Chapter 18: Scarlet Chest
Golden light spread, and when it touched the buildings, they melted like snow. A light sphere a hundred meters in diameter appeared, illuminating nearly half of the Hot Capital.
The light sphere lasted for five seconds, then its brilliance dimmed, gradually swallowed by the night.
As the last traces of light faded, everything within a hundred-meter radius vanished, leaving a semi-circular crater on the ground.
On a five-story building in the distance, Shalin, her eyes filled with tears, squinted. A stinging pain persisted in her eyeballs—that light sphere was essentially a super-enhanced flashbang.
When Shalin's vision recovered, her red lips parted slightly as she stared blankly at the massive pit.
"Kukulin Bai Ye!"
Shalin was so furious she nearly fainted. This was the Hot Capital, the capital of the Geya Alliance. The center of the capital's commercial district had been blasted into a pit a hundred meters wide and fifty meters deep. Even if it was to capture enemy spies, this was a bit excessive.
Inside the giant pit, a charred arm emerged from the soil. Soon, the arm's owner crawled out of the dirt.
"Roman, have you lost your mind?"
The one crawling out of the soil was the Smirk Man. Earlier, he had been enduring Shalin's sniper fire and the siege of several spies while dismantling a secondary spatial coordinate that had been 12% set up.
Roman and the Smirk Man had set up the secondary spatial coordinate in the back room of the fortune-telling house. Under Roman's protection, his battle with Su Xiao hadn't affected that back room.
From the current situation, it wasn't hard to guess that the secondary spatial coordinate no longer existed, and the Smirk Man had been blown half to death.
"Cough, cough, cough..."
The Smirk Man coughed repeatedly. Just as he was about to flee, his gaze was drawn to two people a few dozen meters away. One stood, the other sat on the ground. The seated person seemed to ask something, but received no answer. The standing person directly swung his blade, without any nonsense, and cut off the other's head.
"This is impossible."
The Smirk Man stepped back a few paces. The man holding the long blade in the distance turned his head to look at him. The night wind blew, stirring up a wisp of smoke and dust. Bright red blood dripped from the blade's tip.
"Friend from Reincarnation Paradise, let's talk... Damn it."
Boom!
Dirt flew everywhere. Su Xiao, holding the long blade, charged straight at the Smirk Man. At the same time, Shalin aimed her gun at the Smirk Man, as did the several spies around her.
Forty seconds later, Su Xiao snapped the Smirk Man's throat and tossed his corpse to the ground.
Shalin jumped down from the edge of the pit, pulled out the pistol strapped to her thigh, and fired a few shots into the Smirk Man's corpse.
"What a spectacular battle. And the location of this pit... was chosen very well."
Shalin was clearly being sarcastic. She had originally wanted to question Su Xiao about why he had caused such a commotion, but after seeing the dense wounds covering his upper body, some words just wouldn't come out.
"Is there a problem here?"
Su Xiao took off his [Lankai Windbreaker], which had been more than half destroyed by the explosion. This piece of equipment had self-repair capabilities, consuming a certain amount of mana points during the process.
"Of course... there is a problem."
Shalin gritted her teeth as she looked at Su Xiao.
"Fortunately, this was done by enemy spies. We can freely sling mud at the Sun Kingdom."
"Is that so."
Su Xiao walked toward Roman's corpse. It seemed that something had dropped after his death.
When he reached near Roman's body, Su Xiao saw a fist-sized treasure chest on the ground. The chest was completely blood-red.
[You have obtained a Scarlet Chest.]
[Tip: The Hunter has obtained a Scarlet Chest for the first time.]
[Scarlet Chest]
Origin: Exclusive to World War
Category: Chest Type
Effect: Upon opening this chest, the Hunter can make three choices.