* Bang! *
The puppet man, who had lost control, smashed the last man's chest with a punch and dug out his heart with his bare hands. Warm blood gushed out of his chest and dyed his body red.
The three men he encountered were all killed. Their bodies were torn apart by the angry man.
The man panted as he stood in the middle of the broken corpses. His body was also covered in wounds, and there was even a knife wound in his abdomen. If the other party had not been afraid at the last moment, this knife would have been enough to kill him.
After a while, the man tore off a bloody piece of clothing from the corpse and tied it around the wound. His muscles wriggled and controlled the wound to stop bleeding. However, the internal injuries in his abdomen would not heal so easily.
"Who is it?"
The man suddenly looked at the corridor behind him cautiously. A blood-red shadow gradually formed, and Sickle walked out of it.
Sickle was attracted by the commotion of the battle. He originally thought that Qi Yuan was fighting with an enemy, but in the end, he saw a familiar face.
"We meet again, Fane!" Sickle said calmly.
"Sickle!"
Fane's eyelids twitched. He suddenly became alert.
After the battle of life and death, he had vented his murderous intent. The madness in his eyes faded a little.
It was no secret that Fane was enslaved by Hui. Sickle had heard of it long ago. He glanced at the corpses on the ground and quickly understood what had happened.
"Don't worry. We are not enemies!"
Sickle dispersed the Death Scythe in his hand, indicating that he meant no harm.
"What are you doing here?"
Fane looked at Sickle cautiously. Although Sickle did not show any malice, his past experience made him wary of trusting anyone easily.
For a Hunter in the Wilderness, trust was a luxury that could be exchanged with one's life.
Fane did not move. He knew Sickle's strength well. Even if he was not injured, he was no match for Sickle. If Sickle attacked now, he would not even have a chance to escape.
"Venom is here. Of course I will come!"
Sickle glanced at the traces left behind by the plasma bomb and asked:
"Did Qi Yuan help you get rid of Chi's control?"
Fan's eyes turned cold when he heard that name. He seemed a little agitated, but he forced himself to calm down.
"If the Qi Yuan you're talking about is a young man who can play with Asterite with his bare hands, then that's him!"
Sickle nodded. To be able to play with an Asterite with his bare hands, it had to be Qi Yuan. Moreover, only an Asterite could allow Qi Yuan to break free from Zheng's control.
"What's the situation up ahead?" Sickle asked.
Fan was silent for a while, then told him everything he knew. Since Sickle was Venom's enemy, he would definitely be on the opposite side of Hui. Fan was very willing to give Hui another powerful enemy.
After hearing that the situation was still in a stalemate, Sickle was slightly relieved. Although the Iron Chariots were temporarily at a disadvantage, Venom's side had lost more than ten Tier 3 aptitude users after the Defiler's attack and the battle between himself and Qi Yuan. They might not be able to continue suppressing the enemy.
The signal to pull back just now was proof that Venom's side could not afford to continue losing manpower. That was why they chose to pull back.
"Where do you plan to go now?
Leave?
Or go to the Iron Chariots or the Dark Fairy Tale? "
Fane's eyes flashed.
"I'm heavily injured. I don't have the strength to continue fighting!"
Sickle heard this and gave Fane a deep look.
"You can leave through the elevator shaft. We've taken care of the guards outside."
After that, Sickle turned into a crimson shadow again. He swept past the injured Fane and chased after Qi Yuan.
Fane glanced in the direction Sickle left, dragging his injured body and disappearing into the darkness.
Sickle quickly caught up with Qi Yuan. The two were already close to the exit of the residential area, and no more enemies blocked their way.
"We can't go anymore!" Qi Yuan stopped in the darkness.
"There's only one exit in this area. If we continue forward, we'll run into Venom's main force!"
Sickle stopped as well. Although the ability to turn into a crimson shadow was powerful, it was not invincible. If he rushed in recklessly and ran into Venom's main force, even he would not be able to escape alive.
Not to mention Venom, Arc Light, Haematosuchus, Tian, and Ghostface, who were all at the peak of Tier 3, even if the recruited hunters worked together, it would be enough to blast him to pieces. Before there was an absolute suppression of individual strength, a quantitative change could lead to a qualitative change.
"We can continue to stay here and wait for them to start fighting!" Sickle said in a low voice.
Sickle sorted out the information he had obtained from Fane and told Qi Yuan. He was almost certain that the bet between the two sides was only a temporary measure. Once the Asterite was divided, there would be a chaotic battle between the two sides.
"I'm afraid it's not that simple!" Qi Yuan shook his head.
"What do you mean?"
Sickle frowned. Venom's main force had blocked the path ahead. The best choice was to wait for the chaotic battle to break out while they fished in troubled waters. If they rushed to the exit now, it would only be suicide.
"Fane might not be lying, but he's definitely hiding something!" Qi Yuan said.
"I've guessed it!"
Sickle nodded. Fane did not stay and instead turned to leave. He had already revealed a lot of information. He believed that the Iron Chariots and Dark Fairy Tale had no chance of winning, so he chose to leave. Otherwise, with the deep hatred between him and Tian, he would have chosen to stay and seek revenge!
"Venom and the others might have other arrangements, but there's not much we can do now. If the battle doesn't break out, we can't get out," Sickle said.
"That's not necessarily true!"
Qi Yuan said. "Although there's only one exit, it doesn't mean we have to go through the exit!"
Although Venom's main force had blocked the exit, Qi Yuan had already found other ways to get out through Area Detection.
Qi Yuan walked into a dark room and pointed at the wall.
"We can get out from here!"
Sickle was stunned for a moment, then he seemed to have thought of something.
"Are you thinking of cutting through the wall?"
Qi Yuan smiled faintly.
"From here, continue forward. We only need to cut through five rooms, then we can break through Venom's blockade and leave this area!"
Sickle looked at Qi Yuan in shock.
What kind of Perception Domain ability is this?
Being able to sense plasma bombs from afar!
Being able to penetrate the blockade of darkness!
Being able to capture detailed information about the enemy from afar!
And being able to automatically find a way through walls!
Looking at Qi Yuan's smiling expression, Sickle forcefully suppressed the shock in his heart and reached out to lightly knock on the wall a few times, producing a 'dong dong dong' sound.
"The wall here is an alloy with a thickness of more than forty centimeters. How are you going to cut through it?"
Although the alloy of the old era was not as hard as the metal of the new era, it was still an alloy. It was far harder than rocks and mud, so it was not easy to cut through a metal wall of this thickness.
Even if it could be cut through with brute force, the huge movement would definitely attract the enemy's attention. Venom and the others were not deaf. Even if they were afraid of the Iron Chariots, they would not turn a blind eye to such a movement.
Under Venom's puzzled gaze, Qi Yuan reached out his right hand and pressed it on the thick metal wall.
Qi Yuan silently said in his heart: Now it's time to witness a miracle!
The self-healing ability of steel was activated. Sickle's mouth slowly opened wide, the puzzled expression on his face gradually turned into a stunned expression.
Under the touch of Qi Yuan's right hand, the thick metal wall with a thickness of more than forty centimeters actually melted at a speed visible to the naked eye, quickly melting a huge gap as tall as a person.
What kind of strange ability is this?
Sickle suddenly remembered the scene when Qi Yuan dismantled the plasma bomb with his bare hands. It seemed that at that time, he had used this method to melt the steel pipe and took out the plasma bomb placed inside.
However, the visual impact of dissolving such a small steel pipe and dissolving such a huge metal wall were two completely different feelings.
Moreover, Sickle keenly noticed that although the thick alloy wall had melted into a huge gap, only a small portion of the metal had turned into liquid and slid down. It was far less than the amount of metal that had melted.
Where did the metal that disappeared go?
Sickle looked at Qi Yuan with some unease. The metal that had disappeared was not just a little bit, but hundreds of kilograms!
Every ability Qi Yuan had displayed seemed to have exceeded his imagination!
As an experienced Tier 3 ability user, Sickle had seen many strange abilities, but the abilities that Qi Yuan had displayed were almost never seen before.
The two of them silently passed through the melted hole in the alloy wall and quickly saw the second metal wall. This time, Qi Yuan used the same trick and melted the hard alloy wall again. Sickle noticed that this time, the amount of metal that had disappeared was much less.
Just as Qi Yuan quietly approached the laboratory, Embers and the other members of the search party had all retreated. Venom looked at the battered and exhausted Embers and his expression became gloomier.
"What happened?
You brought five people with you. Even if you encountered Sickle, you should have been able to face him head on. Why did you come back alone? "
Embers silently stretched out his charred arms. Although he had escaped death, he was still heavily injured by the plasma bomb's shockwave.
"We were ambushed. They all died under the explosion of the plasma bomb!"
Plasma bomb!
Venom's heart sank. He never thought that the plasma bomb that had exploded at the beginning would have landed on Embers' head.
"What happened to you guys just now?" Venom asked in a deep voice.
Embers and the Perceptive Domain ability user who had escaped with them just now explained what had happened to them.
"You're saying that the person you met wasn't Sickle?" Venom looked at the two in shock.
"It definitely wasn't Sickle!" The Perceptive Domain ability user who had escaped death twice said with lingering fear.
"It was a young man. His weapon was a strange looking scimitar and a revolver with real ammunition!"
Ghostface had already seen Sickle. Those who were familiar with Ghostface knew that this couldn't be fake news. However, the sudden appearance of this young man made them a little confused. This meant that there were two intruders behind them!
This was definitely not good news.
"What's with that plasma bomb?
With your strength, you should have the ability to avoid the explosion of the plasma bomb! "Arc Light suddenly asked.
Embers was silent for a while, then said with some hesitation.
"That plasma bomb should have been installed with a sensor device and then placed in a place where we passed by. If it wasn't for the 0.5 second delay in the activation of the plasma bomb, I would have died in the explosion of the plasma bomb!"
Thrown plasma bombs were easy to dodge, but this kind of plasma bomb with a trigger device was much more dangerous. Even they themselves would be hit if they weren't careful.
They became more and more vigilant. If that young man still had this kind of modified plasma bomb on him, then a rash search would be suicide.
Arc Light's eyes flashed. He was keenly aware that something was wrong.
0.5 seconds!
How could there be such a coincidence!
Arc Light frowned. The plasma bomb he had hidden in the elevator shaft also had a 0.5 second delay in the activation of the explosion.
Plasma bombs weren't very stable, and it wasn't easy to install a sensor device on a plasma bomb. The delay depended on the setting of the device. The sudden appearance of this plasma bomb also had a 0.5 second delay in the detonation. This gave Arc Light a bad feeling.
He vaguely felt that the plasma bomb that had just exploded might be the one he had installed in the elevator shaft.
However, his rationality told him that this was impossible.
The infrared and bio-sensor trigger devices of the two plasma bombs were installed by himself. He had also used his ability to place the trap into the steel pipe. Other than himself, even Ling You couldn't have removed the two plasma bombs from the sealed steel pipe.
Arc Light racked his brains to no avail. Unless he caught the intruder or went to the elevator shaft to check the two plasma bombs, only then would he be able to solve the doubts in his heart.
"How did Fan lose control?" Zhui suddenly asked.
Fan's sudden loss of control had already made Zhui a little suspicious. He began to suspect the intruder.
But Embers' reaction was beyond Zhui's expectations.
"Fan lost control?" Embers asked subconsciously.
Zhui's gaze suddenly locked onto Embers.
"Fan went with you. They're all dead. You're the only one who came back alive. How could you not know about Fan losing control?"
Embers' expression changed in the face of Zhui's question. He glanced at Venom and said in a low voice.
"When I left, Fan didn't lose control, and —" Embers paused for a moment before continuing.
"Before the plasma bomb was triggered, Fan sensed the existence of the plasma bomb and stopped moving forward. However, he didn't warn us, so the people I brought with me were all killed. I also narrowly escaped death. Fan was the only one who was unharmed!"
"When I heard the whistle, I immediately returned. As for how Fan lost control, I don't know!"
Zhui wanted to ask more, but Venom snorted and stopped him.
"Zhui, it was my people who were killed by the plasma bomb!
It was also my people who were injured. Your puppets clearly sensed the plasma bomb but didn't warn them. How do you explain this? "
Zhui's expression was gloomy. He didn't answer Venom's question. Among the people present, Venom was the strongest. He certainly wouldn't let go of this opportunity to weaken Venom's strength. He believed that if it were someone else, they wouldn't let go of this opportunity either.
After the Iron Chariots and Dark Fairy Tale were dealt with, Venom would likely turn from an ally to an enemy. They all wanted a powerful ally, but they didn't want to face a powerful enemy.
Seeing the conflict erupting, the atmosphere became tense. Ghostface began to step forward to smooth things over.
"Alright!
Let's not ruin our friendship over an intruder. The star energy stones are still in the lead box, and if we fight among ourselves now, the Steel Chariots and Dark Fairytale will turn on us, and we'll be the unlucky ones! "
Ghostface glanced at Luo Fanxiao, who was struggling under Zhui's suppression.
"Luo Fanxiao can't hold on much longer. If you don't admit defeat, he will die in Zhui's hands."
Venom's subordinates had suffered heavy losses. Luo Fanxiao couldn't die anymore. If he died, Venom wouldn't be able to help in the following battles!
Venom snorted and walked directly into the arena. He shouted that Luo Fanxiao had to surrender and withdraw from the battle.
Although Zhui was unwilling to admit defeat and didn't manage to kill Luo Fanxiao and avenge He Peng, he still won a small victory.
Furthermore, in the following duels, those who admitted defeat and left the stage would not be able to return!