Time seemed to slow at that moment.
The bullet was fired from the top of the skyscraper at a speed slow enough to be seen by the naked eye. It tore through the void, friction with the air leaving a clearly visible trail.
Then, after flying several hundred meters, it drilled bit by bit into the evil creature's chest.
The evil creature seemed to want to dodge.
But in the end, it stood firmly in place like a nail, watching helplessly as the bullet tore through its flesh, which had no skin, and entered its body, carving out a massive cavity along the way.
The process was very slow.
When the bullet reached its back, the cavity in its chest began to close.
But it did not recover completely. A permanent, nonlinear tubular mark remained along the bullet's path.
Pfft!
The evil creature looked like any ordinary person who had been shot. Under the tremendous kinetic force, it staggered backward and slammed heavily into the wall beside it.
Aside from its somewhat outrageous power and range,
the pistol had displayed no additional supernatural effects from firing to impact.
Everything was perfectly normal.
Until...
At the instant the bullet flew out through the evil creature's back, Wang Chen and Gu En, watching from a distance, finally caught sight of something unusual.
They saw a phantom separate from the evil creature's body.
It looked
as though it had been knocked out by the bullet.
Aside from being translucent and seeming somewhat unreal, the phantom was identical to the evil creature in appearance, form, and height.
It was as if... the evil creature's soul had been blasted out of its body!
But did evil creatures even have souls?
Wang Chen and Gu En held their breaths and exchanged a glance, their eyes filled