Chapter 16 Dangerous People

Actually, Li Cheng颐 was almost convinced by the other party.

If he hadn't sensed the series of increasing malice and killing intent...

Malice and killing intent +1.

Malice and killing intent +1.

Malice and killing intent +1.

A total of three points, which was Xu Zhongsheng's entire contribution.

This guy was all smiles on the surface, pretending to compromise and beg for his life, but in reality, his heart was full of killing intent.

The key was that this guy could perfectly hide his emotions, putting on a sincere and genuine appearance.

Tch.

Li Cheng颐 pulled the sword out of Xu Zhongsheng and sighed.

"People's hearts are sinister... You really can be deceived if you're not careful."

Looking at Xu Zhongsheng lying lifeless on the ground, his eyes wide open in death, the blood gradually spreading.

"Don't blame me," Li Cheng颐 said softly. "A person like you is just too dangerous. For my own safety, I had to kill you."

If someone like him were to deceive someone other than him, the success rate would be too high.

Li Cheng颐 looked around.

In just ten seconds, everyone around had scattered.

Even Yu Wengang, who had always been loyal to Xu Zhongsheng, had secretly fled far away from the corridor.

This time there was no resistance, so he wouldn't go crazy and slaughter ordinary employees.

Crouching down, confirming that Xu Zhongsheng was really dead, Li Cheng颐 turned and returned the way he had come.

Last night, the Ye Xiao virus had destroyed all of Xu Zhongsheng's equipment, and he had just completely destroyed that mobile phone as well.

That way, there wouldn't be much of a problem.

After this incident, Li Cheng颐 once again fully realized how comfortable it felt to have strong logistical support.

Compared to climbing the building like a fool back at the Sunshine Building, this time, he just entered a garden with all the surveillance cameras broken, accurately found the person, and then, with one sword...

It was all over.

'According to the timing, the new blind spot is about to arrive... I can also start preparing the team.' Li Cheng颐 recalled what Sindrella had said.

Bang.

With a single sword, he slashed open the surrounding wall. He sprinted quickly, rushed out of the Palace Garden, and was about to rush towards the old city area where there were no surveillance cameras.

Suddenly, a silver light shot towards him, arriving in front of him in the blink of an eye.

The silver light was a rhomboid metal thorn the length of a forearm, with countless cracks all over it, as if it were pieced together from building blocks.

But the speed of this metal thorn was far from what any building block could compare to.

Caught off guard, Li Cheng颐 only felt a pain in his chest. His entire body felt as if he had been hit by a truck, stopping him in his tracks, his body even slightly retreating.

The silver light pierced through the Flower Scale Armor and continued to pierce through a layer of body armor before flying away.

The silver light was like a shuttle, suddenly flying back to a tall, thin woman wearing a baseball cap.

The woman was wearing a loose yellow windbreaker over a deep green combat suit that looked like a fighter pilot's uniform.

Large and small external pouches hung on the outside of her clothes and pants. At first glance, there were at least twenty or thirty of them.

"You...killed someone...?" The woman raised her head, revealing a delicate and pretty fair face under the baseball cap, but what caught the eye were her eyes.

One eye was a deep blue electronic eye, and the other was a normal human eye.

"A Mechatronic Artisan? Fei Yi?" Li Cheng颐 straightened up, touched the broken hole in his chest, and his eyes became sharp.

He had expected to encounter Fei Yi for a long time, but he didn't expect it to be at this moment.

"Most Fei Yi use super-alloy as the top piercing head material. If you encounter them, be careful not to be hit head-on. The power is weakened a lot from the side."

Looking at the woman in the baseball cap, Li Cheng颐's mind echoed with the words of his advisor, Ding Ning.

Ding Ning was an old friend of Sindrella, so these things would never impart inaccurate knowledge.

So...

Let me try it out and see the strength of a Mechatronic Artisan!

Li Cheng颐 took a step forward.

A golden longsword appeared and extended in his hand.

Bang!

His figure charged forward, like a tank-like beast, disregarding any obstacles, and slashed at the woman with his sword.

The distance between the two rapidly closed.

The woman's expression changed slightly. With a wave of her hand, another silver light flew out, rushing towards Li Cheng颐.

Clang!

The silver light failed to hit head-on. The angle was skewed a lot, and as expected, it only left a deep mark on the Flower Scale Armor and did not completely cut through it.

"Qu Guang (Curved Light)!" the woman shouted in a low voice.

Immediately, the silver light suddenly bent in mid-air, drawing a brilliant silver line.

Zheng!

With a loud sound like a guzheng, the silver light accelerated and instantly became blurred and disappeared.

From a distance, it looked like it had transformed into a fan-shaped silver light, enveloping Li Cheng颐.

The sound of raindrops hitting spread from Li Cheng颐's body.

In just two seconds, most of the vital points on his body were covered and hit by the silver light once.

But it was useless. The Flower Scale Armor had no weaknesses, no vital points.

The distance between the two finally narrowed.

Without any skills, Li Cheng颐 held the sword in both hands, and suddenly, with a misstep, he rotated and cut!

Shua!

The golden blade passed over the invisible force field covering the front of the woman's body as if cutting through tofu. It was only slightly hindered before cutting straight in.

The blade flashed across the woman's left arm, immediately bringing out a stream of blood.

Ah!!!

The woman screamed, took a few steps back, and at the same time, the silver light flew back, greatly increasing in speed, and slammed heavily into Li Cheng颐's face.

The huge impact force caused Li Cheng颐 to be unable to continue cutting down, but instead, his body slid out several meters.

"You lunatic!!" The woman shouted, her electronic eye flashing a violent blue light. "I'm a Mechatronic Artisan!! You really dare to kill me!?"

"No one can escape death," Li Cheng颐 shook off the blood droplets on the blade. "Neither you nor I."

Suddenly, a faint sound drifted from the distance.

The faint sound of sirens was approaching rapidly.

Shua!

Li Cheng颐 violently retreated, stepped on the ground, slammed into a wall on the side, and disappeared from the other party's sight.

The woman in the baseball cap did not chase. Instead, with a thought, the silver light floated beside her, showing its state.

At the tip of the silver spike, the tip, which should have been the hardest, was actually slightly bent.

"Such strong armor modules...!" The woman's eyes were ferocious.

"Unfortunately, if the city hadn't forbidden the installation of combat mode, I would have crippled you with the first hit!"

A strong killing intent flashed in her eyes. She covered her left hand, where blood was slowly seeping out.

"Where did this lunatic come from!? Reckless, dare to kill a Mechatronic Artisan in the city!? Isn't he afraid of the Association's pursuit!?"

Mechatronic Artisans have special tracking modules on their bodies. Once they die, the modules will explode instantly, leaving a mark on the killer's body. That's the mark of the Silent Fortress, and then the city association will activate the Silent Fortress, superimposed with the Eye of Heaven, to fully hunt down the killer.

Compared to the balkanized Modified Human groups, the Mechatronic Artisans are relying on this kind of unity to resist the Modified Human trend.

The woman glanced at the police air car that had stopped not far away, breathed a sigh of relief, and walked into the Palace Garden through the breach in the wall.

But after only a few steps, her pupils shrank when she saw Xu Zhongsheng lying on the ground.

"Xu Zhongsheng...is actually dead!?"

Bang!

The gate of the Palace Garden was slammed open, and Yu Wengang, who had escaped, rushed in with a team of police officers.

Along with him was a tall man carrying a dark red long saber—Ding Zaocheng.

As soon as he entered the door, Ding Zaocheng saw Xu Zhongsheng lying in a pool of blood on the ground.

"Such fast hands! Killing two people in one day, and neither of them are ordinary people. This is simply a provocation!"

"Request to mobilize the Eye of Heaven." Kong Sichen walked in quickly from the side, also seeing the lifeless body on the ground.

Without wasting any words, Ding Zaocheng quickly took out his phone and dialed a number.

"Ding Zaocheng requests to temporarily activate the city's Eye of Heaven."

"Permission verification in progress... Please wait."

A sweet electronic female voice rang out clearly.

"Voiceprint verification successful, pupil verification successful, application record passed. Your remaining Eye of Heaven time is: 13 hours, 42 minutes, 19 seconds."

A light blue light curtain automatically appeared in front of Ding Zaocheng.

This was the city projection technology, which could directly project the required display information anywhere, on any part of the body.

The remaining time was constantly decreasing, changing every second.

"Positioning begins."

"Image feature input in progress..."

"Searching..."

Two seconds later.

"Target has been located." The sweet female voice suddenly replied.

With a whoosh, an image of a dark alleyway automatically appeared in the light curtain in front of Ding Zaocheng.

In the alley, a purplish-black figure was rushing towards the suburbs at high speed.

"Found him!" Ding Zaocheng raised his hand, and a rain of crimson needles flew out from the scabbard of the long saber on his back.

'Red Rhombus, Overcast Rain mode,' he said in a low voice.

"Activating Overcast Rain mode." A cold and indifferent female synthesized voice rang out from the scabbard.

"Irrelevant passersby have been automatically avoided, calculating the penetration points."

"Fire control system—Coagulation Sword Array, activated."

Streams of golden light constantly appeared and lit up on the scabbard, outlining a pattern that resembled a phoenix.

Ding Zaocheng stared at the purplish-black figure running rapidly in the image.

"Kill him."

Buzz!!

In an instant, dozens of red streamers behind him vibrated rapidly and then flew out with a bang.

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In a dark alley.

Li Cheng頤 was sprinting all the way, his figure moving at high speed like a blurred cheetah.

Suddenly, he stopped and looked up.

In the blue sky, a rain of red dots was turning from dark to bright, flying towards him with a clear whistling sound.

His powerful physique gave him stronger senses. Just listening to the faint whistling, he felt something was wrong.

"A high-level Mechatronic Artisan?" The information he had obtained from Ding Ning allowed him to instantly recognize what the red light represented.

That was the special halo of the advanced energy blocks used by high-level Fei Yi.

He had already obtained the rank and energy level classifications of Mechatronic Artisans from Ding Ning.

Without any hesitation.

Li Cheng颐 turned sideways and crashed into a private villa garden on the left.

The gray-white wall was cut and pierced by him with the Golden Sword, and then smashed with brute force. The difficulty was like tearing paper.

On the other side of the wall was a private open space the size of a basketball court.

A girl with a white dress and a ponytail was playing badminton with a chubby little boy.

Seeing Li Cheng頤 crashing through the wall, the two of them were stunned, not knowing how to react.

Li Cheng頤 didn't have time to pay attention to them. He still wanted to find a place to hide, but it was too late.

Raising his head.

The red raindrops in mid-air had already flown down.

The bright red fine needles were like a storm, whistling down.

Wooo!

The shrill whistling sound was like the singing of a siren, causing dust to rise from the ground and the glass to tremble.

The ponytail girl and the chubby boy simultaneously covered their ears, their faces showing pain.

"You think you can kill me with just this?!"

Li Cheng颐 knelt on one knee and stabbed the golden longsword into the ground.

'Flower Language·Fortification!'

A golden light suddenly appeared all over his body and disappeared in a flash.

This was the first time he had used the evolved Sword Orchid Flower Language.

In the instant the golden light flashed, his entire body outline began to expand rapidly, as if his entire physique was larger than before.

The thickness of the Wisteria Flower Scale Armor also rapidly increased and hardened with the effect of the Fortification Flower Language.

Whoosh!

In an instant, countless red needles rained down.