How to Complete Special Trial II

"Ah, no. I really do need to find a way to kill Mercenary Tao."

Bai Cangshu rose from the hardwood bed. He had indeed spent about ten seconds considering the principle of respecting one's teacher, but in the end, he could not convince himself.

Logically speaking, since Infinite Space had issued him a mission to prevent Team 64323 from killing Mercenary Tao, that meant that, according to Infinite Space's judgment, Mercenary Tao might be killed by Team 64323.

Bai Cangshu did not doubt that someone in Infinite Space could kill Mercenary Tao. After all, no matter how powerful Mercenary Tao was, he had not reached the level of those truly unkillable monsters.

If Infinite Space was really like those Infinite Flow novels, capable of granting reincarnators abilities from all kinds of worlds, then a few powerful reincarnators working together would naturally have many ways to kill Mercenary Tao.

And to Bai Cangshu, these reincarnators were far more dangerous.

Every one of them likely possessed terrifying abilities he knew nothing about.

After all, no one could be sure whether the other side might open their eyes to reveal a pair of Mangekyō Sharingan, or lower their head and start writing names in the Death Note.

There were too many such unknown methods. With his current strength, he had no way to resist them.

Therefore, there had only ever been two possibilities for completing the mission of preventing Team 64323 from killing Mercenary Tao.

The first was saving Mercenary Tao.

He could either find a way to raise his reputation and trust with Mercenary Tao, making Mercenary Tao believe his intelligence and prepare in advance to fight back;

Or he could seek the help of Master Shen and his disciples, who were somewhere unknown at the moment;

The best option would be to do both. Mercenary Tao could deliberately confront the enemy head-on, then use his mobility to draw apart the enemy team members, while Master Shen, Tien Shinhan, and the others worked with him to launch a covert assassination.

That explained why there was also a Side Mission requiring Team 64323 to lose at least one member.

Clearly, this was the hint given by the space, the proper path for completing the mission.

Unfortunately, Bai Cangshu could sense that Mercenary Tao was not satisfied with him. He had still killed the other candidates too slowly.

To take this route, he would probably have needed to reveal the truth behind Mercenary Tao's trial as soon as Mercenary Tao left the mountain, triggering a chaotic battle among the eight.

Then he would have had to become the final victor, earning Mercenary Tao's approval and completing Trial Mission I that very day.

That way, the trial participant would have nearly seven days to raise Mercenary Tao's favor to the maximum. If Bai Cangshu had guessed correctly, the assassination jobs in those eight envelopes—

They had been prepared for precisely this purpose. After becoming Mercenary Tao's disciple, one would carry out those hired killings for him, truly kill every target, and thereby earn Mercenary Tao's trust.

Sitting on the wooden bed, Bai Cangshu curled his lips into a smile. The cruelty of this Infinite Dimensional Adventure space was even more pronounced than he had imagined.

Who would have thought that the future course of a trial mission could already be decided at the very beginning, right after it was triggered?

Ordinary newcomers were probably still panicking at that time, only to miss the best opportunity in confusion.

Heh. Even someone like Bai Cangshu, who thought so highly of himself as no ordinary human, had missed the chance because he wanted to observe things first.

Of course, Bai Cangshu still had not realized the "special" nature of this Special Trial.

The reason Bai Cangshu did not think himself crazy was because he considered himself extremely rational.

Rationality meant being able to weigh gains and losses without being swayed by emotion.

He spent only ten seconds discarding this plan, which he could no longer carry out successfully.

Then he began considering the second method of preventing Team 64323 from killing Mercenary Tao.

Besides saving Mercenary Tao, there was another way—kill Mercenary Tao first!

Bai Cangshu carefully reviewed the mission description. The mission required him to "prevent" "Team 64323" from killing Mercenary Tao.

The core of the mission was actually stopping the reincarnator team's actions, not Mercenary Tao's life or death.

In other words, as long as Mercenary Tao was not killed by that reincarnator team, he would have completed Special Trial II.

Bai Cangshu naturally began considering how he could kill Mercenary Tao.

As mentioned before, when he had sufficient qi, Mercenary Tao was unquestionably a superhuman Martial Artist.

It was almost impossible for an ordinary person to kill him in a direct fight.

Given that his Pillar Flight mobility let him travel over two thousand kilometers in four minutes, even the superpowers of the real world would likely struggle to lock onto him for a precise strike.

Although Bai Cangshu had always been feared by those around him, and far surpassed his peers in both physical and mental qualities,

Bai Cangshu was still within the bounds of an ordinary human.

He looked at the silver-white Revolver: Knocking on Misfortune's Door in his hand, then shook his head.

No. This firearm was far less powerful than a sniper rifle and could not threaten Mercenary Tao.

He looked again at the belongings left behind by the people he had killed in the room: twin blades, a double-barreled shotgun. None of those weapons could be taken out of the space, so they could not be placed in his Backpack. At last, his gaze settled on the two emerald-green daggers.

Poisoning...

Bai Cangshu felt it was still not thorough enough.

Time remaining until Team 64323 enters this world: 21 hours 07 minutes

Time was not plentiful, which also eliminated the possibility of Bai Cangshu finding the Turtle School members, provoking conflict between both sides, and reaping the benefits as a third party.

Searching for the Dragon Balls to make a wish was even more absurd. If the Dragon Balls could truly be found in such a short time, then the space would not have set this so-called trial mission.

What the Dragon Balls of this world could accomplish had long surpassed something as simple as killing Mercenary Tao.

Bai Cangshu looked at the moon outside the window and suddenly made his decision.

He sprang from the bed in an instant, moving with agile speed. After picking up the pair of poisoned daggers, he used the inn's telephone and pressed the redial button.

Then, under cover of the night and rain, he hurried down the mountain road.

Bai Cangshu was extremely fast. In less than a quarter of an hour, he had returned from the mountain to the town.

His right index and middle fingers were still wrapped in bandages, but his expression had returned to that naturally smiling look.

Bai Cangshu liked to smile because he had discovered that a smile was the most convenient expression.

It kept others from seeing through his true emotions, while serving as a natural disguise that no one could find fault with.

His pace was neither hurried nor slow. Every step covered exactly the same distance. This was the result of his imitation of Mercenary Tao's gait; he seemed to possess this powerful degree of muscle control by nature.

Tang Badan stood in the inn's shadow, away from the light. Watching Bai Cangshu approach with steady steps and that terrifying smile, his expression turned cold.

His breathing was rapid, and his heart pounded violently without pause.

"You must really be insane to say something so suicidal!"

"Aren't you afraid I'll tell Lord Mercenary Tao directly that you want to kill him?!"

When Bai Cangshu saw Tang Badan appear, he already felt confident.

He walked step by step toward Tang Badan. They nearly collided, yet he did not stop. Tang Badan staggered back two steps, and his momentum had already fallen behind.

The smile at Bai Cangshu's lips grew more obvious.

"Mercenary Tao is suspicious by nature. If you say something like that, he'll only start suspecting you as well."

"Besides, since Lord Tang Badan was willing to meet me, then deep down... you also want to kill Lord Mercenary Tao, don't you?"