At this moment, the students had already entered the teaching building, and there were basically no other people on the playground except for the soldiers.

The intense gunfire had not ceased, and bullets were flying all over the playground.

Here was temporarily no longer their battlefield, let alone no one could catch up even if they wanted to chase that creature.

Xiao Changming pulled out a pack of cigarettes, realizing they were all soaked. Frustrated, he crumpled them into a ball and tossed them onto the playground.

"Captain, want one of mine?" Wang Yue said, pulling out a metal cigarette case from his pocket and offering one.

"Chen... General Manager Chen, want one?" He squeezed out a slightly embarrassed smile on his muscular face. After all, the two had clashed earlier, but a battlefield is the easiest place to turn enemies into friends. Minor conflicts and prejudices mean little in the face of life and death.

Besides, he had just made a trip through hell.

Chen Shouyi glanced at him unexpectedly: "Thanks, I don't smoke."

Wang Yue didn't insist and soon was smoking with Xiao Changming nearby.

The atmosphere was silent and oppressive!

The rain continued to fall, but it had changed from a torrential downpour to a drizzle, greatly improving visibility.

ZiZiZi...

Suddenly, the sound of a machine cannon abruptly rang out.

Xiao Changming tossed his cigarette, his expression tense: "That creature wants to escape?"

To avoid collateral damage, the machine cannons were placed in buildings around the school, as the last line of insurance, and wouldn't be used lightly.

After all, the power of these devastating weapons was excessively large, each nearly one pound projectile could easily penetrate structures. In dense firing, a mistake would be an outright massacre.

Chen Shouyi couldn't help but silently pray that the machine cannon could leave this creature behind.

But he quickly became disappointed.

A few seconds later, Chen Shouyi saw that bizarre silhouette swiftly fleeing back along the original path, tearing through the rain curtain, leaving a comet-like long tail behind.

It seemed quite furious, screaming and shrieking all the way, its sharp sound akin to nails scratching glass but amplified countless times, causing the nearby teaching buildings' glass to shatter.

A soldier stood numbly ahead, looking around.

The next moment, the vague silhouette dashed past him in a flash, and without any reaction, the soldier's head flew skyward, blood spurting from the neck.

Its figure was like smoke or mist, with agility beyond imagination; in just a little over a second but less than two, six or seven soldiers met their demise at its hands.

No gun could aim at it, and once the distance closed to forty or fifty meters, everyone seemed to enter an illusion realm, unable to see its figure. Some soldiers, even in terror, randomly fired their rifles, inadvertently affecting nearby soldiers.

The three of them didn't move because this creature was coming in this direction.

"Spread out!" Chen Shouyi said gravely, watching the scene unfold: "It can distort our senses, and if it confuses friend and foe, it will be disastrous."

Everyone felt startled upon hearing this, realizing the possibility, and quickly ran in various directions.

...

Suddenly, Chen Shouyi cursed under his breath, finding the creature was charging straight towards him without a hint of hesitation, not even glancing at the others.

Obviously, his previous attack had left a lasting impression.

Covering almost a hundred meters in the blink of an eye, Chen Shouyi lost sight of it the next moment.

Chen Shouyi tightly clenched his sword hilt, his eyes fierce with murderous intent.

"Come on then, I don't believe I can't take you down."

Suddenly, he felt a chilling breeze from behind, his scalp tingling, as he sharply twisted his waist and swung a sword backward.

Still empty, he cut through nothing.

After the swing, he didn't stop, following the flow of air, he stepped forward swiftly, sweeping across with the sword again, yet still missed.

Within the illusion realm, his vision had been thoroughly obscured, and his keen hearing and smell seemed to have problems, even his perception was severely weakened. Fortunately, his Wind Control talent remained, allowing him to barely discern through the changing air flows.

He simply closed his eyes!

Focusing his mind, he made every effort to counter the opponent's lightning-fast attacks.

He seemed to be fighting an enemy that didn't exist. No matter how swift his attacks, they yielded no effect.

But to the distant onlookers, a different scenario unfolded.

Two figures were moving at high speed.

If Chen Shouyi's figure was barely discernible, then the creature was nothing but a blur. Its body floated unpredictably, advancing and retreating, surrounding Chen Shouyi as if multiplying into several entities, assaulting him from all sides.

Inertia seemed to have vanished for it.

Wang Yue glanced at Xiao Changming's tense expression from afar, vaguely understanding something.

Why the captain was so polite to a civilian Martial Artist, and why the other disregarded Captain Lei.

If he could comfort himself saying he was unprepared when he was kicked, justifying it as a sneak attack, now he was utterly awakened!

This he damn calls a Martial Artist.

If this was merely a Martial Artist, what did that make him?

A Martial Artist, or a Martial Artist Apprentice?

Perhaps even Xiao Captain and Captain Lei as Martial Artists...

He dared not think further.

...

"Hiss!"

Chen Shouyi finally lagged half a beat behind, and before he could react, he felt a sharp pain in his chest as the opponent's sharp claws left a shallow bloodstain.

He suddenly swung his sword to push the figure away.

Laughing heartily, he immediately threw away the sword and spread his arms wide.

"Come on!" he shouted fiercely, his face distorted with rage. "Come kill me!"

Chen Shouyi finally discovered a weakness in this monster; it was extremely agile, but its strength was relatively weaker, barely at the Martial Artist Level.

A few days ago, Chen Shouyi certainly wouldn't have dared to take such a risk, as even the strength of a Martial Artist could be lethal to him.

But now, he was entirely different; his powerful defense was essentially immune to Martial Artist Level attacks. Although a Martial Artist could injure him, unless they hit a vital point, it wouldn't be fatal.

Of course, dealing with swords is a different matter.

Even as a Martial Artist, Chen Shouyi wouldn't dare to block a sword with his flesh.

Fortunately, the opponent's biggest weapon was only its claws.

As long as he didn't get his throat torn open or hit other weak spots, he had nothing to fear.

Faced with Chen Shouyi's provocation, the monster seemed utterly enraged. It let out a sharp cry, reverberating through the eardrums.

The next moment, a gale blew from the left side, the air flowing fiercely. Chen Shouyi quickly raised his hand to defend, but as he raised it, he felt pain in his arm, and the entire sleeve got torn off.

The monster struck once and fled again.

Chen Shouyi closed his eyes and shouted loudly, "Trash, too weak, come again!"

As soon as he finished speaking, another gust of wind surged from the front. This time, Chen Shouyi didn't fight back, only protecting his throat and face, allowing the opponent to attack. Soon a long bloodstain was torn open on his chest, the force used this time far greater than before, the wound reaching a depth of an inch.

Clearly angered by Chen Shouyi's disregard and provocation, it was furious!

…

Xiao Changming watched as Chen Shouyi bled continuously from the repeated attacks, soon his whole body was stained red. His brows furrowed deeply, his hand gripped the sword hilt tightly, which emitted a creaking sound.

"Damn, what's he doing? Has he really given up?"

…

Rip…

Another bloodstain appeared on Chen Shouyi's body, the massive blood loss made him feel his strength rapidly draining, and the monster's claws seemed to carry poison, causing the wounds to start feeling numb.

Fortunately, with repeated success, it finally relaxed its vigilance and didn't flee after a single attack. It only took a step back before eagerly attacking again. However, as its claws tore into his abdomen muscles, those muscles suddenly clamped down tightly.

Taking advantage of the opponent's moment of hesitation, Chen Shouyi's hands clasped onto its body like iron shackles, exclaiming, "Got you!"

In an instant, the monster let out an ear-piercing scream, its mind flashing a moment of blankness. Fortunately, it was brief, and he regained his senses, desperately restraining the monster's struggling body. Then, he grabbed its arm, revealing a fierce and savage expression, and slammed it violently to the ground:

"Die for me!"

With a thunderous crash, accompanied by a series of dense bone-breaking sounds.

Mud splashed, the ground shook slightly, creating a shallow pit.

Meanwhile, the surrounding environment also began to tremble, as the Illusion Realm rapidly faded away.

The monster finally revealed its true form.

Chen Shouyi didn't dare let up, lifting its broken body once more, swinging it forcefully.

Twice!

Thrice!

…

Like an explosion, the loud noises continued unabated.

Masses of flesh and internal organs detached from the corpse and splattered around. The more Chen Shouyi smashed, the lighter it felt in his hand, and by the sixth strike, he suddenly smashed in vain.

He woke up to find only a soft, limp half-arm, like a pile of rotten meat, remained in his hand. The body had turned into fragments, covering a hundred square meters around, the intense smell of blood nauseating enough to make one's stomach turn.

He felt a hint of disgust, casually throwing away the arm.

…

In the distance, Xiao Changming, Wang Yue, and the soldiers on guard stared in astonishment, utterly shocked.

Chen Shouyi walked up to Wang Yue and asked, "Give me a cigarette!"

"Wait…wait!" Wang Yue stammered, his hand trembling as he fumbled in his trouser pocket several times without taking it out. The metal cigarette case seemed stuck in the pocket. In his urgency, he yanked it hard, tearing the pocket before finally retrieving the case.

He took out a cigarette and respectfully lit it for him.

Xiao Changming also quickly walked over, looking at his blood-drenched body: "Are your injuries okay, should we take you to the hospital?"

"Just minor wounds, nothing serious, a nap will do." Chen Shouyi waved off.

He could feel the numbness of the wounds fading, slowly starting to heal. As long as no toxin hindered the healing, it was merely minor injuries for him.

He took a deep drag of the cigarette, promptly coughing from the smoke.

No one laughed; who would dare laugh at someone who had just turned a terrifying monster into a pile of flesh with their bare hands?

"Tell the leaders I'm heading out first," Chen Shouyi said without a fuss, tossing away the cigarette.

Speaking this, he swiftly walked away.

"Fortunately, he has no real ambition for power, otherwise…" Xiao Changming muttered to himself as he watched his figure quickly vanish into the darkness.

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