The First Order

Ren Xiaosu was very particular about the position of his ambush. He had observed the terrain near the black market and found there were only three exits around it. If the team were to head to Stronghold 73 at the Zhou Consortium’s territory to conduct their mission, they would have to take the route Ren Xiaosu was ambushing.

When Zhao Haocheng and the others drove out of the black market, a sniper bullet penetrated the window of the off-road vehicle without any warning and killed Zhao Haocheng in the backseat.

Next to Ren Xiaosu, Zhou Yingxue was watching quietly all this while and was a little puzzled. How did the young man next to her seem to know everything? He could even use a sniper rifle this well?

She could just imagine how terrifying a supernatural being would be after learning how to snipe.

Other snipers had to carefully guard against sneak attacks of supernatural beings in close combat. However, this young man before her did not have to worry about that at all. If normal supernatural beings sneak attacked him, they would only find that they could not beat him in close combat either.

And now, a well-known A-rank hitman had died just like that. Ren Xiaosu really did not hesitate when it came to killing people.

Ren Xiaosu stowed his sniper rifle and went down the hill. Zhou Yingxue followed and murmured, “Will they still let you join their team after you’ve killed their teammate?”

“Since Zhao Haocheng had to die no matter what, we’re just gonna have to take it one step at a time,” Ren Xiaosu said slowly. In his opinion, if someone were always plotting against him behind his back or would possibly sabotage him in the future, he might as well just kill that person now.

Ren Xiaosu had already said he was not a good person, and neither was he willing to be one.

However, he asked, “This team is also very strange. Even though they know that Zhao Haocheng is problematic, why did they still accept him as their teammate? Most people wouldn’t want someone like him as their teammate. If it were me, I’d rather offend him than work with him.”

“Who knows?” Zhou Yingxue said as she followed Ren Xiaosu.

When they got down the hill, Zhou Yingxue reverted to her arrogant expression and walked towards the convoy with her assistant, Ren Xiaosu.

By now, the other four A-rank hitmen in the convoy had already dumped Zhao Haocheng’s corpse on the side of the road. They picked up a cloth to wipe down the interior of the vehicle as it was covered in blood.

However, Ren Xiaosu and Zhou Yingxue did not expect that when the other A-rank hitmen saw them, they actually laughed happily. “Welcome aboard?”

Zhou Yingxue wondered, “Why does it look like you guys don’t mind that your teammate’s just been killed?”

The occupant of Room 1209 said with a smile, “Let me introduce myself. My name is Wu Tong. My good friend was among the teammates Zhao Haocheng killed. I wanted to set a trap to kill him this time and thought it’d be quite difficult since he was so alert. However, I didn’t expect you to kill him with a sniper rifle. Speaking of, I still have to thank you for taking revenge for my friend.”

Ren Xiaosu felt that it made sense if it was like this. Otherwise, he really could not understand why the other party did not kick Zhao Haocheng out of their team. After all, they could choose their team members freely, and it was not like the Anjing House forcefully assigned Zhao Haocheng to them.

So Zhao Haocheng had probably not expected that someone would come after him for revenge.

In such a person’s world, he probably felt that no one would have any friends since he did not have any friends himself either.

However, Wu Tong and the others thought of Zhou Yingxue as the sniper who opened fire just now. Wu Tong praised, “I never expected that Ms. Zhou Yingxue is not only a superhuman but a sniper. No wonder you managed to wipe out the Pyro Company’s Dusk in Stronghold 61.”

Ren Xiaosu learned from Zhou Yingxue that the Pyro Company had actually gained the upper hand when she was fleeing. Not only was she seriously injured, but some of their team members had also been killed by the Pyro Company.

However, everyone was now saying they had done a beautiful job and that the Pyro Company members were completely wiped out.

Something must have happened after Zhou Yingxue fled from Stronghold 61.

On that night, the battle at Stronghold 61 lasted for a very long time. Ren Xiaosu suspected it was the Wang Consortium that had wiped out the Pyro Company but later claimed it was the Anjing House’s doing.

In fact, the same thing happened at Stronghold 63. When Vanilla was conducting his mission, he retreated the moment he realized the members of the Pyro Company were fleeing in the direction of the Wang Consortium’s troops.

Ren Xiaosu always found that a little strange. Could it be that the Wang Consortium only appeared to be capturing the members of the Anjing House on the surface but were actually siding with them privately? Why was the Anjing House acting like the Wang Consortium’s shadow then? Could it be that the two parties were somehow cooperating?

Of course, Ren Xiaosu would probably be even more sure of this point if he knew about Qing Zhen’s opinion of the Wang Consortium.

But he could not understand what interests the Wang Consortium and Anjing House had in common.

Perhaps not even Qing Zhen understood.

Wu Tong looked at Ren Xiaosu. “Ms. Zhou, this is…”

“Oh, he’s my assistant, my spotter,” Zhou Yingxue said coldly.

Ren Xiaosu paused for a moment, then convincingly took out a scope that was specifically used by spotters from his backpack.

This kind of monocular had a professional, scientific name called the spotting scope. Its magnification and field of vision were much higher than that of a sniper rifle’s scope. Even under poor visual conditions, the spotting scope would still clearly show the landing point of a bullet in the distance so the sniper could be guided to correct the trajectory deviation.

Under normal circumstances, snipers carrying out decapitation strikes would usually bring along a spotter who was equipped with a spotting scope. This spotting scope was even given to Ren Xiaosu by Yang Xiaojin. She probably did not expect that Ren Xiaosu had also become a sniper now.

When Wu Tong and the others saw that Ren Xiaosu had even brought a spotting scope with him, they thought Zhou Yingxue must be quite the professional…

Since he was her spotter, nobody asked any other questions. After all, it would be quite good to have a sniper in the group.

But they did not know that Zhou Yingxue was already starting to feel uneasy. By using Ren Xiaosu to show off, she would definitely have to return the favor afterwards!

However, she really enjoyed the envious looks of the others.

During the entire day, the convoy only managed to travel 150 kilometers because of Zhao Haocheng’s incident. Wu Tong estimated the time and calculated the remaining two days were enough for them to reach the vicinity of Stronghold 73.

They planned to abandon their vehicles and travel on foot when they reached the periphery of Stronghold 73. From there, they would each think of a way to sneak into the stronghold and finally rendezvous at 191 Longyang Avenue, which was Wu Tong’s safe house in Stronghold 73. Other than Zhou Yingxue, the other four A-rank hitmen mainly performed missions related to the Zhou Consortium’s strongholds.

Wu Tong joked to Zhou Yingxue, “Don’t tell me y’all don’t have a way to sneak into the stronghold?”

Zhou Yingxue calmly said, “You don’t have to worry about that.”

After the tents were set up for the night, Zhou Yingxue went straight into Ren Xiaosu’s tent. She explained while massaging his legs, “There was really nothing I could do when they assumed I was the sniper. I can’t explain to them that I’m not a sniper, right?”