Chapter 479: A Bunch of Trash
Xiao Ye looked at them, took out the black cube, and began tossing it into the air.
The men's eyes immediately went red with greed and urgency. "Hurry up, give it to us!"
"That depends on your performance," Xiao Ye said with a slight smile. "How about you bark like dogs? If you do a good job, I'll give this to you. What do you say?"
The men froze for a moment before it dawned on them.
"You punk, you dare to mess with us!"
"You're courting death!"
"Get him! Kill him!"
Xiao Ye closed his fist around the cube. "Come any closer, and I'll destroy this thing."
The murderous aura radiating from the men faltered.
Xiao Ye's lips curled into a smirk. "What a bunch of idiots!"
The moment he finished speaking, all of them collapsed to the ground.
He pocketed the cube, and a slip of paper fluttered to the ground.
「A few moments later.」
A car appeared on the scene and quickly disposed of the dead assassins.
One of them discovered the slip of paper, was startled by what he read, and immediately handed it to his boss.
On it was written a single line—Send someone smarter next time.
SNAP!
The boss viciously crumpled the paper into a ball. "A bunch of useless trash! So many of you, and you can't even handle one person!"
"Boss, that man is named Xiao Ye. He's one of the most renowned masters in the Dragon Country!"
"Isn't it normal that our men can't beat him?"
But the boss didn't give a damn about Xiao Ye. "Useless! What bullshit Dragon Country master? Don't forget, our men are all highly trained too!"
"Hurry up and send more men! We have to get that secret key! If you can't get this done, it won't just be my head on the line—it'll be all of yours, too!"
Perhaps the note had its intended effect, because for the next little while, things around Xiao Ye were surprisingly quiet.
He drove on until he reached the next city.
By then, night had fallen.
Xiao Ye found a guesthouse that looked relatively clean and checked in.
This city was even more dilapidated. There wasn't a single decent hotel. As far as the eye could see, there were only low-slung buildings; forget skyscrapers, there were barely any brick-and-tile houses.
Xiao Ye pushed the door open to find a tidy room inside.
It was on the ground floor, with a window looking out onto the street.
The room's decor was unique, with a local flair.
Xiao Ye threw back the blanket and lay down directly on the bed.
「An indeterminate amount of time passed.」
Two dark figures appeared silently outside the window.
One of them immediately blew knockout gas into the room.
After a while, seeing no movement inside, the two of them crept in.
'They said he was some formidable opponent, but he's nothing special after all,' the man in the lead thought with contempt.
'And to think I was so worked up, even preparing an extra dose of knockout gas. What a complete waste!'
He approached the bed where, in the moonlight, a figure was lying with its back to him.
The two men exchanged a look and moved at the same time, trying to find the cube on Xiao Ye's body.
But in the next second, their necks were caught in a death grip.
'Impossible!'
'With that much knockout gas, how could he possibly be fine?'
Xiao Ye wasn't about to explain anything to dead men. He snapped their necks and tossed them out the window.
Then he lay back down to rest.
「Daybreak.」
Screams erupted.
"What's going on!"
"Look, there are bodies everywhere!"
"My god, there must be seven or eight of them! How did so many people die? Who killed them!"
Xiao Ye got up unhurriedly, washed up, got dressed, and prepared to leave.
Everyone's attention was on the bodies; no one even noticed him go.
Xiao Ye got in his car and drove on.
The rest of the journey was fraught with danger.
If he wasn't being tailed by a car, he was being ambushed.
In short, the attacks never stopped, coming every few hours.
This was especially true when Xiao Ye tried to rest at night; wave after wave of people came for him.
Unfortunately for them, not a single one succeeded.
「In a villa in Country N.」
An old man who looked to be in his seventies furiously smashed his coffee cup.
"What the hell is going on! I've sent so many people, why haven't we succeeded? And we've lost so many men!"
"Well..." The person reporting was trembling with fear. "Mr. Bai, that man's skills are incredible. None of our men are his match."
"Think about it. He's showing up so brazenly, which obviously means he isn't afraid of us. If he didn't have some real power, how could he dare to act like this?"
"So... how about we send in our strongest?"
"The strongest?" the old man muttered, then immediately refused a few seconds later. "No. It is absolutely not the time for them to make a move!"
"The moment they act, they'll be exposed. Do you think he's traveling completely alone? His whereabouts are almost certainly being monitored by those conservatives."
"Keep sending men. Whoever can take this man down and get the secret key from him, I'll give them a million!"
"Yes, sir! I'll give the order right away!"
The lure of a million was tempting.
And so, even more people were mobilized.
「On a certain street.」
Having just finished lunch, Xiao Ye looked at the seven men surrounding him with a sense of helplessness.
'Do these people not get it?'
'When faced with absolute power, numbers aren't the key to victory!'
'They send a bunch of third-rate clowns, and not a single one of them can actually fight!'
Xiao Ye didn't hold back, moving in to take care of them directly.
"Hey, you can't just go around hitting people!"
"Yeah! Who said you could do that!"
"He's a foreigner, what right does he have to bully one of our own? Don't let him get away!"
As they spoke, a crowd of "concerned citizens" immediately surrounded Xiao Ye.
Xiao Ye wasn't afraid in the slightest. Instead, his gaze passed over the crowd to look behind them.
'When I first made my move, there weren't this many people around, and most people don't like to meddle in others' business.'
'Someone's fanning the flames!'
'So what's this? They saw that direct attacks weren't working, so now they're trying to use the power of the crowd?'
"Hey, punk, you're coming with us to the police station right now!"
"You hurt people! You have to pay compensation and face the consequences!"
"We can't just let this go because you're a foreigner!"
Xiao Ye ignored the crowd completely and started walking in a specific direction. "Move."
"Hey, what are you doing! You can't leave!"
"I've already called the police! They'll be here any minute!"
Xiao Ye shoved the person in front of him aside. "Get out of my way!"
The next second, he grabbed the guy who had been fanning the flames from within the crowd.
The man looked at him in terror. "Wh-what do you want?"
"If you had just attacked me directly, I might have respected you as a man."
"But you're just a rat who only knows how to hide in the shadows!"
The moment he finished speaking, Xiao Ye snapped the man's neck!
THUD!
The body fell heavily to the ground.
The crowd was stunned.
After a few seconds, someone finally reacted, screaming, "M-murder! He's a murderer!"
"Run! He's a killer!"