Mai Bao Xiao Lang Jun
Chapter 52 Double Kill
Inside the black van, Hong Ji Ge took out a dark red pair of gauntlets, put them on, and cracked his knuckles, grinning,
"Are these evil factions crazy? They want a full-scale war? Just as well, I didn't have enough fun last time. Tonight, I'll show off my skills."
Sun Miaomiao, sitting across from him, frowned as she looked out at the empty and silent surroundings,
"Something's not right tonight. Whether the evil factions want to provoke us or initiate a full-scale war, there's no need to destroy hospitals, schools, and tourist areas. They should just attack the police stations directly.
"My personal feeling is that they're deliberately making trouble, plotting something."
Tianxia Guihuo nodded, then shook his head: "As long as they're creating chaos and disrupting order, it's a provocation to the authorities, but the evil factions must be plotting something."
He suddenly thought of something and asked, "Where's Ju Mang?"
Everyone looked at Guan Ya.
Guan Ya, in the front passenger seat, stared unblinkingly at the road. As a scout, she could sense everyone's gaze without turning her head. She said,
"Don't worry about him. We're going to Derson River Park in fifteen minutes."
Although the others were puzzled, they didn't say anything else, either closing their eyes to rest or adjusting their condition.
Guan Ya took out her phone and called the scholar in her assistant team:
"Shut down all the surveillance cameras around Derson River Park."
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Under the quiet glow of the goose-yellow streetlights, Zhang Yuanqing drove his van toward the deserted Derson River Road.
Manhattan has a Derson River Park, which is full of tourists and sightseers during the day, but because there are no residences or shops, the riverside is deserted at night.
And because the river wind is strong at night, even the homeless don't bother coming here. Fighting here minimizes the risk of affecting ordinary people.
Behind him was another van, driven by Yin Shi. It carried the Five Elements Alliance's support team, with Saints and Transcendents numbering nearly twenty. Excluding the scholars and musicians who were not skilled in combat, there were still over a dozen people, too many to fit in one van.
He was worried that if he overacted, Bacchus and Hecate wouldn't take the bait. Those two had become peak Saints, so they must have rich experience and wisdom.
The van sped along the riverside road, with only a two-meter-wide green belt and a guardrail separating it from the Derson River. During the day, tourists liked to lean on the guardrail and take pictures, watching transport ships sail by on the river.
After fifteen minutes of driving, the riverside park came into view.
Suddenly, Zhang Yuanqing saw in the rearview mirror the streetlights along the riverbank go out one by one. A dense darkness chased after him, the extinguished streetlights marking its footsteps.
Soon, the van driven by Yin Shi was swallowed by the darkness, and Zhang Yuanqing lost contact with Yin Shi.
Yin Shi's aura was shielded, even his master with the imprint could not sense him.
Here they come... Zhang Yuanqing's lips curled up, he released the accelerator and plunged into the embrace of darkness.
A thick, deep darkness enveloped the van, dimming even the headlights.
Zhang Yuanqing's van suddenly went out of control and crashed into the guardrail by the river with a "bang." The front of the car caved in, and the guardrail cracked.
Zhang Yuanqing pulled up the handbrake, turned off the engine, and opened the car door.
He looked back at the darkness and saw a middle-aged man with a wine-soaked nose, a big belly, and a full beard, walking over with a delicate-looking young man with freckles.
"Bacchus, Hecate!" Zhang Yuanqing said in a low voice.
"Oh, you recognize us." Bacchus stroked his belly and smiled: "The second and fourth on the A-level wanted list are teaming up to hunt you down. Are you scared enough to piss your pants, boy!"
Hecate commented lazily, "An exquisite item. It's a pity the Five Elements Alliance team isn't here, otherwise, there would be two..."
Saying this, he looked at the two empty vans and frowned, "No one?"
Why is no one here? If there's no one in the cars, why would Ju Mang be wandering around the river with two empty cars?
Both of them felt that something was wrong.
Zhang Yuanqing quickly drew his gun and continuously pulled the trigger at the two of them, while simultaneously provoking their sense of urgency.
The bullets either shot into the sky, hit the ground, or flew diagonally into the river, perfectly avoiding Bacchus and Hecate. In front of the Drunkard, the bullet trajectory was chaotic.
Although the bullets couldn't threaten the two peak Saints, the attack, combined with emotional manipulation, successfully provoked their sense of urgency.
"Stop talking nonsense with him. There are wind manipulators patrolling in the sky. Kill him quickly." Hecate reached into the void and grabbed a black coffin.
As he jumped into the coffin, he said, "Protect me!"
The coffin lid opened, and after he entered, it closed again.
The next moment, transparent ripples emanated from the coffin, spreading in circles and sweeping across everything around it.
Zhang Yuanqing in the distance, and Bacchus nearby, staggered. A tidal wave of drowsiness swept over them, and their eyelids felt as if they weighed a thousand pounds. Even the strongest willpower could hardly stay awake.
Bacchus swayed a few times, struggling to keep his eyes open. He took out a small tin bottle hanging from his waist, took a big gulp, and spat it towards Zhang Yuanqing in the distance.
The liquor transformed into a dense mist, carrying a rich, tempting drunkenness, and quickly spread.
*Thump!*
Zhang Yuanqing couldn't hold on any longer. His cheeks flushed, his knees buckled, and he fell to the ground, unconscious.
*Thump!*
Bacchus also fell down. Before his consciousness faded, he "heh"ed. When Ju Mang couldn't stop Hecate from falling asleep, they had already won.
Of course, wasn't it only natural that three top-tier combat powerhouses hunted down a regular Lawful faction member?
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In the dreamland, Hecate, with his freckled face, stared in shock at the stern-faced Tongtian Jiaozhu (Master of the通天 Sect).
"What are you doing in my dream?" He suddenly remembered the two empty vans, and his expression changed drastically: "No, you..."
Tongtian Jiaozhu curled his lips: "Want to see a meteor shower?"
He raised his hand and snapped his fingers.
The next moment, the gray sky lit up with a crimson light. A large number of meteors fell from the sky, engulfing Hecate.
"Traitor, you traitor!!"
Hecate roared angrily, his figure swallowed by the meteors.
A dozen seconds later, the meteor bombardment ended, and Zhang Yuanqing waved his hand to disperse the "dust" that had been splashed up. He saw Hecate lying on the cratered ground, fast asleep.
He wasn't dead. His conscious body was in a semi-transparent state, between reality and illusion. It was this state that allowed him to avoid the meteor shower and survive.
Zhang Yuanqing wasn't surprised by this. It was a passive skill of the Eternal Night profession. When faced with a fatal attack, the body and soul would enter a "void" state.
This state was immune to all attacks!
The skill couldn't be actively deactivated. It required an Lingjing Xingzhe of the same profession to awaken it, or waiting for him to wake up on his own.
In the latter case, when he would wake up was an uncertain number. It could be a day, it could be a few days, it could be a year, or even longer.
Among Lingjing Xingzhe, the Eternal Night profession was a very special, specialized profession that almost abandoned offensive abilities, pursuing only one core: sealing.
All of their skills were derived from sealing. Sleep was one of the derivative abilities of "sealing."
A profession like this that had abandoned all offensive abilities must have self-preservation skills. Zhang Yuanqing had read the information on the Eternal Night profession and was already well aware of it.
"Sleep well!"
Zhang Yuanqing exited the dreamland and returned to reality, just in time to see his main body and Bacchus wake up one after another.
Bacchus, who had just opened his eyes, originally thought that Ju Mang had been successfully killed. Before he could show any joy, he suddenly saw Ju Mang, who had fallen to the ground opposite him, actually getting up.
Not dead? Why would he wake up if he wasn't dead... Bacchus looked back blankly at the black coffin.
This one look made his scalp tingle with fear. Hecate in the coffin was lying quietly, his body in a phantom state.
As a local evil faction member and a peak Saint, Bacchus could of course see that Hecate had been forced into his passive state, which was why the Sleeping Curse had been lifted.
And just now, he and Ju Mang were both unconscious, within the range of the Sleeping Curse. Unless it was a Dominator, even if reinforcements from the Five Elements Alliance or Heaven's Punishment arrived, they would immediately fall asleep.
The only possibility was... Bacchus looked at Tongtian Jiaozhu by the coffin.
Tongtian Jiaozhu, like a villain, had a sinister arc at the corner of his mouth:
"The one who should be scared enough to piss his pants is you, old boy."
After saying that, he raised his head and let out a sharp whistle.
Mental strike!
Bacchus's head felt like it had been struck by a heavy hammer, and warm blood flowed from the corners of his eyes and nostrils.
Tongtian Jiaozhu was a traitor, a traitor that Heaven's Punishment had planted in the Hunter Guild. Damn it, that little bitch Catherine, didn't she repeatedly verify and confirm before recruiting him!
Bacchus endured the pain of his brain splitting open. He didn't fight Tongtian Jiaozhu or Ju Mang, but turned and rushed towards the Derson River.
He couldn't kill two peak Saints in a short period of time, especially with a spy on their side. Heaven's Punishment's elite were likely lying in ambush nearby.
"You can't escape." Zhang Yuanqing grabbed the Box of Black Nights from his inventory and opened it with a *click*, releasing the darkness inside, making the surrounding darkness even denser.
Then, he took out the matchbox that he hadn't used for a long time, struck a match, and made a wish to the bright, bean-sized candlelight:
"I wish that the seal on the Box of Black Nights is unbreakable!"
The flame suddenly brightened and quickly burned out, the wish was fulfilled.
From now on, the barrier of the Box of Black Nights was like a rule. Below the Saint stage, no one could break it.
This was exactly Zhang Yuanqing's purpose. Drunkards were best at exploiting "loopholes," and could distort rules to a certain extent. The Saint-quality Box of Black Nights would have difficulty trapping him.
But with the blessing of the matchbox, the barrier of the Black Night became perfect and flawless.
"I don't have much time. If you have any trump cards, use them quickly, otherwise, I'm afraid you won't have a chance," Zhang Yuanqing said with a smile.
Bacchus was silent for a few seconds and sighed:
"I don't want to fight you to the death, but since you're looking for death, then I'll grant it to you. Even if I'm surrounded and killed by Heaven's Punishment today, I'll accept it."
As he spoke, he grabbed a mottled painting from his inventory. The scenery in the painting was distorted and chaotic. Rivers floated in the sky, clouds covered the earth, the sun and stars hung on the treetops, and human-like figures walked upside down...
This was Bacchus's bottom-of-the-barrel trick, a Dominator-quality item.
As one of the strongest Saints in the Dominator stage, as a Saint even stronger than Osmund and Hoover, although he didn't have the ability to fight a Dominator, he had a genuine Dominator-quality item.
If he didn't have Dominator-level power, how could he become the strongest in the Saint stage?
The colors in the painting flew out of the frame, projecting in all directions. The intense colors stained the ground, the green belt, the sky, and the surface of the Derson River, quickly spreading.
Soon, reality became a painting. Those upside-down, distorted scenes appeared in the real world.
"Fuck..."
The clone cursed, and then his body twisted strangely. His hands and feet switched places, his head appeared between his legs, and his butt appeared on his chest.
The internal organs in his body also shifted in a similar way.
He fell to the ground with a "thump," his pupils became lifeless, lost vital signs, and then dissipated.
"Hmm?"
Bacchus didn't have any joy. He looked shocked. Tongtian Jiaozhu being killed by the Dominator item was within his expectations, but the changes after his death were something he never expected.
This situation could only mean that Tongtian Jiaozhu wasn't real?
In an instant, Bacchus thought of many possibilities. He quickly looked at Ju Mang, his pupils reflecting a figure wearing a purple-gold armor and a purple-gold mask.
His entire body was covered in armor.
"Who doesn't have a few Dominator items?" A chuckle came from the mask.
The Dominator-level armor helped him resist the oil painting's inversion ability.
Immediately, Bacchus saw the enemy grab a black-and-white short blade from his inventory. Before he could react, the enemy, wrapped in purple-gold armor, raised his head and let out a shrill scream.
Bacchus's head buzzed, as if struck by lightning, and warm blood spurted from his nostrils again.
He, why does he have the Illusionist's skills... Isn't he a Beast King? Tongtian Jiaozhu isn't the real one, he is?! In his dazed mind, Bacchus still captured the truth.
But he still couldn't figure it out. How did an evil faction member infiltrate Heaven's Punishment?
Zhang Yuanqing unhesitatingly activated the "Soul Capture" skill, covering the short blade with dark light. He raised his hand and grabbed towards Bacchus, grabbing a semi-transparent phantom and slashing down with all his might.
Bacchus, who had just suffered a mental strike, was hit again hard in the soul. Half of his spirit body turned to ashes on the spot.
And his twisted perception, limb disorder, and other abilities were like mud sinking into the sea, having no effect on the enemy.
Bacchus let out a heart-rending scream. The pain of the soul's annihilation directly crashed his brain and he lost consciousness.
Zhang Yuanqing used Star Escape to appear behind him, switched to the white side of the blade, and stabbed it into his back.
Bacchus's body quickly withered, and his flesh and blood essence were instantly devoured by the Form-and-Spirit-Annihilating Blade, turning him into a dried corpse.
At their stage, just fighting with strength alone, it would take a period of hard fighting to determine the victory, and it would be even more difficult to determine life and death. Because even if they couldn't win, they could rely on their rich experience and professional characteristics to escape.
But with Dominator items, determining life and death was very simple.
Tongtian Jiaozhu would be killed in seconds, and Bacchus would also be killed in seconds.
This was the difference between a Dominator and a Saint.
Zhang Yuanqing pulled out the short blade, and Bacchus's corpse, along with the oil painting in his hand, fell down together.
Zhang Yuanqing didn't care about the corpse. He quickly picked up the oil painting, put it into his inventory, and then came to the coffin. There wasn't much time left. Although the black night isolated the aura and the scene, the dense, light-devouring black night was itself an anomaly.
As long as a wind manipulator turned his gaze here, he would see that outside of Derson River Park, it was pitch black, a darkness that even the Eye of the Wind King couldn't see through. He could immediately determine that this was the power of an Eternal Night profession.
And at this time, there must be wind manipulators patrolling near Manhattan.
He had to find a way to deal with Hecate, otherwise, if the wind manipulators came, they would definitely take over Hecate, and Tongtian Jiaozhu's identity as a double agent would be exposed.
"I can't do anything about Hecate's current state. If I can't kill him..."
Zhang Yuanqing frowned, examining the person in the coffin, and after thinking for a few seconds, he suddenly had an idea.
If he couldn't silence him, then he'd take him away!
As for how to take away the untouchable Hecate, Zhang Yuanqing found that although the other party was in a "void" state, he was still sleeping in the coffin and hadn't fallen out of the coffin.
The coffin seemed to be able to hold the Eternal Night profession's body.
Thinking of this, he stooped down to pick up the coffin lid, making the lid fit snugly with the coffin, and then tried to lift the coffin.
Hecate's body didn't "fall" out, it was still in the coffin.
He tried to put the coffin into his inventory, but it failed.
The inventory wouldn't accept living people.
So, Zhang Yuanqing took out Little Red Riding Hood, shook out Silver Willow, and instructed, "You take the coffin away, go by water, find a place with no one and hide it, wait for my message."
He took out the Yin-Yang Dharma Robe and threw it to Silver Willow.
Silver Willow obediently put on the robe, carried the coffin on her shoulder, jumped into the Derson River, and disappeared into the churning waves.
Zhang Yuanqing waited quietly for a moment, until the ripples on the water surface disappeared, before retracting the Box of Black Nights, canceling the night, so that Silver Willow at the bottom of the river could leave smoothly.
"Whoosh..."
As soon as the night was canceled, the sound of air rushing came from the sky. Several wind manipulators, driving the wind, landed on the battlefield.
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ps: Fix typos after updating first.