The lacquer tree, when its bark is scratched, oozes lacquer. The lacquer tree forest Ye Feng discovered produced black lacquer.
He used his Tang dao to hollow out a large stone to serve as a container, then cut into the bark and collected the black lacquer.
Meanwhile, Xiao Xiao used food packaging bags to store the lacquer in small pouches.
After collecting the lacquer, Ye Feng took out the six bags of flour he had obtained from the black iron treasure chest and cut them open with his Tang dao.
He then quickly sewed them shut and hung them from the trees.
"Clang clang clang clang!~"
Just as Ye Feng finished hanging the flour, a sharp, unpleasant sound echoed from afar.
It was the infrared alarm Ye Feng had just set up.
Ye Feng turned to look at Xiao Xiao, who nodded at him. "Big Brother, I'm ready!"
...
A few minutes later,
Lin Senhai's figure, so blurred it was almost invisible, appeared near where Ye Feng and Xiao Xiao had just been.
"Kid, I have to admit, you hide a lot of secrets!"
Lin Senhai glanced at the broken infrared alarm he held in his hand before tossing it to the ground.
His already blurry figure became completely transparent, blending seamlessly with his surroundings.
"Although you seem to possess something that can mask your scent, the traces of your movements while escaping are too obvious~"
"If it were just based on scent and sight, I might have actually let you get away~"
"Pistol, a Barrett sniper rifle, over a dozen grenades, white phosphorus rounds... your gear isn't something your pockets can hold~"
"It seems you have some very interesting things on you~"
Lin Senhai's voice kept shifting locations without revealing his form.
Clearly, he was also wary of the Barrett M82A1, a formidable weapon in Ye Feng's hands.
"Chirp~ Whoosh~... Whoosh~ Whoosh~..."
Suddenly, faint sounds arose.
It was Ye Feng pulling the drawstrings of the six bags of flour hanging from the trees.
The six bags of flour instantly rained down from above, covering almost the entire area where Ye Feng and Xiao Xiao had been.
As the flour rapidly descended, Ye Feng spotted a small white mass moving quickly.
That white mass was Lin Senhai, who had been in stealth mode. Upon contact with the flour, he immediately shielded his head with his hands, minimizing the amount of flour that stuck to his body.
Then, Lin Senhai sprinted towards the only area within the vicinity that had not been heavily covered by flour.
And directly above this area were Ye Feng and Xiao Xiao, holding the lacquer!
"Splash~~!"
"Plop~ plop~......"
As Lin Senhai reached the area with less flour, Ye Feng, standing on the tree, splashed down a basin of lacquer as large as his face.
And Xiao Xiao, on another tree, also threw down bags of lacquer from plastic bags and food wrappers!
"You brat, you..."
Caught off guard, Lin Senhai was doused in a large amount of lacquer and hit by many of Xiao Xiao's lacquer bags.
Instantly, a large portion of his body was marked by the lacquer...
As Lin Senhai watched in astonishment, Ye Feng pulled out a Glock 18 and pulled the trigger.
"Bang bang bang!~......"
A rapid barrage of gunfire erupted.
But Lin Senhai's reaction was swift. With a roll and several twists and turns, he dodged the bullets with agile footwork.
"Wait, this flour... could it be..."
Lin Senhai, who had dodged backward several meters, suddenly had a drastic change in expression. Flour was swirling all around him, highly concentrated.
"If this causes a dust explosion, the power of it..."
"Clink~"
A very faint, yet incredibly loud metallic sound for Lin Senhai reached his ears. It was the sound of a grenade's safety pin being pulled.
Lin Senhai turned his head and saw Ye Feng tossing a white phosphorus grenade.
"Bang!~ Rumble~ Boom~......"
The explosion of the white phosphorus grenade ignited the floating flour in the air, causing an even larger explosion!
The entire area covered by flour was instantly engulfed in flames.
The explosion's flames even reached Ye Feng's position behind the tree, burning off some of his hair.
Xiao Xiao, however, had followed Ye Feng's earlier instructions and hid in a tree hollow when Ye Feng threw the white phosphorus grenade.
"Hoo~"
Watching the raging inferno, Ye Feng let out a sigh of relief.
In fact,
When Lin Senhai appeared with the broken infrared alarm, Ye Feng had already detected him.
But Ye Feng, as he had said before, did not choose the option of using the Barrett for a long-range sniper shot.
Because if he fired and failed to kill the opponent, his position would be exposed.
While the opponent was cloaked, he would be at a significant disadvantage...
Therefore, he had to adopt a method that was guaranteed to hit and possess immense destructive power to deal with Lin Senhai.
This led to the dust explosion triggered by the white phosphorus bomb!
Lin Senhai's subsequent actions proved Ye Feng's deduction to be correct!
Although Lin Senhai walked around with the broken infrared alarm and even made noises, it was a deliberate act to lure Ye Feng into firing his Barrett sniper rifle.
Because Lin Senhai's movements were always close to the tree trunk and he was almost transparent, clearly ready to hide behind the trees at any moment...
...
The blast wave from the explosion raged and then gradually subsided after a long while...
Ye Feng reloaded his Glock 18, climbed down the tree, and cautiously approached the burning Lin Senhai.
"Kid, you... who are you?"
Lin Senhai, at this moment, no longer held any contempt for Ye Feng.
Looking at the excessively young face approaching him, Lin Senhai felt a trace of fear.
Four layers of traps, one interlocking with the next, culminating in a final, massive explosion!
First, leaving obvious footprints, then suddenly erasing them to confuse him, making him search...
Next, using his spoken words to roughly gauge his movement range, and once he was in the flour-covered area, scattering the pre-prepared flour.
When he thought Ye Feng was trying to prevent him from staying invisible with this method, he instinctively ran towards the area with the least amount of flour.
But that area was precisely where Ye Feng had made his real trap, the lacquer!
After all, being doused in lacquer was not something that could be resolved by a few pats, unlike flour.
Then, Ye Feng directly fired his Glock 18 wildly. Although it appeared he intended to kill him with gunfire, it was actually to drive him into an area surrounded by a large cloud of flour dust.
Finally, using white phosphorus to trigger a massive flour explosion!
"Is this guy really as young as he appears on the surface?"
A thought crossed Lin Senhai's mind.
"This..."
As Ye Feng got closer, he saw Lin Senhai's condition after the explosion and couldn't help but be stunned.
Lin Senhai's skin was almost completely burnt off, including his "kind" face, revealing a horrifying sight beneath the burned flesh.
It was not a human skull at all; the entire cranial structure was cone-shaped and protruded outwards, with two rows of pointed teeth, like a shark's...
What surprised Ye Feng was that, despite the explosion and flames leaving Lin Senhai's body mutilated and bones exposed in many places,
His wounds were healing at a speed visible to the naked eye. Even the areas where white phosphorus had caused continuous burning were slowly regenerating.
The speed at which the white phosphorus flames burned away his skin and muscle seemed to be outpaced by the growth of Lin Senhai's wound tissues...
"Kid, I'm going to kill you!"
Lin Senhai suddenly roared, his eyes turning blood red.
Instantly, the healing speed of Lin Senhai's wounds accelerated dramatically...
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