The four captured Contractors exchanged glances and quickly nodded.
"Willing, willing, as long as we can be spared."
"Sir, perhaps we should sign a contract or something."
A young man with a sharp face wiped his hands, showing a flattering smile.
Seeing Su Xiao smile, the Contractor felt relieved, but he didn’t realize that Su Xiao’s smile didn’t mean he was pleased.
"I’m a fair person. She paid 5000 Paradise coins to buy her life, you all should do the same."
The four Contractors’ faces changed, internally struggling; should they hand over the money to buy their lives or use these 20000 Paradise coins to negotiate.
To be exact, the four didn’t even have 5000 Paradise coins; they planned to use equipment instead.
"Your name is Xi Luoluo, right?"
Su Xiao looked at Xi Luoluo, who nodded repeatedly.
"Blindfold their eyes and tie their hands."
Hearing Su Xiao’s request, Xi Luoluo hesitated.
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"Just do as you’re told. If they resist, I’ll handle it."
Soon, the four Contractors were blindfolded, their hands tied behind their backs, kneeling or sitting in a row.
Su Xiao found a chair and sat behind them, while the others in the room looked at him puzzled.
The Broken Elf appeared in Su Xiao’s hand, the large revolver reflecting a faint red glow.
"I’ll give each of you three seconds to decide."
The four blindfolded Contractors were confused, not understanding what three seconds meant for each of them.
"Wait, even if you intimidate us, we won’t relent, unless we sign a contract, otherwise what if you still kill us after getting the Paradise coins."
The Contractor on the far right spoke rapidly.
Su Xiao pointed the Broken Elf at the back of that Contractor’s head and pulled the trigger.
A bullet formed from Heko left the barrel and, after a very short moment in the air, entered the back of the Contractor’s head.
With a thud, that Contractor was shot in the head, blood splattering the face of the Contractor beside him.
The remaining three Contractors screamed meaninglessly; one, not very mentally resilient, got up to run away.
The fleeing Contractor fell to the ground, with a fist-sized hole appearing in the back of his body.
The revolver is called the Broken Elf because when the Heko bullet enters the enemy’s body, it shatters.
Although it sacrifices some penetration, its damage is much greater.
The remaining two Contractors knew that their two companions were dead, as there was a prompt from the Temporary Adventure Group.
Su Xiao was puzzled by the behavior of the four. Since they were defeated, they should bear the consequences of defeat. There are roughly two options.
The first is to fight the enemy to the death, maintaining dignity even in death.
The second is to surrender; having chosen surrender, they must endure the loss of defeat. If they continue to quibble, they’ll be categorized into the first option.
"Don’t shoot, don’t shoot, let’s talk."
Before the two Contractors could finish their sentence, Su Xiao fired two more shots, taking them both down.
Now it seems that these people don’t have much to offer. After handing over 5000 Paradise coins or equivalent items, they might not be able to survive in Reincarnation Paradise.
After Su Xiao shot and killed the first person, the remaining three were doomed. Whether they handed over the Paradise coins or not, Su Xiao would not let them off.
Once the first shot was fired, it became a vendetta. Su Xiao wouldn’t do something as brainless as letting his enemies go.
Xi Luoluo, who witnessed the entire process, gradually backed into a corner, looking at Su Xiao as if she were seeing a Big Demon King.
At this moment, Xi Luoluo felt utterly devastated. Just as she entered the Derivative World, she witnessed Su Xiao singlehandedly taking on Kamishiro Rize and Gecko, with the result being one dead and one escaped.
Since then, Xi Luoluo had been on edge because Su Xiao was not in the same camp as her.
In her torment, Xi Luoluo finally endured until the Derivative World was about to end, and then the thing that broke her happened — the leader of her camp actually allied with an enemy Contractor?
Hiding in a corner, Xi Luoluo looked particularly pitiful, gazing at the starry sky at a 45-degree angle, as if she were about to transform into a salted fish.
"How could this happen? I’ve never heard of anyone allying with a camp BOSS, this is cheating."
Xi Luoluo’s eyes teared up, feeling extremely conflicted.
Su Xiao didn’t bother with the complex feelings of Xi Luoluo, as his main quest (3) was already completed.
[Congratulations, Hunter, you have completed the main quest (3) and obtained return qualifications. Remaining time in this world: 5 minutes.]
[Beep, detected that the Hunter has accepted ’Hidden Task: Source’. Return time postponed by 5 days, during which the Hunter can return to Reincarnation Paradise at any time. If ’Hidden Task: Source’ is not completed when choosing to return, the task will fail.]
This way, Su Xiao only needs to complete the hidden task to return.
Time rewinds to two minutes ago, outside the District 20, CCG subdivision, a sneaky figure jumped out, shrouded in darkness.
This figure was wearing a black robe, hooded, chewing something unknown.
"Finally done setting up, so many spiritual bombs are enough to level this subdivision. Hehe, this time I’ll earn at least 10,000 Paradise coins, no, 20,000 Paradise coins."
After leaving the CCG subdivision, the man in black took off his hood, revealing a dried-up face. If this guy were in a zombie movie, he wouldn’t need any makeup.
"Brother, one day I’ll make it big, so bless me, protect me in my body, hehe~."
The zombie-face let out a strange laugh, with black saliva trickling from a wound on his face due to the black substance he was chewing on. The wound had dried up and could never heal again; an enormous change turned his face into its current form.
The night breeze blew the wide sleeves of the zombie-face, revealing two Reincarnation Brands on his dried-up forearm.
Contractors can only have one brand, but the zombie-face had two, and the serial numbers of the two brands were consecutive.
Those were the brands of the zombie-face’s brother. They were twin brothers with bizarre innate talents, the same talent named ’Heart to Heart’.
In one world, the zombie-face and his brother were captured by the enemy and forcibly merged. The zombie-face became neither human nor ghost-like, yet obtained two Reincarnation Brands. However, after that, the zombie-face’s personality gradually distorted.
With two Reincarnation Brands on one body, the zombie-face could receive two identical tasks at the same time. The chance of treasure chests dropping from killing enemies doubled, and rewards from opening the chests doubled, because he represented two people.
You gain some, you lose some. That alchemy left the zombie-face’s body nearly dead. Fixing it would cost a fortune; Power, Agility, Stamina, and Charm attributes couldn’t be enhanced, only Intelligence could be enhanced.
But after enhancing Intelligence, the zombie-face tragically discovered that he didn’t have the talent to become a Mage, couldn’t perceive magic elements, and couldn’t even manage the basic mana perception of a Mage, so he took an alternative path, buying the skill to create spiritual bombs, which also utilized his Intelligence Attributes.
The double Reincarnation Brands caught the attention of Reincarnation Paradise, and the reckless destruction by the zombie-face in both the real world and the Derivative World led Reincarnation Paradise to decide to eliminate this unstable factor, so he was put on the kill list.
The zombie-face hid in a filthy corner, not caring about the stench around him due to his poor sense of smell, waiting to detonate the spiritual bombs when the District 20 Branch was crowded.
Or rather, the zombie-face was also waiting for Su Xiao to arrive at the District 20 Branch. As a key point in the original storyline, many Contractors liked seeking missions here, or going to the Antique Coffee Shop to cling to original characters.
At this moment, the zombie-face’s body suddenly stiffened, eyes wide in disbelief as he looked ahead.
"The main task failed? How is that possible! Those worthless fools are all dead? I painstakingly set up bombs just to find a chance to blow up CCG Camp Contractors, this can’t be, this can’t be!"
The zombie-face’s emotions spiraled out of control, waving his arms wildly in front of him.
Kaka~, dense cracks appeared on the zombie-face’s hands, and a cold voice echoed in his ears.
[Detected ’Contractor 12470 (12471)’ main task failure, forced execution begins.]
[Beep~, detected ’Contractor 12470 (12471)’ has a dual Reincarnation Brand, forced execution speed doubled.]
Kaka, the zombie-face’s entire body began to crack, exposing some dried muscle tissue.
"Brother, I’m coming to join you. Damn Reincarnation Paradise, I always knew you didn’t like me, treated this easy Derivative World as welfare, but it was a trap."
In the last few seconds before death, the zombie-face calmed down. He really should have died a long time ago.
Bang, the zombie-face’s body shattered, turning into dust and annihilating in the air, body, soul, everything being obliterated.
In fact, completing a hunting task doesn’t always require fighting the target to death; you just need to give Reincarnation Paradise a legitimate reason to execute the opponent, and Reincarnation Paradise will immediately execute the violator.