The knifeman (third update)

Chapter 271: The knifeman (third update)

Was it the one who used a wraith-like creature to watch Black Street No. 1?

Or someone who had been waiting here all along, hoping to fish in troubled waters?

The thoughts flashing through Qin Ran's mind drove him to rush inside even faster.

Shiqi said nothing. After examining the scratches on the courtyard gate's lock, he drew his gun and followed Qin Ran into the two-and-a-half-story building.

He knew firearms would not necessarily work against certain people on the mystery side.

But they were still better than bare hands, weren't they?

Yet the moment Shiqi entered the corridor, he saw Qin Ran crouching beside a corpse, examining it.

"We're a step too late!"

"There's no one left alive here!"

Qin Ran stood and walked toward another corpse.

There were three bodies in the building, each killed by a single cut to the neck.

It had not been a sneak attack, but a frontal assault.

With [Tracking] active, Qin Ran could see the assailant's footprints in the corridor with absolute clarity, allowing him to judge exactly what had happened.

The assailant picked the courtyard gate's lock, disarmed the magical trap at the door, then charged inside at incredible speed. Before the three people stationed here could react, each was killed with a single cut!

Both the assailant's movements and knife strikes were extremely fast!

So fast that neither gunman even had time to draw!

Thinking of the two corpses whose hands had gripped their pistols without ever getting a chance to draw them, Qin Ran frowned slightly.

He did not believe he could accomplish the same feat.

At least, not while wielding [Words of Arrogance]!

Unless the three targets had been very close together.

But the bodies were nowhere near one another. Two lay