Counterattack

"Bang!"

A bullet hit the tree trunk, grazing Lan Mu's tail and taking a few tufts of white fur with it.

"They're targeting me!"

"The distance is too far for Charm, and my speed is too slow. Damn it!"

Lan Mu dodged left and right, hiding behind a tree.

Soon, the sound of a helicopter could be heard in the sky again, also from a distance.

He would have to climb to the very top of the canopy to Charm the pilot.

But after the headshot just now, he didn't dare to take the risk again, as he wasn't sure if he had a second chance to cheat death.

"Footsteps!"

Lan Mu pricked up his ears. Even amidst the noisy rotors, he could still hear a large group of people approaching, and they were very close!

"How far are they? Damn it, not having any perception ability is such a disadvantage."

Suddenly, a beam of light shone on him. Almost simultaneously, Lan Mu shot out like a white arrow, and moments later, the sound of bullets hitting trees echoed behind him.

"They're really showing no mercy..."

He, a White Nine-tailed Fox, weaved rapidly through the jungle, pursued by numerous police officers wielding flashlights.

The trees around him grew thicker and thicker. He didn't know how deep into the jungle he had run. The ancient landscape with its large, deep-rooted trees made it harder to move, and the pursuers clearly slowed down.

"There's no path here at all. They can't catch me now..."

Realizing the police were gradually falling behind, Lan Mu breathed a sigh of relief and found a tree hollow to crawl into.

There was a nest of rabbits in the tree hollow. After Lan Mu Charmed them, they remained quiet.

"About ten minutes left? I don't remember. I'll wait."

The tree hollow was large. Lan Mu coiled his tails around himself and settled down, hiding in the darkness.

After about ten minutes, a group of police officers arrived nearby, walking hurriedly ahead.

Lan Mu listened quietly. Suddenly, one of the policemen spoke in a torrent of words. Lan Mu couldn't understand the local language and didn't know if they had discovered him.

Suddenly, a flashlight shone into the tree hollow. Lan Mu was startled and then saw a policeman poke his head into the hollow and spot Lan Mu.

Lan Mu instinctively activated Charm, but he didn't want the policeman to become infatuated with him. By accident, he unleashed a completely different illusion.

The policeman glanced at the Nine-tailed Fox wrapped in its tails, his expression calm. He then looked at the docile rabbits. He chattered a few words to the outside and then left, as if he hadn't seen the Nine-tailed Fox.

"Did I use something other than Charm just now? Some kind of visual deception?"

When Lan Mu used Charm, he instinctively made people see what they desired most, what they were most fascinated by. However, just now, he had turned himself into a rabbit in the policeman's eyes, an ordinary rabbit.

The policeman looked at him as if it were normal and left calmly, completely deceived by the illusion.

Lan Mu heard the group of policemen walk away. He remained hidden in the tree hollow and picked up a stone to test it.

His second tail flickered, and the stone turned into gold in Lan Mu's eyes.

"It seems to be purely visual deception. The gold is fake; it shouldn't fool instruments. It can only create the illusion that 'this is gold'."

Lan Mu turned the stone into gold, then bread, then diamonds, and even banknotes.

"But in the end, it's only visual deception. It doesn't hide the feel at all; it still feels rough like a stone."

Touching the hundred-yuan banknotes, which felt as hard and rough as stone, Lan Mu chuckled to himself.

"What? You couldn't find him? You lost him?"

"My brothers have gone deep into the jungle, but we've completely lost the fox's tracks."

"Useless! We deployed the entire city's police force and found nothing. How can I explain this to the citizens tomorrow? We must catch the culprit today, no matter what, or you and I will both submit our resignations!"

"Minister, why don't we just arrest someone to take the blame? Then we can continue the investigation slowly?"

"Hmm? What about the fox? The media and that Professor Rabbin are both focusing their attention on the fox now. Damn Rabbin, he keeps promoting the existence of fox spirits, putting us in a very passive position. The citizens are foolish too, actually believing in a Nine-tailed Fox?"

"But the sniper told me that fox had nine tails, and he watched it get shot in the head, only for its head to regenerate..."

"Heh, if he didn't hit it, he didn't hit it. Your subordinate is too dishonest!"

The police officer said anxiously, "No, Minister... he... Forget it, the Minister is right."

The officer realized it was too unbelievable and dared not question the Minister.

The Minister said with satisfaction, "It's decided then... Go buy a fox quickly! Since the public wants to see a fox, we'll show them a fox! And the culprit! We can't actually use a fox to take the blame; the judge won't believe it."

"Yes!"

The police conducted a massive search, expending a lot of manpower, but found nothing.

Not only did they fail to find the nonexistent criminal, but they also didn't catch the fox.

To provide an explanation for the media and the public, they sent people to Kuala Lumpur to find someone to take the blame.

While searching for individuals with prior records, a police officer suddenly discovered someone who was a perfect fit to take the fall.

"Officer, look quickly! This person lives in the suburbs, and he's a Chinese national from Malai. He lives alone, works at a Chinese circus, and has a simple background with a prior record for fighting."

"The most crucial thing is, he keeps a fox at the circus!"

After hearing his subordinate's report, the police officer was overjoyed. He carefully reviewed the information on the man named Li Wei and immediately made a decision.

"It's him! Arrest him on suspicion of murder! Include the fox, arrest them all!"

Hundreds of police officers found nothing and, upon receiving orders to withdraw, had no choice but to return.

As they left, no one noticed a ferocious beast lurking at the top of a tree.

Its blood-red eyes glared at the crowd, searching for those carrying sniper rifles.

"Found you..."

This ferocious beast was the White-haired Lion. As soon as Lan Mu's forced transformation into the Nine-tailed Fox ended, he transformed into a Hunter and stealthily approached.

He caught up with the retreating police and finally found the snipers.

There were six snipers in total, a special squad. They walked together, chatting and laughing.

"I swear, I definitely hit that fox! A direct headshot, I saw it with my own eyes. At a hundred meters, I couldn't have been wrong!"

"Of course, I believe you. We found its bloodstains and brain matter at the scene, yet it managed to escape unharmed. This is too bizarre."

"Do you think monsters really exist in this world?"

"Even if there are demons and monsters, they can only tremble under the might of the True Lord."

"Yes, the True Lord is omnipotent."

Lan Mu couldn't understand the snipers' conversation. He locked onto the six men carrying sniper rifles, unsure which one had shot him in the head.

However, he knew all six snipers had definitely participated in the previous chase.

"If I weren't a Nine-tailed Fox, if the Nine-tailed Fox didn't have a one-time 'die for me' chance, I would have died already."

Lan Mu shuddered at the thought. Dying miserably in a foreign land was simply unbearable.

"Since you wanted to kill me."

"Don't blame me..."

"The hunt has begun!"

The sniper squad followed the main police force to the edge of the jungle. Suddenly, a sniper at the very back had his chest pierced, a sharp claw penetrating his torso.

The perpetrator vanished in the blink of an eye. When his companions looked back, he was already lying on the ground, covered in blood, twitching for a moment before dying.

"Ah!"

They cried out in shock upon seeing a comrade suddenly die, and in such a gruesome manner.

Nearby police officers looked over, their faces pale.

"What happened?"

"Who ambushed us?"

"These are claw marks! It must be a wild beast!"

As they panicked, a white shadow appeared behind another sniper, and a claw directly pierced his chest from behind.

The white shadow flashed and disappeared quickly.

"Monster!"

"It's a monster!"

Many police officers witnessed this scene. The white shadow looked like a monster, appearing and disappearing suddenly, sending chills down everyone's spine.

Lan Mu killed two more, vanishing stealthily after each ambush. He was now elusive, killing in an instant without leaving a trace.

"Squelch!"

The Hunter leaped out again, instantly killing two more on the left and right, both ambushes, one hit kills!

"Ghosts!"

The police were terrified. The enemy could turn invisible, and no one knew when or from where they would suddenly attack.

Most of the police fled in terror, wanting to leave the jungle as quickly as possible because it was too dangerous.

Lan Mu had eliminated four men, leaving two snipers. However, they had learned their lesson and were now fleeing amidst the crowd, as if using other police officers as shields.

"I almost fell into your hands... Heh..."

"Run!"

"Let's hunt together tonight!"