Chapter 957: 555 A Decisive Battle

It's over.

Looking at Leon, who didn't take the opportunity to accelerate and escape the cooling lake when the giant strange fish was briefly blocked, but instead turned back and rushed over, the tall, thin man standing at the bottom of the lake couldn't help but slightly curl the corners of his mouth.

This 【Whale Shark Play Puppet】 of mine, although it only knows the simplest tail fin slapping and full-force collision, and has no amazing special abilities, the purest physical destructive power itself is sometimes the most unsolvable attack.

When a behemoth weighing over a hundred tons performs a full-force collision at a speed of over 40 knots, the resulting impact force is simply unimaginable to ordinary people.

Even the largest anchorless ship of the Thousand Sails Sea Kingdom could hardly withstand the full-force collision of the 【Whale Shark Play Puppet】. With Leon's physical strength, which is only slightly better than an ordinary human, I'm afraid he wouldn't even have the chance to be shattered.

According to my judgment, in most cases, the moment of contact, he would be "smeared" onto the whale head along with the knife, becoming a turbid and messy stain that couldn't be washed off.

Although Leon, who has an immortal body, wouldn't be finished off so simply, as long as his body is divided and processed in the simplest way before he recovers, he can be made to be neither dead nor alive... Hmm?

Looking at the 【Whale Shark Play Puppet】 that was sliced open along the midline of the spine like tender tofu, the Scorpio Director's eyes couldn't help but widen fiercely, looking at the blurred figure between the two halves of the whale shark.

What's going on? Why didn't 【Puppet Room】 trigger?

Bet right...

Relying on the effect of the 【Cutting Silver Dagger】, after slicing the strange fish rushing head-on into two, Leon, who had been tense, couldn't help but let out a long breath.

According to what Senior Ruben and the others said, the Scorpio Director's 【Puppet Room】 can strengthen puppets, ensuring that they are not "destroyed" by any external force. And the effect of the 【Cutting Silver Dagger】 itself is not destruction, but cutting things open "alive" that the blade touches.

Between this coming and going, it's estimated that he successfully drilled a loophole.

The Scorpio Director's 【Puppet Room】 can prevent puppets from being destroyed, but it can't prevent the "cutting" of the 【Cutting Silver Dagger】. This knife given by the Water Bottle Director happened to be the nemesis of the Scorpio Director.

After catching his breath slightly, Leon relied on 【Smooth Road Ahead】 again to push away the lake water leaking into his surroundings, then raised his hand and scattered a large handful of hazelnut-sized shelled seeds again.

"Senior Ruben!"

"Right away!"

Accompanied by Ruben's response, the seeds scattered by Leon expanded instantly, and in the blink of an eye, hundreds of root systems as thick as thighs burst out.

These root systems, similar to the aerial roots of banyan trees, grew fiercely in the cooling lake, and in just a few breaths, they spread out a large area of intertwined branches and vines, locking the strange fish that was still twisting and struggling dead.

And the fins on the chest and tail of the strange fish used for exerting force and paddling water were given double care, locked tightly by countless aerial roots, and even moving slightly became an extravagant

Solved!

As the monster fish, sliced into two halves, was thoroughly bound, the one person and three souls couldn't help but feel a collective sense of relief.

Regardless of how much destructive power this monster fish could unleash when charging at full speed, after being tied up like this by Ruben, it was unlikely it could charge again. Next, as long as...

"Well done."

A voice very familiar to all four of them rang out abruptly from nearby, and the one person and three souls immediately felt their expressions tighten.

When Leon looked toward the sound, he discovered that the Scorpion Bureau Chief, who had been "missing" for many days, was holding his somewhat old, large briefcase, having stepped into the waterless zone separated by 【Path Ahead】, and was blocking the front of the "Path" with a playful expression.

"Ruben, Mo Na, Frankie."

After calling the names of the three Scorpion Branch cleaners, the Scorpion Bureau Chief said not without joy:

"I thought you had already been blown to bits; I didn't expect to see you again. This is truly wonderful."

"Bureau Chief Edward..."

Upon hearing the Scorpion Bureau Chief's words, the faces of the three Scorpion Branch cleaners couldn't help but reveal extremely complex expressions.

Good news: the Bureau Chief isn't dead.

Bad news: he has defected to the enemy.

Worse news: if we can't beat him, then we're going to die.

"Bureau Chief, the three of us are actually already dead."

After receiving Leon's hint to "stall for time," the female cleaner Mo Na steadied herself and said with a complex expression:

"It was Leon who went to the Death Realm in time; when the Death Messenger wanted to eat us, he drove the Death Messenger away and fished the three of us back."

"I see."

Hearing this, the Scorpion Bureau Chief turned his gaze toward Leon and said with a slightly grateful expression:

"Thank you for saving Mo Na and the others. To be honest, I am truly glad now that I didn't refuse to let you participate in this mission back then."

"You're too kind."

After nodding toward the Scorpion Bureau Chief, Leon reached out to secretly touch the 【Whale Shark Puppet】 cut into two halves beside him, while asking with hope in his eyes:

"So, in consideration of the fact that I saved your subordinates' lives, when you start acting later, could you go a little easier on us?"

"Going easy is out of the question, but I can try my best to leave you with an intact corpse."

"..."

After gratefully smiling at the speechless Leon, the Scorpion Bureau Chief reached out to take a rapier and said somewhat apologetically:

"Actually, my consciousness is clear right now. I know you are the ones who are right, and you might even be here to save me.

But there's no help for it; my soul has been tampered with, and my 'cognition' has been suppressed. Right now, my whole being is prepared to kill you, and I cannot defy this thought... Can you understand?"

I understand your mother!

After hearing the Scorpion Bureau Chief's words, Leon, whose alcohol buzz was slowly rising, couldn't help but sneer, and for once, he provoked him:

"Then why don't you try it and see."

Glancing at the Scorpion Bureau Chief's soul, which was in a tangled mess, and then at his palms—one yellow and one white, clearly different skin tones—Leon suddenly lowered his body and, fueled by the alcohol, lunged forward with his blade.

"Given your current situation, it's not certain who will kill whom!"

Thirty seconds later.

"You are so hard to kill!"

Having snatched the 【Silver Cutting Dagger】 from Leon's hand and stabbing his eyelids several times without even being able to chop off a single eyelash, the Scorpion Bureau Chief exclaimed in wonder:

"What kind of anomalous object is this? It actually directly immunizes against all damage, and even the 【Soul-Biting Puppet】 has no effect? Was this what you relied on to hold off the Nightmare King back then?"

"..."

"What's wrong? Why aren't you saying anything?"

Hearing the Scorpion Bureau Chief's curious inquiry, Leon, who had been grabbed by a strange puppet with twenty pairs of arms, couldn't help but roll his eyes fiercely at him.

I just finished talking big while fueled by the alcohol, only to fall without lasting even a minute; how could I have the face to make a sound?