The night wind whistled. He covered the place where he had been shot in the shoulder and gritted his teeth as he ran forward. In the sky above the forest, the sound of helicopter rotors approached from afar. The blazing white light swept across the sky. Behind him, he could vaguely hear the sound of dogs barking.
Blood continued to gush out from the gunshot wound and dripped down. Half of his body had already turned cold, and his footsteps were getting heavier.
However, he knew that he couldn't stop at this time. If he stopped, it would all be over.
He couldn't figure out what was going on. After years of planning and meticulous planning, he had put his life on the line in order to escape from the organization. Who would have thought that tonight would be the most heavily guarded night in the base … What was going on …?
There were still two bullets left in the gun in his hand. One for the enemy and one for himself. He had already thought about it.
But what he wanted to know before he died was why the organization would make such a big fuss about a small assassin escaping. Not only was there a super strong assassin group, but there were even higher-level ability users.
Those mutated people who called themselves "evolvers" had always been hiding in the deepest part of the organization. He had been in the organization for so long and knew one or two of them. He understood the scope of their management. An ordinary assassin like him would never be surrounded by them. But why?
Running all the way, his vision began to blur due to excessive blood loss. When he ran to the edge of the forest, there was a vertical mountain wall in front of him. Now that there were helicopters in the sky, climbing up was definitely a dead end.
He ran along the mountain wall to the side. At the corner of the mountain wall in front of him, a faint red light filled the air.
The helicopter was flying in the air, and the sound of dogs barking and people's voices became more and more intense.
He was afraid that it was the last time. He slowed down and secretly looked at the other side of the corner.
The fire was burning there, but it gave people a strange feeling of transparency. He trembled as he held the gun in his hand. The first thing he saw was a person standing next to the fire.
It was an evolver in the organization.
Most of these evolvers had extraordinary abilities.
He didn't know how many ability users were gathered here, and he didn't dare to look too much. Anyway, there were only two bullets. He quietly raised his hand and aimed.
He knew that this was the last time in his life, so he aimed.
As far as he could see, the ability user was facing the fire, but his back was facing the outside. His hands were spread out, and his posture was a little strange.
If he was an assassin, he definitely wouldn't make such a dangerous pose without any precaution, but … who cares …
Gritting his teeth, the gunshot rang out. The bullet hit the man's temple, and his entire body was sent flying.
So what if he was a psychic? Even if he was shot, he would still die.
With this thought in mind, he suddenly turned the muzzle and aimed it at his forehead. But at this moment, a strange, soul-stirring cry suddenly sounded. His hand trembled, and then, a huge wall of fire rushed past him like a torrent.
The flames were able to melt gold and corrode iron. It was unknown how far they had traveled from the forest. The trees that were swept by the flames were instantly reduced to ashes. Because the place where the flames had erupted was a depression in the mountain wall, it just happened to sweep past his eyes.
However, he couldn't feel any heat.
Looking up, a giant fiery red bird soared into the sky with a soft cry. It was the Fire Phoenix depicted in Chinese legends.
The fire cloud burned the entire night sky. Several helicopters chasing behind were touched by the flames and immediately exploded and fell.
The red light was like rain, falling little by little in the forest.
He looked at all this with a dumbfounded expression. He suddenly turned back, but the pursuers behind him had already appeared in his sight. Obviously, they were also panicked by this unforeseen event. Looking at the sky, they forgot to shoot for a moment. Then, everyone's eyes showed a look of horror, and they turned around to escape.
When he turned back, the phoenix surrounded by flames swooped down directly at him. The air billowed, and the huge rock wall used as the handrail flew out. Then, he saw the phoenix's eyes.
Boom —
The flames swallowed him!
There was no death, no pain, and after the shock, he could clearly see that he was in a yellow sea of fire. It was as if he was surrounded by a large mass of liquid, slowly floating up and down. There was no sound around, and it was as quiet as the beginning of the world.
He looked back. Outside the fire, everything in the world had become extremely slow.
Just now, the huge rock wall that flew out was caught up by the flames and gradually peeled away. The air billows swept around like a shock wave. Every tree was burned, broken, and turned to ashes in an instant. The people and hounds who tried to escape were burned to ashes before they could even take a few steps.
In an instant, he understood everything.
According to legend, every once in a while, the phoenix would shed its feathers and die. Then, it would ignite in the ashes and be reborn in the fire.
The day he chose to escape was the day of the phoenix's nirvana. So many people in the organization were prepared to deal with this fire phoenix. Just now, the phoenix's nirvana was the moment when its strength was at its weakest. Therefore, it was surrounded by the ability users mobilized by the organization. But his shot had broken a corner of the entire encirclement, and the fire phoenix was able to escape.
In the dark, a voice asked him, "Thank you. What do you want?"
"I …" He opened his eyes wide.
"… I want freedom."