Secret Contract of Thunder Strikes, Killing an Ascetic

Boom, boom, boom— Secret Contract of Thunder struck, killing an Ascetic.

Outside Xianda Feed Factory.

The aftershocks of the battle had begun to reach the buildings inside the factory.

Explosions rang out one after another.

Yu Yuan ignored them. While everyone's attention was elsewhere, he kept repeating the same routine: use Lockpicking, collect supplies, enter the Motel's Master Guest Room, unload the supplies.

When the Master Guest Room was packed full, he piled supplies in the Starry Sky Observatory instead. There was plenty of space there.

Meanwhile, Zhizhi had created more than a dozen Shadow Rats and hidden them in the factory's shadows to watch the battlefield.

As their creator, Zhizhi could see everything they saw.

Yu Yuan was moving fast.

But when he reached the seventeenth Supply Truck, Zhizhi, who had remained merged with his shadow, warned him.

"Master, the fight is over. The two Mechanical Augmenters were defeated, and one Ascetic lost half his body. He's probably dead..."

At Zhizhi's warning, Yu Yuan stowed the last item in the truck.

"What about the black-armored soldiers? And the Tanks and armored vehicles?"

"Master, the Ascetics destroyed the black-armored soldiers and the Tanks. But the two Ascetics left aren't in good shape either. One was caught in a shell blast at close range and lost a hand."

Zhizhi gave him the details quickly.

"They've entered the factory. They're heading toward the convoy..."

Yu Yuan knew he had to act fast.

He stored the locked doorframe from the truck in his Rabbit Ring, took out the No. 15 Steam-Powered Kinetic Sledgehammer from the City of Ruins, and began charging it inside the cargo hold.

By then, the two Ascetics had reached the convoy. The flames and lava that had surged around them had subsided.

But when they looked inside a truck