Forbidden Zone of Deception

Chapter 183 A Fierce Battle
Han Wei grinned silently, then gouged his right eyeball out of its socket.

The eyeball writhed in his palm, gradually hardening and deforming, eventually transforming into a bullet engraved with runes.

He slowly loaded it into the revolver, aiming the barrel at Jiang Jin.

"Goodbye."

Pull the trigger!

The bullet left the chamber instantly, almost grazing Jiang Jin's ear!

Han Wei whistled and rushed over!
But just when he was less than ten meters away from Jiang Jin—

"boom!"

Jiang Jin suddenly raised his hand and fired a silver bullet!
Han Wei dodged to the side, the bullet grazing his ear and drawing a trail of blood. Before he could regain his footing, a second shot followed, striking him precisely in the knee!
"Damn it!" Han Wei knelt down on one knee, only to see Jiang Jin rushing towards him with a sharp look in his eyes!
The damage from the [Insect Bomb] is in no way inferior to that of the Ghost Eye Bullet!
Meanwhile, Deathstroke and Bone, the two undead hounds, pounced on each other!
Although the owner of the Demon Bone was a Level 2 Ghost Hunter, Deathstroke, which had consumed the Resentment Shards, was stronger than it!
With Deathstroke keeping Demon Bone at bay, Jiang Jin's main concern is how to deal with Han Wei!
Han Wei's immense reputation in the bounty hunter world is proof enough of his skill!

I am just a newly reincarnated one, and so far, including this world, I have only experienced five terrifying dungeons!

Even if Han Wei is currently without any companions, Jiang Jin wouldn't have much of a chance of winning a one-on-one fight against him!
Although he has many trump cards, many of them are ineffective against human reincarnators!
Meanwhile, Han Wei's knee wound healed at a visible speed—the Ghost Hunter LV2 passive skill [Ghost Body] allows him to recover from various types of damage in a short period of time.

This silver pistol isn't a hunter-exclusive weapon, otherwise it wouldn't be suitable for the character Oda Yuko. Even if it transforms into a [Bug Bomb], its destructive power will be somewhat diminished, and it won't take too long to repair.

Jiang Jin's eyes were sharp as knives. The Death Scream hunting rifle was in Qin Mei's Reincarnator watch. He hadn't dared to take it out before in order to keep Qin Mei handcuffed. Now, he only had this silver pistol in his hand.

There is no doubt how dangerous it would be to fight Han Wei, a renowned bounty hunter, in this state!
But unfortunately, Liu Yan isn't by his side right now!

Jiang Jin's mind raced...

If the Bloodstalker excels at tracking prey and setting traps, then the Ghost Hunter's strength lies in sniping prey from a distance, whether the prey is a ghost or a human.

In other words, the Ghost Hunter class at this stage is essentially... a gunslinger!
Since he is a gunman, his weakness is naturally close combat!

The Ghost Hunter's class skills are mostly non-melee. Of course, the hidden skill Blood Disintegration is an exception, as it unlocks two more functions at LV2.

Of course, engaging in close combat would also mean exposing oneself to Han Wei as a target!

Ultimately, this is gambling with your life!

But all we can do is gamble!
However, there is always a big gap between plans and reality. At present, facing Han Wei's shooting, getting close is tantamount to suicide!
Jiang Jin could only run as fast as he could to create some distance!

The greater the distance, the higher the survival rate!
This isn't a TV drama, and Han Wei isn't the kind of villainous gunslinger who turns into a human outline master when facing the protagonist!
Han Wei sneered and ran off!
The effects of the corpse oil on his body are still working, so neither the Self-Defense Forces nor the patrol teams can see him. But Jiang Jin is different! Once the Self-Defense Forces discover him, he's finished!
At this moment, Jiang Jin's mind was racing...

If you want to fight Han Wei in close combat, the first thing you need to do is to restrain him!
When the two were only five meters apart, Jiang Jin suddenly turned around and raised his gun!

Han Wei felt a chill run down his spine. How dare they engage in a sniper duel with him at such close range?
Do you think the title of bounty hunter just fell from the sky?
But he quickly realized—Jiang Jin was gambling!

The advantage of the LV2 Ghost Hunter lies in long-range sniping. Class advantage allows his bullets to be imbued with [Ghost Eye Lock-On], making them almost guaranteed to hit.

But the closer the distance, the weaker this advantage becomes!
Now, the two are only five steps apart.

It's all about who's faster!
"Bang! Bang! Bang!"

The three gunshots rang out almost simultaneously!

With the first shot, Han Wei's Ghost Eye bullet grazed Jiang Jin's shoulder, and the cursed karmic fire instantly burned through his jacket, his skin emitting blue smoke and his flesh corroding!

The second shot, Jiang Jin's silver bullet, hit Han Wei directly in the abdomen, but it was quickly repaired by the [Ghost Body]!
The third shot—

Jiang Jin lowered the muzzle of his gun slightly, and the bullet headed straight for Han Wei's chin!
But just as the bullet was about to penetrate, Han Wei's figure suddenly blurred!

[Ghostly Dodge]!
The bullet pierced through the afterimage and missed!

"Heh, you, a LV1 Blood Tracker, really think you can compete with me, a LV2 Ghost Hunter?" Han Wei's voice came from behind Jiang Jin.

Jiang Jin turned around abruptly, but Han Wei's gun was already pressed against his chest!
"It's over." Han Wei grinned maliciously.

If Jiang Jin hadn't been spared, he would be dead now.

He took out the magic-suppressing shackles, preparing to put them on Jiang Jin.

But Jiang Jin grunted, a cold smile curling at the corner of his mouth.

"Yeah, it's over."

Han Wei was taken aback, then suddenly realized something was wrong—

A blood-red array pattern appeared beneath his feet at some unknown time!
Bloodstained Imprisonment!
"What?!" Han Wei, being a hunter, naturally recognized it as the Bloodstained Imprisonment!
Jiang Jin sneered, "You think my escape here was a coincidence?"

The blood-stained formation suddenly lit up, and Han Wei's feet were bound by blood-red chains, rendering him unable to move!

"Damn it!" he roared, forcibly raising his gun, but Jiang Jin was faster!

He suddenly drew the boning knife from his waist, the blade wrapped with the runes of the Hunting Curse Blade!
"Shh!"

He slashed at Han Wei's wrist with a knife!
Han Wei's wrist was slashed hard by the boning knife. He subconsciously pulled the trigger, but the bullet was quickly and completely bound by the Bloodstained Imprisonment Formation!

But he reacted extremely quickly, flipping his left hand and pulling out a dagger from his sleeve, which he thrust straight at Jiang Jin!

Jiang Jin dodged to the side, the dagger grazing his chest and leaving a trail of blood.

Alright, let's fight in close combat!

People who have long been accustomed to using guns will naturally not use knives easily anymore!

The two engaged in close combat, their blades flashing!
"You think you can kill me like this?" Han Wei sneered. "I'm a Level 2!"

He kicked Jiang Jin hard in the stomach, sending him flying several meters, then roared, "[Ghostly Burst]!"

The air suddenly distorted, and a dark green shockwave blasted towards Jiang Jin!

The trap formation that had been imprisoning people with bloodstains was completely broken at this moment!

Jiang Jin gritted his teeth and rolled over, but was still shaken by the aftershocks and coughed up blood.

"Die!" Han Wei grinned maliciously, raising his gun to deliver the final blow.

The wound on my wrist, due to the effect of the Hunting Curse Blade, had not yet been fully healed.

But at this moment——

Jiang Jin raised his hand and fired another insect bomb!
"boom!"

The bullet pierced Han Wei's abdomen!
"Ugh—!"

Jiang Jin immediately seized the opportunity and rushed into a nearby alley!
Deep in the alley, Han Wei's footsteps gradually drew closer from behind.

"Da da da."

It's like a countdown to death.

Jiang Jin's left hand slowly stroked the boning knife. The fine hunting runes on the blade were devouring Han Wei's blood, planting a hunting curse mark that allowed him to clearly sense Han Wei's location and know the precise distance between them!

But Han Wei is no ordinary hunter; he's a legend in the bounty hunter world. Killing him would be incredibly difficult!
Jiang Jin walked into a side alley deep inside the alley, his pupils slightly contracting as he listened intently to Han Wei's breathing rhythm.

Han Wei's right eye glowed with a ghostly green light—that was his LV2 job skill "Ghost Eye," which allowed him to accurately pinpoint the enemy's location in the dark, essentially an advanced version of the Hunter's Vision!
He reloaded a ghostly bullet into his revolver.

"Jiang Jin, I can sense the hunting mark on your left shoulder at any time, and I know where you are." Han Wei's voice was mocking. "You think hiding will work?"

Jiang Jin did not answer.

He slowly raised his left hand, and waited until he sensed Han Wei had reached a certain position...

"Bloodstained Imprisonment, activate!"

In an instant, a dark red line appeared on the ground, as if it had been branded by a red-hot iron.

He also set up a bloodstained trap here!
"Snapped!"

Han Wei's ankle was suddenly wrapped around something!
Looking down, he saw a blood-red pattern that had appeared on the ground at some point, wrapping around his calf like a living thing!

"Bloodstained Imprisonment?!"

Han Wei's expression changed drastically, but it was too late.

Han Wei never expected that he had fallen into Jiang Jin's trap again!

The reason for setting traps in the alley was precisely this: the narrow space made it impossible for him to avoid the trap locations!
Jiang Jin's muscles tensed, but his heartbeat remained unusually steady.

"boom!"

Han Wei suddenly fired a shot!
The Ghost Eye Bullet tore through the Bloodstained Barrier, blasted through the wall, and headed straight for the corner where Jiang Jin was hiding!

Jiang Jin rolled over suddenly, the bullet grazing his shoulder. The eerie green cursed fire forced him to grit his teeth and endure it, with wisps of smoke rising from his skin!
"hiss--"

The excruciating pain instantly tightened Jiang Jin's nerves, but he did not stop. Instead, using the momentum of the roll, he turned to the fork in the road, raised his hand, and fired a shot at Han Wei!
"boom!"

The silver bullet struck Han Wei's left shoulder precisely, and blood splattered everywhere!

Han Wei grunted, but a sinister smile crept across his lips: "That's it?"

He didn't care about the injury at all.

He raised his revolver again, his dark eyes locking onto Jiang Jin's brow.

Jiang Jin's pupils suddenly contracted, and he immediately hid behind the corner of the wall!
Han Wei sneered, "How many more times can you dodge? I'll break through this Bloodstained Imprisonment Trap soon enough!" Jiang Jin didn't waste any words and suddenly pulled out his boning knife, the blade flashing a cold light in the darkness.

Immediately afterwards, Jiang Jin took out the Annihilation Layer Pass!
This pass can only be used a maximum of three times per instance, and the cooldown time is not very long, only half an hour.

Now, the cooldown period is finally over!
Jiang Jin's figure slid into the Annihilation Layer, and then prepared to fire... only to find that he was out of bullets!

"Damn it! Of all times!"

He could only continue to get closer to Han Wei!
Han Wei's Ghost Eyes naturally couldn't detect Jiang Jin, who had already entered the Annihilation Layer!

At this moment, he calculated that he had run out of bullets in his gun, so he immediately gouged out an eyeball, turned it into a ghostly bullet, and prepared to reload it!
Then, Jiang Jin approached like a ghost, his boning knife aimed straight at his throat!

Just then, his hunting instincts kicked in, and Han Wei barely managed to turn to the side. The blade grazed his neck, drawing a line of blood!
One drawback of the Annihilation Layer Pass is that it becomes invalid once you attack an enemy!

"Damn it!" Han Wei roared, kicking Jiang Jin hard in the stomach!

Jiang Jin was kicked back two steps, but a cold smile appeared on his lips.

Then, in his hand, he held the Ghost Eye Bullet!

"what?"

The Ghost Eye Bullet has one major advantage.

It can be loaded into firearms of any caliber!
Jiang quickly loaded the Ghost Eye bullets into the silver pistol, raised it swiftly, and aimed the muzzle at Han Wei's chest!
Han Wei tried to break free from the trap, but the charging of [Ghost Burst] was not yet over!

"boom!"

The bullet from the Dark Eye left the chamber and struck Han Wei directly in the heart!

The moment the bullet entered his body, the cursed flames ignited!

The ghostly body attempted to repair itself, but the karmic fire formed from the ghostly bullet burned much faster than the ghostly body could repair itself!
“Ahhhhh——!”

Han Wei's screams came to an abrupt halt.

Because in the next second, his heart was burned to ashes by karmic fire!
Jiang Jin, panting heavily, slowly knelt down on the ground.

The cursed flames still burned his body, and his skin was charred black.

But he won.

He staggered to Han Wei's body, picked up the magic-suppressing shackles hanging from his waist and the bloody key that the Reincarnator's watch had turned into from the pool of blood.

Jiang Jin was panting. This time, he had only managed to defeat Han Wei by sheer luck.

If you're not careful, you could really lose your life here.

"Liu Yan, Commander, hold on..."

He gritted his teeth, dragged his injured body, and leaned against the wall at the alley entrance, breathing heavily.

"Damn...it really hurts."

He gritted his teeth, took out a painkiller that Xu Yinqiu had bought in advance from the Reincarnator's watch, and plunged it into his thigh.

The medicine was injected into the blood vessels, which slightly relieved the severe pain, but the erosion of the karmic fire continued, which could only be cured by incantation.

Jiang Jin thought for a moment and realized that there was no point in going to support Yu Tianlun now. He would be courting death if he went head-to-head with Zhou Chen, a Level 3 Oathbreaker, not to mention Ruan Hong, a sorcerer.

Therefore, he had to find another way to break the deadlock.

"Since we can't beat them head-on, let's destroy their balloons!"

He looked up and saw that the night sky over Black Crow Town must be hiding the "balloons" of the Crimson Team members.

If the balloon is popped, even Zhou Chen will die!
He quickly used the bloody key to open Han Wei's treasure chest and took out new guns and ammunition!
"That's enough."

Jiang Jin crept along the wall, and soon, with the howling of the death knell, he activated his hunter's vision and immediately spotted a floating human head balloon on the roof of a shop.

That face... belonged to Ruan Hong.

"found it!"

Ruan Hong's balloon slowly rotated in mid-air, clearly searching for Ruan Hong herself.

Jiang Jin narrowed his eyes and slowly raised the muzzle of his gun.

He took a deep breath and aimed...

"boom!"

The bullet hit the balloon precisely between the eyebrows!
"Snapped!"

The balloon burst instantly!

Inside the dead end, Yu Tianlun knelt on the ground, black blood constantly spilling from the corner of his mouth.

Ruan Hong's cursed mist eroded his meridians, almost halting the flow of his spiritual energy.

"Yu Tianlun, how much longer can you hold on?" Zhou Chen sneered, and the blood curse runes on the peach wood sword slowly lit up.

Lu Cun's death made him feel a sense of crisis, and he needed to find Jiang Jin as soon as possible!
However, just as he was preparing for the final blow—

"puff!"

In the distance, Ruan Hong's head also suddenly cracked and began to shrivel!
Not long after, her body collapsed to the ground!

The source of the poisonous fog has disappeared!
Yu Tianlun suddenly looked up, feeling the toxins in his body rapidly receding!

"Jiang Jin... well done!"

He wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, slowly stood up, his Taoist robe fluttering without wind, and golden incantation flowed once more.

"Zhou Chen, now... it's my turn."

Zhou Chen's scarlet eyes suddenly contracted.

Zhou Chen suddenly turned his head, his gaze as sharp as a knife as he looked at the corpses of Ruan Hong and Lu Cun!

Now he's all alone!

Jiang Jin!

"That good-for-nothing Han Wei... he actually couldn't stop him?!"

Just as he was about to make a move, Yu Tianlun's peach wood sword slashed horizontally!

"clang!"

The two peach wood swords clashed, sparks flying everywhere!

“Your opponent is me,” Yu Tianlun said coldly.

Yu Tianlun has recovered, Liu Yan's Gu worms have become active again, and Fu Jiang's regenerative ability is no longer suppressed.

—The situation has reversed!

Zhou Chen's crimson eyes trembled slightly; he knew that the situation was now unfavorable!

He could beat Yu Tianlun in a one-on-one fight, but now everyone is free to deal with him! Even Bai Chuanlin probably won't hold back anymore!
We have to retreat!

He suddenly flung out three blood talismans, which exploded into a cloud of blood mist, and quickly retreated.

Yu Tianlun did not pursue. After all, at this point, it's best not to chase a cornered enemy.

Fortunately, Jiang Jin killed Ruan Hong this time, putting Zhou Chen at a disadvantage of being outnumbered. Otherwise, he wouldn't have been able to defeat him!
Meanwhile, with the help of Deathstroke, Jiang Jin spotted another balloon!
Those are Duan She's balloons!
Looking at the human head balloon in the sky, Jiang Jin raised his hand.

Duan She was a direct subordinate of the Blood Lord. He was originally a member of the Bloody General Group, but was later demoted to Scarlet for making a mistake.

Killing him would make me a sworn enemy of the Blood Lord.

However… it makes no difference. After all, through Qin Mei and Bai Chuanlin, he also learned something: he and Long Cang, the vice-leader of the Bloodstained Team, were mortal enemies. Those orphanage children almost died at the glass factory, and it was Long Cang who did it! And yet, he blamed himself for his nephew's death!

Since that's the case, having a lot of debt isn't a problem!

Jiang Jin pulled the trigger!
Duan She's balloon was punctured instantly!
"Zhou Chen, the key is Zhou Chen's balloon!"

Jiang Jin knew that the key to turning the tide of the battle was to kill Zhou Chen!
His death would solve many problems!
But at that moment, Jiang Jin suddenly sensed something was wrong.

He turned around, and from the hunter's perspective, something terrifying came into view.

That is……

Jiang Jin's own balloon!
The balloon's face revealed a terrifying grin, and Jiang Jin felt utterly disgusted when he saw his own face displaying such a sinister and terrifying expression.

Then, Jiang Jin's balloon plummeted downwards at high speed!

Jiang Jin never expected that the balloon would be moving this fast!
But he can't attack his own balloon!
Silver thermal blanket!
Jiang Jin immediately took out a thermal blanket from the Reincarnator's Watch!
However, it was too late.

The steel cable loop quickly wrapped around Jiang Jin's neck, then hoisted him alive into the air!
(End of this chapter)