Chapter 1673 - 884: Purging the Family Ranks
Chapter 1673: Chapter 884: Purging the Family Ranks
"Why aren’t the searchlights on the floating airship turned off yet?!" Lao Er roared in the woods.
Every member of the Black Knights has lived for hundreds of years. During those centuries, they’ve experienced countless battles, faced assassinations, confronted taboos, and dealt with Transcendents—things unimaginable to ordinary people.
Therefore, Lao Er possesses extremely strong combat intuition and wisdom, much like a Sharpshooter. With enough talent and ten thousand rounds of practice, one can develop a feel for the gun.
When he caught the Shadow’s movements and saw the opponent make two snips behind the officer, he immediately understood this was a Taboo, requiring two strong light sources to create two Shadows!
He immediately ordered the lights on the floating airship to be turned off. Although this would plunge them into darkness, it was better than facing two Shadows of the same level!
But the communicator shouted loudly, "Communications are jammed! We can’t contact the floating airship!"
Lao Er was shocked. He scanned the surroundings viciously, "Lao San?! Is it you!"
No one in the woods spoke, but he knew well that this was Joker’s signature move, the Electromagnetic Pulse. The opponent once used this ability to take down a Jindai Consortium floating airship!
Now that Lao San had taken over Joker, he naturally possessed this ability as well.
Thinking of this, Lao Er’s expression suddenly softened, "Lao San, even though Big Bro told you to act convincingly, you’ve been killing too many people now. Big Bro is angry and sent me to bring you back. Look at you, I usually told you to read more, not be so reckless. Now you’ve really messed up, haven’t you? Come out, Second Bro will take you back to Silver City, and we’ll call off the plan for now."
He tried to trick the not-so-bright Lao San into coming out, but as soon as he spoke these words, he saw two Shadows outside the crowd rush in, slaughtering without listening at all.
All Lao Er could hear was the snipping sound of scissors!
"Damn, Big Bro wants to kill me!" Lao Er was furious, "Talk of putting on a good show, it was all fake; Big Bro wants to kill me... No, Lao San could be the problem too!"
At this moment, Lao Er had sensed something was wrong:
The combat style of those two Shadows in the woods, while extremely fierce, was completely different from Lao San’s.
Lao San was only reckless, lacking in skills and totally incapable of achieving deadly accuracy among a crowd.
Although they mastered body-snatching technology far ahead of their time, the issue is that they all have looted others’ memories and are well aware that turning memories into personal abilities requires a long time.
Either three or four years, or ten years.
How could Lao San have adapted to Joker’s body so quickly and utilized the opponent’s skills so proficiently?
Moreover, the floating airship above also noticed the problem. The soldiers aboard couldn’t use weapons of mass destruction, so they could only use machine guns to target those Shadows. However, each palm-length machine-gun bullet shot at them seemed to have little effect; the Shadows merely stepped back before charging again!
Could it be that Joker took over Lao San’s body instead!
In summary, Lao San is fierce, but he can’t be this fierce!
At this point, there were increasingly more Shadows in the woods.
Lao Er suddenly shouted into the woods, "Joker, is it you?!"
But still, no one answered.
The countless Shadows were fighting in the formation, but once they killed their master, they’d instantly dissipate into a puff of black smoke.
Initially, there were many people in the woods, but they rapidly decreased until the entire forest felt vacant, even somewhat desolate.
Lao Er realized that whether it was Lao San or Joker behind these Ghost tactics, they seemed to intentionally spare him; everyone else was dead, except him!
Wait a minute...
Puppeteer!
This bastard plans to use the Puppeteer on me!
Otherwise, why would I be the only one left alive?!
Lao Er hurriedly gestured to the floating airship overhead, signaling for them to lower a rope ladder to help him escape.
Despite thinking he’s quite formidable, he didn’t have the courage to face the Joker of the Eastern Continent alone!
Just then, a missile suddenly came rapidly from afar, dragging a long tail over the treetops before crashing with a boom into the floating airship above Lao Er’s head!
Lao Er was astonished. He looked off into the distance and saw Lao Wu’s exclusive floating airship approaching quickly.
"Damn you!" Lao Er was furious. Was Lao Wu trying to take advantage of his weakness and go for the kill? Or perhaps Lao Wu and Big Bro had teamed up, planning to take him out together?
The night had become so chaotic that Lao Er could no longer discern the truth of the situation.
The floating airship above slowly descended, and Lao Er knew that waiting any longer would be certain death; he had to run!
Running towards the woods, two Shadows blocked his way.
Suddenly, Lao Er’s eyes lit up, and he charged straight towards the Qing Chen Shadow on the left, "The gap is here with you!"
In an instant, Lao Er engaged with the Shadow, which launched an attack. But Lao Er, acting second but arriving first, kicked the Shadow away, "Almost fooled me! This one is only B-Class!"
In fact, Silhouette could indeed cut out two Shadows given two light sources.
But the light sources would always vary in strength, so one Shadow was the A-Class original, while the other was B-Class.
Thus, this Shadow had a primary and a secondary.
Previously, Lao Er had been intimidated by the primary Shadow, leaving him no time for detailed discrimination. Now, in a life-or-death crisis, he forced himself to calm down, finally realizing that the speed and strength of the two Shadows were completely different.