Reincarnation Paradise Park

Chapter 766: Chapter 76: Shock

The intense pain left the skin on Iron Bucket Man’s head numb. As he tried to jump back with all his might, the command from his brain succeeded, but his body didn’t respond, as if entirely anesthetized.

[You’ve been eroded by an unknown energy, and you’ll be immobilized for 2.3 seconds.]

At that moment, Iron Bucket Man’s feelings weren’t just about ’what the hell.’ This kind of strong control ability didn’t even give a chance for judgment. Wasn’t it a bit too reckless?

”Body... can’t move, what the hell!”

The reason Iron Bucket Man exclaimed ’what the hell’ was because a vast, crisscrossed net of blades was slashing towards him, filling his entire vision. One cut was already enough, but as for this net of blades, Iron Bucket Man could only chuckle bitterly; he couldn’t even be bothered to use any life-saving abilities.

When Iron Bucket Man’s consciousness returned, he was already inside a resting chamber, looking bewildered.

In the audience, Xia’s red lips were slightly open. She hadn’t even seen the fight scene clearly; all she saw was a terrifying net of blades flash by, and one side in the arena had turned into countless points of light and disappeared.

”This...”

The gaze of the long-haired girl turned blank.

”Xia, I think I’m in love, strong, brutal, an idol.”

Xia, who was beside her, chuckled bitterly.

”Wake up, you silly girl. No, you’d better wash up and go to sleep.”

”Tch, I’m just joking. Based on my judgment, this must be a cool guy. If I encounter him in the Derivative World, I can only shiver and retreat. I’m off.”

The long-haired girl and Xia left the arena. Watching a match within the top 200 of the Second Tier was not cheap. For two workers, watching just one match was already a luxury.

Of course, if invited by a participant in the arena, one could watch for free, limited to five slots, but Su Xiao didn’t know this. His sole purpose in coming to the arena was to fight.

In the resting chamber, Su Xiao glanced at his ranking, which had risen from 105th to 101st, progressing slowly.

Continuing to wait for an opponent match, Su Xiao, with nothing to do, took out a tablet.

...

Two days later, in the trading market, Su Xiao sat behind a stall, with intermediate alchemy bombs on display on the stall at the moment.

Su Xiao’s mana value was as high as 2410 points, and the crafting cost for each intermediate alchemy bomb was 30 mana points + 100 Paradise coins, which meant he could craft 80 intermediate alchemy bombs with all his mana value.

Due to insufficient Paradise coins, Su Xiao could only craft some to sell. Each sold for 300 Paradise coins, and given the demand for intermediate alchemy bombs, they would quickly sell out.

Su Xiao had been at the stall for about an hour. This was the second batch of alchemy bombs he had crafted, with 5 remaining.

It wasn’t long before a Contractor passing by the stall bought the alchemy bombs, and Su Xiao’s savings returned to a five-digit number, 23,860 Paradise coins.

Su Xiao yawned; these past two days, he was either in the arena or practicing with swords in his specialized room, occasionally dining at Xia’s restaurant.

His arena ranking had reached 56th, with 256 consecutive wins. It wasn’t that his strength had stopped there, but finding opponents was too slow.

Something strange happened in those two days. Xia seemed to be stimulated by something and began asking him about combat skills. Since he had a good relationship with Xia, he didn’t hesitate to share some combat skills.

With his mana value depleted, Su Xiao couldn’t fight in the arena, so he sat behind his stall and observed the passing Contractors.

”Bu Bu, did you notice that the atmosphere in Reincarnation Paradise has been a bit off these past two days?”

”Woof.”

Bubu Wang looked confused.

”Forget it; asking you is like asking nothing.”

Su Xiao had an ominous feeling. Not only was the atmosphere off, but the prices had slightly increased over the past two days, like a storm was brewing.

As Su Xiao contemplated the changes in Reincarnation Paradise, the prompt for returning to the real world appeared.

[The Hunter’s stay in Reincarnation Paradise has reached its limit.]

...

[Teleportation start, location: Real World.]

[Warning: Due to special reasons, the real-world stay is extended from 7 to 15 days.]

”As expected, something is about to happen.”

After a heavy, round ’smack,’ Su Xiao passed out.

Ring, ring, ring～

The alarm rang by his ear, and Su Xiao sat up with a whoosh, a stabbing pain emanating from the back of his head. He instinctively reached up to cover the back of his head.

”This is too much.”

Su Xiao shook his head, the intense pain at the back of his head dissipated. Though returning has always been uncomfortable, this time the intensity was over ten times more than usual.

What was more unusual was that Su Xiao had already converted some real-world stay time to Reincarnation Paradise time, yet he would still remain in the real world for a minimum of 7 days, and a maximum of 15 days.

This time, he was sure something definite was about to happen.

After turning off the incessant alarm on the table, Su Xiao opened the second-floor curtain and found it was morning in the real world. He glanced at the clock; it was around 6 o’clock.

Su Xiao went downstairs and pulled up the shutter of the jewelry store, a jewelry store that rarely had guests opened for business.

”Hey, Su Xiao?”

After an exclamation, a middle-aged fat man with a beer belly walked over. He was the owner of the flower wreath and funeral clothes store next door, ’Feng Shui Master’ Ma Fatty.

”When did you come back? You’ve been on the news, haha, do you need to go hide at my old place? It’s not the first time, anyway.”

Although Ma Fatty was a Feng Shui scammer, he was very loyal. Once, the ’Tuhaozi’ old man at the antique store across the street was beaten by a group of hooligans, and without a word, Ma Fatty took a machete to seek revenge on that gang, resulting in him being hospitalized for three months, showing bravery but lacking wisdom.

When Su Xiao brought some fruits to visit him, Ma Fatty trembled and said two words: ’Revenge.’

Su Xiao got along well with the two peculiar store owners next door, but had little interaction with the antique store’s Tuhaozi. During his revenge period, some weapons were provided for free by Ma Fatty’s younger brother, who owned the flower, bird, fish, and worm shop.

Once, an error in Su Xiao’s assassination led to a police chase, and it was still Ma Fatty who stepped up and provided him with an address in a remote area of his hometown for temporary refuge.

During that hospitalization, Ma Fatty had three ribs broken, a severe concussion, and a leg bone fracture. Su Xiao went after that gang, as they intended to cripple Ma Fatty, making them vanish from the human world, but in actuality, they were now submerged in the East City’s Ring River.

”Only been a few days back.”

Su Xiao had indeed just reopened for a few days.

”Had breakfast yet?”

”Not yet.”

”Then let’s go to the usual place... No, you’re a fugitive now.”

Ma Fatty pretended to think; what was left of his noodles from last night wasn’t something he’d let Su Xiao have, for the sake of face.

”It’s already resolved; it was a misunderstanding.”

Su Xiao was now a law-abiding citizen, and the police wouldn’t trouble him unless the Cleaners had lost their minds.

”A misunderstanding? A wanted criminal... misunderstanding?”

Ma Fatty obviously didn’t believe him.

”Experts say breathing air is hazardous to health. Relax, I’m a law-abiding citizen now.”

Su Xiao’s words left Ma Fatty dumbfounded.

”You? A law-abiding citizen? Honestly, how many days since you last killed someone? Not a month? I doubt it.”

”Ahem.”

Su Xiao coughed lightly, it seemed like four days. This he couldn’t tell Ma Fatty.

”Are you really off the wanted list?”

”Is there any need to lie to you?”

”Alright then, the usual place, get in the car.”

Ma Fatty headed towards his fifth-hand old Jetta, not because he lacked money, but because his car was often vandalized, being a ’Feng Shui Master.’

In the car, Ma Fatty took a deep breath, his chubby right hand veins popping. Don’t misunderstand, he was only shifting gears for the fifth-hand old Jetta.

Clack, clack.

A grating sound of gears meshing echoed; the Jetta crawled forward.

”The oil needs changing; it’s been a while. By the way, is it okay to leave a dog at home? Especially a Siberian Husky, won’t it tear the house down?”

Ma Fatty glanced at the jewelry store through the rearview mirror; Bu Bu Wang was lounging on the sofa at the jewelry store entrance. Ma Fatty couldn’t fathom how someone like Su Xiao, a killer, could own a Siberian Husky.

”Should... be okay... I guess.”

The car slowly moved forward, Ma Fatty’s pregnant belly almost touching the steering wheel, with barely any gap in between.

”Su Xiao, not sure if you’ve heard, there was a major homicide in our city, reportedly five people died, in a horrific manner, one of whom was said to be a city official.”

”Haven’t heard.”

Su Xiao didn’t take interest in such matters; he’d seen plenty of dead bodies.

”Rumor has it the killer was a professional hitman, with a scorpion tattooed on his arm. Don’t know if it’s true.”

”A killer with a scorpion on the arm...”

Su Xiao frowned, asking, ”Where did you hear this?”

”From my brother, you interested?”

”A bit...”

Su Xiao recognized an assassin with a scorpion tattoo on their arm. He shared life-and-death experiences with that person, who had even helped him kill someone before.

If that person was involved, it shouldn’t have caused such a commotion.