Suren and Kai were both injured, and bloodstains were left on the ground.

However, since it was a pursuit, the Steam Party didn't dare slow down. They walked to the vicinity of the platform. Suddenly, the guy at the front didn't see the thin thread under his feet and stepped on it.

Unfortunately, the moment the grenade safety lever popped off with a "clang," the burly Iron Ape immediately became alert and shielded everyone like lightning.

With a loud "boom," fire scattered everywhere.

But it had little effect.

The power of ordinary grenades was too limited to deal with the fully armed Steam Party, most of whom had modified mechanical prosthetics.

There wasn't time to set up more booby traps, but Suren didn't expect these methods to cause much damage to the enemy anyway.

The sound of the explosion was enough to disrupt the enemy's formation and... attract the monsters' attention!

.......

Hearing the sound of the explosion, Suren stood out of the cover without hesitation. The moment his arms raised, the muzzles of the two firelocks were already spitting flames at the Steam Party members a hundred meters away.

For a gunslinger, this was the most comfortable combat distance.

Bang! Bang! Bang...

Those guys holding gas lamps were the first to be targeted. In the blink of an eye, seven or eight light sources fell to the ground.

"Damn it!"

A furious roar came from the darkness.

Before Suren had time to reload, a strong, dark figure charged towards him.

Just as expected.

"Here it comes!"

Suren's pupils shrank sharply, but he had no intention of retreating. He raised his hand and fired a few more shots, emptying the remaining bullets in the cylinder into the dark figure.

However, these shots did not hinder the guy's speed at all.

Clang! Clang! Clang!

The bullets sparked against Sith's body, as if hitting a steel plate, and ricocheted off.

Even the shot that accurately hit the goggles didn't cause the guy any damage.

Suren emptied the bullets and deftly changed the cylinder.

His gaze, however, was not on the gun, but coldly watching the approaching Iron Ape, calculating in his heart: "As expected, based on this intensity, even armor-piercing rounds might not be able to penetrate his runic goggles."

If he rashly used alchemical bullets and failed with one shot, the enemy would become alert, making it even harder to succeed next time.

These few shots, besides testing, were also to lower the enemy's vigilance. To make him think that Suren's gunfire was no threat at all!

Just as the Iron Ape was about to crash into Suren within a few meters, a thin but more agile figure also crashed into it head-on.

Boom!

After a muffled sound, there was a melee.

Kai's [Blade] implants slashed sparks on the Iron Ape's body, making a harsh metallic tearing sound.

The two fought fiercely together.

Suren also clearly heard Sith's sneer, as if mocking Kai's overestimation of himself.

Kai followed a flexible ranger class route. If he chose to kite, Sith might not be able to do anything to him in a short time.

But if he chose close combat, it was exactly what he wanted!

The Iron Ape lacked agility, but its melee strength had an absolute advantage over Kai.

With this head-on fighting style, Kai had already fallen into a disadvantage after just one exchange.

But if Kai retreated, Sith would definitely choose to change targets and kill Suren, the gunslinger, first!

Therefore, when Suren and Kai chose this tactic, it meant there was no turning back.

To survive, the two had to fully trust each other.

And because he had to hold this guy back, Kai's movements became somewhat difficult due to his injuries. He was accidentally grabbed by Sith's ankle and tossed around like a sandbag.

Life and death were in an instant.

At this moment, Suren still stood ten meters away, without taking a step back.

He calmly and steadily reloaded his ammunition and raised his muzzle again.

For him, a "firearm expert," even if the opponent was moving violently, this distance was enough for him to never miss.

This time, Suren didn't probe anymore, but aimed at the buckle on the Iron Ape's mask!

Even if this mask was part of the external mechanical exoskeleton and indestructible, the weakness of machinery was also obvious: the solder joints, joints, and connections were more fragile than other parts.

The high-level enchanted goggles could block bullets, but the buckles holding the mask in place might not.

If one shot wasn't enough, he'd fire a few more.

Ding! Ding! Dang! Dang!

Suren fired several shots in a row, each shot accurately hitting the mask's buckle, actually causing cracks in the solder joints.

Kai, who was in close combat with the Iron Ape, also seized the opportunity and kicked out fiercely.

With a "clang," the mask fell off.

Revealing the Iron Ape's eyes, filled with a look of astonishment.

Sith was stunned when he saw his mask being shot off, and then the great terror of death instantly struck.

His gaze shifted and he happened to see a dark muzzle aiming at his eye socket. At the same time, he seemed to recognize the origin of the gun: "Iron Head" Ivan's famous gun, the [Three-Headed Ghost]?

At the same time, he also knew he had been careless.

The previous ordinary bullets had made him lose the necessary vigilance, thinking that this was just a gunslinger who posed no threat. But he didn't expect that the other party also had alchemical bullets hidden away.

However, facing the dark muzzle, a sneer spilled from the corner of Sith's mouth: "Hmph, naive!"

He was also extremely alert.

In fact, he had sensed something was wrong as early as when he discovered that Kai had chosen to fight head-on.

Now, watching his goggles being shot off, he realized the purpose of Suren and the other's actions.

Heh, breaking the goggles, wasn't it just to hit the eyes?

The idea was good, but... if professionals could be killed so easily by gunfire, then they would be too inferior.

Even with alchemical bullets, to kill him, they would have to hit one of the few "weak points" on his body.

Sith's crisis response ability allowed him to instinctively turn his head the first moment his mask was shot off. This angle was a blind spot for shooting. He felt that the bullet posed no threat to him at all.

But in the next second, a desperate scene occurred.

The moment Sith turned his head, he saw Suren on the opposite side suddenly make a strange shooting motion from the corner of his eye. When the fire tongue spat out of the muzzle...

He was actually "flicking the gun"?

Seeing this, the mocking smile on Sith's lips had not yet dissipated, but turned into horror.

It was too late to react again.

At the last moment of his life, this veteran Steam Party captain thought of an "arcane-level" gun technique with despair: "Gun Kata!"

So...

There was such a terrifying guy hidden among the enemies.

Like a venomous viper hidden in a pile of dead leaves, it would strike a fatal blow when the hunter was off guard.

.......

Suren's eyes had a nearly numb calmness. Change guns, predict the enemy's head-turning angle, calculate the trajectory, and flick the gun while pulling the trigger.

There were no mistakes in the details, and he wouldn't give the enemy any chance to turn the situation around.

The alchemical armor-piercing bullet shot out from the firelock with three silver skulls, drawing an arc in the air, instantly and accurately hitting the Iron Ape's left eye socket.

With a "boom," blood splattered in front of him.

The alchemical bullet penetrated Sith's head, and the Iron Ape, who had been fierce and intimidating a second ago, crashed to the ground.

This shot was a fatal blow.

........

Suren breathed a sigh of relief, walked over, and helped up Kai, who had been thrown around and was dizzy.

At the same time, he also swallowed the gray mist on the corpse.

[Acquired 'Sith Arnold's Memory Fragment *3]

[You have obtained a small amount of 'Intermediate Mechanical Knowledge'...]

[You have mastered the 'Basic Mechanical Arm Kinetic Energy Device Modification Technique'...]

[Melee experience +8]

[Mental Strength +0.12]

Suren felt a lot of mechanical skills suddenly added to his mind, but he didn't have time to think about it.

Because at this time, the battle was far from over.

Suren helped Kai up and asked, "Captain, are you alright?"

"No..."

Kai wanted to say he was fine, but before he could finish, he couldn't help but spit out a mouthful of turbid blood with a fishy taste in his throat. He shook his head, which was a little dizzy from the impact, and said with a wry smile, "I won't die for the time being."

Then, Kai looked at Sith's corpse on the ground with a bullet in his eye socket, and then glanced at Suren again, his expression becoming extremely complicated.

Suren's repeated amazing performances refreshed his understanding of this "newcomer."

It turned out that he was not only a "firearm expert," but also proficient in the arcane-level gun technique [Gun Kata].

This was an ultra-difficult gun technique that only truly talented professional gunslingers could master...

"With this gun technique, no wonder he is so confident."

Kai sighed in his heart and was also grateful that he had chosen to believe.

.......

From the sound of the explosion to Sith rushing over to fight, and then being killed by Suren and Kai's cooperation, the whole process took only twenty seconds.

Kuntu, the "Redhead" in the distance, originally thought that with Sith taking action himself, even if he couldn't kill the two, he could at least hold them back.

Then he and a group of gangsters would rush over and easily kill the opponents.

But unexpectedly, plans could not keep up with changes. The sound of the explosion attracted the aberrant monsters hidden in the dark!

Those aberrant monsters with extraordinary agility who could also climb walls appeared and disappeared unpredictably. They used their long mouthparts to bite one gangster after another to death.

The Steam Party members were actually held in place.

Miserable screams were endless, and the gunshots were in a mess.

But unexpectedly, in this short period of delay, the situation changed so quickly.

In just a few exchanges, he actually watched his partner being shot and killed with a headshot?

Kuntu was shocked and realized why the two would install a bomb here, even knowing it was useless.

It turned out that the purpose was not to injure people, but to attract the monsters' attention!

Watching Sith being killed, Kuntu instantly wanted to retreat, but it seemed that it was already too late.

The densely packed wall-climbing aberrant monsters had already surrounded them...

.......

Originally, it was a duel between two sides, but due to the addition of the aberrant monsters, it immediately turned into a three-way melee.

Suren: "Captain, can you still fight?"

Kai took out another potion and injected it into his leg, saying, "I can hold on for a while."

As he said that, he looked at the Steam Party members who were fighting fiercely with the monsters in the distance, and a look of ridicule appeared on his face: "Now, whoever can survive depends on their true ability."

The Steam Party members were now preoccupied with their own safety. Without them taking action, it was unlikely that those guys could survive in the pile of monsters.

In comparison, although Suren and Kai's situation wasn't good, it wasn't worse than before.

Some monsters were also attracted by the gunshots and climbed to the top of their heads.

However, the two cooperated well. One had flawless marksmanship, and the other killed one monster with one strike in close combat.

Although these aberrant wall-climbing monsters were incredibly fast, the two fought and retreated, and could still hold on for a while.

But suddenly!

While Suren was killing, he accidentally found a ball of "gray mist" in the pile of monster corpses.

"Huh... elite monsters actually produced soul fragments?"

Even though monsters were low in intelligence, almost no "gray mist" would appear on their corpses.

And at this time, he had just headshot a strong aberrant monster and saw fragments on the corpse.

Because the distance the corpse fell was right next to his feet, Suren devoured it casually while shooting.

But... after digesting the information in this ball of gray mist, his face suddenly became a little strange again.

[Acquired 'Mutated Aberrant Monster's Memory Fragment *2]

[You have obtained 'Partial Layout Information of the Sewer Pipe Network'...]

[You have obtained some fragmented images...]

[You have mastered the 'Intermediate Climbing' skill...]

[Mental Strength +0.01]

.......

It wasn't surprising that Suren learned the [Intermediate Climbing] skill since this aberrant humanoid monster could climb walls.

The "partial sewer pipe network map" was also expected...

But these subsequent "fragmented images" made Suren feel something was wrong.

The monster's sensory system was not as clear as what humans saw. In this monster's memory, Suren saw a warm yellow image fragment that looked like it was taken with thermal imaging.

But even though it wasn't clear, he could recognize that it was a scythe-shaped object!

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