In Reincarnation Paradise, Su Xiao spent most of his time going back and forth between the Training Ground and the Exclusive Space.
He no longer summoned Koshiro's mirror image. Instead, he chose practical combat mode to hone his real-combat skills.
Although he had been "killed in battle" several times during that period, Su Xiao had still gained a great deal.
In the blink of an eye, three days passed, and Su Xiao received a notification from Reincarnation Paradise.
Hunter, you are about to return to the real world. Please remember the regulations of Reincarnation Paradise.
You may not reveal anything about Reincarnation Paradise in the real world by any means. Otherwise, you will receive a warning. If the warning is ignored, Hunter will be forcibly executed.
Hunter cannot use abilities obtained within Reincarnation Paradise in the real world. Personal attributes and passive skills are exempt.
Most equipment or items obtained in Reincarnation Paradise cannot be taken out into the real world. They will remain locked and recover after you return to Reincarnation Paradise.
Teleportation commencing. Destination: Real World.
The familiar sensation of teleportation appeared. When Su Xiao regained consciousness, he was already lying inside a cold morgue drawer.
The temperature inside the drawer was very low, and the space was cramped. Su Xiao's expression darkened. There was only one possibility for where he was.
He kicked the morgue drawer door at his feet. With his current strength, he kicked the door out of shape and sent it flying outward.
Su Xiao's kick not only sent the drawer door flying; it also made him slide out along with it.
The morgue drawer he had been in was like a long, rectangular metal drawer.
"Clang."
The drawer crashed to the floor, producing a deafening sound in the silent room.
Su Xiao surveyed the room. The fluorescent lights cast an especially cold glow over it. His guess had been right. This was a morgue, where corpses were stored.
He had previously been "shot to death," and his "corpse" had been placed here. He had entered Reincarnation Paradise after feigning death. Reincarnation Paradise had locked his life force, so he did not truly count as dead.
The tremendous noise from the morgue attracted the attention of others.
In the hospital duty room, a young trainee nurse was startled by the sound.
The young nurse in a white coat recognized that the sound had come from the morgue downstairs. However, the colleague on duty with her had gone out to buy a late-night snack. She was the only person on the first floor of the deserted hospital at this hour, while everyone else had gone to sleep, so she did not dare go outside.
"N-No, could it be haunted? Don't think nonsense. My teacher once said that ghosts and gods don't exist in this world. They don't, they don't, sob~"
The young nurse was named Yi Ruo. She had been a trainee for two months.
"Bang."
Another tremendous crash came from inside the morgue. Yi Ruo let out a terrified scream, and the cup of hot water in her hands slipped to the floor and shattered.
The crash came from Su Xiao violently breaking through the morgue's main door.
He walked down the narrow corridor. Various departments were marked on the rooms on both sides. The pungent smell of disinfectant told Su Xiao that this was a hospital, and one in the city where he lived.
Su Xiao had been here once before and had some impression of this modest hospital.
He was in no hurry to leave. He absolutely had to find the knife passed down in his family.
He could lose anything except that knife.
Su Xiao searched around for hospital staff. At present, he had no clues about the knife at all.
Soon, Su Xiao arrived outside a duty room. The light inside was on, and a beautiful young nurse was staring blankly at him.
Su Xiao pushed open the door and entered the duty room. Before he could say anything, the young nurse sitting in the chair rolled her eyes back and fainted, sliding from the chair onto the floor.
Looking at the fallen nurse in confusion, Su Xiao stepped forward and pinched her philtrum hard.
The young nurse slowly regained consciousness, but when she saw Su Xiao, terror appeared in her eyes, and she instinctively tried to scream.
Su Xiao immediately covered the nurse's mouth and nose.
"Don't make a sound, or I'll kill you."
Su Xiao had only recently left the Derivative World, and the killing intent clinging to him was intense.
The young nurse nodded rapidly, her eyes brimming with tears as she looked at Su Xiao. She seemed utterly pitiful.
"Who sent me here?"
The nurse's reaction earlier led Su Xiao to guess that she might have seen him before, which explained her current response.
"Mm, mm~"
The young nurse pointed at Su Xiao's hand, indicating that she still could not speak. Su Xiao released her.
"Haah, haah~" First came a burst of heavy breathing.
"Y-You were dead, weren't you? Your death had nothing to do with me, so don't come back to haunt me. I... I haven't even dated anyone yet, and I've never done anything bad. Sob~" The young nurse's voice trembled slightly, and tears welled in her eyes.
Su Xiao continued to stare at the nurse coldly.
"Answer my question."
Su Xiao's icy voice made the nurse's body tremble.
"I don't know exactly who it was, but there should be a record in the registry."
After searching through the hospital's records and learning the general circumstances, Su Xiao immediately stood up and left.
Dongcheng Garden was a modest but well-known residential complex. Su Xiao had been born in this second-tier city, so he naturally knew where Dongcheng Garden was.
He stopped a taxi on the street in the dead of night and headed straight for Dongcheng Garden.
Ten minutes later, Su Xiao arrived at Dongcheng Garden.
He would not enter Dongcheng Garden through the main gate. He was currently an undocumented person and was probably also wanted for murder.
With Su Xiao's infiltration skills, he slipped into Dongcheng Garden half an hour later. The people who had sent him to the morgue were a group of thugs from Dongcheng. After some preliminary investigation, he had learned where those thugs were.
Inside a residential building, on the third floor, steady breathing came from a bedroom. Su Xiao's expression grew uglier and uglier as he looked at the blond thug sleeping soundly on the bed. His knife was not here.
Su Xiao was already growing impatient. The longer this dragged on, the slimmer his chances of finding the knife became. Thus, he slowly approached the thug sleeping on the bed.
Su Xiao gradually closed in. Once he was near enough, he suddenly erupted into action, wrapping his left arm around the thug's neck and gripping his left fist with his right hand, forming a guillotine choke from Brazilian jiu-jitsu.
This move was exceptionally vicious. It completely cut off the blood supply to the brain. With sufficient strength, it could render someone unconscious in just two or three seconds and kill them in under ten.
The sleeping thug did not even have a chance to cry out before his body went limp.
Su Xiao hoisted the thug onto his shoulder and left Dongcheng Garden by the same route he had entered. In the dead of night, getting in and out of Dongcheng Garden was effortless for him.
In a pitch-black alley, the thug gradually regained consciousness.
"If you don't want to die, answer my questions honestly."
"Who are you? I am—"
Before the thug could finish, Su Xiao punched him in the chest.
A pained groan rang out, and the blond thug collapsed onto the ground.
"Where is my knife?"
The thug stared at Su Xiao in confusion, his face filled with pain. To the blond thug, Su Xiao's punch had felt like being hit by a train.
"What knife? Who are you?"
"Su Xiao."
Standing in the dark alley, Su Xiao revealed his real name without reservation.
Things had reached this point, so there was no need to hide it. He was certain that by tomorrow, he would be "promoted" to a wanted criminal.
"It was you. Your knife has already been sent overseas for auction."
The thug's tone was calm, without the slightest abnormality.
"Liar."
Su Xiao seized the thug's fingers. After a series of crisp cracks, a scream like a slaughtered pig rang out through the alley.
"That was five fingers. Next time, it'll be your neck. After you die, I'll find someone else. You aren't the only one who knows about this. Death means losing everything."
The thug's face twisted, his eyes seeming to spit fire.
"Your knife was taken by our boss. It has nothing to do with me."
"Good. Take me to your boss."
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