Chapter 3406: You Might Not Believe It (Revised)

The target was successfully shot and killed. How to leave was the more critical problem.

Before deciding to assassinate Alliance leader Toyn, Su Xiao had already arranged the assassination plan and the retreat plan.

There were two retreat plans: 1. Take Hao Mei during the assassination, and then let Hao Mei attract the attention of the search team, as well as Amu in the outer city area, to cause a heavy blow to the inner ring wall, to attract the enemy's attention again, and Su Xiao would take the opportunity to leave the inner city.

Besides this conventional retreat route, Su Xiao also prepared a backup plan. If Hao Mei was willing to take out a large sum of Soul Coins, retreating with the backup plan was a better choice.

The alarm outside became more urgent, and the angry shouts were endless. Su Xiao pushed open the iron door of the roof, came to the edge of the roof, and jumped to the roof of a hotel next door.

Jumping from the roof to the balcony on the sixth floor of the hotel, pushing open the sliding door and walking into the room, the lights were on, and there was no one in the guest room. Obviously, someone had opened the room long ago and left it empty.

This was of course not a coincidence. Su Xiao sat on the sofa, lit a cigarette, and looked calm in the night breeze.

Su Xiao was not in a hurry, but Hao Mei was very anxious. She was beautiful and rich, in her prime, and possessed strength that many people dreamed of. She didn't want to die. It belonged to the kind of person who would lose a lot if she died.

"We are fleeing for our lives. Shouldn't we have some tension? You just slaughtered Alliance leader Toyn. In less than 3 minutes, the inner city will be blocked by military police. Even if it's you, it's impossible to kill your way out of the encirclement of these military police."

"Oh."

Blowing the cool night breeze, Su Xiao was still calm, which gave Hao Mei a feeling of cross-server chatting.

Ignoring Hao Mei, Su Xiao opened the kill prompt that had just appeared.

【Prompt: You have killed Alliance leader Toyn.】

【You obtained 14.59% World Source.】

【You obtained Authority Box (Treasure Chest-type item).】

【Authority Box】

Origin: Sel Star

Quality: Immortal (This quality has no direct connection with the treasure chest itself, but is determined according to the tier of this world and the world difficulty level).

Type: Treasure Chest-type item (Can be used once).

Usage Effect 1: Open this treasure chest.

Usage Effect 2: This item can be converted into Authority Heart, thereby sacrificing it to the "Abyssal Warden," and can conduct one transaction with him to exchange for an equivalent soul in the Abyssal Prison.

Rating: 1000 points (The rating of this item is a constant 1000 points).

Introduction: A thing gathered by power and the soul of the leader. Perhaps the things obtained from inside are worthless, or perhaps they are rare treasures.

Selling Price: 7% of World Source · World (After leaving this world, it will be impossible to sell).

【Authority Box】 was a treasure chest-type item, but it had many roles. First was its quality. Immortal-level quality didn't represent the gold content of 【Authority Box】, but represented the tier of the world that produced it, as well as the world difficulty, etc.

The rating was also a constant 1000 points. Opening this thing might only open ordinary items, or it might open treasures with extremely high value. More specially, while in this world, this thing could be directly sold as World Source.

Besides opening and selling, 【Authority Box】 could also be converted into 【Authority Heart】 to trade with an existence named "Abyssal Warden." From the brief information, this existence named "Abyssal Warden" guarded the "Abyssal Prison." Trading with 【Authority Heart】 could exchange for a soul equivalent to this 【Authority Heart】.

This kind of transaction was not unfamiliar to Su Xiao. He had traded with the Wildness of Growth several times and with the Lord of the Old Days once. He originally planned to try trading with the Candle Girl, but after careful consideration, he decided to be steady.

Although these three were all Void Alien Existences, their styles were very different. The Wildness of Growth would bring danger invisibly, but it rarely killed living beings actively. Generally, living beings would go crazy after looking at it, or their heads would explode with a bang.

The Lord of the Old Days carried strong malice. This existence would spread knowledge of other worlds. Not to mention interpreting this knowledge, even if you just looked at the words recording this knowledge, the viewer would suffer extremely serious consequences.

These words recording the knowledge of other worlds were not enough to completely present the twisted, strange, and filthy knowledge. That knowledge could neither be completely recorded by words nor taught by sound.

Even so, I don't know how many worlds had become dead lands or collapsed because of this knowledge.

The Lord of the Old Days was dangerous enough, but at least preliminary negotiations could be conducted. Only if there was a slight mistake in the negotiation would you die.

As for the Candle Girl, this Void Alien Existence with a ghost painting style was difficult to negotiate with. It killed living beings without any reason. See → kill → eat the soul → continue to drift and wait for the next victim.

"Abyssal Warden" shouldn't be a Void Alien Existence. In Su Xiao's understanding, Void Alien Existences weren't so peaceful.

Trading with "Abyssal Warden," Su Xiao could even choose in the "Abyssal Prison." As long as the price was equivalent, the souls imprisoned in the "Abyssal Prison" were at his disposal. This was too "reasonable," and not the same style as Void Alien Existences.

Su Xiao thought for a while and decided to make an investment, using 【Authority Box】 to exchange a soul with "Abyssal Warden."

Su Xiao had a concept before. After entering the mission world in the future, he would release the Devourer · Dark Sun to preach, fool more indigenous people into praising the sun, and obtain more faith power · Sun.

Su Xiao's idea was to exchange a god-stick soul through 【Authority Box】 and "Abyssal Warden," and then fuse it into the Devourer · Dark Sun.

Su Xiao didn't want the Devourer · Dark Sun to have independent thinking, which was not feasible, but to make the Devourer · Dark Sun have mutual attraction with other god-sticks, so as to find god-stick hosts.

At that time, a broken god-stick soul would influence the god-stick host, plus the symbiosis of Dark Sun, it would definitely be able to create a god-stick version of the devourer host.

The conception in

The plan in his mind became increasingly perfected. Su Xiao glanced at the time and the noise coming from downstairs. From a moment ago, there had been screams from a lady; she had been forcibly dragged out of a guest room and was terrified.

The noise grew closer, and before long, it reached the floor below. Seeing this, Hao Mei gulped down several mouthfuls of wine; even if she were to die here today, she had to drink to her heart's content before dying.

"15,000 Soul Coins."

Su Xiao spoke suddenly. Hao Mei, who had been prepared to fight for her life, furrowed her delicate brows. Things had reached such a point that it was very difficult to escape.

"Are you sure you can succeed?"

"Pay the Soul Coins now, and you will succeed. Pay in 20 seconds, and you will die."

"I'll bet on this one."

A fondness for drinking and the occasional gamble were Hao Mei's weaknesses. This was normal; no one is perfect.

【Prompt: You have received a trade request.】

【You have obtained 15,000 Soul Coins.】

With the funds received, Su Xiao rose from the sofa and signaled for Hao Mei to kneel on the carpet with her back to him.

Hao Mei hesitated for a moment, then knelt with her back to Su Xiao. She asked, "What exactly are you going to do?"

"..."

Su Xiao did not speak. He pressed one hand onto the top of Hao Mei's head. Noticing this, Hao Mei's eyes lit up, and she asked urgently, "You have long-distance spatial abilities? You should have said so earlier! If you had, I would have paid you sooner. Hurry up and open..."

Bang!

Su Xiao punched Hao Mei in the spine. As a Close-Combat Master, his force immediately penetrated Hao Mei's torso. Caught off guard by this blow, Hao Mei's vision went black. She barely managed to catch her breath before fainting on the spot.

Hao Mei's internal organs were shaken by the force-penetration effect, leaving her unable to move while lying on the carpet. Su Xiao took a pair of standard magnetic handcuffs from the Reincarnation Paradise and cuffed Hao Mei's hands behind her back. Given Hao Mei's status, she had to show some temper before being cuffed, so taking a punch was only normal.

Hao Mei suddenly realized that she was about to become the scapegoat. When she saw Su Xiao put on the Ancient Mask and disguise himself as a Gendarme, she became even more certain of this.

"I'll fight you to the death, you old schemer from the Reincarnation Paradise! Your heart is so dark. Give me back my 15,000 Soul Coins!"

"..."

Su Xiao continued to ignore Hao Mei, pulling her up from the carpet and escorting her out of the guest room.

With a bang, Su Xiao kicked open the wooden door and escorted Hao Mei out. Outside her room, three Gendarmes were leading two disheveled men and women out of another guest room.

The two sides bumped into each other. Su Xiao nodded to the three Gendarmes in the room diagonally across and escorted Hao Mei toward the corridor corner.

"Wait."

A Gendarme holding a micro-terminal behind them spoke. Su Xiao stopped with a calm expression, looked back at the three of them, and showed confusion.

"In what way is this woman suspicious?"

The Gendarme with the micro-terminal spoke. At this critical juncture, they were grabbing everyone they saw; anyone who dared to resist would be executed on the spot. Moreover, the sounds and fluctuations of combat would attract a large group of Gendarmes in a short time.

"She entered the city today."

Hearing Su Xiao's words, the Gendarme's gaze sharpened, and he said, "Entered the city today?"

"Yes."

"Make a priority record. Where is her identification..."

Before the Gendarme with the terminal could finish speaking, he saw Hao Mei's face. He was surprised at first, then looked at Su Xiao strangely and asked, "Why are you arresting her? She is Clarissa, a war hero."

"I know, but she entered the city tonight and must be taken back for a record."

Leaving these words behind, Su Xiao escorted Hao Mei downstairs. Along the way, Gendarmes or men in black walked past him on both sides.

The journey went smoothly. Su Xiao boarded a Gendarme patrol car, while Hao Mei sat in the back row, which had iron bars and metal mesh.

Su Xiao drove toward a Gendarme office. When he escorted Hao Mei inside, the place was already overcrowded, with shouts, cries, and curses filling the air.

Su Xiao stood in a line of dozens of Gendarmes. Many people would definitely be arrested today, but some required records. For example, Hao Mei, as a war hero, needed to be registered and could not be thrown directly into the crowded detention cells like commoners.

Two hours later, Hao Mei, sitting in the interrogation room, was completely bewildered. She held a disposable cup of hot coffee in her hands, while opposite her sat the Gendarme Su Xiao was disguised as, along with a Gendarme Captain.

Su Xiao had already learned the general situation. According to news from the Gendarme headquarters, Alliance Leader Toyin was not dead but had been seriously injured; after emergency treatment, he was out of danger.

Following this, the two major newspapers in the inner city interviewed Alliance Leader Toyin, who was lying in a hospital bed; although his complexion was poor, his mental state was considered quite good.

This was all nonsense. Alliance Leader Toyin had been burned into a gaseous state by the Solar Flame, and the kill notification had appeared. Su Xiao could be certain that Alliance Leader Toyin was thoroughly dead. The Alliance Leader Toyin appearing on camera must be a double or a Demi-human with transformation abilities.

The Demi-human Alliance would never let the news of Alliance Leader Toyin's death spread; they would swallow their teeth and swallow them into their stomachs.

With Alliance Leader Toyin gone, the Demi-human Alliance's sky had half-collapsed, but the other half was still being held up by Alliance Marshal He Kangdiwei.

Compared to this side, the situation with Alliance Marshal He Kangdiwei was equally explosive. He Kangdiwei himself was not dead, but his younger brother He Servi had been poisoned to death. That glass of wine should have been drunk by He Kangdiwei, but he had left the table midway.

Such high-level figures and their relatives naturally didn't care about wasting a drink, but his brother was a bit lazy, thinking that since it was his older brother's wine anyway, he didn't mind it. He picked it up and continued drinking with friends, only to die on the spot after one sip.

Besides these two sides, the residence of Sentinel Tower Leader Ferdinand was leveled by a meteorite falling from the sky. Except for him, his entire family died suddenly.

Chief Justice Fowor had one arm and both legs severed, and one-third of his skull sliced off. The "Tribunal," which had stood for over a hundred years, was razed to the ground. This wasn't even the most exaggerated part; one-third of the center of the coastal city "Loyash," where the "Tribunal" was located, was turned into powder.

Tonight was destined to be restless. Previously, the Demi-human side had attempted to assassinate Su Xiao hundreds of times, but he had never responded. The reason was that he was brewing a big move; he wouldn't act, but once he did, he would make the enemy pay dearly.

The inner city of "Kevab Ring City" currently looked like it was in a state of panic, but in reality, to hide the fact that Alliance Leader Toyin was dead, they dared not conduct a frenzied search for the assassin, at most conducting layer-by-layer interrogations.

Alliance Leader Toyin was the leader of the Alliance bureaucrats. Half an hour after he died, the bureaucrats under his command reached a consensus to use a double. They needed an Alliance Leader; as for who it was, that didn't matter. The rise and fall of the Alliance had nothing to do with them; what they wanted was power.

As long as the Alliance existed for one more day, they would cling to this power. In fact, the bureaucrats knew everything, but they had to do this.

They were ordinary people without any martial strength. Once they lost the shell of power, their end would be miserable. If that happened, even if the Alliance still existed or became more prosperous, what meaning would it have for them?

In the interrogation room, the Gendarme Captain yawned while looking at the interrogation records, while Hao Mei opposite him remained bewildered.

She could never have dreamed that things would develop to this extent. The person who assassinated Alliance Leader Toyin was currently participating in the investigation of the incident, with no intention of leaving the inner city at all, and had even eaten a late-night snack at the Gendarme office.

Whenever she thought of this, Hao Mei felt it was incredible. Even TV dramas wouldn't dare to act like this. What happened to the fierce surprise attack? What was this about investigating with other Gendarmes? Even more outrageous, he even scrounged a late-night snack.

In reality, Su Xiao didn't need to leave. He could be certain that all exits of the inner city must be firmly sealed. Anyone attempting to leave would be immediately captured. Whether Gendarmes or intelligence departments, none had the privilege of leaving the city.

Compared to hiding, disguising himself as a Gendarme to participate in the investigation was a safer choice. The disguise could last for 6 hours, and only 2 hours had passed.

Su Xiao interrogated Hao Mei for over half an hour before the Gendarme Captain rose and left, leaving only Su Xiao and Hao Mei in the interrogation room.

According to the procedure provided by Caesar, Su Xiao completed the full process of interrogation, recording, and seizing identification documents, then decided to transfer Hao Mei to the inner-city prison to be temporarily detained there.

After leaving the Gendarme office, Su Xiao drove a patrol car with Hao Mei along the main street. Ten minutes later, he suddenly turned, and the vehicle drove into a grocery store with its doors wide open.

The iron gate slowly descended. After it was completely closed, Su Xiao got out of the car and unlocked the magnetic handcuffs on Hao Mei in the back seat.

Arriving at the back of the grocery store, Su Xiao took various materials from his storage space and began drawing a teleportation array on the ground.

"You know how to make a teleportation array? Why didn't you just leave earlier?"

"Someone was watching."

"A sensory type? Is it gone now?"

"..."

Su Xiao's gaze turned to Hao Mei. Hao Mei was talking a bit too much; she wasn't usually this talkative. Seeing her slightly flushed cheeks, Su Xiao thought that this girl was nine times out of ten a bit drunk.

Ten seconds after the assassination succeeded, the entire inner city was shrouded in someone's domain.

Although that person's domain was large, it had no offensive nature, mainly sensing spatial fluctuations. In other words, if he had set up a teleportation array at that time, it would have been sensed immediately. By the time the array was set up, he would have had to face the siege of the Gendarmes.

There were many high-level Demi-human Alliance members in the inner city, and the number and comprehensive quality of the Gendarmes here were high. If Su Xiao were besieged, there would only be two results: die here or escape using the 【Drifting Bait】.

At this moment, the domain that covered the entire inner city had disappeared. With such a large range, having been active for over two hours, even if it didn't exhaust that guy to the point of fainting, it was impossible to activate it again in the short term.

Su Xiao had set up coordinates in the supply room where Caesar was previously located in the outer city, and there was also a teleportation array there that could lead directly to Warehouse No. 2 of the Solar Fortress.

Before leaving, Su Xiao had set up a trap in the supply department. If anyone discovered that Caesar had run away and investigated the place, they would inevitably trigger the trap, causing the one-time spatial node set up there to be destroyed.

After Su Xiao's test, the spatial node there was still intact, which was good.

A moment later, Su Xiao finished setting up the teleportation array. Hao Mei, holding a wine bottle, observed for a while and said, "If I remember correctly, the inner city has teleportation-blocking devices. It seems we can't teleport out."

"Get on."

"Alright, alright, I'll get on myself. Your attitude is too cold. Ah, phew, no, I'll get on myself. No, wait, why does this sound so awkward?"

Hao Mei gulped down a few more mouthfuls of wine. Although she was a bit tipsy, she was still worried that this teleportation would be intercepted.

In reality, Hao Mei was overthinking it.

Boom!

The teleportation array activated. The grocery store where they were located seemed to have been hit by a bomb; various sundries flew everywhere, and the glass of the doors and windows shattered completely.

At the same time, a circular tower building in the center of the inner city exploded. Daring to intercept the teleportation of the Demon race—courageous indeed.

In the outer city, inside the supply room of the supply department, teleportation light appeared, and Su Xiao and Hao Mei appeared.

Su Xiao pressed one hand against the wall, leaving a deep handprint. Hao Mei crashed into the wall with an unstoppable momentum, concrete dust rising everywhere. Hao Mei sat half-inside the wall, tears quickly welling up in her eyes—not because she wanted to cry, but because she wanted to vomit. Before a person vomits, tears will overflow uncontrollably.

Taking advantage of Hao Mei negotiating with her stomach, Su Xiao grabbed her arm, stepped onto another teleportation array, skillfully dropped a bomb, and the array activated.

Inside Warehouse No. 2, spatial fluctuations emerged, and Su Xiao and Hao Mei appeared simultaneously. Hao Mei covered her mouth, rushed to the wall, and could no longer hold it back, vomiting.

This was her first time encountering the Demon race's teleportation technology, plus she was slightly tipsy, so it was hard not to vomit. Judging by her eyes, it seemed that because of this incident, she had developed a bit of a phobia of teleportation arrays.

Hao Mei hadn't noticed the more critical point, which was that she had been caught and brought to the Solar Fortress again.

A short while later, Su Xiao returned to the main control room on the top floor of the Solar Fortress. At this stage, their army had temporarily lost the War Lord bonus, which was the fundamental reason they could occupy an advantage.

Su Xiao leaned back on the sofa to rest. Everything he could do, he had already completed. If the enemy still attacked in the short term, he would have his army disperse to preserve strength, while he himself guarded the main gate of the fortress.

Facts proved that Su Xiao's arrangements were not in vain. Of the four big figures on the Demi-human side, one was dead, the other three were either half-dead, their entire families had ascended to heaven, or their younger brothers had died suddenly. Under such a blow, the enemy failed to turn their grief and indignation into strength.

This was like two people fighting; after one of them took a punch, they could use anger as strength and roar while fighting back. But if they took a vicious kick to the crotch, even a tough man would have to cover his crotch, kneel on the ground, and scream at over 130 decibels.

What the Demi-humans took this time wasn't just a kick to the crotch, but lime-throwing + kick to the crotch + eye-poking + liver-exploding punch.

The Demi-human side was clearly bewildered. The army stationed at the Steel Fortress not only didn't move that night but didn't attack for the entire morning of the next day. It was said that Sentinel Tower Leader Ferdinand was going to visit the Steel Fortress in person, which caused the enemy's morale to gradually rise.

The noon sunlight shone in through the floor-to-ceiling curved windows. A prompt made Su Xiao, who was resting, open his eyes.

【Prompt: War Lord has been promoted to an Eight-Star Title.】

【War Lord】

Origin: Reincarnation Paradise

Quality: ★★★★★★★★

Category: Title

Title Effect 1: Lord's Authority (Passive). When the number of soldier-type units under the Hunter's command reaches 500, 3,000, 10,000, 50,000, 100,000, and 300,000, the following six buffs can be triggered.

1. Morale +80 points (500 soldiers can trigger this bonus).

2. Maximum HP increased by 50%, Physical Defense +30 points (3,000 soldiers can trigger this bonus).

3. All Real Attributes +30 points, no bonus to Luck attribute (10,000 soldiers can trigger this bonus; this effect only increases Real Attributes and has no effect on conventional physical attributes).

4. All ability levels increased by Lv. 12 (50,000 soldiers can trigger this bonus).

5. Blood Soul Power (Passive. Lv. 55+12): The held weapon is imbued with Soul-Burning Power, each attack deals an additional 150 points of Real Damage, and there is a 2–3% probability of causing the enemy to experience states such as physical numbness or body stiffness (100,000 soldiers can trigger this bonus).

6. Combat Skill Awakening (Passive. Lv. 60+12): After activating this ability, the Hunter must select an "Excellent Individual" from among the soldier-type units and select one ability of this "Excellent Individual." After completing the selection, ability awakening can be performed on soldier-type units of the same race and type (300,000 soldiers can trigger this bonus).

Prompt: Not all abilities can undergo large-scale ability awakening, such as innate abilities, exclusive abilities, or abilities requiring specific energy, etc., which cannot undergo large-scale ability awakening.

Prompt: During the process of ability awakening, all soldier-type units undergoing ability awakening must pay with "Soul Crystals," "their own vitality," or "specific rare resources" to complete this ability awakening (satisfying one of the three is sufficient).

Prompt: After the above six buffs are triggered, they can be stacked.

Prompt: For each of the above six effects triggered, 1 layer of "Lord's Pride" effect can be stacked, increasing the marching speed of all soldier-type units under command by 12% (after the Lord's Pride effect is stacked to 6 layers, the marching speed of all soldier-type units is increased by 72%).

Title Effect 2: All Army... Charge! (Active). The morale of all soldier-type units under command immediately reaches MAX, and the morale bar enters the "Burning" state, with the effect lasting for 100 seconds.

Prompt: In this state, the charge speed of all soldier-type units under command is increased by 30%, the knockback characteristic is increased by 1 rank, and pain perception is reduced by 90%.

Prompt: This ability can be activated once per natural day. After use, all soldiers under command will feel slightly fatigued for 1–5 minutes.

Title Effect 3: Ancient War Beast (Active), no changes...

Prompt: The Ancient War Beast will exist for 60 seconds and can be summoned once every 5 natural days (the existence time of the Ancient War Beast has been increased by 100%).

Rating: Titles have no rating.

Introduction: Wherever the army goes, not a blade of grass grows, and all enemies are vulnerable.

Price: Cannot be sold.

PS: (One update to save my life, but this chapter is 6,600 words, so it's not very short.)