The moment the restaurant began to collapse…
On the bustling street, the deafening noise of the Western restaurant’s collapse instantly attracted the attention of all passersby on the street!
“Oh my God!”
“What’s going on over there!”
“Hurry and call the police! That Western restaurant seems to be on fire!”
“It’s on fire! Quickly call the firefighters!”
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The pedestrians on the road were in chaos, but very quickly, people from the crowd stepped forward and started to do their best to rescue those people by the door who were obstructed by the huge rocks
The road was congested, and the scene was tumultuous.
The dust from the collapse and the thick smoke from the fire made the streets very hazy. It was a huge disorderly mess!
From time to time, injured victims were carried out from the main entrance of the restaurant. The restaurant was still collapsing. Panic and uneasiness pervaded the crowd.
At the same time, on the first floor of a building next to the Western restaurant, a middle-aged man asked the young man beside him through gritted teeth,
“Are you sure that you can really catch that lass from the Shui Family by doing this?!”
“Of course.”
Facing the burly man with a height of 1.9 meters, the young man was not bothered. Confidently, he tidied his nails and said with a faint smile as he looked at the collapsing restaurant.
“But aren’t we going overboard by doing this? To actually disguise that it is collapsing because of a fire…”
“Hmph, I know what you are worrying about, but I can tell you responsibly that this is the best way. It’s just a building. There will be enough time for those not involved to escape before the fire spreads.”
Seeing the young man’s calm and composed manner, the man secretly grinded his teeth. However, there was nothing he could do about this young man because he knew that he had no other choice.
Not when the opponent was someone with genuine superpowers.
“Hmm? Why has the situation slowed down?”
Suddenly, the young man’s brows knitted together as he looked at the situation in the restaurant that had obviously been somewhat contained, and wondered aloud.
“I’m not sure. Are you afraid that the lass will be in danger?”
The man suppressed his anger and responded coldly. The young man smiled indifferently and said,
“How is that possible? She is the beloved daughter of the Shui family. She must have some life-saving artifact given to her from people like us. Besides, it is just an old two-storey restaurant building.”
“As long as her luck is not too bad, how can there be any mishap.”
The man fell silent, but still felt a little uneasy.
“Get your men down there and seize the opportunity before the restaurant completely collapses to capture her quickly. Otherwise, once people from the Shui family arrive…”
The young man’s voice grew low as he said this. The man was silent for a while, before taking out the wireless walkie-talkie under his shoulder and issued orders emotionlessly,
“Launch the second step of the plan!”
“Everyone, infiltrate!”
“Capture the target!”
“Action!”
From the wireless radio channel, a chorus response came,
“Yes!”
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In the restaurant that was shaking and on fire…
The colossal roof of the square hall, which accounted for one-third of the entire restaurant, collapsed and smashed down just one meter away from Fang Ran.
Fang Ran’s eyes were still widened and staring intensely at the roof. He was gasping slowly, like someone who had just experienced drowning regaining his breath.
Nervous, his back was drenched.
But, at long last…
Fang Ran looked down at the girl whom he had hauled out.
‘This is great, no one is dead.’
“You managed to save her, so run away quickly. Do you really want to be crushed to death here?!”
Ling’s voice resounded in Fang Ran’s mind.
Fang Ran snapped out of his daze as if he had just woken up from a dream. The slight concussion made his head hurt, his thoughts were still slightly fuzzy and his vision was also blurry. His tense nerves and his mana falling to zero just a moment ago, were also making him feel extremely uncomfortable.
However, he knew he had to flee quickly.
With his already blurred vision that was also partially red due to the blood, Fang Ran dragged Shui Lianxin towards the door with his instinctive sense of direction.
But,…
Fang Ran had just taken one step forward before he stopped. Shui Lianxin was feeling frightened. She was just about to raise her head up in confusion, when she felt a hand forcibly wrapping around her shoulder and pressing her tightly against a chest.
The Silver Split Dragontooth reappeared in Fang Ran’s hands, and as Fang Ran placed his hand horizontally, a shield appeared in front of both of them.
The dried blood flowing over his right eye made him look crazy and dangerous. Out of his senses, he raised his head and questioned in a deep tone that sounded as ferocious as that of a wounded beast,
“Who are you guys?!”
“Report, an unexpected hindrance has appeared!”
Amidst the collapsed rubble, the flames that were still spreading on the ground, and the black smoke and dust, their target was being hugged tightly by the young man whose face had dried blood on it. He held her tightly in his arms in front of him, as if he was protecting his most precious doll.
The most important thing was that the bloody eyes of the young man before them had a viciousness about them which made them feel as if it was a ferocious beast staring at them!
Hence, they immediately contacted their leader who was directing this operation.
“Report! The target is in his hands!”
In the building over, the burly man’s brows furrowed in fury. There was actually a mishap!
“I don’t care who he is! All I want is the target! Don’t kill him, just knock him unconscious and throw him outside!”
The man roared into the wireless walkie talkie.
Then, just as he was about to blame the young man, he realized that the young man had long rushed towards the restaurant!
Upon receiving the man’s order, five low-level personnel wearing all kinds of clothes, made up their minds and prepared to attack from all directions!
“Be careful not to hurt the target person!”
“Magic, activate…”
“Take action!”
“I command you!”
The person who seemed to be the squad leader among the five of them barked loudly towards the other side of the smoke. He did not notice that when he was shouting, another voice had also rang out!
“Pin down their shadows!”
Buzz!
It was as if all of a sudden a thin invisible thread was binding and tugging from all directions. The five of them, who had been through several battles, realized in horror…
They could not move!
The squad leader, who had planned to attack Fang Ran from the front, widened his eyes as he saw the bizarre weapon of the young man across from him, was stabbed into a streak of golden glow on the ground. However, aside from that, what truly frightened him was…
Was the strange thing that seemed like a huge black cloak being propped up by a shadow, which had appeared out of nowhere and was floating behind the young man.
It/she/he had appeared abruptly, defending the air behind the young man like a ghost!
[The Shadow]’s pitch-black cloak undulated like waves.
“You guys, want to kill me?”
As if sensing the other party’s malicious killing intent, Fang Ran raised his head and asked indignantly in an ominous tone.
A wave of anger rose out of the blue, like the viciousness and resent of a child who had been bullied.
‘They want to kill me!’
‘Why do they want to kill me?!’
‘I don’t want to die!’
‘In that case, I should…
Kill them!’
A malevolent expression flashed across Fang Ran’s eyes. His rationality from living in an ordinary world was stretched taut and about to snap. Confronted with people who wanted to kill him, Fang Ran could not suppress the dangerous thought that popped up in his mind.
In the restaurant where debris was falling from time to time with spreading flames, the five shadows slowly floated off the ground. The five of them suddenly realized that they could move again. But before they could begin retaliating or escaping…
Their own shadows suddenly started strangling them ruthlessly.
“Mon… ster! Oof!”
Even these mercenaries who had fought on the battlefield, could not help but scream in horror at the sight of such a scene that was beyond their logical reasoning! However, the force exerted on their necks made it difficult for them to breathe, immediately stopping them from saying the rest of their sentence!
Still in the collapsing restaurant, the rubble was falling, the flames were spreading, five figures tumbled to the ground in pain. They desperately tried to pry open the hands that were strangling them, but they could not touch their own shadows.
The whole scene was bizarre and out of their control.
“I didn’t expect that there would actually be a fellow Night Battle participant here as well.”
At that moment, Fang Ran saw a young man jumping down directly from the top of the collapsing roof, with a tone of deep surprise in his words.
“No! Run away quickly, that guy is a C-grader. He’s not someone you can deal with now, hurry up and run!”
Sensing the grade of the approaching person at the first glance, Ling anxiously shouted in Fang Ran’s mind!
Fang Ran was also panting heavily, the symptoms of the concussion still present. Right now, his mind was a blur. From the very beginning when he was flung across the room due to the explosion, he had been hanging on until now using the determination that everyone had when refusing death.
Even ordinary people would put up a desperate fight before they die!
However, Fang Ran, who had once again regenerated 1080 mana value with the help of the Silver Split Dragontooth’s bonus effect, knew clearly that using [The Shadow] to pin down those five people, was causing his mana value to decrease at a rate of five points each second.
Not to mention the huge gap in ability stats between him and that of a C-grader.
However, Fang Ran had absolutely no intention of letting go and escaping on his own. He was like a child when he was being stubborn – The more someone wanted him to let go, the less he wanted the other person to get what they wanted.
Not to mention, these people even wanted to kill him.
How could he let them get what they wanted!
After briefly thinking these through, Fang Ran hugged the girl in his arms even tighter. The blood stains on his face and his red right eye made him look exceptionally crazy!
“You… want to kill me too?”