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Su Mu dodged to the side, the claw tip slicing across his chest. The invisible shield trembled slightly, blocking the attack, but Su Mu's body was still pushed back several steps by the impact.

Su Mu steadied himself, retracted his spear, and thrust it out again.

A combo. The first shot: the brown bear parried with its front paws, the spear tip piercing its palm, blood splattering everywhere. The second shot: it lunged with its broken leg, the spear tip piercing the gap in its shoulder blade.

With the third shot, it no longer dodged, but instead slammed it directly at Su Mu's head... trading injury for injury.

Su Mu's spear tip pierced its chest, and its claws slammed into Su Mu's shoulder. Su Mu's body was knocked two steps to the side, and the shield once again blocked most of the force, but his shoulder was still numb from the impact.

The brown bear had a gaping hole in its chest, and dark red blood was trickling down its golden fur.

But it did not retreat, nor did it even look down at its wound.

Its eyes were fixed on Su Mu, and the rage in its golden pupils was fading, replaced by something calmer and more dangerous.

Su Mu's situation wasn't much better.

His combo was interrupted, his thrust was on cooldown, and his sweeping attack was ineffective in this one-on-one close-quarters combat.

He also had parrying ability, making him invincible in this fight... No attack from the brown bear could cause him any real damage.

The problem is, he also couldn't inflict fatal damage on the brown bear.

This bear's regenerative abilities are terrifying.

The wounds from the two gunshots he had just sustained were healing at a speed visible to the naked eye.

The muscles are contracting, the skin is growing, and the bleeding is stopping.

And the golden fur on its head continued to spread throughout the battle. It had already spread from the base of its ears to the back of its head, and from the back of its head to its neck. It was getting stronger, getting stronger in the process of fighting.

The two eggs that it hadn't ruined were still lying quietly in the nest.

A sense of urgency welled up in Su Mu's heart.

It wasn't because of the bear, but because of that big bird in the distance.

The giant bird was held back by the golden bear, but a battle of that magnitude couldn't last long. Once the bird broke free, given its speed, it wouldn't take long to fly from the bear's territory to this area.

Su Mu knew that the large bird had struggled to chase them before because the zoo had trees providing cover, other animals causing disturbances, and various terrain obstacles. But now, the area above them was almost completely unobstructed, and the large bird would swoop down from high above at a speed that his dynamic vision couldn't keep up with.

The brown bear was clearly aware of this as well.

Its attacks grew fiercer and more urgent. Not because it wanted to finish off Su Mu quickly, but because it knew time was running out. Its claws moved faster and with greater force, each strike accompanied by a whistling sound.

Su Mu's parry could block its attack, but the impact caused his body to keep retreating, getting further and further away from the bird's nest.

Golden fur had spread across the brown bear's head and neck.

Its body was glowing... not metaphorically, it really was glowing, a faint golden halo seeping from its fur, as if something was burning inside it. The two half-ruined eggshells were still oozing egg liquid, which shimmered with a golden luster in the sunlight and emitted an enticing sweet fragrance.

Su Mu noticed that every few seconds, the brown bear would lower its head and lick the egg liquid flowing out from the cracks in the eggshell. After each lick, the golden halo on its body would become brighter, and its strength would increase.

Su Mu cursed inwardly. This guy was taking medicine; he was pushing himself to the limit. This fight was hopeless.

Just then, his communicator vibrated.

Lin Yuwei's message was only one sentence: "Take it away. Don't let it get near the nest."

Su Mu did not reply.

He took a deep breath and abandoned the tactic of direct confrontation.

He began to back away, not to run away, but to guide.

He took a step back, the brown bear took a step forward; he took two steps back, the brown bear followed two steps. His eyes remained fixed on the brown bear's position, making sure he was positioned in the line between the brown bear and the bird's nest.

The rooftop was large enough for them to fight. Su Mu led the brown bear from next to the bird's nest to the other side of the rooftop, nearly twenty meters away from the three eggs.

"Further away." Lin Yuwei's message came again.

Su Mu gritted his teeth and retreated another ten meters. The brown bear followed, its eyes becoming anxious, not because he was difficult to deal with, but because it instinctively sensed that something was wrong.

"That's enough. Hold it off."

Su Mu naturally knew what Lin Yuwei was going to do.

Therefore, he gripped his spear tightly and, without hesitation, faced the brown bear once again.

This time, he no longer sought to inflict damage, but rather to engage in prolonged combat... He disrupted its rhythm with thrusts, forced it to parry with combos, and forced it to retreat with sweeping attacks. He didn't give it a chance to look back at the nest, nor did he give it a chance to disengage from the fight.

He's creating a false impression... He came for it, not for the eggs.

On the other side of the rooftop, the air appeared to be distorted in an extremely subtle way.

The optical camouflage effect of that environment-assimilation cloak is almost invisible in sunlight; unless you look for it intentionally, you won't notice anything different.

When Lin Yuwei climbed up the fire ladder on the side of the building to the rooftop, she froze.

She hid behind the parapet and peered out through the narrow gap... Su Mu and the bear were locked in a fierce battle in the center of the rooftop.

It wasn't the "fighting and retreating" or "guerrilla tactics" she had envisioned, but a real, head-on confrontation, every punch landing squarely.

The silvery-white light of the spear and the golden afterimage of the bear's paw intertwined, collided, and exploded on the rooftop. Each impact was like two meteors colliding, and the aftershocks tore the waterproof layer on the rooftop into fragments, with gravel and ash flying in the air.

Her fingers gripped the edge of the parapet, her knuckles turning white. She knew Su Mu was strong... From the battle in the Dark Zone, from those seven missed shots in the Secret Realm, from surviving the pursuit of that giant bird and the golden bear, everything proved that Su Mu's strength far exceeded her understanding.

But seeing him face off against this level 10 purple behemoth that was advancing towards yellow, and holding his own, was still more shocking than she had expected.

What's even more terrifying is that she realized... neither of them was using their full strength. It wasn't that they didn't want to, but that they were afraid to.

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