Xia Chujian moved forward a step, making way for Ping Qiong to slip behind and cut the tangled branches.
Hopefully, she could cut a hole through.
Xia Chujian climbed to the front of the branch hollow, poked her head out from her own hollow, and happened to see a group of people in the neighboring hollow, huddled around someone wearing an expensive fur coat.
That person also happened to look over.
Xia Chujian glanced at them. Everyone there was wearing a self-heating mask, making it impossible to tell who was who.
Xia Chujian was wearing one too, so she felt relieved. Too lazy to even say hello, she lowered her body to avoid being targeted by anyone's bullets.
Just then, the previous flare dimmed, and the square was plunged into darkness again.
But the Gray-Robed People weren't idle.
They seemed to have found their target, and continued to issue commands, withdrawing more crows from the southwest of the square to the center, launching a massacre against those who were still there.
"Pingping! Pingping! My Pingping!"
"Nana! Nana! Wake up! Nana!"
"You demons! I'll fight you to the death!"
"Daddy! Mommy! Chuchu is scared! Ah—!"
"Children! My children! Please spare my children! Kill me! Kill me! Don't kill my children!"
Xia Chujian was stunned.
Through the infrared night vision system of her goggles, she saw that the crows were mostly slaughtering children!
And most of them were clearly under ten years old.
What was going on? Why were the Gray-Robed People directing the crows to kill children?
Xia Chujian was even more puzzled, and even more unable to bear it.
Even though she only had a Long-barreled Pistol and two magazines, she didn't hesitate to open fire.
Bang! Bang! Bang! In the midst of the chaos, a silenced pistol didn't offer much of an advantage.
And they were so far away.
But her bullets displayed an extraordinary effect.
Each shot fired could hit a string of black crows! As long as they were within her trajectory, those crows with black scales that could switch between tangible and intangible could no longer switch to intangible. They were hit one after another in strings.
Flapping their wings, they turned into wisps of black smoke in the trajectory of Xia Chujian's bullets, disappearing without a trace, forever becoming intangible.
Although she could eliminate countless black crows with one bullet, she still had too few bullets, and there were too many crows in the sky.
After emptying two magazines, Xia Chujian was "out of ammunition".
She sighed and tucked the pistol back into her waist.
Meanwhile, the people in the tree branch hollow next to her had been watching her for a long time.
From the moment she fired the first shot until she emptied two magazines.
They had tried to shoot like her, but no one could achieve the effect of killing a whole trajectory of crows with one bullet! It was a shocking sight to see a path forcibly separated by bullets in the black ocean of crows! A true bullet trajectory.
Xia Chujian caught a glimpse of their stunned expressions and twitched her lips. Staring at the weapons in their hands, she simply asked, "...Can you lend me a gun? And some bullets? I want to go out... and see if I can save some children..."
Quan Yuxun found the voice very familiar as soon as he heard it.
Unfortunately, Xia Chujian was wearing a self-heating mask, making it impossible to tell who she was.
At this moment, he was highly stressed and couldn't remember where he had heard that voice before.
But because of that slight familiarity with the voice, and the amazing shooting skills he had just witnessed, Quan Yuxun decided to cooperate with her.
He asked his bodyguards, "Who among you is willing to go with this lady to save people?"
Half of his bodyguards immediately raised their hands, indicating their willingness to go.
Quan Yuxun nodded, took a Submachine Gun and a shoulder-slung ammunition belt from a bodyguard who hadn't raised his hand, and threw them to Xia Chujian, saying, "Take these. My men will go with you."
He also instructed her, "Save whoever you can, and retreat immediately if you can't. There's no need to risk your life to save people."
Xia Chujian nodded, "I know, I'll be careful."
She took the Submachine Gun, loaded it with a ka-chunk, then attached the magazine, her movements incredibly practiced.
Quan Yuxun's bodyguard clicked his tongue in admiration, giving her a thumbs up.
The moment Xia Chujian got the gun, her boiling blood cooled down.
She nimbly leaped out of the hollow in the tree branch and ran towards the center of the plaza.
Half of Quan Yuxun's bodyguards followed behind her, sprinting forward.
Quan Yuxun's gaze was fixed on the front, lost in thought.
He clearly saw that wherever that woman ran, the crows in the air actively made way for her! Not only did they not attack her, but they also seemed to be afraid of her.
Quan Yuxun narrowed his eyes, understanding why the crows were fewest in this direction.
It was because of her!
...
Xia Chujian rushed forward and quickly arrived at the center of the plaza.
The crows that were originally pouncing on the crowd, actively killing the children, suddenly seemed to be paused by something. Then, they shook their black scales and soared into the air with a whoosh, circling in the sky, no longer daring to descend and continue the slaughter.
The Gray-Robed People in the air didn't know what was happening for a moment. They suddenly realized they had lost contact with the crows, hurriedly increased their control, finally re-established contact, and immediately commanded them to launch another round of attacks.
Taking advantage of this brief opportunity, Xia Chujian said to the parents, "Those with children, come with me! I have a gun! I'm not afraid of the crows!"
The parents with children in the plaza heard these words and rushed towards her like they had seen a savior, acting like madmen.
Not only did they rush over, but some parents even tried to snatch the gun from her hands! Xia Chujian: "!!!"
She didn't indulge these people. She swung the butt of her gun, knocking out the dazed parent, and sternly said to the remaining parents, "If you want your children to live, follow me! Anyone who tries to snatch my gun, I'll kill them!"
Her murderous aura, coupled with the bodyguards following behind, finally managed to subdue everyone.
The parents with children, either carrying them or with them on their backs, followed Xia Chujian and retreated towards the southwest.
At this time, the people in the plaza without children also noticed that the crows were not attacking the group in front!
They also wanted to live, also wanted to leave this hellish place, so they swarmed forward, running even faster than Xia Chujian and the others.
But when they ran in front of Xia Chujian, the crows above immediately swarmed down, piercing through their chests one by one.
Another group of people fell in the plaza.
In the air, the Gray-Robed People finally saw what had happened.
"Is our Niapula no longer working?" one of the Gray-Robed People said indifferently. "Then let's destroy everything together!"
He reached out and signaled to his people.
An ultra-high intensity Mental Strength pressure descended from the sky, spreading out from the twenty-five Gray-Robed People.
The people in the plaza who had been hiding and trying to find a way out, fell down one by one.
Their eyes bulged out severely, their faces turned purple, and black blood flowed from their ears.
On the surface, there seemed to be nothing wrong, but their brain functions had been completely cut off by the ultra-strong Mental Strength attack, extinguishing their lives.
Xia Chujian watched as one living person after another fell at her feet.
The security personnel who had followed her were high-level Gene Evolvers themselves, and they were all wearing helmets that could defend against Rank A peak Mental Strength. They could still hold on, but they could only barely stand. They were staggering, their headaches so severe that they couldn't even hold their guns.
But the ordinary people had no way to survive.
Not only the children, but even the adults fell.
Although she didn't know these people, and although some of them hadn't been friendly to her, most of them were unarmed ordinary people without any ability to resist, especially the children...
She inevitably felt a sense of pity for her own kind, desperately watching these people fall like leeks in droves.
For the first time, she felt that her strength was so insignificant, her ammunition so scarce! She bent down, checking the fallen children one by one, to see if there were any still alive, any children still breathing.
No, no, not a single one.
The children died in extreme terror, each child's small face with wide-open eyes.
They probably wouldn't know why they died like that, even in death.
The security guards who had come out with her to rescue people endured the throbbing pain in their heads, saying intermittently, "Girl, let's go... hurry back... those people are going on a killing spree..."
Xia Chujian closed her eyes briefly, "Retreat!"
Just then, she felt her trouser leg being tugged by a small hand. The strength was so weak, as if it would let go in the next second, but it still refused to give up, using its last breath to grasp the last hope of life.
Heaven helps those who help themselves.
Xia Chujian didn't hesitate, nor did she bother to see who it was. She directly bent down and grabbed the small hand, held the child in her arms, and rushed towards the southwest with the group of security guards.
Filled with anger, she ran backwards, firing her Submachine Gun at the black crow flocks in the air and the Gray-Robed People! Bullets rained down, and in no time, the entire shoulder-slung ammunition belt was emptied.
The Gray-Robed People in the air seemed to be disturbed by these bullets, and the Mental Strength they were exerting subconsciously paused for a few seconds.
Taking advantage of this gap, Xia Chujian and the others finally returned to the place where they had been hiding before.
And the people who stayed here were all covering their heads, seemingly resisting something.
Xia Chujian, holding the child, jumped into the hollow of the branch where she had originally hidden, and casually threw the Submachine Gun back into the adjacent hollow.
Then she discovered that Ping Qiong had actually fainted, still clutching her Tactical Dagger in her hand.
Xia Chujian hurriedly tested her breathing and found that it was okay. At least, she was still breathing.
And the group of Gray-Robed People in the air, after using high-level Mental Strength to almost kill all the ordinary people, finally noticed a gap in the southwest when they came back to their senses, a gap that even their black crow flocks dared not cross.
"What's going on over there?"
"Don't worry about it. The target has disappeared. Since we can't find them, everyone here must die."
So, they increased their Mental Strength.
At the same time, some people took out rocket launcher-like devices from their gray robes.
Quan Yuxun had been staring at the Gray-Robed People in the air. His head was also aching terribly, but because he had a helmet that defended against Mental Strength attacks, he could hold on for a while longer.
When he saw that the other party was not only using Mental Strength but also taking out rocket launchers, his pupils suddenly contracted.
"...They're going to use rocket launchers! We have to scatter!" Quan Yuxun said immediately.
Otherwise, one rocket could blow up all the branches in this area!
But he then realized that he couldn't even stand up at this point, so how could they retreat? "Their Mental Strength intensity has increased... we can't leave..." The security personnel with the highest Mental Strength level under Quan Yuxun said hoarsely, enduring the headache.
Only Xia Chujian was acting as if nothing was happening.
She looked at the fainted Ping Qiong, and then at the little child she had just brought in, curled up in a ball, not much bigger than a Small Si Xi, and frowned.
As an ordinary person, it was impossible for her to run away carrying both of them.
Xia Chujian took a deep breath, climbed to the edge of the hollow, and asked the man in the next hollow who had lent her the Submachine Gun, "Excuse me, do you have a Sniper Rifle?"
That voice, and the Sniper Rifle...
Quan Yuxun's heart shook violently, and he finally remembered who this person was.
Xia Chujian, a member of the Dark Night Hunter Association.
Known as a natural sniper.
Quan Yuxun hardened his heart and said, "I have a Devastator No. 1 Sniper Rifle here. Do you know how to use it?"
Xia Chujian suddenly widened her eyes: "Devastator?! Known as the king of Sniper Rifles! How do you have one...?!"
Quan Yuxun took out the Sniper Rifle, which was disassembled into several parts, from the backpack on his back, along with two magazines full of Sniper Rifle bullets, and quickly handed them over, saying, "Do you need me to be your spotter?"
Xia Chujian suppressed the excitement in her heart and said calmly, "No. In this closed environment, it's not necessary."
She took the Devastator No. 1 Sniper Rifle parts, known as the "king of guns," and quickly assembled it.
Then she loaded a bullet, and the scope quickly aimed at the Gray-Robed Person in the air who was the first to carry a rocket launcher and was about to launch it in their direction.
Kacha!
Before the other party could finish aiming the rocket launcher, a Sniper Rifle bullet from the Devastator No. 1 Sniper Rifle's extra-long barrel had already shot out! No wonder it was the king of guns, several levels higher than her Judicator No. 7 Sniper Rifle! This is the first update, the second update will be at one o'clock in the afternoon.
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