From the foot of the mountain to where they were, it was about three li away. Luo Feng was lying in ambush on the mountaintop, looking down at the wasteland below. This wasteland had not been cleared or maintained by humans for decades, and it was overgrown with wild grass. A person crouching in such grass would be almost impossible to detect unless the distance was very close.
Luo Feng showed a faint smile, already having a plan in mind.
“If I lie flat on the ground and move across the wasteland towards them, they probably will not notice me.” By lying close to the ground and using spiritual force to move along the surface without making much noise, this was the closest possible approach to the ground.
However…
Once lying flat, his backpack would become more obvious and could easily expose him. Before storing the King Kong Ape Lord’s scales, the backpack was not bulging. But now it was quite full. After all, the King Kong Ape Lord was a twenty-metre giant ape. Even just the scales from its chest area alone, when stacked together, took up a lot of space.
“Let’s do this!” Luo Feng immediately turned and leapt down from the mountaintop.
While in mid-air, he actually changed direction and attached himself to the mountainside nearby. He moved quietly along the slope and quickly entered his hidden base.
Inside the base.
In the dim cave, a throwing knife sliced across a patch of rocky ground in a corner. Under Luo Feng’s spiritual control, a piece of rock was lifted. He dug a hole underneath it, threw his backpack inside, then placed the large rock back exactly as it was.
Gravel rolled down and covered the gaps.
The cave was already dark, so even if someone came, it would be very difficult to notice that a backpack was hidden underneath.
“I am going to deal with Li Yao. It will probably not even take half an hour. In the past four days, no monsters have entered my base. It is impossible that in just this half hour, one would come and find my backpack. My luck is not that bad!” Luo Feng smiled, then turned and quietly left.
The wasteland was filled with wild grass.
Luo Feng lay flat on the ground, or more precisely, there was a six-sided shield between him and the ground.
“Move!” With a thought, his spiritual force controlled the shield, and Luo Feng’s body almost pressed against the ground as he rapidly moved toward Li Yao and his group. His back was less than forty centimetres from the ground. Even herbivorous monsters in the wasteland would have difficulty detecting him.
At first, his speed was very fast, but when the distance between both sides reached 500 metres, he slowed down sharply.
“Hm?” Following the gaps in the grass, Luo Feng saw Li Yao’s group in the distance. “This Vulture Li Yao, why has his armour changed?”
Earlier, when seen from the mountaintop with binoculars, Li Yao was wearing a black combat suit. But now, even his exposed arms and hands were completely covered in black, even his neck, and he wore a black helmet that looked quite stylish.
In other words…
Li Yao’s entire body, except for his face, was covered in black, and he was also wearing an outer combat suit.
“This must be the Black God Suit,” Luo Feng thought. It matched exactly what Hong, the head of the global headquarters, had described.
“This Vulture Li Yao is really cautious.” Luo Feng could not help cursing inwardly. “As soon as he got off the aircraft, he already activated the Black God Suit. Inside it he still wears another combat suit. That outer suit is at least SS grade, or at worst a Grade 9 suit!”
Double protection.
One combat suit, one Black God Suit.
Trying to injure Li Yao would be extremely difficult, let alone kill him.
“When he notices the threat, he might even cover his entire face, leaving only his eyes, nose and mouth,” Luo Feng frowned. “No choice, I can only aim for a one strike kill. I have to catch him off guard and pierce his face with the throwing knives.”
In the dense grass, Luo Feng slowly moved forward along the ground.
The distance between both sides kept shrinking…
400 metres, 350 metres, 300 metres…
In a blink, it was only 100 metres away.
“The closer the throwing knives are, the more powerful the attack will be, and the more unprepared he will be,” Luo Feng thought.
With a thought, six throwing knives, including two SS grade knives, silently flew out from his trouser pocket. They pierced into the ground and moved through the earth toward Li Yao’s group.
Luo Feng also stopped and lay motionless.
…
Li Yao and his group were carefully moving through the wasteland, trying not to attract monsters.
“Move faster,” Li Yao said while scanning their surroundings.
Behind him were three war gods, two white men and one foreign man, also extremely cautious. Although their strength was enough to deal with monsters, they all knew that any disturbance could attract beast swarms, and that might expose them to Luo Feng.
“Go around, take this route, do not provoke the monsters ahead,” Li Yao ordered in a low voice.
The three war gods were also very cautious.
The elite warriors carrying boxes or weapons were equally careful.
…
“They actually detoured?” Luo Feng frowned and quietly moved closer again.
His throwing knives could maintain maximum power within 100 metres. Beyond that, the power dropped rapidly. Within 50 metres, both power and mental energy efficiency were optimal. Now the distance had exceeded 100 metres.
Closer, closer…
120 metres, 100 metres, 80 metres. When Luo Feng reached 80 metres, he stopped.
At this moment, the six throwing knives moving underground were less than 20 metres from Li Yao’s group. The knives also needed distance to accelerate.
“Now!” Luo Feng’s eyes turned cold.
…
Vulture Li Yao, high level war god, along with Northern War God Gang, and two early war gods, James and Isaacson, all moved forward cautiously.
Whoosh!
A gust of wind passed, grass bent low.
Swish! Swish! Swish!
Six black streaks of light, like lightning, burst out from the ground just five metres away from Li Yao. In less than a thousandth of a second, they made direct contact.
“Li!”
“Li Yao!”
The three war gods behind him were shocked.
From the grass nearby, Luo Feng stared hard at Li Yao. He only saw that at the moment the knives struck, a flash of black light appeared on Li Yao’s face. Four of the knives hit his face, and two hit his throat, but his skin was completely black.
“How is this possible?” Luo Feng’s eyes widened.
The knives struck Li Yao’s face and throat, but they could not pierce through the black skin at all.
Whoosh!
Li Yao leapt into the air, rising fifty to sixty metres high. In mid-air, his face was still covered in black membrane, leaving only his eyes exposed. Looking down from above, he immediately spotted Luo Feng, less than a hundred metres away.
So that is him.
“I refuse to believe this,” Luo Feng and Li Yao locked eyes, both filled with killing intent.
Swish! Swish! Swish!
The six throwing knives struck again, but Li Yao only made slight movements. Three missed, and the remaining three only struck his body.
The black glow completely protected him.
The knives could not even pierce his skin.
“This is the Black God Suit?” Northern War God Gang looked enviously. The elite warriors behind Li Yao also looked at him like a god.
Luo Feng was alarmed.
This Black God Suit was too powerful. It could completely block war god level attacks.
“Luo Feng!” Li Yao roared, his eyes full of rage.
“Kill him!” Li Yao descended rapidly.
At the same time, the other three war gods already knew where the enemy was. In an instant, all three exploded at sonic speed and surrounded Luo Feng.
Luo Feng let out a cold snort, dodged their attack with a strange movement, then stomped and leapt into the air.
Suspended mid-air, he looked down coldly.
Below him were three war gods, Li Yao, and more than fifty elite warriors all looking up at him.
“Death has arrived,” Luo Feng said coldly.
Ten throwing knives instantly descended like a storm.
“Kill them all,” Luo Feng said coldly.
Ten knives turned into ten blood-red streaks of death, sweeping through the crowd like a meat grinder.
Screams, panic, blood.
The ancient wasteland was instantly dyed red.