Strange sounds came from the depths of Bloody Slaughter Gao Yang's throat.
His face was gradually turning pale, and a deathly shade appeared on it.
Meng Chao's voice became even calmer. "Since I knew that you were hiding a third saber, it wouldn't be hard for me to determine the shape of the saber. To lower my guard, you intentionally tore off your cloak and revealed your upper body to show that you were clean and had no place to hide more weapons.
"Indeed, if it's made of super strong alloy and weighs more than ten kilograms, you'll be discovered no matter where you hide it and need to hold it with both hands.
"Besides, I analyzed your arms based on their diameters, muscle strength, and average power output. I noticed that your arms are about the same. Your right arm isn't particularly strong while your left arm is relatively weak.
"Since you use two sabers, it means that the two sabers you're used to using should be about the same in weight and nature. That's why your left and right arms are especially balanced.
"For example, I originally walked down the dual saber path, but since the saber in my right hand is too heavy and the saber in my left hand is relatively light, after training madly for a few months, my right arm became a few millimeters thicker than my left arm.
"Based on what I said, the third saber you hid should be as thin as a cicada's wing and light like the shadowless saber in your left hand.
"I knew it …"
When Meng Chao said this, he pulled out the black saber from his heart.
It was a weapon that was not much wider than a willow leaf.
To maximize its lightness and strangeness, it did not even have a hilt.
Meng Chao held it between his fingers. It did not look like a weapon. Instead, it looked like a black mica sheet or the cartilage of an Apocalyptic Beast.
Meng Chao groped about it for a while, and soon, he found the secret behind it.
Based on the strength of the spirit energy he injected into it, the hardness and flexibility of the black saber could change at will within a certain range.
Sometimes, it would become as tough as steel, and it could even easily pierce through and tear through the reactive armor of a main battle tank.
Sometimes, it would become as soft as a finger. In fact, it had great ductility and could be stretched and contracted at will.
Meng Chao thought about it and wrapped the black saber around his wrist. The black saber instantly became docile.
As he slightly changed the vibration frequency of the spirit energy magnetic field on his arm, aside from the material, the color of the blade turned from black to nearly transparent. Then, it turned from transparent to completely mimicking Meng Chao's skin.
The sharp blade was as thin as a cicada's wing to begin with. Even if it was wrapped around his wrist a few times, not a single trace could be seen.
Then, it turned into Meng Chao's skin color, as if it was his second skin.
It was no wonder then that even though Meng Chao was certain that Bloody Slaughter Gao Yang had a third saber, he could not find it even after he scanned the area for a long time.
Random Blade had optical camouflage functions and could automatically change its appearance to blend into its surroundings. When Meng Chao, an assassin from his previous life in the Ghost Tribe, it was like adding wings to a tiger!
"Amazing. In order to obtain this divine weapon, you must have put in a lot of effort."
Meng Chao gasped in amazement. He put away Casual Blade and continued, "Now that I'm certain that you have a third saber and know the general shape and material of the saber, I know the most likely attack method you will use.
"A long time ago, I admired you a lot and studied your fighting style.
"You used to be a hunter. Even though your name is Bloody Butcher, and you seem to be very bold and fierce, in truth, hunters are the same as harvesters. Both of you have a bad habit when you fight. Compared to slashing with overwhelming force, you and I prefer to kill our prey with precise stabs.
"To ensure that our prey's appearance is complete and that we can harvest the most valuable raw materials, the smaller the fatal wound, the better.
"When I'm hunting with my comrades, this habit might not be a big deal.
"But when I'm alone and I'm fighting to the death against an opponent who is on par with me, this instinctive habit is very fatal.
"I predicted that you could only use sudden stabs, which meant that the targets you could choose to attack were rather limited. They could only target my eyes, throat, heart, and Dantian region. I could naturally target these vital spots and come up with a sufficient defense and counterattack plan in my mind.
"Yes, I hid my strength.
"And you knew very well that I hid my strength.
"On the other hand, I also deduced that you knew very well that I hid my strength. After all, you're a rarely seen enemy of mine. When I faced your attacks that were filled with killing intent, it was impossible for me to hide my strength flawlessly.
"When I realized this, I decided to give up on my original plan and stopped focusing on hiding my strength.
"My true trap was my heart.
"I practiced a secret technique called Walking Corpse. It allowed me to restrain my breathing and heartbeat to the minimum, just like a living dead.
"With this secret technique, I intentionally controlled the activity of my heart and reduced it to near zero.
"At the same time, I used spirit energy to stimulate the muscles beside my heart, making them spasm in a rhythmic manner to simulate my heartbeat.
"Besides, the slight changes in my vitality magnetic field caused you to misjudge the location of my heart. The 'heart' you locked onto was half an inch away from my real heart.
"Using your own heart as a stake is naturally very risky.
"But I believe that if I didn't really stab a knife into my heart when I faced a peerless criminal with great hunting experience, you wouldn't have let your guard down, and you wouldn't have exposed an opening that would allow me to end the fight.
"I also knew that you and your master must have set up a series of interconnected schemes and endless backup plans. If I couldn't kill you, even if I found a way to escape this place, it would be difficult for me to escape from you and your master's pursuit.
"So, no matter how great the price I had to pay, even if I had to bet my own heart, I had to kill you here while the signal was severely disrupted and before you could send the news out!"
When Meng Chao said the last word, he gritted his teeth, and his expression became fierce.
The gray, deathly look on Bloody Slaughter Gao Yang's face became even more intense.
He opened his mouth.
But he could not utter a single word of admiration or cursing Meng Chao.
He only came to a realization and admitted his loss. He exhaled one last breath.
He extended his hand to Meng Chao while trembling.
He did not know whether he wanted to give Meng Chao a thumbs up or launch a final, futile attack.
But before his fingertips touched Meng Chao …
A thin and long red line appeared on his neck.
The red line spread out quickly, and soon, it circled his neck.
Thud!
His huge head flew into the air, and blood gushed out of his body cavity. The headless body flailed for a few seconds before the peerless criminal finally fell at Meng Chao's feet. He used his life to show his submission.
Meng Chao stared at Bloody Slaughter Gao Yang's corpse coldly.
He was still on high alert.
His memories from his previous life told him that there were plenty of strange and unfathomable secret arts in the Other World that allowed carbon-based lifeforms to retain a certain amount of offensive power even after they died.
Even though they could not bring the dead back to life, they could drag the enemies who let their guard down to hell with them.
This was also the reason why he had talked nonstop and mentioned all his strategies.
On the surface, he seemed to be feeling smug and boastful because he had killed a powerful enemy whose cultivation realm was above his.
But if Bloody Slaughter Gao Yang really thought that he was blinded by his victory and decided to launch an ambush that would drag him down with him, Meng Chao still had at least ten ways to launch his fiercest counterattack.
Fortunately, Bloody Slaughter Gao Yang was not an Earthling. After he stepped out of Monster Mountain Range, he ran into monsters that could not be killed no matter what.
Only when Gao Yang's headless body stopped twitching for a full three minutes did Meng Chao let out a long sigh of relief. Gao Yang's head had rolled to the corner and was reduced to a bloody mess by the collapsing reinforced concrete above him did Meng Chao stop.
His nerves and muscles were so tense that they were about to snap, and they finally relaxed. The wound that pierced through his chest, which was half an inch away from his heart, instantly increased by several orders of magnitude.
It was just as he said, he had staked everything on this and gambled on his heart.
Even if he managed to kill a peerless criminal like Bloody Slaughter Gao Yang, he had to pay a devastating price.
He had been stabbed in the heart. Even if he did not hit the heart, the spirit energy that seeped into his body through the blade still invaded his heart and tore countless tiny wounds that could not be seen with the naked eye. It severely damaged his heart functions.
In the beginning, to lure Bloody Slaughter Gao Yang into a trap, Meng Chao had fought and crashed into his body hundreds of times, causing his body, which had just been repaired by his contribution points, to be torn to shreds and covered in wounds.
Besides, the waste gas and poisonous fog that he sucked in during the fight were like strong acids that invaded his lungs.
Contribution points and healing skills were not omnipotent.
If he repeatedly stimulated his cells to divide, swell, replicate, and regenerate within a short period of time, he would definitely have all sorts of side effects and sequelae.
This was just like how relying on powerful drugs did not mean that he could really have sex every night just because he looked mighty on the surface. Meng Chao felt like he was seeing stars and the world was spinning.
Meng Chao saw stars, and the world spun around him. Even his fingers were as mushy as mud. It was as if he had really taken too much poison.
He knew that he could not activate the Healing Skill endlessly. His cells and even his soul needed to catch a breath.
He gritted his teeth and used the last bit of his strength to pounce on Bloody Slaughter Gao Yang's corpse.
He groped around the corpse with great familiarity, and soon, he found a tactical bag that was tied up securely on the corpse's right leg.
He removed the tactical bag and opened it to take a look. It was filled with emergency medicine, simple suturing and bandaging tools, a few gene medicine and high-calorie nutritional fluid, a few high-purity crystals that could be used as currency, three anonymous high-value credit cards that could be used in the lair, and a small communicator.
Bloody Slaughter Gao Yang had a lot of experience in escaping. He knew that his enemies and bounty hunters would come for him at any moment, and he might not have the chance to pack his belongings every single time.
Hence, he put all the necessities for survival in the PUBG into the small tactical bag. He did not expect that it would benefit Meng Chao.
Boom!
Boom!
Boom! Boom!
The explosions above him became even louder.
This time, it seemed to have happened two or three floors above him.
Waves of heat descended from the sky like a waterfall.
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