Armor: I can only summon the general

As soon as Xinnan's feet touched the ground, he immediately summoned his armor and looked around for traces of the mutant beast.

Suddenly, there was some slight movement on the hillside nearby. Xinnan took a quick look and thought that it might be the hiding place of the mutant beast, so he ran over quickly.

When he arrived at the foot of the mountain, Xinnan saw a narrow path, which was obviously left over from long-term human activities, so he walked up the mountain along the path.

The higher he went, the more signs of human activities he saw. He walked to the halfway point of the mountain, and suddenly a small courtyard with three houses appeared in front of him.

Although the couplets on the door piers on both sides are a bit damaged, it can still be seen that they were newly posted this year, and the weeds outside the fence have also been cleared away.

Xinnan's initial judgment was that there should be people living here. It would be disastrous if the mutant beasts attacked the humans here, so he hurried in and began to search the yard.

The first two rooms were obviously occupied by people, as there were all kinds of daily necessities, but there was no one there. Xinnan searched for a long time but didn't find a single living person, so he had to go to the last room to check.

As the door was opened, the hinges on it made a teeth-grinding creaking sound. Xinnan glanced into the room and it was not difficult to guess that this should be a warehouse and utility room. There were not only various tools but also some bulging snakeskin bags piled up in it.

This was the last room. Xinnan paused slightly and then walked into the room, looking for possible living people.

He checked the front room and the right wing at a glance and realized there was no way anyone was hiding there. Xinnan continued walking towards the back half of the house. After turning a door, something on the wall caught his attention.

"Hiss~ Is this... a gun?"

Xinnan looked up at the wall at the back and found that there were several nails on the wall with a musket hanging on it. Although this thing had long been eliminated by the armies of various countries, it was still considered outdated in this forest.

There are several nails embedded in the wall, and there are four or five empty nails next to the musket. Logically, there should be corresponding things hanging there, but now they are empty. What does this mean?

"Maybe the owner of the house took it for self-defense, maybe..."

At this time, Xinnan already had a bad premonition. When his eyes moved downwards, he saw an old table with some debris on it. He walked to the table to check.

The dark tabletop already had some mottled marks, with a few pinches of black powder, a few small iron beads, and a few pieces of torn kraft paper scattered on it.

Xinnan reached out and picked up some black powder, then rubbed it with the metal parts between his two fingertips. The black powder instantly emitted a dazzling flame and a wisp of clear smoke.

Seeing this scene, Xinnan knew what was on the table.

"This black powder should be homemade black gunpowder, just like those iron beads. When put together, they are the ammunition for the musket. Then what are these pieces of kraft paper used for? Could they be used to wrap iron sand or black gunpowder?"

"Guess~"

The sudden strange voice beside him startled Xinnan. He immediately turned around to face the direction of the sound and looked into the darkness ahead.

"Who are you? Come out! Don't be sneaky."

Xinnan asked loudly. He always felt that the voice was very familiar, but he just couldn't remember who it belonged to. But at this critical juncture, the owner of this voice must be no good person.

Thinking of this, Xinnan immediately became alert and tensed up all the muscles in his body, ready to deal with any emergency at any time, but the voice in the darkness showed no sign of appearing.

"Tsk tsk tsk... You are so arrogant. I came out just because you asked me to. Am I being too shameless? Shouldn't you say hello and introduce yourself when you first meet? Yelling is too rude. I must teach you a lesson!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Xinnan saw half of a round tube sticking out from the darkness, with a metallic glow on it. Thinking of what he had just seen, he was suddenly startled and immediately rushed forward.

The space here is small and there is not enough room to dodge. He cannot escape the opponent's shooting range in a short time. Instead of gambling on the one in ten chance of success, Xinnan would rather believe in his own skills and plans to take the opponent's firearm by surprise.

The dark space always gives people a visual error. In Xinnan's eyes, the round tube was very close to him and could be reached in almost two steps, so he ran towards it with all his might.

For the Flame Dragon Armor that is bursting out at full power, these two steps only take less than three seconds, and most normal people cannot react in time.

Unfortunately, Xinnan didn't know that the person in front of him was not an ordinary person, but a real shadow guardian, and the distance between them was not as close as he saw.

Xinnan's movements were very fast. In the eyes of ordinary people, his movements were no different from teleportation. Ordinary people certainly could not react in time. But in the eyes of the Shadow Guardian, Xinnan's movements were still not fast enough.

The red figure rushed forward quickly, and Xinnan saw that it was getting closer and closer to the metal tube. Just when he stretched out his hand to grab the firearm, he was surprised to find that he was still some distance away from the tube.

Suddenly, an orange-red flame bloomed in front of Xinnan, and the other party actually pulled the trigger.

Click~bang!

Xinnan first heard a crisp collision, followed by a huge explosion, and then a crackling sound, which was the sound of iron sand hitting his armor.

Driven by the gunpowder, the tiny iron sands carrying huge kinetic energy hit Xinnan. Some of them hit the leather lining and fell to the ground when the kinetic energy was exhausted. Some of them hit the metal parts and were directly bounced away by the head-on collision, causing considerable damage to the nearby walls.

Although the power of the musket is far less than that of modern firearms, it still has considerable power at such a close distance. Xinnan felt as if he had hit a wall, and almost the entire front half of his body was hit.

All this happened in a flash. The flames quickly burned out and gradually went out in the air, leaving only a wisp of white smoke swirling on the roof.

Xinnan covered his chest and took a few steps back. The damage caused by the musket was not small, almost comparable to the full-strength attack of the mutant beast.

"Who are you and why are you attacking me?"

At this point, Xinnan still wanted to know who the person in the darkness was, and the other party did not continue to hide. He directly threw the musket in his hand in front of Xinnan, and then slowly walked out of the shadows.

Ta~ta~

The sound of leather shoes hitting the ground came from the shadows, and Xinnan saw a figure gradually appearing. It was not until the other person walked in front of Xinnan that he could see the person's face clearly in the dim light in the room.

"You are...Amice?"

"Tsk tsk, I'm not Amice. You can't even recognize a person. Your eyes are useless."