Future City
By the time the two of them had retreated to the other end of the carriage, Ox Shield had already split with a long crack. The Train Slayer threw its head back and charged, but Xu Huo had already laid item threads throughout the carriage to stop it. The threads were hooked to the tables and chairs, with a dense web stretched across the aisle. The Train Slayer barreled straight into them, immediately yanking the tables and chairs on both sides up and dragging them toward itself!
A gun that could fire bullets was powerful, but the person holding it couldn't guarantee that every shot would hit its target. Items worked the same way. If the person using an item couldn't keep up with the Train Slayer, small-scale, targeted items couldn't unleash their full potential. So Xu Huo hadn't meant to trap the Train Slayer with this move—he'd wanted to slow it down!
The Non-Knotting Thread did have some effect, but the Train Slayer paid it no mind. It kicked the tables and chairs trailing behind it out of the way, then turned and lunged at Xu Huo and the big man again!
"You're no match for it!" The big man shoved him behind himself and pulled out a flamethrower, blasting the oncoming Train Slayer with fire.
"Bang! Bang!" Two sharp impacts rang out in quick succession from either side of the carriage beneath the flames. The next second, the Train Slayer had already broken free of the item threads and retreated to the front door of the sixth carriage!
Several injured men in suits had been waiting for it. They were in the fifth carriage, and when the Train Slayer entered the Transfer Carriage, one of them tossed out a Bell. It bounced off the floor and