I am a former Flame Chasers

In front of me is a common fishing village in China. Some tattered fishing nets are drying at the door, and there are unplanned two-story buildings scattered around, with blue house numbers on the wall.

Yuyang Village?

Ryan glanced around, not having heard of the name, and his eyes kept scanning the surroundings.

There were no Honkai beasts and no dead soldiers. Garbage blown away by the typhoon was piled up everywhere. Crooked electric poles blocked most of the road, but the surveillance cameras were turning.

New anti interference model, is the Fire Moth watching?

Ryan bent down and squeezed through. Hua was just a few meters in front of him. Without saying a word, he just ran forward woodenly. His target was obviously the seaport at the end of the long street.

Even without the detector, Ryan could feel that the Honkai energy was increasing rapidly, just like approaching a fireball. After exceeding the critical point, he would naturally feel a burning sensation.

"The problem is at the seaside? They didn't come to attack except for surveillance?"

He was increasingly unable to understand what the Nan Shenzhou branch was doing. Turning the corner, he saw a small fishing port.

Several rusty fishing boats were parked at the dock. A thin mist rose from the sea. Only the light of a lighthouse in the distance could be vaguely seen, and the sound of the splashing sea water also penetrated into the ears.

With about a hundred meters to go, Hua in front suddenly changed from jogging to sprinting, and then Ryan rushed up without thinking.

"That's enough!"

He grabbed the girl thin shoulders and dragged her back, but he didn't expect Hua to resist. With a "swish", the T-shirt was torn open, revealing the simple underwear that only the elderly wore.

At the same time, Hua suddenly turned around and hit Ryan temple with his elbow, which was quite brutal.

Completely lost self-awareness?

This counterattack was somewhat unexpected. It looked more like control than seduction, but the gap between the two was too big.

Ryan squatted down, let his elbows pass, and swept his leg close to the ground, directly sweeping Hua up into the air. The girl spun in the air, then showed amazing flexibility, using the force to chop Ryan crown with her right leg.

But she was still too slow, and Ryan grabbed her chest and pressed her to the ground.

"Her eyes are dull, as if she is sleepwalking. The Honkai energy is more concentrated on her body, like a thin film covering her. Then--"

Ryan analyzed the situation in a few tenths of a second, and the hand pressing on the girl chest burst out with a red light.

shock.

This energy was fleeting, and Ryan eyes turned to the side, and a fist had already touched his temple.

It is true.

He breathed a sigh of relief. He had also encountered a Honkai beast with specialized mental abilities during the Neon raid. This Honkai energy was indeed omnipotent. Not only could it cut off everything like a laser, it could even invade a person's mind.

Hallucinations, induction, and even mind control.

"Hua Honkai ability is highly adaptable. Even she was hit, which proves that the things here are not simple."

In an instant, he thought far ahead, and even thought of the problem of the fire moth. To surround such a terrifying thing with only barbed wire, isn't that a disregard for human life?

"Master... Senior Brother?"

At this moment, he heard a slight murmur in his ears, and finally he saw that the pair of emerald eyes had regained their clarity and were looking at him in a daze.

"You're awake. What did you feel just now?"

"My dizziness suddenly got worse, and then I knew nothing." Hua was still a little confused, and then she moved his eyes down, only to see Ryan pressing on him, his knees against his lower abdomen and his right hand on his chest.

In a moment, her face and neck all turned red, but she didn't scream like in a soap opera, only her voice became hoarse:

"You're pushing me so hard it hurts, can you get up?"

"Oh, sorry." Ryan also felt that his position was wrong. He stood up a little awkwardly and moved his fingers.

It's really flat, no sense of grip...

Ryan felt no shame at all. He didn't do it on purpose. Besides, the same thing had happened before.

The gray blue hair covered the pretty face. Hua glanced at Ryan, who looked normal. For some reason, she bit her lip lightly.

A bit shy, a bit annoyed, and finally turned into his usual serious expression, covering his forehead with his hands.

"Was I just hypnotized??"

"To be precise, it's mind control. I guess this is a territory. They choose prey based on the adaptability of Honkai energy. Most people will be hit on the periphery, but you have good adaptability and were not affected until the village entrance." Ryan licked his lips and looked at the messy little fishing port.

"Oh, right. Personal will also has an impact. When you vomited, your mind was completely relaxed, and you fell directly into the trap."

It's this Honkai energy again.

Hua seemed to understand, frowned and asked: "Then why are you okay?"

"Experience and strength, this thing is far from enough to deal with me." Ryan said lightly, raising his hand to grasp the electric pole next to him, and his fingers sank into the cement like hydraulic clamps. "Hua, don't you want to know the truth of the world? How do you feel now?"

The girl breathing stagnated, and she couldn't even utter a word. If it wasn't for Ryan, she would have died long ago. Excuses were useless. She subconsciously clenched her fists, and her fingertips turned slightly white.

She once drove away the assassins and thought they were Ryan enemies, but now it seems that the real enemies are not as simple as she imagined.

"Don't be discouraged, you are just unlucky to meet high-quality stuff right at the beginning. I didn't bring you here to destroy your confidence." Ryan smiled instead.

"What's that for?"

"I will fulfill your wish and tell you how cruel the future is, because even if you are afraid, you can't hide. Do you remember what I said a year ago?"

Click, click, click...

The electric poles buried deep in the ground were pulled out inch by inch. Looking at the inhuman force, Hua widened his eyes and blurted out.

"Only those who face fear, hold onto hope, and stay true to themselves can be called strong."

"Yes!"

Ryan turned around and threw the telephone pole like a javelin. The afterimage swept across the morning light and collided heavily with something flying in the mist.

boom--

It was half a fishing boat. The steel and concrete collided, and both were bounced away. With a "boom", a two-story building more than ten meters away collapse.

Hua already dull face became even more dull, and she was completely unable to comprehend the scene in front of her. She didn't even have time to sigh, because the man in front of her disappeared the moment the javelin was thrown.

"Let me see what you are."

The Honkai energy condensed into steps. Ryan stood more than ten meters in the air and looked down. The mist was getting thicker, blocking his vision, but he could feel that a powerful source of Honkai was in the sea.

An Emperor level Honkai beast, leaning towards mind control.

After hesitating for a moment, Ryan saw several fishing boats flying towards him. These dozens of tons of steel seemed like a giant hidden weapon, but before they hit Ryan——

Boom boom boom!

A beam of light appeared out of nowhere in front of him, like a hot knife cutting butter. The steel broke when it touched it and passed by Ryan with a loud noise.

He didn't even bother to look, he just leaned forward slightly with his head downward.

Boom!

With a step of his feet, a figure passed directly through the iron sheet. The gray sea surface rapidly enlarged in his eyes, and Ryan finally saw a black shadow.

It is roughly oval in shape, with an uneven brown shell on its surface. Using the fishing boat nearby as a reference, the diameter is measured to be about 50 meters.

This huge creature was half submerged in the sea, revealing four crab-like claws and a huge eyeball on its back. When the black eyeball looked...

not good.

Ryan suddenly felt dizzy, as if someone had hit him hard on the head. He subconsciously jumped to the side, and then saw the Honkai beast with a tail like a cutlassfish rising from the sea.

call out--

The beam of light penetrated the mist, drew an arc in the air, broke the wreckage of the fallen fishing boat into particles, and then split the sea in two.

What a terrifying destructive power, even stronger than that of Adityas.

Ryan pupils shrank slightly, and he jumped back into the sea while spreading out his right hand, concentrating all his energy.

Gather and shape!

The Houkai energy gathered into a ball in his palm, and then was stretched into a short spear. Just as he stepped onto the shore, he turned around and threw it.

Falling Star Gun!

Swoosh——

The sea surface that had not yet closed was broken again, and the red meteor hit the crab's claws at an astonishing speed.

The energy was entangled and tangled. After a moment, the more condensed pistol broke through the Honkai energy, touched the shell, pierced and squeezed it, and finally could no longer maintain a stable form, and all the energy exploded.

boom!!

A dazzling red ball of light appeared on the sea, and even the cold sea breeze became warm. Ryan looked at the ball of light and exhaled.

That's not enough. This thing is too big. Even if I gather a lot of Honkai energy, I can't kill it.

Condensing and shaping energy consumes a lot of energy, but Ryan is not afraid, this is his home court. He raises his head slightly and sees several "meteors" falling from the sky with long tails of flames.

Boom boom boom...

The same dazzling balls of light exploded one after another, making the warm sea breeze scorching hot. Ryan put down his hands that were blocking his face and frowned.

Honkai energy warhead? I guess I misunderstood them?

This is the latest equipment of the Fire Moth, which stores energy in a warhead made of a special alloy. Since there is no soul steel, this thing has a short shelf life. It would be a lot of fun if it exploded in the base, so each branch can only get a few.

But this amount of bullets is not enough to kill the Emperor-level Honkai beast.

Ryan looked at the thick fog that had been completely blown away. There was no trace of the giant beast on the sea, only some fragments rising and falling with the waves.

Sure enough, he escaped.

He was not surprised. The higher level Honkai beasts were not stupid, just like it took some brains to deal with Adityas. But Ryan did not chase after it. Who knows if the Fire Moth would attack again and blow him to death.

It took only two minutes for the Honkai Beast to appear and escape. It seems that the Nan Shenzhou branch did not leave it alone, but kept a close eye on it. As soon as he started fighting, the other side launched an attack.

"Fishing? Well, to deal with these creatures hiding in the sea, we can only fish." Ryan shook his head, turned around and walked back to the fishing village.

The aftermath of the battle tore apart the houses near the sea, and the overflowing sea water poured into the streets. Ryan walked straight to a collapse house and opened the iron door.

"It's me."

The fist stopped in front of his nose. The ragged girl hid in the house and took a fighting stance. When she saw it was Ryan, her fist dropped weakly.

Hua felt a little scared and numb, but more of it was a feeling of unwillingness, as if he found himself living in a doomsday movie, and he felt a deep sense of powerlessness.

"I'm sorry, Senior Brother. I can only try not to hold you back. I can't help you at all."

Those scenes flashed through Hua mind. She bit her lip and felt that she was being unreasonable like a child.

"No, you can only do what you can. You did a great job. It's worth the trip." Ryan put his hand on Hua head and said calmly, "Congratulations, you have seen the truth of the world, but are you afraid?"

The truth of the world, every word is of great weight, and previous cognition has been completely overturned. Even at the moment when this hand was placed on his head, Hua instinctively trembled.

She knew how powerful this hand was, enough to destroy a small town, but somehow, Hua didn't feel the slightest bit of fear.

Some yearn for it, some admire it, but more of it is——

Hua raised his head. The short man in front of him blocked his view, as if blocking the terrifying storm as well.

Gradually, the girl raised her hands, hugged Ryan waist, buried her head in his chest, and shook her head firmly.

"I'm not afraid."