"Mission Complete"

Click, click.

The sound of the trigger being pulled was crisp and awkward.

Bai Cangshu sheepishly lowered the unloaded white firearm and shrugged under Abola's murderous gaze.

"I didn't expect you to be so cautious. You actually didn't load it."

Only now did Abola's heart begin pounding violently in delayed fear, so intensely that his vision nearly went dark.

"You... you actually..."

He had no idea there were no bullets in the gun. It had been an instinctive decision by the experienced bodyguard based on his seasoned judgment, but Bai Cangshu's utterly unhesitating pull of the trigger had startled both of them.

They instinctively reached for their waists.

Thud!

Abola only saw the young man before him suddenly move with the agility of a cheetah. He stepped onto the table crafted from luxurious stone and lunged forward.

The movement was so abrupt. A second ago, he had been shrugging with an awkward grin, as though he had merely played a nasty joke. The next instant, he exploded into action.

Abola's heart suddenly clenched with terror. At that moment, he felt what it was like to be watched by a predator, just as he had when a Ferocious Beast had fixed its eyes on him in the mountains as a child.

Crack!

Beneath Bai Cangshu's clothes, his muscles had already tensed like springs. As he stepped on the stone table and threw himself forward, his center of gravity remained perfectly steady. Borrowing the force of his charge, he drove a fist into the throat of the bodyguard on the left.

There was a crisp crack of breaking bone. The cartilage in a human throat was extremely fragile. When Bai Cangshu's punch landed, he could feel the cartilage shatter and pierce the windpipe. The sound of blood vessels bursting could be heard, and even the cervical vertebrae bulged backward in an instant.

Bang!

The bodyguard on the right had already drawn the pistol from behind his back and fired directly at Bai Cangshu.

But after smashing the bodyguard's throat with one punch, Bai Cangshu had naturally ducked behind him. The bullet merely grazed the shoulder of the still-living large bodyguard before embedding itself in the wall.

Bai Cangshu shoved the tall bodyguard in front of him, who was continuously whimpering from the agonizing pain in his throat and the panic of being unable to breathe. The man staggered two steps, while Bai Cangshu lowered himself and followed like an agile monkey.

He moved as though he had practiced it thousands, hundreds of times in his dreams. Though he had never truly fought anyone to the death before, he felt no hesitation when he crushed the man's throat.

It was as though... he had imagined doing this countless times.

Bang! Bang!

The remaining bodyguard, Owen, fired several shots in succession, but with his own companion's body blocking the way, none of them hit. Panic had already taken hold of him.

The next moment, a sharp pain exploded in his knee, and his entire body collapsed downward.

Bai Cangshu stomped hard on Owen's knee joint. The sound of the joint breaking made Abola's body twitch almost instinctively, followed by Bodyguard Owen's scream.

Owen was experienced. At this moment, he had already realized how terrifying Bai Cangshu was. The agony of his knee bending backward forced his body down to one knee.

But because of that, he finally saw Bai Cangshu hiding behind Leff's massive body.

He gritted his teeth, raised his pistol, and immediately pulled the trigger.

Crack!

Bai Cangshu's left hand shot beneath the trigger Owen was trying to pull, preventing it from being squeezed.

Owen's heart jolted. He immediately tried to wrest the pistol away by force, but that slender-looking hand was terrifyingly steady. No matter how hard he tried, he could not take the gun back.

Bai Cangshu looked indifferently at the bodyguard kneeling on one knee and still struggling over the pistol, feeling somewhat disappointed.

"An ordinary person's strength, an ordinary person's way of thinking... heh."

If it were him, he would have drawn his gun without hesitation and shot straight through both his companion and the target at the first opportunity, rather than avoiding his companion's body like Owen had and ultimately rendering the gun's advantage meaningless.

Of course, the most fundamental reason was that these two bodyguards were simply too weak. They were probably just ordinary people with sturdier bodies.

Bai Cangshu suddenly drove forward and kicked Owen in the face. The pain made the man release the gun in his hand.

"Ugh..."

At this moment, Bodyguard Leff, whose throat had been shattered from the very beginning, was still murmuring. However, his face had turned dark purple from lack of oxygen, and his body had begun to tremble and convulse in waves.

Bai Cangshu spun the seized pistol.

Light Pistol

Quality: White (Common)

Description: Mass-produced light single-shot flintlock pistol, using pellet ammunition

Effect: Average firing rate, low power

Note: Cannot be taken out of this world (item pheromone level too low)

He pulled back the bolt. This kind of firearm was actually similar to a modern pistol in reality, except it used round pellet ammunition, making it far less powerful than modern bullets.

Of course, it was still more than enough to kill an ordinary person at close range.

Bai Cangshu aimed the pistol at the bodyguard howling from his backward-bent knee and broken nose, then fired a shot into his forehead.

Bang!

You killed Bodyguard Owen and gained 50 Dimensional Points.

At that moment, the convulsing large bodyguard also fell silent.

You killed Bodyguard Leff and gained 50 Dimensional Points.

Bai Cangshu felt none of the discomfort one might expect from killing for the first time. He returned to the table and aimed the pistol at Abola.

Abola's face had already gone pale, and the cigar in his mouth had nearly gone out.

"No... don't kill me..."

He still could not understand why, when he had clearly hired Mercenary Tao to kill Mikey, this person had come instead and immediately turned on him.

Bai Cangshu tapped the pistol and said,

"Where's the money?"

"The money?"

Abola did not react at first. This reception room had excellent soundproofing, intended to keep confidential business dealings secret. He had never imagined that it would become the source of his misery.

Only when he saw the white smoke rising from the pitch-black muzzle did he come to his senses. He struggled to his feet and retrieved a suitcase from behind him.

"Th-this is the one hundred million... payment."

Because Abola knew Mercenary Tao's style, he had prepared the money long ago. He simply had not expected the person who came not to be Mercenary Tao.

Bai Cangshu opened the case.

Large Denomination Banknotes

Quality: Special Item

Description: Large Denomination Banknotes that can only circulate in Dragon Ball and its Derivative Worlds

Effect: Possesses considerable purchasing power

Note: Cannot be taken out of this world

Bai Cangshu picked up the suitcase and rose to leave.

Abola let out a sigh of relief. He had lost the money, but at least he had finally sent that plague god away. What he did not notice was that Bai Cangshu, already at the door, had aimed the gun at him again.

Bang!

You killed Richman Abola and gained 50 Dimensional Points.

Side Mission: Assassination Contract has failed.

Milestone: Killer Seed progress updated (3/100).

The target had not died. Instead, the employer had been killed first, so the Side Mission had naturally failed. However, Bai Cangshu did not care. There was no penalty for failing this mission.

He blew away the white smoke from the muzzle, then searched the room again. This time, he actually found something somewhat special.

Precious Gem

Quality: Special Item

Description: A Ruby larger than ordinary standards, with extremely high purity

Effect: Holds high value in most worldviews and can also be used as magical material

This egg-sized gem was not marked as unable to be taken out of the world. Bai Cangshu weighed it in his hand before placing it into the Backpack provided by the space.

This Backpack had ten slots and could only store items that could be taken out of this world.

Bai Cangshu then noticed that the clothes he had been wearing in the real world had been placed in this Backpack, taking up one slot.

The gem occupied a slot by itself. He guessed the Backpack might have some kind of stacking mechanism, but ten slots were not particularly spacious. When he tried storing items with his thoughts, there was also a prompt saying that only objects not exceeding the size limit could be placed inside.

After searching around for a while, Bai Cangshu stuffed the one hundred million payment, along with several land deeds, bank certificates, and similar documents, into the suitcase all at once.

Then he leisurely left the luxurious reception room.

A long while after he left, the chamber of commerce's secretary finally realized that Abola had not appeared for quite some time, then let out a terrified scream.

But by then, Bai Cangshu had already arrived outside the hotel where the Taxi Driver was waiting. Leaning against the side of the rather chibi-looking taxi, he said to the driver smoking at the hotel entrance,

"Sir, I think we can head back now."

"Mission complete."