Squelch!
Two dull impacts overlapped within almost the same millisecond.
In the middle of the street, the Skrull about to snap the little girl's neck and his companion standing guard beside him with a gun both shuddered violently.
A Plum Blossom Dart was now embedded deep in the center of each of their foreheads, sunk into the skull with only one corner exposed!
The hidden force clinging to the weapons exploded the instant they pierced their skulls, churning the brains of the two alien thugs into mush!
"Urgh..."
The two arrogant Skrulls never even managed a scream. The vicious light in their eyes scattered instantly, and their upright bodies toppled straight backward, slamming into the concrete and kicking up a cloud of dust.
The little girl fell to the ground, clutched her neck, and coughed violently before bursting into loud sobs.
Dead silence fell over the scene.
Hundreds of people stared dumbfounded at the two corpses on the ground, green blood seeping from their foreheads, their minds a muddled mess.
Who did it?
A sniper? No, that wasn't right. There hadn't been a gunshot!
Yet in that brief second when the crowd stood stunned, Shang-Chi had already withdrawn his hand in the shadow of the colonnade, pulled his cap lower, and turned to hurry away through the dark back alley. Within a few breaths, he had vanished into the vast night.
He thought he had moved discreetly, without anyone noticing.
But he had clearly underestimated the fervor surrounding this global hunting frenzy, and even more so the all-seeing cameras of a modern metropolis.
On the balcony of a second-floor café less than ten meters from that column, an extreme-sports influencer holding a professional gimbal-mounted camera and livestreaming online happened to sweep his lens across the crowd below.
The frame of