Chapter 171 - Knife Dance

Explosions and gunfire continuously rang out in the abandoned shopping mall as Saurun and Zero chased each other. Only one person was able to walk out of this battlefield alive.

At the moment, the situation is not good for zero.

True, in a complicated environment, zero is more capable of sniping. However, as his opponent, Saurun's fire element ability could also cause immense damage in the limited space around him. From time to time, Saurun would throw a pillar of fire and occasionally a wall of fire. He would also occasionally throw the flamethrower in his hand to attack. The high temperature of the fire and explosion cleared the obstacles in front of him in a near berserk manner. As a result, Zero didn't hide anything and was used as a concealed weapon. To Saurun, Zero's attacks were more dangerous than the armor piercing bullets from his sniper rifle. As for the M500 revolver, unless he shortened the distance between the two of them to around 50 meters, the bullet would not be able to penetrate Saurun's elemental force field.

Zero had indeed been tried, but at a distance of 50 meters, Saurun's ability to unleash the destructive power of a revolver far surpasses zero. After being almost locked within the range of Saurun's Raging Flames, Zero gave up on this idea.

The most unfavorable aspect for Zero was the lack of ammunition. He wasn't like Saurun, who didn't need to bring any weapons or ammunition. When needed, he could convert the power of the fire element into powerful weapons. It could be said that Saurun was a moving arsenal.

But it was impossible for Zero to do that. A sniper who relied on firearms would definitely not be able to do without resources such as firearms or ammunition. The zero ammunition had been sufficient, but in the explosion in Windmill Town, the shockwave had torn his backpack full of ammunition and food. After that, he returned to the battlefield and only recovered less than 10% of his ammunition. Right now, the special warheads he had left could only support one round of firing. As for Colt's bullets, he only had about ten standard warheads left, as well as three armor-piercing bullets equipped with fire elemental energy.

The afterglow from the explosion marked the traces of their battle, which extended all the way to the fourth floor of the shopping mall. The west side of the mall on the fourth floor had collapsed, and from here it was impossible to continue up the escalator. To go up, he had to go through the stairs of the fire escape. However, most of the buildings on the fifth floor were collapsed. Other than some mutated beasts with special physiques, it was very difficult for any living creature to pass through them.

Apparently, Zero's body was in an impassable range. In other words, he had nowhere to go.

The fourth floor of the mall was a clothing store. Most of the stores were in a damaged state, and only a few stores were still intact. There were a lot of mannequins and old musty clothes.

Sauron chased Zero into a shop. He maintained his sprint speed throughout the whole process, suppressing Zero and making sure he couldn't stop to snipe. Saurun's face revealed a fiendish smile. From his point of view, he had already bought himself a one-way ticket to hell when Zero went to the mall.

The moment he entered the shop, Saurun suddenly exerted his strength and jumped up. In his eyes, Zero, who had rushed into the shop first, suddenly slid to the ground, and at the same time the revolver fired in the direction of the door.

Saurun, who had jumped just in time, let Zero blast the glass window of the shop across the way to smithereens, while Saurun casually threw the flamethrower in his hand at Zero.

There was a flash in the shop and the flamethrower was nailed to the ground. Zero managed to roll away in time. However, the explosion caused by the firearm's contact with the ground sent him tumbling into the fitting room.

A whole row of fitting rooms was divided into separate spaces by a five-centimeter thick fireproof panel. When Sauron charged into the zero-impact fitting room, he saw that a gap had been torn open in the fireproof panel. Zero used the fastest speed he could muster to break open the gap between Geiger's clothes and get far away in the blink of an eye. Saurun didn't give chase. He simply pointed the gun in the direction of zero. In an instant, a wall of high-temperature appeared out of thin air, then like a bulldozer, it chased after Zero's back.

The narrow space in the fitting room could not withstand the rapid expansion of the hot air and exploded bit by bit. Just as the wall of fire was about to catch up to zero, Zero suddenly flew out and crashed into the door of the final fitting room. The wall of fire exploded right behind him, and Zero rolled on his head, but there were still patches of flame on his radiation suit. The flames formed by the fire elementals could not be extinguished naturally. While they were rolling around, they roughly tore apart the radiation clothing on their bodies. The golden cicada tossed the burning radiation clothing on the ground and picked up Colt, who was beside it, and knocked him out of the shop through the glass window.

Saurun followed, gritting his teeth. Zero was like an indestructible cockroach, which made Saurun very angry. He saw Zero turn into the fire escape, and Sauron rushed in without thinking. The fire escape was dark, but the light from Saurun's elemental armor gave him enough visibility to see within five meters. Zero's figure appeared at the edge of his vision. Saurun used the flamethrower to pave the way, raising his speed to the limit as he charged towards Zero.

He wanted to finish this annoying opponent before the stairs behind the bend at the end of the tunnel!

In the darkness of the passageway, Saurun could be seen rushing towards the end of the passageway, wrapped in a stream of flames. The distance of thirty meters disappeared beneath his feet in the blink of an eye. Saurun could vaguely see the bend of the passageway flashing for a moment before disappearing.

Damn it!

The speed of zero was still a hair's breadth faster than he was. When Sauron arrived at the T-shaped exit in a rage, he saw Zero raise his revolver at him.

Saurun shouted, throwing out the flamethrower. Before Zero could finish shooting, he had already struck him in the chest!

He succeeded!

Saurun was overjoyed, but he heard the sound of glass shattering. In his eyes, the image of zero was torn apart. The reflection from the glass told him that the flamethrower had struck a mirror!

In the fragments, the zero revolver spewed out a furious flame.

An ear-splitting gunshot rang out from behind him, followed by an unstable shaking of the elemental force field. Sauron spun around, and Zero was behind him. When Sauron was distracted by the mirror, Zero closed in on him and kept firing. At the same time, his left hand was located on the outside of his thigh. The military knife stuck in his leg slipped out of its scabbard, spinning and screaming as it stabbed towards Saurun's face.

The elemental force field shook unceasingly, and was finally shattered by the fourth bullet fired from close range. The sabre whistled through the air and pierced through the energy fragments of the force field, bringing with it a cold light of death!