Chapter 167
"boom!"
There was another loud roar, someone screamed in fright, and the exploded fragments fell all over the ground.
The assassin paused, looked down, and then moved his gaze up again.
Todd had blown a hole in the wall of the second floor. He held the girl in one hand and pointed a gun at the family of three with the other, forcing them to stand in front of him, hiding Todd behind him with only a pair of eyes showing through the gap.
The boy screamed in fear, but now he just opened his mouth and couldn't cry; his mother looked at the assassin with tears streaming down her face, and if Todd hadn't forced them to stand there, she would have knelt down and kowtowed. As for the boy's father, his performance was even worse, his legs were shaking, and he could only stand with the help of his wife, as if he was about to faint.
Todd held the girl in his hands. Although he was weak, his eyes were still full of coldness.
The assassin stopped and seemed to hesitate for a moment, then raised the muzzle of his gun and pointed it at Todd who was standing behind the family of four.
His lips hidden behind the mask moved slightly, and he whispered, "Bang!"
The laser gun fired silently.
A lavender light flashed and directly penetrated the wall of the family, leaving a charred round hole the size of a copper coin.
It was only then that people heard screams—
"Ah, I'm dying, I'm dying... Save me... Contact the medical department quickly..." The father who had just been kidnapped was rolling on the ground, holding his chest. His wife and child fell beside him, propped up their upper bodies, looking at him blankly with tears in their eyes, not knowing how to react at this moment.
The assassin's face turned cold.
The firing speed of the laser gun was as fast as lightning. When the opponent saw him shooting, he had already been hit. Logically, Todd and the woman he pointed at should have no chance of survival, but the moment he fired, he saw the family all fell downstairs as if they had predicted it. Now the three members of the family were lying on the ground, almost unharmed.
The assassin's target was not them, and he didn't care whether they were alive or dead. But the important thing was that when the gun was fired, Todd seemed to disappear instantly.
——Where did he go?
The assassin quickly realized that Todd's punch through the wall and his presence there as if he was going to use the hostages to confront him were all an illusion - after all, the assassin's previous attacks had killed dozens or even hundreds of people, so why would he care about the four people he was holding hostage?
He just used these four people to buy a little time, and then... he made two living people disappear from sight in an instant... Did he use that time to open a hole in the floor?
The assassin converted the laser gun into cannon mode without hesitation and blew up the wall in front of him with one shot. He rushed in and looked around. There was a large pool of blood on the ground, but Todd and the little girl were nowhere to be seen.
The bloodstains extended into the bedroom next door.
The assassin rushed in, and suddenly heard a very light collision sound. He quickly dodged to the side, and a flash of orange light flew past his arm. Then the assassin fired two shots inside, and then rushed in fiercely - he didn't care about being injured, as long as it wasn't a fatal shot, he could kill Todd before the fighting department arrived.
But when he rushed in, he saw Todd had already broken through the window and rushed out. Then he lowered his body and disappeared from the assassin's sight. The whole process took less than 0.5 seconds, and the assassin had no time to aim.
The assassin cursed under his breath and rushed out, stepping on the leg of Todd who was lying on the ground outside the window - it turned out that when he flipped out of the window just now, he was not lying on the ground tactically, but fell down because of his injured leg, which happened to be a trap for the assassin.
Todd turned over, hugged the assassin's legs and pushed hard, knocking the assassin in exoskeleton armor over. He raised his gun to shoot, but the assassin swung his right hand down as he fell, and a knife suddenly popped out from his wrist and cut off Todd's arm, causing his palm and the gun to fall to the ground. Todd endured the pain and didn't scream, and hurriedly tried to grab the gun with his left hand, but a laser gun was already pointed at his head.
Everything happened in just two or three seconds. Before the people watching from afar could react, the two people fighting had already decided the winner. The assassin shot without saying a word, but -
"Bang!"
With a loud bang, a bloody hole suddenly appeared on the assassin's chest, and the laser gun fell to the ground along with half of his arm.
The fighting department finally arrived.
Todd lay on the ground, gasping loudly. Only then could people see his appearance clearly - he was also wearing a layer of portable armor, which was activated by him at the moment of the attack.
This kind of armor is light and easy to use, with a very short activation time. It can be used immediately after it is turned on, and can provide a certain degree of protection in dangers such as car accidents and attacks by thugs. However, since it is "portable", the protection provided by the material is definitely not as good as those thick and bulky ones, and it is also extremely vulnerable to the firepower of the mecha. At this time, this armor is already tattered and bloodstained, and even only half of Todd's head and face are blocked.
"Master Todd, are you okay?"
Someone rushed over shouting, and then more than a dozen armored vehicles, ambulances, fire trucks and other vehicles rushed over one after another, surrounding the street where Todd was. Countless people rushed over with panicked looks on their faces.
Todd stood up shakily, but ignored the people who came to rescue him. He pushed away a member of the fighting department who wanted to support him and looked back.
By the window on the first floor, a pair of bright and clear eyes were hiding behind the window and looking at him. Seeing Todd looking at her, the girl immediately squatted down and hid.
At the moment when the assassin was about to shoot, Todd took the girl and jumped to the next floor. Then he asked the girl to hide under the table and led the assassin out.
Seeing that the girl had hidden, Todd walked up to the assassin and lifted his visor.
It was a thin and pale face, with long, messy hair, an unkempt beard, sunken cheeks, and a somewhat peaceful look with his eyes closed.
He looked like a homeless vagrant, or an introverted otaku who couldn't integrate into society. There was none of his previous fierce, brutal, and murderous appearance.
This was a very unfamiliar face. Todd didn't know what kind of deep hatred he had with him, but it didn't matter. Todd knew that there were many people who hated him, and he would never waste his time on this.
But he also knew that someone would help him dig up all the details of this person, and then arrest, investigate, interrogate, and even torture his family, friends, neighbors, colleagues, and everyone who helped him. Some of the innocent people would be released, but most of them would pay the price for this assassination.
“Sir… Sir… Lord Zongsi, are you alright? This horrific incident happened on the third floor. It was all my negligence. I will never refuse to die, Sir…”
Kurita, who hadn't had time to wash the blood off his body, ran over in a hurry. The fat on his face bounced up and down, making him look very festive.
Todd looked at him coldly and said, "Then go to hell."
Kurita was stunned for a moment, then he forced a dry smile on his face: "Sir... Sir, you are joking..."
He was about to come over to defend himself, but suddenly he stumbled and fell to the ground.
Todd frowned and said, "What are you doing, ship owner ?"
Kurita looked up blankly and said, "I didn't... I don't know..."
“Click.”
A crack suddenly appeared under Kurita's feet.
He suddenly shut his mouth, not daring to say a word, and stared at the crack that appeared under his feet in horror. Everyone's eyes also shifted over, and no one spoke for a while.
"squeak--"
Along with the sound of rapid brakes, several high-level leaders from the third floor rushed over in a hurry. Although they had waited for the situation to calm down before coming over, they had to pretend to rush to the rescue as soon as they heard the news. Some of them hadn't put on their clothes yet, some had lost an extra shoe, and some were running out of breath. They all rushed over in unison, shouting, "Master General..."
"Don't come over!" Kurita's eyebrows jumped, and he waved his hands hurriedly and shouted to the group of people, but it was too late. He only heard a series of "cracking" sounds, and in the blink of an eye, hundreds of cracks of varying sizes appeared on the ground and walls.
When the assassins used mechas to attack the convoy here, most of the firepower actually fell on the ground of this floor, ultimately causing irreparable damage to the floor here.
"Run! It's going to collapse!"
Someone shouted, and everyone hurriedly ran away. But it was fine when they didn't move. Once they moved, the ground cracked more and more. With a loud bang, a huge pit suddenly appeared on the third floor amid everyone's screams of fear. The ground at the edge was still collapsing, and people in the distance hurriedly began to run away.
After a while, a large hole with a radius of several hundred meters appeared on the ground. After the shaking subsided, some people tentatively walked to the edge and looked down. They saw that the second floor more than a hundred meters below was in a mess, with ruins everywhere. They didn't know whether the people who fell in were still alive.
