even the Assault Rifle capable of firing Energy Beams did not hit him!

Xia Chujian, Li Fu, and Song Mingqian had nearly crawled to the edge of the woods by then.

Watching Feng Qianzhan evade those bullets, her eyes grew darker and darker.

"...Is this the ability of an advanced Gene Evolver..." she murmured over the Squad Channel.

In her three years with Dark Night Hunter, she had never truly encountered a Mental Strength Expert like this head-on.

Song Mingqian clicked his tongue enviously. "Yeah, that man is at least Rank B Peak. It feels like he could break through to A-Class at any moment."

"Pah, pah, pah! Watch your mouth! May the bad things not come true and the good things come true!" Ping Qiong repeatedly spat in disgust over the Squad Channel, wishing she could forbid Song Mingqian from speaking.

Everyone knew full well that if that Gene Evolver with Mental Strength Rank B Peak really broke through to A-Class, they would all be finished.

Right now, it was only because all five of them were protected by Ability Defense Helmets that they could barely fight him to a draw.

It could be said that if that man had picked them off one by one, the five of them would have been finished long ago.

Fortunately, he had not realized it yet.

At that moment, Feng Qianzhan's mind was racing as well.

In the blizzard, he hid behind a snowdrift and stared gloomily at the squad in the woods.

He could tell that the other squad should have five people, but only four had appeared. That meant one person was providing long-range support.

But he knew very well how far this place was from their Flying Vehicle.

The Sniper Rifle over there could not shoot this far.

Unless they deployed Micro Missiles.

But if a Micro Missile went off, this entire forest would be destroyed, let alone that delicate Blood Kirin!

So they definitely would not use missiles.

Yet he was a Gene Evolver with Mental Strength Rank B Peak, and his Mental Attack had actually been ineffective against these people. That meant they had defensive measures.

At this moment, Feng Qianzhan did not think his intelligence was wrong.

Judging from the way those people moved through the wind and snow, he could tell that their Gene Evolution Levels were truly low.

And the Ordinary Person without Gene Evolution was even easier to identify.

One only had to look at how they moved through the snow to distinguish them.

It was the one dressed most thickly, round as a ball.

It was also that person who had shot down the Great Tree he had been hiding in just now!

The reason they were unaffected by his Mental Attack had to be some defensive equipment they carried.

Feng Qianzhan observed them for a while, his gaze settling on the Helmets they wore.

He was certain now. It had to be those Helmets.

Feng Qianzhan narrowed his eyes and decided to kill the strongest person in this squad first—the captain with the highest Gene Evolution Level.

The one who had fired that Energy Beam sneak attack at him from behind just now.

In the blink of an eye, Feng Qianzhan fitted his Submachine Gun with an Energy Beam module as well, quietly set it on the snow, switched on automatic mode, and fired wildly into the woods! The same Charge Energy Beams shot out from the Submachine Gun's muzzle!

In the blizzard, the large swirling snowflakes seemed to be cut in half by streaks of golden lightning!

Those lightning streaks surged like a tidal wave and poured into the woods, instantly snapping many Great Trees as well.

Clearly, Feng Qianzhan's Submachine Gun could also switch shooting modes, and it was even far more powerful than Ye Shijie's switchable Assault Rifle! Ye Shijie, who was hiding behind a Great Tree, hurriedly jumped out.

Then a sudden chill ran down the back of his head, and the hairs on his neck stood on end.

It was the instinctive warning of impending mortal danger. Ordinary People had such intuition too, but for Gene Evolvers, that intuition was magnified countless times.

Ye Shijie had no time to think. He threw himself forward, evading the fatal strike from behind! Sure enough, Feng Qianzhan had made a feint in one direction while attacking from another. He had left the fully automatic Submachine Gun behind the snowdrift to fire automatically, while he himself had silently circled around from behind.

Just as Ye Shijie had previously circled behind him, he had circled around in the same way.

But Ye Shijie's vigilance had still saved his life.

Feng Qianzhan's Dagger did not have time to slash open Ye Shijie's throat before Ye Shijie threw himself to the ground.

Feng Qianzhan's Dagger carved an arc through the air and slashed down viciously, but hit nothing.

His expression twisted viciously as the Dagger in his hand was about to strike down again.

Xia Chujian saw it from not far away. In her urgency, she grabbed the heavy Sniper Rifle from her back and pulled the trigger! Bang! A dull gunshot rang beside Feng Qianzhan's ear.

From the direction of the sound, he could tell that the bullet was aimed at the wrist holding his Dagger.

If he continued slashing downward, his wrist would be done for.

Even if he could replace it with a Mechanical Prosthetic Limb later and suffer no impact on ordinary daily life, as a top Assassin, he would lose his true physical advantage.

In that split second, he could only yank his arm back sharply.

He was clearly not fast enough. The bullet still struck the Dagger with a clang! The powerful kinetic force knocked the Dagger from his hand and nearly dislocated Feng Qianzhan's wrist! Just a note: the story will be going premium tomorrow. There will be two updates after it goes premium.

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