At this moment, the demon could no longer endure the charred corpse that had been struck by lightning.
Find the opening when Shan Changxu releases his supernatural power, and then escape.
It's unclear whether he understood what the equipment in the container was, or whether he saw the corpse was about to be blown to pieces and could no longer maintain the possessed state.
Black smoke shot out of the headless corpse, quickly condensing into a cloak-like shape. Then, ignoring the surrounding fire suppression, it rushed directly into the outer elemental fire zone.
However, the smoke was obviously very thin, only slightly better than when Wang Zheng sucked the Heavenly Demon out of the human body in the laboratory, but the improvement was still very limited.
Most of the elemental awakeners had seen the experimental videos from the previous research base and knew that the concentration of the smoke represented the physical strength of the Heavenly Demon.
Seemingly fearing that the firepower surrounding the isolation zone would be too fierce and blast the weakened demon into dust, they all stopped their attacks without prior agreement.
For a moment, an eerie silence descended upon the entire dock.
Normally, it wouldn't have mattered if only one or two people stopped, but because the Heavenly Demon looked so weak and acted so decisively, the group didn't have time to communicate, which caused all the Awakened Ones responsible for that direction to stop at the same time.
Then the demon was overjoyed. The originally thin mist instantly became thick, and even the speed of flight increased significantly.
No one expected that the weakness that the Heavenly Demon had shown after being bombarded so many times was actually a facade.
Although he really wanted to rush into the firing zone, he also had the idea of enduring the damage and breaking out of the encirclement.
However, he himself did not expect that this disguise would be so effective.
To be fair, this Heavenly Demon should really thank Wang Zheng.
If he hadn't used holy light to torment another demon to the point of near collapse during his experiment, these awakened soldiers would never have been so careless.
However, just when the demon thought he had escaped, a swift bolt of lightning struck him hard, causing him to pause. Then, a ball of deep blue flame quickly enveloped him.
"Hiss—hiss—hiss—"
The mournful screams continued to ring out, and even Wang Zheng, who was hundreds of meters away, found them somewhat eerie.
Under the onslaught of thunder and fire, the demon writhed and twisted, the black mist on its body dissolving at a visible rate.
Some people may be careless, while others will not relax their guard even for a moment.
With the combined lightning and fire abilities of Shan Changxu and Dang Liantao, the Heavenly Demon, who thought he could escape, was instantly stopped.
Otherwise, how could someone become a captain while everyone else can only be a soldier?
When Yu Shaoting's water sphere approached, the demon had already been completely vaporized.
With a loud thud, a jet-black crystal fell from mid-air, rolled a few times on the ground, and brought today's capture operation to a less than perfect end.
At this point, all fire support had ceased.
Everyone present could not hide their disappointment and all turned their gaze to Dang Liantao.
Especially those team members who had stopped earlier were so ashamed they didn't know how to face themselves.
Although most of them were participating in the capture of the Heavenly Demon for the first time, or even seeing the Heavenly Demon with their own eyes for the first time, the operation was a failure.
Their original mission for today was to prioritize capturing the demons still inside human bodies to protect the possessed people as much as possible, followed by capturing the demons in their vaporized form, and finally eliminating the demons to prevent them from self-destructing and retrieve the demon crystals.
Given how much effort the military region put in to achieve this result, it would have been better to just use overwhelming firepower from the start and obliterate the demon to dust.
It was only now that they realized just how powerful Lieutenant Wang Zheng was in the video they had seen before. With every move he made, the Heavenly Demon had nowhere to hide and was completely powerless to resist.
You must know that this demon in front of us had been exhausted for so long, and had been electrocuted on his corpse for half a day. In the end, he took a full-power lightning bolt from Captain Shan Changxu and almost escaped.
If Captain Dang hadn't launched fireballs almost simultaneously, this demon might have really gotten away today.
Among the crowd, Yu Shaoting was particularly annoyed, blaming herself for missing the opportunity to capture this precious sample.
He felt that he had acted too slowly. If he had gotten closer earlier, he might have been able to rescue the Heavenly Demon from Dang Liantao's flames.
Dang Liantao shook his head helplessly. On the one hand, he was amazed by the high intelligence of the Heavenly Demon, who could even feign weakness to escape. On the other hand, he felt that his plan to capture the Heavenly Demon was not perfect enough, and his response to such emergencies was still insufficient.
However, there was nothing they could do about it. They hadn't encountered the Heavenly Demon many times before. Although it was a pity, they could only console themselves that they had learned from their mistakes.
Meanwhile, Shan Changxu from the Lei faction was also comforting Yu Shaoting.
"My lightning ability makes me faster than you guys, and the Party's fireball was thrown directly. You had to use your mental power to control the water ball all the way here to capture the Heavenly Demon sample, so naturally you weren't as fast as him."
Even if there was a mistake, it's not solely your fault. I think the Party's overreaction, which led to the superpower being too powerful and directly burning the Heavenly Demon to ashes, is the main responsibility. Don't blame yourself too much.
Hearing this, Dang Liantao rubbed his temples helplessly, glared at the guy with annoyance, and then finally spoke:
"The main responsibility for this is mine. I didn't have a plan to deal with emergencies. But we'll review it and work on it when we get back. Now, tell everyone to evacuate!"
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