Chapter 550

Chapter 550 Leave None Alive!

Throughout the entire East, Inamoto Junichi could be considered a peerless master. But no matter how formidable a master may be, the outcome of a close encounter with high explosives is very predictable.

His movement techniques were swift, his lightness skill was exceptional, yet none of it was of any use.

In the instant the bomb exploded, he had already pushed his speed to the absolute limit, drifting nearly ten meters away, but those ten meters still weren’t enough to escape the blast radius!

The ferocious wave of fire and the shockwave instantly engulfed Inamoto Junichi, as if struck by a towering wave, his body like a small boat with no possibility of self-control, the whole person was hurled more than ten meters away!

Inamoto Junichi’s body slammed hard into the middle of a large tree, then crashed heavily to the ground, nearly breaking apart on impact!

Lying face down in a thicket of bushes, Inamoto Junichi’s head was filled with a thunderous ringing, and even someone as powerful as him had been rattled senseless, his consciousness unclear!

At this point, the nearly unconscious Inamoto Junichi had not yet noticed that there was not a single inch of intact skin left on his entire back!

The shockwave from the explosion had struck his back, completely stripping away the surface layer of skin and destroying the vast majority of the back muscles! It had nearly exposed the spine entirely!

But before Inamoto Junichi had a chance to regain his senses, another thunderous explosion rang out behind him!

Su Rui and Zhou Xianwei had already unpinned the dozens of grenades on their bodies, pulling the rings one by one and scattering them in all directions beneath the trees!

Although they hadn’t brought heavy weapons, every single one of those iron chunks they threw was a high-explosive grenade!

Unlike ordinary offensive grenades, these high-explosive grenades had an effective kill radius of up to fifteen to twenty meters!

In the mere ten-plus seconds following an explosion, even uninjured people would be left dazed and disoriented, completely unable to react. If thirty to forty high-explosive grenades were thrown into their midst at that moment, what kind of effect would it produce?

Su Rui and Zhou Xianwei had done their best to spread the kill radius as wide as possible, so the grenades exploded one after another in a thunderous roar, and beneath the trees it had already become a scene of wailing and chaos!

These ninjas and elite warriors may have had decent individual combat ability, with excellent marksmanship and swordsmanship, but so what?

They had never known what special operations warfare was! And the men standing above their heads throwing grenades down at them were among the most renowned special operations experts in the entire world!

Just two people, and they had routed more than a hundred and fifty men!

A minute later, the explosions gradually subsided. At least forty-plus of the East’s fighters had been blown to death, and aside from a very small number of lucky survivors, nearly everyone else was wounded!

It should be noted that the grenades Su Rui and the others threw were not tossed about aimlessly. They were pursuing maximum lethality!

Not one to be spared, all of them had to die!

Under the relentless bombardment, the psychological defenses of these Eastern warriors were completely shattered. They had no idea when the next grenade might fall from above, and their minds were entirely consumed by fear!

Su Rui stood at the high ground, looking down at the chaos below, and said calmly into his communicator:

“Leave no one alive!”

Toward these Eastern fighters, Su Rui truly had not a shred of mercy. He wanted them to taste the price of invading Huaxia!

“Big brother, I’m going down to kill first!”

Zhou Xianwei let out a loud roar and leapt directly from the top of the towering tree!

He stepped on several branches to cushion his descent and quickly landed on the ground!

“Binglan, it’s relatively safe here, stay here and wait for me to come back.” Su Rui patted Ye Binglan’s hand and prepared to jump down!

“No, brother, I’m going with you!” Ye Binglan grabbed Su Rui!

“It’s dangerous down there, they’re all ninjas who don’t value their lives. It’s nothing like catching petty thieves.” Su Rui was genuinely worried that Ye Binglan would go down and cause trouble, forcing him to split his attention to protect her.

“Brother, don’t worry. I’m also a top graduate of the Public Security University. Maybe I can’t match them in hand-to-hand combat, but they’re already in disarray. Give me a gun and I can fight too.”

Looking at Ye Binglan’s valiant and spirited appearance, Su Rui indulgently ruffled her hair, handed her the pistol at his waist, and said, “Stay safe down there!”

With that, he spread his arms, held Ye Binglan tightly by the waist, and leapt down from the tree!

All Ye Binglan could hear was the rushing of the wind in her ears. Held tightly in Su Rui’s arms, feeling his heartbeat, she wished these brief few seconds could last a little longer!

When they were still about ten meters from the ground, the black cord in Su Rui’s hand instantly tightened, and their descent speed slowed accordingly!

In truth, if anyone had been lying in ambush, the two of them were now in the most vulnerable state to attack. Unfortunately, the Eastern fighters had already been thrown into complete disarray by Su Rui’s “grenade barrage” and were fleeing in all directions. Where would they find the presence of mind to ambush anyone?

“Stay safe!”

After landing, Su Rui reminded Ye Binglan once more.

“Don’t worry, brother!”

Ye Binglan called out, raised her pistol, took a quick aim, and pulled the trigger at a figure in the forest!

Almost at the same moment the shot rang out, that figure instantly collapsed!

“Beautiful!”

Having been a criminal investigator for several years after all, even though it was Ye Binglan’s first time experiencing a large-scale chaotic battle like this, she showed not the slightest hesitation in shooting to kill!

Seeing that Ye Binglan’s marksmanship and psychological composure were both genuinely impressive, Su Rui stopped worrying too much. He picked up two submachine guns from the ground and began firing with both hands!

He made no effort to conserve ammunition. The submachine guns were set to full auto, relentlessly hammering the Eastern fighters in their backs as they fled!

After emptying both magazines, at least a dozen people had been dropped by Su Rui!

Casually tossing the submachine guns aside, Su Rui drew his long blade and strode forward in pursuit!

Just at that moment, a long howl suddenly rang out across the entire scene!

That howl was filled with fury, filled with unwillingness!

Every Eastern fighter fleeing in all directions heard that howl, and then stopped in their tracks as if by some unspoken agreement!

“Where is the honor of the Great Eastern Empire?” That howl rang out again!

It was obvious that the only one on the scene capable of producing such a sound was Inamoto Junichi!

Upon hearing this voice, every Eastern fighter present showed an expression of shame!

Faced with such a formidable enemy, they had actually turned and fled!

They were people of resolute will to begin with. Just moments ago they had simply been rattled senseless by Su Rui’s relentless bombardment, and now they had finally come back to their senses!

In a situation like this, how could they run?

“Fight side by side. Deserters will be executed!”

Inamoto Junichi stood in place leaning on his long blade and shouted at the top of his voice!

His back was already drenched in blood! Faint traces of white bone were visible! Clearly a severe injury!

But so what if he was severely injured! He was Inamoto Junichi, a national-treasure-level jonin, and the spiritual pillar of this entire group!

To have been reduced to this state by two or three people, he was not willing to accept it!

In Inamoto Junichi’s eyes, Huaxia people were no different from the words “sick man of East Asia.” The Great Eastern Empire must stand above them!

Inamoto Junichi’s words clearly restored a measure of fighting spirit to all the Eastern fighters present, but before his words had even finished, the answer that came back was a burst of gunfire!

Tat-tat-tat-tat-tat!

“Shut your mouth! We didn’t blow you to death just now, and now you’re still running your mouth!”

Su Rui picked up another submachine gun, pressed down the trigger aimed at Inamoto Junichi, and emptied the entire magazine in one go!

Inamoto Junichi let out a long howl, enduring the piercing pain radiating from his back, and drew the Bloodrage long blade. Its brilliant cold gleam instantly filled the night sky!

“Su Rui, prepare to die!”

With those words, his body had already transformed into a gust of wind, lunging toward Su Rui!

In that instant, the top-tier lightness technique of the Iga school was pushed by him to its absolute limit, his speed even a few notches faster than Yamamoto Gokusen before him!

“Come on then! Today I’ll beat you until you’re completely convinced!”

Su Rui held the long blade in one hand and the military spike in the other, and charged forward without the slightest fear!

In terms of speed alone, Inamoto Junichi had a significant lead over Su Rui. He closed in from a distance, covering more than ten meters in an instant!

Su Rui had barely sensed a cold wind rushing toward him before his eyes were filled with countless blade shadows!

“Slash!”

Inamoto Junichi was still in midair when he brought the blade down, the Bloodrage long blade carving a great arc through the air as if tearing through space itself, descending upon Su Rui with the force of thunder!

As a jonin who had been renowned for many years, his true ability surpassed even Yamamoto Gokusen!

This strike was his most powerful blow, known as “Void-Rending Slash”!

From the name alone one could tell that this slash aimed to tear through space itself!

Opening with his most lethal technique right from the start was enough to show Inamoto Junichi’s killing intent!

He seemed to already see the scene of Su Rui being cleaved in two!

Combined with the Bloodrage long blade, under the Void-Rending Slash, no one could escape!

With extreme speed paired with extreme swordsmanship, by the time the blade’s edge had arrived before Su Rui, the latter had not yet had time to react!

“Die!”

Inamoto Junichi let out a sharp cry, but what followed was a crisp, clear clang!

Then the web of his sword hand split open, blood flowing freely!

He knew better than anyone how sharp the Bloodrage long blade was. Almost no weapon could withstand the Void-Rending Slash, yet the four-edged military spike Su Rui held aloft, gleaming with a dark light, had done exactly that!

Then Inamoto Junichi’s body landed, stumbling back several steps!

Su Rui also stepped back, blood streaming from the web of his hand as well!

Just now Inamoto Junichi had brought that slash down with the momentum of his forward charge, while Su Rui had defended from a stationary position, absorbing an impact force at least double that of his opponent!

Inamoto Junichi held the long blade horizontally before his eyes, and an expression of deep shock surged within them!

Because he could clearly see that a rather noticeable notch had appeared on the edge of the Bloodrage long blade!

This weapon, whose sharpness was said to be unrivaled under heaven, had actually been notched?

Even if the Great Eastern Empire were overthrown, it would not have shocked Inamoto Junichi as much as this!

This was the treasured heirloom passed down through the Iga school of the East! And just like that it had been notched!

In truth, Inamoto Junichi was overthinking it. So what if it was a treasured heirloom? It was still something passed down over a hundred years!

Could the forging craftsmanship of a hundred-plus years ago compare to what exists today?

What Su Rui held was a four-edged military spike personally crafted by Russian master armorer Zernikov, said to embody the lifelong dedication of that old man!

By comparison, which weapon was more advanced was already a very obvious answer!

“I said it before. Today I will make sure you all stay in Huaxia. Not one of you will walk out of this mountain forest alive!” Su Rui leveled the military spike, and his entire person had already transformed into a streak of light!