"Sizzle sizzle!"
This time the bus completely stopped. Everyone looked ahead with terrified expressions at the numerous blocked and wrecked vehicles, their seats already empty, occupants nowhere to be found.
Someone showed a look of despair, muttering: "Is... is this a War General-level demon? Can humans really compare to this?"
No one answered him, because fear was universal—the others weren't in much better condition than him.
Looking at the gradually approaching, mighty and domineering Wild Plains Lion, the chain-smoker's expression was grave. His fingers gripping the boomerang turned somewhat white. Honestly... he was breaking out in a cold sweat.
Although their squad had killed War General-level demons before, the physique of War General-level demons and War General demons was different! The ones they'd killed were those barely-War General-level weakling generals!
Unfortunately.
That Wild Plains Lion, which already seemed to have almost Lord-level presence, was not included in that category.
"Captain, we're no match for this demon at all! We need to leave immediately!" the bespectacled young man shouted. Without waiting for the chain-smoker's response, he quickly said to the driver: "Turn around! Don't go up there!"
Looking at the occasionally flickering mocking gaze in the Wild Plains Lion's eyes, the chain-smoker's face darkened. They were probably going to fall here this time.
The driver quickly tried to turn the vehicle around, rotating the bus body. At this moment, with a "bang!" sound, the Wild Plains Lion suddenly leaped up like an agile antelope, springing from its original position to the other end of the road in one bound.
And it was still slowly approaching the bus. Those demons surrounding them didn't seem to intend to kill them directly, just looking at them greedily.
The girl standing nearby didn't pay attention to the Wild Plains Lion, instead looking at Su Jiu with admiration, about to shout for Su Jiu to act: "Senior, you quickly..."
Junior Warrior-level humans couldn't beat same-level demons in one-on-one combat because they lacked skills and beast weapons, but this situation would reverse upon reaching War General level.
With numerous skills and beast weapons at hand, even able to release external energy—some low-grade War General demons were just sitting ducks against same-level humans!
But unexpectedly, Su Jiu put away her phone, dangled one hand outside swaying back and forth, while extending her other hand to her bloodless lips, smiling softly: "Shh—don't make a sound."
She couldn't rule out whether Ancient God Cult members were lurking on the bus. The demons outside were just surrounding without killing them, not much different from the assessment grounds before.
The red blood light and these demons' abnormal behavior all proved one point—it was the Ancient God Cult again, possibly even that craziest cult leader!
"Senior, won't you act?"
Seeing Su Jiu still maintaining that calm expression, the girl's face immediately became anxious as she quietly asked.
You should know that human War Generals' advantage came precisely from their flexibility. In actual direct confrontation with demons, they didn't really hold much advantage.
"Don't make noise. Everything will be fine."
Su Jiu gently pulled the girl down with her right hand. As the rose-like mark on her left hand's fingernail glowed faintly, she lightly flicked it, and a blood-red sword gleam shot toward the Wild Plains Lion like an arrow.
"Whoosh!" A subtle sound of cutting through air quietly rang out.
Using her finger as medium, the sword gleam was fast as lightning, cunning as a cold gleam, seeking only to drink blood!
War General level—Sword Draw Slash!
"Pop!"
With a small breaking sound, the Wild Plains Lion was still moving, its face still showing that smug expression, seemingly unaware that a thin blood mark had appeared on its forehead.
It was still slowly approaching, but the flesh on its head seemed to be starting to feel slightly misaligned.
"It's coming! Can the Fox Hunter Squad handle it?"
"Are we going to die? Those surrounding demons are also getting restless."
The people on the bus were beginning to panic. The chain-smoker frowned and loudly berated: "What's all the noise! Our Fox Hunter Squad members are still here! What's to fear?!"
"Fox Hunter Squad members, get off the bus with me!"
Then, as if to bolster his courage, he took a deep breath, tensed his face, surged up an energy shield, and got off the bus with quite a tragic feeling.
"Crack!"
The chain-smoker and several others got off the bus. Wind continuously blew their clothes, making "flap flap" sounds, and they couldn't help swallowing as they looked at the huge Wild Plains Lion.
The chain-smoker gritted his teeth and cursed under his breath: "Damn beast!"
"Ignore the demon horde—let's attack!"
Then his face tightened as he made his move with grim determination, his body slightly hunched in a shrimp-like posture, holding the boomerang as purple lightning surged from his hand.
"Buzz buzz..." The electric current made small sounds, and purple light on the boomerang continued to intensify.
While charging up, he shouted to surrounding teammates: "Quickly give me cover fire!"
Hearing this, the surrounding teammates did as told, each summoning their beast weapons and quickly swatting away the demons rushing up.
At this time, one seemingly new member looked at the endless surrounding demon horde, finally settling his gaze on the War General-level Wild Plains Lion, asking somewhat helplessly: "Can we really defeat so many demons?"
Kicking a Mischievous Monkey to death, the seductive woman looked up at the chain-smoker quite proudly and shouted: "The captain's 'Wilderness-Breaking Lightning Arrow' was left by an Intermediate War General. After charging up, its power is sufficient to reach Junior War General level!"
"Junior War General—you probably haven't seen them fight, right? Let me tell you, don't look at how they're only slightly different from us, but their actual attack power is several times that of Advanced Warriors!"
"Because War Generals have external energy!"
Hearing this, the other members immediately gained some confidence, and that new member looked at the chain-smoker with even more admiration, working even harder.
Looking at the Wild Plains Lion still approaching them, the chain-smoker had beads of sweat forming on his forehead. He felt his throat was particularly dry.
They actually didn't know the bitterness in the chain-smoker's heart. Although this move could cause some damage to the Wild Plains Lion, all of this was premised on the opponent obediently letting him hit it.
Another half minute passed. The chain-smoker stared intently at the Wild Plains Lion, the boomerang in his hand already like a fully charged light wheel. Five more seconds!
Seeing the opponent seemingly inexplicably stop and looking panicked, as if afraid of something.
The chain-smoker was slightly puzzled, thinking: This Wild Plains Lion shouldn't be afraid of me!
"Wilderness-Breaking Lightning Arrow!"
But as the light wheel in his hand reached full charge, the moon-disk-like light wheel was suddenly thrown out, creating intense rotation in the air. The air became thick from the stirring, and the surroundings were even ignited by the rotating electric arcs.
The surrounding teammates all showed excited expressions—in their view, they had this in the bag.
"Whoosh whoosh~~"
The light wheel wasn't fast. The chain-smoker watched this scene nervously. Only he knew that relying on a single strike to kill a demon like the Wild Plains Lion, his strength probably wasn't enough. What he needed to do was wound the opponent.
Only then would everyone have a chance to counterattack and survive!
"Bang!" With the contact between the light wheel and the energy shield around the Wild Plains Lion, a huge sound suddenly rang out, stirring up clouds of dust.
"Captain, your skill hit its head directly, and it seems like it didn't even dodge!" the seductive woman called out excitedly. If there weren't demons nearby, she might have even embraced the chain-smoker.
Then they saw the Wild Plains Lion in front seemingly cut like with a blade, its upper and lower halves separating, then slowly sliding apart, the flesh clean and smooth.
The newly joined teammate suddenly turned to look at the bewildered chain-smoker, surging with incredibly intense passion—my captain was actually this awesome, instantly killing even a War General-level demon.
"Captain's amazing!"
"Holy shit, directly cut through it. I didn't expect this from you, Old Lu. You've been practicing secretly. Tell me honestly, old boy, did you practice this skill to Major Achievement? This power, tsk tsk..." A middle-aged man about the same age as the chain-smoker put his arm around the other's shoulder and grinned.
"Don't let your guard down. There are still other demons around!"
The chain-smoker shouted loudly. At this moment, he was completely confused by these people and even began to doubt whether he could really cause this kind of damage to War General-level demons.
But why was there no sign of electrical burns on this lion's skin and flesh?
Just as the chain-smoker said this, blood from the Wild Plains Lion's body immediately spurted skyward like a fountain, then formed into a sphere.
Then it slowly separated into arrow-like blood drops, shooting toward the surrounding demons like arrows—for a moment, it was truly a scene of ten thousand arrows firing at once.
"Whoosh whoosh whoosh!" Countless sounds of cutting through air rang out, and those demons were like scarecrows, only able to passively receive the arrows. This left everyone on the bus stunned.
"Captain, is this you too?"
The newly arrived team member looked at the chain-smoker with excitement, but the other several members turned their heads mechanically, their eyes looking as if they'd seen ghosts.
If they weren't clear about their captain's actual level, they would definitely think the same as the former, but... this wasn't something their captain could pull off at all!
There was a hidden master helping! This was it!
The chain-smoker took a sharp breath of the bloody air, then bowed and cupped his hands, calling out loudly: "Thank you for your assistance, Senior!"