Chapter 5: 「Mission Accomplished」

Click, click.

The sound of the trigger being pulled was crisp and awkward.

Bai Cangshu sheepishly lowered the empty Light Pistol, and facing Abola's murderous gaze, he shrugged his shoulders.

"I didn't expect you to be so alert; you actually didn't provide any ammunition."

Only now did Abola's heart begin to pound with lingering fear, the intensity so great that it almost made him feel as if his vision were blacking out.

"You... you actually..."

He had no idea there were no bullets in the gun; that had been an instinctive decision by his experienced bodyguard based on seasoned judgment, but Bai Cangshu's pulling of the trigger without a hint of hesitation had startled them both.

At this moment, he reached toward his waist subconsciously.

Step! Abola only saw the young man before him suddenly become as agile as a leopard, abruptly stepping onto the luxury stone table and lunging forward with his whole body.

The movement was so abrupt; one second he was still shrugging and smirking as if it were just a bad joke, and the next, he erupted into action.

Abola suddenly felt a chill in his heart; at this moment, he felt the sensation of being targeted by a predator, just like when he was a youth in the mountains being stalked by a wild beast.

Crack!

Underneath Bai Cangshu's clothes, his muscles were already coiled like springs. As he lunged forward off the stone, his center of gravity remained perfectly steady, and using the momentum of his charge, he instantly struck the throat of the bodyguard on the left with a punch.

A crisp sound of bone fracturing; a human's laryngeal cartilage is very fragile. As Bai Cangshu's punch landed, he could feel the squelching sound of the cartilage shattering and piercing into the trachea, throat, and blood vessels, and even the cervical spine instantly bulged backward.

Bang! The bodyguard on the right had already drawn the pistol from behind his back and fired directly at Bai Cangshu.

But after Bai Cangshu shattered the throat of the bodyguard in front of him, he used the body as a shield, and the shot merely grazed the shoulder of the still-dying large bodyguard and embedded itself into the wall.

Bai Cangshu forcefully shoved the tall bodyguard in front of him, who was whimpering due to the immense pain in his throat and the panic of being unable to breathe. The man stumbled back two steps, while Bai Cangshu crouched low and followed like a nimble monkey.

He performed these movements as if he had rehearsed them a thousand, a hundred times in his dreams. Although he had never actually fought anyone like this before, he felt not the slightest hesitation when he moved to shatter the throat.

It was as if... he had imagined doing this countless times.

Bang! Bang! The remaining bodyguard, Owen, fired several shots in succession, but because he was blocked by his own companion's body, none of them hit, and he began to panic.

The next moment, a sharp pain shot through his knee, and his entire body instantly collapsed downward.

Bai Cangshu suddenly stomped directly onto Owen's knee joint. The sound of the joint snapping made Abola's body twitch almost subconsciously, and then he heard the bodyguard Owen's scream.

Owen was experienced; he realized at this moment how terrifying Bai Cangshu was, and the excruciating pain of his knee bending backward forced his body to drop to his knees.

But it was precisely because of this that he finally saw Bai Cangshu hiding behind the sturdy body of Lefu.

He gritted his teeth, raised his pistol, and immediately pulled the trigger.

Click!

Bai Cangshu's left hand suddenly thrust into the space beneath the trigger Owen was trying to pull, preventing it from being depressed.

Owen was shocked and immediately tried to struggle to seize the pistol, but that hand, which looked slender, was terrifyingly steady; no matter how hard he tried, he could not take the gun away.

Bai Cangshu looked indifferently at the bodyguard who was kneeling on one knee and still struggling for the gun, feeling somewhat disappointed.

"The strength of an ordinary person, the mindset of an ordinary person... Heh."

If it were him, he would have pulled the trigger without hesitation at the very first moment, shooting through his companion's body as well, rather than avoiding his companion's body like Owen, ultimately rendering the advantage of the firearm non-existent.

Of course, the most fundamental reason was that these two bodyguards were too weak, merely ordinary people who were a bit sturdier in build.

Bai Cangshu suddenly exerted force and kicked Owen in the face; the man released the gun in his hand due to the intense pain.

"Ugh... urgh..."

At this time, the bodyguard Lefu, whose throat had been shattered at the start, was still mumbling, but his complexion had turned a bruised purple due to oxygen deprivation, and his body began to tremble and convulse in waves.

Bai Cangshu turned the stolen pistol over in his hand.

【Light Pistol】

【Quality: White (Common)】

【Description: Mass-produced light single-shot flintlock pistol, uses pellet-style ammunition】

【Effect: Average fire rate, low power】

【Note: Cannot be taken out of this world (item pheromone level too low)】

He pulled the bolt; this type of firearm was actually close to modern pistols in reality, except it used a type of round pellet ammunition, and its power was significantly lower than modern bullets.

Of course, it was more than enough to kill an ordinary person at close range.

Bai Cangshu aimed the pistol at the bodyguard, who was wailing due to his knee being bent backward and his nose being broken, and fired a shot into his forehead. Bang! 【You have killed Bodyguard Owen, gained 50 Dimension Points】

At this moment, the convulsing large bodyguard also ceased all movement.

【You have killed Bodyguard Lefu, gained 50 Dimension Points】

Bai Cangshu felt not the slightest discomfort from killing for the first time. He returned to the table and aimed the pistol at Abola.

Abola's face was now deathly pale, and the cigar in his mouth had almost gone out.

"Don't... don't kill me..."

He still did not understand why he had hired Tao Baibai to kill Maiji, yet this person had arrived and immediately attacked him instead.

Bai Cangshu gestured with the pistol and said,

"Where is the money?"

"Money?"

Abola did not react for a moment. This reception room had excellent soundproofing, intended for keeping secrets during certain illicit business dealings; he never imagined it would become the source of his suffering.

He looked at the white smoke drifting from the pitch-black muzzle and finally came to his senses, struggling to stand up and retrieving a briefcase from behind him.

"Th-this is the payment of one hundred million..."

Because Abola knew Tao Baibai's style of operation, he had actually prepared the money long ago, but he had not expected that the person who arrived would not be Tao Baibai.

Bai Cangshu opened the case.

【Large Denomination Banknote】

【Quality: Special Item】

【Description: Large Denomination Banknote, can only be circulated in Dragon Ball and its Derivative World】

【Effect: Possesses relatively strong purchasing power】

【Note: Cannot be brought out of this world】

Bai Cangshu picked up the suitcase and stood up, preparing to leave.

Abola breathed a sigh of relief; although he had lost money, he had at least managed to send away this god of plague, but he did not notice that Bai Cangshu, who had walked to the door, had already aimed his muzzle at him again.

Bang! 【You have killed the tycoon Abola, gained 50 Dimension Points】

【Side Mission: Assassination Commission, has failed】

【Milestone: Killer Species, progress updated (3/100)】

The target had not died, but the employer had been killed first instead; this Side Mission failed as a matter of course, but Bai Cangshu did not care, as there was no penalty for failing this mission.

He blew on the white smoke at the muzzle, then rummaged through the room again; this time, he really did find something a bit special.

【Rare Gem】

【Quality: Special Item】

【Description: A ruby exceeding the standard size, with extremely high purity】

【Effect: Possesses high value in most worldviews, and can also be used as a Magic material】

This egg-sized gem was not marked as unable to be brought out of the world; Bai Cangshu weighed it in his hand, then placed the gem into the 【Backpack】 provided by the dimension.

This 【Backpack】 has 10 slots and can only store items that can be brought out of this world.

Bai Cangshu noticed at this moment that the clothes he had been wearing in the real world were now all placed in this 【Backpack】, occupying one slot.

This gem occupied a separate slot; he guessed that perhaps this backpack had some kind of stacking mechanism, but the 10-slot space was not exactly abundant, and when he tried to store items using his intent, there was also a prompt that only objects not exceeding the size standard could be placed inside.

After some rummaging, Bai Cangshu used the briefcase to pack up the 100 million yuan reward, along with several property deeds, deposit slips, and the like, all in one go.

He then sauntered out of this luxurious reception hall.

A long while after he left, the chamber of commerce secretary realized that Abola had not appeared for a long time, and then screamed in terror.

But by this time, Bai Cangshu had already arrived outside the hotel where the taxi driver was waiting; he leaned against the side of this rather cartoonish taxi and said to the driver who was smoking at the hotel entrance,

"Sir, I think we can head back now."

"Mission accomplished."

(End of this chapter)