Chapter 26 League of Assassins
The sniper rifle in Wang Xuan's hand was very heavy. It was very difficult for ordinary people to lift it, let alone someone as agile as him. He held the gun steadily and motionlessly.
The camouflage protective suit automatically changed color, allowing Wang Xuan to blend into the environment. He looked through the high-power scope, searching for the enemy.
If you want to snipe him, you must have a good shooting point, climb high and have a far view. The enemy has no other choice except those tall buildings thousands of meters away.
Wang Xuan followed the corridor up to the main office building of the Xianwu Battle Hall and went straight to the roof. His movements were swift and also very covert.
The muzzle of the gun kept moving, searching the windows of the tall buildings in the distance. Soon Wang Xuan found several suspicious points.
Xianwu Battle Hall is located in a university town, surrounded by several universities. The main teaching buildings of each university are not short, and fifty or sixty meters is not uncommon.
There are more than a dozen rooms on each floor, and each room has three windowsills. Some have curtains drawn, while others have a clear view.
An hour ago, three young men in their twenties came to the university teaching building with their guitar cases on their backs. They seemed to be rehearsing some program just like ordinary college students.
You know, it is very common for students to borrow classrooms to rehearse and prepare for performances in college. It is nothing strange and naturally no one suspects it.
But no one knew that there were sniper rifles in their guitar cases, and they were the three killers who were assigned to assassinate Wang Xuan.
Scattered in different rooms on several floors, they talked on the phone with headsets on, set up sniper points, and looked at the Xianwu Battle Hall from afar, waiting for Wang Xuan to appear on some main roads.
"Long, the person who just appeared seems to be the target." One person said to another. Their code names were Dragon, Tiger and Leopard respectively.
"That's right, but he found out something was wrong and hid immediately. I think we have been exposed," said Long.
"Are you going or not?" the third person asked. Judging from their appearance, all three of them were in their early twenties, but their voices sounded like they were nearly thirty years old.
One thing that snipers must avoid is that the enemy discovers your presence before you even fire a shot, thus destroying your advantage of being in the dark while the enemy knows your presence.
"Wait a little longer. Even if he knows something is wrong, he won't know where we are." Long was quite confident in their hidden abilities.
Since they joined the Assassin's League, they have carried out dozens of missions, and every time they did so, they easily sniped their opponents. Even if they escaped one person's bullet, there would be two more people who would shoot them in an instant.
They searched for any movement within their sight and would carefully identify any human figure. They only had one chance to shoot, as there were experts in charge of the Xianwu Battle Hall.
Another half an hour passed, and Wang Xuan did not appear again. Leopard, one of the three, became a little annoyed. He leaned against the wall, lit a cigarette, and began to puff out smoke.
After a while, he flicked away the cigarette butt, stretched his body slightly to make his muscles and bones feel more relaxed, and once again held the sniper rifle to look for the target.
A thousand meters away, Wang Xuan's finger touched the trigger, his eyes quickly locked onto the target, and with a "bang" a bullet flew out from the barrel.
The huge recoil was transmitted to Wang Xuan's arms, but it had no effect on him. The supersonic bullet flew across a thousand meters in a breath and shot towards a window of the main teaching building.
With a "puff" sound, the bullet shot directly through the high-power scope and penetrated a head. The huge head exploded instantly, like a broken watermelon.
The bullet flew all the way, and even though it consumed a huge amount of kinetic energy, it still managed to kill one person and create a fist-sized hole in the wall behind.
If it was closer, the wall would probably have been penetrated directly.
The loud gunshot was naturally noticed by several people, but when Long opened his mouth to remind them, there was no response from Bao. The two men cursed angrily and pointed their guns at the wall where Wang Xuan was.
The whole person twisted on the ground like a snake. A few seconds later, Wang Xuan was five or six meters away. He jumped off the roof and disappeared.
Dragon and Tiger were naturally angry. Their partner of such a long time died so suddenly, and at the hands of the target.
"That person is our target, right?" asked Hu.
"That's right." Long gritted his teeth. He didn't expect that Wang Xuan would also be a sniper, and his shooting skills were so accurate that he could kill a person with one shot.
He didn't understand how Wang Xuan discovered them so quickly and found their shooting point.
"It's not safe here anymore, let's go." Tiger said calmly.
Long asked, "What about the mission? What about the leopard's body?"
"Life is more important than anything else." Hu packed up and put the sniper rifle back into the case. If he didn't blend into the crowd quickly, the people from the Xianwu Battle Hall would probably come looking for him.
Wang Xuan came down from the building, and Chen Qingniu picked up his wine jug again, with his sword hanging from his waist. Although he no longer practiced swordplay, he did not give it up, and the wine gourd that he never left behind was half his life.
"Did he fire? Did he hit anyone?" Chen Qingniu asked. "He shot him in the head, dead as hell." Zhou Wu came over, and he knew the moment Wang Xuan fired. He also spotted the two people a thousand meters away.
Wang Xuan put away his sniper rifle and said coldly, "I'm going to kill them."
"Going out?" Zhou Wu asked.
"Go out."
So the three of them went out. The hovercraft was moving at an extremely fast speed and soon appeared above the heads of Long and Hu.
Long and Hu moved quickly and soon blended in with the students before leaving the place. They knew how dangerous this mission was, but the reward was equally generous.
On a tree-lined avenue, the two saw Wang Xuan in front of them. He was tall and mighty, and they knew at first glance that he was their target.
The two men looked at each other, threw down the musical instrument cases behind them, and suddenly rushed towards Wang Xuan. They used their combined attack skills to attack him from the left and right.
boom!
Punches and kicks fell on Wang Xuan, but he did not move at all. He held back the punches and kicks with his hands and said coldly, "In terms of spearmanship, you are no match for me. In terms of fists and kicks, you are even worse!"
One is training muscles and the other is training skin. What can they do at close range? Wang Xuan can even ignore their attacks.
The angry Wang Xuan exploded with all his strength. The two people in his hands were like two spinning drums, spinning like windmills, making a whirring sound, breaking their bones.
Wang Xuan suddenly let go of his hand, and the two of them shot out like arrows, and after completing a parabola, they landed on the ground twenty or thirty meters away. They immediately vomited blood, and their internal organs were obviously shattered by the collision.
With injuries like these, the two were almost dead.
Wang Xuan walked forward step by step, looking down at the two people who were extremely eager for life, but he had no mercy at all. Anyone who wanted to kill him should die!
With a poke of the toes, the two men's temples were immediately hit hard. Their eyes widened and filled with spider-web-like red blood lines, and they died soon after.
"Let me finish it off. Three killers came to kill you. You deserve to die. Maybe you can even get a bonus of hundreds of thousands." Chen Qingniu said with a smile.
Life is sometimes far more fragile than people imagine.
In the dormitory, Wang Xuan's boiling blood gradually cooled down and his anger was completely vented. He had just killed three people, and there was almost no fluctuation in his heart. He was as calm as an ice-cold blade.
After dialing the phone, Wang Xuan said to Leng Feng of the hunting team: "I met a killer. Can you help me see if anyone has offered a reward?"
Leng Feng was stunned, but he acted quickly and found the information he wanted on the dark web. Soon he said, "Yes, someone in the Assassin's League is offering a bounty of 100 million for your head. The time limit is two days. You must pay attention to your safety. There may be dozens of assassins waiting for you."
The Assassin's League is one of the two top killer organizations on the home planet. Its leader, the Assassin Emperor, launched a blatant attack on an outsider immortal before he became immortal, and almost succeeded, thus creating his own legend.
"How to solve it?" Wang Xuan asked.
"Join the Assassin's League, and the bounty on you will not stand." Leng Feng said immediately. In fact, he had long wanted to pull Wang Xuan into the field of assassins. Wang Xuan had great talent, especially in marksmanship.
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In Meiling, on the edge of Yuehujian, a door is looming, like a phantom standing in the air, twenty feet high, with a very ancient and distant atmosphere.
Surrounding this portal, nearly a hundred earthly immortals from Tianjian Mountain and Xianwu Battle Hall were confronting each other, glaring at each other, and the tense atmosphere seemed as if a fight was about to break out at any time.
A sword light came from the sky and instantly fell to the ground. Fang Shan waved his sleeves, looked into the distance, and said lightly: "He Laoliu, come out."
He Laoliu's figure appeared out of nowhere on the top of the mountain, still smoking his pipe, and the smoke was billowing as he puffed.
The two of them set up a small table in the center surrounded by many earthly immortals, prepared drinks, and had hundreds of rows of lines on the chessboard, with thousands of chess pieces placed on it.
"Remember the time we had a hand-to-hand game thirty years ago. It was a stalemate for a long time and it was difficult to tell who would win. But at the critical moment, you had something to do and left first. I have kept this game, so how about we continue playing?" said He Laoliu.
"Well, let's see how much your mental strength has improved. Don't just grow muscles without brains." Fang Shan was still obsessed with the fact that he had lost to He Laoliu in a move before.
Soon, the two old men were leisurely sipping tea and making moves in front of the tense camp.
(End of this chapter)