Immortal Palace Frenzy

"Hm?" Yuffie smiled. "I don't believe you."

"You'll believe it soon enough." With that, the Xuan Kingdom man shook his head and left, taking the initiative to approach the British gentleman watching him from nearby.

"Sir, may I ask who you are—" Before the British gentleman could finish, the Xuan Kingdom man leaned close and whispered, "Walter Butler... there are Cards Assassins here. Keep your voice down."

The smile on the British gentleman's face remained unchanged. He took a step back and moved aside, and the Xuan Kingdom man tactfully followed him. "At twelve o'clock and one o'clock, there are two assassins disguised as waiters. On the other side of the hall, there are three more disguised as waiters."

"There are Assault Rifles hidden in the Banquet Hall, along with thirteen assassins disguised as guests. Do not alert anyone."

The British gentleman nodded slightly, seemingly not doubting the Xuan Kingdom man's words at all. "Indeed. Those waiters are standing ramrod straight, their right hands unnaturally close to their pockets, and their faces are heavily made up... It seems this place was infiltrated in advance."

"They planned to launch the attack at eight, kill Miss Yuffie and Miss Karen, and gun down every guest at the banquet." The Xuan Kingdom man said, "There are only four minutes left."

"Every guest at this dinner belongs to a community of shared interests closely tied to the Lamperouge Family..." the British gentleman said blandly. "I never expected them to hire the Cards Assassins..."

"Then who are you?"

"I am a Killer from the Immortal Palace." The Xuan Kingdom man smiled. "I came specifically to protect Miss Karen and Miss Yuffie. Take note, there are six minutes left."

"I'll deal with those three assassins over there. The moment I move, immediately take care of the two assassins in front of us. Then I'll go out and seize the Assault Rifles hidden beneath the drinks table... There's no time. Let's begin."

Without waiting for the British gentleman's reply, the Xuan Kingdom man immediately headed toward the other side of the Inner Hall. After thinking for three seconds, the gentleman turned around and summoned over a black-clad man standing in the Inner Hall.

As the Xuan Kingdom man reached the other side of the Inner Hall and stood in the passage between the Banquet Hall and Inner Hall, he suddenly turned around and drew a silenced pistol!

Three shots!

All headshots!

On the other side, the British gentleman and the black-clad man immediately took care of the two assassins disguised as waiters as well!

The sounds erupting from the Inner Hall naturally carried into the Banquet Hall. The sharp explosions of gunpowder were an unmistakable signal. Though they did not know why the event had begun early, the assassins hidden among the guests immediately made their move!

Amid the gunfire, the assassins near the table with the champagne-glass pyramid immediately crouched down and pulled out the Assault Rifles they had prepared beforehand. But then the drinks table crashed over with a bang, and the pyramid of glasses came clattering down onto their heads.

The Xuan Kingdom man calmly picked up an Assault Rifle, disengaged the safety, switched it to full auto, and sprayed the assassins in the hall with a burst of rat-tat-tat-tat. Since the assassins had drawn their guns and begun firing at the guests, every guest was already lying on the floor. The only ones still standing were the assassins.

Yet this Xuan Kingdom man, firing on full auto, managed to put every single bullet through an assassin's head. Before his magazine was even empty, every assassin who had risen up in the Banquet Hall was dead!

When Ren Suo watched the video, he was on G Station, Xuan Kingdom's largest online gay dating site. At that moment, the entire screen was filled with:

"Terrifying!" "Terrifying!" "Terrifying!"

Using a fully automatic rifle to achieve the single-shot effect of a sniper rifle would have been an absurd cheat even in a patriotic blockbuster produced by the Pacific Federation. If it were shown, people would tear it apart.

After that, it was almost entirely the Xuan Kingdom man entering god mode and slaughtering everyone in his way. He fought from the Ninth Floor down to the first, while the British gentleman and the black-clad man behind him became mere spectators. Watching the Killer hit someone with every shot, their expressions were as if they had seen a ghost.

Boom—

The Ninth Floor was reduced to ashes in a massive explosion. By then, Yuffie, the Xuan Kingdom man, and the guests had reached the first-floor lobby.

The assassins in the first-floor lobby had also learned that all the infiltrators had been wiped out. They intended to trap them on the first floor, sending people to break in through the windows on the second and third floors to attack from both sides.

However, the Xuan Kingdom man's marksmanship and movement were simply too terrifying. Any assassin who showed their head in front of him was shot apart. He advanced while firing, single-handedly suppressing more than forty assassins on the first floor. Someone pulled the pin on a fragmentation grenade and tried to throw it into the stairwell, but the instant the grenade left his hand, the Xuan Kingdom man shot it!

Boom—

That terrifying Dynamic Vision and marksmanship, coupled with the sirens and helicopter blades outside, became the final straw that broke the assassins. They shouted and screamed. Apart from the few assigned to cover the retreat, everyone else fled the Black Briar Building without stopping, escaping by every possible means.

"It's safe." The Xuan Kingdom man lowered his rifle, smiled, and took a cigarette from his pocket, beginning to smoke.

"Miss, outside there are still—"

"It's fine."

The Xuan Kingdom man turned around and saw Yuffie Lamperouge leave the stairwell and walk toward him. He smiled. "Do you believe me now?"

"Yuffie is deeply grateful for your assistance, sir." Yuffie bowed deeply. In an instant, countless scrolling comments flooded the screen: "Pause successful," "Pause successful," "You don't need to pause for glaucoma," and "What are you pausing for? They're so flat." Ren Suo's face darkened as he watched, and he directly blocked the scrolling comments.

"Though I do not know why you chose to help us, the Lamperouge Family will certainly repay you." Yuffie said, "May I ask who you truly are, sir? Do you require the Lamperouge Family's assistance?"

"You have earned the friendship of the Lamperouge Family. In the name of the Lamperouge Family's head, I promise to grant any request you make, even if it means giving up everything the Lamperouge Family possesses."

The British gentleman beside her moved his lips slightly, but ultimately said nothing. Yuffie's declaration was not merely an expression of gratitude toward the Xuan Kingdom man; it was also a statement to the guests behind her who had shared the ordeal: the Lamperouge Family would never forget its friends and benefactors.

However, the Xuan Kingdom man merely smiled, turned his head, and waved toward someone behind Yuffie. "Come here, come here."

Everyone looked over and saw Kallen Lamperouge, hugging a teddy bear like a little princess, running over on her short legs clad in white stockings. Then she hid behind her sister again. Yuffie smiled. "Karen, thank this... uncle."

"Thank you, Uncle," Karen said brightly.

The Xuan Kingdom man reached out and patted Karen's little head. "My only request is her."

Everyone's expressions changed abruptly, including Yuffie, who had been smiling just moments ago.

Even without turning on the scrolling comments, Ren Suo knew there were surely countless comments flying past right now: "Straight to death row," "I've already called the police," "Léon: The Professional," and the like.

"You must protect her well." The Xuan Kingdom man smiled faintly. "She is hope."

The Xuan Kingdom man withdrew his hand and took the cigarette from his mouth. "My mission is complete. It is time for me to return to the Immortal Palace. Farewell, if fate allows."

"Sir, the police are all outside. If you go out now..." The British gentleman tried to advise him, but the next second, he and everyone else stared wide-eyed.

With a light flick, the Xuan Kingdom man sent the cigarette in his hand flying in an arc toward the round trash can in the hall. As the cigarette touched the ashtray compartment at the top of the trash can, his body gradually became transparent.

At that moment, the police entered from outside. Like the people of the Lamperouge Family, they looked utterly terrified as they watched the Xuan Kingdom man vanish into thin air. Other than the cigarette still giving off white smoke in the trash can, there was no trace left to prove he had ever existed!

The video ended abruptly there. Ren Suo opened the comments section and saw that there were no pinned comments, only popular ones. The top comment was written in red:

"Assassin's Bloodstained Banquet PV released today. It is expected to meet everyone next year. Please look forward to it!"

It was a very ordinary comment, yet it had... 1,234,567... three million likes!

G Station only had anywhere from a hundred thousand to over a million users online. How could a video uploaded less than twelve hours ago have three million likes?

The second popular comment pointed this out: "The Black Briar Building incident is already known throughout Fog City, it just hasn't made the papers yet. There were many witnesses—including me—who saw the Ninth Floor of Black Briar Building explode tonight. One of the guests inside was someone I knew, one of my university professors! And you still want to pretend this is a movie PV?"

"Can't the site delete this video?"

"You can see this video on any website that can play videos online now, including foreign sites. What's real can't be faked, and what's fake can't become real."

"I'm shocked. Could it be our country's mysterious Northwest Kunlun Immortal Palace?"

"Even if it's an Immortal Palace, it should be our Changbai Mountain Immortal Palace!"

"Why can't it be our Ham Ka Fu Kwai Immortal Palace?"

"Foreign countries even have organizations that assassinate rich people living in cities. That's terrifying..."

Ren Suo checked several other websites and found that the video really was everywhere. Some people had even found matching individuals from old news photographs for every person who appeared in the video, proving that all of them were real. They had even posted current photographs of Black Briar Building—the blown-up Ninth Floor was still billowing black smoke.

By this point, Ren Suo had vaguely realized that this truly was a video of reality.

Everyone was having a great time watching it. This video was different from a movie: movies were fake, but this was real! Having personally witnessed an assassin organization's attack and the unrivaled performance of a Xuan Kingdom expert claiming to be from the Immortal Palace, most Xuan Kingdom people watched it as entertainment.

But Ren Suo was different, because he knew this was the result he had created with his own hands!

This ending, where the assassins were repelled and every important person was safe, had taken him several hours to achieve!

"Game, reality, Little World..." Ren Suo murmured softly. He returned to the living room and looked at that strange circular game console. After pondering for a moment, he picked up the controller and pressed a button. The circular game console immediately activated.

"Welcome back to The Infinite Fun of Little Worlds!"

"You still have unopened treasure chests. Would you like to jump to the Content Repository?"