Chapter 31: Cunning
Cold sweat trickled down Su Xiao’s temple. The notification he had just received was truly nerve-wracking.
There was actually such a perverted skill as “Execution” in Reincarnation Paradise.
The reason the girl named Ye Zi had been hiding in the distance was not only because of her identity as a healer, but also to set up this strike.
After the cross shining with holy light crashed down, the dazzling golden light forced everyone to close their eyes subconsciously.
Three seconds later, the golden light faded slightly. Hei Bai, at the high vantage point, observed through the sniper scope, her expression inevitably tense.
Ye Zi collapsed directly to the ground, her face pale, her lips trembling slightly.
“How… how is there no kill notification?”
Ye Zi sat slumped on the ground, her eyes filled with disbelief.
As the light receded, Su Xiao stood in place with some difficulty. A wisp of blue smoke rose from his body.
There was a fist-sized wound on his lower abdomen. If someone put their head close to the wound, they could even see through to the other side.
The upper half of his body was covered in blood, which dripped from his chin. However, Su Xiao was smiling.
In his hand, he was holding a woman. The Queen was being held by her long hair, placed in front of him.
It had to be said that the Queen was very beautiful, but in Su Xiao’s eyes, that was not important.
The Queen and her two teammates had ambushed him, ambushed him for no reason at all.
Since they were enemies, eliminating them root and branch was the safest choice.
Su Xiao took out a potion from his hand, [XT-12 Life Vitality Potion], which could restore 15% of health and quickly heal injuries.
He bit open the cork at the bottle’s mouth and drank it all in one gulp.
The potion was a bit bitter, very astringent, and had a pungent smell.
Two seconds after Su Xiao drank the [XT-12 Life Vitality Potion], his body reacted. The terrifying wound on his lower abdomen showed faint signs of healing.
The reason [XT-12 Life Vitality Potion] was so expensive was not only the 15% health recovery, but also its ability to quickly heal injuries. As long as it wasn’t an injury like a severed limb, [XT-12 Life Vitality Potion] could heal it.
Su Xiao held the Queen, who was like a torn cloth sack. Her armor was damaged in many places, and her body was limp. If he wasn’t holding her, she might have collapsed to the ground.
“Now that your people are in my hands, let’s have a talk.”
Su Xiao shouted loudly, a cold glint flashing in his eyes.
“Let’s talk like this. What do you want? I can use equipment plus Paradise Coins to ransom the Queen’s life.”
Hei Bai shouted from the rooftop in the distance.
Su Xiao lowered his eyelids, raised his blade, and with one slash, cut off the Queen’s remaining arm.
“Say one more useless word, and I’ll remove one of her parts, until she dies.”
Su Xiao’s voice was completely devoid of emotion.
“Hei Bai, what do we do?”
Ye Zi barely stood up, caught in a dilemma.
Hei Bai hesitated for a moment, then said:
“The Queen saved my life. I must save her.”
After saying this, Hei Bai disappeared from the edge of the rooftop. It seemed she would soon appear before Su Xiao.
Soon, Hei Bai and Ye Zi stood side by side in front of Su Xiao.
“It seems she is very important to both of you?”
Just as Hei Bai was about to speak, she saw the smile forming at the corner of Su Xiao’s mouth.
“You…”
Before Hei Bai could finish her words, Su Xiao had already released the Queen’s hair, gripped his blade with both hands, and with one slash, severed the Queen’s neck.
A beautiful head flew into the air. Ye Zi stared blankly at the head in midair.
“You bastard! I will definitely kill you!”
Hei Bai let out a hoarse roar, aiming her sniper rifle at Su Xiao, but she was too close to him.
Negotiation? It never existed. Su Xiao’s initial goal was to use the Queen to lure Hei Bai and Ye Zi nearby.
He was heavily injured now. Only in close combat did he have a hope of victory.
Su Xiao rushed two steps in front of Hei Bai, his long blade shimmering with faint blue electric arcs.
“Clang.”
Su Xiao slashed his blade onto Hei Bai’s sniper rifle. As a sniper, Hei Bai specialized in both Strength and Agility. Strength ensured she could withstand the recoil of the sniper rifle, while Agility provided bonuses to ranged weapons and increased neural reflex speed.
A deep cut appeared on the sniper rifle. This slash hit a vital part of the gun, rendering it unusable.
This was intentional on Su Xiao’s part. After a sniper lost their rifle, their combat effectiveness dropped by at least fifty percent.
Hei Bai snorted coldly, abandoned the sniper rifle, reached behind her back, and drew two pistols.
These two pistols were one black and one white, with long barrels, at least thirty centimeters in length.
“Bang, bang, bang…”
The two pistols were fired by Hei Bai at the rate of a submachine gun.
A dense barrage of bullets flew toward Su Xiao. If hit by these bullets, even if he didn’t die, he would be severely injured.
He couldn’t dodge sniper rifle bullets after they were fired, but pistol bullets were different.
Su Xiao’s pupils instantly contracted to their limit, maximizing his visual acuity.
The muscles in his right arm bulged, and Dragon-Slaying Flash cut a white arc through the air.
“Clang!”
Su Xiao slashed away two bullets with one strike, opening a path through the barrage in front of him.
“Puff, puff.”
The sound of bullets entering flesh came. Su Xiao was hit by three bullets in his left arm and right chest.
But all of this was worth it. He was now in close quarters with Hei Bai.
Without any mercy, Su Xiao swung his blade, cutting off one of Hei Bai’s forearms—the arm holding the white pistol.
Faint blue electric arcs, the special energy of ‘Azure Steel Shadow,’ surged into Hei Bai’s body.
Intense pain made Hei Bai grit her silver teeth.
“Pfft.”
Another slash, and Hei Bai’s other arm was also severed.
“Pfft.”
Dragon-Slaying Flash pierced through Hei Bai’s full chest, deeply embedding itself in her heart. Hei Bai’s health bar rapidly emptied.
After suffering a fatal wound, health points no longer mattered. Reincarnation Paradise only provided semi-datafication. After a fatal injury, no matter how much health remained, death was certain.
“The Red Spider Lily Adventure Group will not let you go!”
After saying this, Hei Bai’s head drooped, and she lost her life force.
Red Spider Lily Adventure Group? Never heard of it. Even if he had, he wouldn’t have shown mercy.
Shaking his head, Su Xiao looked at the only surviving enemy, the healer named Ye Zi.
A healer with her mana completely depleted was like a fish on a chopping board, at Su Xiao’s mercy.
“No… don’t come near me.”
Seeing Su Xiao approaching, Ye Zi tripped while backing away and fell to the ground.
“Heh~”
Su Xiao let out a cold laugh, slowly closing in on Ye Zi.
When the three of them had surrounded him earlier, Ye Zi had been healing the Queen like crazy. What use was begging for mercy now?
If they were enemies, they had to die.
Even if the enemy was beautiful and female, Su Xiao would still kill them without hesitation.
Those who showed mercy to women at every turn were not fit to survive in Reincarnation Paradise, nor could they survive there.
The women who could survive in Reincarnation Paradise were no wallflowers; each one was more dangerous than the last.
Only a dead enemy was a good enemy.
Su Xiao was risking his life. He had his own goals, and anyone who blocked his path would be cut down.
Su Xiao stood silently in front of Ye Zi. Apart from necessary taunts during battle, he rarely spoke nonsense.
Ye Zi was so scared that her face was covered in tears.
That’s how humans were. When harming others, they were extremely vicious, but when they themselves were harmed, they became very weak.
“I’ll give you everything I have. Spare me.”
The long blade cut through flesh, and Ye Zi fell. This healer was unexpectedly fragile.
After killing all the enemies, Su Xiao collapsed to the ground with a thud.
He could have extorted Ye Zi before killing her, but Reincarnation Paradise had many strange skills. The ‘Execution-type’ skill Ye Zi had used earlier made him very wary. Who knew if Ye Zi was just pretending to be pitiful, waiting for her mana to recover to deliver a fatal blow.
Su Xiao considered himself a greedy person, but he knew when to be greedy.
Lying on the cold asphalt, Su Xiao burst into laughter.
This battle could only be described as brutal. The coordination of a powerful ranged attacker, a main tank, and a healer had brought him close to death several times.
But in the end, he was the victor.
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