Chapter 1298: Give Me Five Seconds

Su Xiao lightly flicked the blood off Checking Zhan Long Shan. His gaze swept across the surroundings. There were at least dozens of figures in black robes, all of which were mirror images or shadow clones. As for the six contractors, they had already left Su Xiao's perception range.

Su Xiao used Dragon Shadow Flash to appear and kill one person, which caused the remaining enemies to retreat.

When rushing out of the villa, Su Xiao perceived a total of seven enemies in a stealth state, and now there were six left. If these six scattered and fled, Su Xiao indeed had no good way to deal with them.

With a click, a crisp sound came from not far away. Su Xiao's gaze looked toward the source of the sound. There were no clones there, but an enemy had stepped on a trap.

Su Xiao used the Donquixote Family's villa as a sniping point, so he naturally set up defensive devices around it. He didn't bury anti-gravity mines around; contractors with keen perception would sense them before stepping on them.

Therefore, Su Xiao only set up dozens of simple trigger devices around. This thing had no lethality and was not easily discovered. After stepping on it, the most it would do was make a crisp sound.

It was this crisp sound that made a contractor in black robes stand on end. After sensing there was no danger under his feet, he immediately arched his legs and leaped forward.

Su Xiao stared fixedly at the source of the sound, his body crouching low while his left hand formed a claw shape.

With a boom, gravel splashed in the courtyard. Su Xiao, like a cannonball out of the chamber, shot forward.

Almost instantly, Su Xiao crossed a distance of 20 meters. His intuition ability immediately captured an enemy in a stealth state. Even if the enemy instantly left the perception circle, Su Xiao had already captured the other's position.

After Su Xiao quickly advanced 30 meters, he perceived that enemy in a stealth state again.

Su Xiao stared fixedly at the enemy's position. After the enemy entered his perception circle for the second time, his intuition ability only perceived the other for an instant before the other's aura disappeared.

Bright blade flowers exploded. Su Xiao walked forward slowly. He didn't perceive any spatial fluctuations, so there was only one possibility: after the enemy stopped moving, even his intuition ability couldn't perceive them.

Six meters away from Su Xiao, that contractor in black robes half-squatted on the ground, holding his breath.

This contractor's face was filled with terror. He clearly realized that fighting Su Xiao head-on was a dead end, unless the six of them cooperated as they had in the past.

However, Su Xiao's appearance and instant kill of one person frightened the remaining six. Their first reaction was to retreat.

The Shadow Group's team channel was already very lively. The contractor half-squatted on the ground, holding his breath, was calling for help.

Shadow Three: "I'll attract his attention from the front. You guys take the opportunity to kill him."

Shadow Six: "..."

Shadow Two: "..."

Shadow Seven: "Take care of yourself."

Shadow Three: "Take care of your mother, that bastard will find me soon, hurry up and support me, let's retreat together!"

Clearly, the one squatting in place and not daring to move was Shadow Three. His stealth ability was very special. As long as he stopped in place and held his breath, he could trigger a very strong passive effect: Proof of Absence.

The so-called 'Proof of Absence' was actually a Nen ability from the Hunter x Hunter world. Shadow Three spent a significant price to obtain this ability.

Unlike the complete version of 'Proof of Absence', Shadow Three could only use this ability in a stealth state, and there were two prerequisites: one, he couldn't move, and two, he couldn't breathe.

In the Shadow Group's team channel:

Shadow Seven: "Shadow One has the strongest survival ability among us, so he was scouting in the front. Shadow One only took two blades, two! You should know what this concept is. That guy who is strong to the point of being a monster will very likely kill me in one blade. This isn't a game; you can't restart after death. Death is the end. Shadow Three, sorry."

Shadow Six: "Sorry."

Shadow Two: "Hold your breath. Your concealment ability is the strongest among us."

Seeing the 'blessings' from his teammates, Shadow Three's fists clenched, and the expression on his face was somewhat distorted.

Shadow Three: "Then... don't blame me."

Shadow Seven: "F*ck!"

Shadow Two: "You f*cking..."

Shadow Six: "Third Brother, calm down, let's discuss this from a long-term perspective."

Clang!

A sharp long sword slashed over Shadow Three's head. Shadow Three's body shuddered. Su Xiao was already less than two meters away from him.

Shadow Three took a deep breath and simultaneously lifted his concealment state.

The moment Shadow Three appeared, a sharp blade slashed toward his neck. While he raised his dagger to block, he let out an angry roar.

"Give me five seconds!"

Shadow Three prepared to fight for it. He had already seen that fighting head-on, he wouldn't last two rounds in the other's hands, so it was better to try his luck.

Squelch!

Blood splashed, and a head filled with astonishment flew up.

Su Xiao looked at the headless corpse falling in front of him. Actually, even if this guy didn't take the initiative to appear, Su Xiao had already found his position. The previous blade had cut off a few of the enemy's hairs. In the eyes of an ordinary person, these few hairs would be ignored, but within the perception circle of intuition, these few suddenly appearing hairs were like fireflies in the dark.

"Amu, what did this guy say earlier?"

Su Xiao had been completely focused on capturing the enemy's position earlier, so he didn't hear what the enemy was saying at all. He only heard 'five seconds'.

"Amu, hungry."

Amu scratched its head, answering a question with something unrelated.

"Endure it."

Su Xiao tore a piece of cloth from the corpse to wipe the blade of Checking Zhan Long Shan. As for pursuing the enemies, that wasn't very realistic.

Seven stealth-types; Su Xiao being able to kill two of them already had some luck involved. If these guys were determined to flee, unless it was a siege by a large adventure group, pursuing and killing five stealth-types by Su Xiao alone was too unrealistic.

If it were a head-on fight, Su Xiao indeed had confidence in solving these seven.

Checking Zhan Long Shan returned to its sheath. Su Xiao learned a lesson from this incident: when dealing with a stealth squad, he couldn't take the initiative to attack.

If Su Xiao waited quietly in the villa and let these seven enemies sneak into the fourth floor of the villa to assassinate him, then these seven would all die inside the villa.

As the saying goes, a fall into a pit, a gain in your wit. Su Xiao wasn't born strong; his strength was accumulated from failure after failure, thereby possessing his current strength.

Su Xiao checked the combat log.

【You have killed contractor No. 12065, you obtain 86 pirate reputation points.】

【You have killed contractor No. 11943, you obtain 108 pirate reputation points.】

No Scarlet Card dropped, but Su Xiao gained nearly two hundred pirate reputation points. He was still 400 points away from the second-place Qian Meng. As for Ku Tu, this guy's pirate reputation had already broken through 7,000 points.

Su Xiao looked at the battlefield by the coast. He was hesitating, hesitating whether to head to the battlefield of Doflamingo and Katakuri. One had to know, Cracker had already been heavily wounded by him. Killing Cracker would not only obtain a large amount of profit but also allow his pirate reputation to surpass Qian Meng. ===== CHAPTER 1299 =====