Odd Containment Specialist.

Chapter 709 Assassin (I)

Xia Shou remained absolutely vigilant and continued to move forward, guessing the other party's special abilities in his heart.

Is this assassin the same person who killed him instantly on the pedestrian street last time?
If it was the same person, why wasn't he killed instantly this time?
The assassin who killed him instantly last time did not even have any sign of death when killing him. When there was no fatal end around him, he forced him to go back in time.

Xia Shou still thought about that incident from time to time and had already come up with the most likely guess.

That is the person who has the ability to kill him instantly. At the beginning, he did not approach him with the purpose of killing him. But the moment he approached him, he received a new order from the mastermind behind the scenes, and his purpose changed to killing him.

When the assassin received the new order, he should have been close enough to him, close enough to kill him instantly, so that the time when the deadline changed was extremely close to the time when he was killed, which resulted in him not having a chance to notice the change in the deadline and being killed first.

The only enemy who knows about "seeking his own death" is the traitor mentioned in the Death Note. Based on this reasoning, this powerful assassin is the traitor's subordinate!
Xia Shou concentrated his mind, kept alert to his surroundings, and continued his unfinished reasoning.

Based on the hypothesis that I just thought of, if I continue to analyze the action pattern of the assassin who is now confronting him, I may be able to find a new breakthrough.

Why was the opponent able to kill instantly last time but not this time?
Last time, the traitor was able to temporarily change the order, helping the assassin bypass the detection mechanism of [Self-Destruction] and kill himself.

This time, the traitor should also know that [Self-Destruction] has a 24-hour cooldown period, and there is no need to play any tricks to temporarily change the command.

Compared with the last time, the conditions for this assassination were more favorable, but the opponent failed to achieve the achievement of instant kill. Obviously, compared with the last "Pedestrian Street Assassination", some things have changed this time, which has become unfavorable to the opponent.

Xia Shou looked at the quiet street and narrowed his eyes slightly.

First, the distance.

The opponent can only kill him if he gets within a certain range, so the factor that is unfavorable to the opponent, is it a human?
The pedestrian street was very busy at the time, and many passers-by were nearby. The other party could disguise himself as a passer-by and get close enough to him, even passing by him.

That was impossible to do on this deserted street.

In such a situation, Xia Shou would chop off even a passing wild cat, let alone a human.

It is estimated that the assassin took this into consideration, so he gave up the close-range assassination with greater lethality and chose the long-range assassination of more than 50m.

The opponent's first assassination attempt had the highest success rate, but it failed, and the assassin's advantage was greatly reduced.

So...will this assassin retreat, or wait in the dark for a second chance to assassinate?

Ah, what a headache, this kind of opponent is so disgusting. You never know whether he will hide in the shadows to find new flaws after a sneak attack, or he will sneak away and disappear without a trace to do other more important things.

Just like a jungler who has cut into the back row once in the game, as long as there is no trace of him on the map, every bush seems to be filled with cold malice.

As a fat ninja, he might be disgusting in the eyes of his enemies, Xia Shou suddenly jumped into thought.

Xia Shou continued to move forward. He couldn't stay where he was forever. The time of the reflection world was limited. They had to kill the writer... they had to kill him.

When Xia Shou walked forward ten meters, he suddenly launched the [Flash Kill].

The last second, he was still standing on the street.

At this moment, he was standing behind the cashier counter in a convenience store with a shallow bloody wound on his neck.

He swiftly climbed over the cash register and ran to the street. He condensed a lightning gun in his hand and poked it towards the place where he had just stood. Then he turned around and waved it around randomly.

Xia Shou's right ribs were cut open like a knife. The Blood Demon Mask condensed in his other free palm, and then he was stunned.

What am I doing?

What am I doing?
Xia Shou's mind was confused and bewildered. He couldn't understand his own behavior, but when he saw the red mask in his hand, he still chose to put it on and then activated [Owl's Cry and Blood Boiling]!
A sharp bird cry.

Then, it was as if nothing happened.

[Owl Cry, Blood Boils] is an instant-kill skill for extraordinary people with ordinary bodies. It does not need to last long, just one hit is enough.

In order to save the consumption of desire, Xia Shou raised his hand and wiped his face. The scarlet mask turned into a red flame, burned out and disappeared in the air in a few seconds, leaving no ash.

"What was I doing just now?" Xia Shou asked himself.

He knew very well what he had done, but when he recalled it now, he didn't know why he had done it at that time!
All he got in return for what he had just done was another wound.

The first and second wounds had healed in the short time he put on the mask. Although the second wound only lasted for a short time, he was very clear about the condition of that wound.

It was near the right ribs, much shallower than the first wound.

Xia Shou reviewed his inexplicable behaviors in his mind. He was sure that he would not do anything meaningless, so there was only one answer, that is, these behaviors originally had meaning, but now they no longer have.

Xia Shou remembered that when he walked to that position just now, he suddenly activated the [Flash Kill on Hit], and the flash kill on hit can only be activated at the moment of being attacked.

He can exchange his spatial position with any living being within a range of fifty meters. The greater the difference between the mass, volume, and shape of the replacement object, the greater the amount of magical energy required for the replacement.

When there is a target, it will swap positions with the target living being, but when there is no target, activating the ability will swap with a random target with lower spell power consumption.

And just now, the amount of magic power he consumed was very small.

Judging from Xia Shou's past experience of using the hit-and-dodge technique, the person whose position had just been swapped should be a person.

In this way, his inexplicable behavior seemed to be explained.

He was attacked, and relying on the Scorpion Spine's outstanding reflexes, he activated his supernatural powers at the moment of being hit and switched positions with his opponent.

And at that time, he was very clearly aware of the change in spatial position and what it meant, which was that the assassin was hiding behind the cash register before, and now the positions had been switched, so the other party should be on the street where he had just stood!
That's why he rushed back to his original position immediately after teleporting.

So what then?
Xia Shou continued to recall his next action.

He used [Future Prefabrication] to create a lightning gun, waved it around randomly, and was injured again. When he summoned the Mask of Desire with his palm, he felt that everything was so meaningless, and then he used Owl's Cry and Blood Boiling without thinking.

Now, he stood here and reviewed it all.

"It seems that she is a bit like Wei Yu." Xia Shou said to himself.

This was the most likely outcome he could think of. The other party was the same as Su Weiyu, but much worse than Su Weiyu.

Since he just tried to attack the other party with a lightning gun, it means that it is not that he cannot observe, but that he forgot after observing.

(End of this chapter)