Dragon Qian found it difficult to use his abilities in the cold winter weather. In the snow, it was almost impossible to find insects. Even if there were any, they would be hibernating underground. In this situation, Dragon Qian was surrounded. The surroundings were either forests or cliffs. Escaping from here seemed almost impossible.
When Dragon Qian fled into the forest, he also brought the alloy box from the pavilion. Although he had fallen into a trap, Dragon Qian still held onto a sliver of hope. Perhaps there was an ability-enhancing potion in the box.
So, after hiding in the forest, Dragon Qian temporarily felt safe. He immediately tried to open the password-protected box. He thought it would take some effort, but the box opened easily. It wasn't locked. Inside the box was black, light-absorbing sponge with five indentations. In each indentation was a pale green potion. Upon seeing this, Dragon Qian felt uneasy, thinking, "Are the ability-enhancing potions in here real or fake?"
Hesitantly, Dragon Qian found a soldier, took out a potion, and handed it over, saying, "I saw you fighting bravely. Here, this is an ability-enhancing potion. Drink it."
At this moment, Dragon Qian wanted to test if the potion was real. Since there was a soldier nearby, Dragon Qian took the opportunity to have the soldier test it. He couldn't worry about anything else; the most important thing now was to determine the authenticity of the potion.
The soldier who was casually grabbed became extremely excited upon seeing the ability-enhancing potion before him. He had only seen such potions on television before, and he never expected to have the chance to drink one himself. Without hesitation, the soldier grabbed the potion bottle, brought it to his lips, tilted his head back, and drank it down.
"How is it? What does it taste like?" Dragon Qian then looked at the soldier expectantly, wanting to know the soldier's answer.
The soldier smacked his lips. It tasted sweet and sour with a hint of fragrance, and there was a slight tingling sensation, as if tiny bubbles were bursting in his mouth. The soldier then said hesitantly, "Captain Dragon Qian, I haven't drunk an ability-enhancing potion before, but when I just drank it, I discovered that it tastes like apple-flavored soda. Try it yourself if you don't believe me."
Dragon Qian sighed helplessly and threw the box to the ground. At this moment, he realized he had been tricked, and not just a little. Shen Feng had deceived him with just a few bottles of soda, and he, along with the members of the Heavenly Dragon Bureau and two hundred soldiers, had been led into a desperate situation. Things were about to get dangerous.
"Shen Feng, Wang Ao Ye, you two scoundrels, I've remembered everything you've done today. Just you wait. This matter is far from over. As long as I get out of here safely, you'll regret it," Dragon Qian said through gritted teeth.
But just then, gunshots and screams suddenly echoed from a distance. The screams came after the gunshots. Soldiers from afar ran towards Dragon Qian, shouting as they ran, "Wang Ao Ye has appeared here too! Run!"
Xu Xing couldn't bear to harm the soldiers because these soldiers had always been serving the country. It would be too tragic if they were killed like this. However, Wang Ao Ye didn't care about that. In Wang Ao Ye's eyes, soldiers were also people, especially these soldiers who, under the leadership of the Heavenly Dragon Bureau, had cut off his financial lifeline. They were practically his father's murderers, so how could he show mercy?
Wang Ao Ye immediately took action. The sand in the mountains quickly gathered, and in Wang Ao Ye's hands, the sand gained incredible speed. Even loose sand could unleash powerful destructive force. The sand swirled around Wang Ao Ye. With a casual wave of his hand, a blade made of sand could fly out directly.
"Swish," a sand blade shot out, directly cutting down a small tree. The soldier hiding behind the tree was instantly pierced through the chest.
Wang Ao Ye continued to launch sand blades, and one soldier after another fell. Any tree hit by a sand blade would be cut down on the spot. In addition, the air was filled with swirling yellow sand, making it impossible for ordinary people to open their eyes. In this situation, even if the soldiers wanted to retaliate, they couldn't. In the face of ability users, the strength of ordinary people was too weak.
Besides Wang Ao Ye, many others also began to act. Once ability users took action, the soldiers were no match for them. Whether it was speed, strength, or reaction time, ability users were stronger than ordinary people. The only advantage soldiers had was the weapons they carried, but bullets posed much less of a threat to ability users. Often, soldiers couldn't even see the ability users before being killed.
After encountering this situation, the soldiers could only cry out in despair. Many of them were new recruits because the entire country was in chaos. Millions of veteran soldiers were clearly not enough. Recruitment was happening everywhere, and a large portion of the recruited soldiers were new recruits. After only a few months of training, they were sent to the battlefield. Now, facing the slaughter by ability users, these new recruits had no recourse but to cry.
Dragon Qian, watching this scene from the shadows, felt helpless. His original plan was a surprise attack. The trade between Yuzhou and the Qinghong Gang would at most be protected by one or two ability users. With their forces prepared, they could intercept any trade. But now, they were facing the elite ability users of Yuzhou and the Qinghong Gang, and the battle was completely one-sided.
"Immediately notify headquarters about this matter, especially inform the leaders of the Heavenly Dragon Bureau. Contact the people at Mount Lu Liang and have them come to our rescue. Hurry. I will contact Zhangjiajie and Changsha to have helicopters pick us up. Then, find a place to hold our ground and await reinforcements," Dragon Qian quickly issued orders.
Although it was winter, Dragon Qian's forehead was still covered in sweat. This sweat was from his anxiety. Although Dragon Qian could still think of ways to survive, he knew that the hope was very slim. The enemy's ability users were ferocious, while his own ability users were all timid second-generation rich kids. They were very capable when it came to providing food and entertainment for their subordinates, but when it came to fighting for their lives, they were all the fastest to run.
However, they were already in a secluded valley. Three sides were steep slopes covered with trees, and one side was a massive rock face. The enemy was still killing all around. In such a situation, even escaping wouldn't make it easy to survive.
Dragon Qian dared not delay and contacted Zhangjiajie: "We've encountered an ambush. Quickly send helicopters to pick us up. Also, the helicopters can carry missiles, even cluster bombs. Our enemies are ability users..."
Dragon Qian was using a satellite phone to contact Zhangjiajie. He finally managed to get through, but before Dragon Qian could finish speaking, the satellite phone went dead. Especially at such a critical moment, failing to convey what he wanted to say was like having his hope of survival cut off.
At this moment, Lu Kaiyang said triumphantly in the forest, "You still want to call for help? Don't even think about it. After I used my ability, the surrounding electromagnetic waves have become completely chaotic. You can forget about reinforcements arriving."
Dragon Qian finally understood why his call had been disconnected. It turned out the electromagnetic waves were being interfered with. It seemed that Liang Su Liuying had also encountered such a situation before, where the phone lines were cut, and the electromagnetic waves became chaotic, making it impossible to contact the outside world. Dragon Qian hadn't known the reason before and had thought Yuzhou had set up signal jammers, but now it seemed it was all the work of this ability user.
Upon learning this, Dragon Qian became extremely anxious. He didn't know if Zhangjiajie had understood his intentions. They could only hold on for a few hours. If no helicopters arrived during that time, they would all be annihilated.
The ability users and soldiers of the Heavenly Dragon Bureau were now fleeing frantically. These people had been stunned by the huge rocks that had fallen from the mountain and dared not stand at the bottom of the valley. They could only rush into the forests on the three sides, and this move made it incredibly difficult to regroup.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, Shen Feng and Wang Ao Ye, along with their subordinates, began their massacre. The soldiers now regretted participating in this operation and regretted provoking Yuzhou's Shen Feng by firing their guns earlier. At this moment, they had to face terrifying ability users, and they didn't know what kind of attack would kill them in the next second.
"Surrender and you will not be killed. But this applies only to soldiers," Shen Feng shouted loudly at this moment. Shen Feng did not want to slaughter the soldiers completely, because, in the end, they were being led by the Heavenly Dragon Bureau to passively execute missions. Killing them would not benefit Yuzhou in any way. Therefore, Shen Feng directly announced the decision to accept surrenders.
However, Shen Feng did not have such good intentions for the ability users of the Heavenly Dragon Bureau. The Heavenly Dragon Bureau had offended Shen Feng too deeply. They had caused trouble for him several times before, then ambushed Yue Hengyi, and now they even wanted to cut off Yuzhou's smuggling routes. Shen Feng could no longer tolerate this.
Just as Shen Feng shouted his offer of surrender, a water dragon flew towards Shen Feng from a distance. This was because Shen Feng's call had exposed his position, and he was discovered at this moment.
When Shen Feng discovered that an ability user from the Heavenly Dragon Bureau was attacking him, he quickly reacted. With a slight frown, he then used "As Swift As The Wind," and his entire body disappeared from the spot. In the next second, Shen Feng had appeared behind the ability user hidden in the tree.
"Die," Shen Feng said calmly, then drew his sword and swung it, instantly beheading the person.
As the head fell to the ground, it made a dull thud. It could be seen that the person's eyes were still open even in death, as if he had never expected to be killed so easily.
The soldiers then began to surrender. Before this, they had not considered surrendering because they did not believe they would be defeated. Soldiers of the regular army also had their pride. They had not lost when facing zombies and mutated beasts before, and now they were only facing ability users, so how could they surrender?
However, after actually experiencing combat with ability users, everyone's thoughts immediately changed. Because by the time the battle reached this point, over a hundred soldiers had been killed, while their enemies, the ability users, were still unharmed. The disparity in strength was simply too great. Let alone two hundred people, even two thousand people would clearly not be able to achieve victory.
Many of the soldiers were fifteen or sixteen-year-old youths. They were also afraid of death. At this moment, they directly dropped their weapons and prepared to surrender.
The people from the Qinghong Gang had many opinions about this, thinking, "Only you, Shen Feng, know how to win people's hearts. These soldiers won't be grateful to us even if they surrender. Yet you, Shen Feng, insist on doing this."