Chapter 401: How to own five buildings

Area C.

The black whip is as flexible as a cobra with its head raised, drilling through the gap between Bai Liu's cuffs and the skin of his wrists, wrapping around his wrist bones all the way to his shoulders, and then the whip spins around, with a swish on both sides, spinning out bone spikes into Bai Liu's flesh and bones.

Bai Liu drags on the end of the whip and pulls forward with a downward pressure on his wrist, a seemingly light action, but one so strong that it pulls Bai Liu's entire body through the ground.

The whip wrapped around Bai Liu's arm instantly tightened, spinning several times like the blade of a juicer, tearing the flesh and bone of Bai Liu's left arm in chunks.

Bai Liu was dragged to Bai Liu's face, and he saw Bai Liu smiling up at him, "The first step should be to disarm and pull out your opponent's arms, right?"

--These were the words Bai Liu had said to Yuan Guang before, and now they were said by Bai Liu as if in jest, even with a gentle tone.

"But disarming won't be of much use to us, will it?"

As soon as Bai Liu's words fell, Bai Liu quickly pulled away from Bai Liu, he bit out a bottle of antidote from his shirt pocket on his side, and drank it down calmly with his eyes, and his arm, which had been shattered by the whip, grew back in no time at all.

"It's really hard to be an enemy with yourself." Bai Liu retracted his blood-stained black bone whip, frowned and shook his head as if distressed, then raised his eyes and smiled at Bai Liu, "Even though I can rely on my experience to keep the upper hand, it doesn't seem to be too easy to win against you."

"I'm sure you feel the same way."

Bai Liu's pale face and lips were stained with blood, he raised his hand and wiped it off, and faintly returned, "It's okay."

The smirk on Bai Liu's face deepened, "Because you knew you couldn't beat me from the start, so you weren't going to, were you?"

"You're just trying to stall, what are you waiting for?"

"You didn't use your own team's moves in the middle of the fight against me from start to finish, leaving more room for survival, so it's not like you're waiting for your team to win to come over and help you, is it?"

Bai Liu didn't deny it, he said calmly, "They're more likely to beat your men, at least, than I am to beat you."

The smile on Bai Liu's face became a bit playful, "You think they're better than my crew?"

"No, on the contrary, I don't think they're anywhere near as strong as your teammates, not a product of the same magnitude at all." Bai Liu leveled his eyes at Bai Liu, "But compared to the difference between you and I before, if this match must be wagered once-"

"I bet they win."

"So that's it?" Bai Liu raked up the corners of his mouth as the whip in his hand disappeared and turned into a short, pitch-black dagger, which he held between two fingers and twirled casually for a moment before backhanding it and holding it steady, "That sounds like a pretty good plan."

Bai Liu lowered his eyes to look at the dagger - he recognized it as Liu Huai's dagger.

Instead of signing Liu Huai's skills to Mu Ke, Bai Liu of this world possessed them himself.

Bai Liu looked at Bai Liu with a smirk, "I thought it was you who developed a hint of undeserved protectiveness towards these useless team members who sold their souls to you?"

Bai Liu looks straight at Bai Liu without hiding, his tone bland: "Isn't it a natural thing for a property owner to be protective of his property?"

Bai Liu quickly and unhurriedly walked toward Bai Liu, his expression was covered in the suddenly raised dust and could not be seen clearly, only to hear an extremely indistinct light laugh:

"Just a protective desire for property?"

"Property is most valuable when it is reasonably consumed by the holder, which is the same thing as money."

"Circulation and consumption is what makes them most valuable."

Bai Liu's laughter came from all directions in the wind:

"I've never seen Bai Liu who only collects property without spending it; this kind of miserly behavior is not something an intelligent person would do, and you should know that better than anyone-"

"-The intense protectiveness of being too close only comes out of something, something irrational, that prevents you from seeing them as property."

[System Alert: Player Bai Liu loaded into player Liu Huai's panel (Note: Player Liu Huai is in the state of ghost of death in reality, with self-awareness, and can use this player panel), and used his opponent's personal skill (Flash Strike) to instantly move to any location in the map!

As the sound of those words came out of the dust, Bai Liu heard the crack of a sharp object slicing through the air from extremely close behind his ear.

A right hand with a black glove lightly rested on Bai Liu's shoulder, Bai Liu's face broke through the fog, and a smile appeared behind Bai Liu's ear.

Bai Liu's left hand wraps around Bai Liu's neck, the tip of the dagger in his hand is against the side of Bai Liu's neck, and he slowly raises the tip of the knife, forcing Bai Liu, who is being held by him, to follow the upward arc of the knife tip to tilt his neck back, and lean his head against Bai Liu's shoulder to listen to him speak.

Bai Liu whispered in Bai Liu's ear in a tone that seemed like a sigh, with a smile:

"You don't want to spend all this property, you don't want to let them die."

"You're getting attached to them, Bai Liu."

Before his words left his mouth, Bai Liu cleanly backhanded the dagger and slashed it upwards, warm blood gushing out and staining the crooked marker pen reverse cross pattern drawn on Bai Liu's skin in the middle of his collarbone.

The pattern absorbed Bai Liu's blood, lit up extremely faintly, and began to start turning at a speed so slow that it was completely unnoticeable.

Bai Liu backhanded a whip away from Bai Liu behind him, and then without pausing for a moment, continued to break the five surrounding buildings with his whip.

In the chaos of five buildings crashing down on Bai Liu, Bai Liu found a building to hide in, he covered his broken and oozing throat, backed up against the wall, and calmly poured a bottle of antidote.

This is the last bottle of antidote he has on hand, and if he wants to use it again, he'll have to access Liu Jiayi's panel.

--But that means Liu Jiayi can't use the skill.

Bai Liu closes his eyes and takes two deep breaths, and he hears Bai Liu's footsteps as he walks into this building he's hiding in, clear, one step at a time, towards him.

Bai Liu nonchalantly wiped the blood off the dagger with the tiger's mouth of his gloved right hand, "Are you going to continue to stall for time?"

"If I'm not mistaken, the antidote you just used up was the last bottle, but of course you can cut the team member's door panel to use their skills and continue using the antidote."

Bai Liu's voice was full of laughter, "But your little team member's death is not guaranteed, she doesn't seem to be quite the same as my team member, she doesn't seem to be very good at poison skills?"

Bai Liu didn't make any noise.

"That's quite calm, obviously driven by emotion to make such a choice, but looking as calm as if you don't care about the other party at all." Bai Liu said in a complimentary tone, "If I weren't you, perhaps I would have been fooled by you."

"But this option you chose to have the players fight it off is really the only one that has the potential to flip the tables and win against me."

"Because they have a weakness and I don't have one anymore."

Bai Liu smiled and said, "God has no weaknesses, and what has no weaknesses is invincible, so your judgment was right, and you chose the right path."

"But you want to hear my judgment?"

The sound of Bai Liu's voice speaking got closer to where Bai Liu was hiding, and the dagger in his hand disappeared, changing once again into a black bone whip.

Bai Liu slightly sidestepped away from the wall, his eyes darkening as he gripped the bone whip in his hand, aiming it at the wall without hesitation and flinging it down hard as Bai Liu opened his mouth again!

The two bone whips, one black and one white, whipped against the wall almost simultaneously, and the wall was instantly in pieces, shattering and splattering in all directions, the force of the whips unabated, meeting in the air the moment the wall shattered!

Bai Liu's eyes were stern as he swiftly drew away the bone whip, the side of his left hand holding the bone whip made a certain blocking action in advance in a certain direction, and in the next second, Bai Liu held the bone whip and threw it over with a speed of movement that could almost only be seen as a residual shadow.

Bai Liu was slammed into the wall by Bai Liu's bone whip, the wall behind him was smashed into an indentation more than half a meter inside, and the shirt behind him was dyed all red in almost a second by the blood seeping out of the wound.

Bai Liu dragged the whip over to Bai Liu, who lowered his eyes to look at Bai Liu with his head bowed, bleeding profusely and pools of blood accumulating at his feet:

"My judgment is that your second dead team member will be Mu Ke."

District D.

Mu Ke gets hit in the sternum with a backhanded slap into the wall and chokes violently for two seconds before staggering back up and trying to get to his feet.

Before Mu Ke could get up, [Mu Ke] condescendingly stomped on his shoulder, the leather shoes pressed down little by little, stomping down Mu Ke's shoulder, and finally Mu Ke's entire body was completely pressed to the ground with his face pressed to the ground and still not stopping, still exerting force.

Mu Ke's shoulder was stepped on with the sound of his shoulder bone cracking, his back spasms and twitches from the pain, Mu Ke braces himself against the floor and grits his teeth as he tries to get up, and is stepped on again by 【Mu Ke】.

[Mu Ke] looks down on Mu Ke, who is struggling on the ground, and comments indifferently and contemptuously, "What a fragile and ugly body, so cheap that it makes me feel sick just looking at it."

"I really don't know how you had the courage to stand next to the Chairman with this body on top of you and reach for the dagger he handed you?"

Mu Ke] is still pushing, Mu Ke's shoulder has been completely caved in by the stomping, and he hunches over in pain, choking and coughing twice.

The heart, along with the body, was at that moment gushing out in a stream, a steady stream of excruciating pain, so that Mu Ke was for a time so unconscious that he was unable to judge the present situation.

Everything in front of me became a blur.

Mu Ke] grabbed Mu Ke by the hair and lifted his limp body toward him, forcing Mu Ke to look at him, then questioned icily, "Where is your dagger? Bring it out."

"Take it out now and I'll still be able to simply end your worthless life."

The scaly Mu Ke, pulled up by his hair, looked across the room through his blinding vision and drifted off for a moment before slowly remembering.

Oh dagger, yes dagger, his skill weapon.

As soon as he pulls out that skill weapon, it's quickly taken away and used to kill him back.

Mu Ke tried several times to attack [Mu Ke] with the dagger, but his speed and combat experience was completely unable to keep up with [Mu Ke], and as soon as the dagger was taken out, it barely waited for Mu Ke to make the first stroke before it reached [Mu Ke].

After realizing that the [Dagger] was just a weapon he had given to the person across from him, Mu Ke quickly stopped the constant summoning of the dagger.

Then [Mu Ke] started torturing him with his physical skills, forcing him to take out his dagger. Mu Ke was far behind his opponent in terms of fighting skills, panels, and reaction speed, and the only thing he could match his opponent with was that he had skills.

However, this skill in his hands, in the face of [Mu Ke], was like a child hugging a sword, and would only provide the opponent with a weapon.

Something that was clearly given to him by Bai Liu, but was taken away from him time and time again.

...... He really is as [Mu Ke] says, so disgustingly worthless.

Mu Ke who was lifted up weakly moved his right index finger which was broken into several pieces by [Mu Ke], blood dripped down the corner of his coat, he opened his blood stained eyes with difficulty, looked at the indifferent [Mu Ke] on the opposite side, and suddenly laughed out loud while choking and coughing in a nervous manner.

Mu Ke spat a mouthful of bloody foam into [Mu Ke]'s face and said in a hoarse voice, word by word:

"I will absolutely never use a dagger again, torture me."

"--Even if you torture me to death, I will never let you touch the dagger Bai Liu gave me again."

Mu Ke raised his jaw slightly, looking down with his bloodstained face at Mu Ke whose demeanor had gone down in gloom, and the corners of his mouth hooked up with effort, "Because that's what Bai Liu gave me."

"The you of that world don't deserve it, and the you of this world don't deserve to be touched."

"Bai Liu thinks I have value worthy of it, then I do." Mu Ke's laughter grew more licentious, "You unskilled person who is jealous of me, you're not worth as much to your president as one of my daggers, are you?"

[Mu Ke]'s face darkened completely, but quickly returned to normal as he raised his hand and drew out the silk scarf in his suit pocket to slowly wipe away the spat blood froth from his own face as he stared at Mu Ke, narrowing his eyes dangerously, "It seems that it is my patience that has given you the confidence to mouth off."

"In that case, the game is over."

Mu Ke] ripped off the bandage he had wrapped around his neck, wrapped his backhand around Mu Ke's neck, and closed his hands in a circle, with an enraged ferocity in his gaze, "Die."

Mu Ke gripped the bandage that was closing fast around his neck as it gave out and almost strangled his already slender neck to a smaller size, and continued to shrink in caliber.

The shadow of Mu Ke's feet stomping and struggling on the floor was reflected in the wall, the shadow's movements growing smaller and smaller, and then--

--The Shadow's head was strangled by the bandage and rolled off, bouncing twice on the ground to roll next to the leg of the mahogany table, a gush of liquid gushing from the severed portion of the headless Shadow's torso.

The headless shadowed torso fell motionless to the ground.

[Mu Ke] lowered his eyes unmoved, turned to retrieve the bandage, and reported softly to the jeweled cufflinks at his cuffs, "Chairman, mission accomplished, I'll be right back."

The hand of the headless body that had fallen into a pool of blood moved slightly twice, as if trying to hold onto something, and then feebly let go.

[SYSTEM ALERT: Player Mu Ke's life value is in rapid decline! !22......17......13...... Warning Warning! Player's life value is below 10!

Mu Ke's head beside the table leg looks at the departing [Mu Ke] with dead eyes, his eyelids slowly closing as countless memories overlap in his mind.

"What are the essentials of an assassin?" Mu Ke nervously folds his legs together as he sits in the conference room of the Wandering Circus, "I'm sorry to waste your time, but I'm curious to ask, what is the best assassin in Bai Liu's mind? I'm trying to find my niche."

The only people in the room were Mu Ke and Bai Liu, who was sitting across from Mu Ke.

Bai Liu leaned his back against the back of the chair, raising his hand against his jaw thoughtfully, "I don't actually like assassins."

Mu Ke was instantly about to burst into tears, "Eh? Bai Liu doesn't like assassins?!"

"Well, assassin most of the time means sacrifice, using everything to lower the opponent's guard, enduring humiliation and waiting for that final blow, even the best assassins still end up with the same fate most of the time." Bai Liu lifts his eyes to level at Mu Ke, "That's not my style, I wish there was more left in it."

Mu Ke pursed his lower lip: "Then I'll give up ...... my assassin skills for a different path ......

Bai Liu calmly interrupts Mu Ke, "Do you like assassins?"

Mu Ke was stunned for a moment as he lowered his head, his hands against his knees slowly clenching his pants before saying very softly, "I didn't like it before because it was tempting to live a little longer ......"

"But after watching Liu Huai work so hard to do what he wanted to do, it felt ......"

Mu Ke's tone was a beat.

"The person I was before has never had people or things I wanted to go after, and I just lived in fear of death." Mu Ke's head is getting lower and lower, and his voice is getting smaller and smaller, "But ...... if I can be like Liu Huai, give everything to protect to the people I want to protect the most."

"...... I don't think death would be so scary that way."

Mu Ke opened his mouth, a tear smashing down on the back of his hand, "I think assassins like that, are pretty cool."

"Not at all like me, so cowardly, so afraid of death, shiny, I want to be that kind of assassin who can bravely face death for the sake of someone."

"Uh-huh." Bai Liu said flatly, "Then go be."

The assassin has to be nonexistent, he has to be unobtrusive, he has to minimize the enemy's wariness of him, he has to make the enemy feel absolutely harmless, and then--

--One hit kill.

There's nothing like a dying man who's lost his head to keep people from being vigilant.

[SYSTEM WARNING: Player Mu Ke's life value continues to drop ......8......6......]

The headless body slowly rose from the ground, smoke billowing from its hands and converging into a short, sharp black blade.

Its current lack of a head was equivalent to having no sense of sight, hearing or smell, and the only thing that allowed it to sense its environment was its sense of touch.

Mu Ke's steps away from the cemetery room drove the floor to tremble, it held the dagger in one palm and the other palm against the ground to sense the vibration, the index finger was in the shape of a twisted off.

Mu Ke counts softly in his mind ...... one step, two steps ......

Don't rush, the assassin has to wait for the best moment.

It clearly remembers the arrangement of the entire room, this kind of pace toward the only possibility is the southeast corner, 【Mu Ke 】 went to get the land certificate he placed over there, there is a monster in the cemetery building over there, if 【Mu Ke 】 is going to take away the land certificate? According to his understanding of 【self】's style, in order to avoid any accidents, he will definitely destroy the monster and his own body completely before leaving.

Then that means [Mu Ke] will definitely turn back.

Before [Mu Ke] turned back to thoroughly dispose of his [Headless Body], he chose to go ahead and dispose of the monster's corpse.

The pace stopped.

One, two ...... - that's now!

[System Alert: Player Mu Ke used his personal skill (Flash Strike), player's bloodied triggered a blitz, doubling the damage!

On the wall, the headless body jumped violently and vertically from the ground to the adult man's back and ruthlessly plunged into the other's heart, [Mu Ke]'s pupils shrunk as an unspeakable sharp pain spread out from [Mu Ke]'s heart, causing his actions to have a one to two seconds of stiffness.

Sure enough!

This guy didn't treat his heart disease! That's [his] weakness, and he won the bet!

Mu Ke continued to stab inward with continued fury, turning the hilt of the blade, and if he had a head right now, he would have hissed out vociferously, but he didn't, so he just delivered the assassin's final blow wordlessly, with a strength that made his almost entire body quiver.

Only when [Mu Ke] was completely motionless did Mu Ke limply roll off his back.

Crawling weakly on the ground, he crawled next to his head, lay down and joined his body to the severed section of his head, then rummaged around on himself long enough to find a half-drunk bottle of antidote and poured it down on his neck.

The wound between the severed face and the head heals slowly, and Mu Ke chokes and coughs twice, collapsing to the ground with a pale face and two glazed eyes as the system beep rings in his ears.

[System alert: Player Mu Ke has killed (Summoner Mu Ke) using the skill Mu Ke]]

Mu Ke gripped the dagger in his hand and let out a long breath as he gripped the dagger in his own hand and couldn't hold back a smile as he closed his eyes.