529: Chapter 410: Mysterious Reinforcements 529: Chapter 410: Mysterious Reinforcements The gunshot was extremely loud and could travel a great distance.

The bullets Xu Fei used, although enhanced in killing power, were of increased caliber and utterly impossible to fit with a silencer.

However, in this eerily silent environment where one could hear a pin drop, even a silenced gun would likely be easily tracked by the monsters.

Xu Fei quickly left the position from which he had fired and sprinted forward.

He remembered the terrain here—this was the path he had taken earlier.

He recalled that not far ahead there was a small grove, and if he could make it there successfully, there might still be a glimmer of hope for survival.

As he sprinted, footsteps sounded continuously behind him.

He knew the monsters were catching up.

Xu Fei pulled out the remaining hand grenades on him and threw them into the mist behind him.

All he heard were several loud ‘boom, boom, boom’ sounds; he had no idea what effect they had and simply kept running toward the grove.

“Roar, roar, roar!”

The monsters’ sounds grew nearer, as if they might appear at any second.

Xu Fei finally reached the grove.

Without hesitation, he spotted the tallest tree and, using his momentum, darted up it swiftly.

Suddenly, a group of crimson Mutant Dogs appeared just beneath the tree, looking up and letting out a series of screeches.

“Phew~”

Xu Fei let out a long breath.

He somewhat understood these monsters; like most canids, they lacked the ability to climb trees.

But he dared not relax now, as these creatures were clever.

Knowing they couldn’t climb, they wouldn’t foolishly wait below.

Instead, they frenziedly rammed into the trunk, shaking the tree dangerously.

“Bang, bang, bang!”

Xu Fei fired in bursts, using up all the bullets in his magazine, but failed to kill even a single one.

He checked his remaining supplies and despairingly found that he had no more reserves.

“Dammit, no more bullets, and this tree won’t hold up much longer…”

Even someone like him, who had been through so much, began to feel at a loss in this situation.

“Thud, thud, thud!”

With each impact from the Mutant Dogs, the already small tree began to teeter.

Xu Fei’s face showed despair; he was unwilling to end like this after barely obtaining crucial intelligence, after all the effort he put forth.

The information hadn’t been passed back yet, and if it ended here, what would all his previous efforts amount to?

“Crack.”

The sound of wood snapping filled the air as the tree finally broke in two under the relentless assault of the monsters.

Xu Fei fell from the branch and crashed hard onto the ground.

“It’s over…”

This was his last thought in that moment.

He had once imagined scenes of being devoured by monsters, and before every mission, he prepared himself mentally to face anything.

However, when this moment actually arrived, he still felt that despair stretching out from his soul.

This great terror brought about by death was an unbearable agony for any living being.

He almost saw the scene of the Mutant Dogs rushing up and biting him.

Time slowly passed in this agony and despair; however, the intense pain he imagined did not come.

He couldn’t help but push aside a few branches that blocked his line of sight, looking toward the direction where the Mutant Dog was.

“Swoosh!”

A sound of cutting through the air arrived, followed by another bout of the monsters’ screams.

Xu Fei only saw a pitch-black arrow that came from nowhere, piercing through the monster, with such power that it also carried the creature’s body far back upon impact.

“Hiss…”

He couldn’t help but inhale a breath of cold air.

Those seven Mutant Dogs, at this time, were all hit, their bodies more or less pierced by one or two black arrows, with two of them hit in vital spots, directly meeting their demise.

Xu Fei’s pupils shrank sharply, and he soon regained his senses from the shock.

Although he was filled with puzzlement about the sudden situation, he still prepared to make a retreat now that the opportunity was rare.

“Ah!”

Accompanying the action of trying to move his leg, a heart-piercing pain came, forcing Xu Fei to scream out.

His leg was pinned down by a large tree, and it looked like the injury was very serious.

It was adding insult to injury.

“Ta ta ta~”

At this moment, a string of strange sounds came from afar.

Xu Fei, enduring the pain, listened carefully to the noises from that direction, finding that the sound somewhat resembled that of horse hooves hitting the ground.

Horse hooves?

What was going on?

Why were there horses here?

At this moment, Xu Fei’s mind suddenly flashed an image.

A group of monsters that were half-human, half-horse, wielding bows and arrows, charging through the Mist, just like those he had seen in many movies before, swift and savage.

“Could it be, another group of monsters has come, and they’ve set their sights on me too?”

Xu Fei muttered to himself.

It was not odd for him to think this way, after all, if it were his teammates coming to support, they would definitely be attacking with firearms, not bows and arrows.

However, his question did not last long as several figures suddenly appeared through the Mist.

“Is this…

human?”

Xu Fei got a clear view of those approaching.

Indeed, as he had heard earlier, this string of “ta ta ta” sounds was just the sound of horses walking.

However, contrary to what he imagined, the figures were not some centaur monsters, but rather knights mounted on horses.

These knights were fully armed, with Longswords and curved bows at their waists and carrying two-meter-long Long Spears in their hands.

Their style seemed completely out of place in this world.

Even the warhorses they rode were the same, all adorned in blue-purple Armor, with purple light flickering in their eyes.

Clearly, the arrows from before were fired by them.

Three knights arrived, their movements swift, carrying an unrivaled aura, and they suddenly charged into the group of monsters.

Just in one encounter, the Mutant Dogs which were previously belligerent had been cut in half, all with a single spear-cut across the waist, clean and neat.

The remaining three dogs tried to retaliate, but the difference in Combat Power between the two sides was vast.

The knights, with a sweep of their spears, dealt with them all in just a moment.

Xu Fei’s eyes widened, unable to believe the scene before him.

These Long Spears in their hands were so sharp that these Mutant Dogs, even if attacked by regular firearms, could not have been so easily penetrated.

The strength of their muscles was indeed very high, and it was unimaginable that these people could cleave them in two with just one strike, showing the tremendous power contained within.