BANG! BANG!

BANG!

Gunshots echoed by the lakeside.

Fang Zhen knelt on one knee, activating steady shot.

From about thirty meters away, his shots were incredibly accurate, hitting almost exactly where he aimed.

The bullets first struck the dire wolf and black panther that were encircling Avera from behind.

The nine-millimeter rounds had astonishing penetration. They pierced seven to eight centimeters into the energy-based beasts before stopping, dumping all their kinetic energy into the targets.

Fang Zhen gained a new understanding of these Crystal Bone beasts.

They had the form of beasts and seemed to possess their own consciousness, but at their core, they were still bodies of energy.

Although they had no obvious weak points, they could be dispersed by continuously damaging their energy bodies.

The full impact of the Desert Viper's bullets was released into the Crystal Bone beasts, causing immense energy shock.

The black panther took three shots and the dire wolf took five. Their concentrated energy bodies could no longer hold their form. They let out wretched cries and dissipated, their crystal bone sculpture cores falling onto the damp grass by the lake.

Avera suddenly felt the pressure on her lighten.

Though she didn't know Fang Zhen's origins, Avera could see his willingness to cooperate. She quickly retreated, breaking out of the encirclement.

The Half-Armored Man immediately let out a furious roar.

"Who the hell are you? Are you trying to ruin this?" the Half-Armored Man bellowed at Fang Zhen.

Fang Zhen didn't answer. He just kept shooting.

He felt an urge to aim for the heads of the Half-Armored Man and his companions.

It was the "headshot fiend" mental trait.

Fortunately, it was just an urge, and he could suppress it.

Fang Zhen raised his gun and unloaded a volley of bullets at the approaching Warrior, who was clad in a green Energy Turtle Shell.

The Desert Viper's semi-automatic fire rate was extremely fast; however many times he could pull the trigger in a short period was how many times it would fire.

Fang Zhen pulled the ultra-sensitive trigger, his rate of fire reaching three to four rounds per second.

After a two-second burst, the bald Warrior supporting the Energy Turtle Shell could no longer take it. The green shell covering him rapidly dimmed, on the verge of disappearing.

Terrified, the bald Warrior abruptly dropped into a crouch, hugging his knees and curling into a ball.

In this posture, the light of the turtle shell flared back to life, growing a little stronger.

The bald Warrior was like a real turtle, completely withdrawn behind his Energy Armor, refusing to come out.

'What is this?'

'The turtle-up defense?'

Fang Zhen thought to himself. Ignoring this now-harmless enemy, he aimed his gun at the Knife-legged Woman.

When his muzzle swung toward her, the Knife-legged Woman's face went pale.

No one present was a fool. The lethality of the Desert Viper was plain to see. Although the Knife-legged Woman didn't know what kind of weapon it was, that didn't stop her from judging that she couldn't block it.

The spider-leg-like weapons on the Knife-legged Woman's back quickly braced against the ground, and she retreated backward.

Seeing the Knife-legged Woman retreat, Fang Zhen didn't pursue her.

His goal was to rescue Avera, not to kill people and make a mortal enemy of the Lei Ming family.

Seeing his subordinates suppressed by Fang Zhen to the point they couldn't even fight back, the Half-Armored Man's face twisted with anger.

The Half-Armored Man let out a low growl. He suddenly brought his fists together in front of his chest, and a blue-white electrical light flared in his eyes.

Fang Zhen's heart suddenly pounded wildly.

His "Death Aversion" made him foresee extreme danger.

At the same time, his "Extrasensory Precognition" also showed him a vision of one second into the future.

In one second, an arc of electricity would shoot from the Half-Armored Man's hands. Several strands of blue-white current, as thick as a bowl, would twist together like a Thunder Serpent and instantly strike Fang Zhen's armor.

The hairs on Fang Zhen's arms stood on end, and his pores tightened.

His Feathered Iron Wall was weak to lightning!

He was about to activate the Gang Zan Seal and see if the sigil could block the lightning strike.

Suddenly, the black crow that had been circling in the sky dove steeply, flying against the wind like a fighter jet toward the area where the Half-Armored Man and his companions were.

At the same time, the crow's black feathers suddenly burst outward, forming a curtain of night.

It was a night sky so realistic that every single feather seemed to rewrite the laws of physics, dyeing the surrounding area black and forming a Night Domain.

Within the domain, faint stars seemed to twinkle in the darkness, creating a dreamlike beauty when viewed from the outside.

But inside the domain, the Half-Armored Man and the others were swallowed by darkness, hidden from view. They must have lost their vision at the same time.

The sense of extreme danger Fang Zhen felt instantly weakened by more than seventy percent.

He glanced at Avera, who was running over quickly.

'This woman's Crystal Bone Technique isn't an offensive type, but it's still so damn strong. It's practically a god-tier support skill,' he thought.

A black shadow flew out of the Night Domain.

It was the black crow.

The crow flew at an extraordinary speed, far beyond normal. With just two flaps of its wings, it was already abreast of Avera, only six or seven meters away from Fang Zhen.

At that moment,

BOOM!

A clap of thunder boomed from within the Night Domain.

Four or five intertwined arcs of electricity, like several Thunder Serpents, roared as they burst out of the Night Domain and rushed toward Fang Zhen.

Fang Zhen's brow twitched sharply.

Perhaps the darkness had blocked the Half-Armored Man's vision, because the raging Thunder Serpent he fired went wide. It wasn't aimed directly at Fang Zhen, looking more like a blind shot.

However, the Thunder Serpent's trajectory was very close to the Jue Ying motorcycle behind him.

If the Thunder Serpent hit it, the Jue Ying motorcycle would explode.

His vehicle and equipment might be destroyed.

Fang Zhen's heart tightened.

Just as he was wondering whether he should activate the Gang Zan Seal and take the charging Thunder Serpent head-on to protect his gear, the situation changed again.

Avera's Crystal Bone Crow abruptly changed its flight path, positioning itself directly in the path of the charging Thunder Serpent.

BOOM!

With a deafening explosion, the Thunder Serpent didn't destroy the Jue Ying motorcycle as expected. Instead, it was blocked by the crow.