Chen Fan had already drawn the handgun from his waist and with a "bang," shot the deaf-eared squad leader in the head.
The seemingly furious roar, when compared to the merciless gunshot, instantly lost all its ferocity.
"Who could it be? Let me guess."
After firing, Chen Fan, with a cold smile, turned his gaze towards a patch of grass a hundred meters away.
He raised his gun, aimed first, and then spoke.
"Come out, I don't want to kill ninjas with firearms."
As the words fell, the grass rustled slightly.
Whoosh—
Immediately after, a person dressed in a dark blue ninja suit emerged from the grass.
"Why? Why did you kill him? He was just a squad leader, he posed no threat to you!" the ninja shouted at Chen Fan from a distance, filled with anger.
The squad leader Chen Fan had just shot in the head was actually this ninja's younger brother.
As an elder brother, he had sensed that his brother was fated for disaster tonight and had been following him to protect his safety.
However, this time, he felt a profound sense of powerlessness.
Despite Chen Fan not having used any true qi in these battles, the ninja's keen intuition told him that confronting the person before him would be akin to an ant challenging the heavens.
"Perhaps, you can go ask him yourself." Chen Fan did not hesitate, raising his gun and pointing it at the ninja.
Bang!
With a gunshot, this ninja was also shot in the head, brains and blood splattering.
"Wrap it up." He meticulously wiped the fingerprints off his handgun, then simply tidied up any traces like footprints he had left.
Afterward, Chen Fan calmly departed.
As he passed through the suburban residential area, he saw the special mark left by the Oracle on the corner of a roadside wall.
Following the mark, after about thirty minutes of winding through various turns, Chen Fan single-handedly returned to the bustling downtown area of East Cherry City.
Standing before the door of a seemingly ordinary private residence, he raised his hand and knocked.
Knock, knock, knock!
"It's me."
Inside the room at this moment, the Oracle, the Magician, and Fire Fox were all busy tending to Xiang Jingzhu and the others who had been rescued.
Upon hearing Chen Fan's voice and seeing that everyone else was occupied, Fire Fox got up to open the door.
"You're finally back, everyone was worried about you. You've worked hard, I was indeed short-sighted earlier, please don't hold it against me." Upon opening the door, Fire Fox respectfully welcomed Chen Fan into the room.
"I don't like it when you flatter me like this," Chen Fan frowned slightly. "The way you were before was good, bickering with me was quite entertaining."
"No, no, no!"
"This is truly not flattery, but my genuine respect and admiration for you!" Upon hearing Chen Fan's words, Fire Fox quickly waved her hand and said with utmost sincerity.
With a helpless smile, Chen Fan was a bit speechless. "We haven't seen each other for a while, and you've not only learned to flatter, but you've also learned to butter me up."
"I'm telling the truth, I truly admire you!" The Oracle said hastily, pointing to the television playing in the living room.
On the local television channel, the events in the suburbs of East Cherry City were being broadcast live!
"According to this station's report, witnesses and survivors claim that they were saved by a hero who descended from the heavens. This hero, single-handedly, eliminated over four hundred terrorists. It's truly..."
Pointing to the news report, the Oracle said sincerely to Chen Fan, "Although the news calls them terrorists, you and I both know that those were over four hundred well-trained soldiers of the Sakura Nation's Self-Defense Forces!"
"You actually managed to wipe out over four hundred of them single-handedly!"
"Not only that, but before that, you used ordinary firearms to directly take down an armed helicopter!"
"I... I'm not buttering you up at all, I truly admire you to the core!"
"Tsk, what an unworldly little girl," the Oracle, who was preparing medicine for Xiang Jingzhu, came out of the bedroom and into the living room, just in time to hear Fire Fox's words, and immediately said.
"You... you're right!"
Fire Fox, who was always hot-tempered and didn't submit to anyone, naturally didn't like being spoken to by the Oracle. However, this time, as soon as she opened her mouth, she agreed with the Oracle's words!
"Compared to you all, I am indeed an unworldly little girl. But, I will work hard. One day, I will definitely surpass you! I want to become even more powerful than you!"
Seeing Fire Fox's expression, it was clear that she was still unconvinced.
"Alright, you have ambition. I support you."
With a slight smile, Chen Fan patted Fire Fox on the shoulder and said to her.
"However, we have more important things to do right now. Go and notify everyone to remain vigilant at all times. I believe the people from the Mitsui Corporation will not let us off easily."
With that, Chen Fan's gaze turned to the Oracle. "How is Xiang Jingzhu?"
"My King, I just finished a preliminary examination on her. I found that her condition is not good."
"That old man in the laboratory lied to us. She wasn't injected with ordinary serum, but with a far more terrifying one. That serum is very different from the ones injected into other test subjects."
"What's different? And what consequences will it have?" Seeing the Oracle's grim expression, Chen Fan couldn't help but frown and ask.
"The experimental serum injected into Xiang Jingzhu not only has a concentration a hundred times greater than that of others, but it also contains a special substance that I cannot currently detect. As for the consequences... I fear that for the time being, no one in this world can say for sure."
The Oracle had already made herself clear.
Chen Fan began to worry about Xiang Jingzhu.
"Is there a way to save her?" Looking out at the bustling East Cherry City, Chen Fan's tone was heavy.
"Yes."
Facing Chen Fan's inquiry, the Oracle was silent for a few seconds before replying.
"My King, based on the pursuit by the Mitsui Corporation, Xiang Jingzhu, as an experimental subject, is different from the others. She is very special and important to the Mitsui Corporation."
"However, I have seen the serum from that laboratory at a pharmaceutical company in Great Xia."
"It's just that the serum from that company, named Long Heng Pharmaceutical, in Great Xia, is slightly different from the one here. It's used to treat genetic hereditary diseases."
"As long as we contact that pharmaceutical company, we should be able to save Miss Xiang."
"My King, what do you think?"