Seeing the deer charging toward him, Luo Fan ignored the aching numbness in his arms and immediately retreated at full speed with Spirit Void Step active.
Whoosh!
Under the moonlight, Luo Fan's figure resembled a ghostly shadow, moving over a hundred meters away in the blink of an eye.
At Lv6, Luo Fan's all-out sprint with Spirit Void Step had already exceeded 100 kilometers per hour. Now at Lv9, he was even faster at full speed.
Although the deer was a Ranked Fierce Beast, catching Luo Fan sprinting flat out with Spirit Void Step active was no easy task in terms of sheer speed.
After leading the deer in a circle along the lakeside, Luo Fan ran over to Niu Dagang.
Understanding why Luo Fan had come to him, Niu Dagang drew a deep breath, stepped directly in front of Luo Fan, and met the beast head-on.
Luo Fan retreated several dozen meters farther and glanced at Rose. Missiles flew from her hands toward the Fierce Beast one after another.
Yet the Fierce Beast did not seem willing to spare her so much as a glance.
"Looks like ranged damage is still up to me."
With a helpless sigh, Luo Fan willed the enhanced Twin-Eye Bow out of his Storage Space.
He already knew the price of using the Twin-Eye Bow: every so often, it would temporarily blind both his eyes. Luo Fan felt that was a price he could accept.
He nocked an arrow and drew the bowstring all the way back. After replacing the string with python sinew, drawing the bow required greater strength.
But that also meant its killing power and range had increased.
The pair of Wraith Eyes on the bow opened, locking firmly onto the Fierce Beast.
Then Luo Fan released the bowstring.
Whoosh.
The arrow flashed through the moonlit air, followed immediately by a cry of pain. It struck the Fierce Beast squarely, biting deep into its bone.
After all, the Twin-Eye Bow had been enhanced, and this deer's defenses could not compare to those of the black bear protected by a shell earlier. The Twin-Eye Bow's killing power was therefore quite impressive.
The wounded Fierce Beast turned its head, staring at Luo Fan with eyes full of hatred.
"Aaaah!!!"
Niu Dagang clung desperately to the Fierce Beast's neck, using every ounce of strength to hold it back and give Luo Fan an opening to attack.
Although his strength could not match the Fierce Beast's, Niu Dagang hung from its neck with all his might, bracing both legs hard against the ground and gouging two long tracks into it.
The deer's pace slowed to that of an old tortoise.
Naturally, Luo Fan would not waste the time Niu Dagang was fighting desperately to buy him. He drew his bow again, locked on, and released.
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!
Only the time the Wraith Eyes needed to lock onto the target limited him to roughly one arrow every two or three seconds. Several arrows in succession all struck the Fierce Beast.
The final arrow pierced straight through the deer's skull.
With that headshot, the deer let out a wretched cry and collapsed to the ground. After struggling a few times, it stopped breathing.
Phew...
With the deer shot dead, the somewhat exhausted Niu Dagang slumped onto his backside, panting like an ox.
"Tsk, tsk. The upgraded Twin-Eye Bow really is powerful. It can even shoot a Ranked Fierce Beast dead. This destructive power must rival a firearm, right?"
Luo Fan also let out a long sigh of relief, admiring the Twin-Eye Bow in his hands, reluctant to put it down.
"It... it's dead already?" Rose said in stunned surprise.
To survivors, Fierce Beasts that had entered the rank were the very definition of nightmares. How many convoys had been wiped out after encountering Ranked Fierce Beasts?
Yet by working together, the few of them had actually killed one so easily?
Although they had expended a great deal of effort, they had suffered no casualties throughout the battle. Surely this counted as an easy, overwhelming victory?
"We have two Lv10s here and one Lv9. Working together, with an Uncanny Artifact to help us, it makes perfect sense that we could kill a Ranked Fierce Beast."
Seeing Rose's stunned expression, Luo Fan spoke. Clearly, she had yet to fully make the transition from survivor to Sequence User.
The Hope Convoy was no longer what it had been when they encountered the Fire Rotbird on that rainy night.
Back then, Niu Dagang, a Lv8 Melee Sequence user, had been the only person in the Hope Convoy with any real fighting strength.
"Brother Zhao's Divination gave an ominous result. I never expected us to take it down without a single casualty."
Although she felt Luo Fan had a point, Rose still spoke with a sigh of emotion.
His heart lurched.
At Rose's words, Luo Fan's heart suddenly lurched, and he reflexively shouted, "No, that's not right!"
"What's wrong, Luo Fan?" Seeing his sudden, intense reaction, Niu Dagang and the others looked at him in surprise.
"Taking down this Fierce Beast without anyone getting hurt is certainly good news, but it really doesn't match Brother Zhao's divination," Luo Fan said, tightening his grip on the Twin-Eye Bow.
Could it be...?
At Luo Fan's reaction, Niu Dagang and Rose both felt their hearts tighten as they realized something.
"Heeheehee~"
A burst of giggling rang out without warning.
Under the moonlight, with everyone's nerves stretched taut, that giggling made their skin crawl.
Luo Fan and the others looked toward the sound and saw a little girl walk out of the woods beside the lake.
The little girl's face was deathly pale, and she wore pitch-black clothes. Most terrifying of all were her enormous eye sockets. No eyeballs could be seen, only huge, empty hollows.
She also held a balloon that looked like a bomb.
A Weird!
Looking at the little girl who had emerged, Luo Fan's heart lurched. With that appearance, she was undoubtedly a Weird.
Striking first gave him the advantage. Luo Fan immediately drew his Twin-Eye Bow, and the Wraith Eyes opened, swiftly attempting to lock onto the Weird that resembled a little girl.
Normally, locking on took only about two seconds. This time, however hard the Wraith Eyes tried, they could not complete the lock.
"Heeheehee..." The little-girl Weird looked at Luo Fan and the others, the corners of her mouth lifting as she let out an eerie, chilling laugh.
"Come play with me~" the Weird said. Her voice sounded like a steel needle scraping across sheet iron, making goosebumps rise all over their bodies.
"We're done for. A rule-type Weird!?"
Hearing the little-girl Weird actually speak, Luo Fan's heart sank completely.
Weirds varied greatly, but if there was one type that inspired the most terror, it was the rule-type Weird.
He remembered Zhao Chunfeng bringing them up during one of their earlier chats.
Although most Weirds were terrifying and even possessed abilities that completely defied scientific reason, they could still be slain if you were strong enough.
Rule-type Weirds were different. Each had its own set of rules, and could only be killed within those rules.
The most distinctive trait of rule-type Weirds was their ability to speak!
And being able to speak meant they possessed intelligence. Only the Weird knew its own rules, and it was intelligent as well. Trying to kill it within its rules was practically as difficult as reaching the heavens.
Who would have thought they would encounter a rule-type Weird like this today?
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