Inside an elegant detached villa in Zone 1.
Black Cat lay on a blanket, staring absently at a long-dried bloodstain on the leather sofa.
It was hard to tell whether he was spacing out or thinking.
Suddenly.
Black Cat's pointed left ear twitched slightly. Then he abruptly raised his head and looked out the window.
"Heh, you actually came to me?"
Black Cat's whiskers twitched, and he was just about to get up.
"Bzzz!!!"
A blazing white light burst through the window into the room, instantly swallowing everything in sight.
The narrow vertical pupils in Black Cat's eyes were instantly engulfed by the light.
Immediately afterward, the various protective tools around the villa proved utterly helpless against the white light, shattering in the blink of an eye.
The light melted the entire house.
Only a moment later did the fierce heat wave spread in all directions, leaving nothing but a deep, smoking crater.
Not far away, on a stretch of flat ground outside Zone 1, five people stood shoulder to shoulder.
Qian Wendao, Olof, Zhu Haifeng, Fan Baoluo, and Qin Siyang.
At the far end, Fan Baoluo lowered a heavy cannon from his shoulder onto the ground. It still glowed red with intense heat, and beads of sweat dotted his forehead.
Beside him, Qin Siyang loaded ammunition artifacts into the cannon like a servant doing odd jobs for Fan Baoluo.
"We're using my tier five trump card right off the bat?" Fan Baoluo wiped the sweat from his forehead and looked at the flattened villa. "This is heavy firepower. Every charge burns through shells made from countless bottles of sequence potion. It's one of my trump cards. Isn't it a waste to use it just to say hello to Ander?"
"A waste?" Zhu Haifeng glanced at him. "Our opponent is