Chapter 98: Xia's Crisis
After a few more hours of meditation, Su Xiao let out a long breath. He had finally converted all the resources gained from the war world into combat power.
Su Xiao had about 26 hours left to stay in Reincarnation Paradise. Of course, he could return to the Real World early.
If it were the usual, Su Xiao would spend the remaining time in the Arena. Unfortunately, his recent battle frequency was too high, so he urgently needed some relaxation.
Just as Su Xiao was about to return to the Real World, he suddenly received an email. The email had only two words.
‘Help!’
The sender was Xia. Not only that, but this was a blue email. Different colored emails represented different sending locations.
White emails meant the sender was in Reincarnation Paradise when sending to Su Xiao. This type of email had a very low fee, costing only a few Paradise Coins.
Green represented being in a Trial World, red represented a War World, black represented special areas (Void, Primordial World, etc.), purple represented a Derivative World, and yellow meant the email contained attached valuables.
As for blue, this was a special color. It meant Xia was located in the Real World.
Receiving these two words ‘Help,’ Su Xiao was very surprised. What surprised him was that Xia had encountered danger in the Real World. It was well known that Workers could only stay in the Real World for one day at a time for a very long period, unless Xia had taken on some special mission.
Xia was indeed a Worker, but her combat power wasn’t too pathetic. Even soldiers who had undergone brutal training were no match for her. Thinking this way, Xia might have encountered other Contractors.
Su Xiao’s reply was also very simple.
“Location.”
After about a few minutes, Xia sent a city name and a phone number via email.
Seeing this city name, Su Xiao felt that he probably couldn’t save Xia. It was too far. Even if he traveled at maximum speed, it would take several hours. By then, everything would be cold.
Su Xiao and Xia had a good personal relationship. If Xia was in trouble, he naturally wouldn’t stand by and watch her die. But in the current situation, he couldn’t directly lend a hand.
Faced with this situation, Su Xiao was very calm. Or rather, if he were as anxious as an ant on a hot pan at a time like this, then Xia would truly be done for.
“Paradise, when I return to the Real World, can I directly arrive at this city?”
Soon, Reincarnation Paradise gave a reply: No.
“In that case…”
Su Xiao immediately chose to return to the Real World. The sensation of teleportation appeared.
……
Inside the second floor of the Accessory Shop, Su Xiao and Bubu Wang thudded onto the floor. Bubu Wang, covered in water, flopped around on the floorboards. It had been diving earlier.
Su Xiao picked up the phone on the coffee table and dialed Xia’s number. As soon as the call connected, gunfire sounded from the other end, faintly mixed with the mooing of cows.
“Hey~”
Xia’s voice came through the phone. The mooing became clearer.
“Is your location at the border?”
Su Xiao pulled a map from under the coffee table and drew a large circle on it with a marker pen.
“Border? I’m not too sure…”
Xia’s voice was very low.
“Oh~”
Xia suddenly let out a muffled groan.
“Hm?”
“It’s nothing. I got kicked by a cow.”
“…”
Su Xiao opened his laptop and took out a satellite positioning device.
“The location you provided does have many farms nearby. What else did you see over there?”
Su Xiao sensed that the location Xia had provided earlier wasn’t accurate.
“Grassland, a herd of cows. I’m hiding in a cowshed now. These cows are very unfriendly; they keep kicking me.”
“Cows…”
The marker pen spun in Su Xiao’s hand. He drew a small circle on the map.
“Tell me, who is chasing you?”
“An assassin group.”
“Assassin group?”
Su Xiao was even more puzzled. He had been an assassin for many years and had never heard of an ‘assassin group.’ A large number of assassins gathering in one organization was a suicidal act. Which assassin didn’t make enemies while carrying out missions? One could imagine how terrifying it would be if the enemies of a large group of assassins all vented their anger on one organization. And the people worth sending assassins to kill—were they small fry?
“An assassin group made up of Contractors?”
“That’s right. Otherwise, how would I be chased into a cowshed? These cows are too unfriendly. Why do they keep kicking me?”
“Don’t stand behind the cow.”
“Uh… okay.”
In a cowshed somewhere on the border, Xia, hiding inside a cow pen, moved her body forward, shifting from behind a cow to underneath it.
This innocent cow lowered its head, thinking: ‘Did the milker change today?’
“Grassland, border, cowshed, cow, north latitude…”
“Hey, hey, hey. I can’t follow after ‘cow.’”
“You don’t need to understand. I’ve roughly determined your location. Tell me, how long can you hold out?”
“About… an hour?”
When Xia said this, she sounded a bit unsure.
“Any last words to say? Don’t worry, the ones who kill you won’t live either.”
“Don’t say that. I can still be saved.”
“Hold out for two hours. Turn on your phone’s location. What rank are the Contractors chasing you?”
“Second Rank!”
“That’s not too bad.”
As soon as Xia finished speaking, Su Xiao hung up. He certainly couldn’t reach that grassland in two hours, but someone else could.
If Su Xiao could go in person, he could crush Second Rank Contractors with one hand. However, he couldn’t get there at maximum speed.
Su Xiao made several calls in succession. Kuang Hu, who lived near that grassland, didn’t answer, indicating he hadn’t returned to the Real World yet. Su Xiao continued trying to contact others. These numbers were all satellite phones and couldn’t be traced, even for the lively Three Brothers of National Football.
A few minutes later, someone finally answered Su Xiao’s call.
“Bai Ye bro, something up?”
On the other end of the line, a woman’s panting could faintly be heard. It was clear that the person on the phone was engaged in some indescribable activity.
“Your location.”
“I’m at…”
The person on the other end directly stated their location. From this, it was obvious that the person on the phone wasn’t normal.
“Go help me save someone.”
“If you’re asking, no problem.”
“The location is on the grassland. Move out now.”
“Got it.”
The call was disconnected. The person Su Xiao contacted was named Hei Xue, a madman among madmen, a Taliban player.
Hei Xue was the rebellious type. During the Second Rank World War, Su Xiao and Hei Xue had a disagreement. Hei Xue refused to submit. Three hours later, Hei Xue was beaten into submission.
Su Xiao had done everything he could. Now he just had to wait for news. As for how Xia had provoked those Second Rank Contractors, he wasn’t interested in that. Xia asked him for help, and he resolved her life-threatening crisis. That was all.
On a patch of emerald green grassland, two Contractors trudged through waist-deep weeds, searching for something.
Near a puddle not far away, Xia was crouching with a bespectacled girl.
“Xia, I think I’m done for. Abandon me.”
The bespectacled girl gave off the vibe of a senior from the class next door. Although she wasn’t old, she seemed very mature. Coupled with her voluptuous figure, she couldn’t help but draw sidelong glances.
“Saying that makes it hard for me to abandon you. Even though that’s what I was just thinking.”
“I knew it, so I said it in advance, just in case.”
The senior girl flashed a smile at Xia. Xia gently rubbed her forehead.