Ark Chess Player

Mercenaries afterward followed suit, including those from Silverwing Contractors.

The mercenary captain frowned, pressing the blade of his longsword against the corpse's back, mentally preparing himself for an attack at any moment.

Unable to determine whether the other party had switched the body with a fake, he carefully lifted the back of his knife, flipped himself over, and knelt, bowing his head to receive the corpse with its arms outstretched. The corpse was almost entirely devoid of intact skin; its swollen, edematous face was covered in bloody finger marks, and white fat and oxidized dark red muscle came into view.

Even the mercenaries who fought bloody battles on the battlefield couldn't help but feel nauseous.

Could this be a trap?

Just as the mercenary leader was feeling puzzled, he felt a slight touch from the tip of the knife against the corpse. Startled, he instinctively gripped the long knife and plunged it into the corpse's left chest, shattering the already stopped heart.

The intense tension in his nerves sent shivers down his spine, and the veins on the mercenary leader's fingers bulged as he gripped the hilt of his knife. His swift attacks caught even the surrounding mercenaries off guard.

Apart from one person.

A flash of bright white light illuminated the bloodstains on the mercenary leader's face.

The mercenaries were all wearing high-quality goggles, so this level of white light was nothing to them.

All mercenaries assumed combat stance, raised their weapons, and faced the direction from which the flashes of light were coming from.

A strange figure appeared before them without their noticing. This person was clad in a heavy black hooded coat, and held a mobile terminal in his fair, jade-like hands. The white light they had just witnessed emanated from this terminal; its 128-degree ultra-wide-angle lens captured the entire mercenary squad, including the swift and deadly assassination of their leader, Alexander Anlondor, the second son of the Eagle Pulse Group, all in a single, continuous shot.

"Shocking! Silverwing Security, a well-known company in Lungmen, has murdered its employer after refusing to pay its contractual fees due to the contract's expiration!"

"Secrets unknown to the people of Longmen: A series of bloody cases at the intersection of Longmen's outer ring road. You'll regret it if you don't read it."

"Dragon Gate under a storm? The second young master of Eagle Pulse Group is dead without a complete body? The murderer is actually him!"

Lin Lu waved the mobile terminal in his hand; the crime scene was captured clearly.

Thank you for your cooperation.

Chapter 257 Defense Descends (4K)

been played!

The mercenary leader instantly realized he'd been used as a pawn! His adversaries had manipulated the corpse to lure him into a reaction, filming it to frame Silverwing Company for murdering the second young master of Eagle Pulse Group—Damn it, where did this honey trap come from?! Even the ladies in Dragon Gate's red-light district aren't as cunning as you!

We absolutely cannot let this person live! We must at least take the camera away!

"Fire!!"

The mercenary leader made a decisive decision.

This is Silverwing Security Contractor; even if the Guard Bureau cops came, they couldn't do anything about it!

"bring it on."

Lin Lu smiled gently.

He tossed the mobile terminal into the air, and taking advantage of the moment when the mercenary leader's attention was diverted, he stepped forward instead of retreating.

Lin Lu carried no weapons, while the two mercenaries at the front row gripped gleaming longswords and iron swords. His action seemed reckless, but he successfully avoided ambushes from the two mercenaries behind him and went directly to the mercenary leader, using him as a human shield.

A seemingly slender arm swung a fist. Under normal circumstances, these mercenaries, whose biceps were larger than Lin Lu's head, wouldn't have paid any attention. But the opponent was an absolute killer, and even though those hands didn't look like they could lift heavy objects, they couldn't be underestimated!

The dead bodies on the ground are the best example.

Between a strong, muscular man who has never committed violence and a thin, hunched man with blood-stained hands, the latter is undoubtedly the one who inspires true fear.

Lin Lu's fist struck the mercenary leader, who had just raised his long sword to parry the blow. The sword emitted a dull groan and even cracked! The mercenary leader felt as if he had been hit by a car. The tiger's mouth of his hands, which were gripping the sword hilt, was cracked, and the pain shot straight to the top of his head.

"The response is good."

Lin Lu smiled and said that such a clever and good child should naturally be rewarded.

Full set of close-quarters combat (CQC).

Please accept this small token of my concern.

Lin Lu changed his fist into a palm, and his slender, boneless fingers struck the blade again, shattering it. His palm then landed on the mercenary leader's chest.

"Puha—"

The mercenary leader felt his heart stop beating, his lungs and heart contract rapidly, pounding violently, as if his blood vessels were about to burst. With just this one blow, he had already lost most of his fighting ability, and his mind went blank.

But this is just an appetizer.

Lin Lu's next movements were as swift as lightning and as fast as the wind, all done in one smooth motion.

His left hand, poised to strike, clenched into a fist, slicing through the air with a loud bang, and struck the mercenary leader squarely in the abdomen.

Lin Lu stood firmly on the ground, using his waist to drive his back, then his back to his shoulders, then his arms, and finally blasting a burst of energy from his hands onto the enemy.

"Ora Ora Ora Ora Ora Ora Ora!!"

The fists struck the flimsy armor repeatedly, but what truly injured the enemy was not the direct impact, but the invisible internal force.

A series of explosive sounds erupted between fists and flesh as Lin Lu delivered twenty-seven powerful punches to the mercenary leader's vital areas in just three seconds. The final punch struck the mercenary leader squarely in the throat, causing him to involuntarily clutch his throat, his eyes nearly popping out of their sockets beneath his goggles.

Taking advantage of the opponent's tendency to bend over, Lin Lu swiftly pounced with both hands like a snake, tightly wrapping them around the opponent's arms and forcefully lifting him upwards. At the same time, he swept his right leg heavily across the ground, kicking the mercenary leader hard in the shinbone, and directly back-throwing him to the ground, breaking his spine.

Lin Lu completed his entire set of close-quarters combat techniques in less than ten seconds.

"Grandma once said..."

Lin Lu stretched out his left hand and caught the mobile terminal that had been thrown into the air at the beginning with a "whoosh".

"Justice is myself; I am justice."

The battle was not over yet; until all the enemies fell, they took a walk after dinner.

Without further hesitation, the two mercenaries in the back row pulled the triggers, and the crossbow bolts that were already prepared were released and flew away.

At such close range, if these veterans were to miss their target, they might as well just shoot themselves and commit suicide on the spot!

"Clang clang."

A crisp, light sound rang out; the crossbow bolt, powerful enough to shatter a stone wall, failed to penetrate Lin Lü's armor.

The enemy not only failed to harm Lin Lu, but also triggered the emergency defense system of the hooded coat.

The photon skeleton emitted a cold, silvery light, constructing an Originium magnetic field with a diameter of five meters. This directly trapped the melee mercenary who was attacking from the other side with a sword in the mud, making his movements as if he were walking in a marshmallow. The menacing frontal attack turned into childish play.

With his left hand holding the mobile terminal, Lin Lu flashed forward and grabbed the greedy mercenary with his right hand, pulling him to the side and behind him.

"Guard Vent"

"Pfft—" The sound of flesh being pierced was incredibly clear.

The mercenary's eyes widened, filled with terror and despair.

A bloody spearhead pierced through his waist, a fatal blow to his kidneys, a pain that would haunt him for life.

It turned out that, seeing the situation was not good, the mercenary guard immediately chose to flank and attack from behind, attempting to kill Lin Lu with a single blow. In addition to being able to cast spells, the spear made of Originium, when it successfully pierced the human body, caused the Originium components to mix with the blood. Even if it did not kill the person, it would infect them with the fatal Oripathy.

This is why the mercenary who was drooling over the luxury cars earlier showed a face full of despair when he looked down at the penetrating wound in his waist and abdomen.

Lin Lu tossed the deathly pale mercenary into the luxury car he had been longing for. The mercenary, who had half his body inside through the broken window, coughed up a mouthful of blood, which splattered onto the face of another corpse inside the car.

Anlongdor's butler died with his eyes wide open, his yellowish-brown eyes fixed on the sky, stained with blood.

"Retreat! Retreat quickly!"

The two mercenaries in the back row immediately chose to run away; they were neither fools nor loyal knights.

There are usually only two reasons for becoming a mercenary: either they simply enjoy the taste of blood and battle, or they are pitiful people with nowhere else to go who can only seek a place to survive in the simplest and most brutal way. But what's the use of acquiring a lot of money if you don't have the life to enjoy it?

To be honest, the mercenary in the center also wanted to run away; in fact, her legs had started to tremble.

She never expected her all-out attack to go astray. It was all because of that inexplicable feeling of weightlessness that her unstoppable momentum vanished. Otherwise, she would surely have hit her target and pierced through it.

"The only thing that can affect Originium is Originium itself."

Lin Lu glanced at the Originium spear in the hands of the Central Guard mercenary. It was precisely because of this weapon's neutralization of the photon field that she was able to deliver a powerful blow.

well.

Confiscated.

Lin Lu's legs tensed instantly, and he was like an arrow released from a bow, arriving in front of the Central Guard mercenary in the blink of an eye.

He then noticed that it was a young woman, with a pointed chin and a classic oval face. Her eyes, hidden behind goggles, held a resolute determination; she seemed determined to fight to the death. Since escape was impossible, she would fight to the bitter end, and if she was going to die, she would die knowing why.

He's a promising talent.

Unfortunately, he can't see things clearly, and he's a bit slow-witted, not very good at judging people and current events.

Lin Lu is good at many things. In addition to tactical command, business management and logistics management, he is best at two other things.

Close-quarters combat and firearms shooting.

The mercenary suppressed her fear, staring intently at Lin Lu's approaching movements, desperately trying to decipher his intentions. Finally, she took a deep breath and thrust her Originium spear, gripped tightly in both hands, upwards.

The target was quite insidious; men would fall silent upon seeing it, while women would weep.

Lin Lu initially planned to use a hip thrust to knock her back, but then he thought that if he used that move on other women, it would be considered cheating in a sense, right? Amiya, the expert at catching cheaters, might defy the laws of physics and teleport over, and he would inevitably get a beating.

Besides, I don't want to fencing with anyone...

Lin Lu sighed inwardly and boldly reached out with his left hand to grab the Originium Spear.

The other party was stunned, thinking that this person must be crazy to catch a spear with his bare hands. Wasn't he afraid of being pierced through? But considering the person's abnormal fighting ability, even the squad leader was beaten to a pulp and was hit by three rounds of Ora in an instant, lying on the ground, his life hanging in the balance.

She understood that this was her only chance.

If she can't take advantage of the situation to subdue the enemy, then she'll be the one getting blown away next.

There is death for those who are born, but glory for those who do not die.

The mercenary in the center widened his eyes, and with an indomitable spirit, he charged forward with a sudden, powerful thrust!

Lin Lu waved his hand, and the double helix mark on the back of his hand emitted a faint orange-red light.

extraction.

The moment Lin Lu's left hand touched the Originium spear, the sharp spearhead immediately decomposed, transforming into the purest Originium energy and returning it to the mark. Although not as pure as Originium, it was still of superior purity, with fewer impurities, making extraction quite easy.

The mercenary's large eyes were filled with terror. She could no longer stop her charge, watching helplessly as her weapon melted in the enemy's hands. Not only that, she herself fell into the enemy's arms. Without her Originium Spear, she was unable to withstand the photon field. The magnetic field generated by the Originium particles was like an invisible hand dragging her body, slowing her movements and even slowing her thinking.

What to do, what to do?!

This was her last remaining wisp of consciousness.

Lin Lu grabbed the gun handle in her hand with his left hand and pulled it out completely, while his right hand wrapped around the mercenary girl's slender waist.