The middle-aged woman urged anxiously, “Don’t be angry anymore. No matter how angry you get, it won’t change anything. She’s your only daughter, what else can you do? Now the most important thing is to figure out a way to separate our daughter from that cripple without hurting our daughter’s heart too much.”
“I understand!”
The middle-aged man furrowed his brows, fell silent, and continued puffing on his cigarette one drag at a time.
Smoke filled the room, and a silence settled in, interrupted only by the ticking of a mechanical wall clock.
……
The next morning, the city of 003 remained as cold and grim as always. Occasionally, terrifying roars of beasts echoed throughout the city. If Jiangnan Base City was a fresh, vibrant metropolis, then this once-flourishing city of decades past had now become a den for monsters. Here, dried bloodstains were everywhere, along with scattered remains.
This place was a den of fiends!
On the top floor of a dilapidated 18-story building covered in dust, Luo Feng sat in a military uniform, silently observing the streets below through a pair of binoculars. In one hand, he held a strip of dried meat, taking a bite, chewing, and swallowing.
Chew. Swallow.
Within the aged, dust-covered room, the only sound was that of Luo Feng chewing the dried meat, making the silence even more profound.
“Gurgle~” Luo Feng took a small sip from his water pouch, then another sip moments later.
In the wilderness area, Luo Feng hadn’t brought an abundance of food or water, so he had to ration carefully every day.
“Again, seven people leaving together!” Through his binoculars, Luo Feng clearly saw seven figures leave the six-story residential building beneath the morning mist. His brows furrowed in frustration as he angrily tossed the binoculars onto the nearby bed.
Luo Feng gently massaged the acupoints around his eyes. His eyes were the most fatigued from all-day surveillance.
“They always go out together in a group of seven, giving me absolutely no opportunity,” Luo Feng frowned. “If this continues until the young master finishes his training, I might have waited in vain. What should I do?” Luo Feng quickly began thinking. At present, there was simply no chance to act.
Was he just going to wait endlessly?
“There’s no opportunity.”
Luo Feng’s eyes suddenly lit up. He clenched his teeth. “If there’s no opportunity to wait for, then I’ll create one myself!”
“They’re always together, right? Then I’ll force them to scatter!” Luo Feng quietly tightened the cap on his water pouch.
……
Roughly three hours later, the seven members of Thunder Squad, who had been cautiously hunting in the outskirts of this monster-infested area, carefully advanced and occasionally took cover before finally returning to the six-story residential building where they had rested earlier.
“Operation… commence!”
Luo Feng, fully armed, smiled faintly and walked out of his room. Then, like a monkey, he swiftly leaped down the stairs. Once outside the 18-story building, even Luo Feng dared not be too reckless. Instead, he carefully began exploring the surrounding area.
It was hard to evade beasts, but easy to seek them out!
Fifteen minutes later, Luo Feng found a pack of canine beasts numbering two or three thousand. This pack of canine beasts had taken over a large machinery factory. Normally, few human warriors dared to provoke such a massive beast horde, as the threat posed by a group of two to three thousand beasts was terrifying.
“Grunt~”
One after another, massive beasts lay on the factory grounds, their snoring echoing, while a thick, pungent stench filled the surrounding area.
“Tsk tsk tsk… what a powerful beast pack.” Luo Feng peeked through a crack in the courtyard wall. “Time to begin!”
Soon—
“Roar~”
“Roar! Roar! Roar!!”
The entire beast pack within the factory roared furiously. The deaths of dozens of beasts enraged the massive horde even further, as if they had suffered an unprecedented insult. Even the leaders of the pack, two high-grade beast lieutenant-level lion-hound beasts, roared in fury. The entire beast horde immediately surged forward in a frenzied chase.
“Wow, they sure run fast!”
The hexagonal shield on Luo Feng’s back received a strong push from his mental energy, instantly transforming Luo Feng into a gust of wind as he whirred forward.
Boom! Boom! Boom!!
Among the lion-hound pack, there were also some tiger-hounds. The massive beast horde charged forward furiously, their speed equally astonishing. The fastest among them were already running at seventy to eighty meters per second! At such an incredible speed, the nearly two-mile distance from the factory to the six-story residential building was covered in just thirty seconds!
In merely thirty seconds, Luo Feng darted into the six-story residential building like a bolt of lightning.
……
On the sixth floor of the six-story residential building, within one of the old four-bedroom, two-living room apartments, the seven members of Thunder Squad were resting. In fact, when the entire beast horde first roared and began chasing Luo Feng, the seven members of Thunder Squad hadn’t shown the slightest vigilance… Firstly, because the distance was a full two miles, and secondly, in this city of 003, which part wasn’t filled with beast roars?
But after about ten seconds passed.
“It seems like a battle has broken out to our east,” remarked the middle-aged man with a single eye, smiling.
“Don’t meddle. Every day in the city of 003, there are battles between warriors and beast packs. This must be some warrior who provoked a certain beast horde.” Pan Ya, the tiger-toothed squad leader, remained calm and indifferent. After more than ten years as a warrior, such events of beast packs hunting warriors were far too common.
Yet even as these few sentences were exchanged,
“It seems like the beast horde is getting really close!”
“The floors are even slightly shaking.”
Almost instantly, all seven members of Thunder Squad rushed to the northern windows to look outside. They saw that the entrance of the six-story residential building was already flooded with lion-hound beasts, and a few tiger-hounds were furiously charging into the stairwell. In just a few seconds, the entire building began to tremble as if an earthquake had struck. The roaring of countless beasts echoed throughout the area.
“Boom!” The door to the room where Thunder Squad’s seven members were staying suddenly exploded open.
One after another, lion-hound beasts the size of Hummer SUVs charged in. Not only did they smash the door into splinters, but they also caused the walls to collapse and crumble. The entire residential building trembled violently under the trampling of over a thousand beasts, as if it might collapse at any moment.
Outside the building, another one to two thousand lion-hound and tiger-hound beasts couldn’t enter and instead completely surrounded the residential building. Just imagining thousands of Hummer SUVs encircling the building, one could easily grasp the terrifying sight of so many beasts surrounding the structure.
“What’s going on!!!” the mixed-race youth immediately screamed in panic, his face turning pale.
Anyone placed in a situation where the building was trembling as if it were about to collapse, with numerous beasts charging into the room and a dense swarm of monsters surrounding the building below, would undoubtedly be terrified.
“Protect the young master! Tiger-Tooth Squad, cover the rear!” roared the elderly man surnamed Liu.
“Rat-tat-tat-tat~~~”
Dongzi’s machine gun had already begun to roar furiously, ejecting spent cartridges. Powerful bullets pierced the bodies of the lion-hound beasts. However, even when hit, the beasts continued to charge forward due to their momentum, crashing into things. The bald muscular man, the one-eyed man, and the tiger-toothed squad leader, Pan Ya, could only use melee weapons to deflect the beasts aside.
“Bang! Bang! Bang!”
The elderly man surnamed Liu and the white muscular man had already grabbed the mixed-race youth and jumped straight out the window.
“Let’s go!” the tiger-toothed squad leader roared, being the first to follow by leaping out the window.
“Hurry up, Dongzi!” the one-eyed man bellowed.
After all, in terms of physical condition, the gunman was the weakest. As Dongzi gritted his teeth and leapt out the window, the one-eyed man and the bald muscular man followed in succession. Normally, even a junior-grade battle commander could leap from the sixth floor while carrying hundreds of pounds and land safely without injury.
But this time, the ground below wasn’t flat—it was swarming with over a thousand beasts!
……
On the second floor of the residential building, the walls had now collapsed into a pile of rubble. In the farthest corner of one of the rooms on this floor, Luo Feng was hiding!
When Luo Feng initially rushed into this second-floor room, he used his mental energy to lift and suspend cement from the walls, marble tables, and other objects, blocking off the entrance to the bathroom where he was hiding. He also caused the third floor’s slab to collapse, bringing down concrete pillars. In an instant, the room became a pile of ruins, and the beasts that charged in didn’t even notice Luo Feng.
As the beast horde discovered Thunder Squad on the sixth floor, their entire attention was completely drawn to them.
Standing by the bathroom window, Luo Feng stared intently outside, his ears listening carefully.
“The battle has begun!” Luo Feng could even faintly hear the furious roars from the sixth floor.
As three figures rapidly plummeted from above.
“They jumped!” Luo Feng’s eyes lit up, and two black throwing knives immediately hovered in front of him.
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