With A-Tai and the Master killed by Shen Cong in quick succession, the hunt was already half a success.

The other half was the Bug Warrior guards and ordinary-person guards now rushing over — and the Mushroom Cannons, Mushroom Arrows, and other weapons in their hands.

Having seen A-Tai's head burst from a single shot, the surrounding guards were already crying out "Avenge Brother Tai!" one after another, yanking the Mushroom Cannons from their waists and firing at A-Tai's house.

Never mind that the Master was still inside — they simply meant to blast Shen Cong and the house together.

Boom!

Almost the very moment Shen Cong's blade severed the Master's throat—

The first Mushroom Cannon detonated against the great house, the blast's shockwave shattering an entire wall in an instant. A house built of metal and timber simply couldn't withstand the Activity light-wave a Mushroom weapon produced on detonation, and the Activity-bearing metal-timber dissolved in a flash.

That round didn't wound Shen Cong; the blast wind rolled some wood splinters against his Hell Plant Armor, but they'd already lost their corrosiveness.

Shen Cong immediately dropped the Master, smashed through another wall, and charged out of A-Tai's house.

No sooner had he charged out than A-Tai's house, under a succession of Mushroom Cannon blasts, crumbled into a heap of powder. Then came more Mushroom Cannons and Mushroom Arrows, loosed at Shen Cong.

"Blast him to death!"

"He killed Brother Tai and the Master!"

Boom!

Boom!

Boom!

The Bug Warrior and ordinary-person guards howled and fired without the slightest regard for the cost of their Mushroom weapons.

Charging clear of the house, Shen Cong took a glance from the corner of his eye and already knew his next target — the ordinary-person guards. These ordinary guards wore crazed hatred on their faces, wishing they could tear Shen Cong to ten thousand pieces.

"Motherf*cker! Die!"

Their cursing was the fiercest of all.

Enslaved so long, they'd thoroughly come to regard themselves as Bug Warriors. Barring the unexpected, they'd have been the next batch chosen for bug-core implantation.

Implant the bug core, and…