## Chapter 1135: The Killing Plan
"His whole body is covered in 'ripples'...?" Song Qi was slightly puzzled.
"'Ripples' should be what you call 'Resonances'," Su Shan said. "I can see the physical manifestation of 'Resonances'. To my eyes, they appear as 'ripples' spreading like ripples on water."
"You're saying Xuan Wu is now..."
"She is completely enveloped by a ripple called 'Indestructible'," Su Shan said. "That 'ripple' is so powerful that it's even starting to produce a faint sense of agitation..."
After hearing this, Song Qi carefully considered the current situation.
Xuan Wu's entire body was wrapped in 'Indestructible', but what kind of entity was 'Indestructible'?
How could it envelop a person's body?
"This complicates things," Song Qi said, frowning. "That means Xuan Wu's 'eye' is most likely hidden beneath the 'Indestructible'. To attack the eye, we have to break through 'Indestructible' first."
After hearing this, Su Shan also nodded with a troubled expression. "Pretty much sums it up."
"But the reason 'Indestructible' is called 'Indestructible'... is precisely because it cannot be broken," Song Qi said. "All our attacks from now on will probably be in vain."
Upon hearing Song Qi's words, Officer Li and Su Shan's faces turned gloomy. After all, killing 'Xuan Wu' was just the first step of the mission; 'Zhu Que' was still waiting for them.
On the surface, the mission assigned to 'Cat' seemed far more difficult than the one for 'Gokudo', simply because they couldn't afford to lose.
For a team of less than twenty people, the loss of even a single member at random would be devastating.
Therefore, they couldn't employ a human wave tactic like 'Gokudo' could. They had to rely on more sophisticated coordination to kill Xuan Wu.
Unfortunately... every tactic they had devised was, without exception, aimed at attacking every part of Xuan Wu's body.
Now, there was no need to talk about finding the location of the 'eye'... they couldn't even see Xuan Wu's skin anymore.
Under these circumstances, would those wide-area attack tactics still work?
"If we're uncertain, let's just proceed with the killing plan," Officer Li interjected. "From a criminal investigation perspective, once the killing plan is set, it shouldn't be changed repeatedly. If we find the enemy's defenses have strengthened, our only countermeasure is to increase our firepower beyond the original plan to maintain suppression."
"Suppressive fire..." Song Qi nodded. "A good suppressive fire it is."
"Agreed." Su Shan added, "Right now, I can't find any more of her weaknesses. Once the fight starts, I should be able to analyze more."
"Alright." Song Qi nodded and shouted loudly to everyone, "We stick to the plan. No matter what's in front of us, we still attack. We just need to use more firepower than before."
"Got it!" Luo Shiyi replied from the ground. After speaking, he turned to look at Xuan Wu. "We're finally ready to kill you together. How many chances are you willing to give us?"
Upon hearing this, Xuan Wu tilted her head slightly, as if puzzled.
『Chances...?』
"Yeah." Luo Shiyi nodded. "We need a proper back-and-forth, don't we? If we can't kill you within a certain time frame, we declare the mission failed, and you can kill us."
『No need.』 Xuan Wu shook her head. 『As long as you truly wish to kill me, I'm willing to try for as long as it takes. But if I find that you cannot do it, then it will be my turn to act.』
A trickle of cold sweat ran down Luo Shiyi's forehead. A fine turn of phrase: "cannot do it."
Meaning, from Xuan Wu's perspective, everyone she had killed before had died solely due to their own 'incompetence'.
"At least let us try," Luo Shiyi said. "A large-scale collective assassination attempt like this... isn't it exactly what you've been dreaming of...?"
『Indeed. I wish to die.』
"Then we won't hold back."
As soon as the words fell, 'Silence' descended, and a strange force enveloped the entire space.
Bai Jiu promptly threw down a large net from the sky. Wu Shisan immediately used 'Levitation' to suspend the net in mid-air, then Ma Shier used 'Teleportation' to spread the net open.
The two worked together to lay the net flat across the sky, then simultaneously withdrew their 'Resonances', letting the net slowly fall.
Immediately after, thorny vines began to sprout spontaneously from the net. Liu Ershiyi had activated 'Thicket'. As the thorns appeared, Ning Shiba's 'Rampant Growth' manifested at the same time, causing the vines to rapidly grow along the net's ropes, forming a dense thicket in an instant.
Before the net could even touch Xuan Wu, Wang Ba's 'Gigantification' followed, precisely enlarging every single thorn on the vines. Those thorns, now the size of daggers, pointed downwards, aimed straight at Xuan Wu's body.
Seeing this, Xuan Wu instinctively moved her feet to leave the spot. However, Feng Shiyi, standing on the ground, suddenly unleashed a 'Blinding Flash'. Although Xuan Wu had no eyes, she was still forced back a step by the intense light, which allowed the huge net to cover her completely.
All the giant thorns plunged into the nothingness surrounding Xuan Wu's body at that moment, causing her to fall face-first to the ground.
But this wasn't over. A medium-sized tornado began to swirl centered on Xuan Wu, tightening the net—now mixed with thorns—in a spiral motion. Every thorn also fiercely tried to cut through Xuan Wu's body.
The net tightened more and more, almost coiling around Xuan Wu's body. Her body had already twisted and deformed under the pressure, trapped and unable to move an inch.
If Xuan Wu hadn't been in her 'Indestructible' state right now, 'Cat''s mission might have been completed right then and there.
Perhaps one of those thorns, amidst the chaos, might have pierced Xuan Wu's hidden eye. But at this moment, this combined technique felt so utterly powerless.
Seeing this, Song Qi directly pulled out a bag from his feet. He and Officer Li opened it together and then, working in unison, scattered its contents. It was a bag of small-to-medium-sized gravel.
The moment the numerous pieces of gravel began to fall, their shapes started to change. Bai Jiu's 'Liquefaction' had activated. The stones didn't turn into water or magma; instead, they seemed to become liquid while retaining their stone texture.
What should have been scattered stones now stuck to Xuan Wu's body and the net like an oily substance. Then, Bai Jiu withdrew the 'Liquefaction', returning all the stones to their solid state, thus shaping Xuan Wu into a lifelike stone statue.
Song Qi's eyes darkened. The entire stone statue began to spark, and then a precise and comprehensive explosion swept across Xuan Wu's body. The thorns on the net were blown apart, flying everywhere. Thick smoke rolled violently into the sky from the empty space between the low buildings.
*BOOM!!*
As initially planned, if Xuan Wu still had a physical body, this attack would definitely have damaged her eye.
But none of those present showed any excitement. They just watched silently as Xuan Wu emerged from the smoke, once again tilting her head in a puzzled manner.