Chapter 68

One of the players stood in shock, staring at the few strands of hair that had drifted down from the sky, his lips twitching uncontsciously. Damn, to prevent being assassinated, he had specifically run to an open area.

Now, he had become a live target. If it weren't for his companion's heightened sense of danger, who had urgently pulled him down and pressed him to the ground, his head would have been blown off by the crossbow bolt that shot past.

Even so, a bloody gash had been cut into his scalp.

"Wait, wait, we have no ill intentions, we just want to talk!" The players, drenched in sweat, shouted to the surroundings. At this moment, sweating was better than being caught in the snow. Most importantly, they needed to get Zheng Chen to stop attacking them first.

After waiting a bit longer and seeing no further attacks from Zheng Chen, the players let out a slight sigh of relief and hurriedly left the area. Zheng Chen, who had stopped attacking, had no intention of meeting them. Since they had wisely left, he wouldn't do anything unnecessary.

He retracted the crossbow he had shaped and returned to the airship. The breakfast he had bought was still untouched. Lei was clearly waiting for Zheng Chen to return. "What happened outside? I thought I heard someone shouting?"

"Some people were driven away," Zheng Chen said briefly. After distributing the breakfast, he quickly finished his portion. He then planned to go to a nearby town to gather information and see if there was a way to the outer domain. Although the chances were slim, he could still gain some useful information.

However, he didn't intend to go just yet. His whereabouts had already been exposed, and it wasn't a good time to go. After waiting a day or two, it wouldn't matter. But trouble came knocking again.

When he heard the rumbling from outside, Zheng Chen immediately shattered the glass inside the cockpit and pulled Lei and Xie Ya out, jumping out with them. The sound of intense machine gun fire suddenly erupted from the sky, and a barrage of bullets shattered the airship's wings first, then hit the engine, causing an immediate explosion.

Staring at the damaged airship, a sinister look flashed in Zheng Chen's eyes as he glared at the small aircraft in the sky, from which the bullets had rained down.

There was no time to think about the reason for the attack. Zheng Chen immediately led Lei and Xie Ya to take cover to the side, and the ground was instantly riddled with bullet holes.

"Are they trying to hurt us?" Xie Ya asked softly, her tone lacking a sense of crisis but with a hint of something unusual.

"Xie Ya?" Lei also noticed Xie Ya's odd behavior and looked at her with concern.

"I'm here," Zheng Chen responded quickly. The area was full of mines, so finding cover was relatively easy. After finding a place that could temporarily hide them, Zheng Chen quickly shaped a mass of metal in his hands, which rapidly formed into a frame.

In a short time, it shaped into a frame, but the small aircraft in the sky had already circled around.

"Stay here," he said, giving Xie Ya a cold look. "And you, don't make me do anything unnecessary."

Xie Ya shrank back in fear, quickly nodding. She didn't know why Zheng Chen had suddenly become so cold. "I'll stay with Lei and won't run around."

"..." It wasn't about running around. Although he no longer had his past memories, Zheng Chen had apparently left a deathly shadow on Xie Ya, so this cold attitude brought back some of her memories. After getting a response, he quickly jumped out of cover and threw a throwing knife.

However, due to the distance, the knife only touched the small aircraft and lost its momentum, unable to cause any damage.

At the same time, the small aircraft immediately locked onto him, and large-caliber bullets rained down from the sky. Zheng Chen moved in a zigzag pattern to avoid the bullets, and pieces of metal quickly formed in his hands, which he then attached to the crossbow frame.

After finding a new cover, Zheng Chen was already breathing heavily. The erosion by black particles and the side effects of the strong suppressant had significantly reduced his physical strength, making him only as strong as an ordinary person. The imbalance between his strength and stamina made him tire quickly during intense activities.

In the new cover, Zheng Chen pulled the crossbow string with force, and a new arrow quickly formed in his hands. Ordinary crossbow arrows wouldn't cause much damage to the small aircraft unless they hit a vital spot.

Therefore, the arrowhead Zheng Chen made was quite large, filled with explosive material. If it hit the aircraft's wing, it would definitely bring it down.

After a brief pause, Zheng Chen instantly jumped out of cover, agilely rolling to the side to avoid the incoming attack. However, the attack didn't come. The small aircraft circled twice and then flew off in another direction, seemingly having found something that made them change their target.

"..." Looking in the direction the small aircraft flew, Zheng Chen saw a young man and a young woman fleeing hurriedly. The small aircraft didn't attack them. The young woman, Zheng Chen recognized, was the one who had fallen from the passenger ship.

The young man had picked her up at the mine.

After a moment's pause, Zheng Chen waved to the fleeing young man and woman. The young man, with good eyesight, saw Zheng Chen's gesture, hesitated for a moment, and then ran over. At the same time, the small aircraft lowered its altitude and aimed at Zheng Chen, preparing to attack.

The young man and woman didn't intend to kill them but had a specific purpose. Zheng Chen, who had appeared from the strange airship, was a different matter.

As they aimed at Zheng Chen, he also readied his crossbow, aiming at the small aircraft. The explosive arrow, whistling through the air, quickly approached the aircraft that was about to attack him.

Even with an emergency maneuver, the aircraft was still hit in the wing. The explosion from the arrow severely damaged the aircraft's flight capability, and the aircraft, with smoke billowing from one wing, became unstable in the air.

"Thank you, big brother," the young man panted, running over to Zheng Chen.

Zheng Chen shook his head, keeping his eyes on the unstable aircraft in the sky as he reloaded the crossbow and fitted a new arrow.

The aircraft, which had tried to attack Zheng Chen again, was now completely disabled and slid to one side. With one wing damaged, it could no longer maintain normal flight. Zheng Chen was clearly preparing to attack again, and they were worried that he might completely bring them down.

Although they wanted to evade, Zheng Chen had no intention of letting them go. After they destroyed the airship he still needed, he didn't plan to let anyone inside go.

The crossbow arrow, launched again, was extremely fast. The aircraft, with its movement impaired, couldn't avoid it. After the other wing was hit by the explosive arrow, it plummeted to the ground.

There was no explosion.

After listening to the sounds, Zheng Chen frowned slightly. Sure enough, the next moment, some soldiers in military uniforms, firing their guns, rushed over.

"Big brother, this way," the young man pulled on Zheng Chen, pointing in a direction. "Let's hide over there first."

"No need," Zheng Chen said calmly, calmly pulling the crossbow string and aiming at the group. After one of them was shot through the head, the others immediately chose to cower, lying flat on the ground to hide themselves. Without a clear target, Zheng Chen put away the crossbow. "Let's go."

He didn't go in the direction the young man pointed but to where Lei and Xie Ya had been. After finding them, he followed the direction the young man had pointed. As a resident, the young man was more familiar with the local terrain.

Sure enough, before the soldiers caught up, the young man found a mine shaft and led them inside. The mine shaft was dug in all directions, with many abandoned but still usable tunnels.

Once inside, they didn't have to worry about being found. Zheng Chen was unfamiliar with the tunnels, and so were the soldiers.

The young man, who was leading the way, was quite familiar with the area and quickly found a temporary resting place for the miners. After lighting the oil lamp he carried, he let out a deep breath. "That was close. We almost got caught when we came out."

After saying that, he looked at Lei and Xie Ya with curiosity. They were very beautiful, and in his town, there were none as beautiful as them. As for Zheng Chen, he was even more curious, as he didn't seem to be a resident of the town.

"My name is Baru. Big brother, what's yours?" The situation had been urgent earlier, but now that things seemed to be calm, he was a bit worried about Zheng Chen's background. The two groups he had encountered earlier... one was air pirates, and the other was the military. He thought the military might help, but their target was also the young woman by his side.

What about Zheng Chen, who had helped them earlier?

Could he also have some ulterior motive?

"Zheng Chen," Zheng Chen said coolly, shaking his sleeve, from which a bunch of scattered parts fell.

At this moment, Baru noticed that the crossbow Zheng Chen had carried earlier had disappeared. His left hand was wrapped in some cloth with strange writing, which Baru initially thought was a glove. It was quite strange.

Moreover, the parts that fell from his sleeve, as if by magic, quickly changed in Zheng Chen's hands. As the assembly was completed, Baru saw the full form of the parts: a revolver.

His heart immediately tightened.

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