Killing the White-tailed Kite, Lawrence the Human Torso

Yu Yuan wanted to shoot it again, but he had less than ten seconds before landing. He had to keep his posture steady.

He could not take his hands off the brake lines.

But the White-tailed Kite had already flown up to him. It tucked its wings behind its body, extended both talons, and lunged to seize him.

The talons were about to pierce Yu Yuan's body.

Yu Yuan drew a sharp breath and pulled the right brake line all the way down. The right side of the canopy slowed at once while the left kept moving. The imbalance tilted the canopy, whipping him to the right around its right side as a vertical axis. He dodged the White-tailed Kite's talons by a hair.

The White-tailed Kite swept past him just a few meters away. The powerful rush of air threw his canopy off balance.

Once clear of danger, Yu Yuan released the brake line and kept adjusting the left and right lines until his swaying body steadied. He had narrowly avoided spiraling downward at low altitude.

He was still forty-three meters above the ground.

At that height, Yu Yuan no longer dared make any risky moves.

But after missing its first strike, the White-tailed Kite beat its wings again and turned toward him.

Yu Yuan focused every ounce of attention on it, ready to fight for his life.

Bang—

The distinctive crack of a sniper rifle rang out a hundred meters away.

Yu Yuan's heart jolted.

Where did that sniper come from?

The thought had barely flashed through his mind when blood sprayed from the White-tailed Kite's neck.

Someone was helping him!

He immediately looked toward the gunshot. On a building a hundred meters away, a figure lowered his sniper rifle.

Noticing Yu Yuan's gaze, the man gave a