Chapter 1150

Su Xiao held the Ant King's heart. Among those hundred-plus contractors, at least half of their gazes were focused on Su Xiao.

Su Xiao obtained two-thirds of the Ant King's heart, which meant the total weight of the Ant King's heart was 424 grams, equivalent to 0.84 jin.

A normal human heart is 250 grams; thinking about it this way, the Ant King's heart was already very heavy.

The muscle density of the Ant King's heart was, of course, different from that of an ordinary person. Under the same volume, the higher the density, the higher the weight.

The remaining one-third of the heart was snatched by Old Man Shi. His arms were covered in cracks; looking closely, one would find that these two arms were composed of smoke, not real arms—his arms had been torn off by the Ant King earlier.

Old Man Shi's current situation was very bad. His lower body was wrapped in solid ice, and his lower abdomen looked as if it had been pierced by a laser, emitting wisps of blue smoke.

"There's two-thirds of the heart over there, yet you don't go to grab it and come to grab my one-third. Chen, you're treating me like a soft persimmon."

Although Old Man Shi was seriously injured, his current combat power was definitely not weak, and he and Shui Xiao had long since joined forces.

"There are too many competitors over there."

Dark elements wrapped around Chen's hands; his hands were pitch black. This should be another move with extremely powerful instant burst power. This was Chen's style: if he didn't strike, he wouldn't, but once he did, he had to achieve results.

"No room for negotiation?"

Old Man Shi scanned the twenty-something contractors around him; these contractors were also eyeing the heart in his hand.

"No."

"Is that so."

After hesitating for a moment, blue light flashed on Old Man Shi's hand, and with a *plop*, he tore the heart in his hand apart.

"Continue to join forces?"

Old Man Shi held a piece of the heart between two fingers.

"I couldn't ask for more."

Chen nodded to Old Man Shi. Old Man Shi tossed the piece of heart in his hand beneath him, and the solid ice wrapping his lower body immediately disappeared, taking the heart with it before it vanished.

The reason Old Man Shi compromised wasn't that he feared Chen, but to avoid Chen joining forces with the twenty-something contractors around to besiege him and Shui Xiao.

If it were just Chen alone, Old Man Shi and Shui Xiao certainly wouldn't be afraid, but adding twenty-something contractors was different. If these twenty-something contractors dragged them down while Chen brewed a big move in the back, Old Man Shi and Shui Xiao would be in danger.

Facing this unfavorable situation, Old Man Shi directly gave Chen a piece of the heart. In this way, the three of them would join forces again, and the twenty-something contractors around wouldn't dare to act rashly; otherwise, the three of them would wipe them out.

"These three guys joined forces again."

"No chance, can only go to the other side."

"Let's go."

The "other side" those contractors were talking about was, of course, Su Xiao's side.

At this moment, Su Xiao was already surrounded by dozens of contractors. These contractors didn't attack directly but just aimed various weapons at Su Xiao.

"Hand over the heart."

A bald, burly man walked out from the crowd. This was an "old acquaintance." The bald man was the leader of the Starfire Adventure Group. Earlier, he had led people to besiege Youpi, one of the three guards, and was eventually out-stolen by Su Xiao.

Not only that, but when grabbing the Ant King's heart earlier, two members of the Starfire Adventure Group had died at Su Xiao's hands.

New hatred added to old grudges, but there was no hatred in the bald leader's eyes—not a bit—which was very strange.

As a medium-sized adventure group, the leading bald man became the representative of the third camp on the scene.

The people in the palace courtyard could be divided into four camps. The first camp was the temporary squad composed of Old Man Shi, Chen, and Shui Xiao. The intentions of these three were unclear; they might come to grab the heart in Su Xiao's hand.

The second camp—no, this didn't really count as a camp because it was only Su Xiao.

The third camp was the adventure group alliance represented by the Starfire Adventure Group. This included three small adventure groups and the medium-sized Starfire Adventure Group, plus some wavering lone wolves, totaling about seventy people.

As for the fourth camp, this camp was very interesting. They were the camp with the largest number of people besides the adventure group alliance. This was also a medium-sized adventure group. They had more people than the Starfire Adventure Group, but they weren't very active in grabbing the Ant King's heart.

That attitude expressed one thing: they had already gained enough benefits in the Hunter World, and now they just needed to complete the main mission; there was no need to risk losing members to grab the Ant King's heart vigorously.

Of course, this didn't mean they didn't need the Ant King's heart, just that they didn't need much—30 grams or more would suffice.

Su Xiao wouldn't be hostile to the fourth camp for the time being. The reason was simple: that cute healer girl was a member of this force. The reward Old Man Shi had promised the cute healer girl earlier was a piece of the Ant King's heart. Judging from the current situation, this promise was already unreliable.

Thinking about it this way, the only ones hostile to Su Xiao were Old Man Shi, Shui Xiao, Chen, the bald leader, and others.

Old Man Shi and the others might just make a move; they had already obtained one-third of the heart and belonged to the "sitting on the fishing boat" category. Grabbing more heart was just for selling externally.

The Ant King's heart in Su Xiao's hand suddenly disappeared, having been put into his storage space.

This action of Su Xiao's made the bald leader and the surrounding contractors' faces look ugly. If they were just threatening before, now their killing intent was boiling.

*Crack, crack. *

Su Xiao stretched his muscles. In the previous battle with the contractors, he actually hadn't exerted his full combat power, or rather, the previous situation made it impossible for him to exert his full combat power; he had to be on guard at all times against someone touching the Ant King's corpse and taking the heart.

Facts proved that Su Xiao was very good at killing enemies, but he wasn't good at protecting or watching over something. After all, his abilities were all biased toward offense; otherwise, the Ant King's corpse wouldn't have been stolen by Old Man Shi.

Now that the heart was in hand, Su Xiao could let go and fight.

"Keep my health above the safety line."

Su Xiao spoke; he was negotiating with the cute healer girl.

"Okay, above 50%, I understand."

The cute healer girl responded immediately. At this moment, her heart was pounding because she had never assisted a contractor as strong as Su Xiao.

The healer had spent all her resources on abilities to improve others, and seeing the people she buffed be exceptionally fierce in battle, the sense of achievement was definitely not low.

Now, the cute healer girl's sense of achievement had exploded; it seemed as if it wasn't Su Xiao killing enemies on the field, but herself.

"Above 30%."

"Eh~"

The cute healer girl seemed a bit unaccustomed.

"The situation is already very clear now. Hand over the heart, and our previous grudges will be wiped clean. Of course, you can keep the share needed to complete your own mission."

Although the bald leader had a grudge against Su Xiao, he was very wary of him, so the request he made was still polite and didn't ask Su Xiao to hand over all the heart he had obtained.

"Oh?"

Su Xiao looked at the bald leader with interest. This guy didn't look special, and his strength wasn't top-notch, but he had managed to pull together a medium-sized adventure group, which already explained his ability.

"To be honest, I don't want to fight you to the death unless it's a last resort. Your way of doing things... is too crazy."

The bald leader didn't talk big, such as saying "I must avenge the dead members," etc. He was very rational, almost coldly rational.

Dead people = no value at all. This style was very similar to an "acquaintance" of Su Xiao's; that "acquaintance" was named Stein.