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Because weakness detection will help him find the core of the plant.

Now, as he dealt with the crimson vine, every single one of his eighty bullets hit its mark precisely, without a single miss. This meant... none of the spots he aimed at were weak points.

Su Mu frowned. Could this thing have no weaknesses? Impossible.

Eighty-first shot.

Su Mu changed to a new shooting spot... a fifteen-story office building, located in the southeast corner of the vine-covered area, about two hundred meters away.

This was the first time he had attacked from this direction.

He set up the AWM, scanned the area through the scope, and finally aimed the sight at a vine.

He pulled the trigger.

"Bang......!"

The bullet did not fly in the direction he had aimed.

Su Mu saw through the scope that the bullet deflected extremely slightly the instant it left the barrel, an almost imperceptible change in angle, before flying toward the ground about four hundred meters away from the point of impact.

The ground looked empty... It wasn't a plaza, nor a building, but an ordinary street with gray asphalt paving the surface and walls of shops on both sides.

The bullet hit the road surface.

With a muffled "plop," a small hole was punched through the asphalt road, and gravel and dust splashed out from the hole.

There was no sap, no vines, and not even any damage was dealt.

Su Mu's lips slowly curled up.

found it.

His joy didn't last long, because the vines reacted much more violently than he had expected.

The moment the bullet struck the ground, the entire area of ​​vines exploded as if a cat's tail had been stepped on.

This wasn't the limited counterattack of the previous "attack within a hundred meters of the impact point," but an indiscriminate, carpet-bombing attack covering the entire area. Hundreds of vines simultaneously erupted from the ground, frantically lashing everything around them—buildings, the ground, ruins, the air. The attack range expanded by at least three or four hundred meters compared to before, even affecting the office building where Su Mu was located.

Several vines whipped against the exterior wall of the building, causing cracks in the wall and brick fragments to fall from the building, crashing onto the street below with a dull thud.

Su Mu crouched behind the railing on the rooftop and waited for a few seconds.

The vines' attack lasted for about half a minute, then gradually subsided. They hadn't found him... they had simply attacked the area where the "threat" had appeared instinctively.

That area was at least four hundred meters away from his current hiding place.

Su Mu took a deep breath and remounted the AWM.

He aimed at the spot where the bullet had hit... that ordinary street, where a small hole had appeared in the pavement.

Looking through the scope, there was nothing unusual around the small hole—no vines, no sap, nothing at all.

But he knew there was something down there.

Su Mu pulled the trigger.

The bullet hit the small hole precisely, widening the opening.

The vines went berserk again, this time attacking with greater ferocity and persistence than before. Su Mu waited for them to subside, then continued firing. The third shot, the fourth shot, the fifth shot...

Each time a shot is fired, the vines retaliate fiercely, but the intensity of the retaliation gradually weakens.

It wasn't that it had become weaker, but rather that its defenses were failing. Su Mu could see that the vines that had sprouted from the ground and were lashing out at the surrounding area were fading in color. From blood red to deep red, from deep red to dark red, and from dark red to grayish-brown.

The tenth shot.

The bullet struck the small hole again.

This time, no vines emerged. Instead, a muffled groan came from beneath the ground... not a sound, but more like a vibration, emanating from deep underground and traveling through the surface to his feet.

Su Mu could feel the tremor, as if something was writhing in agony underground.

[Precision Charge: When a weak point attack hits, damage increases by 2%. Current cumulative: 82%.]

A glint flashed in Su Mu's eyes. There was harm done.

Eleventh shot. Twelfth shot. Thirteenth shot...

He kept pulling the trigger, firing one shot after another without stopping. Each bullet hit the small hole precisely, each shot intensifying the tremors underground. The damage numbers jumped from single digits to the teens, twenties, thirties... the numbers were increasing much faster than he had anticipated. It wasn't that the bullets had become stronger; rather, the underground defenses were collapsing.

The eighteenth shot.

"Bang......!"

The bullet pierced the last barrier. Through the scope, Su Mu saw a dark red liquid gushing out of the small hole; it wasn't juice, but more like blood.

Dark red liquid gushed from the hole, spreading along the cracks in the road surface, emitting a strong, putrid odor.

[-214. Precision power accumulation: 88%.]

Su Mu's pupils contracted slightly. 214 points of damage. This was the highest damage he had dealt.

He didn't stop. The nineteenth shot, the twentieth shot...

The vines finally reacted. Instead of blindly attacking their surroundings, they began to contract and converge. Hundreds of vines surged towards the small hole from all directions, covering it layer by layer like a living shield.

Su Mu's bullets struck the vines, blasting large holes in them.

The AWM's damage is outrageous; a single bullet can blast a hole the size of a bucket through a vine shield, penetrating several layers. But the vines' regenerative ability is equally terrifying; the hole is filled by new branches within seconds, making the shield thicker and thicker.

Su Mu frowned, but didn't stop. He continued pulling the trigger, shot after shot, each hitting the same spot. The first two shots were blocked by the vines, the third pierced the shield and hit the ground below. The fourth shot was blocked again, the fifth shot pierced through...

The attack and defense lasted for nearly ten minutes.

Su Mu's fingers began to ache. He had already fired over 150 rounds; the AWM's barrel was scorching hot, and the air around the muzzle was swirling. Scrap cartridges lay scattered at his feet, forming a small pile.

The vines' healing speed is slowing down. It's gone from three seconds to five seconds, then from five seconds to ten seconds. The shield's thickness is decreasing, and its color is fading, from blood red to dark red, then to grayish-brown.

180th shot.

Su Mu's bullet pierced the shield and hit something on the ground.

It wasn't the road surface, nor the soil, but something hard and elastic... A crisp "crack" sounded, like the sound of bones breaking. The underground tremors turned into violent spasms, and the ground throughout the area shook.

190th shot.

The 200th shot.

The vines' shield collapsed completely. The branches that had rushed in to defend began to wither, turning black, shriveling, and breaking from their tips, like paper burned by fire, their ashes scattering in the wind.

The withering spread from the branches to the trunk, from the trunk to the roots, and from the roots to every corner underground.

Through the scope, Su Mu saw the vine shield shatter like a collapsing wall. Dark red liquid gushed from the ground, forming a stream that flowed down the cracks in the road.

The entire area fell silent... There was no sound of vines whipping, no sound of the ground cracking, only the whistling of the wind as it passed through the ruins.

[Slaying a Lv10 Crimson Vines grants +1723 experience points.]