Gu Mingyue smiled as she looked at Xinghe, slowly putting away the golden silk thread in her hand. However, as she and Xinghe left the open space, she gave Zou Shaoyun a cold look.

Fortunately, her and Xinghe's abilities improved rapidly in this life, which gave them the ability to deal with this situation.

If she had encountered such a madman during this period in her previous life, she might have died.

No matter how Fang Kai treats him in the future, Gu Mingyue will absolutely not let this leader of the Jackal Gang off the hook this time.

Fang Kai also jumped towards the stone pillars on both sides, but his teammates didn't have his reaction speed.

Although they were tied with ropes around their waists, they fell one after another into the scalding lava like dumplings being dropped into boiling water, turning into charcoal without even a struggle.

The other monsters from the Dark Realm who stepped onto the stone pillars also fell into the lava, but it was like a baby returning to its amniotic sac—they were completely unharmed.

They swam in the lava like frogs, but started fighting amongst themselves when they started vying for the charred corpses inside.

The team members who were just cheering each other on are now all turned into charcoal meat in the monster's mouth.

Fang Kai stared at Zou Shaoyun, who was standing by the central cave, his eyes bloodshot with rage, his hands trembling uncontrollably with hatred.

Zou Shaoyun was just as furious when he saw that Fang Kai was still alive.

"They are still alive!"

Zou Shaoyun took out the pistol tucked in his waistband and fired fiercely at Gu Mingyue and Fang Kai, the survivors.

By this time, everyone was mentally prepared and had set up defensive measures before Zou Shaoyun fired. Only Zhang Yun was hit by a bullet in her left arm.

Xinghe had already erected a protective shield behind the stone pillar next to Gu Mingyue.

The bullets struck Xinghe's spatial shield, and Xinghe slightly raised his eyes to give Zou Shaoyun a cold look.

The direction and angle of the space shield changed slightly, and the bullets that were fired were forcefully deflected back by the space shield.

Not only did Zou Shaoyun fail to harm Gu Mingyue and the other person, he was also wounded by the bullet he fired.

Upon realizing that his knees and ears had been pierced by arrows, Zou Shaoyun glared fiercely at Gu Mingyue and the other person.

He covered his bleeding ear, feeling both angry and terrified.

If he hadn't reacted quickly and turned to the side, the bullet would have pierced his skull.

If Gu Mingyue and the other person had made it safely through, he and his Jackal Gang would likely have been wiped out here today.

Zou Shaoyun's eyes grew increasingly sinister.

"We can't let them get here. Bring out all the bombs. I'm going to blow up all those stone pillars and see how they manage to get here alive," Zou Shaoyun said to his men.

"Boss, we've blown up all these stone pillars, how are we going to get back?" a member of the Jackal Gang asked.

During this trip into the Black Domain, Zou Shaoyun laid several traps to kill Fang Kai, resulting in the deaths of many of the Jackal Gang's men.

Now that Zou Shaoyun plans to blow up all the roads home, even the most loyal subordinates are starting to have thoughts of rebellion.

Zou Shaoyun glanced quickly at the person who asked the question, and then a long metal knife appeared out of thin air behind the person. With Zou Shaoyun's will, he stabbed the person through the heart.

Seeing this man's fate, no one else dared to resist.

After silencing the surrounding resistance, Zou Shaoyun ordered his men to throw grenades at Gu Mingyue, Fang Kai, and the others.

Even if you can't blow them up, you should at least blow up the stone pillars beneath their feet.

Bang!

Phew!

The stone pillar collapsed, and the bomb landed near the lava. The enormous explosive force caused the huge lava pool to boil.

Seeing the number of sharp, cone-shaped stone pillars in the lava pool dwindling and hearing the screams of the Triumph Team members, Zou Shaoyun felt both excited and thrilled.

These people are all to be buried with his brother.

Although his brother's death had nothing to do with Fang Kai, and his brother's tragic death was even closely related to his brutality.

But he still directed all his hatred at Wu Qian and Fang Kai.

Because his younger brother and Fang Kai are the same kind of people—kind, naive, and foolish.

The reason why Zou Shaoyun is determined to kill Fang Kai even if it means destroying their escape route is because every time he sees Fang Kai's foolish way of saving people, it reminds him of his younger brother, and he recalls day and night the fact that his younger brother died tragically in the Black Domain.

Before the Golden Black Domain dissipated, ever since he learned that Zou Shaoyun's Jackal Gang upgraded by mining human crystal cores, his naive college student brother refused to absorb any crystal cores.

They said he was disgusting, no different from cannibalism, and gave all the crystal cores he had painstakingly stolen to others in the safe zone, saying it was to atone for his sins.

Before the apocalypse, their family was not well-off. Zou Shaoyun and his younger brother had lost both their parents, so he had to work odd jobs to support his brother's university education, practically raising him as half a son.

Perhaps it was out of heartache for the crystal core, or perhaps his spirit had been pushed to the brink under the immense pressure of the apocalypse.

That day, Zou Shaoyun used a long whip studded with fine metal needles to beat his younger brother half to death, but the boy didn't beg for mercy or utter a single curse word to him.

He just kept repeating that he needed to become stronger so that he wouldn't continue doing things that harmed his own kind.

When Zou Shaoyun looked at Fang Kai's rescue team, he had the same disdainful expression on his face as he had during his last conversation with his brother.

Looking at his blood-soaked younger brother, he said, "If you want to become stronger and change the Jackal Gang's survival strategy of killing their own kind, then you should enter the Black Domain Main City and retrieve the Crystal Source to show me! Otherwise, you're just a pathetic worm watching me kill and sucking blood!"

A single angry remark led his foolish younger brother to confront Wu Qian, thus creating the source of the year-long, irreconcilable conflict between the Jackal Gang and the Triumph Team.

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