Brigadier General Morey, a Four-Ring spiritual energy user, was running, and Yu Lian, a rookie (the world didn't know he was already a Two-Ring spiritual energy user), was chasing him.

The bright moon peeked out from beyond the transparent dome, its cratered surface surrounded by the stark white lunar landscape, like the eye of a giant watching the two of them.

They ran towards that direction, as if commemorating everything they had lost under the hazy moonlight.

After running a few more meters, Brigadier General Morey suddenly realized, why was he running?

Although the opponent had taken his mecha core, although he was covered in blood, and although everyone thought he had completely failed, he, as the person involved, knew better.

He did have quite a few wounds, but they were all superficial, not fatal, and wouldn't even significantly affect his combat effectiveness.

As for his opponent, although he looked unharmed, he should actually be at his limit, right? Although Brigadier General Morey didn't hear any change in his breathing rhythm, he could sense the fluctuations in his spiritual energy.

Yes, this kid was indeed a rookie who had only awakened half a year ago; that much was certain.

Although he didn't know where he learned so many advanced spiritual energy martial arts that he had never seen before, or where he learned to be so elusive, it was, after all, an over-level challenge, so he should be at his limit!

If there were no surprises, every exchange between him and Yu Lian, every time Yu Lian seemingly effortlessly neutralized his attacks, should have been done with all his might.

Yes, he must be at his limit!

...However, what if this guy was playing dumb again?

This young man, who claimed to have only awakened for half a year, was no rookie; he was a seasoned veteran, elusive and experienced, as if he had been fighting on various perilous battlefields his entire life.

Such a person is adept at both bluffing and feigning weakness!

What's more, things had already come to this; even if he defeated him or even killed him, what then?

My goal has never been to kill one or two spiritual energy users!

If I'm going to do it, I'm going to do it to the extreme! Since the Earth Government of Eternal City has shown such resolve, then I will grant your wish and make you pay the price you deserve!

It's rude not to reciprocate!

Thinking of this, Brigadier General Morey no longer paid attention to Yu Lian's shouts and provocations from behind.

Even when the latter, carrying an automatic cannon he got from who knows where, fired a burst of shells at his back, he didn't turn around.

Anyway, for a spiritual energy user at his level, having heightened senses was a basic setting; as long as he flickered a few more times, mere shells couldn't harm him.

Aside from feeling a bit humiliated, there was nothing major...

"Da da da!" The autocannon fired again, this time clearly aimed at his rear.

"You're going too far!" Brigadier General Morey gritted his teeth, but still didn't turn to counterattack.

He performed a tactical roll to evade the trajectory of the shots, finally crossing the plaza and arriving at the bottom of a wide staircase.

At the top of that staircase was the bridge.

Morey could even see two people at the bridge's entrance, who were his subordinates.

"Act! Leave no hostages inside!" Morey roared loudly.

The people inside the bridge would execute his orders one hundred percent.

They were his most loyal followers; his commands should have become a conditioned reflex for them, even the most unreasonable ones.

He was very confident, partly in his leadership and partly in his spiritual energy level.

Yes, the remaining dozen or so special agents in the bridge had all been psychologically influenced by Morey.

Yu Lian's heart tightened, and he shouted, "Xiao Bai!"

"The, the power unit for the bridge door, I've already activated it! But there's no response... No, the braking mechanism of the bridge door has been destroyed!"

Morey revealed a twisted, maniacal laugh, a grotesque mask of madness and ferocity.

He spread his hands, and his spiritual energy transformed into an invisible kinetic force, violently impacting the bridge door.

The metal door frame clearly twisted and deformed, and the internal machinery's rotation turned into a sharp, piercing grinding sound, yet it still couldn't move the heavy door.

At that moment, Morey's own will transformed into power, surpassing the mechanical force.

"Bang bang bang!" Yu Lian instantly fired all the shells he had, almost all of them hitting Morey's back.

The Fa Fu'er Dragon Eye, moreover, condensed into a sharp cone, emitting a strong light and charging straight at him, continuously hitting, hitting, and then hitting again.

Even a mobile armored city should have been dismantled.

But Brigadier General Morey stood rooted to the spot, unmoving.

An invisible, transparent force field wall unfolded on his back.

The shells slammed into the air, creating ripples of space and force fields, and with dull thuds, they were all deflected.

He was, after all, a Four-Ring spiritual energy user; while dedicating most of his attention to the spiritual energy impact, he still maintained a force field defense around himself.

Even so, under such dense firepower, some bullets still penetrated his defense, causing him direct injury.

Francis Morey stood bathed in blood, like a mountain!

He should not have chosen "Judgment"; if he had walked the "Blood Road", he would probably have become a saint.

Yu Lian could only hope that Feifei was clever enough to hide among the crowd as much as possible and protect herself as best as she could.

Just give him another half minute, just half a minute...

But at this very moment, inside the bridge, something unexpected suddenly happened.

One of the special agents, with a bewildered look in his eyes, suddenly turned his gun and fired a burst at the closest comrades.

Two people fell down instantly.

The others were still confused, instinctively raising their guns, but for a moment they didn't know whether to shoot their suddenly "crazed" comrade or follow the Brigadier General's order to kill the hostages.

"Bang bang bang!" The fastest reacting soldier finally acted, unhesitatingly firing his bullets at the "crazed" soldier.

This was their last chance, but they completely failed to seize it.

Just at this moment, a figure flew out from the crowd, landing with a whoosh between the two soldiers.

They hadn't even had time to react with their eyes before they were pushed away by an invisible and silent force, like broken kites, smashing out; one hit the nearby dashboard, and the other plastered himself to the ceiling.

Their bodies instantly twisted into a rather tragic posture, and they died on the spot.

Being elite special agents, they finally realized that there was a spiritual energy user among the hostages, and quickly turned their guns towards the dark figure, but by then it was completely too late.

The firearms in their hands directly shattered into pieces with a clatter.

Steel-nail bullets fell from the broken gun bodies, clattering onto the floor, but immediately after, the exposed gun batteries seemed to suddenly overload, completing the entire process of overheating, glowing red, and finally exploding within a mere tenth of a second.

The exploding small energy cores turned into small bombs, depriving the nearby soldiers of their combat effectiveness amidst a "roar."

It wasn't until this moment that everyone clearly saw that the spiritual energy user who had instantly suppressed all the terrorists inside the bridge was actually wearing a luxurious evening gown, quiet and elegant, looking at least ten years younger than her actual age—Mrs. Melary Nihita, wife of the Defense Committee Chairman.

And by this time, aside from Morey, who was still at the bottom of the staircase, the two soldiers at the bridge entrance were the only remaining enemies.

But even at this moment, they had no chance to act.

Feifei, who had already retreated behind the crowd, soared out, relying on the chaos of the explosion inside the bridge, like a nimble female leopard.

Feifei still had handcuffs on her hands, but they didn't affect the fluidity of her movements at all.

In an instant, with a slide, she was already at the bridge entrance, her tightly clasped hands pressed together, and she slammed them "violently" into a soldier's throat.

Then, taking advantage of the opponent's fall, she used his body to block the other person's line of fire, and with a crouch, swept his legs.

Her slender, delicate, and pale long legs actually swept out a gust of strong wind.

The second soldier's lower body was severely hit, and his upper body involuntarily softened.

Immediately after, a fierce heavy blow landed on the vital area where his jaw and neck connected.

He felt as if a nuclear bomb had been stuffed into his head, with a boom, his teeth, tongue, nasal cavity, and even his eyeballs trembled, heated up, and boiled.

This was also his last thought.

Feifei breathed a sigh of relief.

Of course, she knew that the Chairman's wife, from a prominent alliance family, was not simple, but she couldn't ascertain her path or abilities, let alone her intentions or whether she planned to act.

Feifei had already been preparing to act; even if revealing herself as a spiritual energy user wasn't a huge problem (she had already thought of reasons to fool someone anyway)... but she hadn't expected Mrs. Melary to act even faster than her.

This way, even if she acted, she could limit her abilities to the scope of a "very capable ordinary person."

As Feifei thought this, she stood up, her butterfly darts still tightly clutched in her sleeves, nervously watching Brigadier General Morey in the distance.

The latter's ferocious, mad smile had just frozen.

Yes, the suppression operation inside the bridge was actually completed in an instant.

And a few seconds ago, this fellow still thought his little companions had carried the whole show.

Everything that happened inside the bridge was too much of a blow to Brigadier General Morey, so much so that he stopped thinking for a moment.

This was truly fatal for a spiritual energy user.

Yu Lian's storm of bullets finally broke through Morey's spiritual energy shield, roaring and slamming into his back.

It must be said that when a spiritual energy user evolves to a certain strength, it's really hard to say whether they are still carbon-based life forms.

This guy was literally iron-clad all over, or rather, he seemed to have been hit by hundreds of rubber bullets, yet he wasn't torn to shreds; his body just convulsed and trembled.

Yu Lian gathered the little spiritual energy he had just recovered and, through the Fa Fu'er Dragon Eye, condensed it into an enhanced spiritual energy pulse, slamming it all into the back of Brigadier General Morey's head.

This time, it finally hit solidly.

Yu Lian not only heard a violent impact, but also heard a shrill scream in his spiritual perception.

The opponent, like a wooden puppet hit squarely with a blunt object, flew forward several meters, face down, and instantly crashed onto the stairs.

Yu Lian breathed a slight sigh of relief, but still didn't dare to be overconfident, keeping his gun leveled and aimed at the fallen body.

Feifei on the stairs also picked up a soldier's gun from the ground, aiming it at Morey as well.

Almost at the same moment, both of them pulled their triggers.

Yu Lian felt that this scene seemed quite familiar, and he sincerely hoped that the outcome would develop as he expected.

However, what they held in their hands were not high-caliber, high-power heavy weapons after all.

Brigadier General Morey, covered in blood, propped himself up with his hands on the ground, pulling himself up forcefully.

His voice seemed to carry a terrifying tremor, which made people's hearts pound.

And in Yu Lian and Fina's spiritual vision, some ominous aura truly seemed to condense into a tangible, dark, unknown substance.

"...Is it at this time?" Feifei narrowed her eyes, and the butterfly darts beneath her sleeves transformed into flowing metal, rapidly coiling around her right arm, forming a silver moon pattern.

This is the only way!

"Tsk... You thing, if you're going to explode, don't do it now!" Yu Lian quickly estimated the distance.

Brigadier General Morey and Feifei were only about ten meters apart, definitely within dangerous range.

He waved his hand again, and the Fa Fu'er Dragon Eye once more transformed into a silver soft whip, one end held in his hand, the other directly looped around the opponent's neck.

"If only I had activated the 'Driving' Star Ring! A Magician at Two-Ring could make your rotten ass bloom with electricity!" Yu Lian sighed silently.

The "Driving" Star Ring, its ultimate point was another transcendent peak Yu Lian constantly thought of, the legendary "Sky Mentor" who could create black holes and ignite stars with his bare hands.

However, this was not the time for regret.

Yu Lian used all his strength to forcefully pull Brigadier General Morey over.

He certainly hoped to directly pull off the enemy's head, but unfortunately, this guy's neck was harder than expected, so he could only pull up his entire body.

Brigadier General Morey was pulled into the air, tumbling unnaturally a few times, his body seemingly losing Balance at that moment.

Yu Lian tightened the chain around his opponent, swung him over his head, and with all his might, slammed him onto the plaza ground.

"Boom!" The opponent slammed onto the ground like a sticker.

"Boom!" "Boom!" Two more whip slams.

However, just as Yu Lian was about to swing for the fourth time, he found himself unable to exert force.

Brigadier General Morey, who was lying on the ground, grabbed the fluid metal chain wrapped around his neck with one hand and stood up, gritting his teeth.

This guy's spiritual energy wrapped around the outside of the Fa Fu'er Dragon Eye, instantly suppressing the treasure's transformation function.

He roared and pulled hard on the chain.

The latter tried to resist, but still couldn't control itself.

There was no other way; this was a pure test of brute strength, with no clever tricks to be found.

Fortunately, Yu Lian was already mentally prepared for the opponent's furious counterattack.

While resisting the opponent's brute force, he also held up his autocannon and continued to fire nonstop.

Morey let the bullets hit his body, letting blood splatter, but he remained motionless.

His smile became even more ferocious, his eyes no longer showing any whites, turning into a gloomy, cruel mass of pitch black.

But at this very moment, he suddenly heard a loud mechanical acceleration sound from his side.

Morey paid no attention, or rather, at this point, he couldn't pay attention to anything around him.

Yu Lian, however, could see a large automated cargo vehicle, accelerating to its maximum speed, rumbling out from a nearby passageway.

It was like a crazed Triceratops, charging towards Morey with an unstoppable momentum, rumbling all the way.