At this moment, a hoarse voice came from outside the shack. It was directed at her new neighbor, Xiaoyu. "Xiaoyu, I only found out you've moved here when I went to your place to look for you tonight. I brought you cigarettes."
Ren Xiaosu and Yan Liuyuan looked at each other and frowned. Xiaoyu said, "I won't do that anymore."
"Haha." The owner of the hoarse voice laughed like he had heard something funny. "If you don't do that, what will you eat and drink? Who's going to give you cigarettes to smoke in the future? "
"Let go of me." Xiaoyu's voice was filled with anger. The two of them seemed to have gotten into a physical altercation. With a ripping sound, it sounded like someone's clothes were torn.
Yan Liuyuan looked at Ren Xiaosu, but Ren Xiaosu was still frowning. He said softly, "Bro, help her."
Ren Xiaosu stood up, removed his bone knife from his calf, and walked out of the shack while holding it upside down.
At this moment, in the palace in Ren Xiaosu's mind, the brass typewriter's keys were pressed down one by one. As words were written on the kraft paper, a voice came from the majestic palace. "Quest: Help —"
He sneered in his mind and interrupted the voice from the palace. "Even without this quest, I'll still help her."
From the moment Ren Xiaosu left the shack with the knife to the moment he rushed in front of the man, only one or two seconds had passed.
Ren Xiaosu did not say any threatening words like "let go of her" or "try touching her again" because he knew any unnecessary actions would only lead to failure.
What he wanted to do was to use the simplest method to solve the simplest problem.
When Ren Xiaosu's slender but muscular figure charged at the man like a cheetah, the man quickly drew his knife from his waist and slashed at him. Everyone in town would carry a weapon for self-defense.
The man had a sneer in his mind because he was almost a head taller than Ren Xiaosu. Besides, he was wielding a real iron weapon and not some bone knife.
But the next moment, his sneer came to an abrupt halt.
Iron weapons were better than bone blades. This was common sense, even if the muscles and bones of wild beasts were as strong as steel.
But even if it was as strong as steel, it was still inferior to steel.
Cold weapons were not prohibited in town, but it was extremely difficult to get your hands on a good piece of metal. Although some industries were slowly catching up to the standards from before The Cataclysm, resources were still limited.
When Ren Xiaosu appeared in front of the man like a shadow, he landed on the ground with his left leg. The muscles of his right leg, which was used to support his whole body weight, suddenly tightened, and the sole of his foot firmly gripped the ground. His entire body's strength was transmitted from the ground to his abdomen like an electric current, and then to his arms!
Ren Xiaosu's saber was like a ravine on the ground, slanting upwards and cutting a crack in the dark night.
With a crack, the bone saber and the iron weapon collided. The people who were secretly watching were surprised to see the two sabers shatter into two pieces at the same time. They had thought only the bone saber would shatter!
In an instant, while the man was still in a daze, Ren Xiaosu had already thrown the bone saber away without any hesitation. This action was done in one go, as though Ren Xiaosu already knew the bone saber would shatter, so he had other plans from the beginning.
He grabbed the man's wrist and smashed his other fist into the man's armpit nerve like a cannon.
The man wanted to break free, but he suddenly realized this young man was much stronger than him!
How was that possible? How old was this young man? This young man's height only reached his neck!
But when the man saw the muscles on Ren Xiaosu's neck, he realized they were as tough as steel. That was his strength.
The axillary nerve was about three inches away from the arm and armpit. There was no need to be too precise because a fist was enough to cover the deviation.
This place was one of the weak points of the human body. When the axillary nerve was hit hard, it would be dislocated. If the nerve was compared to a cable, then this dislocation would cause the axillary nerve to produce electricity and release electrical signals uncontrollably.
At this time, when the receptors in the brain were overloaded, they would send out signals of pain. When the nerve was overloaded, the limbs would receive chaotic signals.
The body would start to secrete large amounts of calcium and potassium. A storm of electricity would be enough to temporarily paralyze the entire system!
The man cried out in pain and fell to the ground. His limbs were even twitching. When he finally understood what was going on, he no longer had any ability to fight against Ren Xiaosu.
Ren Xiaosu stood quietly beside him, seemingly thinking about something. The man panted for a while and begged for mercy. "I won't hold a grudge. Please let me go, and I will forget what happened today."
At this time, any smart person would know that he was already a fish on the chopping board. What he should do now was not to continue shouting arrogantly, but to wait for the future.
Ren Xiaosu looked at Xiaoyu. "Who is he?"
"He's a foreman at the coal mine. He was the one who led the murder of the man who was stabbed to death in town last night. He heard that the man had a habit of saving money, and it just so happened that he owed money to the casino, so he got the idea to kill him." Xiaoyu recounted what the man had bragged about yesterday.
Ren Xiaosu walked to the side of the road and picked up the man's metal weapon. Then he walked back to the man's side and looked down at him from above. He calculated the time and estimated that the man would be able to move again in at most four or five seconds.
Suddenly, the palace that had been silent for a long time spoke again. "Quest: Spare the enemy."
But as soon as the voice from the palace finished speaking, Ren Xiaosu squatted down and thrust the metal weapon into the man's abdomen. The sharp sound of the weapon tearing through leather made the scalps of all the bystanders and eavesdroppers tingle. Then the man's blood started to gush out.
"You still have about three minutes left. If you get stitched up at the clinic in town in time, you might still have a chance of surviving," Ren Xiaosu said calmly.
When the man heard that, he ignored the pain and immediately got up and ran to the clinic without saying a word.
"Quest complete. Awarded Basic Skill Duplication Scroll.
"Quest complete. Awarded Basic Skill Duplication Scroll.
"Due to the loss of your weapon, a side quest has been activated —"
Before Ren Xiaosu could finish listening, he was stunned. The first quest should have been to save Xiaoyu, so he could understand that he had completed it. But he did not expect that he would also complete the second quest.
How on earth did the palace determine that?!
Next to him, Yan Liuyuan asked curiously, "Bro, you're letting him go just like that? What if he recovers after getting stitched up at the clinic and comes looking for you to take revenge? He's not a good person. "
Ren Xiaosu looked at the night sky. "That crappy clinic in town doesn't know how to stitch things up …."
"Bro, I'm relieved to see you being so ruthless …."
It was precisely because of this that Ren Xiaosu lamented that he had completed the quest just like that. That man was actually going to die without a doubt. And even if he did not die, the rusty metal blade was like a divine weapon that could cause tetanus in a single cut. Even if he survived, he would still be crippled.
Although that man had metal, he could only get his hands on the cheapest kind. If not for that, Ren Xiaosu probably would not have been able to get his hands on that metal blade either.
A person like Ren Xiaosu only had his own firm principles. Even if he had superpowers, it would not change the way he conducted himself.
If he wanted to change, he had to do it himself. No one else could do it.
So the judgment on whether the quest was completed or not was not very strict. What the palace cared about … was the attitude that Ren Xiaosu showed?
At this moment, some people in the shacks by the roadside were whispering to each other. In fact, they already knew what kind of ruthless person Ren Xiaosu was all these years. But they were still shocked again today.
This was because the difference in size between the two parties today was too great. But the strength that Ren Xiaosu displayed was in no way inferior to that man's. In fact, he even surpassed him.
This was rather unbelievable.
Someone in a shack muttered, "I told you not to provoke him."
Ren Xiaosu walked over and picked up his bone blade. This bone blade had accompanied him for more than a year and had finally died of old age.
He turned to look at Xiaoyu. Xiaoyu looked a little delicate in the dark. Actually, Xiaoyu was eight years older than Ren Xiaosu, but she looked like she was eight years younger than Ren Xiaosu.
Ren Xiaosu said bluntly, "Can you quit smoking?"
Xiaoyu nodded vigorously.
"That stuff isn't that addictive. It's probably just a little poppy shell added to it. Old Wang said that the ratio is very low, so it's still possible to quit smoking if you want to," Ren Xiaosu said as he walked to the entrance of Xiaoyu's shack and crouched down. He fiercely stabbed half of his bone blade into the soil, leaving only a small part of it exposed.
Some of the people by the roadside who had some devious thoughts about Xiaoyu were immediately discouraged.
In town, this half of the bone blade was like a symbol of determination. No one was willing to offend this ruthless person, Ren Xiaosu.
Ren Xiaosu turned to Xiaoyu and said, "But there's something I have to say in advance. Although I'm very handsome, although … it's impossible between us."
Xiaoyu looked stunned. "I only treat you as a younger brother."
This time, it was Ren Xiaosu's turn to be stunned. "Hahahaha, that's so awkward."
Ren Xiaosu immediately led Yan Liuyuan back to his shack. As he walked, he glared at Yan Liuyuan. You're the fucking one who's been nagging me all day!
Yan Liuyuan secretly turned around and winked at Xiaoyu. When Xiaoyu saw Yan Liuyuan's expression, she immediately laughed. It was as though her bad mood had vanished.
She crouched on the ground and looked at the half of the bone blade for a long time before going back to sleep with a smile on her face.
Meanwhile, Ren Xiaosu closed his eyes to carefully look at the palace and the words that had just been typed on the typewriter.
This side quest was quite interesting.
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