East Lake was collapsing.
No, to be precise, East Lake would return to its original calm state sooner or later. It was just that the tunnel from before The Cataclysm had collapsed.
When Ren Xiaosu saw this, he felt like he was watching a civilization disappear. It was a ghastly sight.
Perhaps the war and schemes between humans really were an eternal theme.
But before he could lament for too long, Ren Xiaosu saw some people approaching from the perimeter of the tunnel.
In the blink of an eye, the other party was holding a black ceramic saber. It was as though they were going to surround everyone in the bushes.
Ren Xiaosu realized this was probably the Pyro Company's follow-up plan. The Pyro Company was trying to establish their dominance.
In the past, it was only the Anjing House and the Saboteurs who had been going against them. But it was different this time. The Anjing House had attracted so many people with just a text message, and this made the Pyro Company feel a sense of crisis. They had to make the entire underworld understand through this incident that the Pyro Company's things were not so easily coveted.
The Pyro Company did not intend to properly communicate with these underworld people. They firmly believed that as long as they could kill these motley crew and intimidate them, no one would respond to the Anjing House's call for help again.
At the very least, they would have to consider whether they were qualified or not before coming here!
"Men die for wealth, and birds die for food." These words seemed to be a perfect portrayal of tonight's situation.
It wasn't until this moment that the people who had come for the Pyro Company's laboratory data realized how ruthless the Pyro Company was.
But it was too late.
The 30-odd people who had surrounded them suddenly exerted their strength and shrank the encirclement in just a breath's time. When the nearly 100 people hiding in the bushes saw the situation was not good, they tried to break through the encirclement.
However, the Pyro Company's people who had surrounded them were extremely fierce. When someone tried to break through, they would dodge and block their path before stabbing them in the chest.
Not only that, but there were definitely more than 40 Pyro Company members lurking in Stronghold 73.
In the distance, a sniper started sniping at the Pyro Company members. It seemed like the Anjing House had started their counterattack. But the sniper only managed to fire two shots before he let out a cry of pain and was beheaded.
Meanwhile, the member of the Pyro Company's Dusk squad who had ambushed the sniper had his head pierced by a thin metal needle.
The old sugar painter sat beside Vanilla and spread out his aluminum plate, stove, and iron wok. As the sugar turned amber in the red-hot iron wok, the old man waved his hand and drew a dragon on the aluminum plate, guarding Vanilla closely.
The two of them seemed to have developed a tacit understanding of each other. One of them drew a dragon to protect him, while the other focused on controlling the metal to kill the enemy.
When the first Amber True Dragon appeared, the old man wiped the sweat off his forehead. "Can you give me a heads up next time? Don't be so hasty. This ability of mine takes time."
However, Vanilla smiled and said, "Look, aren't we in time?"
As he spoke, he opened a silver box in his hand. There were 24 specially-made long metal needles inside. With a flick of his finger, 12 of the needles flew up, spinning and floating in front of Vanilla, as if searching for a target.
The long needles shot out as though they had eyes of their own. Someone cried out in pain in the darkness. Vanilla had actually killed a Pyro Company combatant who was lurking nearby!
In the darkness nearby, more members of the Pyro Company appeared. Some of them even emerged from the river with what looked like gills growing on their cheeks to allow them to breathe underwater.
These people were the ones who detonated the explosives on the outer structure of the tunnel. It could be said that the cave-in at East Lake was their masterpiece.
Now that they had succeeded, they naturally had to rush out of the water to help in the battle.
However, Ren Xiaosu was at a loss. Could they still be considered humans? Had the Pyro Company's level of genetic modification reached a level where they could change the characteristics of a species?
Furthermore, when he saw nearly a 100 members of the Pyro Company had appeared before him, Ren Xiaosu wondered if there was a so-called research laboratory in Stronghold 73.
Was the Pyro Company really here to look for a research laboratory? Or had they chosen a place with the most favorable geographical location for themselves and had been planning this for a long time to scheme against the Anjing House?
A text from the Anjing House followed immediately after. "Increase the bounty. Any hitman in the encirclement will receive double the reward as long as they kill a member of the Pyro Company."
When Ren Xiaosu saw this text, he frowned. As a matter of fact, he was probably the only one in the encirclement who could receive a text message. The others' cell phones were still with the shadow clone.
The Anjing House probably did not expect that Ren Xiaosu would make it feel like a private chat even though it was a group text message.
Immediately after, the A-rank hitmen from the Anjing House suddenly appeared outside the encirclement and killed the Pyro Company members who looked like water ghosts.
For these A-rank hitmen to be able to rise to this rank, they had to have something extraordinary about them. Therefore, they were not in a hurry to enter the tunnel.
The chaos was endless, and even a mob boss like Zheng Hongning could only feel at a loss. This was no longer a battlefield they could control. Just as they had said, this world had changed beyond their understanding!
The mantis stalked the cicada, unaware of the oriole behind. In this chaotic battle, it was no longer clear who was the cicada, the mantis, and the oriole.
It would only be decided after the battle was over.
It all depended on who had more aces up their sleeves!
The stench of blood started spreading through the underbrush, and more and more people were dying.
Just as Zheng Hongning and the others were thinking about what to do, they suddenly heard "Dr. Ren" whisper next to them, "Those who don't want to die, stay behind me."
Before he could finish speaking, Ren Xiaosu had already made his move. He rushed southwest where the gap created by the Anjing House's A-rank sniper was.
Zheng Hongning and the others did not have time to think. They followed Ren Xiaosu and rushed outside. But before they could break out of the encirclement, the Pyro Company members had already filled up the gap.
Zheng Hongning felt a wave of despair. "Dr. Ren, what should we do now?"
"What's there to panic about?" Ren Xiaosu said coldly.
The eight Pyro Company members sneered and charged at them. But before they could get in front of Ren Xiaosu, a figure wearing a white mask flashed out from the side and grabbed a Pyro Company member by the neck at lightning speed. Then he charged forward in an extremely ferocious manner.
Zheng Hongning and the others were stunned. Why did they feel that this supernatural being, who had just snatched a lot of cell phones and was envious of them, seemed to be deliberately protecting Dr. Ren in front of him?
They silently looked at the back of the young man in front of them and felt like they had mistaken him for a god!
However, why was Dr. Ren constantly taking pictures with his cell phone while he was running for his life? Zheng Hongning asked in panic, "Dr. Ren, this isn't the time to be fiddling with your cell phones. Quickly put them away and run for your lives. Don't look at the Anjing House's text messages anymore."
Ren Xiaosu said curiously, "I'm not looking at the text messages. I'm taking pictures. A head is worth hundreds of thousands or even millions of yuan. That's all money! I have to keep evidence that my friend, Old Xu, and I killed them! "
Zheng Hongning was speechless. Why was he still thinking about money at a time like this?!
He asked, "Aren't you a doctor?"
Ren Xiaosu grinned and said, "Uh, my profession is more extensive."
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