Lone Walker

Personal information:

Contractor No. 13013. (To protect the Hunter, this is a False ID. No method can lock onto the Hunter.)

Name: Su Xiao (Hunter)

Level: LV.1. (Tier 1.) Every 10 levels constitute one tier. Increasing one's level grants no attribute bonuses; it represents the Hunter's permissions within Paradise and corresponds to world difficulty, mission difficulty, and so on.

Health: 100%. (This attribute cannot be completely quantified. It changes according to the severity of injuries.)

Mana: 60. (Intelligence × 10. Current Mana recovery rate: 3 points per hour.)

Strength: 6 (Related to attack power, carrying capacity, and so on.)

Agility: 7 (Related to movement and attack speed, and so on.)

Stamina: 5 (Related to health, defense, resistance to abnormal conditions, and so on.)

Intelligence: 6 (Related to spell damage, Mana, perception, and so on.)

Charisma: 3 (Related to social interaction, summoning, and so on.)

Luck: 1 (Related to opening items, crafting, and so on. This attribute is extremely difficult to improve. Hunter, cherish every opportunity to raise it.)

Note: The standard attributes for an adult male are 5 points, with Luck at 1 point.

Killing Talent: Spirit Eater. After killing a target, permanently steal 1–15 points of Mana.

This talent can steal a maximum of 100 Mana per world.

Personal information is provided to help the Hunter estimate his own strength and has no relation to his true combat power. Attribute values affect the Hunter's physical capabilities, but combat is not determined by physical capabilities alone. Hunter, exercise caution.

After carefully checking it several times, Su Xiao committed his personal attributes to memory.

He was currently LV.1. The purpose of levels needed no explanation—they were equivalent to his permissions within Reincarnation Paradise.

The One Piece world he had entered was Difficulty Level LV.6, while his own level was only LV.1. This meant that he was in extreme danger in the One Piece World.

Under normal circumstances, Reincarnation Paradise would not send a contractor into a world more than five levels higher than them. Everything was related to his identity as a Hunter.

He still did not know what benefits this so-called Hunter identity offered, but its downside had already manifested: danger.

He had entered an LV.6 world and then accepted an LV.3 mission, yet he was only LV.1. The difficulty of this "game" seemed a little excessive.

Moreover, according to Reincarnation Paradise's introduction, in the other worlds he entered in the future, he would need to help Reincarnation Paradise eliminate some "abnormal" contractors.

This essentially meant that he was naturally opposed to most contractors. Even if Su Xiao agreed to complete missions together, the other contractors would not.

Once they discovered his identity, they would swarm him and attack.

Who could guarantee that their numbers would not appear in Su Xiao's Hunt Mission?

As for the protection measures listed at the top, Su Xiao did not trust Reincarnation Paradise much to begin with, let alone the protection provided by Reincarnation Paradise.

Still, there was good news. All his attributes were superior to those of ordinary people, the result of his arduous training.

Although such physical capabilities meant little in the One Piece World, they gave him a higher starting point.

Su Xiao's strength was definitely not limited to what his attributes displayed. He had another specialty: he knew how to fight, and he dared to fight.

He did not possess the kind of wisdom that saw through everything, but he had a heart that feared neither injury nor death. It was not that he was completely unafraid; compared to ordinary people, he simply had more courage and dared to do dangerous things.

That was Su Xiao's capital for making his way through Reincarnation Paradise.

Sometimes, a brave heart was far more important than a powerful body.

"Then let me see just how dangerous this pirate world really is."

Su Xiao sprinted forward a few agile steps, planted one foot on the corner of the windowsill, and leaped. Reaching both arms upward, he grabbed the edge of the rooftop wall. He then exerted force with both arms and hauled his entire body upward, poking his upper body through the hole in the ceiling.

Just as Su Xiao was about to inspect the outside, a sharp crack rang out.

"Bang."

It was a gunshot, somewhat muffled. Su Xiao immediately made his judgment.

After retracting his body behind the wall, he gripped the edge tightly with both hands and slowly poked his head out to examine the situation outside.

"Bang, bang, bang..."

Gunshots erupted outside in a burst like popping beans. After observing for a while, Su Xiao determined that two factions from Terminal Station were engaged in a firefight.

Each side had several dozen people, fighting with guns at medium range.

Su Xiao noticed that both sides' clothes were extremely tattered and that they were all sallow and emaciated. They were probably all refugees from Terminal Station.

"Toby, this territory is ours. What do you mean by this? We're all miserable scavengers. Do you really want to wipe us out?"

The gunfire subsided somewhat, and both sides began shouting at each other.

"Your territory? I've got more than a dozen guns now. From this day on, this place is mine. Once I've saved enough Beli, I'll take my men out to sea. Then I'll be a pirate.

"Roger, put down your weapons. I'll give you a chance to join m—"

Before Toby could finish speaking, a gunshot interrupted him, and he seemed to duck behind the garbage heap.

From inside the dilapidated house, Su Xiao happened to have a clear view of the speaker. He was a burly, bearded man standing behind a pile of garbage with a savage grin. It seemed he had no intention of accepting the other side's surrender. He wanted to wipe them out.

This bearded Strong Man named Toby was different from the sallow, emaciated refugees. He was tall and muscular, with knots of muscle covering his entire body.

Su Xiao sighed inwardly. He finally experienced just how dangerous an LV.6 world was.

If he had rashly gone outside earlier, he would certainly have been shot full of holes. And this was only the beginning. Things would probably become even more dangerous later.

Just as Su Xiao waited for the two groups to disperse, a nimble figure suddenly leaped from the rooftop into the house where he was.

"Phew, that was close. I finally found somewhere safe..."

The newcomer stopped halfway through speaking upon seeing Su Xiao clinging to the wall.

"Um..."

Before she could say anything, Su Xiao released his tightly clenched grip on the edge of the wall, letting his body drop freely.

Upon landing, Su Xiao lowered his body and kicked off the ground. A few dead leaves flew into the air as he pounced at the other person like an agile Leopard.

The other party was just about to explain something, but it was already too late.

Su Xiao first punched her in the lower abdomen. He could clearly feel her stomach cave inward under the force of his fist.

The newcomer bent over in pain and was just about to scream, but Su Xiao had already covered her mouth and nose with his palm, allowing only a muffled groan to escape.

That was not the end. With one hand covering her mouth, Su Xiao extended the other flat like a blade and drove his fingertips viciously into her chest.

"Thud." A unique muffled sound rang out as her chest took the heavy blow.

Su Xiao could feel her body go limp. Panic filled her eyes as she collapsed, able to make out only a faint murmur.

"A woman?"

He had done this because he could not determine whether she was friend or foe. It was better to subdue her first.

"No... Please don't hurt me."

A voice as faint as the buzz of a mosquito drifted over. Su Xiao looked the newcomer up and down.

Her uneven black hair was covered in dust, but the cheeks untouched by the grime were extremely fair. Her flax-colored clothes were very loose, revealing that she was thin and frail. She also did not seem very old.

"Who are you?"

Su Xiao could roughly guess at her purpose. She had probably come here to take shelter.

"My name is Mia. I really mean you no harm. Please, don't hurt me." Mia's voice was very soft.

After taking a heavy blow to the heart, Mia's remaining conscious was already proof of her strong constitution. She would be unable to move freely for some time.

"Don't make a sound, or I'll kill you."

If his life was threatened, Su Xiao would kill. He still had a blood feud to avenge.

"Gulp."

Mia, who was only fifteen or sixteen, swallowed.

"Okay. I only wanted to take shelter. I won't make a sound."

Mia suddenly felt that staying with this man was no safer than being outside.

The gunfire outside gradually stopped. The chaotic battle should end soon.

Su Xiao waited. Once the battle outside ended, he would leave immediately. Although doing so was dangerous, it was also an opportunity. He urgently needed a weapon.

He had started empty-handed. Forget a decent weapon—even a wooden stick was nowhere to be found nearby.

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