Chapter 67: The True Purpose
With a loud crash, gravel flew and dust surged.
A longsword flew out from within the dust cloud. This blade was incredibly sharp, piercing into the ground without any resistance upon contact.
"Cough, cough, cough..."
Dry coughing sounds came from within the dust.
Bang.
Along with a muffled thud came a slightly aggrieved grunt. Judging by the sound, it seemed to be Amu.
According to the laws of physics, when swinging an 'object,' the outermost part of the object suffers the most damage.
Just a few seconds ago, Amu grabbed Rose's calf, swung her around, and slammed her hard onto the ground. At that time, Bubu Wang was biting Rose's thigh, while Rose was biting Su Xiao's palm.
Newton's Second Law of Motion: The acceleration of an object is directly proportional to the net force acting on it...
If Amu was the center, then Bubu Wang and Rose were the inner ring, and Su Xiao was the outermost ring.
The dust cleared, and Su Xiao sat in a crater on the wall, with a girl still hanging from his hand.
"Huff, huff, huff..."
Heavy breathing came. Su Xiao looked down and saw that Rose was still biting his hand.
Su Xiao swung his right arm. With a crash, his arm slammed into the wall, along with Rose's head.
While swinging his arm, Su Xiao forcibly controlled Amu. Amu punched Rose's head.
With a loud crash, Su Xiao's entire right arm was embedded in the wall. He pulled his arm out. On his palm, below his little finger, bite marks were clearly visible on both sides of his hand. The bites had pierced through the skin and flesh, and the bones of his hand were faintly visible.
"Don't think... you're the only one... who dares to fight to the death."
Rose's slurred voice came. She was lying on the ground, completely exhausted.
Su Xiao's condition wasn't good either. His health was at 26%, his left arm was severely fractured, three ribs were broken, and his collarbone might be broken too.
Rose's strength was formidable. Her strength attribute even surpassed Su Xiao's, and her agility, endurance, and other attributes were definitely at 80 points, and they were true attributes.
With such powerful basic stats, combined with her reckless fighting style and her almost bug-like recovery ability, her overall combat prowess was unquestionable.
Su Xiao had seen many contractors with luxurious equipment and decent attributes, but none of them had Rose's combat ability. The reason was simple: those people treated fighting as a job and wouldn't fight to the death unless it was a critical moment.
Rose was different. From the very beginning of the fight, she was fighting for her life, completely disregarding the consequences of death.
Su Xiao had encountered such people before, like Gulu from the Traveling Group, Yan Chen from the Madhouse Concentration Camp's Mingmen Adventure Group, Xi from the opposing Paradise, and Pi Pang from the Demon Castle.
Facts proved that those who could overcome the fear of death in battle would significantly increase their chances of victory.
Su Xiao leaned against the wall, took a few deep breaths, then flipped over and straddled Rose's waist. The Slaughter shortsword appeared in his hand.
"Hey, you..."
Rose tried to say something to Su Xiao when she felt him on her back.
Pfft, pfft, pfft...
Drops of blood splattered onto Su Xiao's cheek as the shortsword repeatedly pierced flesh. Su Xiao stabbed Rose seven or eight times in vital areas like the back of her heart and neck. Although Rose was exhausted, he didn't waste any words with her. Who knew if she was waiting for some ability to recover or had secretly activated some kind of item?
Drip...
An electronic sound appeared but quickly disappeared. Nothing unusual happened.
Su Xiao fell flat on his back with a thud. Beneath him was Rose's corpse.
[Prompt: You have killed Contractor 10854. Due to being in a large, open derivative world, the drop rate for Scarlet Cards is increased by 10%.]
[You have obtained a Scarlet Card (Third Rank).]
...
Su Xiao lay on the ground, not wanting to move for the moment. Bubu Wang ran over and picked up the Scarlet Card that Rose had dropped.
Bubu Wang looked at Su Xiao, his eyes seeming to say, "Master, this woman's Scarlet Card, I must open it myself."
Bubu Wang, whose mouth was swollen to the size of a bowl, held his head high. Seeing Bubu Wang like this, the corner of Su Xiao's mouth twitched.
Bubu Wang seemed completely unaware of his current appearance. He held Rose's Scarlet Card in his mouth and took out his phone, apparently planning to take a selfie as a souvenir.
But when he opened the phone's front-facing camera, the Scarlet Card in Bubu Wang's mouth fell to the ground with a clatter.
"Woo-woof~"
Bubu Wang let out a long howl, slammed his phone hard onto the ground, and crushed it under his paw. He glared angrily at Rose's corpse, but since she was already dead, Bubu Wang could only sit on the ground and sulk. He had no chance to avenge his shame. Desecrating a corpse was out of the question. He, Bubu Wang, was a dog of high standing; he would never do something as disgraceful as desecrating a corpse in his entire life.
The underground base fell silent. No more rumbling sounds came, but Dai Tu and the others didn't dare to enter rashly. The radiation emitted earlier was too terrifying.
Su Xiao lay on the ground for a while before getting up. Thanks to Bubu Wang's aura recovery, he had regained some combat ability.
"Revenge? Just an excuse."
Su Xiao took a pack of cigarettes from his storage space, pulled one out, and lit the blood-stained cigarette.
"Phew~"
Su Xiao exhaled a puff of blue smoke. Blood dripped from his chin. If he wasn't mistaken, Rose wasn't just here for revenge.
Of course, Rose coming after Su Xiao was largely for revenge, which was the main purpose. Secondly, she simply came to fight Su Xiao.
Whether she was being cut by Su Xiao or her fists landed on Su Xiao, she was smiling. A pure avenger would never have such a smile.
In Su Xiao's understanding, Rose and the women of the Red Spider Lily were two completely different types of people. The members of the Red Spider Lily fought for a purpose, while Rose achieved her goals along the way during a fight. Such a person would become very strong as a solo player, but if she were in an adventure group, the other members would be terrified.
For example, where had Rose gone to kill enemies? Had she gotten too excited and forgotten the plan? Or would she provoke an enemy they couldn't handle, leading to a team wipe?
These series of problems meant Rose couldn't stay in an adventure group for long, unless someone could control her. But if she were truly restricted, she wouldn't be Rose.
Rose also had some fame in the Reincarnation Paradise. Contractors called her Blood Dance Rose, but she often changed her aura, so few people recognized her in derivative worlds.
Su Xiao had never heard of Rose, and he wasn't very interested in his own title, "Night of Decapitation." Who knew which contractor came up with that.
Just as Su Xiao was about to have Amu clean up the battlefield, he happened to see Rose's two demon scythes.
The two scythes lay quietly on the ground, emitting a golden light. Seeing this golden light, Su Xiao was stunned. Under normal circumstances, after a contractor died, their equipment wouldn't reveal its quality. The attributes would be sealed. Even if someone picked it up, they couldn't put it into their storage space, and it would disappear in about half an hour.
But these two demon scythes were emitting a dazzling golden light, clearly the appearance of ownerless equipment.