Chapter 393 Grand Welcome Ceremony
The corridor was dilapidated, filled with smoke and darkness.
In the darkness, the two sides confronted each other and the atmosphere was tense, like a taut string.
The murderous intent spread silently, like invisible knives clashing in the corridor.
"Masked Stranger, if you can't kill me, why are you still here?"
Frank pretended to be surprised and curious: "Why don't you get out of here? Don't you value your time? Why are you standing here posing?"
He is an excellent bait and knows how to anger the fish in front of him.
However, Su Xia had a calm expression, and even her eyes did not change, as if she did not hear what he said at all.
At this moment, the entire space took shape in Su Xia's mind.
According to his perception, there was a narrow room behind the corridor, and there was no way to retreat beyond that. There were only thick reinforced concrete walls.
How to use this terrain?
Push the opponent into a corner?
Su Xia thought for a moment and realized that if he attacked head-on, he would not be able to break through the joint blockade of the wheelchair man and the woman in black. He would also have to be on guard against the opponent's mental attacks, which was quite passive.
perhaps……
Should we keep our distance and create chaos?
He has an advantage in long-distance combat, as he can control all usable metal objects around him and constantly suppress the man in the wheelchair and the woman in black, thereby looking for an opportunity to kill Frank.
After killing them, he fled thousands of miles away, leaving the two men behind, leaving Conch City and returning all the way to Coral City.
"Masked man, you are a very smart person." The wheelchair man suddenly spoke, "This corridor is too narrow and too quiet for you to use all your abilities. Your best choice now is to completely destroy this corridor and create chaos to win."
He actually made a suggestion to Su Xia, and this suggestion coincided with Su Xia's idea.
I have to say that this person knows Su Xia quite well.
He has read all the information about Su Xia and knows almost all the details of Su Xia's actions. He can even put himself in Su Xia's shoes and think about what Su Xia is thinking every time he takes action.
But the problem now is that Su Xia knows very little about this man in the wheelchair.
The only information he could obtain was the few intermittent lines in the character description.
This put him in a bad position.
"It seems that you have been preparing for me for a long time." Su Xia looked at the man in the wheelchair calmly and said.
"Yes."
The wheelchair man nodded slightly and replied: "I started studying you the moment you escaped the blockade of the mechanical tribe in Fish Scale City. It's a pity that we should not have become rivals."
His tone was sincere, without any sense of deception.
It seemed that, in his opinion, he and Su Xia should not be rivals, but should work together.
"Fish Scale City?"
Su Xia captured a small detail.
So, from that time on, the man in the wheelchair judged that the Zero Point Tavern in the southwest area could not deal with Su Xia.
This person has a very good understanding of the strength of this area, and can probably accurately determine the specific strength of each branch, and even the abilities and personality of each individual. This requires a lot of brainpower.
The man in the wheelchair rubbed his eyebrows, seemed to be in some pain, and his body looked very weak.
He endured the discomfort, and said to Su Xia in a calm and gentle voice: "Masked Stranger, we met too late, otherwise, we shouldn't have been rivals as soon as we met."
"Why, do you still want to sit down and chat with me?" Su Xia asked him, "I'm very picky about my friends, you can't do it."
"Yeah, that's right."
He nodded and actually agreed with Su Xia's statement.
Then he added: "I know you want to kill Frank."
"Yes." Su Xia did not hide it.
"You know very well that Frank is our bait."
"yes."
"But tonight is your only chance to kill him." The man in the wheelchair said slowly.
What he said was very right, and even Su Xia had nothing to refute.
Because now, the only ones protecting Frank are the forces of the local tavern branch in Conch City and some of the people brought by the wheelchair man himself.
After tonight, the whole world will know that the masked man is in Conch City.
After that, more and more reinforcements will come from the Zero Point Tavern branches in various places, gradually turning the local tavern branch into a death fortress that even a few more Su Xias will not be able to break in.
Just as the man said, if Su Xia couldn't kill Frank tonight, he would never have another chance.
"Masked man, you have another choice." The man in the wheelchair suddenly said.
"What choice? Go back to the tavern with you?" Su Xia asked indifferently.
"Yes."
“That’s not a good choice.”
"But this choice could save your life."
"I don't need anyone to save my life." Su Xia could vaguely guess what the man in the wheelchair wanted to say next, but he refused directly without asking for details.
Now the Zero Point Tavern has made it clear that it wants to kill him, and has issued a bounty to the entire world.
The man in the wheelchair said that as long as Su Xia followed him back to the pub, she could save her life.
what does that mean?
The masked man will definitely die, but Su Xia under the mask can survive. This is what the man in the wheelchair means.
However, to achieve this outcome, Su Xia would have to pay a huge price, most likely freedom, time, etc.
At this time, the woman in black said coldly: "Masked weirdo, this way of life was obtained for you by the charlatan after a long negotiation with the headquarters overnight. Don't refuse my toast and drink the wine for punishment."
Su Xia shrugged: "What's the difference between a life given by others and death?"
The woman in black snorted coldly: "Isn't it good to be alive?"
Su Xia replied: "It depends on how you live."
"You are courting death, so you can't blame us!"
"Of course I won't blame you." Su Xia smiled faintly, "We each serve our own masters, and we cannot work together if we have different ideologies."
After saying that, Su Xia suddenly retreated, stomped his foot on the ground, and with a bang, the whole person flew diagonally to the rear.
His eyes suddenly turned cold, and with a wave of his hand, all the steel objects in the building exploded with a roar that shook the earth and sky. Debris and debris flew everywhere, and thick smoke and dust covered everything in an instant.
If you stand high in the sky and look down, you will see that the huge group base has collapsed with a loud bang, layer by layer, and those thick reinforced concrete slabs seem to have turned into tofu dregs.
The earth trembled, the mountains shook, and the violent collapse seemed to have caused a small earthquake.
Amidst the explosions and chaos, a flash of cold light streaked across the smoke and dust, like a meteor on a cold night, passing through layer after layer of barriers and piercing the entire corridor in an instant.
“Zheng——”
A cold light flashed, and then disappeared.
If you just stand outside, you can't see clearly what happened at that moment.
The collapsed building was still in chaos, with flying smoke and dust obscured the view and swallowed up everything in the darkness.
Only those who were inside the building could clearly experience the danger of the previous moment, especially Frank!
He groaned, his face turned pale, sweat dripped from his forehead, and he felt like he had been through the gates of hell.
"My hand!"
In that instant of confrontation, a cold light flashed, and with a crack, it actually shattered his shield and cut off his left arm.
At the critical moment, if it weren’t for the help of the man in the wheelchair, what would have been chopped off might have been his head!
At this moment, the left side of his body, where his arm was originally, was now empty, with a smooth fracture surface and blood gushing out. The severe pain that penetrated deep into his bone marrow made him tremble.
"how so……"
He thought that with the protection of the man in the wheelchair, he should be safe today.
Frank endured the severe pain and hurriedly put a tourniquet on his arm to prevent excessive bleeding. He also injected himself with two healing potions.
In this case, he didn't dare use painkillers.
No matter how much pain it is, you have to endure it.
Because pain is one of the most perfect feedback mechanisms of the human body, which can keep it highly alert.
"Sorry, it was a mistake." The man in the wheelchair remained expressionless, his eyes lingered on the broken arm on the ground for a moment, his voice still calm.
He only promised to save Frank's life, not his hand, so he did not break his promise.
At least, now Flack is still alive.
But, logically speaking, if you can save your head, you can naturally save your hand. The difficulty of the two is actually about the same. I don’t know whether the man in the wheelchair really made a mistake or did it on purpose.
In the confrontation just now, Su Xia also paid a price.
There was another bloody scar on Su Xia's chest. This time, his entire sternum was almost cut open, and he was halfway to the brink of death.
Below, the wheelchair man raised his head and said calmly: "Masked man, this is the result of creating chaos and winning from chaos. What do you think?"
Su Xia replied: "Generally."
"What I have said to you so far is still useful," said the man in the wheelchair.
The implication was that as long as Su Xia gave up resistance and followed him back to the tavern, he would be able to save Su Xia's life.
But Su Xia said: "What I said to you is equally useful."
He refused again.
The wheelchair man was not surprised by this, but said with some regret: "It seems that one of us is destined to embrace death."
Su Xia said: "Everyone will die."
"Yes."
As they were talking, rain began to fall from the sky, suppressing the smoke and dust caused by the collapse, making the area clear again.
After the base collapsed, only ruins remained.
The remaining information, supplies, corpses, etc. were buried under thick layers of cement slabs.
Perhaps before long, under the blowing of strong wind, many grass seeds will fall on the ruins, take root, sprout, grow vigorously, and turn into wild grasses, gradually blending with the surrounding wasteland, just like those forgotten war ruins in the wilderness.
The wheelchair man looked at the desolate ground and sighed, "It seems that there is no point in staying here, Masked Stranger, I'll wait for you in the tavern."
Su Xia said, "Are you leaving now?"
"You are probably curious about how I will leave?" The wheelchair man looked up at him. "Masked geek, you have only been famous for a short time. You may not know that there are many special spatial talents in this world. Your ability to travel in different dimensions is just one of them."
As he spoke, a blue light suddenly appeared on his body, like a layer of light water waves, enveloping the three of them.
Then he smiled faintly at Su Xia, as if saying goodbye.
The next moment, under Su Xia's gaze, the three people disappeared on the spot, without a trace, leaving nothing behind.
If someone else hadn't seen it with their own eyes, they would definitely not believe it.
"What a weird ability."
Su Xia could sense that the three people were not invisible, but had simply left the area.
This ability is somewhat similar to his talent, like entering a different dimension.
But the difference is that the wheelchair man can carry multiple people, and his body will emit blue light with a prelude, just like the pre-swing when the boss in the game uses a big move.
"Did you go straight back to the pub?"
Su Xia rose slowly, his robe fluttering, and looked down at the earth in the rain, concentrating his mind to sense any movement in the area.
At the same time, he released countless nanorobots to try to find the opponent's trace.
In the previous fight, Su Xia made a mistake.
After successfully creating the chaos, he attacked Frank, and the weapon used in the attack was naturally the Skeleton Sword.
Although the Skeleton Sword had been broken into several pieces by the explosion during the battle with Mercer, it was still sharp and was a perfect melee weapon.
The cold light that flashed in the smoke and dust at that time was exactly the blade of this sword.
But, now thinking back...
In fact, the attack should be carried out using nanorobots to achieve a silent effect.
Back then, when the Oasis camp was facing an insect infestation, Su Xia used an invisible sword made up of nanorobots to pierce the eyes of the fourth-level lord.
At this moment, his cell phone suddenly vibrated.
He took out his cell phone and saw a new message from Andrew: "Sir, a man in black just found me and told me that I was safe. Should I believe him?"
Su Xia took the phone and replied: "Okay, everything depends on you from now on."
Obviously, Zhuang Ren's action has been successful.
Next, it’s up to Su Xia to take action.
Now he has two choices.
Or just leave and return to Coral City.
Or go to the Zero Point Tavern, get rid of Frank, and then return to Coral City.
Su Xia carefully searched a large area around and was sure that the other party had left and was not hiding somewhere here.
"Let's go to the tavern and have a look!" Su Xia didn't hesitate for too long and made the decision on the spot.
Most of the pubs nowadays have become a den of wolves and tigers, full of dangers. It is easy to get in but difficult to get out.
But Su Xia still had to go, otherwise he would feel uncomfortable.
"Huh... "
On a rainy night, Su Xia turned into a black shadow and quickly flew across the vast land, his robes rustling, and headed straight for the local branch of the Zero Point Tavern in Conch City.
He already had a specific plan in mind on how to kill Frank.
The city's midnight bar is not located in the urban area, but in a suburban town in the north of the city.
The town is not large, with a permanent population of less than 500. It is crossed by a wide cement road, and all the buildings are built along the street on both sides of the road.
The tavern is located in the center of the town, occupying the best location.
It was ten in the morning and the town was quiet. Every household had turned off the lights and fallen asleep. Only a few colorful signs were lit in the rainy night, with some crooked words on them.
“Clatter…”
The raindrops fell softly, hitting the roofs, street lights, signs and roads of the town like a concerto.
As time passed, the music gradually became more urgent, as if being urged. A depressing and low atmosphere followed and dissipated in the heavy rain.
In the pub, there was no noise as usual. No one was drunk and noisy, and no one was talking loudly. Everything was very quiet, so quiet that it was a little eerie.
The door of the tavern was already open, as if to welcome guests.
The road outside the door was already wet from the rain, sticky and slippery, and the road surface reflected a cold, faint light.
When Su Xia arrived in the town, someone was already waiting for him.
“It’s quite a big deal!”
He looked calm as he slowly landed on the road in the center of the town.
The tavern was quiet. Ten men in black were standing on the road outside the door.
These men in black lined up in a row, expressionless and indifferent, holding black umbrellas in their hands, standing silently in the rain, not moving at all, as if they were about to merge into the darkness.
The raindrops hit their black umbrellas, the sound rising and falling, as if welcoming Su Xia's arrival.
In the pub, the calm voice of the man in the wheelchair was heard from afar.
"I knew you would come, this is the welcome ceremony I prepared for you."
