At the entrance of Warehouse No. 2 in the German military base:

  A multitude of nearly a hundred German soldiers, armed with top-notch German rifles, stood in solemn formation in the expansive space before the warehouse. The otion attracted additional patrolling soldiers, who quickly gathered around.

  "Captain Leo is unresponsive on the radio. Repeat, uo establish tact with Captain Leo."

  "Sir, should we forcefully ehe warehouse and duct a search?"

  "Absolutely! There's likely only one person oher side, and they have no grounds to intimidate us on our owory. But proceed with caution. The warehouse tains highly fmmable and dangerous ammunitio's avoid any mishaps. If you enter the enemy, subdue them with bayos first."

  After the officer in charge of base patrols finished his instrus, he waved his hand, signaling the two soldiers closest to the warehouse door to open it.

  With deliberate care, the soldiers gradually pushed open the warehouse door, revealing an abyss of darkness within. Several patrol teams swiftly eheir ons at the ready, their helmet lights pierg the gloom, sing every dire.

  "Step, step, step—"

  As the sound of footsteps reverberated from above, Kyle khat the enemy soldiers had already infiltrated the ammunition warehouse. tally, he had just verted the final energy cube in the box into a card.

  A total of twenty-five energy cubes, equivalent to twenty-five Blue Item Cards, were now in his possession.

  "Now it's time to make our escape." Kyle remained posed, casting a g the deg flesh that was ohe enemy ander and transf the nearby Evil Dog, whose tongue dangled, bato a card.

  The dog wouldn't serve its purpose in the uping situation.

  Generally, Lifeform Cards could be reused, with the exception of special ones like the Toxic Hor's . This signifitly enhahe value of Lifeform Cards.

  "I wonder what kind of Lifeform Cards are avaible in higher qualities than green. Could I draw monster cards from otherworldly creatures, like King Kong odzil?"

  A whimsical thought fleetingly crossed Kyle's mind, only to be dismissed promptly as he focused on leaving the basement. Little did he know that this fantastical idea would soon ma into reality i-so-distant future.

  At that moment, a substantial number of German soldiers had pleted their search of the upper levels of Warehouse No. 2 and redirected their attention to the final underground passage.

  "Throw a smoke bomb inside."

  A soldier held a smoke bomb, ready to hurl it, while another positioned his hand at the entrao the hidden door leading to the basement.

  Just as they opehe door to the basement, preparing to toss the smoke bomb, a billowing cloud of bck mist billowed forth, causing the smoke bomb to tumble outside the basement.

  "Cough, what the hell is this?"

  One of the German soldiers coughed and aimed his fshlight at the swirling bck mist. As the patrol team caught sight of the objects before them, their scalps tingled, and their faces bnched in terror.

  It was no ordinary bck mist; it sisted of hundreds of dark brown hors, each rger than a marble, densely gregated together.

  "Hors! Poisonous hors inside!"

  "Oh my god! Ru out of here!"

  Panic swept through the German soldiers within the warehouse as they desperately fled, hoping they hadn't disturbed the hors. However, ohe venomous is escaped the basement, they relentlessly pursued the soldiers, ung attacks on their unprotected faces with their venomous stingers.

  Within moments, dozens of soldiers broke down and sprinted out of the warehouse. Many of those stung writhed in agony on the ground, clutg their faces aing anguished wails.

  Emerging from the basement behind the swarm of hors, Kyle withe chaotic se. He muttered softly to himself, "Just a Rare Green Lifeform Card, yet it proves to be incredibly formidable."

  "heless, it's time to fulfill the raid mission. I don't have the luxury of pying with all of you. I must escape this pce swiftly."

  Disregarding the German soldiers, Kyle gripped the Nepalese military kightly and swiftly vanished into the abyss of darkness.

  Kyle, in his Nightcrawler state, capitalized on the pandemonium unfolding within and outside Warehouse No. 2, deftly navigatiween the swarming hors and disoriented soldiers as he stealthily made his way back to the parked military vehicle.

  With the tral area of the base ed by the lively spectacle, patrol teams were scar the outer parking lot, allowing Kyle to move swiftly and ued as he returo the spot where he had andeered the enemy's vehicle.

  Pushing open the rear partment's iron door, he was greeted by the sight of six lifeless bodies. Hastily, he leaped into the rear partment and, to his immense relief, discovered the slumbering girl within the wooden crate. Finally, he could exhale a sigh of relief.

  "Wake up! We o leave. Get up quickly!" Kyle nudged her, but the girl remained unresponsive, her fragile form limp and unyielding.

  Could she be dead?

  Pressing his finger against her nostrils, Kyle detected a faint breath, firming her survival, albeit in an unscious state due to her weakened dition.

  However, transp an unscious and injured person in her current state would only amplify the dahey faced.

  After a brief moment of hesitation, Kyle gritted his teeth and made his decision, "sider yourself fortuo have crossed paths with me. Since I promised to get you out of here, then…"

  He carefully hoisted the girl onto his back, improvising with ropes to securely fasteo him. Her body was delicate and supple, akin to a luxurious quilt.

  "This weight is lighter than a package," Kyle murmured as he carried the girl, then turned around aed from the blood-tinged rear partment of the vehicle.

  However, just as he reached the edge of the rear partment, he swiftly recoiled, shutting the iron door behind him.

  "Bang! Bang! Bang!"

  In an instant, the iron door of the vehicle's rear partment was riddled with bullet holes.

  Pressed against the iron wall of the partment, Kyle furrowed his brow. It appeared that uedly, there were three or four patrol teams outside the vehicle, exemplifying the German soldiers' bat prowess.

  "I ot allow myself to be trapped here!" Kyle thought urgently, quickly grabbing one of the corpses ihe vehicle and using his foot to forcefully kick the iron door halfen. Then, summoning all his strength, he hurled the lifeless body out.

  "Bang! Bang! Bang!"

  Mistaking the corpse for an esg enemy, the German soldiers unleashed a barrage of intense gunfire, redug the body to a mangled mass of flesh and bone in mid-air.

  And this was only the beginning.

  Shortly after, the sed corpse was flung out, drawing the trated fire of the German soldiers once again.

  Without aff the German soldiers the opportunity to reload their ammunition, Kyle swiftly discarded the third corpse!

  The bullets that struck the third corpse noticeably diminished by half. As the body desded toward the ground, a figure suddenly burst forth from behind it, sprinting in the opposite dire!

  It was Kyle!

  By exploiting the first two corpses to deplete the enemy's ammunition and employing the third corpse as a makeshift shield, Kyle skillfully transitioned from a perilous hail of guo a momentary respite while the enemy soldiers scrambled to reload their magazines!

  (End of Chapter)