Too Late

The moment the sniper appeared, Nan Gengchen realized just how many pedestrians and actors were on Xingshu Road.

In an instant, the shadowy passersby put on Bluetooth earphones and ran towards the sound of gunfire.

Nan Gengchen, who was originally targeted, was naturally abandoned.

No one gave him another glance.

This feeling is strange; if someone is kidnapped, it means it's important.

The sniper was immediately discarded, as if the kidnapping was merely a ploy to lure out someone more important.

Nan Gengchen hid in the shadows watching those figures from behind. He opened his mouth as if to make these people lying in ambush on Xingshu Road reconsider their value, but he held back.

If you cause trouble like this at this time, there's no guarantee that someone won't actually jump out and kill you.

Unbeknownst to him, from the moment the first sniper shot rang out, Nan Gengchen was no longer so afraid.

He firmly believed that Qing Chen was there, and the fact that he was indeed there brought him An Xin...

But who is this sniper? Is he also one of the people from Daylight?

I've never heard of such a person in the daytime before!

Is it Qing Chen?

I don't think so.

When Nan Gengchen went to visit the injured Old Nine, the latter mentioned that he hadn't had time to take Qing Chen to the sniping range yet.

Besides, Qing Chen had nowhere to hide his sniper rifle.

In fact, this is why Qing Chen dared to use a sniper rifle directly... No one knew he could use a sniper rifle; it was a completely new identity for him.

Regardless of outside speculation, this sniper could not be Qing Chen.

The appearance of the sniper rifle completely disrupted the assassins' plans, because they had deployed their men along the route to the government office. If anyone came to rescue Nan Gengchen, they would be surrounded.

However, they did not expect Qing Chen's bullets to come from outside the encirclement, nor did they expect the gunshots to come so quickly!

The assassins had already turned Xing Shu Road into their territory, but Qing Chen didn't follow their plan at all!

Nobody would bother setting up an extra encirclement 1 kilometer outside the main encirclement!

At this point, in order to find the sniper and the more important figure behind Nan Gengchen, the assassins must rush through these few hundred meters.

But here's the problem: this is within a few hundred meters of a sniper's effective firing range.

Truth is everywhere within the range of cannon fire.

In the darkness, sniper rifles roared incessantly, and the assassins who tried to rush the building died one after another.

The method of winning people over with Conquer by Virtue is equipped with a "flash suppressor," not a "silencer." The outside world cannot see the gunfire, but can hear the terrifying sound of cannons.

When a bullet passes through the barrel, it spins rapidly as it passes through the helical rifling.

When a bullet penetrates the human body, all muscle fibers are torn apart by the enormous deflection force. After the bullet leaves the body, it creates a huge wound and carries out radial blood.

They dyed the gray roller shutters of the small shops along Xingshu Road red.

No matter how fast the assassins ran, no matter how they tried to evade, it was all in vain.

Bullets always fly through the night, arriving as promised.

A killer, his face calm, ran in a zigzag pattern down the middle of Xingshu Road, moving as fast as a hunting dog.

The other assassins hid behind the trees, watching silently to see if this method of movement would work.

As a result, the zigzag assassin hadn't run far before he was shot in the chest.

The sniper on the distant rooftop didn't even fire an extra shot.

It seems that no matter how dazzling your actions are, it's nothing more than a death struggle.

A young man, slightly out of breath, spoke into a Bluetooth headset from behind a tree, "Boss, we've covered quite a distance, but the sniper is over 500 meters away on the Kailai Hotel. We might not be able to get there. Staying behind the tree is relatively safe for now. What's next?"

A light, airy voice came through the earpiece. "Then just hide for now, I'll have others take care of him."

The assassins on the road to the military headquarters breathed a sigh of relief when they heard that their boss had another trick up his sleeve.

However, the next moment everyone's expression froze.

But then a bullet pierced straight through the tree trunk where the young man was standing, and then through his body!

The blood mist looked particularly cruel in the night, splattering all over the ground.

The roadside is lined with camphor trees and low green belts. Camphor trees grow very slowly and it is very difficult for them to grow, so the trunk diameter of most of the trees on this road is only about 30 centimeters.

Such a thickness could not possibly stop the sniper's attack using the principle of "Conquer by Virtue".

"It's an anti-materiel sniper rifle!" the assassins exclaimed.

"How could there be an anti-materiel sniper rifle in a place like Los Angeles?"

Anti-material sniper rifles are used to attack cover. They are loaded with armor-piercing rounds. Although they cannot penetrate main battle tanks, they can easily penetrate infantry fighting vehicles.

In a sense, sniper rifles and anti-materiel sniper rifles are actually two different weapons!

In places like Los Angeles, the military is not qualified to use anti-materiel sniper rifles; such rifles are typically only found in military units.

As a result, all the assassins were forced to hide behind solid telephone poles, no longer daring to show their faces.

Because if they show their heads, they will die.

Qing Chen remained calm and collected. He quietly locked onto his target and even took out his phone to send a message in the daytime group chat.

Boss: "Liu Dezhu, have Kunlun send more men. There are many people behind the telephone poles on the street that need to be arrested."

He was on the roof of the Kailai Hotel at that moment, with a clear view of the situation on the long street in front of him.

Although this place is still far from where Nan Gengchen was before, it is no longer within the accurate shooting range of an ordinary sniper.

But this morning, Qing Chen's target has already covered this distance!

This is within his effective firing range, where he never misses a shot!

Qing Chen glanced at the assassins pinned behind the telephone poles. Shooting them all out one by one would be too troublesome; it would be better to wait for Kunlun to finish them off, since that was Kunlun's job.

Time passed by unnoticed, and everyone waited.

Suddenly, in his expansive view, he saw someone quickly come to the rooftop of a residential building in another direction, holding binoculars and looking towards the rooftop of the Kailai Hotel.

The person was wearing a hood and a black mask, making it impossible to see their face. Qing Chen could only make out that the person had a well-proportioned build, was about 185 cm tall, and was male.

However, just as he raised his binoculars, he saw the black sniper rifle turn its muzzle and aim at him.

When he saw this scene, he was so shocked that his hair stood on end, and he quickly retreated back into the dark passage on the rooftop.

Qing Chen frowned; he felt that this person didn't seem like an assassin at all.

It's more like some Time Walker discovered the situation and came to the top floor to join in the fun!

Qing Chen pondered to himself, who could this person be? Could he be one of the known Time Walker?

Suddenly, on the Kailai Hotel, the iron door that Qing Chen had violently destroyed and which was slightly ajar was slowly pushed open.

The rusty iron gate creaked and groaned as it was pushed open, making one's teeth ache.

A young man pointed his gun at the sniper's head and laughed, "Found you."

The sniper said, "When did you enter this building? I didn't see you."

The young man chuckled, "This is the best spot to observe the ambush area, and it's a hotel, so why don't I just check in here? Sorry, I'm already staying at the Kailai Hotel. Don't move, or you'll die. You can't possibly turn around faster than I pull the trigger."

After saying that, he pressed the button on his Bluetooth headset and said, "Boss, we've found the sniper. Should we take him alive?"

The person on the other end of the Bluetooth headset let out a soft "Eh?": "Found him so easily? No... Zhou Yong, you disarm him first. The others will be here in a few minutes. You take this sniper and evacuate before you reach the Kunlun encirclement. Follow the evacuation route I've planned for you."

Zhou Yong replied, "Understood..."

Before he could finish speaking, the sniper had already turned around regardless of his own life and pointed his sniper rifle at Zhou Yong!

Left with no other choice, Zhou Yong decisively pulled the trigger.

Bang! Bang!

Two shots rang out in quick succession through the night sky!

Through the Bluetooth headset, someone asked in a low voice, "What's wrong?"

"He suddenly lost his mind and tried to turn around and kill me. I had no choice but to shoot him dead," Zhou Yong slowly walked towards the sniper, but then he suddenly froze. "Boss, it's Chen Siheng!"

"Chen Siheng?! Evacuate," a voice came through the Bluetooth headset.

However.

In Bluetooth headphones.

Behind Zhou Yong.

Someone said at the same time.

"It's too late."

In the cold wind on the rooftop, Zhou Yong's body stiffened completely. He felt the icy touch on his neck, a weapon sharp enough to kill him.

Zhou Yong didn't even know when the person behind him had arrived.

Qing Chen smiled and pressed the call button on his Bluetooth headset, greeting him in a hoarse voice, "I heard you were looking for me?"

A soft chuckle came from the Bluetooth headset, "Finding you wasn't easy. So your greatest skill is sniping. But I'm curious where you got your sniper rifle? You probably couldn't have brought it back from the Inner World. Well then, I'll check the serial numbers of anti-materiel sniper rifles in the military and see which one left the armory tonight. Maybe that'll help me find you?"

Qing Chen said softly, "It's alright, you can take your time looking."

Sorry, but this sniper rifle really was brought from the Inner World by Qing Chen.

The light, airy voice in the Bluetooth headset sounded somewhat excited, "I feel like I'm very close to you now. Be careful, or you'll become my slave."

Qing Chen laughed, "How dare you speak to your master like that? You're so disrespectful, hehe."

Upon hearing those two words, "hehe," the person on the other end of the Bluetooth headset finally confirmed that the person he was talking to was definitely the "boss" of that organization, because no one else was as disgusting as him!

However, Qing Chen did not continue to argue with the other party in the earphone. With a flick of his wrist, he retrieved the Puppet Master around Chen Siheng's wrist and then wrapped it around Zhou Yong's wrist.

Surprisingly, Zhou Yong was not controlled by the Puppet Master as he had expected.

Qing Chen was somewhat taken aback as he used his dagger to sever the other man's carotid artery. He hadn't expected that Zhou Yong was actually a superhuman of D-Class or higher!

The boy put away the "Conquer by Virtue" mantra, picked up the pistol from Zhou Yong's hand, and turned to walk into the dark stairwell behind him.

He knew that more people were closing in, and that tonight seemed to be just beginning.

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