The Pursuit X Counterattack X Devouring Aura

He dodged a burst of bullets by sidestepping to the side, then activated Shadow Stealth again, sliding across the ground for more than ten meters before emerging from the shadow of a pile of scrap steel frames.

"What methods did that old bastard Grey Elder, use?"

He recalled the aura he had felt behind the curtains on the second floor of the villa that day.

It was extremely well hidden and didn't move at all, yet its presence was greater than the four men in black on the porch combined.

He didn't have time to investigate further at the time, but now, looking back, that guy probably remembered his anger from the very beginning.

The aura of Yixi is now like a net covering this waste area. Every time Jiang Ye moves, the net shakes, and the position of the red dot is updated.

"You've been locked onto and are being tracked."

Jiang Ye's expression gradually turned cold.

This ability is a killing machine in the gang wars of Meteor City. It can lock the aura of the enemy's core members, so that if two thousand people surround one person, they have no way to escape.

He tilted his head slightly to the north.

To the north lies a desolate area further north of the old industrial zone, with a much more complex terrain. There are collapsed steel frames, half-collapsed concrete buildings, piles of waste materials, and several dried-up drainage ditches.

"Run north."

Jiang Ye made up his mind, his figure sank down, and Shadow Stealth activated at full power. He slid dozens of meters north along the ground, emerging from a gap in a pile of rusty iron sheets, and took off running north.

The pursuers behind them turned a corner following the location of the red dot, and the dark mass pressed all the way north.

Jiang Ye ran a few hundred meters, and the gravel under his feet gradually turned into a pitted wasteland. In front of him appeared an old factory building that had collapsed most of the way. The steel frame was sticking out of the concrete wall, rusted red, and there were broken bricks and broken precast slabs scattered on the ground.

He ducked into the factory ruins, using the collapsed steel frames and concrete blocks as cover to temporarily increase the distance between himself and his pursuers.

But Yixi's aura was still spreading behind him, and the red dot position never stopped. The pursuers were only slowed down by the ruins, but their direction did not deviate at all.

Jiang Ye squatted behind a broken concrete beam, panting heavily, his chest heaving.

His energy level has already dropped by half.

Shadow Stealth doesn't consume much energy, but he's used it intermittently more than ten times along the way, and with the Omokage screen he used to block bullets earlier, his energy is depleting faster than he expected.

The footsteps behind were getting closer.

Jiang Ye pressed his right hand on the ground, and a shadow surged out from his palm, spreading out to both sides along the cracks in the gravel ground.

"Divine Dog: Totality."

The shadow suddenly swelled up, and a huge black and white outline silently emerged from the shadows, nearly two meters tall at the shoulders, with fangs bared and its four claws pressing shallow craters into the gravel.

"Rabbit Escape."

Another hand shadow fell, and the true form of the Rabbit Escape leaped off his shoulder. As soon as it landed, it exploded into hundreds of black rabbits, which scattered in all directions through the cracks in the ruins, covering half of the factory ruins.

When the pursuers surged in from the south of the ruins, they were met head-on by a dark, surging tide of rabbits.

"What is that?!"

"Rabbit, black rabbit, can't see the road!"

The first few gunmen were tripped by a rabbit and fell headfirst into a pile of rubble. The men behind them also lost their footing, pointing their guns randomly, not knowing where to fire.

Divine Dog: Totality silently slid out from the side of the rabbit tide, bit a gunman's calf, tossed him three meters away, then crouched low and circled back from the other side. Its claws tore a gash in a sheet of metal, and the person crouching behind it scrambled backward in terror.

Jiang Ye crouched behind the concrete beam, maintaining the energy expenditure of Rabbit Escape and Divine Dog: Totality, but his energy began to drop rapidly.

The rabbit swarm could stop people, but not bullets. After the pursuers realized what was happening, they began firing wildly into the rabbit swarm. One black rabbit was shot down, and another was shot down to replace it. But there were too many pursuers, and the density of the rabbit swarm was gradually thinning out.

The Divine Dog: Totality had already been hit by two heavy bullets from a sniper rifle, and the blood of the Shikigami was seeping from its shallow mouth, staining half of its fur black.

Jiang Ye gritted his teeth and pulled back the Rabbit Escape. The rabbit tide instantly dissipated, leaving only the Divine Dog: Totality still running around in the ruins.

He has less than 30% of his energy left.

The pursuers closed in from three directions, their guns all pointed at the shadow behind the concrete beam.

Just then, something suddenly flashed through Jiang Ye's mind.

Over the past three days, he has tried countless times in the abandoned area. The screen can last for more than twenty seconds, and the ceiling and edges can form a complete shell, but it can't hold up.

But the moment he blocked the bullet, when he turned up the screen, it felt completely different from when he was in the steel casting workshop.

The shadow didn't shake when the bullet hit.

He didn't think about it carefully at the time, but now that he thinks back, the moment the bullet was swallowed by the screen, the screen's thickness didn't decrease; instead, a thin layer of darkness appeared where the bullet entered.

The shadow ate the bullet.

What you eat becomes part of the screen.

Jiang Ye's pupils contracted slightly.

He looked up at the pursuers closing in from three sides. The muzzle flashes of gunfire shimmered in the dim light of the sky. Divine Dog: Totality's figure was already struggling under the hail of bullets, and the outline of his Shikigami began to fade.

There are still more than 20% of the energy left.

He retrieved the Divine Dog: Totality.

Seeing the Nen Beast disappear, the pursuers accelerated their advance, their footsteps crunching on the gravel. Some had already reached within a dozen meters of the concrete beam.

Jiang Ye stood up and dusted off his knees.

"I see."

He said something in a low voice, and the corners of his mouth curved slightly.

The shadow beneath his feet began to surge, not in the previous spreading manner, but rather growing upwards from the soles of his feet, like a wall rising from the ground and enveloping Jiang Ye entirely.

The screen unfolds from beneath your feet, spreading outwards along the gravel ground, climbing the collapsed steel frame, scaling the broken concrete wall, and closing in from above.

When the pursuers rushed into the shadowy area, their feet felt a half-inch of softness under their feet. Looking down, they saw a layer of black shadows on the ground, as if they were stepping into thick ink, making it difficult to pull their feet out.

The gun was raised and fired into the shadows, but the bullets were swallowed up by the shadows without even a spark.

The bullets that were fired into the screen, and the rubble that was shrouded in shadow, were all swallowed up by the screen little by little, and the thickness of the shell increased visibly.

Jiang Ye stood in the center of the screen, his energy still decreasing, but at half the speed of before, as the energy absorbed by the screen replenished his energy.

He slowly raised his head, looking at the pursuers who were blocked outside the screen, and a smile slowly spread across his face.

"Now."

The darkness on the screen began to surge, and jet-black Shadow Spike rose from the ground, burrowing close to the pursuers' feet.

"It's my turn to fight back."

Before the pursuers could even process what those words meant, the shadows beneath their feet surged violently, and Shadow Spike shot out from the ground, piercing through their boots and embedding themselves in their feet. Screams of agony echoed through the shadowy screen.

Jiang Ye stood in the center of the screen, his hands in his coat pockets, looking at the pursuers trapped outside the screen with a frighteningly bright gaze.

Hundreds of meters away outside the screen, Yixi stood atop a toppled concrete pillar, his narrow eyes fixed on the black shell, his brow furrowing for the first time.

"Elder."

He turned his head and said something in the direction of the bulletproof car behind him.

"That kid's aura is changing."

Grey Elder rolled down the car window, his charcoal-fire eyes staring at the dark, oppressive screen, his fingers pausing for a moment on the armrest.

"What's the meaning?"

Yixi jumped down from the cement pillar, put his sunglasses back on, and for the first time, there was uncertainty in his voice.

"His breath was almost gone, but now it's rising again."

"That Omokage shell is eating my spirit."