Chapter 23: Fighting to the Bitter End.

Sylvia smiled and reloaded the bullets in her hand. She ordered in a low voice, “Follow me. We’ll rush through from here. Don’t stop; those guys could arrive at any moment.”

Xiao Fen paused for a moment, then suddenly realized. Without a word, he followed closely behind Sylvia.

Sylvia took the lead, rushing in front of the group of Stitched Monsters. Ignoring the monsters’ suddenly accelerated speed and their heavily swinging arms, she pushed off hard with her legs and jumped high.

After reaching almost the same height as two Stitched Monsters, Sylvia raised her hand and fired at the monsters’ heads. Bang, bang—two shots rang out, and the bullets left the chambers.

At such a close distance, there was no possibility of missing. After the gunshots, there were two sounds of bullets hitting a muddy swamp.

Huge holes were blown open in the heads of the Stitched Monsters. Before the white, disgusting pus could flow out of the holes, it quickly turned black. A foul stench rose continuously from the smoke.

Although the muzzle velocity of the Revolver was not very high, at such a close distance, it was enough to pierce the defense of these Stitched Monsters. Therefore, Sylvia did not waste any more bullets on these two Stitched Monsters.

Her body turned gracefully in the air. Her left hand hooked onto the shoulder of a Stitched Monster, and she pulled hard to propel herself up again, landing on the shoulder of a third Stitched Monster.

Before this Stitched Monster’s two hands could grab her, she took a big step forward, rushed to the side of the monster’s head, and fired again at the monster’s temple.

At the same time, without even looking up, she raised her left hand and pulled the trigger in another direction.

Two more gunshots rang out, and two Stitched Monsters fell onto their backs.

Sylvia stomped hard on the gradually falling corpse of the Stitched Monster. Her body leaped high into the air again, drawing a beautiful arc, and appeared in front of two more Stitched Monsters further back.

Without the slightest pause, Sylvia raised her hand and fired again. One shot was fired almost right against the eyelid of a Stitched Monster, and the effect was even more astonishing.

With a “crack,” the back of this Stitched Monster’s head suddenly split open, and a black bullet head was embedded in its bone plate.

The huge impact force caused this Stitched Monster to flip backward before it even died, slamming heavily onto a slightly shorter Stitched Monster behind it. With a “bang,” it knocked the head of the Stitched Monster behind it askew.

Blood mingled between the two Stitched Monsters. In a few seconds, deep, charred marks appeared on both monsters, and they could no longer move.

Xiao Fen stared at Sylvia’s combat process from the ground, which looked like a dance in the air. He was secretly surprised in his heart; such movements could only be performed so easily with extremely high control over one’s body.

Moreover, Sylvia’s strength had increased significantly, yet there was no clumsiness at all. Clearly, Sylvia’s Agility Attribute was astonishingly high.

This sigh lasted only a moment. Xiao Fen lowered his head to look down, his feet never stopping. He nimbly climbed over the corpses of several Stitched Monsters, picked out 3 crystals from the gaps, threw them into his bag, and followed closely behind Sylvia, running forward quickly.

At this moment, in his eyes, the quest record had changed to 22/100. The people from the Li Family still had not started killing again.

This made Xiao Fen feel somewhat uneasy. The sound of gunfire overhead continued, which meant that the Li Family could follow the sound at any time. The game of cat and mouse had not stopped either.

On the other hand, setting aside the worry about the Trialists from the Li Family, Xiao Fen was not so worried about completing the quest. With Sylvia’s skills and the power of the Acid Poison Bullets, finishing the quest before 12 o’clock was not a difficult task.

The problem lay exactly here. Once the quest was completed, the place to hand it in would probably be back at that previous battlefield. But right now, Xiao Fen did not know that a sudden change had occurred on the battlefield side, nor did he know that Li Ruran had already retreated. He was still racking his brains thinking about how to hand in the quest later.

Just then, he suddenly heard Sylvia cry out lowly. He hurriedly looked up and saw a giant hand suddenly reaching out from behind the mist, grabbing straight for Sylvia.

At this moment, Sylvia was in the air with no place to land, let alone any place to leverage her strength. It looked like she was about to be caught by that big hand, and the consequences would be dire.

Seeing the big hand about to grab Sylvia, Xiao Fen was extremely anxious. Just as he was at a loss for what to do, he saw Sylvia chant a low incantation again. Suddenly, a Halo formed by countless runes appeared in front of her.

This Halo looked incredibly thin, but even the heavy hand of a Stitched Monster could not pierce through it.

With a “bang,” the Stitched Monster’s big hand made sudden contact with the Halo, emitting a dull sound like hitting a tanned leather.

The Halo, which looked like a solid object, suddenly glowed. The different layers formed by those runes quickly selected themselves. In no time, it actually spun and sliced off the big hand of the Stitched Monster like a sharp blade.

Xiao Fen felt slightly relieved at this point, but then he saw Sylvia in the air raise the Revolver in her hand and fire continuously at the Stitched Monster that had ambushed her from the dark.

After several bangs, the owner of that big hand slowly revealed its true form from the mist.

This Stitched Monster appeared even larger than the other monsters. It actually had six arms, and its whole body showed a faint golden light. Even Xiao Fen could guess that this Stitched Monster was probably the leader of this small group of Stitched Monsters.

However, this Stitched Monster leader had now lost its original appearance.

Although the frontal defense of its head was quite astonishing, enough to withstand one or two Revolver shots at close range, Sylvia had already noticed the anomaly. In the air, she fired all the bullets at this leader in one breath.

The recoil of a Revolver was not very significant to begin with, plus Sylvia had astonishing strength, and now added the effect of the Gene Potion. Controlling a Revolver with one hand to ensure the bullet spread was not a problem at all.

Therefore, all the bullets Sylvia just fired hit the leader in the face, destroying the extra muscle reinforcement and skin reinforcement abilities on its head. The last few bullets were completely nailed into the leader’s head.

The Acid Poison Bullet itself had a certain explosive ability; otherwise, the prompt would not have said it would cause a terrible wound. Added to that, it possessed both strong acid and deadly poison corrosive abilities. Even against a Stitched Monster, a Filth Creature, the strong acid was enough to play a huge role.

Therefore, although it was a leader-level Stitched Monster, it could not withstand such severe damage.

When this leader-level Stitched Monster completely appeared in front of Xiao Fen from the thick mist, it was also the moment it lost its life and fell heavily to the ground.