"Luo Fan, did you figure out how that supernatural entity attacked just now?" Zhao Chunfeng asked Luo Fan, his expression grave.
"All I saw was that supernatural entity passing through someone like an illusory shadow, and then turning them straight into a picture." Luo Fan looked just as grim.
If they could not figure out how it attacked, there was naturally no question of blocking it.
What was more, this supernatural entity killed people instantly.
Luo Fan would rather die than go anywhere near something so dangerous.
Who knew whether he would turn into a two-dimensional picture too if he approached and it passed through him?
Sometimes, supernatural entities simply had abilities that defied all reason.
"What the hell are you? I'll smash you to pieces."
Aside from Luo Fan with his assassination sequence, Niu Dagang with his melee sequence was the only other person in the convoy capable of fighting.
Seeing the paper-thin supernatural entity instantly kill a survivor, Niu Dagang raised the iron rod in his hand and charged straight at it.
Damn, Brother Niu really is brave, Luo Fan marveled inwardly as he watched Niu Dagang move.
Niu Dagang raised his hand, immense power gathering around his iron rod, and brought it down hard on the supernatural entity.
He had activated his Heavy Strike skill straight away.
Yet the supernatural entity floated in midair like a sheet of paper. As Heavy Strike came crashing down, stirring the air, it slipped past the iron rod by the narrowest of margins.
The iron rod missed it and slammed into the ground, scattering dirt and smashing open a large crater.
Niu Dagang reacted quickly. He kicked the iron rod, using the force to swing it back up, and smashed it toward the supernatural entity again.
But the supernatural entity floated in the air as though no force could act upon it. No matter how Niu Dagang attacked, he could not so much as touch it.
What did that feel like? It was like accidentally dropping a tiny piece of eggshell into an egg while cracking it, then trying to pinch it out with your fingers, only for it to keep slipping between them.
Bang!
A gunshot rang out. Zhao Chunfeng had drawn his pistol too and fired at the supernatural entity.
Thin as paper, the supernatural entity looked so fragile that seemingly any attack could destroy it.
Yet it actually dodged both Niu Dagang's iron rod and Zhao Chunfeng's bullets.
If they attacked slowly, it dodged slowly. If they attacked quickly, it dodged quickly.
In short, it seemed impossible to touch no matter what they did.
Apparently realizing that Niu Dagang and the others' attacks were ineffective against it, the supernatural entity suddenly stopped dodging and lunged at Niu Dagang.
"Brother Niu, watch out!" Luo Fan hurriedly shouted at the sight.
The survivor earlier had turned into a two-dimensional image only after this supernatural entity lunged at him and passed through his body.
Niu Dagang clearly understood how dangerous this supernatural entity was too. Seeing it lunge at him, he reflexively hurled the iron rod in his hand.
At the same time, he threw himself aside and rolled across the ground.
This time, the attacking supernatural entity did not dodge the iron rod, but the rod passed straight through its body.
Then the iron rod immediately became a two-dimensional image projected onto the ground.
"Even objects, not just living people, can be reduced to two dimensions?" Zhao Chunfeng gasped in shock as he watched even Niu Dagang's iron rod turn into a two-dimensional image.
"Brother Zhao, it looks like there's a time restriction on this supernatural entity's attacks."
Luo Fan spoke up, telling Zhao Chunfeng, "If it could turn everything that passed through its body into two dimensions, why did it dodge your attacks and Brother Niu's just now?"
Huh? That makes sense!
Zhao Chunfeng's eyes brightened slightly at Luo Fan's analysis.
Yes, if it could use this ability to turn anything into two dimensions without restriction, why had it dodged earlier? Couldn't it simply lunge at them and turn any attack that landed on it into two dimensions?
"But even so, what difference does that make?"
"When it isn't attacking, we can't hit it at all."
"Are we supposed to just keep dodging its attacks without fighting back?"
"Th-there are at least six hours left until dawn." Although Zhao Chunfeng thought Luo Fan had a point, after thinking it over, he felt that even realizing this would not be much help.
As the saying went, any defense would eventually fail. Constantly dodging was no solution.
Six hours-even if this team of survivors was not wiped out, at least more than half of them would die tonight, wouldn't they?
Known fact: when the supernatural entity attacks, anything that passes through its body becomes two-dimensional.
Known fact: when it isn't attacking, it dodges attacks.
Conclusion: it can only be hurt when it isn't attacking.
Question: how can we successfully hit it when it isn't attacking? It seems to dodge every physical attack.
Luo Fan's thoughts raced as he frantically searched for a way to deal with it.
"Wh-what do we do now?" Even someone as reckless as Niu Dagang did not dare approach that supernatural entity now that he had no weapon. He retreated to them, looking deeply frustrated.
Judging by its abilities, this supernatural entity seemed to counter him completely.
With other supernatural entities, either he could beat them or he could not. If he was simply not strong enough, there was nothing to say about it.
But this supernatural entity before him was thin as paper and looked extremely fragile, yet it left him with absolutely no way to use all his strength.
Having just used its ability once to turn the iron rod two-dimensional, the supernatural entity hovered in midair.
Seeing that Niu Dagang and the others had no intention of attacking again, it showed no intention of striking either. It simply drifted about in midair, clearly waiting to activate its ability again.
"Grab something and throw it when it attacks. It can only use its ability once within a certain period," Zhao Chunfeng said, casually picking a rock up off the ground.
Yes, after turning Niu Dagang's iron rod two-dimensional just now, the supernatural entity's ability seemed to have entered a cooldown period.
In that case, throwing something at it when it lunged head-on should hold it off for a while.
Hearing this, many of the survivors who had fled far away quickly picked things up too.
Whoosh!
The cooldown on the supernatural entity's ability was not long, only a few dozen seconds. It lunged at Niu Dagang again.
Seeing this, Niu Dagang immediately threw the rock in his hand.
Yet just as the supernatural entity was about to pass through the thrown rock, its paper-like body suddenly twisted nimbly, easily dodging the rock hurtling toward it as it continued lunging at Niu Dagang.
It's over!
With nothing left in his hands to throw, Niu Dagang watched the supernatural entity lunge straight at him. His pupils contracted, and despair appeared in his eyes...
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