Black Glasses and Fatty lunged forward, throwing themselves in front of Xie Yuchen and Li Cu respectively. The next second, a deafening roar echoed through the cavern.
Flames soared into the sky as a powerful shockwave swept outward. The crude, last-century explosives detonated violently the moment they made contact with the Bronze Tree branches.
Fatty lost half of an arm in the blast. Black Glasses spat out a mouthful of dark blood mixed with fragments of his internal organs. Shrapnel from the explosion was mostly intercepted by the crisscrossing branches of the Bronze Tree, with only a tiny fraction striking the four men, though the shockwave still inflicted severe internal injuries on all of them.
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