Chapter 003 Touching the Corpse
About a quarter of an hour had passed since the assassination began.
The manor above was probably a river of blood, but the sewer was peaceful. Apart from the gurgling sound of dirty water and the occasional squeaking of mice.
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The members of the "Weasel Phantom Thieves" are all professional assassins, and most of their assassinations are completed silently.
But this time, an accident happened unexpectedly.
“Boom!”
Suddenly, a loud explosion sounded.
The flames blasted through the floor, and the air rushed violently into the ground. In this closed sewer pipe, the noise was even more deafening.
The sudden change made Tiger like an old dog whose tail was stepped on, and he bounced up with a "whoosh".
The guy who looked like a drunkard a second ago instantly turned into a cold and vicious dog in the dark, staring sharply into the depths of the pipe.
He looked at the big hole in the sewer pipe and muttered to himself, "Eh... this is weird, why did the boss and the others make such a big noise... did something unexpected happen?"
Without waiting for him to say anything, the newcomers immediately became alert.
Ryan also took out a dagger from his holster and pointed it at the source of the explosion with a serious expression.
He glanced at Tiger who was hiding in the darkness, and secretly thanked his luck that it was the right decision not to act rashly.
At this moment, the "smart brain" suddenly sounded a reminder sound again.
[Ding! Warning! Deadly unknown neurotoxin attack detected, direction →...slight paralysis, about to fall into coma, please inject antidote immediately. ]
[Ding! The concentration continues to rise. It is estimated to reach a lethal concentration in 1.3 seconds. Please evacuate the danger zone in time! ]
1.3 seconds, no time for people to react.
"not good!"
With almost no hesitation, Ryan took out an antidote from his hand like a magic trick, and then stabbed it into his thigh.
This was something he had secretly saved during his training, and now it came in handy.
While inserting the needle, he retreated in the direction indicated by the poison without hesitation.
He is still wearing a gas mask, and the toxin has invaded his respiratory tract without any hindrance. You can imagine how deadly the toxin is.
His instinct made him not care about exposing his cards, and he chose to escape at the first opportunity!
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"9527, what are you doing!"
On the other hand, Tiger's pupils shrank suddenly when he saw Ryan's sudden retreat.
He was not only shocked by the strange behavior of this newcomer, but also amazed at the amazing speed he displayed.
[Sprint] is a basic displacement skill that thieves must learn. Everyone in the "Weasel Group" knows it, and they can burst into super high speed in an instant.
But Tiger found that the speed of this newcomer's burst just now was much higher than he had imagined.
This is definitely not something that an ordinary newcomer can do!
He personally trained this group of newcomers. In his impression, 9527 had mediocre qualifications and his burst speed in the "speed test" was only about 11 or 12 meters per second, which was just the passing level.
At this moment, he actually burst out at an extremely high speed of nearly 15 meters per second!
This level... although not as good as that of the awakened ones, it is far beyond all newcomers of the same level!
The other two newcomers were equally shocked. How could they suddenly become so powerful when they were clearly the last ones in the training and assessments?
Could it be that the guy wanted to take advantage of the explosion to escape?
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"This guy is so skilled... Could it be that he is hiding his abilities?"
Tiger understood something instantly, he had made a mistake!
This taciturn newcomer is probably the most ruthless character hiding the deepest.
Although he was surprised, he sneered at the same time: Even so, it is impossible to escape from my hands!
But in a flash, Tiger's mind was once again filled with doubt: "The supplies that the newcomers brought were all standard, so where did he get that potion from? Could it be some kind of storage space?"
Obviously, Tiger also noticed Ryan's strange behavior of injecting a potion into himself.
"That looks like the antidote from the training center. When did that guy secretly hide one..."
But reality didn't give him much time to think.
Suddenly, a sense of crisis came over Tiger.
Being an experienced man, his expression changed drastically and he immediately realized something.
Unfortunately, it's too late.
When Tiger saw a staggering figure rushing into the sewer from the explosion hole, he was about to escape, but a strong feeling of dizziness hit his head.
Then he realized that this was deadly poison gas!
The poison spread very quickly, and before Tiger's horrified expression could even fully extend across his face, the body collapsed to the ground helplessly.
The other two newcomers didn't even have the chance to react. They rolled their eyes and died instantly.
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"What's going on? Someone really escaped from the sewer?!"
On the other hand, Ryan ran all the way to avoid the toxic air wave, feeling incredible in his heart.
Unexpectedly, this assassination attempt by the "Weasel Phantom Thieves" actually turned out to be an accident.
He looked at the figure "chasing closely" behind him, and his heart sank.
Obviously, that was not Tiger, nor the other two newcomers... The horrible poison just now spread rapidly with the blast, and the three guys didn't have time to react, and they must have been dead by now.
"The person coming here is not a transcendent? Or maybe he is seriously injured..."
After running a few hundred meters, Ryan suddenly felt something strange.
This guy didn’t catch up with me?
Then, before he could think about it, the staggering guy behind him suddenly fell to the ground and crawled in the sewage.
"Dead?"
Seeing this scene, Ryan was stunned.
He stopped and held the dagger tightly in his hand.
A thought flashed through his mind: If the other party was a transcendent, it would be easy for him to kill him, and there would be no need to use such a trick of playing hard to get. But if this guy was not a transcendent, it would be impossible for him to escape from the siege of assassins and enter the sewer.
The only possibility is that this guy is really seriously injured and has died.
Who is that person...?
After weighing the pros and cons in his mind for a moment, Ryan chose to get closer to take a look.
The concentration of poisonous fog around him showed that it was within a safe range, so he walked towards the fallen person cautiously.
The guy who fell to the ground had his mouth and nose half submerged in sewage, and it was obvious that he was dead.
There was a large bloodstain on the back of the corpse, and a black dagger was stuck in it.
Obviously, this was a fatal injury.
"Is this... the enchanted dagger [Black Spine Wolf Fang] of Leader Quinn?"
Ryan recognized at a glance the dagger with a glowing black light and three terrifying blood grooves stuck in the back of the corpse.
This is the exclusive extraordinary weapon of Quinn, the leader of the "Weasel Phantom Thieves".
This means that the knife was dealt by the leader Quinn himself!
"He was able to escape from Quinn, who had unlocked the third-level gene lock. Who is this guy?"
Ryan had seen how powerful the leader Quinn was. Ordinary second-level transcendents could not withstand a single move from him.
The fact that he could escape alive proves that he is quite powerful.
Ryan looked at the corpse's face from the side with doubt, but when he saw the bearded face clearly, his pupils suddenly shrank.
"Isn't this the target of this assassination, Baron ?"
He was very familiar with this face. Before this operation, the target's photo had already been memorized by everyone in the "Weasel Regiment".
Seeing the body right in front of him, Ryan's heart began to beat rapidly.
Sneaking into large territories to wipe out entire families and kill imperial nobles is beyond the scope of work of ordinary phantom thieves.
Since the top leaders of the "Weasel Phantom Thieves" dared to take such a big risk this time, it means that Baron Morin must have a big secret!
The poisonous gas in the explosion channel is still very thick. If the people up there want to come down, they will probably have to wait for a while.
Ryan took a look at the explosion hole not far away, and a crazy idea flashed through his mind at the first moment.
"Touch the corpse!"
Although he was somewhat envious of the dagger [Black-Spine Wolf Fang] on the corpse that could cut through iron like mud, he did not dare to move rashly. Instead, he carefully touched the body of Baron Morin.
