Zhou Yanning and the others hid behind cover and didn't dare to show their heads, fearing that they would be shot in the head if they came out.

Inside the room, Lu Chengchuan found a black package. When he opened it, he saw nine monster crystals inside. It seemed that these people had made a good harvest.

After thinking for a moment, he put the crystal into his pocket.

"Have you seen them?"

Zhou Yaning's voice came from the headset, she was very anxious. Lu Chengchuan picked up the sniper rifle on the ground and used the scope on it to search for their accomplices.

These people were poorly dressed, but they were good people.

This sniper rifle looks new and has a nice scope. This gun alone is not cheap.

"I'm looking for you, don't show up."

Lu Chengchuan activated the Qi-gazing technique and wanted to use this method to find the person. As long as he saw Qi at a certain location, it meant that there was someone at that location.

With the help of qigong, he found four more people.

The four of them split into two groups, forming a triangle with the people on his side, staring at the street together.

"There are two people on the fifth floor of the house on your right. Hold them back while I go find the other two." Lu Chengchuan immediately told Zhou Yaning who he saw.

Zhou Yaning looked up at the window of the house. She couldn't see anyone inside, but she believed what Lu Chengchuan said.

"Suppressive fire!"

Zhou Yaning put on a shield for herself and rushed out.

Elsewhere, Lu Chengchuan quickly reached the other house. The other four people, upon hearing their companion's call, were already on guard. However, Zhou Yaning, rushing onto the street, still diverted most of their attention.

Relying on the telekinetic shield on his body, Zhou Yaning blocked many bullets.

When Lu Chengchuan rushed upstairs, the two men were still shooting at Zhou Yaning and didn't notice that there was someone behind them.

Lu Chengchuan went up and took care of them with one punch.

The gunshots suddenly decreased, and the people on the other side seemed to have noticed it, stopped shooting, and turned to leave.

The two men quickly ran to the third floor and jumped directly from the third floor. When they jumped to the ground, they saw a man in protective clothing standing in front of them and watching them.

Without a word, the man raised his hand and emptied the magazine at him.

Bullets were spewing out, and Lu Chengchuan raised his hands in front of him. Invisible internal energy surged out, forming a shield in front of him.

The shield blocked all the bullets, and the expressions of the two men under their masks changed slightly. They were about to activate their superpowers, but suddenly this man appeared in front of them as if teleporting.

Before their powers could be activated, they fell to the ground.

Lu Chengchuan didn't kill them. Zhou Yaning came over and dragged the two men into the house.

"Take off their masks."

The two men were tied up tightly and their masks were taken off.

The two young men, who looked to be about twenty-five or twenty-six years old, were both people with special abilities.

"Who are you?"

“…”

The two looked at each other, and no one spoke.

"Get rid of them." Seeing that they didn't say anything, Zhou Yaning didn't want to waste time talking. Since the other party wanted to kill them, it would be reasonable for him to kill them.

We are on a special mission now and don't have time to take prisoners.

Hearing that they were going to be killed and their lives were in danger, the two finally panicked.

"No, no, I'll tell you! I'll tell you!"

"Who are you! Why are you killing people here?" Zhou Yaning snorted coldly and questioned the person begging for mercy.

“We just want to make some money…”

The man stammered and couldn't speak after saying a few words.

"Make some money. Oh, you have to kill people before making money, right? You can kill monsters, but why do you have to kill people?" Zhou Yaning helped him finish the rest of the sentence.

They say it's just about making money, but why didn't they think about this when they fired the black gun?

The man was speechless again, so Zhou Yaning continued to ask, "Who gave you these guns?"

These things are not ordinary goods, guns and scopes are not available on the market. The world is in chaos now, with a lot of monsters, but Shenghua Country still bans guns.

It is not easy to get a gun, as well as the matching scope and silencer in Guangnan Province.

The people behind them are not simple, maybe they have connections with the government.

"I don't know. The things were given to me by the middleman. I've never met the employer. The mission was just to find the monster crystal. I don't know anything else!" The man shook his head.

"Who is the middleman and where will you meet?"

"We met outside Yanghua City at a club called Red Flower Manor. The person who contacted us was called Lao Hu. He was the middleman, responsible for connecting us."

The man tells everything he knows, but too little key information.

"Get to the point! Who is Lao Hu? How do I find him?"

"We have an app called Paipai, and we get our work from it. I don't know anything else."

"Paipai? Is this a newly released software?"

This is usually black software that requires special methods to download. Zhou Yaning knows this because she has downloaded this kind of black software many times in the past in order to handle cases.

"It should be. I haven't heard of it before." Qian Xiaoling said from the side.

"Forget it, just get rid of them."

The situation was unclear, and they weren't here for this. They would deal with it after completing their mission. Now, they had to deal with these two guys first. They had killed and robbed people, and she would not let them go.

When the two heard that they were going to die, they immediately became anxious. How could they be killed even after confessing everything?

Before they could open their mouths to curse, their mouths were quickly blocked, followed by two gunshots.

Holes appeared in their heads, their life force fading as they fell to the ground, blood-red mucus quickly enveloping them. Without the protection of masks, the mucus began to eat away at their heads from the inside.

Soon, the two bodies were swallowed by the mucus, leaving not even a hair on their heads, only a set of protective clothing.

"I didn't expect...things would develop to this extent."

Mercenaries were paid to hunt monsters, which wasn't a bad thing, but their real purpose was to get crystals, not to kill monsters. They would kill anyone who had a crystal, even if it was a human.

"Keep going, keep your eyes open, and don't get shot at again."

If it weren't for Lu Chengchuan, Qian Xiaoling's head would have been riddled with bullets. Zhou Yaning was terrified just thinking about it. Even if someone had superpowers, they would die if their head was riddled with holes. Not everyone could take bullets like Lu Chengchuan.

Qian Xiaoling was even more scared, she almost died.

Apart from the calves and feet, the rest of their bodies do not have much protection. The protective suits themselves are already a hindrance to movement, and adding more protection would make them even more cumbersome.

"Be careful, I may not be able to save you every time."

Lu Chengchuan also asked them to be careful, because if he failed, they would be the ones in trouble.

A few people nodded, and after searching and taking away their belongings, they continued on their way, this time walking more carefully.

At night, they walked more than ten kilometers and really went deep into the city.

"Rest here tonight."

The once bustling city became very quiet. The bloody mucus devoured all life, leaving not even the sound of insects.

The street lights could not be turned on and the city was in darkness.