Chapter 1152: The Overall Situation is Settled

Boom!

The explosion rang out. Within the smoke generated by the explosion, Su Xiao wiped the blood from his chin. He had been targeted by concentrated fire 7 times and had killed 23 people in total.

Facing the siege of dozens of contractors, Su Xiao certainly wasn't having an easy time. These were all Tier 3 contractors, different from when he fought the Other Shore Flower Adventure Team alone.

Although Su Xiao killed these contractors in a few slashes each, these contractors could concentrate fire on Su Xiao, unleashing a barrage of attacks.

Moreover, these contractors had strange and bizarre abilities. Su Xiao often encountered disgusting abilities while killing enemies.

Of course, Su Xiao's combat experience now was completely different from when he fought the Other Shore Flower. Before charging into the crowd, he had been using alchemy bombs to kick up large clouds of dust, and the impact generated by the explosions also covered him.

Su Xiao naturally had to endure the impact caused by the alchemy bombs, but fortunately, that healer girl was helping Su Xiao recover from his injuries.

Five meters away from Su Xiao, the bald leader lay on the ground. This guy's strength wasn't very high, but he was ruthless enough. Knowing he was no match for Su Xiao, he actually ordered his members to carry out indiscriminate attacks.

Ptooey.

Su Xiao spat out a mouthful of bloody saliva and kicked away a corpse in front of him.

"It seems I made a... wrong... decision."

The bald leader's chest had been slashed, with massive organ damage. Not only that, one of his arms and one of his legs had also been severed by Su Xiao. Such injuries caused him to lose his combat capability.

Zing.

Blade light slashed toward the bald leader. Su Xiao judged from the opponent's fighting style that he was a summoner, but his summoned beasts were all dead.

With a puchi sound, the blade light slashed across the bald leader's throat, and a head was severed.

Su Xiao sensed the surroundings through his Intuition ability. The surrounding contractors had scattered, and most of them had rushed outside the smoke.

The alchemy bombs didn't continue to explode, and the smoke gradually dissipated. The scene here appeared in the sight of Chen and the others.

The ground was covered with slash marks, and shattered corpses could be seen everywhere. Two tower shields were stuck diagonally in the ground, and the flammable materials on the ground were burning, wisps of black smoke drifting toward the sky.

The only person standing on the field was Su Xiao. As for the surviving contractors, they had already fled to the distance.

"The leader... is dead."

"Yeah, the leader is dead. He gave the wrong order, and this is the price he had to pay."

"Looks like I need to find a new adventure team. The Blood Gate's affiliated adventure teams are a good choice."

"I prefer Nuchuan."

The bald leader had just died, and his subordinates weren't thinking of revenge, but rather immediately looking for a new employer.

This was the flaw of the Starfire Adventure Team. There was no human sentiment here, only a perfect chain of profit. As long as this profit chain was operating stably, the subordinates basically wouldn't betray.

The bald leader was the center of this profit chain, so everyone had to obey his orders; it was that simple.

If it were the Other Shore Flower Adventure Team encountering today's events, they would try every means to avenge their leader. Facts proved that once that type of adventure team encountered an enemy with powerful individual strength, total annihilation was only a matter of time.

The Starfire Adventure Team was different. The bald leader died in battle, and this adventure team immediately collapsed. The subordinates fled in all directions, knowing how cruel the Reincarnation Paradise was. Therefore, they wouldn't consider avenging the bald leader, but would immediately consider their own future path.

"Going solo is also a good way to develop. When this monster charged into our formation, I felt that our system was too rigid. Once one link was broken, the whole thing started to become unstable."

The vice-leader of the Starfire Adventure Team spoke; he didn't seem prepared to join another adventure team.

"Continue."

The Zhan Long Shan in Su Xiao's hand slashed forward, a flash of blade light appearing, the long blade ringing crisply.

Just as Su Xiao slashed, the forty-plus surviving contractors in the distance all retreated several steps.

"Who wants to continue with you? You won. If you can solve them, then name your price."

The vice-leader of the Starfire Adventure Team, Sandstorm, pointed at Chen, Mizusaki, and Old Smoke, meaning that if Su Xiao could solve these three, they would cut their losses and buy the Ant King's heart from Su Xiao.

Su Xiao's gaze fixed on the vice-leader Sandstorm. He didn't detect a hint of hatred in the other's eyes. Sure enough, the Starfire Adventure Team's model was similar to the Blood Gate Adventure Team, only the Blood Gate's method was more clever. Under that team model, once Stan died, the other members would definitely fight Su Xiao to the death; that was a forced struggle.

Su Xiao shifted his gaze to Chen, Old Smoke, and Mizusaki.

Chen hesitated for a moment, then turned and walked out of the palace courtyard, which stunned Old Smoke and Mizusaki.

"Chen, you're giving up?"

Old Smoke seemed somewhat unwilling.

"Yeah."

Chen's reply was very crisp.

"Why? It's true he's strong, but that was before being besieged by dozens of people. His current state isn't good; this is a chance."

Old Smoke wasn't trying to bewitch Chen; the facts were indeed so. Su Xiao had just fought a battle with dozens of contractors. Even if his survival ability was strong and he had a 'buxom' healer girl assisting him, he still had a large consumption.

His mana was only 657 points, the Wood Spirit had entered a cooldown phase, and the bullets for the Annihilation Duke were exhausted.

"No special reason, just don't want to fight him. He seems to be my natural enemy. Everyone has a small amount of elements infiltrated into their body, but he doesn't have even a trace of elements in his body, which means he can reduce high amounts of elemental damage."

Chen had already walked far away while speaking. He was the person with the highest gains besides Su Xiao. This guy had snatched the Ant King's treasure chest during the chaos, but the quality of this chest was very unsatisfactory—so unsatisfactory that Chen wanted to throw it on the ground and stomp on it a few times. He even suspected the chest had been swapped, which was actually Old Smoke's doing, so Old Smoke and Mizusaki didn't go to snatch this chest at all.

"Wish you two success."

Chen, who had already walked far away, waved his hand with his back to Old Smoke and Mizusaki.

"Success my ass. Mizusaki, we might have been calculated by these two guys."

Old Smoke's face was gloomy, his mind pondering the suspicious points.

"The overall situation is settled. I don't want to engage in close combat with that guy; I'll die."

Mizusaki inserted her two curved blades into her waist; her gains were also not bad.

"Did you collude with those two to calculate me? I smell the scent of 'pubic hair'."

Old Smoke tucked the sniper pistol back into his crotch. It seemed his habit of hiding guns in his crotch couldn't be changed.

"How could that be? That was hair you pinched off yourself. Let's go."

Mizusaki and Old Smoke walked away, and Su Xiao didn't stop them.

Just as Su Xiao was considering how much to pit those contractors, a cute girl ran toward him, waving her hand while running, very enthusiastically.

Su Xiao's first reaction was to slash, but the cute girl suddenly stopped in place.

"Don't slash me~, I was healing you the whole time earlier."

After the cute girl spoke, she pouted. Compared to her healing output, her real healing was somewhat unsatisfactory. She was the healer who had healed Su Xiao earlier. She looked very cute, but was very flat.

"Hmm."

The Ant King's heart appeared in Su Xiao's hand. He cut off about 50 grams, about 3 centimeters in diameter.

"Payment."

Su Xiao threw that small piece of heart to the soft healer girl. She caught it immediately and turned to run, but those two 'short legs' didn't run fast. Fortunately, her teammates were nearby to meet her. A cute thing with amazing healing output—this was the soft healer girl's evaluation of her, and today, this cute thing saved all of them, letting them not have to fight Su Xiao to the death.

"Name your price. You only need 50 grams of the Ant King's heart at most. Selling the remaining heart is a matter of course."

A contractor in the distance spoke.

"I will only sell the Ant King's heart through the Derived World Contact Platform."

Su Xiao snapped his fingers, and with a boom, the 10 alchemy bombs he had buried in the surroundings exploded simultaneously, firelight surging toward the surroundings.

When the firelight dissipated, Su Xiao had already disappeared. This made those contractors hate him to the bone, but they were helpless. Chase him? That was seeking death.

Outside the palace courtyard, Su Xiao walked slowly. Excluding the payment to the cute healer girl and the portion he needed for his own main quest, 180 grams of the Ant King's heart remained.

In the case of individuals, each person needed at least 10 grams of the Ant King's heart, meaning only 18 contractors could complete the main quest through Su Xiao.

Of course, Old Smoke and the other two also had the Ant King's heart. If they took out 30 grams to complete the main quest and obtained a relatively medium evaluation, the remaining portion of the heart would also be taken out to sell, which was a very considerable income.

Even so, without the adventure team quest reduction mechanism, besides Su Xiao, Chen, Old Smoke, Mizusaki, and the adventure team where the cute healer girl was, only 20-plus contractors could survive.

Contractors who didn't obtain the Ant King's heart knew this point, but letting them unite to fight Su Xiao to the death was already impossible. They had already fought once, but were killed and retreated.

When there was hope, no one would fight to the death. Only those contractors who completely couldn't obtain the Ant King's heart would come to fight Su Xiao to the death. Precisely because of this, Su Xiao didn't sell the Ant King's heart immediately, but wanted to find buyers through the Derived World Contact Platform. The remaining time for the quest was very abundant, enough for him to operate. In this way, those contractors who wanted to fight Su Xiao to the death would have no chance.

Not everyone had the immunity to main quest failure. Once the main quest failed, what awaited them was death. This was the Reincarnation Paradise.

In the eyes of the contractors of the Reincarnation Paradise, the contractors of the Apocalypse Paradise were all sissies, flowers in a greenhouse, while in the eyes of the contractors of the Apocalypse Paradise, the contractors in the Reincarnation Paradise were all lunatics and psychopaths.

"The auction mode seems not bad."

Su Xiao wouldn't set a price for the Ant King's heart. In the eyes of those contractors who hadn't completed the main quest, this heart was equal to life, and life was priceless.

Su Xiao, who was walking forward, held seven scarlet cards in his hand. The drop rate of scarlet cards in this Hunter World wasn't high, or rather, Su Xiao had started to be intermittently unlucky again. ===== CHAPTER 1153 =====