Chapter 313: 245. Unique Methods of Using Taboo Items
The lights in the entire building went out at the start of the ambush.
The corridors were silent, with only a few assassins moving quickly. They were armed, but couldn’t find their target in the building.
The assassins were well aware of one thing, the federal assistance had already arrived downstairs. They all came from the Federal Group’s military, so they knew exactly what would happen next:
The Federal Group’s military would quickly obtain the architectural blueprints of the building from the database.
Then, within 2 minutes, the commander would use those blueprints to establish an intelligent Holographic Sand Table.
By then, all exits would be sealed off, and leaving at ease was no longer possible.
Moreover, once caught, they would inevitably face endless cruel torture and final secret executions.
The Li Family never recruited soldiers from Deer Island or the Jindai family. That was common knowledge.
At the moment, the assassins were just mechanically carrying out the last order left by their commander, to kill the man in the building who had executed their leader.
In the dimly lit corridor, five assassins maintained communication silence, a scene replicated on different floors. Groups split up, trying to complete their search before the Federal Group’s military entered the building.
At this point, someone wondered, “It is said that the commander who was decapitated had secretly infiltrated City No. 18 two years ago and had been living here as a civilian ever since. Even we were unaware of his identity before the plan to assassinate Li Changqing commenced tonight. To the outside world, he was just an ordinary resident in this building. Why could the Li Family execute such a precise decapitation?”
This question arose from the depths of their souls.
All the assassins couldn’t fathom an answer.
They knew they might encounter a counter-ambush and even had two backup plans for the ‘counter-ambush,’ but they had not anticipated the death of their planner to come so swiftly…
At this point, someone from behind suddenly said, “Have you considered the possibility that this could be a coincidence?”
“How could it be a coincidence?” scoffed the leader among the five assassins: “The target pretended to seek refuge in the building, but had already planned out how to shake off pursuers via the elevator shaft, and even found the commander’s room straight through the central air conditioning maintenance port, killing him. How can such coincidence exist? Even novels wouldn’t dare write it !”
The assassin behind thought for a moment and said, “Well, maybe he climbed the elevator shaft and just wanted to find a room to hide for a while, and it just so happened to be the commander’s, right?”
“Your speculations have no basis,” the leading assassin said coldly.
“Alright, then,” the one in the back sighed.
However, it was at this moment that the leading assassin asked, “He Haoyang, when you just came down from upstairs, didn’t you notice anything unusual? I feel something’s not right, the gunshots came from up there, we’re moving from bottom to top, and you from top to bottom…”
While he spoke, gunshots rang out behind him.
Four consecutive shots, all hitting the back of the assassins’ heads.
Qing Chen returned to his appearance and then mused, “I said I didn’t aim to decapitate, but you wouldn’t believe me. Besides, it was Li Changqing who killed the man, why go to all the trouble to find me?”
With a flick of his wrist, he threaded the transparent strings of the Puppeteer into the bodies of two assassins, adeptly completing the sacrifice.
He watched as the Puppeteer greedily slurped up the blood and suddenly wondered if it had a life of its own?
First, Qing Chen was certain that some Taboo items did possess life and consciousness, such as the Taboo ACE-005 Da Fu.
So did this object, which appeared to be just an item — the Puppeteer — have life?
He had no way of knowing.
“Wait,” Qing Chen suddenly thought of another issue. The function of Knight Vital Energy was partly to apply debuffs and partly to turn everything into a weapon.
Uncle Li Dong once told him that in a critical moment, even hair could be the most dangerous weapon in the hands of a Knight.
But a Knight couldn’t always be plucking out hair, could they? What if one went bald from it, didn’t he see that their master had started looking at middle-aged health manuals?
Moreover, hair and leaves were not tough and easily shattered into pieces.
Was there anything in this world that wouldn’t easily damage, and was convenient to carry and fight with?
Qing Chen looked at the Puppeteer still sucking blood. Was there anything more durable than the Taboo in this world? It seemed not many.
In theory, Taboo items were difficult to destroy by physical means.
With that thought, he infused his True Qi abruptly into his arm, and the loose, transparent strings of the Puppeteer instantly became taut!
The string still absorbing blood turned crimson, like a tightly drawn red bowstring!
The thread of the Puppeteer, which had been resting on the heart of the assassins, now straightened and pierced right through the heart, impaling the corpse!
“Eh,” Qing Chen was somewhat astonished; it turned out that Knight Vital Energy could indeed interact with the Puppeteer!
So, he could use the Puppeteer as a weapon?
Although the Puppeteer couldn’t be thrown as far as the Autumn Leaf Knife, it was much more convenient than carrying a dagger.
Did those old fellows from Taboo Land No. 002 know that Puppeteer could be infused with True Qi and that was why they gave it to him?
Qing Chen seriously felt that when he infused the Puppeteer with Knight Vital Energy, it consumed rapidly.
Moreover, once the infusion extended beyond 1.2 meters, the strength of the True Qi quickly faded.