The advantage of the city defense cannon's beam attack is that it attacks quickly and is difficult to avoid. If you can't withstand it directly, you will be easily annihilated.
However, with the current level of development of Star Stone technology, although the city defense cannon can already pose a threat to some top-level powerhouses, it is powerless when facing the real top-level powerhouses.
As a researcher, Gu Ran was very aware of the power of the city defense cannon, so he had no intention of hiding.
With his physical strength, he is more than capable of getting through it.
boom!
This was also the first time for Gu Ran to experience being bombarded by the city defense cannon. He closed his eyes and felt the intense burning of the beam on his body.
Every second, every millisecond, the huge heat wanted to make his body burn.
However, Gu Ran's body was completely incombustible. Although he felt a slight burning sensation, it did not even cause him any pain.
"This... doesn't give me a sense of crisis. No, the Mellon family used the city defense cannon to 'ignite' it. There are a lot of star stone explosives buried here!"
Gu Ran's mental power, which had just recovered, was quickly extended out by him.
Sure enough, many places in the Mellon family’s residence were filled with star stone explosives. As long as they were detonated at the same time, the power would be enough to blow the entire Mellon family’s residence into the sky.
At the same time, the best igniter to detonate these star stone explosives is the "City Defense Cannon"!
Gu Ran smashed towards the ground at the fastest speed, and just as his body entered the hole he created, all the star stone explosives in the Mellon family’s residence were detonated by the city defense cannon!
Boom boom boom!
A mushroom cloud suddenly rose over the Mellon family’s residence, which was equivalent to a large city block.
This was the second largest mushroom cloud to rise in New Testament City in one day, and was comparable in scale to the previous one.
Many bounty hunters who were watching the excitement nearby were affected. Some weaker ones were blown away by the shock wave of the explosion, while those with stronger physiques had their legs and arms broken, while those with weaker physiques were even torn to pieces by the shock wave, dying beyond all possibility of death.
The bounty hunters who survived and were not affected were stunned by the Mellon family's decisiveness and ruthlessness.
"So much wealth, but they just gave it up. Besides, there must be many people in the Mellon family who didn't evacuate in time. Now they are gone all at once. They even didn't let their own family members go. How cruel."
"That Canglong City man should have died in such an explosion. If he died, it would be worth it. As long as the Mellon family is still alive, they can fully recover their strength one day."
Some bounty hunters were talking about it, while other bounty hunters who were not affected in the periphery looked at their injured or dead colleagues, their eyes suddenly revealed greedy looks, and they actually started to snatch their things.
A chaotic fight broke out at the scene.
Click, click.
There was rubble on the ground being lifted up and then falling to the ground.
Then with a loud bang, a large piece of the ground was blown away, Gu Ran bounced out, and landed lightly on the ground.
After brushing off the dust on his body, Gu Ran didn't stop at all. He found the Mellon family member who was observing not far away, and without any nonsense, he twisted his neck, crushed his heart, and shattered his dantian.
He doesn’t have a supernatural crystal core, and he’s not a warrior.
An ordinary person.
"So that sense of crisis came from here. I almost got my clothes dirty. Fortunately, my mental power has recovered a little." Gu Ran threw away the people of the Mellon family like garbage.
The bounty hunters who were originally snatching things ran away as if they saw a ghost when they saw Gu Ran, and they didn't even dare to talk to him.
"They actually used ordinary people to command the city defense cannons, hiding in the ordinary houses around to observe. No wonder I didn't find anything unusual when I scanned with my telekinesis just now. Wait a minute, ordinary people..."
Gu Ran suddenly had a flash of inspiration and discovered the blind spot.
He immediately sat down and began to meditate, quickly recovering his mental strength.
The bounty hunters around watched Gu Ran meditating from a distance and did not dare to provoke him.
In less than an hour, Gu Ran opened his eyes.
"Although it's not fully recovered, it's pretty close to what it was before. This time I want to see your true face."
A huge amount of mental power instantly surged out like a tide, spreading to the entire New Testament City.
However, for the sake of the quality of the telekinetic investigation, Gu Ran did not extend it to the entire New Covenant City at once, but temporarily covered only one urban area.
When investigating the third urban area, which was an urban area near the Mellon family, Gu Ran's mouth corners curled slightly.
"I found you. It was beyond my expectation."
... ...
A woman with plain looks and average figure, who looked like an ordinary person, stared into the distance at where the Mellon family was.
"I'm not dead. How about it? Are you disappointed?"
Gu Ran seemed to appear in front of her out of nowhere, looking her up and down.
"The envoy from Far East City, Qing Ji, you are really good at hiding."
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The envoy from the Far East City is a woman, and a powerful martial arts master. Others call her "Qing Ji" - this is the information Gu Ran learned from the conversation of the embassy's escorts through telekinesis.
Therefore, Gu Ran had been looking for a powerful warrior before, but several searches within the range of his mental power did not allow him to find the powerful female martial arts master from Jidong City.
This led Gu Ran to temporarily make a wrong judgment, thinking that Qing Ji should not be within the range of his mental power search.
But the trap set by the Mellon family just now gave him another idea - is it possible that this powerful martial arts master is no longer a martial arts master
Perhaps it was a disguise that could avoid telekinetic detection, or perhaps it was for other reasons, Qingji might still be within the range of his telekinetic detection, but she was not in the image of a martial arts master, but an ordinary person.
So just now Gu Ran began to carefully investigate everyone within the range of his mental power. His focus was no longer on powerful women, but on ordinary women with average strength.
Finally, Gu Ran locked his eyes on the woman in front of him. Although she was wearing civilian clothes in the style of New Testament City and did not have any characteristics of Far East City, she was very special.
The people of Jidong City look similar to those of Canglong City. Now, in order to avoid trouble, many people of Jidong City will not appear on the streets, but she stands in the corner of the street, staring quietly in the direction of the meeting hall.
There was not a trace of spiritual energy fluctuation on her body, which showed that she seemed to be an extremely ordinary person, but her expression was extremely calm. She did not have a trace of uneasiness in the center of a turbulent vortex, and seemed indifferent to everything.
When Gu Ran appeared in front of her and said "found you", her expression finally began to change.
She stared at Gu Ran intently, her anger and resentment almost overflowing from her eyes.
Gu Ran asked curiously, "If I remember correctly, this should be the first time we meet, but it seems that you have a great hatred for me? When have we ever been enemies?"
"You, killed the person I loved the most!" Qingji's voice had a slight sandpaper friction feeling, which was very uncomfortable, and the words seemed to be squeezed out from between teeth.
"Your lover... Yuan Laiqing?" Gu Ran recalled the people he had killed and felt a little dazed.
The only high-ranking official from Jidong City that he had killed was Yuan Laiqing, who had the ability to slow down time a little bit, whom he killed in Canglong City. He had a deep impression of this martial arts master from Jidong City.
"So you are lovers, then it is natural for you to hate me." Gu Ran nodded to show his understanding.
But he then asked, "I just don't quite understand. You should be a powerful martial arts master, but your Dantian has been destroyed. Did you do it yourself?"
From the conversations with the embassy's escorts, Gu Ran knew that Qing Ji had not had any major battles with others recently, and that she was still a martial arts master when she set out from Far East City to New Covenant City.
And when she first came to New Covenant City, she showed her strength and solved some problems, which shows that at least at the beginning in New Covenant City, she was still a martial arts master.
So, she became an "ordinary person" only recently.
And there is a high possibility that she did it herself.
"Haha, if I hadn't turned myself into a useless person without any martial arts skills, you probably wouldn't have found me just now, but would have been ready to get rid of me soon after entering New Covenant City." Qing Ji said lightly, "It doesn't matter if I'm an ordinary person or a martial arts master, there's probably no difference in front of you, so turning myself into an ordinary person can at least delay some time."
It is true!
Although he had guessed it in his mind, when he heard Qing Ji admit it herself, Gu Ran couldn't help but clap his hands in amazement.
“Pah pah pah pah…”
On the remote and quiet street, the applause gradually died down.
Gu Ran: "Even if ordinary people make such a judgment, it is difficult for them to make such a decision, because most people have a mentality of luck and self-protection.
"Being able to make such a decision shows that you are very confident in your own judgment. On the other hand, it also shows that you are trying to accomplish a greater goal. Otherwise, you can choose to leave New Covenant City."
Qing Ji: "I came here to witness your death, but unfortunately my plan failed."
Gu Ran raised his eyebrows: "Is this your purpose? It seems that you love your lover enough and hate me enough.
"Let me sort it out. Because I killed your beloved lover, you hate me deeply, and you also hate Canglong City deeply.
"When Far East City sent you as an envoy to New Covenant City, you thought your chance for revenge had come. You successfully lobbied the Mellon family and got old Mellon to push for a bill to persecute the people of Canglong City. You also massacred the research team of Lanxin University near New Covenant City, right
"First, it was to avenge your personal grudge and vent your anger. Second, it was to further push New Covenant City to the opposite side of Canglong City. This became one of the bargaining chips you used to lobby the Mellon family. If you don't take on this responsibility, it would appear that New Covenant City is afraid of Canglong City and is deliberately pushing the responsibility onto outsiders.
“If we take on this responsibility... ... we are at odds with Canglong City anyway, so taking on this responsibility will only bring benefits. It can show that New Covenant City is not afraid of Canglong City and boost New Covenant City’s morale to a certain extent.
"In fact, what I am more curious about during this process is why you were able to convince the Mellon family, and why you were able to make the Mellon family take the risk of going to war with Canglong City and push the decision of persecuting the people of Canglong City in the July Flower Hunters' Association
"It's not that I look down on Far East City, but in reality, Far East City does not have the corresponding bargaining chips. Far East City does not have any resources. In the human alliance, its population is very small. Its geographical environment has no strategic value. The number of top powerhouses is also relatively small in the human alliance.
“Let me guess again… Jidong City also knows its own strength, so it has been very low-key in the past and will not take the initiative to provoke other main cities, let alone send its own martial arts masters to participate in high-level struggles in other main cities.
"But Jidong City did just that. And not only Canglong City, Jidong City also sent its top experts to other main cities to plan something. New Covenant City was also one of the targets. And the reason why Jidong City dared to do this, and the reason why it did this... ... I think it should be some kind of treasure obtained by Jidong City?"
Gu Ran narrated the story slowly, and during the process he was observing Qingji's reaction.
"You are indeed very smart. Although you didn't guess some things correctly, you were not far off." Qing Ji looked at Gu Ran with a hint of inexplicable fear mixed in with hatred and resentment.
"People like you shouldn't exist in this world. Why can't you die? Looking at the human alliance, apart from the space power users in Suzaku City, there is absolutely no strong person who can survive the explosion of the star stone just now. But you did it, and you were in the heart of the explosion and resisted it."
Although Gu Ran tried to avoid being hit by the explosion by passing through the underground barrier just before the explosion, the power of the explosion was too strong this time. A huge hole was formed directly on the spot, and the area was much larger than that of his previous "full-mind attack".
So he did manage to withstand the explosion, but he was also surprised that his body was much stronger than he expected. Even with such an explosion, he was not seriously injured - only a few minor injuries. However, with the body's recovery ability, he recovered immediately, which was almost the same as not having any injuries, just a little dusty and dirty.