He Tried to Run, But Couldn't

At this moment, the rhythm of the Wilderness People's attack on the camp was disrupted.

They were not skilled soldiers to begin with; they were just a bunch of low-level bandits from the wilderness.

This group of Wilderness People originally planned to sneak into all the tents, take control of the Qin Family, and then kill Li Shutong and Qing Chen.

But this unexpected turn of events ruined Zhang Tongdan's plan.

The old hunter from Qin Cheng had spotted their movements in advance, and beneath that honest-looking face lay no lamb to be slaughtered.

Gunfire erupted in the woods, all simultaneously focusing on Li Shutong's tent, riddling it with bullets!

Zhang Tongdan bent down and circled around, like a scavenging jackal eyeing its prey.

He growled menacingly from the shadows of the woods, "The Qin Family members better stay put in their tents, or don't blame me for being ruthless. I'll settle accounts with you later!"

As he spoke, he slowly approached Li Shutong's tent and gave his men a wink.

However, when the subordinate lifted the curtain, he found the room empty. "Boss, nobody's here!"

"Damn it, we've been tricked!" Zhang Tongdan jumped to his feet, looking around but finding no one he was looking for. "Where is he?"

The dozen or so Wilderness People in the woods also hurriedly searched around, but found nothing.

Are you looking for me?

A voice sounded from behind a Wilderness People.

The campfire in the camp suddenly blazed up, illuminating the woods under the night sky like a richly colored oil painting.

The Wilderness People turned around and saw Li Shutong smilingly extending a finger and pointing it at his chest.

This middle-aged man in a windbreaker seemed to be moving very slowly, but for some reason, he felt like he couldn't avoid it.

The instant your fingers touched the Wilderness People's sternum.

Without a sound, before the Wilderness People could react, he was slammed into a tree trunk behind him like a cannonball.

The strangest thing is that no sound was made when the human body collided with the tree trunk.

The Wilderness People slowly slid down the tree trunk, seemingly defying the laws of physics.

Hitting someone is like hanging a painting, or like a gentle rain that falls silently.

The finger struck with overwhelming force, but during the battle, only the sound of falling leaves could be heard—this was very strange.

Everyone heard the rustling sound of falling leaves and looked back at the spot where the Wilderness People had been standing. There were only fallen leaves scattered everywhere, and Li Shutong was nowhere to be seen.

In the darkness, Zhang Tongdan could hear nothing, but he could see his men hanging from tree trunks and slowly dying.

Every time he heard the sound of falling leaves and turned to check on his men, all he could see were the leaves shaken off as they flew backward.

The woods surrounding the camp seemed to be suddenly hit by a torrential downpour.

The person cannot be found, the voice cannot be heard, the leaves never stop falling.

And there was a campfire that kept flickering.

Strange.

Mystery.

Powerful.

Zhang Tongdan was terrified. Taking advantage of the moment when one of his men died on the other side, he turned and ran into the woods.

Inside the camp, Qin Cheng Qin Tong had already picked up their weapons and were using pickup trucks as cover as they carefully observed their surroundings.

When they heard a burst of gunfire, they knew it was all over.

There were no sounds of fighting, no screams, so Qin Cheng assumed that Li Shutong had died in that concentrated fire.

The middle-aged man and the boy have probably already been murdered.

Their focus was no longer on saving lives, but on how to deal with Zhang Tongdan's impending attack.

However, reality was somewhat different from what they had imagined. Although they did not hear any sounds of battle, the problem was that the men Zhang Tongdan brought did not come to attack them.

It's as if it has disappeared.

"Dad, what's going on?" Qin Tong asked in a low voice.

Qin Cheng lowered his voice and said, "Zhang Tongdan is greedy and has broken the rules. He took the toll and still dared to attack us. They're after that father and son, but they definitely won't let us leave alive. Otherwise, if his boss finds out, he'll be dead too."

"So what do we do now?" Qin Tong asked.

"You and your brothers guard these two cars. I'll go check them out," Qin Cheng said, preparing to sneak over in the chaos. But then he suddenly asked, "Where's your sister? Where's Yi Yi?"

Qin Cheng looked around and saw Qin Yiyi crawling on the ground with a pistol in her mouth, heading towards Qing Chen's tent.

"What a tragedy!" Qin Cheng said with great distress.

As soon as he finished speaking, the old man sensed that something was wrong.

Because a single footstep could be heard coming from the woods.

He looked up and was surprised to see Li Shutong, dressed neatly, emerge from the shadows of the woods and step back into the light and shadow of the campfire.

Li Shutong said with a smile, "It's resolved. There were more people than I expected, so it took a little longer to resolve."

Qin Cheng, Qin Tong, and the others stared blankly at the middle-aged man, exchanging bewildered glances.

Is it resolved?

Is that all?

Previously, when they saw that Li Shutong was unwilling to meet with the Autumn Hunt Convoy, they thought he was just a C-Class lone wolf with no connection to the conglomerate. Now it seems that he may have the strength of B-Class.

Looking out of the camp, Qin Cheng could still see some corpses of Wilderness People sitting against tree trunks by the light and shadow of the campfire.

Old man Qin Cheng gave Qin Tong a wink.

However, Qin Tong, under the pretext of checking the surroundings, approached the corpse to examine its wounds.

"That's strange," Qin Tong noticed that these people had no wounds at all, as if they had just fallen asleep. There was no blood coming out of their seven orifices, so it seemed that they had not suffered any internal injuries and their organs had not ruptured.

Qin Tong even felt that these people were not dead, but just asleep.

However, when he reached out to touch the corpse's carotid artery to see if the person was truly dead, he found that the person in front of him collapsed like a lump of mud as soon as he touched him.

Qin Tong squeezed the other person's arm, and the bones inside shattered into pieces.

He suddenly turned to look at Li Shutong by the campfire. How did he do that?!

As she spoke, Qin Yiyi got up and ran to Qing Chen's tent. She lifted the curtain, only to find it empty. The boy had disappeared at some point!

"Where is Xiao Tu?" Qin Yiyi asked Li Shutong.

"Oh, I left one for him to practice on. He should be blocking their escape route," Li Shutong said casually, seemingly not worried about Qing Chen's safety at all.

Outside the woods, gunshots suddenly rang out in the distance, followed by the sound of dragging something slowly approaching.

It looked like something heavy was being dragged along the ground.

All eyes turned to see Qing Chen grabbing Zhang Tongdan by the collar and dragging him back.

The boy's face was covered in blood, which appeared somewhat crimson in the firelight. There were bullet holes on the side of his jacket, but they only grazed past him and did not hit his body.

Zhang Tongdan's head drooped to the side, and blood was gushing from his neck; he was clearly dead.

"He tried to run away, but he couldn't," Qing Chen said succinctly.

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