Chapter 1254: Sword God Smiles (Ten)

The winter nights are very long.

Long enough to accomplish many things.

For example, kill someone.

Linlu Town tonight is undoubtedly a good place for killing people.

Because no one can tell why the people killed here died.

They may be killed by their enemies, or they may be killed by other people who want to seize the "Sword Dance Cao Ji", or maybe... they want to kill others, but in the end they themselves become dead.

Even if there are "eyewitnesses", it is useless. In such an environment... who can guarantee that those who testify are telling the truth? They have every reason to lie for some purpose of their own. Why not do something like this when you can kill people with a knife just by "talking"?

Therefore, on this night, killing is relatively free.

The murderous intention that is usually suppressed is already brewing in people's hearts...

Those who are proficient in hidden weapons and night-walking kung fu; those who have long-standing grievances but dare not take revenge due to the other party's power; those who are plotting to replace their fellow sects... For these people, tonight's opportunity must not be missed. of.

For the players in this scenario world, this "chaos" also provides them with favorable conditions to "defeat the strong with the weak" and "reduce opponents".

"After waiting for a day, I only got the whereabouts of three people. I feel... I made a mistake." Under the moon, Sashimi stood on the roof of a building, looking down at the town in front of him, and thought.

"You said... is it possible for them to enter the town without your detection?" Meng Jingchan was standing next to him, looking as lazy as ever, with a wine bottle in his left hand.

"The Yinbei scattered throughout the town are all functioning normally, and my detection has no blind spots." Sashimi replied confidently, "It doesn't matter whether they come from the mountains behind the town or jump in from the sky. , Climb in from the ground, as long as you enter the area of ​​Linlu Town, I will definitely know..."

"Heh..." Meng Jingchan smiled, "Then there are two possibilities. First, our opponents are only Jian Shao, Bu Ai and Xu Huai Shang; second, there are an unknown number of hostile players. Before we check, Before they were detected, counter-detection detected us... and then they chose not to enter the town."

"I would rather believe the latter." Sashimi said, "At least... Xu Huaishang should have a teammate left outside the town, right?"

"Um..." Meng Jingchan took a sip of wine, "Hmm... I don't think so."

"Not necessarily?" Sashimi asked doubtfully, "Hey...you haven't figured out the rules of this 'combo brawl' mode yet? You have to be a team of two people..."

"I know." Meng Jingchan interrupted the other party and continued, "I mean, most of her teammates have already withdrawn from the script."

"Huh?" Sashimi still didn't understand, "Why? Is there any basis for your speculation?"

"Well..." Meng Jingchan thought for a moment, "It's okay to tell you..." He curled his lips and continued, "As far as I know, the contract between Xu Huaishang and Hongying is about to expire. As for the renewal of the contract, the two parties have not reached an agreement." He paused and further explained, "Since Xu Huaishang's contract stipulates that her game account belongs to her personally, this means that if she ends up. After leaving Hongying, the game character trained by Hongying will leave with her... Even if the contract prohibits her from joining other studios in the next few months, she can still participate as an individual professional player Various competitions... Therefore, at this stage, Hongying has stopped providing various resources to her, and has also used the terms in the contract to prohibit her from teaming up with other players to play games. However, the rights and responsibilities of the contract are relative. Yes, she naturally has her rights, and Hongying can't make things too difficult for her...for example, using terms to force her to not participate in certain scripts is unacceptable. "

"Oh..." Sashimi is also a veteran professional player, and he has seen such things before. After hearing this, he already roughly understood, "So they just randomly found a number to double queue with her, and entered After reading the script, I immediately quit and let her play alone... This way it is not considered as 'forbidding her to play normally'."

Meng Jingchan nodded: "When I saw her entering town alone today, I immediately thought of this... Look at this, it's basically a done deal that she and Hongying will terminate their contract."

"Wait a minute..." Sashimi said, "Then where did you hear these news about contract termination...where did you hear it?"

"I'm familiar with the management." Brother Chan replied in a matter-of-fact tone, "They have been planning to sign Xu Huaishang recently, and even issued a contract to sign Xu Huaishang during the period when she is affected by the 'non-compete agreement' Of course, I only know that much. I don’t know the exact amount of other unequal treaties and 'signing money' paid to her. Anyway, it must be much higher than when the rest of us came here. That’s a lot…”

"Look at your unbalanced look..." Sashimi said blankly with blank eyes, "Why didn't you say eight 'a lot'?"

"I'm not unbalanced, I'm just talking about things... there are really many." Meng Jingchan replied, "But... to be honest, I think they are indeed worth the price. From the perspective of fans' economy, Xu Huaishang I can understand that his net worth is ten to eight times that of ours..."

"Thank you for the compliment." The next second, a woman's voice suddenly sounded, replying to Brother Zen.

At that moment, Meng Jingchan's pupils shrank, and every pore in his body seemed to be soaked by a cold current.

He turned his head slightly and looked at the sashimi.

But just in time to see Sashimi's head... slipping from his neck.

When the neat knife edge came into Brother Zen's eyes, the sashimi began to turn into white light.

Until that moment, the body was still standing and not falling.

The knife was so fast that Sashimi didn't even realize that he had been cut and was pronounced dead.

"Huh..." Two seconds later, Brother Chan slowly turned around and breathed out, "I was careless..."

Meng Jingchan rarely makes mistakes when acting alone. His carelessness this time stems from his trust in his teammates.

Even so, this cannot be regarded as a mistake; because his teammate is Sashimi, the player with the strongest detection ability in the entire Thriller Paradise... bar none.

However, many times, the "strongest" place is where the breakthrough lies.

It is not difficult to see from the conversation just now that Sashimi has absolute confidence in his own abilities, and his statement "My detection has no blind spots" is not a lie.

But once someone finds the "dead spot" from this kind of detection, it will be fatal to the caster.

"This is not careless... It took me a whole day to adapt to the detection frequency of those'sound shells." When Xu Huaishang said this, his figure had already appeared behind Meng Jingchan on top of the roof.

At this moment, she no longer covered her face as she did during the day.

Under the moonlight, her slender figure looked like a flawless sharp blade; her bright eyes revealed cold murderous intent.

"Understood..." Meng Jingchan looked at the other party and continued, "Use energy to completely cover the surface of the body, forming a dynamic layer of 'armor', and then let this energy layer maintain the same vibration frequency as the sound shell, so... ...can become 'invisible' in the sashimi detection net..."

"As expected of Meng Jingchan, you can guess my technique just by listening to one sentence from me." Xu Huaishang replied.

"Haha..." Brother Zen smiled, took out a pack of cigarettes from his arms, took out one and lit it for himself, "Uh-" He blew out the cigarette and said leisurely, "You overestimate me. , I’m not the kind of genius who can see through all kinds of complex techniques just by looking at them, and I don’t have the kind of mind that can think of a hundred things in one second..." He paused, "I can instantly I guessed your method because...before today, I had thought about how to avoid the detection of sashimi."

"So...you have already thought of this method?" Xu Huaishang asked.

"That's right..." Meng Jingchan dusted off the cigarette ashes and replied, "Don't look at me like this... In fact, I am also a very strong person. Even if I am a teammate in the same studio, I will still study it. How can I defeat the opponent?" He paused for half a second, and then said, "Of course... just because you can think of many things, doesn't mean you can do them. As I said, I am not a genius. To use a metaphor... a genius faces ten. There are twelve answers to this question, but I can only give one."

"So you think... I'm a genius?" Xu Huaishang asked again.

"Of course you are." Meng Jingchan spread his hands, "You, Guixiao, Shiva, Wan Tanzhi, Ruo Yuruoli, Wu Swordsman, Qisha, Useless Uncle, Oda Ai... That's probably it. How many of them?" He said as he thought, and counted these nine people. "In terms of combat, the talents of the nine of you are the most outstanding among the people I know... But, 'talent' Being the tallest doesn’t mean the strongest.”

"You seem to have forgotten to include Feng Bujue." After hearing this, Xu Huaishang's first reaction was this.

"He..." Meng Jingchan shrugged, "I can't evaluate a person who has exceeded my ability to judge."

"So, you know my strength quite well?" Xu Huaishang said sadly.

"Ha... Let's let each other go." Meng Jingchan said, "Why did you only use one knife in that sneak attack just now? We both know why..."

What he said was not a bluff.

There is a reason why Xu Huaishang's blow just now only hit Sashimi but not Meng Jingchan, who was only one meter away.

It's not that she doesn't want to do that, it's just that she's not sure...

It is not difficult to sneak attack Sashimi, because Sashimi has absolute confidence in his detection ability, and this confidence is directly proportional to "dependence".

When someone found a flaw in the strongest ability he relied on, his empty self-confidence made him an unsuspecting target.

But Meng Jingchan was different. Even though he was not wary of the surrounding environment based on his trust in his teammates,... in terms of a warrior's instinct, he was much stronger than Sashimi. The moment of murderous intent was enough to arouse his reaction.

If Xu Huaishang attacks two people at the same time, or only attacks Meng Jingchan, then her sneak attack may not be successful.

Although the success rate is still very high, maybe 80% or 90%... but it will never be "100%" sure like when I attacked the sashimi just now.

After considering it like this, she will naturally choose the one that will be 100% successful.

After all...she has no teammates.

Once the sneak attack failed, even if one of them could be seriously injured, she would still be able to fight against two; in front of the two masters of Order, she would not dare to make a big deal even in a one-on-one fight, let alone another person beside her who might recover from his injuries at any time and join the battle.

"Since everyone knows the other party's strength..." Two seconds later, Xu Huaishang responded, "Then let's stop chatting..."

What she meant was - we've said enough, it's time to get started.

Meng Jingchan also agreed with this suggestion; if the two of them continued to stalemate, it would be very disadvantageous for both of them.

Because confrontation... is more energy-consuming than fighting.

Although the two of them stood there without moving, during this conversation... every second, they were looking for opportunities to attack, while at the same time being wary of the opponent's movements, which was a great test of concentration.

If they were too hurt here, even if they won, it might have a negative impact on the subsequent battles with other players.

"Okay." Meng Jingchan replied, throwing away the cigarette butt (he had put away the wine bottle before taking out the cigarette), "Then I'll... be polite."

Before he finished speaking, he had already drawn his sword.

He did not count himself as a "genius", not being modest, nor trying to play the pig and eat the tiger.

Just like Meng Jingchan's metaphor for genius...

He really couldn't answer "ten questions". Even if he spent time thinking hard, he could only answer six or seven at most.

Usually, he could only answer "one question".

And that question was always about "sword".

It happened in a flash!

But the rainbow light flashed, and the figure was gone.

The rustling wind came slowly.

This sword was faster than the sound, and the man was faster than the sword.

The scary thing is...after the sword, there was no sound of metal clashing in the night sky.

The only sound of breaking wind seemed to announce that the attack failed.

But in fact...it didn't fail.

In that flash of lightning, the knife and the sword really collided, but...one of them was cut off by the other in a "silent" state.

It's like you suddenly cut a piece of tofu hanging in the air with a sharp knife, so naturally there will be no sound.

"Good swordsmanship." Xu Huaishang stood there, looking forward, and said in a slightly tired tone.

She did not look down at her double swords, because she knew... the [Falling Flowers] and [Flying Catkins] in her hands were broken, and she also knew that a hideous wound had been cut under her ribs.

"Heh..." Meng Jingchan, at this time, had appeared behind Xu Huaishang, with his back to him.

He smiled bitterly, took out a cigarette from his pocket again, and put one in his mouth: "In terms of swordsmanship, I don't think I will lose to anyone." He took out a lighter with the same hand and lit a cigarette for himself, "What a pity..."

Just as he said the word "pity", the arm holding the sword was broken off from the shoulder, just like the head of the sashimi that slipped off just now...

"Fu——" Then, Meng Jingchan exhaled a puff of smoke comfortably. As he exhaled, three short but deep wounds suddenly appeared on his torso; the three wounds also spurted out blood like "smoke", and merged into a blood mist in the air, "So..." He turned his head, still with a decadent look on his face, "I hate fighting with you bunch of 'geniuses'..."

After saying this, he just turned into white light and disappeared.

Until this second, Xu Huaishang relaxed a little, knelt on one knee, and quickly covered his wound with his hand.

She did not rush to use items or skills to heal herself, but cast her eyes on a shadow under the eaves, and said coldly: "You don't have to hide anymore, I knew you were there from the beginning..." Her eyes were like torches, and her tone was firm, not like a seriously injured person at all, "Since you can cooperate with them, why not talk to me too."

After speaking, a man who was already pale with fear walked out of the shadows after a breath.

"I haven't asked yet...what's your name, lady..." Even someone like Fang Jin was trembling with fear when speaking at this moment.