Chapter 315: Defeat
“Good, very good!”
Su Xia gently wiped off the drop of light green liquid on her hand, looked into the distance, and was in a very good mood.
After leaving that day, he never paid attention to the affairs of Yuling City again.
Unexpectedly, the two families have promoted the medicine to such an extent that people in at least thirty cities have benefited from it.
“More people is good, that’s a good thing.”
What makes Su Xia happy is that more and more people recognize and join this difficult path.
His power is limited. He can influence small things but cannot change the big situation.
If you want to turn the world upside down, you must get the support of countless people.
Although this world is rotten to the core, there are still countless people hiding under the rotten haze. Even if they are born in darkness, they still yearn for light.
"Are you planning to take this batch of medicine to Seahorse City?" Su Xia asked the person in charge.
"Yes, that's right."
The person in charge was very good at observing people's expressions and when he saw the relief in Su Xia's tone, he immediately relaxed a lot.
If he guessed correctly, Su Xia was likely related to those two families.
"Seven days ago, I set out from Seahorse City and hired these undead warriors as my escort." The person in charge pointed at the players. "On the way, I encountered some monsters and small-scale mercenary attacks, but they were all repelled by the warriors. I successfully arrived at Fish Scale City to load the goods. But I didn't expect... on the way back to the city, I would actually run into the Mercenary King's men."
This is a matter of luck and probability. If you are unlucky, you can only accept it.
Recently, Wang Teng's people have been active in an increasingly large area, causing complaints from many passing merchants.
Just two days ago, the human lord of Seahorse City even went to negotiate with Coral City, hoping that Coral City could restrain Wang Teng and prevent him from being too presumptuous.
But Coral City agreed on the surface, but secretly still let Wang Teng do whatever he wanted and didn't care at all.
In fact, even if you want to control it, you can’t.
The wilderness is so vast that even if the surrounding cities sent troops to encircle and suppress him, the possibility of capturing Wang Teng is very small, and it is easy to anger him.
Once this lawless mercenary is provoked, who knows what he will do?
"Sir, are you going to Seahorse City too?" the person in charge asked cautiously.
"Yeah, I plan to go and take a look." Su Xia nodded.
"Then...how about we go together? That way we can have someone to look after us."
"If you want protection, just say it directly. No need to beat around the bush."
Su Xia originally planned to leave after dealing with the mercenaries to avoid wasting time, but the real cargo in the carriage made him change his mind.
Since it was his own business, there was nothing wrong in protecting it.
By the way, you can also learn about the situation in Haima City.
"What's your name?" Su Xia asked.
"Cheng Men." The person in charge answered respectfully.
"Okay, wait for me here for a few minutes and then we'll set off again."
"My Lord, what are you doing?"
"Didn't you say that?" Su Xia looked into the distance, and said calmly, "These mercenaries cannot be let go."
"this……"
Cheng Men was shocked. Does this lord really want to keep those hundreds of mercenaries?
To fight one against a hundred, what kind of confidence does this require?
The two did not suppress the sound of their conversation, and the players all heard it, as did the mercenaries who were evacuating in the distance.
The mercenary leader's heart sank, and he gestured to his men around him, then shouted, "Friend, take the goods and go. We are not enemies, so why should we fight to the death?"
"Well said." Su Xia smiled faintly, "But you are wrong. We have been enemies for a long time."
“…”
The mercenary leader's palms began to sweat and his whole body tensed up. He tried his best to maintain his outward composure while constantly calculating the escape route in his mind.
If it really is that person, then he has no choice but to run for his life today. He would die miserably in a head-on battle.
A young mercenary nearby shouted, "Boss, this guy doesn't know whether to live or die. Don't waste your time talking to him. There are so many of us. Are we really afraid of just one of us?"
"Shut up!"
Before the mercenary leader could speak, another higher-ranking mercenary scolded the man harshly.
All mercenaries with psychic powers can intuitively feel the slight sense of oppression that Su Xia brings to them.
"It seems we can't retreat now, get ready for battle!"
The mercenary leader reminded them in the team channel and gestured to his men to stop retreating and gather around.
With these men buying time, his hope of escape is greater.
At this time, in the carriage, Su Xia slowly put on a pair of ordinary dark blue boots. There was a "lightning" logo on the heel of the boots.
This is the reward Su Xia got last time in the [Disappearing Guest ] mission, together with the "Life Perception Glasses", and is called "Boots of Extreme Speed". This pair of boots has very high requirements for the user.
He had tried it a few times before in the spaceship and it felt good.
As soon as he put it on, Su Xia felt all the energy in his body begin to gather at his feet.
The boots seemed to be a bottomless pit, constantly devouring his energy at an extremely fast speed.
Su Xia stood up slowly, feeling endless power gathering under his feet. It seemed that he could leap a great distance with just a light leap.
At this time, the leader of the player team asked: "Sir, do you need our assistance in the battle?"
Su Xia nodded: "Protect Chengmen and the drivers, leave the rest to me."
"Sir, we can do more. We can attract the enemy's attention for you. We are not afraid of death."
“No need.”
"But you're alone, what if..."
"Nothing will happen."
Su Xia relaxed his muscles and rejected the players' requests for help, remaining extremely confident from beginning to end.
The leader of the player team opened his mouth and wanted to say something, but his teammate next to him pulled his sleeve, so he had to give up.
This kind of high-level NPC is moody. It would be bad if he talked too much and annoyed others.
One of the teammates sent a message in the team channel: "Boss, watch this NPC fight first. If he fails, we will go to help."
"Yes, it's useless to help him at the beginning." Another player also thought so. "It's best to help him when he is in trouble. Then... we can complete the task and gain a favor at the same time."
"But from the looks of it, this NPC seems very strong, full of '?'"
"The mercenaries are not weak either. We might end up in a fight where both sides suffer losses."
"Let's just watch and protect Cheng Men and the drivers required by the mission..."
“…”
The player team discussed quickly, and after the discussion, they began to act, holding weapons to protect the mission target.
At this moment, the mercenary leader in the distance shouted again: "Friend, I think there may be some misunderstanding, can you please tell me something?"
"Misunderstand?"
Su Xia smiled faintly and replied: "You should be able to guess..."
Before he could finish his words, a deadly light suddenly flashed behind him.
The mercenaries took action!
The mercenary leader was responsible for shouting and distracting Su Xia's attention.
Another assassin hid behind and attacked as soon as Su Xia opened his mouth to speak.
Their cooperation is seamless, almost perfect!
If it were an ordinary level 3 or 4 creature without passive protection skills, it might really fall into this attack.
The attacker was so fast that he didn't even have time to activate the psychic shield!
Many mercenaries showed surprise in their eyes, but in the next second, that surprise turned into horror.
“Crack—”
There was a crisp sound, as if something was cut off, and the attacker and Su Xia passed each other.
Su Xia had a blank expression on his face, with a blood-stained skeleton sword in his hand, and not a single wound on his body.
The attacker groaned miserably, and his whole body was cut in half, turning into two bloody parts. Blood gushed out, and he fell heavily to the ground in an extremely tragic way.
The two halves of his body rolled several times in the grass, and the intestines in his abdominal cavity were scattered all over the ground. The gushing blood dyed the surrounding grass a horrible scarlet.
"ah!"
After a brief numbness, severe pain came and the man screamed in agony. His entire face was twisted in pain, and his shrill screams made the scalps of many mercenaries around him tingle.
You know, this guy is one of the top three strongest men in their entire mercenary team, and his assassination ability is definitely the best.
Such a master was on the verge of death after just one encounter?
The players were equally shocked. They had the assistance of the game system, but no one could see the sword clearly just now.
Seeing the bloody intestines rolling in the grass, one of the players suddenly swallowed and said, "I suddenly want to eat hot pot blood sausage."
Another player chimed in: "I think so too, let's go eat tripe later."
"Okay, let's go together!"
“…”
While they were talking, a new battle began.
Boom!
Su Xia jumped up, and the hard carriage was actually dented by his step. His speed was so fast that his whole body turned into an afterimage.
A nearby mercenary hadn't reacted yet when he felt a chill on his neck and his head shot up into the sky, with blood gushing out of his neck like a fountain.
“Bang!”
The head fell to the ground and rolled into the grass, his eyes still wide open, with a hint of confusion and fear in them.
The blood began to spread.
"Get started! Focus your fire!"
"Don't be stingy with your ammunition!"
Seeing this scene, the mercenaries went crazy, roaring and opening fire, and dense bullets rained down on Su Xia.
Su Xia’s current speed is so terrifying, like a legendary ghost.
The mercenaries' eyes gradually turned red, and their adrenaline surged. If they couldn't kill Su Xia today, they might not be able to escape.
“Crack!”
Another sword!
One of the mercenaries screamed as his entire body was cut in half diagonally, starting from his right shoulder.
At this time, many mercenaries had not yet reacted and were still shooting at the place where Su Xia was a second ago.
"Damn it, change direction!"
"Everyone, scatter!"
"Don't concentrate. That's what I taught you before!"
Some team leaders were yelling, trying to stabilize the situation.
But in the next second, Su Xia's figure appeared again, and with a slash of sword, one of the team leaders who was shouting was cut into two pieces.
His speed was so fast that it was impossible to catch him, and the sword was so sharp that it could cut people like cutting tofu.
Mercenaries fell almost every second, some without even having time to scream.
“Crack! Crack!”
Human heads rolled and broken limbs were scattered all over the ground.
The smell of blood at the scene became stronger and stronger. Large areas of grass were dyed red with blood , and even the dry soil was soaked.
Some were not dead after being cut open. They fell to the ground wailing, spending the last few tens of seconds of their lives in excruciating pain.
“Ah… it hurts, it hurts so much…”
The first attacker who was cut in two was not dead yet. He was lying in the grass howling in pain.
As a psychic creature, his vitality is stronger than that of an ordinary mercenary, so that even if he wants to die now, he cannot die immediately.
He really couldn't bear it anymore, so he dragged him forward little by little with his bloody hands, leaving a bloody trail on the ground with his remaining upper body.
Finally, he crawled to the lower half of his body, tremblingly took out the weapon from his waist, opened the safety, and pulled the trigger.
"Bang!"
A gunshot rang out and blood splattered everywhere.
The attacker actually committed suicide with his own weapon.
But the gunshot was drowned out by the gunshots of other mercenaries and was inconspicuous. No one noticed his tragic death.
"Who the hell is he?"
In just one minute, dozens of mercenaries fell, and many of them had their weapons cut in half.
Death comes so quickly that fear comes slowly.
When the wind blew, the blood-stained grass leaves fluttered and the air was filled with a disgusting smell of blood. Even the brutal and crazy mercenaries couldn't stand it.
Fear finally came and began to take over, constantly devouring their rationality and fighting will.
“This person…”
“Is this man a devil?”
A sniper hiding in a big tree was the first to be overwhelmed by fear. His eyes were full of terror and even the hand holding the gun was shaking.
At this moment, the mercenary's trait of bullying the weak and fearing the strong quickly revived in him and directly controlled his actions.
"No, I can't die here!"
He was far away from the area of direct combat, so there might be a chance for him to escape.
With this lucky hope in mind, the sniper didn't even want his gun anymore. He turned around tremblingly and took off his camouflage clothes.
Fear was like a huge rock pressing down on his chest, making it almost impossible for him to breathe. He moved in such a panic that he slipped and fell awkwardly from the tree.
As luck would have it, there was a sharp stone under the tree, which made close contact with his falling head.
With a bang, the head caved in and blood splattered everywhere.
The sniper's eyes went dark, and he became motionless...
He was actually thrown to death!
In the distance, Su Xia glanced at the situation here and remained silent.
He held the bloody sword and continued to look for his next opponent.
“Ka——”
The sword flashed, and another mercenary was cut in two.
Before long, the number of mercenaries left in the entire area was less than half of the original number.
And those who are still trying to stop Su Xia are less than 10%.
"Run! No more fighting!"
Fighting again would only lead to death.
Most of the remaining mercenaries were dominated by fear and no longer dared to continue fighting. They fled in panic to locations far away from the center without even the courage to look back.
“Run!”
"As long as I run faster than others, I can die later than them!"
Maybe... after running for a distance, Su Xia will stop chasing me?
With this idea in mind, the mercenaries fled faster than each other, some even throwing their weapons away while running to reduce their own weight.
"mob……"
Su Xia looked at them. These mercenaries had no will to fight at all.
If it were Su Xia's Beifeng organization, even if 90% of its people died, the remaining people would still keep fighting until the last moment.
As the leader of this group of mercenaries, the mercenary chief was the first to run away.
The moment the attacker was cut in two, he began to retreat quickly.
In name, it was to command the battle from the rear and have an overview of the overall situation - in reality, he just ran as far as he could, and in just a few minutes he ran three or four kilometers, and even his shadow could not be seen.
"Fortunately... Fortunately, I ran fast!"
After leaving the battlefield, he looked back, his eyes full of relief.
He had always guessed that it was the masked weirdo, but now it seemed that even if it wasn't the masked weirdo, it wasn't far off.
That man was so terrifying, like a walking god of death.
"I'm sorry, brothers." He thought of the mercenaries who died tragically, "My life is much more precious than yours. I will burn paper for you on this day next year."
