The first thing he felt was his heart pounding, as though thunder from the heavens had descended into his chest, booming and echoing. It throbbed as if it would tear his ribcage apart, turning all his blood into lava and sending it surging in a feverish rush.
His instantly contracting muscles exploded outward, granting him indescribable strength and speed. Huai Shi raced through the storm and downpour like black ink spreading through the mist.
In that instant of dead silence, thunder rumbled across the heavens once more.
Accompanied by overlapping bursts of gunfire.
The moment Huai Shi leaped out, the mercenaries encircling the area pulled their triggers without hesitation. A crisscrossing web of fire instantly swallowed the boy's shadow.
Even though his path was so bizarre and unpredictable.
Huai Shi only had time to dodge once before every route of escape was sealed off. The machine gun atop the Hummer began rotating again, aiming at the sprinting boy.
The trigger was about to be pulled.
At that instant, a patch of deathly white streaked across everyone's vision.
It was light.
Like liquefied pure silver pouring down as rain, it burst into countless cold flashes of shattering steel, stabbing into everyone's eyes.
It was lightning.
Furious thunder descended from the sky. The Divine Wrath Whip struck the burning vehicle frame, effortlessly smashing apart the blazing flames and sending shattered firelight soaring upward.
Countless tiny electric sparks slithered like snakes, branching out like tree limbs. They greedily licked every inch of nearby metal, leaping between every bullet in the air and illuminating the boy's eyes.
Within that darkness, scarlet light flared.
He saw it.
The churning downpour, the sweeping hurricane, the crisscrossing bullets, the burning flames, the mist surging like ocean tides, and the tightening encirclement.
Everything froze for an instant in