Blood Raider
Xia Fei placed the blood in front of his nose and sniffed it. Human! Time of death is less than thirty minutes.
Xiao Haili nodded silently. He pulled out a single-edged dagger from his waist and held it in a reverse grip. He took a step back and aimed at the door, ready to strike.
Queiroz pressed the open button on the door, and the E131 door suddenly opened. Xia Fei and Xiao Haili practically rushed in at the same time, one on the left and the other on the right.
There was no one in the corridor, and the blood indicated that the corpses had been dragged away along the corridor on the right.
"Chase!"
Xiao Haili took the lead with his dagger, and Xia Fei followed closely behind. Queiroz used his protective ability to protect the two sides of the team and their escape route.
After turning a corner, there was suddenly an additional trail of blood on the ground. This trail had come from another direction, and it seemed to have been left not too long ago. It looked like there were at least two deaths, and the time of death was very close to when Xia Fei and the others entered the space station.
Two trails of blood disappeared in front of a large metal door. From the looks of it, the corpses had been dragged through this door, and the words on the door indicated that this was the space station's cargo warehouse.
Xiao Haili gestured for Xia Fei to follow behind him, letting Queiroz guard the door and protect the escape route.
Xia Fei and Xiao Haili carefully entered the warehouse. The space station had been abandoned for a long time, so there were not many things in the warehouse. There were only a few large and small cargo containers scattered in every corner of the warehouse.
Xia Fei counted in his heart. There was a total of five trails of blood that had been dragged into the warehouse from different entrances, and they all gathered behind a few metal containers in the center.
Xiao Haili and Xia Fei slowly approached the metal containers and saw that someone had dumped five corpses behind the containers. Each of the corpses had at least a dozen circular wounds on them, and the thick stench of blood assaulted their nostrils.
From the shape of the wounds, they had been pierced through by a hard cylindrical object, and every wound was aimed at the victim's vitals, heart, brain, and lungs. The attacks were precise and ruthless, leaving no room for maneuver.
These victims were all wearing the same black combat suits. Xia Fei flipped open one of the combat suits and suddenly discovered an Adjudicator badge pinned to his underwear. It was a two-star silver badge!
"Are these people all Adjudicators?!" Xia Fei was nervous. He and Xiao Haili flipped through everyone's jackets, and sure enough, everyone had an Adjudicator badge on their chest. Two were silver, and the remaining three were bronze.
"Kevin Hanting, Secret Investigation Department!" Xiao Haili softly read the words on the back of the badge.
The five Adjudicators who were murdered were all from the Clandestine Investigation Department, so why were the people from the Clandestine Investigation Department there? Who killed them?
Xia Fei furrowed his eyebrows. The killer could not be a low rank to be able to kill two Silver Adjudicators and three Bronze Adjudicators, and judging from the time of their deaths, the killer must still be in the space station.
Bang!
That was when the heavy metal door of the warehouse suddenly slammed shut without any warning, trapping Xia Fei and Xiao Haili inside. Following that, the sand particles around them fell to the ground. Evidently, the enemy had used some sort of method to cut off the protection the Quicksand Guard provided to Xia Fei and Xiao Haili.
"Sh * t! We've been tricked. This is a strategy to take us down one by one!" Xia Fei said.
Whoosh!
Xia Fei exerted strength in his legs and quickly made his way to the door of the warehouse, attempting to open it.
If Xia Fei was the one who arranged this strategy, then Xia Fei would definitely eliminate Queiroz, who had the Quicksand Guard. After all, his Guardian ability could be used for both offense and defense, and it was the strongest weapon of the team.
Queiroz, who was locked outside, was definitely in danger!
Chasing Light slashed at the metal door several dozen times!
The metal door was over ten centimeters thick, and Xia Fei's Chasing Light could only cut through the door, but it was unable to truly break it open!
That was when a series of footsteps came from afar, getting closer and closer.
"Someone is coming!" Xia Fei turned around and placed Chasing Light in front of his chest, assuming a defensive stance as his eyes stared at the other side of the warehouse.
Xiao Haili also retreated from the side of the container toward Xia Fei, his expression extremely grave.
All he saw was four people walking out from the depths of the warehouse. They were wearing beige windbreakers that wrapped themselves tightly, their bodies bent in a weird manner, like four walking lobsters.
Xia Fei's pupils constricted abruptly, a look of disbelief on his face.
The faces of these four people were densely covered with scales, and their mouths were filled with ferocious teeth. Their two black eyes were protruding out, and they looked like four lizards that could walk upright. They even dragged a huge tail behind them.
They had five fingers, and each finger was like a steel bar with extremely hard and sharp edges. The wounds on the bodies of those Adjudicators were clearly caused by their fingers.
"Blood Raiders! They are high-rank insectoids! "Phantom said in a deep voice.
Xia Fei was slightly stunned. "Could they be Beast Ability Users? I feel that they are very similar to the Beast Ability User I met during the Crisis grade assessment."
Phantom shook his head. They do look alike, but you have to pay attention to their eyes. Although shape-shifters can change their appearance to resemble exotic beasts, they are unable to change their eyes. Meanwhile, insectoids only have one color in their eyes. That is the difference. Phantoms have one color in their eyes.
Most insectoids were reptiles with low intelligence. Though there were a lot of them and they had decent combat strength, they could only be called cannon fodder and were not the true core strength of the insectoids.
The true leaders of the insectoids were the intelligent insectoids. They could think like humans, move independently, and even build warships and weapons.
The Blood Raiders were a type of intelligent insectoids, and their intelligence was considered above average among the insectoids. Because they often carried out bloody and cruel secret missions, they were called Blood Raiders by humans.
The last war between the Pan-Human Alliance and the insectoids was over two thousand years ago, and both sides had signed a peace treaty, so why would these Blood Raiders still appear in the territory controlled by the Pan-Human Alliance?
The four Blood Raiders formed an encirclement, trapping Xia Fei and Xiao Haili in the middle.
"Fight or retreat?" Xia Fei asked in a deep voice.
Xiao Haili had a deep hatred for Xia Fei because of Ye Xiaohan and Xiao Yong. The reason why he had chosen Xia Fei to come with him to the space station was to find an opportunity to teach him a lesson.
Now that this golden opportunity was right in front of him, Queiroz was blocked outside the door, the space station's surveillance system had failed, and the life detection system was blocked. If he were to kill Xia Fei here, no one would know.
Xiao Haili suddenly had an idea. He pulled out a strange-looking communicator from his spatial ring and handed it to Xia Fei. "This is a special communicator that can directly contact the headquarters. Later, the two of us will charge in two different directions, and whoever gets out of this blocked area first will use this to contact the headquarters and call for backup."
Xia Fei nodded and reached out with his left hand to receive it.
Just as their palms were about to touch, Xiao Haili suddenly revealed a sinister smile and grabbed Xia Fei's wrist with a flip of his palm.
Xiao Haili was a Legendary intermediate rank expert, the highest rank among all the Adjudicators under the age of thirty in the Endaro branch. His strength far surpassed Xia Fei's, and as long as Xia Fei's wrist was grabbed by him, he would be unable to use his speed ability, which was tantamount to death.
At this crucial moment, Xia Fei's outstanding reflexes played a decisive role. Seeing that Xiao Haili's palm was about to land on Xia Fei's arm, Xia Fei suddenly pulled his hand back as fast as he could. At the same time, his feet suddenly picked up speed, retreating along the corner of the wall at a speed of over eight hundred meters per second without any hesitation.
By the time Xiao Haili reacted, Xia Fei was already over a hundred meters away from him. Xia Fei had cleverly used his advantage in speed to weave past the four Blood Raiders, not even turning his head back.
The four Blood Raiders glanced back. They understood that they would not be able to catch up to Xia Fei with their speed, so they let Xia Fei leave and quickened their pace to surround Xiao Haili. This way, Xiao Haili was the only one left in the encirclement of the Blood Raiders.
Xiao Haili was extremely anxious. If Xia Fei were to escape and report this matter to the Union, then his future and honor would all be gone. This was an outcome he could not accept no matter what.
Xiao Haili let out an angry roar, and a large amount of flames suddenly appeared in his hand, tightly wrapping around the dagger.
The four insectoid Blood Raiders and Xiao Haili attacked almost at the same time!
Xiao Haili's special ability was Nature's Raging Flames, a very powerful ability that allowed him to control fire.
However, these four Blood Raiders were all protected by thick and heavy scales, and even though Xiao Haili's flames burned their skin painfully, they were unable to kill them.
The battle was extremely intense. The dagger in Xiao Haili's hand was burning red, as if it had just been taken out of a steel furnace. Every time the dagger struck the bodies of these Blood Raiders, wisps of white smoke would appear, leaving numerous wounds on their bodies.
The insectoids were not humans, so they did not know what fear was or what retreat was. Xiao Haili's desperate attacks had instead stimulated the Blood Raiders' brutal instincts.
The Blood Raiders became even more frenzied, not caring about the pain of being burned by the flames as they pounced on Xiao Haili, intending to perish together with him.
Xia Fei hid behind a container a distance away, coldly watching everything unfold. Xiao Haili was a Legendary rank expert, so it should not be a problem for him to fight one against four, but the crucial thing was that these Blood Raiders were not afraid of his most powerful weapon, flames. They were not even afraid of death.
As a result, the battle became abnormally intense. Xiao Haili seemed to have the upper hand, yet he was unable to end the battle.
Xia Fei calculated that the outcome of this battle would most likely be a lose-lose situation for both sides.
He calmly waited, the muscles in his legs tensed, ready to rush forward and deal Xiao Haili a fatal blow at any moment. Xia Fei would not have the slightest bit of sympathy for an enemy who wanted to kill him. Since the other party had already decided to kill him, Xia Fei would not let him live to see tomorrow's sunrise.
All of a sudden!
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