My Apocalypse Territory-Chapter 243 - 240: Heaven Really Hasn’t Abandoned Me

The air was thick with a lethal silence.

Like water meeting cold air, it gradually solidified.

Inside the residential area, the occasional pedestrians had already retreated. Ordinary people moved farther back, while some Awakeners, confident in their strength, did not go too far.

—The uniformed members of the Security Team exuded many strong presences, which could be felt from afar. The Awakener surrounded in the middle was like a little lamb encircled by a pack of wolves.

A part-time journalist quickly ran up the floors of a nearby building, found a suitable position for themselves, and took out a high-resolution camera scavenged from an old market. The lens was aimed at the Awakener in the midst of the encirclement.

Zooming in, the image in the lens enlarged, revealing the face of the Awakener clearly.

He was about in his early twenties, deep within the encirclement, yet there was not a hint of panic to be seen, only a crooked smile on his lips that looked somewhat... eerie.

Captain Lei was in the stairwell, clutching the handrail and leaping down floor by floor, and soon burst out of the building.

He saw the group of Security Team members holding guns, their muzzles pointed at Wang Ran, slowly closing in.

"Be careful, that's not an ordinary Fourth Layer Awakener, he's from the Transformation series! Watch the black lines behind him!"

"Transformation series?" Captain Lei and Wang Ran locked eyes, and Captain Lei watched the slight movement of the other's lips.

From the shape of his mouth.

He discerned two words, "Ignorance."

Swoosh swoosh swoosh—

Black threads emerged from behind Wang Ran, swift as lightning.

The nearest Security Team members' pupils shrank, their bodies instinctively moved, fingers bent, trying to pull the trigger.

However,

They were too slow.

The black threads, like the Grim Reaper's scythe.

In the blink of an eye, they pierced through the left chest of two Security Team members, bringing up a handful of fresh blood before retracting.

Several other nearby Security Team members who were closer dodged to the side, not fatally wounded but severely injured nonetheless.

Tat tat tat—

The rifles fired, this time with even denser gunfire.

The black threads behind him writhed, the young man with the devilish aura did not take the hits head-on this time.

He moved incredibly fast, using the complex surrounding buildings to constantly maneuver.

Whenever he saw an opportunity, he could deal a fatal blow to the Security Team members.

Captain Lei's eyes reddened.

"Third Layer Awakeners, fall back, leave the battlefield! Fourth Layer, teams of three, block his movements; Captain An, Captain Xu, let's go in together!"

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Including Captain Lei, three Captains with Fifth Tier strength rapidly closed in on their target.

Gunmen from afar restricted Wang Ran's range of motion, and other Fourth Layer Security Team members slowly approached from the outside.

"Ha!"

Captain Lei's figure flickered, avoiding a few black threads.

He landed with one foot, using the momentum to twist his body, generating power from his waist as his Combat Saber slashed diagonally downward.

Splurt—

Several sections of black thread fell to the ground, quickly turning to ash visible to the naked eye.

Not far away, Wang Ran, as if parts of his body had been severed, clutched his chest and coughed up blood.

"Good chance, cripple him first, then consider taking him alive!"

Captain Lei said in a deep voice.

Obviously, this man was a member of that gang, but definitely not the real mastermind.

At least, the man before him, despite his Fourth Layer strength, posed a threat to Captain Lei, but definitely could not, in utter silence, kill a Fifth Tier powerhouse.

Capturing the man alive would provide them with a chance to root out the gang behind him.

He exchanged a glance with the other two Captains, communicating with eye signals.

Quickly, he and Captain An coordinated to shield and tackle the wildly thrashing black threads from Wang Ran, while Captain Xu, who was known for his speed, shot out like a cannonball.

'First cripple his legs.'

Captain Lei's thoughts whirred, waiting for Captain Xu to succeed, ready to launch an attack in an instant to severely injure the enemy.

Only then would there be a chance to capture him alive.

"Fetter—"

A hoarse voice suddenly rose.

As if a sound carried through a chilly canyon, echoing... echoing...

Visible to the naked eye.

As Wang Ran's words ended, a purple-black column of light enveloped Captain Xu.

Captain Lei and Captain Xu were positioned opposite each other.

Facing him, the shock in Captain Xu's eyes was clear, as were the veins protruding violently on his face while his body remained frozen in struggle.

Such astonishment in a split second.

The black line pierced through Captain Xu's body, and after the purple-black column of light dissipated, he collapsed to the ground with a thud.

"Xu!"

Captain Lei cried out in alarm but then saw Wang Ran turning around, his gaze firmly capturing him.

His lips slowly parted.

A sense of death suddenly enveloped him, making Captain Lei's hair stand on end, with an invisible pressure already present in the air, about to shroud him.

As if to be trapped in a box.

This power, eerie... and strong...

Captain Lei was filled with terror... panic... bewilderment...

Somehow, he remembered the silent words of the other person at the start.

"Ignorant."

The purple-black column encased him, and sure enough, black threads like lightning shot out towards him.

He could see them clearly, and his thoughts were smooth, but his body could not move.

"Bang!"

Wang Ran's entire shoulder exploded, with blood gushing out ceaselessly, and he knelt on one knee to the ground.

As the purple-black light faded, the emitted black threads retracted back faster, as if electrified.

...It was a gunman.

Well done!

Captain Lei instantly understood and didn't dare waste this opportune moment, crossing a distance of over ten meters in an instant...

At that moment,

"Black Mist."

Just like before, that hoarse voice sounded again.

This time, in an instant, a cloud of black fog engulfed the area, so dense that one couldn't see their own hand in front of them... Even within the mist, Captain Lei found his perception ability rapidly diminished, unable to detect even a trace of the enemy close at hand.

He bellowed, instructing others to stay vigilant and tighten the encirclement.

It wasn't long before the black fog dispersed, but their target had already vanished without a trace.

...

...

Sigh...

Wang Ran controlled the writhing of his muscles, forcibly stopping the blood flow.

Yet his complexion was as pale as paper.

"Still too careless... Damn Security Bureau!"

Clutching his empty right arm, he hurriedly fled, with scenery whizzing by on both sides of his vision.

"In my current state, I'm no match for those from the Security Bureau; I must find somewhere to hide and recover from my injuries as soon as possible..."

"I remember there's a secret technique called 'Life Drain' that can quickly heal injuries."

By invoking the mysterious power residing within him, Wang Ran could perform several powerful secret techniques.

Life Drain was one of them.

But this technique had a prerequisite; he needed to find a target from which to extract life force.

Severe blood loss made his complexion even more pallid, and his physical strength rapidly dwindled.

He had been running so frantically that he fled without direction.

He was unclear about his current location.

Wang Ran slowed his pace, surveying his surroundings.

This area was not bustling, sparsely populated, and he could see many construction vehicles in the distance; this seemed to be a community under development.

And at the moment, it was presumably time for their midday break.

His gaze swept around.

Hoping to find an appropriate target from which to draw life force, yet also wary of encountering a powerful Awakener and occasionally looking back, unsure when the Security Bureau would catch up.

He walked while keeping watch.

When his gaze glanced under a certain tree, his eyes lit up.

There were two girls who looked to be in their teens.

One of them had tender green sprouts emerging from their palm; this was a Wood Series Awakener who often possessed the most abundant vitality.

Wang Ran was thrilled.

Indeed, the heavens had not abandoned him.