Chapter 249 - Last bullet second half (1/2)
Chapter 249 - Last bullet (second half)
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The fear on the soldier's face was forever frozen, and it brought an unparalleled impact to his other comrades. In addition to Rankin, the other three soldiers turned around and ran.
The level of danger in Rankin's heart instantly rose to the peak!
”Don't run...”
Rankin opened his mouth to warn him, but suddenly three thorns came piercing through the darkness, cutting through the throats of three soldiers with incomparable accuracy. The sharp vines brought forth a spray of blood, taking away three lives at the same time!
When the vines were retracted, the darkness returned to silence. Only Rankin's loud breathing could be heard.
Rankin shouted as his chest expanded and contracted three times. He quickly reloaded the magazine and fired again and again into the darkness.
Flames kept spitting out from the muzzle, but this time, there was no sound of metal hitting metal. A vine snaked through the darkness, wrapped around Rankin's ankle without his noticing, and lashed out again. In an instant, Rankin lost his balance and was thrown by the vines into the abandoned warehouse.
The force of the impact made him see stars. While he was trying his best to regain clarity in his mind, he saw a pair of legs.
Above him was a thin man in a loose windbreaker. A cruel smile hung on the man's face. Behind him, seven or eight thorny vines swayed irregularly like the tentacles of an octopus.
Rankin struggled to reach for the fallen pistol, but one of the vines behind the man's back caught him before he could. With a light wave of the vine, the pistol slipped into the darkness. Then the vine rolled toward Rankin. Rankin suddenly sprang up, and with his hands and feet on the ground, he fell like lightning to the man's left.
Vines rolled in the air. The man looked at Rankin: ”It seems you don't want to die.”
”Nonsense, who would complain about having a long life?” Rankin replied.
”Very good, this way maybe we can make a deal.” He bowed to Rankin like a gentleman and said, ”My name is Gunabel, and I am honoured to meet you. ”Let's put it this way, as long as you answer one of my questions, I won't kill you.”
Rankin's face was livid, and he did not answer. His hands were clenched into fists, and he was trembling slightly. It was hard to tell if he was nervous or afraid.
”I want to ask you about a man, a soldier called Zero. ”Tell me where he is and the reward will be your life.”
Rankin looked surprised. ”So you're looking for trouble,” he said. ”I didn't like the look of that guy long ago. It was easy enough to tell you where he was.”
”Oh, so the answer is?”
”Un, that fellow Zero is here...”
Just as he was about to find out where Zero was going, Gunnar couldn't help but listen attentively. Although he knew that Zero was in this base, the underground base of the Cossacks was simply too big. It would not be easy for Gunnar to find him in a short time if he did not know exactly what was going on with Zero. Now that he was finally going to hear the exact news, Gounabel was not only slightly pleased.
As a result, he did not realize that the warehouse buildings on both sides of him had started trembling.
”Where is he?” Gunnar asked.
”He's right behind you!” Rankin screamed, shocked.
Günabel was also startled. He quickly turned around, but there was no one behind him. Just as he realized that he had been tricked and was about to get angry, the warehouses on both sides suddenly let out an earth-shattering sound and fell towards him. It had happened in such a hurry that Gunnar could only watch in horror as he was drowned in shadow. In the instant he was submerged by the rock torrent, he felt a faint trace of earth elemental energy remaining on the body of the warehouse.
Rankin had used his Elemental Shock to create this result. He had clenched his fists just now, and his entire body was trembling slightly. However, it was just an expression of him using all his strength to condense the earth element. Now, Rangken was panting heavily as he scolded with a smile, ”I don't like zero, but I don't like being threatened either!”
Glancing at Gunnar, who was being pressed down by a mountain of debris, Rankin spat in his direction and walked toward the darkness where his pistol was. However, just as Lang Ken picked up his weapon, a 'ta' sound rang out from behind him.
This was the sound of a stone falling to the ground, followed by a second, then a third …
In the end, with a loud bang, more than a hundred black shadows pierced out of the pile of rocks amidst the cloud of dust. It spread out like a blossoming flower, finally poking into the ground. These black shadows were the thorny vines of Günabel, and as soon as they touched the ground, they suddenly rose up into the air. Immediately, countless stones were lifted up and rolled down to the two sides. Finally, the vines lifted Gunabel up and let him rise slowly from the ruins.
Gunnar's face was as bad as it could get. He hadn't thought he would be ambushed by a rat. He looked at Rankin and said in a cold, heartless voice, ”Do you want to kill yourself or do you want me to do it myself?”
Rankin smiled wryly.