Chapter 426: Truth Behind the Truth

Not caring about Mustang's roar, with Su Xiao's current state, he was definitely not the opponent of the five human sacrifices.

He was a bit unlucky; he encountered the President just after entering the lower level of the Presidential Palace, otherwise, the plan would have gone more smoothly. This is what is called "man proposes, God disposes."

Although his luck wasn't very good, his purpose had been achieved.

He removed a tracker from Riza Hawkeye. The price of this thing was not low, and it could be reused.

【Power of God (False) collection complete.】

【Promotion Mission: Steal the Power of God (Completed)】

Difficulty Level: Lv. 14

Mission Introduction: Use the Magic Crystal Bottle to seize the power of God.

Mission Information: The power of God (False) is attached to the body of the "Dwarf in the Flask."

Mission Deadline: One month

Mission Reward: Promotion qualification.

Mission Penalty: All attributes -10.

【Promotion mission completed. The Hunter will return to Reincarnation Paradise in three seconds.】

Seeing this prompt, Su Xiao was stunned. This return time was too short.

A familiar heavy blow came to the back of his head, and at the same time, Su Xiao felt a pain in the back of his hand.

When he regained consciousness, he was already in his exclusive room. The promotion mission had just been completed, and Reincarnation Paradise had teleported him back.

Su Xiao looked down at his hand. There was an extra row of tooth marks on the back of his hand. Without thinking, it must have been that female sniper, Hawkeye, who bit him.

【Teleportation complete. Hunter has returned to the exclusive room.】

【The exclusive room is an absolutely safe point. No one can enter without the Hunter's permission.】

【Hunter has returned to Reincarnation Paradise. Starting to settle derivative world rewards.】

Derivative World: Fullmetal Alchemist

Difficulty: Lv. 10 (Difficult).

Obtained World Source: 38.5%

Number of completed missions: 1. (Achievement mission x1, promotion mission is not calculated in the evaluation.)

Comprehensive Evaluation: B. (Note: Rating is from E- to S+. Comprehensive evaluation is calculated based on the total World Source obtained and the number of completed missions. Promotion mission has no main mission, so a lower evaluation is normal.)

Starting to collect World Source...,

World Source collection complete. Starting to calculate rewards.

Obtained rewards: 16 attribute points (already includes those obtained in the derivative world), 19,250 Paradise Coins.

(Prompt: Hunter has not passed the Tier 1 assessment. The current maximum level that can be raised is Lv. 10.)

Settlement complete. Rewards have been automatically deposited into the Hunter's brand.

【Prompt: Hunter has completed the promotion mission and obtained promotion qualification.】

【Currently allocating trial areas for the Hunter. Allocation complete. There are 500 contractors participating in the promotion in the same batch.】

Su Xiao frowned after seeing the prompt from Reincarnation Paradise. He had previously thought that he could directly be promoted to a Tier 2 contractor after completing the promotion mission. Now it seemed that wasn't the case; he still had to participate in a trial.

【The trial will be conducted in three natural days. The content is survival. This trial is an independent scene, not any derivative world. Please prepare in advance, Hunter.】

"Content is survival." Seeing this, Su Xiao's heart tightened. If all missions were listed, the most difficult mission must be the survival mission.

According to the fragmented clues, he would conduct a trial with a very short duration. There were two clues: a special world without a plot, at least not a derivative world, and 500 contractors who had also completed the promotion mission would participate.

One could imagine that if the venue was not large, a chaotic battle of contractors might occur.

Su Xiao now had three days. In these three days, he had to transform the benefits obtained in the Fullmetal Alchemist world into strength and relax his body and mind to welcome the trial.

Just as Su Xiao was preparing to count the benefits obtained, the prompt from Reincarnation Paradise appeared again.

【Prompt: Detected that the Hunter has completed the promotion mission. Reincarnation Paradise rewards the Hunter with one consultation opportunity. Permission is Lv. 50.】

Su Xiao was first a bit puzzled, then suddenly realized. It seemed this was a preferential treatment for the Hunter's identity. He could ask Reincarnation Paradise a high-permission question.

Su Xiao couldn't think of what to ask for a while.

A flash of inspiration suddenly appeared in his mind, and Su Xiao thought of what he wanted to ask.

"What are the numbers of the people who killed my parents? What level of contractors are they?"

After Su Xiao asked this question, Reincarnation Paradise gave a special reply.

【This question cannot be answered.】

Su Xiao's brows furrowed. Was it because the permission was insufficient?

"Why can't it be answered?"

【The Hunter's parents died voluntarily in an accidental event. There is no suspicion of murder by others.】

"What!"

Su Xiao stood up with a *whoosh*, his eyes wide open.

"Accidental death? Are you kidding me! Being stabbed to death by a sharp weapon is an accidental voluntary death?"

【Reincarnation Paradise can restore the Hunter's past. Do you want to use the consultation permission?】

Su Xiao hesitated. He was a bit confused about the situation now.

"Use."

Su Xiao's tone became decisive. Things didn't seem to be what he thought.

【Checking. Detected the "enemy" in the Hunter's mind.】

【Some Qiyuezhe No. 10034 (Deceased)】

【Some Qiyuezhe No. 10187 (Deceased)】

【Some Qiyuezhe No. 11316 (Deceased)】

【Some Qiyuezhe No. 12479 (Deceased)】

Seeing a long list of names in front of him, Su Xiao was even more puzzled. Could these be the enemies who killed his parents? But these people, without exception, all died in Reincarnation Paradise.

His enemies were already dead? Su Xiao lit a cigarette with trembling hands. Although these people weren't killed by him, the revenge for the great hatred made him feel joyful in his heart.

Some say that after revenge comes emptiness, but Su Xiao did not have this feeling; he felt very refreshed now.

【Comparing DNA data. Detection results are as follows.】

【The Hunter has no blood relationship with Some Qiyuezhe No. 12156 (Code: Blood Eagle) and Some Qiyuezhe No. 12157 (Code: Poison Orchid).】

Seeing this prompt, Su Xiao's first reaction was disbelief. The parents who raised him since childhood actually had no blood relationship with him?

Did Reincarnation Paradise make a mistake? Is it possible? Of course not. Reincarnation Paradise's ability is obvious to all, and this is an extremely mysterious existence.

【Image projection in progress. This is the Hunter's childhood image.】

A screen like a surveillance monitor appeared in front of Su Xiao.

On the screen was a pitch-black sealed space. This should have been formed by the collapse of a mountain cave. Inside were a young man and woman and an infant in swaddling clothes. If one looked closely, Su Xiao looked somewhat similar to the man covered in dust.

The woman in the picture was holding the infant in swaddling clothes, her eyes full of tears.

"Husband, can we still get out? The phone has no signal, and it's getting stuffier here. It's likely not ventilated. It won't be long before the oxygen runs out."

The woman pressed her cheek against the face of the infant in swaddling clothes.

The man remained silent, leaning in the corner. Even encountering such a change, the man remained calm.

"There isn't much oxygen. If three people breathe at the same time, we can last at most two hours."

The man raised his head and looked at his wife not far away. The man, who never smiled, smiled at his wife.

"Find a way for our son to live."

While speaking, the man took out a switchblade. The blade popped out, and the man cut his throat without hesitation. This was a ruthless person, and his decisiveness was super strong.

If the oxygen was only enough for two adults and one infant to breathe for two hours, what about one adult and one infant? At least they could last for three to four hours!

This man was ruthless enough. In order for his wife and son to continue to live, he chose to end his life. He clearly knew what it meant to be buried underground after an earthquake; they couldn't be rescued in a short time. Instead of living on, it was better to leave more survival time for his wife and son.

The gushing blood scared the wife silly. She screamed and threw herself at the man.

"Live on, take our son out."

The man died after leaving this sentence.

The wife cried and shouted, but none of this could save the man's life.

A few minutes later, the wife wiped the tears off her face. She was heartbroken, but she looked at the infant in swaddling clothes and a gentle smile appeared on her face.

The woman picked up the infant with a few drops of blood on his face, and she began to breastfeed.

After the infant was full, the woman placed the infant on the ground and covered the infant with surrounding debris to prevent falling building rubble from hitting the infant during the rescue, although the possibility of being rescued was already slim.

The woman looked at her husband, and she resolutely picked up the blood-stained switchblade.

She didn't know when there would be a rescue, but she knew that a few short hours were not enough. All she could do was let her child live as long as possible, so that there would be a chance.

The most precious things are often the most ordinary things, such as air.

Su Xiao watched the picture in front of him intently. In the end, the infant was miraculously rescued, but due to the large-scale earthquake, the data was chaotic, and the infant's identity could not be verified, and he was finally sent to an orphanage.

Half a year later, a couple came to the orphanage to adopt an orphan. Seeing the familiar appearance of that couple, Su Xiao was stunned. That was his "parents."

No, it should be his adoptive father and adoptive mother.

The image continued. Su Xiao gradually grew up, and his "parents" didn't tell him about the adoption.

To be precise, his "parents" adopted him using a fake identity to hide more conveniently among ordinary people. They seemed to be hiding from someone.

The image continued. In the image, Su Xiao was already in elementary school, and his "parents" were chatting at home.

"It's been many years since the adoption. That child won't discover our identity, right?"

"Lan, don't guess blindly. That child is still very young, and we act very much like parents."

"But he will always grow up. If he discovers our identity..."

"Then deal with him. It's impossible for you and me to have children. Adopting that child was just to hide among ordinary people. Those people in the Lingtian Adventure Group are really like dogs, chasing us relentlessly."

"Deal with him... Although I'm a bit reluctant, there's no other way when the time comes. However, this child has had a ruthless streak in his bones since he was young. If he becomes a contractor, he might be very remarkable."

"Who knows? Perhaps his parents were ruthless people, but they were just ordinary people. This child's physique has no trace of digitization."

Blood Eagle sighed, seemingly worried about something, but when mentioning Su Xiao, there was not much emotion in his eyes.

The truth is always so unexpected. There are no powerful enemies as imagined, nor is there a cliché story of successful revenge after becoming stronger all the way.

A young couple encountered an earthquake while traveling and were buried in an underground mountain cave that was originally a scenic spot.

Although the couple were both ordinary people, there was a ruthless and decisive streak in their bones that was not ordinary. It was precisely this decisiveness that allowed their child to survive.

The couple's death bought more time, the child was rescued, sent to an orphanage, and adopted by a contractor couple to cover their identities and escape pursuit.

Su Xiao pressed one hand to his forehead, with a cigarette in his mouth, and blue smoke rose.

There is no right or wrong in this matter. Although his "parents" adopted him to cover their identities, they did raise him to adulthood after all.

The contractor team that killed his "parents" had already died, so there were no so-called powerful enemies at all. He didn't encounter any contractors when he killed that black warlord before, which already explained the problem.

Su Xiao had always been strange before. Reincarnation Paradise had given data that talent abilities could not be inherited, and in the case where both parents had talent abilities, the possibility of the child obtaining talent abilities would be even smaller.

Su Xiao already understood everything about the revenge problem. The heavy burden that had been on his shoulders for several years gradually dissipated. He had never felt as relaxed as he did now.

"Bubu, let's go have a big meal."

Su Xiao didn't become decadent because of the truth, but instead felt like he had been reborn.

From now on, he is alone, living only for himself.

Or rather, his journey in Reincarnation Paradise has just begun. From now on, he will only do what he wants to do and will no longer be swayed by revenge. ===== CHAPTER 427 =====

From now on, he would be alone, living only for himself.

Or rather, his journey in Reincarnation Paradise had only just begun; from now on, he would only do what he wanted to do, no longer swayed by revenge.