I started with a portal, then turned around and handed it over to the nation.

"Claymore".

Zhang Yi didn't even look up as he inserted the fuse, his movements as gentle as if he were caressing a lover's hand.

"There are seven hundred steel balls inside. If those kittens touch this line..."

Zhang Yi made an explosion gesture and grinned:

"Bang. Everything facing forward will turn into a sieve."

Ryan looked at the unassuming green box, then at the almost invisible thin thread, and felt a chill run down his spine.

This method of murder is too insidious, but also too...efficient.

"Stop looking, let's go."

Lin Mo tugged at Ryan's arm:

"Follow in the footsteps of those who came before us, and don't trigger the gifts we left behind."

The team set off again.

This time, everyone moved much more gracefully.

The drone hovered silently overhead, transmitting the location of the cat demon in front of them back to each person's mask in real time.

Whenever a red outline approaches, the group immediately stops or silently goes around it.

Raine walked in the middle of the group, looking at the mechanically beautiful backs of the special forces soldiers in front of him, and then at the red monsters in the masks who knew nothing about it.

This is hardly a hunt.

This is practically a group of doctors with scalpels, coldly approaching the patient's lesion.

Faced with these broadswords, aerial drones, and thermal imaging masks, those ferocious cat demons were as vulnerable as newborn rabbits.

"Is this... the power of another world?"

"Notice."

Long Fei's voice suddenly lowered.

"Two hundred meters ahead, we've reached the edge of the ruins."

"Stay vigilant."

The humid, hot mist clung to the glass of the mask, condensing into water droplets that slid down the edges.

The team moved extremely slowly, their special forces boots making a soft squeaking sound as they stepped into piles of rotting leaves before being swallowed by the thick fog.

Lin Mo raised his hand to wipe his mask. On the map in the lower right corner of his vision, several red dots were slowly moving to their side.

"stop."

Long Fei's voice was only one word in the encrypted channel.

Everyone froze instantly, the exoskeleton joints locked, and the entire team became part of the forest.

Ryan's breathing was a little rapid. He stared intently at the swirling white mist on his left, his finger on the trigger, his knuckles turning white.

In his thermal imaging field of view, thirty meters behind the white fog, two bright red heat sources were rubbing against the tree trunk.

They are two adult shadow cat demons.

As soon as they turn their heads, they can see the reflection of the metal on this side.

"Go around it."

Long Fei gestured, pointing to a thicket of thorns on the right.

One of the Snow Wolf team members immediately stepped forward, silently severing the vines with his dagger, his movements so light that not a single leaf was disturbed.

The group moved silently sideways, like a black snake, slipping past the cat demon's nose.

Lin Mo only heard a few soft breaths coming from the channel after the two red dots were left two hundred meters behind.

"This thing is amazing."

Ryan whispered into the channel, his voice still carrying a hint of lingering fear:

"If it were before, I would probably already be up in the tree behind me by now."

"Speak less, watch where you're going."

Lin Mo whispered a reminder and reached out to help Renn, who almost tripped over a tree root.

After walking for about twenty more minutes, the trees around us started to thin out, and the soil under our feet turned into gravel.

In the white mist, several huge broken stone pillars stood there, covered with dark green moss and vines.

"arrive."

Renn stopped, staring at the outline of the ruins before him, his eyes somewhat dazed.

"Moonlight City... My grandfather said that the stones here used to glow at night."

Moonlight City is now devoid of light, only a deathly silence and crumbling walls.

The collapsed stone wall formed a large semicircle, with the gap filled with rubble, making it a natural shelter.

"Azure Eagle III, scan the interior of the ruins."

Long Fei knelt behind a broken monument, his gun held horizontally.

"Scan complete."

A few seconds later, the new data appeared on everyone's terminals.

Lin Mo looked at the map and raised an eyebrow.

The area around the ruins was clean, but among the few relatively intact stone houses, there were seven or eight red dots that remained motionless.

"They're all sleeping."

Lin Mo glanced at the time; it was just past noon, the time when these nocturnal creatures were most sleepy.

"A good opportunity."

Long Fei stood up and took a black cylinder off his vest.

"Everyone, put on silencers."

"Clean this place up and use it as our defensive position."

"Click, click."

A series of soft metallic clanging sounds.

Raine frantically pulled out the black iron pipe and tried to align it with the gun barrel for a long time, but couldn't get it to work.

Lin Mo couldn't stand it anymore, so he reached out and pressed down on the gun, helping it align with the threads, and then twisted his wrist.

"Tighten it, or it'll explode and splatter all over your face."

Ryan breathed a sigh of relief, nodded, and followed the others by resting the butt of his gun against his shoulder.

"Group one on the left wing, group two on the right wing, group three follow me and we'll enter from the front."

Long Fei's voice was cold:

"Leave no survivors, clear this wasteland."

The special forces soldiers immediately dispersed, their black exoskeletons moving through the shadows of the ruins.

Lin Mo, with Raine in tow, followed behind Long Fei, stepping over the pile of pebbles as they entered through the main gate.

A very large shadow cat demon was lying on a fallen stone pillar.

Its entire body was jet black, its fur was glossy, and its belly rose and fell with its breath.

This predator in the forest is currently fast asleep, its head buried in its claws.

It was completely unaware that three dark gun barrels were already pointed at its head.

"puff."

A very soft, muffled thud.

The cat demon's head suddenly jolted open, creating a bloody hole.

Before it could even convulse, its body went limp, slid off the stone pillar, and fell into the grass.

"That's... all done killing?"

Ryan stared wide-eyed at the corpse through the scope, remaining stunned for a long time.

In the past, to kill one of these monsters, hunter teams had to dig traps, hold out for three days and three nights, and in the process, several people would get injured.

Now, all it takes is a slight movement of your finger?

"Don't stand there, at nine o'clock, in the corner."

Lin Mo's voice brought him back to reality.

Ryan quickly turned the gun barrel.

In the thermal imaging, a tiny cat demon is crouching in a corner, licking its paws.

It seemed to hear the sound of its companion falling, and it suddenly raised its head, its ears twitching.

"Aim at the head."

Lin Mo whispered to himself:

"Press the crosshair down on the reddest spot."

Raine held his breath; the outline of the cat demon was clearly visible in his field of vision.

It has no scales or hard shell, only a layer of fur.

This layer of defense is more fragile than paper against a 5.8mm steel-core bullet.

The cat demon looked in this direction with its green eyes, but it saw nothing but a few distorted heat waves in the air.

"Meow?"

It barked once and its tail twitched nervously on the ground.

Ryan pulled the trigger.

"Pfft, pfft."

Two bursts of fire.

The exoskeleton's cushioning system absorbed most of the recoil, and the muzzle barely bounced.

The cat demon in the corner was knocked to the ground by bullets, with two bloody holes in its chest and head.

Before it could even let out a scream, it turned into a final whimper.