348: Chapter 348 Golden Blood

Zhao Qiming froze, "Hall, what did you say?"

"There are rumors on the internet." Hall leaned into Zhao Qiming's ear. "The blood and bone marrow of individuals with a Superpower contain active catalytic factors. Direct ingestion gives you a probability of acquiring the same or similar abilities."

Zhao Qiming's pupils constricted slightly. Hall continued, "I don't care what the probability is."

He raised his hand and pointed at the mountainside.

"Every drop of blood flowing in that person is worth more than gold."

"Warriors, capture him alive."

"Bring him down alive, I want a complete blood source."

"But Hall..." Zhao Qiming began tentatively, "With his speed, our men can't even touch him in close combat..."

"Who told you to engage in close combat?"

Hall tilted his head, his voice turning cold.

"Kaman!"

A strong man behind him stepped forward. "Sir!"

"Fire suppression." Hall raised his right hand, palm facing down. "All guns, fire at that platform for me! Hit his legs! I want him alive!"

"Yes sir!"

The order was conveyed extremely fast.

On the beach, three rows of soldiers in black raised their guns simultaneously.

The barrels of dozens of AKs were raised, aiming at the direction of the platform on the mountainside.

"Open fire!"

"Da-da-da-da...!"

A dense barrage of bullets ricocheted upward.

Lin Fan casually picked up a nearby corpse as cover, then slowly retreated toward the cave entrance.

Approaching the cave entrance, Lin Fan let out the corpse, rolled to the side, and drilled into the Karst Cave.

"Da-da-da..." The firepower was still pouring out.

Zhou Kai stood at the blind spot of the Karst Cave entrance, and only breathed a sigh of relief when Lin Fan rolled in.

"Brother Fan, your speed has really gotten a lot faster."

Zhou Kai squatted down and handed him a bottle of water.

Lin Fan took it, took a gulp, and wiped off the blood from that body.

He leaned against the stone wall, breathing steadily.

The cardiorespiratory function of the Triple Enhancement made breathing issues practically non-existent for him.

At this moment, someone climbed up from the edge of the platform again.

"Brother Fan, this time..." Before Zhou Kai finished speaking and before they even had time to stand firm, "Splat splat..."

Countless bullets drilled into their bodies; it was their own companions who shot them.

On the beach.

Kaman retreated from the middle section of the slope and jogged all the way to Hall.

"Sir." Kaman wiped away his sweat. "That person shrank back. As soon as we open fire, he retreats, but no one can touch him in close combat at all."

Hall stamped his feet in anxiety, "You bunch of idiots."

Kaman opened his mouth, and a lackey who had just been carried down from the slope answered for him.

"Boss, that person is too fast, we couldn't see clearly at all... When he... moves, I don't even have time to raise my gun..."

Hall stood up, the corners of his mouth curling up.

"Perfect."

Zhao Qiming stood in the back, the sweat on his forehead wiped away only to reappear.

He knew Hall too well; the more excited this person was, the more dangerous he became.

"Keep going up." Hall patted Kaman on the shoulder.

"Sir, the brothers have already..."

"Keep going up." Hall repeated, his voice no louder, but Kaman's mouth instantly closed.

Hall turned around, faced the team, and raised a hand.

"Groups of ten, take turns charging, don't give him time to breathe."

He paused and added another sentence:

"If you really can't catch him alive..."

Hall licked his back teeth, "Dead is fine too, I will go up myself to disembowel him, drinking warm chest blood is the same."

Zhao Qiming's back turned cold.

...

The second wave of attacks was launched one after another.

Those people rushed up the slope, the front row holding guns for suppressing fire, and the back row throwing two grenades.

The grenades hadn't even been thrown onto the platform yet.

Crimson characters appeared on Lin Fan's retina: [Grenade incoming, angle issue, grenade won't enter the cave.]

[Suggestion: Lean a bit deeper inside to prevent the blast wave.]

Lin Fan and Zhou Kai moved two steps, and the two grenades hit the rock wall and landed on the platform.

"Boom..."

Once the blast wave of the explosion passed, the two reappeared in the blind spot on the side wall of the cave entrance.

Taking advantage of the grenade explosion, the first person to rush onto the platform didn't even see clearly where Lin Fan was before an extra bloody gash appeared on his neck.

The second person pulled the trigger, and the bullets hit the spot where Lin Fan had been standing a second ago.

Lin Fan had already flashed to his side.

A knife stabbed into his armpit, pulling out a spray of blood when it was pulled out.

Lin Fan picked up the gun, retreated back into the cave, and guarded the two sides of the entrance with Zhou Kai on the left and right.

The two of them held guns; although their aim wasn't all that accurate, if accuracy wasn't enough, they made up for it with quantity. Whenever the two saw someone poke their head out, they would do a 360-degree sweep with no blind spots.

"Hahaha... thrilling, Brother Fan, this is so thrilling..." Zhou Kai kept shooting with his gun, and Lin Fan glanced at him.

He had killed people before, but people like Lily and Wang Qiang weren't killed by his own hands. Just now was his first time killing someone at close range, and after killing someone, his heart still felt somewhat uncomfortable.

But Zhou Kai—how came it seemed like his first time killing someone didn't bring lingering fear, but instead a sense of exhilaration?

Could it be...

Another wave continued. Even though they threw grenades, in front of Lin Fan's multiple enhancements, those grenades were like slow-motion balls, batted away by him before they even hit the ground.

It was the same operation: they shot, Lin Fan hid back; they came up for close combat, and no one was a match for Lin Fan.

The people below had stopped attacking.

Zhao Qiming counted. After a few waves of attacks, quite a few of Hall's men were already dead, and even more were crippled. Being crippled here meant death.

"Hall." Zhao Qiming walked to his side, his voice lowered significantly.

Hall was looking through binoculars and ignored him.

"Hall." Zhao Qiming called out again, his tone a bit heavier this time.

Hall put down the binoculars and turned his head to look at him.

Zhao Qiming stepped closer. "You need to be rational."

"Zhao, I am very rational."

"No, you're not." Zhao Qiming took a deep breath. "We aren't the only group of people who came to this island."

Hall's expression paused for a moment.

Zhao Qiming pressed his advantage, "Maybe others are eyeing us covetously, just wanting us to wear that kid down."

"They are hiding in the shadows right now."

"We have an old saying: The mantis stalks the cicada, unaware of the oriole behind."

"We are out in the open fighting those two people on the mountain to the death while they watch the show from behind. Once we are crippled, they will come to collect the corpses."

The corners of Hall's mouth twitched.

Zhao Qiming continued, "And that person who shouted, they released the news to lure us over; it's impossible for them to just sit back and watch. They clearly have a conspiracy."

"If too many people are sacrificed... I'm afraid it will be difficult to gain a firm foothold later on..."

Hall fell silent.

He looked at the pitch-black Karst Cave entrance on the mountainside. As expected, people with a Superpower were really hard to deal with.

After a long time, he let out a breath.

"Fine."

Hall turned around. "Kaman, stop the attack."

Kaman looked as if he had been granted amnesty. "Yes sir!"

"Set up camp on the beach." Hall glanced at the surrounding environment. "Cut down trees and build covers with reefs, set up sentry posts on the outer circle, and point the gun barrels toward the woods and the mountain."

He paused and looked up at the sky.

The lead-gray clouds were still pressing down, making it impossible to tell the time.

"They have to sleep eventually."

Hall looked back toward the Karst Cave direction. "We'll talk when night comes."