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"Ding ~"

Amidst the piercing echo, sparks flew from Nidi's dagger as she turned in time, proving she had cleaved the bullet.

Then, in the brief moment before Wesley attempted to fire a second shot, Nidi, with her exceptional physique, leaped several times to reach the stragglers.

The blade suddenly rose, accompanied by a whistling sound.

"Wait a minute, Nidi~"

As Mike's voice rang out, the alloy dagger was only centimeters away from Wesley's throat.

……

On the other side, the cross outside the factory also stopped pulling its trigger after Mike called for a pause.

It can be said that the crucial pause saved at least two, or even three, lives.

"Aren't you coming out yet? The cross!!!"

Mike stepped forward and took the pistol from Wesley's hand, who was already terrified. He then gestured for Nidi to put away the dagger and looked at the pile of weeds outside the factory.

Not long after, a scruffy middle-aged man with a full beard came out carrying a sniper rifle.

This seemingly ordinary middle-aged man is none other than Cross, the former top assassin of the League of Assassins, and also Wesley's biological father.

A man who, in order to avoid bringing trouble to his son, had his son grow up in an orphanage from a young age.

For the same reason, this man watched helplessly as his son's life became a mess, but never thought of intervening.

Now, Mike has found the other party's weakness, so he has no choice but to show up.

"Child, do you still remember me?"

The man who emerged from the cross showed some fatherly responsibility; he didn't immediately acknowledge Mike, but instead looked "affectionately" at his son Wesley.

"You are Cross? You killed my father!!!" After learning the middle-aged man's identity from Mike, Wesley struggled to get up and fight the man who killed his father.

He even forgot about his previous cowardice and the killing of Fire Fox.

"No, child. I am your father. The Assassin's Guild deceived you..." Out of guilt, the cross endured several blows, the heavy blows to the face from his own son.

Then, seeing Wesley's bewildered expression, Cross, who knew the whole "truth," tried his best to explain.

The scene was quite touching.

Of course, Mike had no interest in watching the father and son reunite. He shook his head and said to John and the other man, "Let's go see what other good stuff the Assassin's Guild has."

Mike's X Special Squad has a great deal of freedom in its missions. Apart from the "dangerous goods" that must be handed over, MIB headquarters will turn a blind eye to other seizures.

"Boss, I saw you dodge the bullets in an instant. How did you do that?" On the way to the Assassin's Guild's warehouse, John couldn't help but ask the question that had been bothering him.

Just as Mike dodged the bullet, John, who had just returned to the front hall after completing the "cleanup" mission, happened to see it.

That illogical scene had a profound impact on the mind of this former assassin.

"It's just a little trick. If you want to learn, you'll have plenty of opportunities in the future." Mike, who already considered the Wesleys as prospective members of his team, also offered John a rosy promise.

If all goes well, we might be able to use the technique of the cross to make John's bullets curve.

As for Mike, when faced with bullets coming from both sides, he cleverly used "bullet time" to his advantage.

Due to their physical limitations, most people, when activating bullet time, can only fire bullets that curve. But Mike, with a physical ability ten times greater than that of an average person, felt like he had become the Flash the moment he activated bullet time.

Everything around him appeared in slow motion. In this situation, dodging two bullets wouldn't be a big problem.

After all, the cornering bullets fired by Firefox and Sloan do not have "tracking" capabilities; killing targets relies more on skill and prediction.

Therefore, in the short period after a turning bullet leaves the barrel, theoretically, as long as the reaction and speed are fast enough, it can be dodged.

Chapter 357 Harvest

"Wow, so being an assassin is this lucrative~" Mike, who had violently opened a giant safe in the Assassin's Guild's back warehouse, smiled as he looked at the mountain of gold nuggets and bundles of US dollars in front of him.

Who would complain about having too much money?

Then, Mike found several cheese-like healing pills at the deepest part of the safe, along with a healing pill recipe.

This should be one of the two things that MIB headquarters wanted to obtain from the League of Assassins.

Mike picked up a bar of healing medicine the size of a bar of soap and casually tossed it into the bathtub-sized pool beside him.

Soon, the water in the pool turned milky white, like milk.

"John, go down and give it a try," Mike said to the teammate beside him.

John still didn't understand Mike's thought process, but out of obedience, he didn't hesitate for long before putting on his suit and wading into the pool.

Before long, the milky white liquid in the pool began to slowly solidify.

At the same time, John felt a tingling sensation all over his body, as if countless tiny hands were massaging him.

It was this discovery that prevented him from jumping out of the pool in shock due to the change in the liquid.

It seemed that the healing medicine would take some time to take effect, so Mike turned to another teammate, Nidi, and said, "Your next task is to move everything from this safe to the car."

Strangely enough, although Nidy looked at Mike with a cold gaze during this period, she was quite obedient to his orders.

He is a qualified tool.

In the back warehouse, after assigning tasks, Mike, having a moment of free time, began to examine his "harvest" from this trip.

[Super Adrenaline Secretion (Special Feature) - Bullet Time] is an incredible skill for Mike at this stage.

With the ability to "slow down," his combat power increased by at least tenfold.

Furthermore, the [Blessing. Sin Perception (Trait)] orb is more inclined towards the Mystic trait, somewhat similar to Ghost Rider's [Judgment Eye].

Of course, when this special light was applied to Mike, it did not have the power of judgment; it only retained the ability to distinguish between good and evil.

Mike had previously used this ability to observe Nyde and the others. Surprisingly, Nyde, who had just wiped out more than a dozen members of the League of Assassins, didn't have much sin value, just like Wesley.

On the contrary, John and Cross, the two former assassins, were both shrouded in a thick black aura.

Based on this, Mike deduced that his ability to "feel guilt" was likely a product of rationalism.

In other words, no matter what you think, if you do something wrong that hurts good people, you will be considered guilty.

However, if the person being eliminated is a guilty person who is already guilty, then no [sin] value will be imposed.

It does sound a bit like the theory of cause and effect.

Therefore, in essence, Mike's rationalistic "Guardian of Sin" ability is fundamentally different from Ghost Rider's idealistic "Judgment Eye" ability.

Pickup System

Host: Mike Quinn (Zhao Kun)

Intelligence: 197 (Genius 140+, Super Genius 160+, Super-Dimensional Genius 180+)

Physical fitness: 1272+ (100 for average adult male)

Skill:

圣枪（30705/100000）、枪械射击lv4（20353/100000）、综合格斗lv4（1081/100000）……

学识lv4（981/100000）、伪装lv4（121/100000）、礼仪lv3（934/10000）……

(Skills are divided into five levels / more skills can be seen by expanding.)

Characteristics: Demonic Body (Immortality, eternal youth, super-fast healing).

Werewolf Body. Semi-awakened (Super hearing, super vision, super sense of smell).

Moonlight: (Can increase combat power by 50% at night; can absorb the moon's energy to enhance one's physical constitution.)

(【Blessing. Return to Youth】, 【Blessing. Guilt Sense】, 【Super Adrenaline Secretion - Bullet Time】, 【Weather Forecast】)

(Similar characteristics can be combined and integrated.)

With nothing else to do, Mike took the opportunity to examine his system panel.

Now that his strength far exceeds what ordinary people can imagine, his next life plan is to move towards extraordinary events.

God, Satan, the progenitor of vampires, the progenitor of werewolves, and so on will all be targets he seeks out.

On the other side, the white liquid in the medicinal bath had gradually solidified into a waxy colloid. John, lying inside, fell into a comfortable sleep.

Another half hour passed, and with a long inhale, John broke through the solidified wax and sat up abruptly.

"How are you feeling?" Mike asked curiously as he stepped forward.

"It's amazing! I feel full of energy, like I've returned to my peak physical condition..." John replied excitedly after getting up and stretching his body.

As a former assassin, John had carried out countless dangerous missions, leaving him with some hidden injuries.

The Assassin's Guild's miraculous healing medicine is best known for its ability to quickly treat both internal and external injuries.

If you look closely, you'll notice that John's skin is in much better condition now. Some of the old scars on his skin have all fallen off, and the new skin that has grown back is full of vitality.

"Very good~" After witnessing the power of the healing medicine firsthand, Mike smiled and said to John, "Take two pieces of healing medicine back with you later and give them to your wife. They might help with her condition."

John's wife, Helen, like George's father, also had heart problems.

However, Helen's heart problem is more serious than George's. Having undergone multiple heart bypass surgeries, she is now almost at the end of her life.

Fortunately, the Assassin's Guild's healing potions not only have healing functions, but also have some ability to repair bodily deficiencies.

So even if this healing medicine can't completely cure Helen's heart in one go, it can at least help her fragile body regain some "vitality".

Conservatively speaking, after two medicinal baths, Helen could live for at least a few more years, or even more than a decade, which is not a big problem.

"Thank you~" John expressed his sincere gratitude regarding his wife's treatment.

Having personally experienced the power of healing medicine, he fully understands its preciousness.

It was at this moment that he truly accepted Mike's identity as "boss".

“Alright, let’s go out too,” Mike said. “The people from MIB who are in charge of cleaning up should be here soon.”

While John was taking a medicinal bath, Mike had already submitted the mission to the Men in Black headquarters.

……

In the front yard of the abandoned factory, after so much time had passed, the cross and Wesley had completed their father-son reunion.

Wesley, holding only a stack of documents, showed no excitement at having found his father.

"Why? You know everything... Why didn't you come earlier... to acknowledge me..." Wesley's face was filled with anger.

He then realized that the man who had "abandoned" him since childhood had been hiding by his side all along, silently observing his growth.

To put it bluntly, the cross witnessed everything Wesley experienced growing up.

These include: Wesley being bullied in the orphanage, Wesley not being able to afford high school, Wesley being oppressed by his boss at work because he lacks education, and Wesley's girlfriend having an affair with his best friend...

If you put yourself in Wesley's shoes even slightly, you'll know how terrifying all of this is.

It just goes to show that: it would be better if he didn't have a father at all.

“Wait a minute, you can talk about your family matters when you get back.” Mike walked back into the yard, looked at the odd father and son, and said, “Now, on behalf of the X Department Special Team, I’m giving you a chance to choose your lives again. Join us, or go eat some McDonald’s…”

Then, just like when recruiting John, Mike promised Cross the benefits of joining the team: new identification, a fixed monthly salary of 50,000 US dollars, and a special mission reward mechanism.

As for Wesley, whose potential has not yet been fully realized, Mike was only willing to offer him a basic salary of 10,000 US dollars per month.

Faced with the conditions offered by Mike, Cross chose to join the X Division without hesitation.

For Cross, money was secondary; the new identity document was something he simply couldn't refuse.

On the other hand, Wesley, who hadn't yet transformed from a loser into a glamorous man, was also very tempted by the job with a monthly salary of ten thousand US dollars.

Before this, he still harbored resentment over the annihilation of the Assassin's Guild, especially the killing of Fire Fox.

In his view, although the members of the Assassin's Guild were all eccentric, they were all good people because they upheld "justice".

Among them, Firefox, who helped Wesley "escape" from his previous terrible life, is in a sense Wesley's greatest benefactor.

"What is your X Department all about? Why did you launch a surprise attack on the Assassin's Guild for no reason?" Wesley was immediately enraged again at the thought of the dead Fire Fox.

Having witnessed the firepower of Department X, he spoke with a somewhat lacking confidence.

On the other side, before Mike could react, Cross stepped forward.

“Wesley, listen. The League of Assassins didn't just want to use you to kill me, creating a situation where my son and I turned against each other. Sloan also twisted the organization's justice through that loom…”

To make his point more convincing, Cross said, and then took his son to the Assassin's Guild's archives.