If a Level 2 Ability User could run away from under his sniper rifle, he might as well walk into a Rot-Walker’s nest and die.
Outside the building, the vagrants huddling against the walls were still in a state of panic.
They didn’t know what was happening; they only knew the Landlord had ordered them to stay against the base of the wall and not move.
Around them were the tense faces of the Order Maintenance Team. Inside the building, it was quiet, with no movement.
“Do you think... the Inner City is attacking again?”
“No way, they just bombed us a few days ago. Can they really do it again?”
“Then what is it? Outer City mercenaries? Raiders?”
“I don’t know... but if this building can block shells, it should be able to block other things too...”
“I hope so... I don’t want to die right after finding a place where I can actually live...”
Before they could figure it out, the faint roar of armored vehicles came from the ruins in the distance.
Getting closer and closer.
The roar of the armored vehicles in the distance became clearer and clearer.
Su Wan stood before the window of the third-floor Meeting Room, calmly watching the approaching dust.
The four “Sentry” machine gun turrets had entered standby mode, awaiting her command.
Below the building’s exterior walls, the vagrants trembled. Some closed their eyes and began to pray, while others bit their lips hard, not daring to make a sound.
Liu Sen’s team arrived quickly.
Two “Predator” armored vehicles crushed the scorched ruins, their thick tires kicking up clouds of dust.
The light artillery on the roofs glinted with a cold metallic sheen under the gray sky.
Behind them followed a group of fully armed soldiers, all in black armor with standard-issue rifles, moving with the discipline of an elite unit.
Further back were six people.
They were dressed differently and had varied equipment, but their casual gait hid a formation that was slowly surrounding the area.
This was the “Night Owl” squad, a notorious mercenary group from the Outer City that specialized in dirty work and had countless lives on their hands.
The team stopped about five hundred meters from the “Terminal Station.”
Liu Sen climbed out of the first armored vehicle, raised his binoculars, and looked at the gray twelve-story building.
His face instantly turned extremely ugly.
“Damn it... it really exists...”
Through the binoculars, the building stood intact at the edge of the ruins, its windows whole and its walls clean.
Dozens of vagrants were at the base of the building, huddled against the wall like a flock of frightened quails.
“Commander, that building...” Lin Hai approached, his face filled with disbelief. “How is that possible? The drones didn’t find anything back then!”
Liu Sen didn’t speak; he just stared fixedly at the building.
He knew now was not the time to investigate why the drones had failed.
The important thing was that the building was still there, the people inside were still there, and the Shadow-Stalker Beast was likely still there too.
And he had to wipe it all out before things got out of hand.
“Lin Hai.” Liu Sen’s voice was dark. “Surround the building. Leave nothing alive.”
“Yes!” Lin Hai received the order without a single question, as if those vagrants weren’t even human in their eyes.
He turned and signaled the soldiers behind him.
Twelve elite City Defense Force soldiers quickly spread out, advancing toward the “Terminal Station” in a fan formation.
Muzzles raised, safeties off.
The six members of the “Night Owl” squad stayed where they were. The scarred-face man leading them chuckled twice: “Lieutenant Liu, you’re just going to make us wait?”
“What’s the rush,” Liu Sen said coldly. “Wait for the soldiers to clear the field, then you go in and search. That beast is likely hiding in this building or underground. Find it, and your payment doubles.”
The scarred man licked his lips. “Deal.”
Five hundred meters, four hundred meters, three hundred meters...
Liu Sen’s soldiers drew closer and closer, their dark muzzles pointed at the vagrants huddled against the wall.
Below the building’s exterior walls, the vagrants trembled. Some closed their eyes and began to pray, while others bit their lips hard, not daring to make a sound.
Two “Predator” armored vehicles crushed the ruins, their thick tires kicking up clouds of dust, the light artillery on the roofs glinting coldly in the daylight.
“Fire!”
At Lin Hai’s command, twelve assault rifles spat tongues of fire simultaneously!
“Rat-tat-tat-tat—!”
The dense gunfire tore through the dead silence of the ruins!
“Ahhh—!!!”
The vagrants instantly exploded into chaos!
Screams and cries mingled as the crowd scattered like frightened ants, fleeing frantically in all directions!
“Run! They’re shooting!”
“Help! I don’t want to die!”
“Where do we run?! Where can we go?!”
The members of the Order Maintenance Team also turned pale from the sudden suppression fire, but they remembered the Landlord’s instructions—
As long as they stayed within the building’s range, they would be safe!
“Don’t run! None of you run!” a burly man roared at the top of his lungs. “Stay against the wall! You’ll be safe if you stay against the wall! That’s what the Landlord said!”
“Bullshit! Bullets don’t have eyes!”
“Run! We’ll live if we get out of here!”
In the chaos, a few of the fastest vagrants had already rushed out of the building’s perimeter, sprinting toward the distant ruins...
“Pfft pfft pfft!”
Blood mist erupted!
The bodies of those few vagrants were pierced by bullets, and they collapsed like ragdolls, twitching a few times before falling still.
“Ahhh—!!!”
“They’re dead! They’re dead!”
“What do we do?! What do we do?!”
The surviving vagrants completely broke down. Some collapsed on the ground, some squatted with their heads in their hands, and others continued to run desperately in other directions...
However, one observant vagrant suddenly froze.
He looked down at his body.
No blood, no wounds.
He was clearly standing on the outermost edge, and bullets had whistled right past him, yet he...
He tremblingly reached out his hand toward the space in front of him.
“Hum—”
A ripple, almost invisible to the naked eye, gently shimmered when his fingertips touched a certain boundary.
His finger stopped in mid-air, as if blocked by an invisible barrier.
Where were the bullets?
He looked up and saw the metal slugs spitting from the gun barrels. About a meter from the building’s exterior wall, they had all weirdly come to a halt!
They hovered in mid-air, as if frozen by time, forming a dense metal curtain!
Then, losing their kinetic energy, they clattered to the ground.
“This... this is...”
His mouth hung open, unable to speak.
One by one, the panicking vagrants around him also discovered this miracle.
“The bullets... the bullets can’t get in!”
“They really can’t get in! That layer of something blocked them!”
“Good god... this building... this building really has divine power!”
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