817: Chapter 817 It's those two groups again!

The Ice and Fire Festival was being held at the plaza by the seaside shipyard.

By the time the two arrived, the sky had just turned dark.

In the center of the plaza, a three-story high bonfire was burning.

Dozens of stalls were lined up along the edges of the plaza, and the air was filled with the aroma of roasted seal meat.

A band on the stage was playing folk songs, and the scene was bustling with excitement.

Yan Qingwu dove into the crowd, pulling Ye Chen along as they wandered around.

Watching her back as she was filled with excitement, Ye Chen followed behind with a look of utter despair, appearing quite helpless.

Come to think of it...

The Yan Qingwu of the past looked like a tomboy, and a very devious one at that.

But looking at her now.

Huh?

She is just a normal girl after all.

Likes excitement.

Likes shopping.

Likes to eat, eat, eat, and drink, drink, drink!

The two walked around a large circle and bought many local snacks.

Then.

While eating and walking, they listened to the pumping music.

"Ye Chen, what do you think?" Yan Qingwu asked as she took a bite of the seal meat.

Ye Chen tossed the skewer aside: "It's alright, the taste is not bad."

"Hee hee~"

Yan Qingwu took out another skewer, "Once we get to the island in a few days, we won't be able to eat this anymore!"

"Let's go buy some more then," Ye Chen suggested.

Yan Qingwu giggled: "Who was it that didn't want to come just now?"

"Was it me?"

Ye Chen feigned a frown, "I don't think so."

Yan Qingwu rolled her eyes and pulled him toward another stall.

But.

Just at that moment!

The guitar music came to an abrupt halt.

The crowd also suddenly quieted down.

Immediately after.

"BOOM!!!"

A large section of the metal fence on the east side of the shipyard was knocked flying.

Shards of metal, trailing sparks, slammed into the stall area, smashing the red wine stall to pieces.

Seven or eight dark figures darted in through the gap.

Then.

Landing without a sound, they rushed into the outskirts of the crowd in the blink of an eye.

The next second.

"AH!!!"

A scream tore through the air.

The crowd, who had just been dancing and partying, scattered in all directions like a hornet's nest that had been poked.

Stalls were knocked over, the bonfire was pushed down, and the ground was left in a mess.

Yan Qingwu was completely stunned.

"Wait..."

"What is wrong with this place?"

"We haven't even been here for half a day, and trouble has happened twice!"

She paused.

She couldn't help but look at Ye Chen, "Could it be because you're a jinx, and trouble follows you wherever you go?"

Ye Chen couldn't be bothered to address her "accusation" and stared directly at the figures that had darted in: "Look at the movements of that group of people."

Yan Qingwu was taken aback, and her gaze followed.

Under the reflection of the firelight, the movements of those dark figures were very strange.

They landed on all fours, and when they darted up, their shoulders and backs were arched like a Leopard, yet every turn was crisp and decisive...

Yan Qingwu's expression changed slightly: "Cat-men?"

Ye Chen nodded.

"It's the same batch of Cat-men from the airport."

"It seems..."

"They didn't achieve their goal, so they don't want to leave."

As soon as he finished speaking.

A dozen more figures flooded in through the gap in the metal fence on the east side.

The short-haired woman leading them, charging in front, was none other than Irene from the airport.

Yan Qingwu was completely defeated now.

"No way..."

"Is it that we are just too lucky, or are they like ghosts that just won't go away?"

"We actually ran into them again!"

Ye Chen was also quite speechless.

After all.

He hadn't expected to run into that female pugilist again.

Anyone else would have been fine!

With a pugilist like that leading the team, wanting to take down the Cat-men was a lost cause...

At this moment, the Cat-man Leader had already darted to the highest point of the stage, looking down condescendingly at the team of Ability User who were chasing them.

Irene stopped thirty meters away and pulled out her custom handgun.

"Fuck! You can't escape anymore! The perimeter is completely sealed off; if you don't want to die, then obediently kneel down!"

The Cat-man Leader stood at the high point and licked his claws.

"Woman, you are so noisy."

"When we choose targets, we never pick someone like you."

Before he finished speaking, his figure suddenly dropped, and he lunged straight at Irene, leaving an afterimage.

The surrounding crowd screamed and fled in all directions again.

The Cat-man Leader's speed was extremely fast, like a bolt of black lightning striking down from above.

But Irene's reaction was not slow either; she completed aiming and pulled the trigger on her custom handgun within a fraction of a second.

"Bang! Bang! Bang!"

The bullets burst from the chamber, each one sealing off the Cat-man Leader's landing spot.

But the Cat-man Leader twisted his waist hard in mid-air.

Then.

Using the force from his waist, his body shifted laterally, and the three bullets grazed past his body.

When he landed, he was on all fours, then immediately used the momentum to spring forward, closing the distance again, his right claw raised, continuing to press down on Irene.

Irene's expression changed slightly; she pulled out another short gun from her waist with her left hand, and fired both guns simultaneously.

The True Qi bullets poured out like a rainstorm, blasting a series of craters into the ground.

But the Cat-man Leader's evasive ability exceeded her expectations.

He was like a shadow without a fixed shape, changing direction continuously while hugging the ground, each time stepping exactly into the gaps between the bullet impacts, making it impossible to hit him.

In the blink of an eye, he had rushed in front of Irene, his right claw sweeping across, the sharp blades descending.

Irene crossed her two guns to block in front of her, True Qi surging out to cover the guns, forming a barrier.

"Clang!!!"

The claw blades collided with the guns.

Irene was knocked sliding backward three or four meters by the impact, her boot soles dragging two scorched marks on the ground.

The Cat-man Leader, failing with the first strike, didn't give her a chance to breathe; the second claw followed immediately.

This time it was faster! More vicious!

The claw blades went straight for her face!

Irene's pupils contracted; she couldn't block this one in time.

Just at that critical moment—

"Sizzle!"

A purple electric arc shot in from diagonally behind, striking the Cat-man Leader's wrist.

The electric arc exploded in a puff of scorched smoke, the Cat-man Leader's claw blades veered off by half an inch, grazing past Irene's ear.

Max appeared at her side, but his face still looked a little weak.

Although Ye Chen's traditional Chinese medicine prescription had dragged him back from the gates of death, he hadn't fully recovered yet.

Therefore.

This strike could be considered his full strength.

"Are you okay?" Max asked.

Irene glared at him: "Aren't you supposed to be lying in the hospital? Why are you running here to cause trouble!"

Max didn't reply.

The Cat-man Leader stepped back a few paces, his vertical pupils sweeping across the two.

Then.

He made a gesture to those behind him.

The other seven Cat-men moved simultaneously, flanking the team of Ability User from different directions.

Those few people from the Association were obviously not pushovers either.

Although they were at a numerical disadvantage, their coordination was tacit, and they immediately set up a defensive formation.

The next second.

The Fire-type Ability User put up a wall of flames in the front row, and the Wind-type Ability User launched attacks from the flanks.

The plaza exploded into chaos once again, completely turning into a battlefield.

Irene and Max teamed up to surround and attack the Cat-man Leader.

But the Cat-man Leader's speed and strength were both a cut above them, and with Max in poor condition, the two of them working together could only barely manage not to be crushed.

"Kid, you didn't die from my poison, consider yourself lucky."

The Cat-man Leader sneered as he continued to pressure the two, not forgetting to taunt them, "However... this time you won't have such good luck!"

Max roared: "Don't be arrogant, you kill innocent people indiscriminately, today you will die!!!"

The Cat-man Leader gave a disdainful laugh and began to launch an unbridled attack.

In less than two minutes.

Irene's left arm was gashed open by the Cat-man Leader's sharp claws, and the skin began to turn jet black at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Obviously...

She had also been poisoned by the cat venom.

Max was even worse off, adding new injuries to old ones that hadn't healed yet, hit by a knee strike from the Cat-man Leader on his ribs, sending him flying backward several meters, slamming heavily into a barbecue stall.

The situation on the Association's side was not optimistic either.

Eight people against seven Cat-men; although they barely maintained the formation without collapsing, two people had already fallen into a pool of blood, their fate unknown.

The Cat-man Leader gave a cold laugh.

"You Ability User, you really are all pieces of trash."

Irene clutched her bleeding left arm, cold sweat breaking out on her forehead.

She knew very well that she had to retreat quickly now.

Otherwise...

She would fall into a coma from the poison just like Max.

If it really got to that point, and with no one to save her, then she would be as good as dead...

Just as she was in a panic, her gaze sweeping around, she suddenly spotted two figures in a corner of the plaza.

They were none other than Ye Chen and Yan Qingwu.

The most ridiculous thing was...

They actually still had the capacity to be eating skewers and drinking there!

It was as if...

They were just spectators at a large-scale event!

This was too much!

Irene's rage soared, and she roared in their direction.

"Ye Chen! You're still watching the show?!"

"Don't you see they are about to beat us to death?"

"Do something! As the Deputy Leader of the Dragon Group, are you just going to watch the Ability User of the Association die here???"

With her roar, the whole scene went quiet.

Everyone looked at Ye Chen and the others in unison.

Ye Chen was speechless, and even felt a bit mentally exhausted.

He had already been careful to hide in the corner to watch the show, yet he could still be targeted by that pugilist?

This was simply outrageous!

He took a sip of beer and spoke indifferently.

"You think just because you open your mouth, people want to help you?"

"Who are you ordering around? Am I your subordinate or your dog?"

"If you used that tone in our Dragon Group, I would have kicked you out to eat shit a long time ago!"