Chapter 246: Beheading |
Seeing Qin Ziwen, Tang Xiao reached into his chest and pulled out a card, "I'm willing..."
Before he could finish his words, Qin Ziwu's blade had already shot out.
The blade light was like a cold flash of lightning, thud piercing into Tang Xiao's chest. The remaining force not yet dissipated, it carried his entire body flying backward.
The action was so fast that the vast majority of people present couldn't react in time.
The remaining four men surrounding Tang Xiao had just begun to show fierce glints in their eyes when the blades around them had already formed a dense, impenetrable net, slashing over.
Among the crowd, a man with a lean build, wielding a pair of iron rods, moved extremely fast. Amidst the flying rod shadows, he parried three or four blades in succession. His moves were quite methodical; he was a trained fighter.
Qin Ziwen glanced at him and tossed out Insight.
[Common · Human: ☆☆☆☆☆]
Flesh and blood, the limit of an ordinary human. Presumably, this must be the elite expert carefully cultivated by the Jianghu Society.
Du Yu standing behind him brought an even stronger sense of oppression. A moment of carelessness, and a blade struck the back of his hand. The iron rod clanged to the ground.
The next second, more blade lights engulfed him.
He was directly hacked into pieces.
The battle ended quickly.
On the ground lay a mess of corpses, scattered in all directions.
Qin Ziwen pondered. He suddenly felt, was this perhaps too smooth?
Winning seemed even easier than expected.
But then he silently shook his head. No, the reason it was so easy this time was because he had made meticulous plans in advance.
The other side probably also hadn't anticipated that he could open a node and launch a direct surprise attack right at their doorstep.
They were caught completely off guard.
Qin Ziwu searched the body of that square-faced, broad-nosed man who had pulled out the card and retrieved the card he had just taken out.
"Brother, this is the card he just took out. It's..." Qin Ziwu's expression was strange because the card in his hand wasn't a Summoning Card, nor was it any other dangerous card. It was an Advanced Resource Duplication Card.
Then why did he pull this card out? To...
Qin Ziwen didn't speak. He took the card, glanced at it, and casually tucked it into his pocket.
"It's fine, you did very well." Qin Ziwen didn't see a problem. What if the other side had just pulled out a Summoning Card and summoned a giant beast similar to a Hadrosaur or Tarbosaurus inside this building? That would have been a real regret.
"Everyone, search quickly. Don't delay too long."
This man seemed to hold a fairly high position in the Jianghu Society. There should be quite a few good things in this house.
While the others were rummaging for things, Qin Ziwen went to the top floor and looked out from the rooftop.
The originally somewhat spacious courtyard had, at some unknown time, become "narrow" again. That enormous shipyard had also vanished without a trace.
Including some other buildings that were previously in the corners of the courtyard, they had all disappeared.
The entire courtyard gave him the feeling of being "dead."
Lifeless.
At the same time, from the alleyways outside the courtyard came the sound of chaotic footsteps and suppressed human voices.
The people from the urban village had been alerted and were gathering towards this area.
In the distant tower, flames lit up.
Qin Ziwen said, "Move faster. Cao Biansheng and his group can come over now too."
As soon as the words left his mouth, from the building opposite, a window shattered with a boom. A human figure fell from the third-floor window.
It landed on the ground outside, twitched twice, and then moved no more.
Immediately after, flames rose within that building, black smoke billowing out the window.
Cao Biansheng and his group rushed out of the building's door and hurried over.
As they got closer, Qin Ziwen noticed someone in their team being supported, their steps unsteady. They seemed injured, but their consciousness was still clear.
"Let's go."
Soon, everyone passed through the node and returned to the Home.
After returning to the Home, Qin Ziwen retrieved the node.
Out of the three node slots, one had temporarily entered cooldown and needed to wait 7 days.
On the other side, in the courtyard, a large number of Jianghu Society members poured into the yard. The originally spacious courtyard had returned to its previous narrowness.
In the back, heads bobbed, and the crowd parted.
"Brother Long."
Yang Long walked into the courtyard. He glanced at the vanished shipyard and remained silent for a long moment.
Bang!
He suddenly clenched his fist and smashed it heavily against the wall.
"Damn it!"
Yang Long cursed loudly, "Idiot! That stupid idiot! I already told him, told him to be careful, be careful! Why didn't he listen to me!!!"
Yang Long was like a maddened lion.
No one else around dared to approach.
Within the Jianghu Society, Yang Long's status was second only to Tang Xiao's.
Yang Long's chest heaved violently. His eyes were wide with fury, staring fixedly at the three-story building before him.
The reason their Jianghu Society could contend with the Blood Script wasn't because of any one individual, but because of their group as a whole! Plus their unique buildings, which allowed them to reach a cooperative relationship with the Blood Script.
Take the Giant Wood Shipyard, for example. Because the building was bound to the Home Master, it couldn't be plundered.
This was their greatest confidence.
Coupled with the fact that their urban village itself possessed a certain level of martial force, they had temporarily achieved a balance with the Blood Script.
But now Tang Xiao was dead.
The shipyard was gone.
"Brother Long, the brothers inside... they're all dead." A member who had gone into the building to check came out to report.
Yang Long was silent. Those Tang Xiao brought into the building were basically all elites.
He remembered there were usually at least over a dozen people inside.
"Brother Long, over ten brothers also died inside the building opposite." Behind him, another underling came running up, panting.
"Hmm." Yang Long was already numb. Compared to Tang Xiao's death, the death of thirty-some people was actually a minor matter.
Weighing the pros and cons in his heart, Yang Long raised his head and looked at the brothers around him. "You all know the situation with the Blood Script. If you don't want to be absorbed by them, then from now on, you have to listen to me."
"Brother Long, we'll listen to you."
"Right!"
Everyone present responded in agreement.
The atmosphere over at the Red Cauldron Tower was too oppressive. Ever since contact from the last map, they had felt a chill.
It was just that the two sides' buildings had merged, forcing them to continue contact.
A short while later, a team from the Red Cauldron Tower rushed over from the tower.
Leading them was Yang Long's old acquaintance, Pu Jia.
As the number three figure of the Blood Script, he was also the one who appeared most frequently in daily life, mainly responsible for the Blood Script's external hunting. The two of them often cooperated.
Pu Jia stood on tiptoe, looked around the area, and finally his gaze landed on the courtyard before him. Then he tilted his head to look at Yang Long beside him. Pu Jia's dyed white hair was particularly eye-catching under the illumination of the surrounding torches.
"Hey, what happened with you guys? Where's our huge shipyard!" Pu Jia spread his arms wide, his face full of disbelief.
"Tang Xiao is dead. The shipyard is gone." Yang Long replied calmly.
Pu Jia's eyebrows shot up, his face full of incredulity. "You're saying your boss, under the heavy protection of your urban village, got slaughtered? Holy shit."
Pu Jia clutched his head, his expression extremely exaggerated. "Are you all a bunch of pigs? You couldn't even manage to delay them?"
Yang Long said, "The opponents we matched with this time are very strong. They have means to come to our island silently."
Pu Jia shrugged his shoulders. "Very strong? Don't make excuses for yourselves. If they were really that awesome, why didn't they come after me?
To put it bluntly, it's because you're useless, easy to bully!
We spent so much manpower helping you cut down trees, and it ends up like this, hahaha... The boss has a bad temper. You'd better think about how to explain this to him first."