Chapter 291

Chapter 291 The Panic of Bizarre Deaths!

 

A black-clad man carrying a sniper rifle quietly climbed to the top of a factory building. This was the sniping position Li Xuan had designed for him, offering a commanding view and easy defense. From his vantage point, there were almost no blind spots across the entire factory area.

This man had committed murder six years ago and fled for three years before Li Xuan found him. With his military background and three years of rigorous training, he had become an excellent sniper.

To ensure his subordinates could be fully utilized, Nangong Shun had invested heavily! He had diverted an unknown amount of family funds into his small team!

In this sniper’s view, no martial arts could dodge bullets, so he sneered at those who mythologized Su Rui.

And this time would undoubtedly be the moment for his sniper rifle to shine.

After selecting his position and lying at the edge of the factory roof, the man lightly touched the trigger and softly said, “Bang!”

A cold smile appeared on his lips, as if he could already see Su Rui falling headfirst after being shot!

But at that moment, a pair of hands gently embraced his head!

What was happening?

Already in darkness, this sudden contact made the sniper feel a chill down his spine, almost scaring him to death!

Just as he was about to turn around and shout, those hands on his head suddenly applied a powerful twist, giving him no chance to make a sound!

The sniper only heard a crack, and then his head drooped to one side!

That “crack” was the sound of his cervical vertebrae being broken!

The sniper who had just been confidently planning to eliminate Su Rui was now completely silent!

Meanwhile, a man was hiding behind old equipment in the dark factory. Holding his gun, he vigilantly watched his surroundings, just as they had practiced.

He knew there were five others in this factory building who, like him, were tasked with killing Su Rui tomorrow.

They had all practiced shooting for a long time. As soon as Su Rui rushed into the factory, six handguns would fire a volley. With so many bullets, not even a god could escape!

Just thinking about the possibility of killing Su Rui with his gun made the man’s breathing heavy! What an achievement that would be!

As he thought about it, his gaze grew intense.

At that moment, a gleaming short knife suddenly extended from the darkness and was gently placed against his neck!

The cold blade against his throat made him shudder! A stark contrast to the intensity in his eyes!

Similarly, he wanted to shout loudly, but the knife’s owner didn’t give him the chance. With one swift movement, the sharp blade cut through his throat like tofu, effortlessly severing his trachea!

Cool air rushed into his windpipe while countless blood spurted from the wound, instantly staining half the machine red!

He could no longer utter a word as his body collapsed limply!

Nightingale gently lowered his body to the ground, then moved like a ghost, disappearing back into the darkness!

In the pitch-black shadows, another flash of moonlight-like cold steel seemed to appear…

Three minutes later, Li Xuan began speaking into his communicator: “Good, the first round of exercises is over. Everyone performed well and is quite proficient! Next, we’ll practice support and positioning! Don’t treat this as just an exercise, the enemy is powerful, never let your guard down!”

“Except for the four snipers who will remain hidden on the factory and office building rooftops, everyone else gather at the center of the site!”

These people had only been at their hiding spots for two minutes before hurriedly running to the center of the site!

It seemed this team’s overall discipline was decent, truly following orders without question. Little did they know that Li Xuan had gone to considerable trouble training these desperate men, having to execute two of them before completely subduing the rest.

“Good, now we’ll demonstrate cover techniques,” Li Xuan shouted. “We’ve practiced this demonstration many times before, and I believe everyone is very familiar with it, but now we need to do it again based on the actual terrain. Better safe than sorry!”

“The first and second groups will demonstrate! Second group, step forward!” Li Xuan stood with his hands behind his back. “When the first group comes under attack, what should your second group do?”

“Hmm? What’s going on?”

Just as the second group stepped forward, Li Xuan keenly noticed that two people were missing from the group!

This shouldn’t happen. He had repeatedly emphasized that any situation must be reported first. At this critical moment, these two wouldn’t make such a basic mistake!

Li Xuan scanned the team again and still couldn’t find those two people!

“Strange, they both entered Factory No. 2 together just now. Why haven’t they come out?” someone from the second group said.

Because the factory was so dark, they hadn’t noticed whether their companions had come out when they left!

“Everyone go look for them immediately!” Li Xuan’s expression turned cold as he led the group toward Factory No. 2!

“Turn on the lights!” Li Xuan’s face was grim as he looked at the pitch-black factory, instinctively feeling something was wrong!

Darkness always gives people an extremely unsafe feeling!

“Captain, this place has been abandoned for a long time. The electricity was cut off long ago!”

“Then turn on your flashlights and search carefully!”

About a dozen flashlights lit up simultaneously as they called out while searching, but no one answered.

The empty echoes and disorderly footsteps undoubtedly intensified the eerie atmosphere.

While these people were searching earnestly, none of them noticed that a person at the back of the group suddenly seemed to be grabbed by the neck, quickly hoisted up, and pulled directly to the top of the factory!

The moment he was lifted, his cervical vertebrae couldn’t support the pressure of his body and dislocated!

With his spine broken, waste immediately discharged from his lower body! His eyes were wide open, his tongue protruding from his mouth—he had been strangled to death!

Su Rui did all this silently, but the sniper on the opposite factory roof seemed to have noticed something unusual!

The sniper had been watching the situation in the factory through his scope when he suddenly saw his companion being lifted into the air. His entire body tensed up!

Because his attention was completely focused on what was below, he didn’t notice that the other three companions who were hiding with him on the factory roof had already met with disaster!

He wanted to sound an alarm, but it was too late. A flash of bright steel appeared and disappeared instantly! His throat was cut open in an instant!

Clutching his neck, blood continuously gushing through his fingers, the sniper died without ever seeing who had killed him!

Su Rui also saw that cold flash. He nodded, then shook his head. The nod was because Nightingale’s first coordination with him was quite smooth; the head shake was because those dragon and phoenix paired knives were too conspicuous—even in the night with only a few stars, the cold gleam was still visible.

“Next time we work together, I’ll have to paint those knives black first,” Su Rui said softly.

Meanwhile, an indescribable feeling of panic had begun to spread among the people in Factory No. 2!

They hadn’t seen anyone, but they could clearly smell the scent of blood!

Li Xuan sniffed and sensed something was very wrong. He shouted, “Load your bullets, everyone be on guard!”

“Captain, there’s blood here!”

A man shone his flashlight on a pool of fresh blood and shouted in panic!

This man was also from the second group, and he didn’t know when this blood had appeared! But it was very likely from his missing companion!

“There’s blood here too!” Another person illuminated the machine that had been stained red!

Two people were dead, but their bodies were nowhere to be found!

Everyone felt an indescribable eeriness! They involuntarily felt their hair standing on end! Their skin was covered in goosebumps!

“Where are the bodies? Where are the bodies?”

Li Xuan also felt his scalp tingling!

Blood but no bodies! Was this a mysterious death?

“Captain, should we leave Factory No. 2? I feel there’s something strange here,” one person cautiously suggested to Li Xuan.

Not just him, everyone felt the same way! A cold wind blew in, making them tremble!

“What exactly is going on?” As the leader, Li Xuan had to make a decision!

“Captain, should we ask Old Man Mai to come back and help? If he were here, things might be better!” someone suggested. These desperate men didn’t know how their companions had disappeared, but from the blood on the ground, it was clearly a bad sign!

They kept glancing at the factory door, thinking they would immediately run if anything seemed wrong!

“Let’s not notify Old Man Mai yet. If we can’t handle this small matter, we’d be disappointing him and the Second Young Master too much.” Li Xuan said solemnly. In fact, he was still calculating for himself—if he panicked and asked Mai Taishan for help just because two people were missing, it would leave a bad impression, making it unlikely that he could become Mai’s disciple in the future.

He had practiced many times before, always rehearsing how to surround and eliminate Su Rui, but never how to respond if they lost two men first! At this moment, Li Xuan was also panicking! The gradually dispersing smell of blood raised a sense of fear from the bottom of his heart!

What he didn’t know was that the four snipers on the rooftop—who were supposed to be their game-changing assets—had all been killed!

Out of forty-nine subordinates, seven had died within minutes, reducing their number to forty-two!

Li Xuan forced himself to calm down. He also felt this factory was unsafe, so he said firmly, “Everyone retreat to the outside area now. We’ll reformulate our search plan!”

The battle had not yet begun, but the chilling smell of gunpowder and blood had already spread!

However, at this moment, Li Xuan hadn’t noticed that a black-clad figure was silently mixing among them!