Skinny Chen's fingers flew across the detector's encrypted channel, cold sweat mixed with black ash sliding down his face.
"Fang Gang, we're in deep trouble! Three billion Blue Star Coins! The entire global dark web has exploded! Those bastards from Nightmarish have put your bald-head feature up brighter than neon signs!"
He shoved the detector screen in front of Fang Gang's face. The scarlet bounty notice and the close-up of that brilliantly shining bald head were painfully glaring.
Fang Gang leaned against an icy steel-reinforced pillar, glanced at the bounty notice, and curled his lip. "Bald head? Nice. Saves them from mistaking someone else for me."
Before he could finish speaking—
Bzzz—!
The detector let out a piercing alarm!
The red dots representing high-speed energy signatures swarmed toward the subway entrance where they were hiding from every direction like a disturbed hornet's nest! They were far faster than Flying Zombies!
"They're here! So fast! Three hundred meters southwest, two of them! Energy readings... spellcasters! And... modified bodies?!" Skinny Chen's voice cracked.
Whoosh! Whoosh!
Two streaks of light tore through the night sky and appeared above the subway entrance ruins in an instant!
The man on the left had blond hair and blue eyes. He wore a skintight combat suit and held a short alloy staff crackling with electric arcs. Three energy rune shields floated around him, and his gaze was cold and arrogant.
On the right stood a silent giant nearly three meters tall. His exposed metal prosthetics glinted with an eerie blue light, half his face covered by mechanical armor. His pupils glowed icy red as they scanned below.
"Target located! Bald-head feature confirmed! Energy fluctuations match the description of severe injuries! Commence elimination!"
The blond man declared in stiff Chinese. Pointing his short staff, he unleashed three pale