Published: February 10, 2025
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The sudden change left everyone in a daze. They had clearly seen Ye Zhongming's shots fail against the eighth-level monster's head just moments ago.
Yet, this golden light was so powerful that it had injured the highest-level mutated lifeform they had encountered so far?
However, what happened next made all beings feel a chilling fear from the depths of their hearts.
The bullet fired by Ye Zhongming using the earthquake suppression armor-piercing gun activated the parabolic shooting skill. The reason he had persistently fired shot after shot seemed futile; it was merely to numb the eighth-level monster. The ultimate goal was for this last shot.
The bullet bypassed the monsters blocking the eighth-level creature and shot into the five heads.
Although the golden light had flashed earlier, no one thought this shot would have any killing effect. After all, the eighth-level monster had displayed overwhelming strength; whether intercepting the earth yellow pill in the air or later facing the Jingjue Floating Sphere and rockets, it seemed to have plenty of energy left. Even against Ye Zhongming's successive shots, it had only lost a leg.
To heavily injure it would be considered a remarkable feat.
Yes, this aligned with everyone's common understanding. If there were any firearms capable of taking down an eighth-level existence with one shot, it would surely be unbelievable.
If that were the case, then the evolution system would be entirely a joke.
To struggle and evolve into an advanced level, only to be easily killed by someone with one shot?
If that were true, who would still want to evolve?
In fact, the threat of firearms to evolved lifeforms has diminished over time. Even decent firearms have little effect against high-level lifeforms.
This is due to factors such as the reflex speed, agility, defensive equipment, professional abilities, skills, and lineage of the evolvers, which have gradually reduced the effectiveness of bullets relying solely on speed, penetration, or explosive force. Regular firearms lose their impact when an evolver reaches the three-star level, and even firearms of higher grades, like green level, pose minimal threat to intermediate evolvers; for advanced evolvers, the effect is almost negligible unless the bullets correspond to the relevant level and include some shooting skills, which would increase the threat of such ranged attacks, but still limited.
In his previous life, Ye Zhongming was a six-star evolver who owned a green firearm and relied on his marksman profession. Why was he stuck at the intermediate evolver level with no progress? It was precisely due to the firearms' ineffectiveness; he could only gain a little fame in battle but could not break into the true upper echelon. Without entering the higher levels, it was challenging to surpass the intermediate evolver barrier and become a seven-star powerhouse.
After all, that battalion was not Cloud Summit Villa.
This illustrates the status of firearms in the apocalypse.
Of course, there are indeed some individuals with unique abilities in this regard, and as long as weapons like firearms exist, there will always be someone who shines brilliantly with them, leading to the emergence of individuals known as 'gun kings'.
In his previous life, there was indeed a gun king, a nine-star evolver, whose shooting skills were extraordinary—a figure that any other nine-star evolver of the same level would find troublesome. With his powerful long-range attacks, he could kill mutated lifeforms far more efficiently than others, making him very wealthy. In the apocalypse, wealth represented strength to a certain extent, allowing the gun king to maintain a lead over most nine-star evolvers.
However, this is ultimately an exception and does not change the awkward status of firearms in the apocalypse.
Now, although the apocalypse had not progressed deeply, the decline of firearms had already become evident, relying entirely on the emergence of magic crystal firearms to hold the situation together.