Bang!
A bullet shot from the barrel of the [Tiger Hunt-X1] sniper rifle in a burst of flame.
The gunshot echoed throughout the floor.
Blood sprayed from the chest of the Killer Player who had been beating Lawless, and he fell onto his back.
Qin Ran froze.
He had fired only to stop the man. He had never expected a single shot to do the job.
Something was wrong!
The thought rose instinctively from the depths of Qin Ran's mind.
"Quick, run!"
The broken words came from Lawless, who hung suspended in the air.
Covered in wounds, Lawless struggled to turn his head and look at Qin Ran on the stairs.
"Run! Run!"
He repeated the warning.
"Heh, hahahaha..."
"That's right, run!"
"Otherwise, just like this ungrateful bastard, I'll beat you black and blue, then throw you down from here like that poor fellow before!"
Amid a voice as shrill as metal scraping against metal, the Killer Player who had been shot rose straight up from the floor.
He neither pushed himself up with his hands nor bent at the waist.
Without changing his prone posture, he simply rose upright, as though a pair of invisible hands were supporting him from behind.
What drew Qin Ran's attention even more, however, was the person who appeared behind him.
It was a woman in a golden dress.
Although her golden dress was striking, someone so frail and utterly lacking in presence would normally have been beneath notice.
Provided, of course, that she was not floating in midair with three crystal balls of different colors hovering around her.
The mystery side!
Qin Ran's heart tightened.
The three crystal balls, glowing white, blue, and red, revolved around the woman like planets around the sun.
They rotated slowly enough for Qin Ran to see the