Cut in Half with One Blade

Wang Zhifan brought his blade straight down and instantly felt an utterly terrifying surge of strength flood his entire body. The Wolf Slayer Blade in his hand let out a faint hum as well. He knew it had just triggered the double-damage effect granted by the Wrath of the Ape King Ring!

In an instant, Wang Zhifan charged fearlessly before the monster. His strike cut like a hot knife through butter, his weapon slicing unobstructed from the enemy's crown, straight through its entire Wolf Head and neck, then instantly through its chest and abdomen before falling between its two thick, fur-covered legs. He had actually split it directly into two evenly divided vertical halves!

Then, the towering enemy, over two meters tall, crashed heavily to the ground before Wang Zhifan. The moment its powerful body hit the pavement, it split apart to either side, exposing the brain matter, blood, and internal organs running vertically through its entire body. It was clearly dead beyond any doubt.

"Pah! You piece of shit! If I'd had all my gear, you would've died even faster!"

Having finally killed the monster, Wang Zhifan—whose clothes were already torn in several places—raised his foot and viciously kicked the enemy's corpse, split vertically in half before him. Then he flicked the Wolf Slayer Blade through the air to shake off the remaining fluid, quickly left the now-deserted street, and returned to his Rental House through an alleyway.

Not long after Wang Zhifan left, several officials dressed in black uniforms arrived at the scene. Their leader was a man around twenty-seven or twenty-eight, with a Longsword at his waist and a Sniper Rifle in hand. He vigilantly swept his gaze across the blood-reeking street, then quickly walked toward the monster corpse split open in the road.

However, it looked somewhat different from when Wang Zhifan had left. At that time, the body on the ground had still completely resembled a humanoid wolf covered in long fur. Yet after only a short while, the fur on its corpse had become shorter and sparser. The two halves of its head, cleaved vertically apart, no longer looked entirely animalistic either. Its features had become somewhat like those of a foreign Caucasian human, and it was even apparent that it had not been very old.

"A foreign Warrior Class Werewolf player... Judging by its size and physical strength, it should have been between Lv20 and Lv23..."

The black-uniformed man in the lead set the Sniper Rifle he was carrying aside, crouched down, studied the corpse before him for two seconds, then pressed it with his gloved fingers and gave his assessment.

The uniformed personnel around him got to work. Some began photographing the corpse on the ground, some took out small notebooks to make records, and others ran straight into the buildings along one side of the street.

"Team Leader Li, can you tell what kind of player killed him?"

The person beside the leading man holding a small notebook then asked him, as he remained crouched on the ground examining the corpse.

"At least a Lv30 player. Highly proficient in close combat, and used a bladed weapon."

The man called Team Leader Li considered briefly before answering.

"This player was most likely a melee class. His Strength Attribute was extremely high, and his weapon should have been excellent as well. Otherwise, he couldn't have so cleanly split it into two vertical halves in a single blow... When he killed this Werewolf player, it was still in its tough, thick-skinned Werewolf form. Even I wouldn't find it easy to deliver an attack like that..."

Team Leader Li, dressed in black with a Longsword at his waist and a Sniper Rifle beside him, added.

A short while later, after completing his inspection, he stood up and looked toward the side of the street. The uniformed officer who had run over there not long ago was already returning.

"Team Leader Li! The surveillance system here was damaged. There's no street footage from the time of the incident!"

The returning team member reported some rather bad news to Team Leader Li.

"Mm... As expected."

Team Leader Li's expression did not change after hearing this.

"These foreign criminals causing trouble lately are all very skilled at concealing their tracks. They make preparations before committing crimes, otherwise they wouldn't be so hard to catch... But fortunately, this one ran straight into a brick wall."

As he spoke, the man swept his gaze once more over the cold corpse split vertically in half on the ground, his tone calm.

He then walked forward and examined the other body on the street—the passerby who had initially been pounced on and killed by the foreign Werewolf player. After confirming that the cause of death was the Werewolf ripping out the victim's heart with its claws, he instructed the people beside him to cover the body with a white sheet and begin the procedures for gathering information and contacting the family.

Afterward, Team Leader Li came to a sewer manhole not far from the passerby's body. Based on footprints and other traces, he determined that the killer, now a corpse, had originally crawled out from here.

"Tonight, have Old Huang use his little darlings to thoroughly search everything down there. Even if they can't find those criminals' hideout, they should still uncover some clues."

He then instructed the notebook-holding man who had been following beside him.

"Yes, Team Leader Li."

The team member with the notebook answered as he wrote, then asked, "What about the player who killed the Werewolf? Do we need to investigate his identity as soon as possible?"

Hearing this question, Team Leader Li fell briefly silent, seemingly weighing the matter.

"We can conduct a simple preliminary investigation."

He then answered.

"But keep the focus on investigating the foreign criminals. The higher-ups have been putting a lot of pressure on us lately, so we need to keep our priorities straight... Besides, this expert killed the Werewolf and left immediately, without even claiming the bounty. He's most likely the kind of person who doesn't want to be disturbed. Even if you find out his identity, don't send anyone to his door directly. Many people of this type have bad tempers, and it could easily lead to an incident... Players are becoming more and more influential now. The policy from above is mainly to recruit them. We absolutely cannot drive our country's experts overseas."

Team Leader Li was not particularly old, but his position appeared to be fairly high, and he was familiar with upper-level policies. As he spoke, the team member beside him recorded everything point by point in his notebook.

While the officials here continued handling the aftermath in an orderly fashion, on the other side, Wang Zhifan—the supposedly at-least-Lv30 melee expert, whose actual level was only Lv3—was taking a shower in the cramped bathroom of his Rental House, his brows tightly furrowed in thought.

I didn't expect the area where I live to have become this unsafe... For a peaceful life in the future, I need to move somewhere more secure as soon as possible... Maybe moving directly near East River Second Bureau would be a good idea. There must be some official experts stationed there... Mm... Tomorrow, after I clear the instance, I'll go look for a place.