The atmosphere froze in that moment.

Some people just felt their hearts stuck in their throats, seeing this posture... they feared a serious confrontation was imminent here.

Now they instead hoped Mu Fan and the others would quickly admit defeat.

If a real fight broke out, bullets could be indiscriminate, and getting injured would certainly be troublesome.

Thus, the atmosphere among the crowd suddenly shifted.

They were ready to advise these youths to surrender peacefully.

It would really benefit the people of the Firmament Corps, that girl inside is really too beautiful.

However, just as the people around were about to speak, a gentle counter-question echoed, causing everyone's body to stiffen simultaneously.

"Have you... lived enough?"

Mu Fan tilted his head and calmly looked at Grove.

The fake smile on Kim Sang-geun's face also completely froze, his mouth agape, his heart nearly ready to leap out of his chest.

[This damn boy wants to drag everyone into the water! Angering a stationed Major General of the Firmament Corps—doesn't he know what the consequences might be?!]

The portly Patrol Officer at this moment wished he could draw his gun and shoot that damn boy directly.

But he still nervously looked toward Grove, hoping the vicious wolf of the Firmament Corps wouldn't be too enraged. Yet upon seeing the smile emerging on the other's gloomy face, his heart wailed.

[It's over!]

When Grove, this cold-faced wolf, smiles, it means he's going to kill.

To kill here affects the customs image of Flame Star, which more directly impacts the future image and income of the Aohan Freedom Alliance.

As a Level-4 Patrol Officer, Kim Sang-geun would bear the unshirkable responsibility.

"Hahaha, indeed a tough nut, or else he wouldn't dare kill my Firmament Corps' [Dark Furious Bear] Kuiwen directly! But today, such a hard bone is destined to be beaten piece by piece."

"Beat him crippled, drag him away!"

Laughing, the voice suddenly turned cold.

"Yes, General!"

Bang!

A wave of white surged out, people's eyes momentarily flickered with an afterimage.

It's that kind of Binding Bomb again that instantly cripples someone.

Yet no one saw that somehow, a Dark Gold Short Stick had already appeared in Mu Fan's palm, quietly hanging by his side.

As the Binding Bomb blasted out, Mu Fan's eyes gently opened.

No one saw Mu Fan's action at that moment.

Everyone only heard a loud "bang"!

Mu Fan swung his arm backward, and a visible circle of compressed airflow expanded in front of him, smashing the Binding Bomb mid-air backward with a reflexive hit.

Then, as forces doubled in accumulation, all kinetic energy was absorbed and then rebounded back faster!

Boom.

A cloud of white mist exploded.

Grove extended a single hand, his fingers suddenly enveloped in brown metal, like a mechanical claw grasping the Binding Bomb, explosively crushing it.

In less than a second between one action and the next.

Only when the fog burst open did people understand what had just happened.

A sudden uproar!

The crowd finally began to stir, many starting to run to the edges to avoid any potential crossfire.

"A bit of strength, but is this your confidence?" Grove lowered his palm, his eyes filled with mockery and disdain, while dozens of soldiers around him simultaneously unlocked their firearms.

"Remember how you die."

Grove raised one finger.

That moment everyone understood that once that finger lowered, it might be the moment these few individuals were shot dead.

Kim Sang-geun gulped, this damn Firmament Corps, they're ready to kill at a disagreement.

He blinked his small eyes, seizing the chance to hide behind the Firmament Corps soldiers.

"I want to take him down." White Hair licked his lips, looking at the big and small fatty beside him.

A voice not too loud nor too small, just enough for those around them to hear.

The previously dispersing crowd momentarily halted, and amidst the oppressive atmosphere, a burst of laughter erupted.

"Do it." Harry clenched his fist.

"Hm." William answered in a muffled voice, his whole body crackling with explosive noises from his joints.

Lu Qingxue gently placed her right hand on her sword hilt by her waist... 𝒻𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘸ℯ𝒷𝘯𝘰𝑣ℯ𝑙.𝘤𝑜𝘮

Grove's raised finger slightly curled, bending downward slowly, and once that finger fully hung down was when all soldiers were ready to fire.

"Since you've lived enough, I'll send you off." Mu Fan gently spoke, that calm voice at that moment seemed to bloom like whispers in everyone's ears.

Hmm?

People abruptly turned their gaze toward Mu Fan.

Yet they saw that indifferent young man suddenly twist his body, explosively throwing out the rapidly spinning Short Stick from his palm!

A series of afterimages froze into exaggerated postures in the air.

Grove's face passed a sinister smile, his fingers suddenly spread wide.

"What a big mouth!"

He reached forward with his metal-clad right hand.

He intended to use that Short Stick to break this boy's bones piece by piece!

The force of Mu Fan—is nothing less than frenziedly brutish, and Grove's speed was unusually swift.

The sudden attack and abrupt counter had left other soldiers with no chance to react.

Of course, in Grove's view, there wasn't a need for them to react.

Yet...

Just as Grove had stretched the Metal Iron Palm half a meter in front of the Short Stick...

Buzz!

There was no sound, yet one could imagine the gentle feeling of air being swept away.

The spinning Dark Gold Short Stick's two ends...

Instantly filled with two arched, curving ghostly green light blades!

As those light blades emerged, regardless of whether it was Grove himself, the nearby soldiers, or the onlookers, everyone's heart was filled with a chilling sense of silence.

Grove's right hand forced clenched.

The spinning Ghostly Light Scythe Blade in clutch!

But at that instant, Grove's eyes bulged wide.

That was—

In a silent moment...

A mist of blood scattered, from palm to chest, to the back of the head...

The metal claws that had just crushed the Binding Bomb didn't play a jot, the armor underneath the uniform being as if made of paper, allowing the spinning Ghostly Blade Wheel to pierce through instantly, leaving a faint mist of blood.

Thud thud thud!

The five fully armed soldiers behind hadn't reacted before the enormous green Blade Wheel penetrated through in an instant.

Kim Sang-geun, quietly moving his fat body, had just stuck his head out when a mist of mixed blood and brain hit his face with a thud, his vision instantly red and blurry.

The completely revealing curved light scythe blade cut over half a meter deep into the ground before finally stopping.

It was only at this moment that all soldiers had just begun to react!

Thud...

Grove, who had been shredded in half, heavily fell, a remaining, complete half a face filled with confusion and terror.

Perhaps even before his death, he couldn't understand what had actually happened.

Soldiers only felt a chill rising from their soles straight to their scalp.

Just moments ago...

What the hell happened!

These soldiers instantly saw red in their eyes, furiously glaring at the damn little... huh?

Rat-tat-tat-tat!

Fingers reflexively pulled triggers.

In that instant, bullets flew all around.

Yet the figure ahead, fully covered in dark gold armor, chest glowing with eerie green light—who the hell is that?