"Meow!" "Soul Devourer" had no interest in listening to the woman in the red dress's nonsense. So, during her speech, it meowed again and launched its attack.
In an instant, dozens of invisible ghostly shadows that were imperceptible to the naked eye emerged from its body, causing ripples in the surrounding air. They charged towards the woman in the red dress one after another.
"It's impolite to interrupt others when they're speaking, little cat." The woman in the red dress just finished her words. A flash of silver light appeared in her beautiful eyes. Immediately, more than half of the transparent ghostly shadows turned against their former allies and engaged in a fierce battle with the remaining normal ghostly shadows, gaining the upper hand in the blink of an eye.
However, "Soul Devourer" also had more "troops" at its disposal. With a thought, dozens more transparent ghostly shadows emerged, quickly reinforcing its side.
In addition, a part of the summoned ghostly shadows did not join the battle but were directly absorbed by "Soul Devourer" into its belly.
After the ghostly shadows entered its stomach, vertical pupils in "Soul Devourer's" eyes flashed with a glint of light. Its entire body faintly grew a bit larger, and the claws between its paws popped out, shining with a creepy silver light under the illumination of the streetlights.
"Meow!" This time, "Soul Devourer" summoned nearly a hundred ghostly shadows, making them surround its body. Then it leaped towards the woman in the red dress, clearly intending to join the battle personally.
Seeing this scene, the woman in the red dress let out a playful "yo" sound. With a smile still on her face, she calmly took out a black object from the hidden pocket of her dress.
"Bang!"
Accompanied by a sound that was familiar yet slightly strange to the Chinese people, a yellowish nine-millimeter brass bullet, accompanied by a faint spark, was fired from the dark muzzle of the gun and shot straight at "Soul Devourer"!
This sudden gunshot startled the extraordinary cat. Forcibly, it turned to the right amidst the inertia after jumping, barely dodging the bullet, but still having a lot of fur scraped off one side of its body.
"Oh? It actually dodged." The woman in the red dress looked at "Soul Devourer" in surprise, aimed the muzzle of the gun again, and pulled the trigger once more.
"Bang!" Another bullet flew out. But this time, "Soul Devourer", which had already landed, could barely see the trajectory of the second bullet thanks to the comprehensive enhancement of its body at the "Heavenly Dao" realm. It made a side jump and easily dodged the bullet.
"You're quite good, little cat. You dodged again." The woman in the red dress praised, but her fingers didn't stop moving. She started pulling the trigger continuously.
The third, fourth, and fifth bullets were fired, giving "Soul Devourer" very little time to react.
Fortunately, it managed to dodge these bullets with dexterous movements. But correspondingly, such dense and uninterrupted firepower greatly reduced the feasibility of getting close to the woman for close combat.
As an extraordinary cat with an intelligence no lower than that of an adult, "Soul Devourer" naturally understood the principle that a gun is fast beyond seven steps and accurate and fast within seven steps. It knew that the closer it got, the more likely it was to be hit. Therefore, taking advantage of the woman in the red dress changing the magazine, which took no more than two seconds, it quickly retreated and hid behind a trash can next to the building.
Some might ask, if she shoots so frequently, won't the surrounding residents notice? In fact, it was very simple to solve this problem. She just needed to knock out all the residents living nearby in advance. That's exactly what the woman in the red dress did.
Since they were unconscious, they couldn't hear the gunshots, and there wouldn't be anyone who liked to meddle in other people's business and disturb the showdown between her and "Soul Devourer".
The battle on the surface was intense, and the battle in the transparent realm also didn't stop. Whenever "Soul Devourer" released more ghostly shadows, no matter how many there were, at least half of them would turn against their former allies when they got close to the woman in the red dress and started fighting with the other ghostly shadows that were their comrades just a second ago.
However, it was unclear whether she did it on purpose or she could only control so many ghostly shadows. The situation in the transparent battlefield maintained a delicate balance from the beginning, and neither side could gain the upper hand over the other.
During the frequent dodging, "Soul Devourer" knew that if it continued to be suppressed like this, it would eventually lose. It had to find a way to break the situation!
At present, the only chance for it to break the deadlock was during the less than two seconds when the woman in the red dress was changing the magazine of her pistol!
Soon, the woman in the red dress ran out of bullets in her third round of shooting and started changing the magazine. "Soul Devourer" seized this opportunity and immediately jumped out from behind the cover. Its body was clearly a bit larger than before, and even its claws seemed to have grown a bit longer.
It pushed off with its hind legs and directly leaped across the six-meter-wide street, arriving in front of the woman in the red dress.
It raised its cat claws and was about to give this human woman, whose soul state was most likely that of a "dog", a good scratch. When it was about to continue with a series of consecutive attacks, it noticed that the expression on the woman's face was neither one of surprise nor annoyance, but a mocking look as if her scheme had succeeded. And in its line of sight, she aimed the barrel of the gun at it.
The pupils of "Soul Devourer" suddenly contracted, and it knew that it had fallen into a trap.
Regardless of the risk of spraining, while the forward momentum hadn't ended, it forcibly turned to the side. Although it succeeded, the fired brass bullet still scraped off a piece of flesh from its belly.
After landing, "Soul Devourer" didn't dare to launch another attack. It didn't even dare to make a big jump. It quickly ran back behind the cover on the street, which was an innocent small car parked on the street.
"You're quite cautious." The woman in the red dress said with a bit of praise when she saw that the extraordinary tricolor cat, after she fired that bullet, didn't continue to attack but instead hid back behind the cover.
She had set this little trap when she changed the magazine after firing fourteen bullets in the first round, making "Soul Devourer" think that her magazine could only hold fourteen bullets. But in reality, her magazine could hold up to seventeen bullets.
"Forget it. It's not a good idea to keep wasting time like this." The woman in the red dress put away her pistol and took out an oval object from her pocket.
It was actually a dark green hand grenade!
But the moment the hand grenade was taken out, a nimble figure rushed out again.
Although "Soul Devourer" was hiding behind the car and couldn't know the woman in the red dress's current actions on its own, the ghostly shadows it had summoned could serve as its eyes! This meant that it was monitoring the entire battlefield all the time!
Although it didn't know why the woman in the red dress put away her gun, it knew that this was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity!
Almost instantly, "Soul Devourer" rushed in front of the woman in the red dress. At this time, its body was as big as an ordinary medium-sized dog. When it opened its mouth wide and waved its claws, it really looked a bit like a tiger.
In the face of such a dangerous situation, the woman in the red dress let out a "hey" sound, seemingly without knowing why. Then, in the next second, "Soul Devourer", which had just pounced on her, was sent flying backwards.
Taking this opportunity, she quickly took out the pistol she had just put away from her pocket, aimed, and fired in one smooth motion.