Chapter 1 Good Speed

Only when Qingqiu suddenly emerged from the shadows and casually delivered a sword strike did Qin finally understand the pressure that Satsujinki and the others had faced.

The blade in her vision constantly drew closer, magnified,

Its presence rampantly swelling, filling her mind, leaving no room for anything else.

Clang!

Qin's left arm suddenly twisted, pulling the roaring chainsaw to the side,

The rapidly spinning saw blade failed to bite or cut the slender sword, instead being easily split open by the blade.

"Hmm?"

Qingqiu was slightly surprised that she had failed to end the opponent's life with a single strike, but it was only a slight surprise.

She pushed off the ground, closing in, and stabbed again at Qin's eye socket.

Qin's brain hadn't even reacted when her left hand automatically moved,

Barely managing to block the slender sword's path with her palm before it pierced her left eye.

Shirr.

The slender sword blade pierced through her palm, but no blood splattered out—Qin's left hand was a mechanical prosthetic, usually covered in a soft, skin-like material.

"Got you."

Qin roared, her left prosthetic hand automatically gripping the sword blade, preventing Qingqiu from withdrawing the sword and retreating,

And releasing the skill [Electrostatic Contact], causing a strong current to surge through the prosthetic, damaging Qingqiu along the metal slender sword.

At the same time, Iva and Nina, standing beside her, also unleashed their control skills—the former releasing a light blue deceleration field,

The latter chanting a curse, causing Qingqiu's vision to darken, the range of sight to shrink, and the sensitivity of the five senses to decline.

Qing Xing Deng, Hai Bozu, and Hagoromo Kokoro also chose to attack at this moment.

Qing Xing Deng took out a candle and released a ghostly blue candlelight toward the deceleration field,

Hai Bozu took two steps, leaping into the air, swinging his studded club in a semi-circular arc, smashing down on Qingqiu's head,

Hagoromo Kokoro directly activated a Hannya transformation, entering a half-demon form, veins popping out on her face, her katana overflowing with demonic energy as she slashed at Qingqiu.

Faced with such an all-encompassing encirclement, the look of surprise on Qingqiu's face turned into a sneer.

She released the sword hilt, her body falling, her feet lightly touching the ground, her knees bending,

Leaping up,

Kicking Qin in the abdomen, while her hand grasped the sword hilt again.

Thud!

Qin flew out like a cannonball, her lifeless eyes wide open, spitting out a mouthful of blood in mid-air,

Before crashing into the wall and causing secondary damage,

She disappeared.

Wielding the bloodstained slender sword, Qingqiu twirled it, the movement light and agile, showing no signs of being affected by the deceleration field—more accurately, she hadn't been affected at all,

She was only trying to deceive the players, luring them into attacking.

"Who to start with..."

Qingqiu's gaze swept over Iva, who realized this and was withdrawing the deceleration field, and muttered, "You then..."

The sound of the last word hadn't finished when Qingqiu flashed again, appearing behind Iva,

Stabbing out with the sword at a special angle, simultaneously piercing the hearts of both Iva and Nina.

Skewering the two together, embracing each other back to back.

Bang—

A gunshot rang out, and a silver demon-slaying bullet grazed Qingqiu's scalp, lifting a large patch of hair and blood, while also causing her body to pause, failing to completely tear Iva and Nina apart.

Those bullets again.

Qingqiu's head rotated one hundred and eighty degrees, expressionlessly looking at Li Ang, who was holding a Colt revolver, anger surging in her heart, but compared to last time, it wasn't as fearful.

Her mind raced,

The power of the third bullet hadn't increased, and there was still no ballistic trajectory,

The bullet arrived instantly, accurately hitting the position the gun was pointing at—Qingqiu had already placed a layer of barrier around her body to distort the vision of others,

So the position the gun actually hit had changed from the center of her eyebrows to her scalp.

This also meant that the gun in the hands of the White Coat with the dragon head likely had the characteristic of "aiming is hitting", and the power of the bullet was a constant value.

Since it was a constant value, there was no need to worry too much. The defense and self-healing abilities of demons were much higher than those of humans. The dent in the temple caused by the demon-slaying bullet had almost recovered by now.

Just avoid the muzzle.

Qingqiu rubbed her right wrist, suppressing the numbness in her right arm caused by the electric shock just released by Qin,

Her figure violently shook, disappearing again,

Causing Hai Bozu's studded club and Hagoromo Kokoro's katana to both strike empty air.

Boom!

The dilapidated ground caved in under Hai Bozu's attack, the soil shaking, dust flying,

In the dust, a small, bipedal figure vaguely emerged.

"Here!"

Hai Bozu roared, swinging his studded club, smashing towards the position of the shadow without dust,

Qing Xing Deng's expression suddenly changed, and she shouted, "Behind you!"

The reminder came too late. Hai Bozu's studded club was halfway through its swing and he didn't have time to turn around—Qingqiu appeared behind him, just in Lee Ang's blind spot, beheading Hai Bozu with a single sword strike.

Hai Bozu's huge head flew in the air before disappearing.

"Idiot,"

Qingqiu's mocking voice melted into the wind, disappearing once again.

Hai Bozu thought he had found Qingqiu's location, but he didn't realize that the bipedal figure in the dust was just a trap Qingqiu had set...

"Who's next?"

The fox's frivolous, ethereal voice echoed around, as if close to the ear, yet far away.

Qing Xing Deng took a half step back, clenching her teeth, almost grinding them to pieces.

Demon Generals possessed absolute speed, strength, defense,

High mystique,

And resistance to control and detection skills...

However, since the opponent was making evasive maneuvers, it proved that their attacks were not completely ineffective.

"I'll expose her in a moment,"

Qing Xing Deng's face was solemn as she stared at Li Ang and asked, "Do you have any bullets left in your gun?"

"Yes."

Li Ang nodded,

He knew that Qingqiu already knew the effect of the Colt revolver in his hand. When Qingqiu eliminated Hai Bozu just now, she deliberately set up a shooting blind spot.

The Colt could only generate one demon-slaying bullet every five minutes,

There were only three chances left.

"Good."

Qing Xing Deng nodded, took a deep breath, and clasped her hands together, holding a match.

[Name: Illusion Match]

[Type: Consumable]

[Quality: Perfect]

[Effect: Choice. While holding the lit match in both hands, you can choose to create an extremely realistic illusion within the range covered by the light, or choose to break all illusions, disguises, and invisibility effects within the range covered by the light.]

[Usage Condition: Sell one hundred boxes of matches]

[Note: Only one effect, constructing illusions or breaking illusions, can be triggered.]

[Note: The match lasts up to three minutes, and the burning rate will not be changed by external factors. You can choose to extinguish it actively. It cannot be relit after being extinguished.]

[Note: Strike the match, light up the fantasy]