Chapter 51: What a Coincidence
Su Hao quickly made a decision and immediately shouted to everyone, "Wait for me for a moment, I need to take care of something."
He then untied a large package and placed it on the ground. Taking a few steps forward, he whispered, "Father, no matter what I tell you later, don't show any abnormal reactions."
Wu Yuntian nodded calmly without any change in his expression.
Su Hao quickly said, "About 200 meters ahead on both sides of the road, there are a total of ten people hiding. Nine of them are elite warriors, and their target should be to attack me."
Wu Yuntian's body tensed up instantly, but he maintained a calm demeanor and asked, "What's going on?"
Su Hao explained, "I can't explain it in detail right now, but let's take care of them first. I'll pretend to go relieve myself, then I'll go around from the side and take care of them all. Once I'm gone, immediately inform Uncle Yong and Uncle Li of the situation. You three will be responsible for protecting Xiaopang and Qingqing, just in case. I'm most worried about the enemy launching a surprise attack on them."
Wu Yuntian immediately refused, "No, you going alone would be suicidal."
Su Hao earnestly said, "Father, trust me. I have already reached the level of a Master Martial Artist."
Wu Yuntian's heart skipped a beat! For a moment, he couldn't believe it. But he also knew that his son would never lie to him. If he said he had reached the Master level, then it must be true.
Wu Yuntian was caught in a deep self-contradiction, unsure whether to believe his own common sense or believe in his son.
"Father!" Su Hao reminded.
Wu Yuntian slowly nodded.
"Wait for me for a moment!" Su Hao immediately shouted again, then casually took out his saber from the large package, holding it in his hand as if by chance, and disappeared into the tall grass by the roadside.
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On the other side, Dan Sui, with his furious red eyes, stared hatefully in the direction of Su Hao and the others. When he saw Su Hao and the group stop, he became anxious and whispered to the middle-aged man next to him, "Father, why did they stop?"
The middle-aged man's name was Dan Liqin, and he seemed to be a steady and reserved person.
He glanced at Dan Sui, not concealing his disdain in his eyes, and said indifferently, "Don't rush. Be patient."
Dan Liqin used to dote on his son very much. Whatever his son wanted, he would find a way to get it for him. But now that his son was crippled, he inexplicably began to feel disgusted. Was his son still his son if he couldn't bear offspring?
However, he forcefully suppressed this feeling of disgust and maintained a normal appearance.
He had heard that their enemy, Wu Xiangwu, was very formidable. He had even paid a large sum of money to hire a group of professional killers, all elite warriors, with the aim of eliminating any future troubles.
Dan Sui gnashed his teeth and said, "Father, I must kill Wu Xiangwu! I won't let him go. I want to torture him and put an end to him with my own hands. And that woman, He Qingqing, that wretched woman, I won't spare her. If she had agreed to my demands earlier, things wouldn't have turned out like this. It's all her fault, I want her dead."
Dan Liqin glanced at his son and grew increasingly annoyed. He scolded in a low voice, "Shut up, or I'll tear your mouth apart."
Dan Sui couldn't believe his own father's actions. His father had never shouted at him before, but why today...
When did he become like this? It felt so unfamiliar!
Su Hao approached stealthily, planning to launch an ambush as soon as he was discovered.
However, to his surprise, he was detected when he was within ten meters.
"Somebody is approaching! It's the target," someone whispered. Instantly, the other nine people were startled and no longer concerned about hiding, drawing their long knives.
They were all dressed as elite warriors, with their faces covered by black cloth.
"Charge!" Su Hao no longer concealed his figure. With the explosive power of a Master, he closed the ten-meter distance in an instant.
"Shadow Slide!" Su Hao swiftly dodged past the closest two elite assassins, leaving behind two cold flashes.
"Splurt~" Their bodies fell to the ground as if slicing through tomatoes. The entire necks, including the cervical vertebrae, were severed, only some flesh still connected, barely keeping their heads from falling off.
"I used too much force!" Su Hao unexpectedly found time to make a simple summary.
The two elite assassins hadn't even hit the ground yet when he continued moving.
"Shadow Slide!"
He swiftly dodged to the side, evading a slash coming at him, and swung his long knife in a smooth motion.
"Chi!"
The assassin's head slid off his body and landed on the ground. In an instant, the head was severed, reducing the enemy's suffering. It was his only mercy towards the enemy.
Killing someone for the first time was different from what he had imagined. Aside from a slight twitch of his eyelids, his inner self remained calm as water.
The death of the enemy was no different from him being killed by enemies in his previous lives.
In this short life, we will all lose. He was simply sending off those who stood against him a bit earlier, nothing more.
"Master!!!"
In the instant Su Hao's knife slid off a head, the remaining elite assassins were stunned. A violent fear shot through their spines, making their scalps almost explode! Their momentum to attack Su Hao abruptly stopped.
Su Hao could even see the fear in their eyes.
Elite warriors couldn't possibly contend against a Master Martial Artist. Once they became enemies, even escaping became a luxury.
The remaining five elite assassins hesitated, unsure of what to do for a moment.
"Impossible!" Dan Sui, held by his father Dan Liqin, cowered behind him. When he saw that the assassins he had hired didn't dare to approach, he immediately shouted frantically, "How is it possible for him to be a Master? Have you ever seen such a young Master? Attack, quickly, kill him, kill him!"
Su Hao swung his knife, and a trail of blood formed on the ground. He revealed a big smile and said, "Dan Sui, what a coincidence!"
Dan Liqin immediately turned Dan Sui's face towards him and slapped him several times. He cursed in a resentful tone, "Idiot, shut up!"
Dan Liqin had an eye for talent. Just by observing Su Hao's speed with the knife, he was certain that it couldn't be achieved by an elite warrior.
He was also a senior high-level elite warrior himself. He had been trying to imprint beast patterns for many years but hadn't succeeded. He was stuck at the step of completing the intricate pattern.
When he opened his eyes to look at
the beast patterns, he would remember the lines, but when he closed his eyes and tried to imprint them within his body, he would forget.
So he would open his eyes again to remember, and when he closed his eyes to imprint, he would forget again. He had been struggling like this for years, unable to complete a single imprint, let alone make any adjustments.
This short-term memory loss made Dan Liqin miserable.
At this moment, Dan Liqin cursed his own son, thinking, "Why did he provoke the talented Master? Why couldn't he have chosen someone else? Now I'm having second thoughts."
Suddenly, a plan came to his mind, and he shouted loudly, "If you all want to survive, go ahead and grab a few hostages up front!"
After saying that, he immediately dragged Dan Sui and ran backward.
Su Hao's eyes turned cold in an instant, and he murmured, "Do you think you have a chance to take hostages?"
"Go and capture the hostages!" a random assassin shouted.
As soon as the words fell, one of the tall elite assassins stupidly charged towards Wu Yuntian and the others.
The other four elite assassins instantly scattered and fled.
Su Hao erupted with tremendous force, causing the earth and stones to fly. He immediately went after the large elite assassin.
The big elite assassin instantly realized that he had been tricked by his companions. Before Su Hao's knife pierced his heart from behind, he let out a desperate scream, "You deceived me!!!"
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