With everything arranged, Hu Da and James finally let out a sigh of relief.
At this moment, several professionally trained elite snipers were positioned on the villa's rooftop.
Each of them was armed with a Barrett rifle and specialized armor-piercing rounds, covering every angle of the villa comprehensively.
Furthermore, various professional mercenaries, fully armed, conducted periodic patrols in every corner of the villa.
As for outside the villa, Hu Da and his men had naturally made arrangements as well.
Hundreds of men in black and hundreds of people in black formal wear gathered in large numbers on Fremont Street, the most luxurious street in the entire city.
Their purpose was to intercept Qin Xuan and Inoue Chunying on the road.
At this point, they no longer cared about the impact on tourists.
As long as they could save their own lives, they would not hesitate to sacrifice all the tourists on the street.
Of course, the tourists were not foolish.
Upon seeing such a large gathering of people on Fremont Street, most of them chose to take a detour or leave.
Everyone on Earth knew what kind of country the United States was.
They did not want to be shot and killed by stray bullets while on vacation.
Time ticked by, and Hu Da and James paced restlessly inside the villa.
It had been a full hour since Qin Xuan left Hu Da's villa.
Yet, during this entire hour, none of the scouts they had sent out could provide any information about Qin Xuan and Inoue Chunying's whereabouts!
How could they bear this?
In Las Vegas, with their extensive network of informants, not being able to find someone was harder than finding them.
Even if Qin Xuan had flown in from outside the city, there should have been some trace.
However, after another agonizing half-hour, a call finally came through to Hu Da's phone.
"Damn it, after writing those words, the kid didn't come this way at all. He took a taxi straight to a Chinese restaurant!"
"No wonder no one saw him!"
"Then where is he now?" James asked.
Hu Da gestured for James to be quiet. After confirming the situation and hanging up, he shook his head at James with a dejected expression, "I don't know."
"The information just now was revealed by Mike's people."
"And they appeared at the Chinese restaurant fifty minutes ago."
"..."
While Hu Da and James were pacing frantically in the villa, feeling like ants on a hot pan, a yellow Ford taxi slowly stopped at a corner of Fremont Street.
A man and a woman, two black-haired youths of exceptional appearance, slowly alighted from the car and paid the fare.
Then, they walked slowly as if strolling, all the way to James's villa.
The crowd of men in black initially found it somewhat surprising, and some even kindly advised the two to leave quickly.
It wasn't until one of them recognized Inoue Chunying's appearance that the men in black became as if facing a formidable enemy and surrounded Qin Xuan and the other.
"Keep your distance and suppress us with firepower, and perhaps I wouldn't be able to do much to you."
"But you insist on standing so close together, making yourselves afraid to fire at will. In that case, thank you, I won't be polite."
With a wave of his right hand, the versatile artifact on Qin Xuan's finger transformed into a staff several meters long.
Casually twirling it, he actually charged towards the crowd.
The staff moved with immense force.
With just a most ordinary horizontal sweep, it perfectly demonstrated what it meant to sweep away a large area with a single blow.
At the villa entrance, there were hundreds of men in black alone, yet Qin Xuan, with his single staff, managed to make them all stumble and fall within minutes, their black figures lying scattered across Fremont Street.
What was even more terrifying was that Qin Xuan's staff was no ordinary long staff.
Qin Xuan was also no ordinary martial artist.
Therefore, with the enhancement of a peculiar vital energy, wherever the staff passed, no one could muster the strength to fight again.
Let alone retaliating with a gun.
They couldn't even lift their hands.
It was only because Qin Xuan still harbored good intentions and did not truly strike with full force, otherwise, even their lives would not have been spared, let alone just being paralyzed on the ground!
The sudden commotion outside the villa naturally did not escape James's notice.
However, by the time he learned of Qin Xuan's arrival, the situation outside had already descended into chaos.
Seeing this, Hu Da and James did not hesitate. They directly used their walkie-talkies to instruct the snipers ambushing on the rooftop to lock onto their targets and open fire immediately.
Upon receiving the order, the snipers knew the approximate location of their targets.
With a slight adjustment of their gun barrels, they had completed all preparations before firing.
But what they did not expect was this.
Just as everyone had loaded their bullets and were ready to pull the trigger, the staff in Qin Xuan's hand suddenly transformed into a highly accurate TAC sniper rifle!
This stunned them.
In the more than ten years since they joined the army, these mercenaries had never witnessed such a fantastical scene.
"Holy shit! (My God!)"
"Is this guy a magician?"
"First, he conjured a long staff out of thin air, and then he turned the staff into a sniper rifle!"
On the walkie-talkie, someone exclaimed first, and his words instantly drew responses from others.
"Yeah, he's definitely a sorcerer!"
"I just don't know how he managed to conjure something so long. After we kill him, please allow me to go over and take a closer look."
"Oh, get real. I can do some small magic tricks too. For something as long as a staff or a rifle, even with my toes, I know for sure that guy must have had it specially made."
"As for where these things were originally hidden, that depends on whether there's a hole in the back of his pants, hahaha!"
The vulgar joke instantly sent everyone into peals of laughter.
However, before their laughter could last for two seconds, the laughter of the person who made the joke abruptly stopped.
Bang bang bang bang bang!
Following that, there was a series of gunshots.
The entire channel instantly fell silent.
What remained was only the exclamation of a black mercenary.
"What the fuck!"
"How can this guy..."
Bang!
With the final gunshot, which drowned out the mercenary's exclamation.
All the snipers arranged by Hu Da and his men on the rooftop were eliminated by Qin Xuan, one shot at a time.
From the moment he fired to the death of all the snipers, it took a total of three seconds.
This was another remarkable function of the versatile artifact: while transforming, it was not affected by the original limitations of the firearm.
Therefore, Qin Xuan was able to fire consecutively with the sniper rifle formed by it within three seconds.
Not only did he not have to manually reload, but he also did not need to retrieve bullets from the versatile artifact to reload!
This made Qin Xuan exclaim inwardly after eliminating all the snipers, "This versatile artifact truly lives up to its name as a divine artifact!"