Chapter 166 Internal Strife <TOC> Chapter 168 Combat Robots
Translator: SumTLMan
The P247 pistol, with a barrel made from a solid block of psychic metal Crimson Iron, drilled to a length of 138.27mm, features six right-handed grooves and a 250mm twist rate. When using tungsten-core bullets and high-energy propellant, it can easily penetrate the ZD-12 light military armor.
The bullet fired from the pistol appeared to be slightly overcharged; the unburnt propellant exploded after exiting the barrel, turning into a massive fireball.
Li Mu, who was completely unaware just a moment ago, turned his head in advance, avoiding the sneak attack. The high-speed rotating bullet nearly grazed his face.
“It seems to be true, Danger Intuition; what a great holy relic,” he said.
The assassin’s eyes flickered with avarice as he reholstered his pistol.
Li Mu turned his head and walked up to him.
“Of course it’s true. I’m just curious why you chose to attack me the moment you realized the mission could continue?”
“What are you trying to say? Are you accusing me of betraying the mission’s information?”
A hint of panic flashed in the assassin’s eyes. He was merely covetous of the Danger Intuition holy relic and wanted to seize it when the opportunity arose. He would never be foolish enough to involve himself in the internal strife of the Scarmaggio family.
The next moment, Li Mu struck like lightning, drawing a short dagger. The assassin had no time to react before being stabbed directly through the heart.
“Hisss…”
He let out a cold breath, afraid to breathe further to avoid aggravating the wound. He gripped Li Mu’s hand, preventing him from withdrawing the blade, and slowly sat down on the deck of the hovercraft to lessen the strain on his heart.
“Save… save me… I’ll give you all my money.”
The assassin choked out the words one by one. With the awakened individual’s powerful vitality, even with a pierced heart, there was still a chance for survival.
But Li Mu gently twisted the dagger, completely mashing the assassin’s heart, and then pulled it out.
“Gurgle… gurgle…”
The assassin was choked by the blood surging up his throat.
Blood gushed out like a fountain from the wound. Unless a highly skilled doctor could replace his heart with an artificial one within half an hour, he was doomed.
Li Mu flicked off the blood from the dagger and put it away.
“What have you done?! You killed Fei Zhao?!”
“He tested me once, so I tested him once. Isn’t that fair? Unfortunately, he couldn’t withstand it.”
Li Mu said with narrowed eyes.
“Do you intend to avenge this dead person?”
At this moment, Fei Zhao hadn’t died yet. Upon hearing Li Mu’s words, his body convulsed.
The Shen siblings, as well as Besame and Alfred representing Demos, all stood up to speak for Li Mu. Their current positions were aligned with Li Mu’s, all wanting the commission to proceed smoothly.
There was no such thing as true friendship among assassins. Quickly, everyone put Fei Zhao’s death behind them. Before he was truly dead, he was thrown off the hovercraft, and his belongings were claimed by Li Mu.
Li Mu toyed with the exquisite P247 pistol, occasionally manipulating the hovercraft’s direction.
At this moment, the atmosphere on the hovercraft was tense. Quite a few awakened individuals did not fully trust Li Mu. After all, Danger Intuition could only vaguely sense danger, unlike a navigator who could directly plot a course to the target.
After controlling the hovercraft for about thirty kilometers without encountering any danger, the assassins on board finally let their guard down.
At this moment, a fierce explosion erupted directly beneath the hovercraft.
The dazzling firelight, like a bolt of lightning, instantly illuminated the pitch-black swamp. The intense shockwave tore apart the reinforced hovercraft, sending fragments and debris flying hundreds of meters into the air.
Tons of mud soared into the sky, raining down with a loud crackling sound after several seconds.
Li Mu lowered his crossed arms that had shielded him, having boosted his defenses to the limit with the Hand of Steel and Ancient Scales a second before the explosion occurred.
“Two hundred kilograms of high-explosive, no wonder my hands are numb.”
The intense explosion hardly caused him any harm.
In Raginbeard, he had obtained fifty kilograms of high-explosive through the hitman agent Simpson, and purchased another one hundred and fifty kilograms on the market by changing his identity.
For awakened individuals without the Black Film, high-explosive was a deadly threat, let alone two hundred kilograms.
Li Mu activated the Divine Eye Technique and the Illusion Breaker Eyes to confirm that most of the assassins had died in the initial explosion. Some unlucky ones were completely obliterated, their bodies turned to ash.
Ralph, who had a modified mechanical arm, survived. During the explosion, he manipulated his mechanical arm to leap off the hovercraft, shielding himself with it. Though affected by the shockwave, he avoided being killed directly.
More agile than him, the psychic-type awakened individual Algernon tried to escape earlier but was torn apart due to his fragile body.
“Cough! Cough! You… you’re the traitor!”
Ralph coughed violently, continuously expelling clotted blood and fragments of his organs. His body was covered in horrifying bruises, traces left by the recent massive explosion.
Suddenly, he raised his mechanical arm, and the psychic metal emitted a dazzling light. In the next instant, a destructive psychic beam shot from the center of his palm.
Ralph had been consciously leading others to believe he was a manipulator-type awakened individual, but in reality, his mastery in the shaping was much deeper. Moreover, this specially designed mechanical arm could greatly amplify the destructive power of his shaper-type psychic abilities.
In the next moment, the psychic beam in which he had placed high hopes was directly caught by Li Mu, who forcefully crushed it, causing a violent explosion that left virtually no trace on the Ancient Scales.
“This…”
Ralph stared dumbfounded at the scene, which was far beyond the limits of his imagination.
Li Mu didn’t give him another chance, and his figure appeared in front of Ralph like a flash of lightning.
Ralph let out a bestial roar, channeling all his remaining psychic energy into the mechanical arm. In this extreme state, he could control the mechanical arm to deliver a punch with ten tons of force, surpassing even those physical enhancer-type awakened individuals who relied on their flesh and blood to fight.
However, his body couldn’t withstand such a fierce exertion of force, and after throwing this punch, he would actually injure himself.
This desperate punch was effortlessly dodged, and Li Mu directly blew Ralph’s head off with a single punch. Such a punch, barely thrown, could only hit stationary targets and was too easy to evade.
Shaking off the blood on his fist, Li Mu glanced behind him.
With a sound like a tire bursting, a giant erupted from the ground and furiously launched an attack at Li Mu.
The massive fist seemed like a giant hammer, slamming towards Li Mu’s head.
Her twisted face still bore traces of Besame, but she no longer looked gaunt. Her entire body had swollen to over three meters tall, her dark green muscles tearing through her clothes, making her resemble a monster from legends.
Besame had practiced the secret Golden Titan energy technique of the Scarmaggio family, which allowed her to transform into a giant with increased strength, defense, and explosive power when fully activated.
In this state, hardly anyone could withstand her punch.
The next moment, her confident punch was caught.
Li Mu’s palm, compared to her fist, seemed like a child’s, but it was like an insurmountable iron wall that caught her punch. He twisted and pushed down on Besame’s arm, leaped up, and delivered a fierce punch to her face.
A burst of air.
Besame let out an extremely miserable scream, as she was sent flying by the punch and slid dozens of meters across the ground.
She felt as if her face had been shattered, and the viscous blood flowed unstoppably.