First floor of the residential building.
"Crack."
Holding the sharp dagger, Xiao Zhe blocked the unfamiliar enemy's attack. He narrowed his eyes and studied the unfamiliar middle-aged man before him with great interest.
[Similar strength. Looks like he's also a Level 2 Psionic Warrior...]
[His breathing rhythm is somewhat immature. Looks like he's a novice killer...]
In that brief exchange, Xiao Zhe had seen through the middle-aged man's capabilities.
"Brother, who hired you to kill me? And you're only carrying a fruit knife? That's pretty unprofessional, isn't it?"
"Look, there's no grudge between us, neither old nor new. How about you fulfill one of my wishes and tell me who's so heartless that they want my life?"
After mulling it over, a teasing look suddenly appeared on Xiao Zhe's youthful face. He raised his head, stared straight at Wang Zhong, and curiously asked him.
After speaking, Xiao Zhe focused his gaze on the fruit knife shimmering with faint green light. He said mockingly, "Brother, is this your first time working as a killer? You actually knew to poison a fruit knife. Not bad!"
Xiao Zhe looked relaxed and at ease, as though he were not facing a killer, but a friend fooling around with him.
By the stairs on the second floor.
Wang Zhong, who had also exchanged a blow with Xiao Zhe, looked completely calm, as though he did not care at all that Xiao Zhe had blocked his surprise attack.
In fact.
Wang Zhong had not used the full strength of a Level 3 Psionic Warrior in that sudden strike.
He had used only half his strength, equivalent to that of a Level 2 Psionic Warrior...
Wang Zhong was not underestimating his opponent, nor had success gone to his head. His goal had been to test the difference in strength between himself and Xiao Zhe, since they were both Level 2 Psionic Warriors.
Now, Wang Zhong had his answer.
Xiao Zhe had been one step slower.
Xiao Zhe's attack had been one step slower.
Both possessed the strength of a Level 2 Psionic Warrior, yet Xiao Zhe, a killer, had only barely managed to contend with Wang Zhong, who had mastered Weapon Combat LV2.
[So a Sain Mechanical Killer's combat skills are roughly on the level of Weapon Combat LV2?]
Having reached that conclusion, Wang Zhong quietly took a deep breath. Then, a cold killing intent surfaced in his calm eyes.
Now, Wang Zhong was going to get serious!
His strength surpassed Xiao Zhe's, which was why he had been able to hold back and conduct that little test. Otherwise, if they had been evenly matched, Wang Zhong would likely have been in danger.
"Boom!"
The next second, Wang Zhong mobilized the physique enhanced by Data Psionic. A bluish-black tendon on his right arm tightened at once, his muscles tensed, and a powerful force traveled from his right arm into the fruit knife.
Wang Zhong's sudden burst of strength caught Xiao Zhe off guard.
Across from him, Xiao Zhe's previously casual expression turned cold when he sensed the immense force coming through the fruit knife in his hand. "So, you were hiding something up your sleeve."
As he spoke, Xiao Zhe immediately gathered all his strength and channeled it into the dagger. Yet even with every ounce of his strength, he still could not stop the fruit knife from pressing down toward his neck.
At that moment.
Xiao Zhe was like an ant trying to shake a tree. Even with all his strength, he could not move the right hand gripping the fruit knife.
His right hand could not move and could only be forced downward!
However.
As a killer, Xiao Zhe naturally had more than one method of attack.
At once, Xiao Zhe flicked his free left hand. A dagger gleaming with cold light swiftly slid out from his left sleeve.
Rip!
Gripping the coldly gleaming dagger in a forward hold, he viciously stabbed toward Wang Zhong's heart.
This strike targeted the one place Wang Zhong had to defend.
If this killer did not want Xiao Zhe's second dagger to pierce his heart, then he had to retreat.
Unfortunately.
Things did not develop as Xiao Zhe had expected!
The next second, Xiao Zhe discovered in shock that this seemingly inexperienced killer made no move to dodge at all. He directly drove his chest into the dagger.
"Crack."
Then, Xiao Zhe felt his dagger strike something like a steel plate, unable to advance even an inch.
At the same time.
The tremendous force contained in the fruit knife, which glimmered with faint green psionic light, also suppressed Xiao Zhe's right hand.
Xiao Zhe lost this contest of strength.
Then, beneath Xiao Zhe's disbelieving gaze, the fruit knife stabbed into his neck, opening a bloody hole.
[What... what kind of monster is this?]
[Invulnerable to blades and spears? And his strength is so terrifyingly great?]
As these thoughts raced through his mind, Xiao Zhe felt a chill at his neck. Then, a strange voice sounded beside his ear. "Don't panic. Take a deep breath. Yes, deep breaths. You'll feel much better..."
"Gurgle."
"Gurgle."
At that moment, with a wound torn open in his neck, Xiao Zhe's mouth opened and closed. Blood poured into his throat, then flowed back out of his mouth.
At that very moment between life and death, Xiao Zhe suddenly noticed something!
The fruit knife lodged in his neck was giving off a faint green glow.
In an instant, thunder flashed through Xiao Zhe's mind. He finally understood why he had lost so easily.
Psionic Attachment!
The faint green sheen attached to the fruit knife was not poison, as he had imagined. It was a special ability that only a Level 3 Psionic Warrior could master.
[A Level 3 Psionic Warrior? When did I provoke such a powerful enemy?]
Just as Xiao Zhe was consumed by disbelief...
A large hand filled with immense strength suddenly clamped down on Xiao Zhe's head. Its five fingers tightened, and with a crack, it twisted Xiao Zhe's neck apart.
"Thud!"
The next second, Xiao Zhe, now completely drained of strength, went limp in the legs and fell toward the stairs.
"Smack!"
But a hand in a black glove caught Xiao Zhe's corpse.
Wang Zhong crouched down and looked at the familiar corpse before him. A trace of guilt flashed in his eyes, only to be replaced by ruthlessness.
If Wang Zhong did not kill Xiao Zhe, Xiao Zhe would kill him!
In this world, if Wang Zhong wanted to survive, he could not show any mercy toward his enemies.
Some things could only truly be understood after one had done them.
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