Ian quickened his pace, trying to move quickly through the silent ruins of the city. He walked carefully along the broken path, surrounded by buildings that had long since collapsed for the most part, strewn with an aura of decay and desolation.
However, just as he was about to pass through the shadow of one of the crumbling buildings, a dangerous instinct surged through him. Instinctively, he quickly rolled to the side, and several sharp arrows flew past the place where he was standing with a "whoosh" sound, and deeply nailed into the stone wall.
Ian instantly turned on his senses. His gaze was calm and sharp as he quickly scanned the surroundings, trying to capture the location of the attackers.
Moments later, several silhouettes emerged from the shadows and quickly surrounded Ian. There were five people in the group, moving swiftly and silently, obviously well-trained.
The man at the head was tall, holding a huge axe, exuding powerful energy fluctuations, clearly a Flare-class powerhouse. He stared at Ian and suddenly raised his hand to signal his team to stop, "Wait! We've recognized the wrong person!"
Ian frowned and stared warily at the man in front of him, "Who are you guys? Why are you attacking me?"
The man hastily put away his weapon and said with an apologetic face, "I'm really sorry, we are a team of mercenaries hired by a certain employer to ambush a specific target here. Just now, we thought that you were the person we were looking for, and that's why we made a rash move. Misunderstanding!"
Ian swept his gaze over the men and realized that the other four members were all SPARK level, and that the overall strength of the team was quite good, but it really wasn't enough to threaten himself. He relaxed slightly and said indifferently, "Since it's a misunderstanding, let's forget about it. I don't want to clash with you guys."
The man nodded gratefully, "Thanks for understanding. My friend, you'd better leave these ruins quickly, the sooner the better."
Suspicion grew in Ian's mind and he asked in a calm tone, "Is there something wrong here? Is there some sort of danger?"
The man hesitated for a moment and finally shook his head, "It's not convenient to say more, anyway, it's right for you to leave quickly. We have a special mission here."
Ian's heart was clear, he already had a rough guess, this ruin was very large in scope, if he wanted to ambush someone, a small team would be completely insufficient, the danger the man was talking about should mean the other teams, Ian just nodded his head slightly, "Understood, thanks for the reminder." After saying that, he quickened his pace and left quickly.
For Ian, the other party's mission had nothing to do with him, and there was no need for him to waste time here.
As he sped along, seeing that the border of the ruins was about to arrive, Ian suddenly stopped in his tracks. This was because three huge mutant beasts had appeared in front of him, each of them emitting strong Flare-class energy fluctuations.
Ian wasn't afraid in the slightest, instead he had some excitement, "After resting for so long and not fighting all this time, my body is getting rusty."
Suddenly a blazing flame came from the ruins on the side and rushed out from the side, accurately blasting one of the mutant beasts, knocking it back temporarily. The remaining two also looked in the direction the flames flew from.
In the midst of the flames, a young man quickly appeared, clad in a red cloak, his hair flaring like flames, and his gaze sharp and determined. He rushed up to fight the three mutant beasts.
"What's this called, twice today it was dangerous and there was no chance to strike."
Ian watched the fight between the man and the mutant beasts from the side: "This guy's fighting ability is quite strong, he doesn't lose the wind even when he fights one against three."
Seeing Ian still standing there, the red-haired man yelled, "Don't just stand there, hurry up! They are coming at me!"
It turned out that the red-haired man had come to Ian's aid after seeing Ian's lack of reaction when facing the three Flare-class mutant beasts, thinking that Ian had been scared silly.
At this moment, the three mutant beasts suddenly stopped attacking and confronted the red-haired man, the red-haired man got a chance to catch his breath, the red-haired man looked like he understood what was going on, he came to Ian's side and whispered to Ian, "Too late to say more, my name is Rayne, if you can get out of here, go to the Midnight Bar in the Storm City, find the bartender and explain my situation, so that they don't have to care about me. "
Storm City was the closest large survivor gathering city to the City of Ashes and was Ian's way to the Iron Fortress.
"Rayne, finally got you." A figure appeared from the surroundings and surrounded both the red-haired man and Ian as the three mutant beasts came to get down beside the lead man.
The red-haired man let out a taunt, "Matthews, I wasn't hiding at all, it was your little pet that was so useless that it didn't find me until now."
The leading man's name was Matthews, "Rayne, I really admire you, you're still so tough at the end of your life, you're going to die today, who is this guy next to you, is he sending you a message? "
Rayne looked at Ian and said, "I don't know him, just a passerby, isn't your target me, it has nothing to do with him. "
"Rayne you are still so naive, no matter if he has nothing to do with you or not, since he appeared here, there is no way I will let him leave alive, do you think I am as merciful as you are? "
For Matthews' words, Rayne had also expected it, Matthews is known for his ruthlessness, Rayne's eyes became serious: "You can fight too, protect yourself later, and when you find an opportunity, hurry up and escape, I'll try my best to stop them. "
Ian at this time understood what happened, the red-haired man, that is, Lei En, is the target of these squads in the ruins to ambush, the leader of several squads is that person named Matthews, his special ability should be to manipulate mutant beasts, those three mutant beasts searching for Lei En in the vicinity, was bumped into by himself, Lei En saw it and worried that he, an innocent person, encountered danger, and only then stepped in to save him.
The battle between Rayne and the mutant beasts drew the others over, Rayne also guessed his own end, to face eight Flare-class combatants, he could not escape no matter what, so he hoped that Ian could break out to deliver the message for him.
Ian also began to admire Rayne's courage and sense of justice, thinking of this, Ian took a step forward and said faintly to Matthews and the others, "I don't want to kill anyone, I'll give you guys a chance to live, leave now, I won't kill you. "