I’ll be damned!

Although Han Xiao really wanted to say that, offending Bennett was no laughing matter. He still wanted to squeeze some benefits out of him.

Be serious, be serious.

Han Xiao cleared his throat. "I've heard of your exploits and have always wanted to meet you."

Bennett smiled kindly and waved his hand. "Don't mention the past. What do you want from me... you're not here for an autograph, are you?"

Han Xiao's eye twitched.

Officer, it's this guy who's showing off!

Taking a breath, Han Xiao put on a serious face and said, "I heard that you are one of the strongest humans on this planet..."

Bennett's eyes flashed. He was too familiar with this kind of opening. Was this another challenger?

War creates strong people in blood and fire. Bennett earned this honor with his impressive record. Many strong people had come to challenge him in the past. Bennett was already tired of meaningless fights and continuous victories. He was here this time to protect his old friend Wang Yuan, and he didn't want the traitorous organizations that hired the attackers to know. Otherwise, the enemy wouldn't dare to act. It was precisely because the traitor in the organization thought Wang Yuan's defenses were weak that the bait plan could proceed.

Bennett shook his head. If Han Xiao wanted to challenge him, he would never agree, and in his opinion, Han Xiao's strength wasn't worth fighting.

However, Han Xiao said, "... I want to learn some combat skills from you."

"Hmm?" Bennett was surprised, his expression strange. "You want to learn my combat skills?"

Han Xiao nodded.

"Interesting. You're the first person to ask me to learn."

Bennett thought for a moment, then shook his head. "You're a sniper, you can't learn my combat skills."

As expected! This was Bennett's standard excuse. As long as the prerequisites weren't met, the wording was always the same.

You're a mechanic, you can't learn my combat skills.

You're a martial artist, you can't learn...

You're an esper, you can't learn...

Changing the noun blocked a bunch of players. Han Xiao naturally wouldn't be fooled. Bennett was a hidden skill instructor. The prerequisite for learning skills was to give him some special gifts. Some players had originally sent gifts to improve their relationship, but accidentally fulfilled the conditions for learning skills.

Different gifts allowed you to learn different skills.

The two things Han Xiao exchanged from Chase Rhode were for gift-giving.

Han Xiao chatted with Bennett for a few words, first to familiarize himself, and then walked away.

Bennett followed Wang Yuan, who was waiting not far away. Wang Yuan asked curiously, "What did he want from you?"

"He recognized me and wanted to learn my combat skills."

"What a strange person." Wang Yuan stroked his beard and said, "But his strength is not bad. He is a new killer who just joined the organization's Blood Contract Association. His background is very mysterious, and his code name is Mr. Black. It is worth winning him over. After completing this operation, I will let Sena raise his killer authority to Dark grade."

…

The mercenaries were cleaning up the rooms in the villa. Chen Li took the initiative to find Han Xiao and handed him a set of room keys.

Han Xiao didn't reach out to take it, his expression strange, staring at Chen Li and asked, word by word, "Don't tell me this is the key to your room."

"... I don't have that kind of hobby." A vein popped on Chen Li's forehead.

"Speaking as if I do."

Chen Li coughed and explained, "This is one of the best single rooms in the villa, specially reserved for you."

Han Xiao suddenly understood, then took the key and asked, "Who did you give the keys to the other single rooms to?"

"Volcano, Moonlight, Hunter, and a few other mercenary leaders."

These people Chen Li mentioned were all strong or leaders among the manor guards.

Being assigned a single room was a privilege for the strong. Other ordinary mercenaries and killers could only squeeze into large rooms and sleep on the floor, or sleep in the living room.

In last night's battle, Han Xiao replaced the dead Venom Bee brothers and became the core sniper, taking charge of the whole field. His performance won the respect of all the mercenaries, so Chen Li took the initiative to send the room key over. With strength, you can get privileges.

He gladly accepted it. Han Xiao's room was on the second floor of the villa, with a balcony.

Arriving at the corridor on the second floor, the other powerful figures lived on this floor. They glanced at each other, nodded as a greeting, and entered their rooms. Han Xiao was particularly impressed with Hunter, who was a Mechanic Gunner. His weapon was two hand cannons that looked very familiar. It was said that he could use recoil to stay in the air...

"Since Bennett is here, this mission must be done. As long as I can get in touch with him, I can get in touch with the main line of the shelter as soon as possible, and get the favor of the Dark Net organization, share their huge intelligence network, and there are many other benefits..."

The benefits of having a good relationship with a planet's protagonist were self-evident.

Han Xiao rubbed the stubble on his chin with his fingertips, his eyes flashing, looking sly.

…

In the next two days, the enemies still came every night, like a nymphomaniac on a night raid, constantly extending their evil hands to the manor.

Han Xiao took over the responsibilities of the Venom Bee brothers. Now he was responsible for taking charge of the whole field, using powerful sniper control. Accurate shooting was one aspect, and more outstanding performance came from Han Xiao's keen combat intuition.

He had once dominated the Star Wars, and the density of artillery fire at that time was like the difference between an Eastern fantasy land and a FC Red and White Machine's Thunder Fighter game, not even on the same level.

In the chaotic scenes of Star Wars, a mistake meant the destruction of the mech and death. Every mistake would be infinitely amplified. Han Xiao had long developed the keen sense of finding opportunities in the cracks. This was a manifestation of a master. Although he was shameless, he was really a master.

Facing this small-scale, low-tech ground war, he was able to handle it with ease, and sniper bullets always appeared where he was most needed.

With Han Xiao's support, the mercenary casualty rate was reduced a lot, which was amazing. In the past, the Venom Bee brothers tended to kill enemies and rarely took care of other battlefields, but Mr. Black's sniper style was all-round, ensuring the killing of enemies and making time to defend. He was almost single-handedly responsible for the entire southeast and northeast battlefields.

Reliable and steady, this was the impression of all the manor guards on Han Xiao. Han Xiao's sniper support made them feel that the battle had become easier.

The threat of a sniper who could control the field was self-evident, and naturally attracted countless concentrated fires. However, Han Xiao relied on his skate shoes to dodge and the low-level Tough Life Template made him very durable. His HP was twice as much as ordinary mechanics of this level. Even some espers and martial artists who had crossed level 40 might not have thicker HP than him. So Han Xiao didn't need to be as timid as other snipers. Anyway, the mercenaries saw a sniper who dared to stand up to machine gun fire and face a large group of enemies head-on for the first time, breaking their impression that snipers were all sneaky.

After two consecutive days of fighting, the mercenaries became more and more in awe of Han Xiao.

Battles always resulted in deaths, and new mercenaries and killers were called in to replenish fresh blood.

Golden Fox was one of the Dark-grade killers. As soon as she entered the manor, someone went up to receive her.

Golden Fox was a graceful and tall woman with a beautiful appearance, carrying a sniper rifle. She asked seriously, "What's the situation here now?"

The mercenary leading the way glanced at Golden Fox's upturned buttocks, a lecherous light flashing in his eyes.

Golden Fox was already used to the greedy eyes of stinky men and pretended not to see it.

"The situation is not bad. The enemy's attacks are becoming more and more frequent, but our positions are well-defended. All kinds of ammunition, firearms, and supplies are replaced every day. Many new people have joined. Mr. Black is in charge of the southeast and northeast defense lines, and there will be no trouble."

The mercenary chuckled.

"Mr. Black?" Golden Fox confirmed that she had never heard of this code name and asked curiously, "What's his background?"

"Mr. Black is a Scorpion-grade killer with miraculous sniping skills."

"Only Scorpion-grade?" Golden Fox felt a little unreliable, frowning and doubting, "Wouldn't it be too rash to let a Scorpion-grade killer preside over the overall situation?"

Just after saying this, Golden Fox was stunned to find that the lecherous eyes of the mercenary leading the way immediately turned cold. He stopped, casually pointed in the direction of advance, left a sentence for you to go over by yourself, and turned to leave.

Golden Fox looked stunned. She just questioned it, and the reaction was too big. Was that Mr. Black so prestigious?

When the enemy came that night, Golden Fox finally saw Mr. Black's ability to control the field with her own eyes and was shocked. As if he had the legendary eagle-eye vision, he could observe any corner of the battlefield, and almost never missed a shot. Even if he didn't cause damage, he would play other roles, such as containment and support.

Golden Fox found that she had become idle on the battlefield, and everything that should be done was taken care of by Mr. Black. This shocked her more than how many people Mr. Black had killed. Only a sniper would understand how much Mr. Black had done.

Being able to make another sniper have nothing to do was equivalent to one person topping a sniper team.

She finally understood why those mercenaries would let a Scorpion-grade killer preside over the overall situation.

"He is the strongest sniper I have ever met!"

…

[You have repelled a wave of attackers. (3/5)]

Watching the enemy retreat again, Han Xiao breathed a sigh of relief.

"It's already the third wave of enemies, and the intensity is getting stronger and stronger, but the manor's defenses have also increased. With me here, as long as there are no strong enemies suddenly appearing, the fourth ring mission should be completed... But what is the requirement for this hidden reward?"

Han Xiao had no clue about this hidden requirement at all.

Early the next morning, Chen Li notified Han Xiao from the walkie-talkie.

"Mr. Black, someone claiming to be an envoy from the Chase Rhode family is here to see you."

Hearing this, Han Xiao immediately jumped out of bed and quickly came to the manor gate. He took two things from the delivery guy... no, the Chase Rhode envoy: the Silver Watcher Hidden Blade and the Locke hoC Sniper Rifle.

These two things were products from decades ago, and they had long been discontinued. The manufacturing country had also perished. Now they were all antique crafts. Bennett liked to collect out-of-print antique weapons. These two items were precisely the prerequisite items for triggering skill learning.

There were a total of a dozen items that could trigger the skill learning event. Different types of gifts allowed you to learn different skills. The total number of these items was limited, which meant that the number of players who could learn skills from Bennett was also limited. Hidden skill instructors were basically in this mode, and they would only pass on rare skills to a few people.

For example, there were only a little over a hundred Silver Watcher Hidden Blades left in the world, and they could be used to learn an extremely powerful attacking skill called Willpower Burning. In the later stages of version 1.0, one was sold for a sky-high price of millions, but now Han Xiao had preempted it and got it with just a little insignificant goodwill.

Han Xiao had been coveting Willpower Burning for a long time, and he hadn't learned it in his previous life.