Russell immediately guessed what the rules of "Raging Volcano" were.

If the original wasteland was boundless, and there was never an end to the desert... then this "Raging Volcano" was climbing upwards, but could never reach the end.

Because the "Tower of the End" is a place that can never be reached.

It only exists as a "coordinate"...that is to say, this mountain cannot be climbed at all.

But why is it "angry"?

"...Speaking of which, what about strangulation?"

Obviously both of them followed the path of anger and entered the volcano of rage, and the strangulation was faster than Russell's.

But after Russell entered, he lost sight of the former.

But just then.

Russell heard a loud noise behind him——

Behind him, in the "holes" at some locations downhill, lava pillars were suddenly pumped out!

Even though he was far away, clear and palpable heat suddenly surged from Russell's back.

"...could it be?"

Russell realized something and heard something. He turned around and ran downwards.

Climbing up is not easy, but rushing down is equally difficult.

The gravel and boulders lie across the road at angles that completely violate the laws of physics. It is very easy to fall if you cannot descend smoothly.

If it were Russell's own body, there would be no need to consider these things at all.

But the bluebird's body is much bulkier.

——An ordinary body that cannot even dodge bullets is really weak.

Russell sighed.

He didn't know how long he had been running before he approached the rising lava pillars.

They didn't flow down.

Instead, it maintains a columnar shape and is solidifying at a slow speed.

When he got here, he finally saw what was happening below.

Strangler is fighting something.

It was a four-clawed monster made of shadows and shaped like a hyena.

But they have no heads, and there is a scarlet single eye inlaid on their necks.

There were four of these beasts - they gathered around the strangulation area but did not take action for a long time.

This is because blood-like fire flows through Strangler's body.

Those scarlet flames flowed out of his eyes continuously, like crying.

They burned like gasoline and swept through the entire body, forming a flame armor that could only cover the chest. There was also a little "blood fire" from the legs down to the feet, but it was much less.

These blood fires did not burn the strangled skin at all, nor even the mane on his body.

Obviously, these flames are a great deterrent to these shadow monsters - but the flames cannot burn his back, so he is constantly pacing and spinning, trying to avoid exposing his back to them.

At this moment, Strangler saw Russell running down from above.

He was stunned for a moment.

It was that moment of surprise that caused the flaw in the strangulation.

The monster behind him immediately stretched its body and pounced ferociously.

The blood-red pupils on his neck suddenly opened wide, and a huge bloody mouth larger than his own body appeared from the pupils, with ferocious bone fangs inside.

Strangler reacted immediately, turned around and stretched his hand burning with blood-red flames to the side, grabbed the "neck" connecting the huge mouth and the eyeball, and pulled it out together with the eyeball.

After the eyeballs left the body, the shadow beast immediately dissipated into the air.

But at the moment when Strangler took action, two shadow beasts rushed towards him from behind him on the left and right -

"——Peng——Peng!"

Huge gunfire sounded one after another.

Russell pulled out a shotgun and fired two shots without hesitation!

This is exactly the gun with the restrainer mounted on it that the mercenary leader used in the captain's room before!

From the perspective of Strangler, the densely packed projectiles were like horizontal iron rain, rushing toward his face.

The first shot of the restrained projectiles exploded one of them. The aftermath also knocked the second one backwards.

The second shot was reversed, blowing out the eyeballs of the shadow beast on the other side of the "strangle", completing the kill instantly.

Only then did Strangler fully realize what had happened.

The blue-haired young man, holding a repeating shotgun, fired two consecutive supporting shots from a distance of about twenty meters, one to the left and one to the right, centered on the strangulation... but did not hurt the middle one at all.

strangled.

That's a shotgun!

Such good marksmanship - if this were not in a dream world where chips and prosthetics cannot be used, Strangler would have thought that the opponent was using an auxiliary aiming system.

"Good marksmanship!"

And Strangulation was not stunned.

While praising, he stretched out his right hand towards the repulsed shadow beast.

The blood-red flame was like a living creature, forming a thick tentacle that penetrated the shadow beast's one eye in an instant.

This blow was not without cost.

The bloody flames that made up the armor on Strangler's body faded instantly and became the material for this tentacle - or "living whip".

"Are you good at shooting?"

Russell put away the shotgun and walked slowly towards the strangulation.

"Brother is awesome!"

Strangler praised: "You saved me once, barber!"

Russell's face skillfully revealed a perfect smile that belongs to an idol - this is Xiao Liuli's muscle memory.

He asked without fear: "Are you still a girl now?"

"--Feel sorry!"

What surprised Russell was that Strangler, who seemed to be a self-centered person, was actually a completely shameless guy.

Strangler admitted his mistake very simply: "I was wrong, brother. If you still feel uncomfortable with that sentence, brother will buy you a drink after he goes out! A good product limited to the company!"

"Easy to do."

Russell was not greedy for merit, he just nodded reservedly.

"Run quickly, we can't stay here for long."

Strangler did not immediately explain to Russell what he had encountered. Instead, he pulled Russell's arm hard and motioned for him to run up the mountain quickly.

Before they took two steps, Russell saw those lava pillars gradually solidifying, and the surrounding ground began to gradually become hot.

"What is that?"

Russell asked loudly.

"My mentor calls this the Pillar of Wrath. Not just the Path of Wrath, there are similar 'timing devices' in all areas except the initial wasteland."

Strangler's physique is much stronger than "Blue Songbird". Even while running at a fast pace, he can speak very fluently: "Reset the timer for this area."

His low, growling voice was clear enough to be heard by Russell behind him.

"The dream world...doesn't it...have no concept of time?"

Russell asked while running quickly.

The extra energy spent climbing the mountain made him panting.

"That's right. So the timing method in the Way of Anger is the 'cooling down cycle'..."

Strangler stopped halfway through his explanation.

He looked back at Russell and realized something.

So he crawled in front of Russell like a real lion: "You are running too slow, climb up."

"……May I?"

Russell was eager to try.

"It's okay, just remember to sit tight."
To be continued...