Amid the ruins of the residential complex, all those thoughts seemed to take a long time to pass through their minds.
In truth, they took no more than a flash of lightning.
At that moment, Luo Feng's killing intent churned and boiled in his chest like magma.
The sudden arrival of Li Wei and his group
had drawn the already delicate atmosphere taut to the breaking point.
Gao Feng and the three Indian warriors who had just fought alongside him, still stained with blood, instantly looked grim.
When his gaze swept over the familiar faces in the Tiger Tooth Squad,
flames almost seemed to burst from Gao Feng's eyes.
He clenched his fists so tightly that his knuckles turned white, forcibly pressing the impulse back down.
The situation was unclear, and powerful enemies surrounded them.
This was no time to settle a personal grudge.
He had to take responsibility for the whole squad and for Luo Feng at his side.
"This is my first time in City 003."
The mixed-race young man, Li Wei, seemed entirely oblivious to the hostility and wariness gathering in everyone's eyes.
He still wore that seemingly easygoing but condescending smile.
His tone was casual, but it carried an unquestionable possessiveness.
"This prey looks pretty good. It's mine. You lot-"
His gaze swept over Gao Feng, Luo Feng, and the three foreign warriors.
As though shooing away a few inconsequential mosquitoes,
"You can leave."
"Anyone who dares steal our prey dies!"
When the bald, muscular man leading the three foreign warriors heard that,
his bronze face flushed red.
He spoke in awkward Chinese, his words brimming with anger.
His eyes gleamed savagely, like those of an enraged beast.
His two companions immediately stepped forward in unison.
The three sides faced off in the open space amid the ruins, where blood and dust filled the air.
Swords were drawn and crossbows cocked; even the air seemed to have frozen.
Just then,
"Whoosh!"
A piercing rush of air tore through the brief silence!
Luo Feng, who had been silent all this time, finally made his move!
Without warning, he erupted into action!
The already cracked concrete beneath Luo Feng's feet exploded into a small crater.
Using the recoil, he shot into the sky like a cannonball!
At the same time, persuaded by Lin Mo, Luo Feng no longer concealed the fact that he was a Spirit Reader.
A vast, boundless surge of Spiritual Force, invisible and intangible yet enough to make souls tremble,
erupted without the slightest restraint!
"What? A Spirit Reader!"
Everyone present, except Gao Feng, who had known all along,
felt towering waves rise in their hearts!
Their faces filled with incredulous shock.
Spirit Readers were a special kind of warrior, their combat power often crushing that of ordinary warriors at the same level!
Cold light flashed in the air.
Several flying knives, thin as cicada wings and edged with icy glints,
shot out like streaks of deadly light, guided with precision by invisible Spiritual Force!
They were far faster than bullets from ordinary firearms.
Their passage through the air produced a piercing shriek!
They did not fly straight ahead, but moved like living vipers,
tracing deadly arcs through the air that were almost impossible to follow with the naked eye.
They curved around any possible obstructions and locked with unerring precision onto the four Tiger Tooth Squad members other than Zhang Zehu and Captain Pan Ya!
The faces of those four members were instantly overtaken by boundless terror and bewilderment.
They felt only the faintest trace of cold at their throats.
Then searing pain and suffocation surged into their brains like a tsunami!
They had barely begun to block or dodge before their movements froze in midair.
Warm blood was already spurting uncontrollably from their necks.
All four clutched their wildly bleeding throats at once, their eyes wide and round.
Those eyes were filled with fear of death and incredulous despair.
Rasping like broken bellows, they staggered
and crumpled painfully to the ground like felled wooden stakes.
Their bodies still twitched slightly from reflexes as blood quickly dyed the ground beneath them red.
From Luo Feng's sudden attack to the flying knives taking their lives, it had all happened in the span of a few breaths!
Only when the four fell, stunned and unwilling to accept their fate,
did the others recover from their shock and realize what had happened.
Luo Feng himself gripped the Blood Shadow Battle Blade tightly in both hands.
Its blade reflected the cold daylight as he brought it crashing down toward his old enemy, Zhang Zehu!
Before the blade reached him, Zhang Zehu's survival instinct erupted at the critical moment.
He tried to resist, but-
Luo Feng was too fast!
Zhang Zehu's attempt to block froze completely, and his entire body was cleaved in two!
Clean and decisive, ruthless and merciless!
"Protect the young master!"
At that moment, the elderly man beside Li Wei, who had remained silent all along, reacted with astonishing speed.
His pupils contracted sharply, and he let out a low shout that rumbled like muffled thunder.
Before his shout had faded, he exchanged a glance with a muscular white man.
The white man scooped up Li Wei around the waist; Li Wei was still somewhat dazed, the smile not yet completely gone from his face.
He kicked off hard, leaving spiderweb cracks in the solid ground.
The two shot back dozens of meters in an instant, as though launched from a giant ballista.
They were far from the center of the battlefield.
The elderly man's figure flickered slightly.
He moved in front of the Tiger Tooth Squad's sole survivor, whose legs had gone weak with fright
and who had nearly collapsed to the ground: Captain Pan Ya.
His withered, diminutive body stood there like an insurmountable, invisible wall.
A cold, viscous, and dangerous aura spread through the air.
His cloudy old eyes now shone with piercing light as they fixed firmly on the blade-wielding
Luo Feng, who was drenched in blood and radiated murderous menace.
After killing Zhang Zehu with one stroke, Luo Feng landed steadily, stirring a little dust beneath his feet.
The Blood Shadow Battle Blade pointed diagonally at the ground. Crimson drops gathered slowly along its chilling edge before falling.
He did not even look at the shaken Li Wei, who had been carried away into the distance.
His icy gaze was like a pair of boning knives tempered in a frozen spring,
passing over the withered old man blocking his path
and stabbing straight at Pan Ya, whose eyes were unfocused and whose will to fight had long since vanished.
There was only the purest killing intent in that gaze,
and the cold satisfaction of knowing his great vengeance was about to be fulfilled.
"Out of my way!"
Luo Feng's voice was not loud, but everyone present heard him clearly.
"It's the Tiger Tooth Squad I'm here to kill. If you dare stand in my way-"
Luo Feng turned his wrist slightly, and the Blood Shadow Battle Blade gave a soft hum.
"I'll kill you too."
The air seemed to freeze completely under the sudden bloody slaughter and Luo Feng's icy words.
Only the thick stench of blood spread silently through the ruins.
Hearing Luo Feng's bone-chilling declaration and its clearly stated target,
the old man standing in front of Pan Ya relaxed his taut nerves almost imperceptibly.
The needle-sharp hostility quietly faded from his cloudy old eyes, though they still gleamed.
In its place came appraisal and calculation.
As long as the young master was not this harbinger of death's target, everything could be discussed.
His duty was to protect Li Wei.
As for whether the Tiger Tooth Squad lived or died, what did that have to do with him?
They were merely temporary allies, each working for their own reward.
He turned his head slightly and glanced from the corner of his eye at Pan Ya behind him, who had gone limp as mud, all color drained from his face.