Chapter 16

Su Xiao slowly approached the bush, his left hand's flintlock pistol aimed at the bush, with the last bullet still in the chamber.

"Wait, I'm not a bad person." A crisp child's voice came from the bush.

A child? Su Xiao looked at the bush in confusion.

How could there be a child in this dangerous Mount Colubo? This made him vigilant.

"I'll give you three seconds to come out, otherwise you won't need to come out."

The trigger of the flintlock pistol was gradually pulled tight; if the opponent didn't come out within three seconds, he would fire.

"Is that so? Then I won't come out."

Perhaps the child in the bush misunderstood Su Xiao's words.

Su Xiao's eye twitched; he could now be certain that it really was a child in the bush, and that child's intelligence was not high.

Putting away the flintlock pistol, the last bullet in the gun might be useful for other purposes and shouldn't be wasted here.

"Get out here."

Su Xiao rushed to the front of the bush in a few steps and kicked the bush.

He didn't feel the sensation of kicking a human body; instead, he felt a sense of elasticity.

"Boing~."

A sound like kicking a rubber ball came, and a thin, small body was kicked flying far away.

"Boing, boing~."

After that figure landed, it actually bounced a few more times, finally lying on the ground.

"Waa, waa~."

The child kicked flying by Su Xiao might have been kicked painfully, as he actually sat on the ground and started crying loudly.

This strange elasticity made Su Xiao's eyes narrow slightly, and he stared intently at the child.

Yellow skin, black hair, pitch-black eyes, combined with that eerie elasticity, Su Xiao guessed the child's identity.

Isn't this the protagonist from the original work, Monkey D. Luffy? He had been wondering before how a child could appear on Mount Colubo.

If it were Luffy, then it could be explained; the other party had lived on Mount Colubo since he was a child.

Su Xiao walked up to Luffy and looked him over. Luffy was sitting on the ground crying bitterly, with snot flowing out quite a long way; it seemed he had been kicked painfully by Su Xiao. Luffy's fruit ability in his childhood was basically undeveloped, so his immunity to attacks was not strong.

The current Luffy was completely a little brat, with none of the style from the original work.

"Little brat, don't cry, or I'll slaughter you."

Su Xiao was currently covered in tiger blood, appearing very ferocious, so the crying stopped abruptly.

"Don't kill me, I don't want to die."

Su Xiao shook his head with a bitter smile; what a straightforward answer.

He wasn't paying attention to the other party because he was the protagonist of the Pirate World; he just wanted to observe a Devil Fruit ability user.

Grabbing Luffy's cheeks, Su Xiao lifted Luffy up, and Luffy's face was stretched quite long.

Luffy sniffled and looked at Su Xiao in a daze, his appearance exceptionally funny.

Just at this moment, Reincarnation Paradise suddenly gave a series of prompts.

【Warning! Warning! The Hunter is making contact with the Son of the Plane; please have the Hunter stay away from the opponent!】

【Warning! Warning! The Hunter is making contact with the Son of the Plane; please have the Hunter stay away from the opponent!】

【Warning! Warning! The Hunter is making contact with the Son of the Plane; please have the Hunter stay away from the opponent!】

The prompt that appeared this time was not the usual light blue, but blood-red, giving one a sense of danger.

【Warning, a super-strong creature is approaching; upon detection, the super-strong creature is Monkey D. Garp; please have the Hunter evacuate as soon as possible.】

【Triggered Mission: The Strangulation of a Legend.】

The Strangulation of a Legend

Difficulty Level: Lv. 79.

After Su Xiao saw 【Difficulty Level: Lv. 79】, he directly threw away the Luffy in his hand and then walked toward the water source. He didn't even look at the mission rewards, nor would he accept this so-called 【Strangulation of a Legend】.

Needless to say, the rewards for a Lv. 79 difficulty mission must be astonishing.

But for Su Xiao, this level of mission was too early; he was currently struggling even to complete Lv. 3 missions.

When he entered the Pirate World, the difficulty of the Pirate World was displayed as Lv. 6, but this was not the true difficulty of the Pirate World; the so-called Lv. 6 referred to the difficulty of the Goa Kingdom area.

Su Xiao didn't pay much attention to Monkey D. Garp; the other party should be very far away from him, otherwise he would have no chance to leave at all.

Arriving at a small river, Su Xiao began to wash his body.

The blood was washed away by the clear river water. After Su Xiao washed his body clean, a section of the small river was already completely red, and the bloody scent attracted a large school of fish.

A large fish leaped out of the water, and Su Xiao subconsciously struck with his blade, directly piercing the two-meter-long fish. With force from his arm, the large fish was flicked onto the shore.

The angle of this slash was very tricky, and the force was grasped perfectly, which surprised even Su Xiao himself.

His swordsmanship had actually increased significantly; one must know that he had only experienced one battle.

The reason Su Xiao had such a leap in swordsmanship was related to his training in the real world.

In the real world, Su Xiao rarely had the opportunity to fight with all his might. This life-or-death battle with the giant tiger activated the results of his three years of grueling swordsmanship training.

The real world was like a "cage"; the killing techniques he practiced so hard had no use other than for revenge.

Moreover, when taking revenge, it was basically a one-slash kill, with no opportunity for battle.

But Reincarnation Paradise is different; it is filled with all kinds of dangers. Even if one were wealthy enough to rival a nation or held high power in the real world, if one were not strong enough, one could only wait for death in Reincarnation Paradise.

Having escaped from the "cage," Su Xiao felt relaxed.

It is indeed dangerous in Reincarnation Paradise, where the law of the jungle is like a primeval forest, but compared to the real world, he preferred it here.

Perhaps he was born for Reincarnation Paradise; only here could he display his talents.

Gaining power while adventuring in another world is perhaps a nice experience.

Su Xiao took a deep breath; he decided to make a good name for himself in Reincarnation Paradise, to become stronger, stronger, and continuously stronger, until he was stronger than anyone else, because only then could he break free from his shackles.

However, before fulfilling this grand wish, he first had to fill his stomach, and the large fish struggling on the grass was undoubtedly the best lunch.

Bleeding, scaling, gutting, starting a fire......

A dozen minutes later, the two-meter-long fish had already been set up on the fire to roast.

Without any seasonings, this large fish might not taste good, and he also noticed one thing, which was that killing this fish did not yield any mana.

This should be because this fish was too weak and didn't meet the standards of his talent ability 【Spirit Eater】.

This is very reasonable; if killing any creature could yield mana, then Su Xiao would only need to stomp on a nest of ants to directly increase his mana by 100 points, which is the maximum upper limit he can obtain in each world.

As for the function of mana, Su Xiao is not clear yet, but it might have a key role in the future.

After the branches burned, they made a few crisp sounds, and the large fish was soon roasted. Oil and water overflowed from the crispy skin, sizzling as they dripped into the fire.

Cutting off a piece of fish meat, Su Xiao stuffed it directly into his mouth. Although it looked good, the taste shouldn't be too good, after all, no seasonings were added.

But after chewing a few times, Su Xiao was slightly stunned.

The fish meat in his mouth was soft, tender, and fresh, with a primitive fragrance; that was the flavor inherent to the fish meat itself, and any seasoning would be gilding the lily.

Delicious, very delicious; this should be the most delicious food he had ever eaten.

Swallowing the fish meat in his mouth, Su Xiao looked at the large fish and swallowed his saliva; perhaps he could not only gain power in the derived planes but also taste all kinds of delicacies.

After enjoying an exceptionally delicious lunch, until he couldn't eat anymore, Su Xiao left with a sense of lingering desire.

The side mission had been completed, and the identity of the captain of the guards, if nothing went wrong, could also be obtained; it was time to prepare for the assassination of the king.

That was his ultimate mission, and everything he was doing now was just a prelude.