'Its speed has slowed down.'
Zhou Ming, who continued to calmly observe the Ultimate Mutant, keenly noticed this.
Before this, the Ultimate Mutant had traveled from over a hundred kilometers away, maintaining a terrifying speed of nearly a hundred meters per second the entire time, with almost no significant change in its speed.
Now, although its speed was still fast enough, it was less than 80 meters per second, and the strong winds that had constantly surrounded it had also thinned considerably.
'Indeed, even the Ultimate Mutant, after suffering such damage, couldn't fully recover in such a short time!'
Zhou Ming chased after the Ultimate Mutant. Although he could match the Ultimate Mutant in short bursts of speed with the help of Gu, he couldn't continuously use Gu for acceleration during a long pursuit, so he naturally slowed down.
But fortunately, Zhou Ming had teammates.
Quickly transmitting information about the Ultimate Mutant to the others via the team communication channel, Zhou Ming simultaneously arranged another ambush targeting the Ultimate Mutant.
"Whale Shark, it's still 1,200 meters from you, and will arrive in about seventeen seconds. Are you ready?"
"Immediately!"
"Good! If there's not enough time, have Qin Wumeng hold it back!"
Clinging tightly behind the Ultimate Mutant, Zhou Ming chased frantically while quickly communicating with his teammates on the comms channel.
Looking at the Ultimate Mutant getting further and further away from him, Zhou Ming secretly cursed himself for not buying a personal flight device or acquiring a Rank Three flying Gu in advance.
Chasing an enemy over long distances on his own two legs was just too damn hard!
"One thousand meters!"
"Eight hundred meters!"
"Five hundred meters!"
"Uncle Gong, where are you?"
"I have withdrawn and am heading northwest!"
"Did you bring the clothes?"
"I did!"
"Whale Shark?"
"Ready!"
"Good, Qin Wumeng, do you see the target? Prepare to snipe!"
"It's too fast, I can't hit it!"
"It's fine, when it's there, shoot!"
Boom!
The roar of the heavy sniper rifle echoed like a cannon blast through the empty street.
Zhou Ming had maintained the use of his Ghost Eye Gu, and although he was far away, he clearly saw the Ultimate Mutant's body suddenly bend, almost folding in half as if boneless. The strong winds surrounding it were torn open with a huge gap, then slowly recovered.
The Ultimate Mutant's body sprang up like a coiled spring, its upper body bouncing up with a "Duang" sound, without any pause, and without even glancing to see where the bullet had come from. It continued to charge forward madly in its previous direction.
"Continue!"
Three seconds later, the gunfire rang out again.
However, this time the Ultimate Mutant didn't even deform its body. With a spin, the wind vortex around its body forcibly twisted the bullet's trajectory, causing it to graze its arm and take away a small piece of flesh.
The Ultimate Mutant suddenly turned its head, giving Qin Wumeng's direction a cold look. The wound on its arm healed as if time was flowing backward, and its forward objective remained unchanged.
"I can't hold it back!" Qin Wumeng shouted.
"It's okay, its attention has been diverted. Whale Shark, attack!"
"It's my turn!" Whale Shark's sinister laugh came through the communicator.
Ahead, an incredibly dazzling electric light suddenly exploded, forming a dense electric net that perfectly enveloped the Ultimate Mutant.
Zzzzzzz!
Dazzling, fine electric snakes darted wildly within the cage formed by the strong electromagnetic field, continuously striking the Ultimate Mutant, firmly binding it in place and preventing it from moving.
"It worked!"
"Quick, the consumption is too great! One battery can only last about ten seconds!"
"Qin Wumeng!"
"Understood!"
Qin Wumeng loaded a transparent, ice-like, elongated bullet into her rifle, aimed, and fired!
With a roar, the transparent bullet instantly crossed a distance of nearly a thousand meters, directly striking the Ultimate Mutant's chest.
Countless runes emerged from where the bullet entered its body, spreading rapidly. The dense strings of runes, like chains, covered the Ultimate Mutant's entire body in just a few breaths.
"Whale Shark! Second step!"
Boom!
No sooner had Zhou Ming's voice fallen than the ground beneath the Ultimate Mutant's feet collapsed with an explosion, dragging the Ultimate Mutant down into the ground.
Below was a vast underground Water Path System.
"Hahahaha, the oil tanker is here!"
Whale Shark drove a huge oil tanker out from the street corner, directly charging towards the massive pit in the ground.
The moment the oil tanker fell into the pit, Whale Shark leaped out of the driver's seat, turned back, and drew his blade. The adamantium alloy blade sliced through the body of the oil tanker behind him like cutting tofu, creating a huge tear from the front to the back of the vehicle.
A large amount of gasoline quickly gushed out.
Boom! Boom!
There were several more violent explosions. The area around the initial collapse continued to cave in, with tens of thousands of tons of road surface collapsing and smashing down, blocking off large sections of the underground Water Path System.
"Qin Wumeng, shoot!"
Boom!
The bullet spun as it flew from an angle above into the large pit where the oil tanker had crashed, igniting the large amount of gushing gasoline. Accompanied by a massive explosion, raging flames, like the fires of Hell, shot straight into the sky from the pit, illuminating the surroundings in a fiery red.
"Whoa!"
Even though Whale Shark had run a hundred meters away, he was still thrown back by the enormous explosion, letting out a cry, and then was caught by an arm, steadying his figure.
Zhou Ming had finally arrived.
"Still no System prompt, that guy isn't dead yet!"
Zhou Ming's vision was now divided into two layers. In the perception of his Soul, the massive "Qi mass" representing the Ultimate Mutant was still in the sea of fire, and had not escaped this trap.
The other layer, seen through the enhancement of Ghost Eye Gu, showed a fiercely burning figure in the flames, struggling to push away the layers of heavy objects pressing down on it.
The dense rune chains on its body flickered with bright light, restricting its movements and weakening its strength, turning a situation where it could have easily escaped into its current desperate predicament.
"No, the rune bullets won't hold it for long, it's about to break free."
Zhou Ming dropped this remark and suddenly ran towards the burning pit.
"Wait a minute!" Whale Shark was stunned and quickly chased after him, but as soon as he got close to the pit, he was pushed back by the heat waves rising from the high temperature.
"Hmph! Such high temperatures, even steel would melt!"
Looking at Zhou Ming, who ran into the sea of fire as if completely unaffected, Whale Shark gritted his teeth and pushed through, following him in.
Zhou Ming activated his Ghost Divination Robe Gu, forming a protective layer around himself that completely blocked out the high temperature and flames. As soon as he approached the center of the fire, he heard a shrill roar.
The next moment, the Ultimate Mutant in the pit, already charred black like charcoal and only half its original size, trembled violently. The dense rune chains on its body snapped one by one, turning into scattered specks of stardust.
Strong winds once again emerged around the Ultimate Mutant, swirling around it, forming an upward vortex. The air in the center was rapidly sucked out, pushing away the flames and high temperatures, and the temperature quickly dropped.
Amidst angry roars, the Ultimate Mutant flung away the heavy objects pressing down on it. Its half-shrunk body, enveloped by the strong winds, shot upwards.
However, just as it was about to leave the pit and reach the surface, thick, greenish-black vines suddenly smashed down from above.
"Get down, you!"
The thick vines, like arms, swung like clubs, scattering the strong winds around it and smashing it back into the deep pit.
Following its fall was a small napalm bomb.
Napalm bombs, when they explode, produce high-temperature flames, emitting temperatures of around 1000°C, and can stick to other objects, burning for a long time.
The napalm bomb exploded above the Ultimate Mutant's head, splashing the internal napalm gel-like substance onto the Ultimate Mutant's body. It stuck tightly like the strongest glue, burning continuously, and could not be completely removed even with the strong winds around its body.
A surge went through the Ultimate Mutant's body. The next moment, its completely charred outer shell cracked with a "crunch" and split open, and a baby-sized body flew out from the middle. It was immediately protected by strong winds, blocking all flames and high temperatures.
And the napalm gel-like substance that had covered its body still clung tightly to the charred outer shell, which carried thirty percent of its body's mass, burning continuously.
The Ultimate Mutant, its body now shrunk to the size of a baby, its two pure black eyes without whites staring fixedly at the pit above, suddenly turned and burrowed downwards.
The rubble, concrete fragments, broken steel parts, and so on underground were all swept up by the strong winds, clearing a narrow passage for the Ultimate Mutant to continuously burrow deeper into the ruins.
Above, Zhou Ming's expression gradually changed.
In his Soul "vision," the "Qi mass" representing the Ultimate Mutant shrank smaller and smaller until his Soul perception could no longer distinguish it "conspicuously."
He had lost track of the Ultimate Mutant, and the System had not given any prompts.
"It got away," Zhou Ming murmured.
He looked down. The Ghost Eye Gu allowed his vision to penetrate the flames, only seeing a still-burning charred corpse, but unable to see through the emptiness beneath the charred corpse. What remained was merely an abandoned charred shell.