Chapter 702 Double Kill

Inside the black business van, Brother Hongji took out a pair of dark red gauntlets, putting them on while stretching his neck, baring his teeth as he said:

"Are these evil factions crazy? Do they want to start a full-scale war? Perfect, I didn't get enough fighting last time. Tonight, I'll show off my skills."

Sun Miaomiao, sitting across from him, frowned while looking at the empty and silent surroundings outside the window:

"Something feels off tonight. Whether the evil factions want to provoke us or start a full-scale truce, there's no need to destroy hospitals, schools, and tourist areas. They could just attack the police station.

"I personally feel like they're deliberately causing chaos, planning something."

Tianxiaguihuo nodded, then shook his head: "Anything that creates chaos and disrupts order is a provocation to the authorities, but the evil factions are definitely plotting something."

He suddenly remembered something and said, "Where's Jū Mang?"

Everyone looked at Guan Ya.

Guan Ya, who was in the front row, stared straight at the road. As a scout, she could sense everyone's gazes without turning her head and said:

"Don't worry about him. Go to Derson River Park in fifteen minutes."

Although everyone was puzzled, they didn't say anything else, either closing their eyes to rest or adjusting their condition.

Guan Ya then took out her phone and called the Scholar in her assistant team:

"Turn off all surveillance around Derson River Park."

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Under the quiet glow of the goose-yellow streetlights, Zhang Yuanqing drove the business van toward the deserted Derson River Highway.

Manhattan has a Derson River Park that is filled with tourists and sightseers during the day, but because there are no residences or shops nearby, the riverside is deserted at night.

And because the river breeze is strong at night, even the homeless are too lazy to come here, so fighting here minimizes the risk of affecting ordinary people.

Behind him was another business van driven by Yīn Shī. It carried the Five Elements Alliance's support team. It consisted of Saints and transcendentals, almost twenty people. Even after excluding the Scholars and Musicians who weren't good at combat, there were still more than a dozen people, too many for one business van.

He was worried that the performance would be too obvious, and Bacchus and Hecate wouldn't take the bait. Those two could become peak Saints, so they must have rich experience and wisdom.

The business van sped along the riverside highway, separated from the Derson River by only a two-meter-wide green belt and a guardrail. During the day, tourists loved to lean against the guardrail and take pictures, watching the transport ships sail across the river.

After driving for fifteen minutes, the riverside park came into view.

Suddenly, Zhang Yuanqing saw in the rearview mirror that the streetlights along the riverbank were going out one by one. A dense darkness chased after him, and the extinguished streetlights marked its footsteps.

Soon, the business van driven by Yīn Shī was swallowed by darkness, and Zhang Yuanqing lost contact with Yīn Shī.

Yīn Shī's aura was blocked, even the master with the brand could not sense it.

Here they come... Zhang Yuanqing's lips curled up, he released the accelerator, and voluntarily plunged into the embrace of darkness.

Dense, deep darkness enveloped the business van, even the headlights' brightness dimmed.

The business van driven by Zhang Yuanqing suddenly lost control and crashed into the riverside guardrail. With a "bang," the front of the car caved in, and the guardrail cracked.

Zhang Yuanqing pulled up the handbrake, turned off the engine, and pushed open the car door.

He looked back at the darkness and saw a middle-aged man with a wine-soaked nose, a big belly, and a full beard, and a handsome young man with freckles on his face walking side by side.

"Bacchus, Hecate!" Zhang Yuanqing said in a low voice.

"Oh, you recognize us." Bacchus stroked his belly and said with a smile, "The second and fourth on the A-level wanted list are joining hands to hunt you down. Are you scared enough to wet your pants, boy!"

Hecate lazily commented, "An exquisite item, too bad the Five Elements Alliance team isn't here, otherwise it would be two..."

Speaking of this, he looked at the two empty business vans and frowned. "No one?"

Why is there no one? If there's no one in the car, why would Jū Mang be wandering around the riverbank with two empty cars?

Both of them felt that something was wrong.

Zhang Yuanqing quickly pulled out his pistol and continuously pulled the trigger at the two of them, while simultaneously provoking their sense of urgency.

The bullets either shot into the sky, hit the ground, or flew diagonally into the river, perfectly avoiding Bacchus and Hecate. In front of the drunkard, the trajectory was chaotic.

Although the bullets couldn't threaten the two peak Saints, the act of attacking, combined with emotional manipulation, successfully stirred up their sense of urgency.

"Don't waste time talking to him. There are Wind Masters patrolling in the sky, kill him quickly." Hecate reached into the void and pulled out a dark black coffin.

While jumping into the coffin, he said, "Protect me!"

The coffin lid opened, and after he entered, it closed again.

The next moment, transparent ripples rippled from the coffin, spreading in circles, sweeping over everything around.

Zhang Yuanqing in the distance, Bacchus nearby, staggered, and a tidal wave of drowsiness swept over them. Their eyelids felt like they weighed a thousand pounds, and even the strongest willpower couldn't keep them awake.

Bacchus staggered a few times, barely managing to keep his eyes open. He took down the tin flask hanging from his waist, took a big gulp, and spat it at Zhang Yuanqing in the distance.

The wine turned into a dense mist, filled with a rich, enticing intoxication, and spread quickly.

Thump!

Zhang Yuanqing couldn't hold on any longer. His cheeks flushed, his knees went weak, and he fell to the ground, unconscious.

Thump!

Bacchus also fell down. Before his consciousness disappeared, he "heh"ed. When Jū Mang couldn't stop Hecate from falling asleep, they had already won.

Of course, isn't it only right and proper for three top-tier combat classes to hunt down a regular lawful class and succeed?

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In the dream, the freckled Hecate looked in shock at the stern-faced Tongtian Jiaozhu.

"What are you doing in my dream?" He suddenly remembered the empty two business vans, and his expression suddenly changed: "No, you..."

Tongtian Jiaozhu curled the corner of his mouth: "Want to see a meteor shower?"

He raised his hand and snapped his fingers.

The next moment, the gray sky lit up with scarlet fire, and a large number of meteors fell from the sky, engulfing Hecate.

"Traitor, you traitor!!"

Hecate shouted angrily, his figure swallowed by meteors.

A dozen seconds later, the meteor bombardment ended, and Zhang Yuanqing waved his hand to disperse the "dust" that had been splashed up, seeing Hecate lying on the pitted ground, sleeping soundly.

He wasn't dead. His conscious body was in a semi-transparent state, between real and unreal. It was this state that allowed him to avoid the meteor shower and survive.

Zhang Yuanqing wasn't surprised by this. This was the passive of the Eternal Night class. When encountering a fatal attack, the body and soul would enter a "void" state.

This state is immune to all attacks!

The skill cannot be actively canceled and requires an Extraordinary from the same class to awaken, or wait for him to wake up on his own.

In the latter case, when he wakes up is an uncertain number, maybe a day, maybe a few days, maybe a year, or even longer.

The Eternal Night class is a very special, specialized class among the Extraordinary, almost abandoning attack abilities, and only pursuing one core: sealing.

All skills are derived around sealing, and sleep is one of the derived abilities of "sealing."

Like this class that has abandoned all attack abilities, it must have self-preservation skills. Zhang Yuanqing had read the information of the Eternal Night class and knew it well.

"Sleep well!"

Zhang Yuanqing exited the dream and came to reality, just in time to see his main body and Bacchus wake up one after another.

Bacchus, who had just opened his eyelids, originally thought that Jū Mang had been successfully killed. Before he could show joy, he suddenly saw that Jū Mang, who was lying opposite him, had actually gotten up.

Not dead? Why would he wake up if he wasn't dead... Bacchus looked back blankly at the dark coffin.

At this sight, he felt a chill down his spine. Hecate in the coffin was lying quietly, his body in a phantom state.

As a local evil faction, a peak Saint, Bacchus could of course see that Hecate had been knocked out of his passive state, which is why the sleeping spell was lifted.

And just now, both he and Jū Mang were unconscious, within the range of the sleeping spell, unless it was a Ruler, even if reinforcements from the Five Elements Alliance and Heavenly Punishment arrived, they would immediately fall asleep.

The only possibility is... Bacchus looked at Tongtian Jiaozhu next to the coffin.

Tongtian Jiaozhu, like a villain, curled up his lips in a sinister arc:

"The one who should be scared enough to wet his pants is you, old boy."

After speaking, he raised his head and let out a sharp whistle.

Mental Strike!

Bacchus's head was as if struck by a heavy hammer, and warm blood flowed from the corners of his eyes and nose.

Tongtian Jiaozhu is a traitor, a traitor of Heavenly Punishment planted in the Hunter Guild. Damn, didn't Catherine, that little bitch, repeatedly check and confirm before recruiting!

Bacchus endured the pain of his brain cracking, didn't fight Tongtian Jiaozhu and Jū Mang, turned around and rushed to the Derson River.

He couldn't kill two peak Saints in a short period of time, especially with a spy on their side. Heavenly Punishment's elites were likely to be lurking nearby.

"You can't escape." Zhang Yuanqing grabbed the Box of Black Night from his inventory, opened it with a snap, releasing the darkness inside, making the surrounding darkness even denser.

Then, he took out the matchbox that he hadn't used for a long time, lit it, and made a wish to the bright, bean-like candlelight:

"I wish, the seal of the Box of Black Night is impeccable!"

The flame suddenly brightened and quickly burned out, and the wish was fulfilled.

From now on, the barrier of the Box of Black Night is like a rule, and no one below the Saint stage can break it.

Bacchus's path forward was blocked by darkness. He tried to use his "loophole" ability to distort the rules and escape the restrictions, but found that the barrier was firm and perfect, and there were no loopholes to exploit.

This was exactly Zhang Yuanqing's purpose. Alcoholics are best at exploiting "loopholes" and can distort rules to a certain extent, so the Saint-quality Box of Black Night would be difficult to trap him.

But with the blessing of the matchbox, the black night barrier became perfect.

"I don't have much time. Use any trump cards you have quickly, otherwise I'm afraid you won't have a chance." Zhang Yuanqing said with a smile.

Bacchus was silent for a few seconds, then sighed:

"I don't want to fight you to the death, but since you're courting death, then I'll grant you that. Even if I'm surrounded and killed by Heavenly Punishment today, I'll accept it."

As he said that, he grabbed a mottled oil painting from his inventory. The scenery in the painting was distorted and chaotic, rivers floated in the sky, clouds were spread on the ground, the sun and stars were hung on the treetops, and figures resembling humans walked upside down...

This was Bacchus's last resort, a Ruler-quality item.

As one of the strongest Saints in the Ruler stage, as a Saint even stronger than Osmond and Hoover, although he didn't have the ability to fight a Ruler, he had a genuine Ruler-quality item.

If he didn't have control of Ruler-level power, how could he become the strongest of the Saint-stage series?

The colors in the oil painting detached from the frame and were thrown in all directions. The intense colors stained the ground, the green belt, the sky, and the Derson River surface, quickly spreading.

Soon, reality became an oil painting, and those upside-down and distorted scenes appeared in the real world.

"Damn..."

The doppelganger cursed, and then his body showed a strange distortion. His hands and feet were swapped, his head appeared between his legs, and his buttocks appeared on his chest.

The organs in his body also showed similar dislocations.

He "thumped" to the ground, his pupils became lifeless, he lost his vital signs, and then he dissipated.

"Hmm?"

Bacchus showed no joy, but an expression of astonishment. Tongtian Jiaozhu being killed instantly by the Ruler item was within his expectations, but the changes after his death were completely unexpected.

This situation could only mean that Tongtian Jiaozhu wasn't a real person?

In an instant, Bacchus thought of many possibilities. He quickly looked at Jū Mang, and in his pupils, a figure in purple-gold armor with a purple-gold mask was reflected.

His whole body was covered in armor.

"Who doesn't have a few Ruler-quality items?" A chuckle came from the mask.

The Ruler-level armor protected him from the distorting power of the oil painting.

Then, Bacchus saw the enemy grab a black and white short knife from his inventory. Before he could react, the enemy, with his body wrapped in purple-gold armor, raised his head and let out a shrill scream.

Bacchus's head buzzed and he was struck by lightning, warm blood spraying from his nose again.

He, why does he have the Illusionist's skills... Isn't he a Beast King? Tongtian Jiaozhu isn't the main body, he is?! In the haze of his mind, Bacchus still captured the truth.

But he still couldn't figure it out, how could an evil faction infiltrate Heavenly Punishment?

Zhang Yuanqing unhesitatingly activated the "Soul Siphon" skill, letting the dark light cover the short knife, raised his hand, grabbed a semi-transparent phantom towards Bacchus, and slashed down forcefully.

Bacchus, who had just suffered a mental strike, suffered another heavy blow to his soul, and half of his spiritual body was annihilated on the spot.

And his distorted cognition, limb incoordination, and other abilities were like mud cows entering the sea, having no effect on the enemy.

Bacchus let out a heart-rending scream. The pain of the soul's annihilation directly caused his brain to crash and lose consciousness.

Zhang Yuanqing used the Star Escape technique, appeared behind him, switched to the white side, and stabbed the knife into his heart.

Bacchus's body quickly withered, and the essence of his flesh and blood was instantly devoured by the Annihilation of Body and Soul Blade, turning into a dried corpse.

At their stage, pure strength combat requires a long and arduous battle to determine victory, and it's even more difficult to determine life and death, because even if they can't win, they can rely on rich experience and professional characteristics to escape.

But with Ruler-quality items, determining life and death becomes very simple.

Tongtian Jiaozhu was killed instantly, and Bacchus would also be killed instantly.

This is the difference between a Ruler and a Saint.

Zhang Yuanqing pulled out the short knife, and Bacchus's body, along with the oil painting in his hand, fell down together.

Zhang Yuanqing ignored the corpse, quickly picked up the oil painting and put it into his inventory. Then he came to the coffin. There wasn't much time left. Although the black night isolated auras and images, the dense black night that devoured the light of the streetlights was itself an anomaly.

As long as a Wind Master turned his gaze here, he would see a pitch-black area outside Derson River Park, so black that even the Eyes of the Wind King couldn't see through, and he could immediately judge that it was the ability of an Eternal Night class.

And at this time, there must be Wind Masters patrolling near Manhattan.

He had to find a way to deal with Hecate, otherwise, if the Wind Master came, he would definitely take over Hecate, and Tongtian Jiaozhu's identity as a double agent would be exposed.

"Hecate is in this state, I can't do anything about it. If I can't kill him..."

Zhang Yuanqing frowned, scrutinizing the person in the coffin, thought for a few seconds, and suddenly had an idea.

If he can't silence him, then take him away!

As for how to take away the untouchable Hecate, Zhang Yuanqing found that although the other party was in a "void" state, he was still sleeping in the coffin, not falling out of it.

The coffin seemed to be able to hold the flesh of the Eternal Night class.

Thinking of this, he bent over and picked up the coffin lid, making the lid fit tightly with the coffin, and then tried to lift the coffin.

Hecate's body didn't "fall" out, still inside the coffin.

He tried to put the coffin into his inventory, but failed.

The inventory doesn't accept living people.

So Zhang Yuanqing took out Little Red Riding Hood, shook out Silver Dew County Princess, and instructed: "You take the coffin away, go by water, find a deserted place to hide it, and wait for my news."

He took out the Yin-Yang Robe and threw it to Silver Dew County Princess.

Silver Dew County Princess obediently put on the robe, carried the coffin on her shoulder, jumped into the Derson River, and disappeared into the surging waves.

Zhang Yuanqing waited quietly for a moment, until the ripples on the water surface disappeared, then he retracted the Box of Black Night, canceled the night, so that Silver Dew County Princess at the bottom of the river could leave smoothly.

"Whoosh..."

As soon as the night was withdrawn, the sound of air whistling came from the sky, and several Wind Masters descended on the battlefield, riding the gale.

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ps: Fix typos later.