Night fell.
Su Hao carefully inspected his two blades and armor. The blades were the long blade and short blade he had been used to using in his previous life, two in total. The armor had been custom-made at great expense.
He still preferred fighting while wearing thick armor. If an accident happened, perhaps it could save his life.
The armor and long blade were engraved with all kinds of Yashan-brand runes, making them convenient to activate during battle.
There were also three fist-sized balls, all little "Twenty Explosion" toys. Their killing power wasn't great, but their intimidation effect was more than enough.
At this moment, Yashan was also inspecting his two long blades: one main blade and one backup blade.
Dense circular runes had been carved onto his carapace like tattoos.
Yashan already knew these runes by heart. He had reached the point where he could activate them with a single thought.
Su Hao turned to Yashan and said, "Yashan, are you ready? Tonight's [Bone Demon] is yours."
Yashan, who was now a [Counter-Spike Beast], had already brought his blood qi intensity to the peak his body could handle. With the boost from being a level-three mutant, he had steadily reached the level of an early-stage Grandmaster.
Although compared to the Bone Demon, his blood qi intensity was more than just a little weaker, with so many runes as his foundation, it was hard to say he truly wasn't the [Bone Demon]'s match.
At this moment, Yashan was trembling all over from excitement. He clenched his teeth and couldn't speak. He only nodded heavily.
Tonight was the night he would avenge his wife and child.
He had waited two years.
He had suffered for two years.
Su Hao put on his armor and said loudly, "Let's go! If you can't beat him, run straight toward me. Don't be reckless. As long as you stay alive, there will be plenty of chances in the future."
Yashan immediately nodded and said, "Thank you, Boss Wei!"
To Yashan, as long as he could kill the [Bone Demon], death was not unacceptable.
But if he died without killing the [Bone Demon], that would be the most helpless outcome of all.
When Su Hao and Yashan pushed open the door and walked out, Taini, who had been pretending to sleep, poked her head out from inside the room and quietly watched her father and Uncle Wei disappear into the darkness.
She was taller now, and more sensible too.
A long time ago, her brother and mother had suddenly disappeared. Her father had never mentioned it, and she hadn't known where they had gone.
Now, she already knew.
There was only one small wish in her heart.
She hoped her father would not suddenly disappear.
That he would not suddenly become someone she could no longer find...
Because her only remaining family was her father.
...
Su Hao and Yashan both activated the "Light Absorption" rune, blending into the darkness and becoming difficult to detect.
Su Hao first brought Yashan to the Bone Demon's location, then pointed at a building and said, "He's inside that small building, on the third floor."
Yashan took a deep breath and gripped the long blade in his hand tightly.
Tonight, he would personally use this blade to cut off the [Bone Demon]'s head and vent the hatred in his heart.
The hatred he had suppressed for two years would also be released tonight with this blade, slash by slash.
Yashan said nothing. He immediately activated the runes on his body: "Hardness," "Penetration," "Sharpness," and "Corrosion," applying them to the dense spikes covering him.
With a light leap, Yashan jumped onto the building opposite.
"Spike Burst!"
"Puff, puff, puff!"
Countless dense spikes erupted from Yashan's body in an instant, shooting toward the third floor where the [Bone Demon] was located like a storm blotting out the sky.
"Ah!"
A cry of pain sounded from inside the third floor. A huge bone-armored man instantly broke through the roof and leapt into the air.
At this moment, [Bone Demon] Deli's body was covered in blood holes of various sizes, blood continuously flowing out of them. The wounds were also being corroded, making sizzling sounds.
Clearly, Yashan's surprise attack had produced some effect.
But this kind of injury was nothing much to Deli. It was merely unbearably painful. It would not take long for him to repair himself completely.
Bone armor surged across Deli's body, and the wounds were quickly covered over, leaving him intact once more.
However, after finishing the repair, Deli noticed something abnormal about his wounds.
"What is this strongly corrosive power?"
It wasn't that he couldn't repair them. Rather, repairing these wounds required more time and energy.
Deli became alert.
But he was still in a state of fury. He had been sleeping soundly when he was suddenly attacked, which made him extremely uncomfortable. The moment he jumped out, he immediately sensed Yashan's position and locked onto the pitch-black figure.
"A [Counter-Spike Beast]?"
When he sensed that the other party was only a level-three mutant of the [Armor Man] sequence, Deli's face instantly became savage and twisted.
A tiny little [Counter-Spike Beast]. What right did it have to stand before him and try to eat his flesh?
Deli didn't even bother wasting the time to say a single word. A bone blade formed in his right hand, and he charged toward Yashan.
This insect that had disturbed his sleep could sleep forever!
Yashan also said nothing. Clenching his teeth, he swung his blade and advanced.
The voices and smiles of his wife and son surfaced in his mind. They were so clear, yet so distant.
He could never return to the past.
In his heart, he roared in agony, "[Bone Demon]! Die with your repentance!"
"Barrier."
"Hardness."
"Sharpness."
"Penetration."
"Corrosion."
The instant both sides drew near.
"Bone Spikes!"
"Burst!"
Deli activated Bone Spikes, and dense bone spikes grew all over his body.
Yashan activated Burst, and his speed increased sharply.
Yashan was blocked by the suddenly emerging bone spikes, slowing his speed and making it difficult to get close. With no choice, he swung his blade and cut through a large number of bone spikes in front of him. The blade barely swept past Deli's face, failing to cause him even the slightest injury.
At the same time, Deli took advantage of the opening and chopped down at Yashan with the bone blade in his hand.
Yashan withdrew his blade in time to block.
"Clang!"
Then Deli's slash sent him flying backward.
Deli seized the opportunity and stomped his foot.
"Heaven-Bestowed Burial!"
A large number of bone spikes suddenly burst out from underground, stabbing precisely toward Yashan.
"Ding!"
However, the scene Deli had imagined, where the bone spikes pierced through Yashan, did not appear.
Yashan was merely struck into the air by the force of the bone spikes. He did not suffer the slightest injury.
Deli narrowed his eyes.
"Since when did a [Counter-Spike Beast]'s defense become this strong? Something's strange!"
...
Su Hao was hiding nearby, watching.
After watching for a while and seeing that Yashan was fine, he turned and left, heading toward his own target.
His mission was to get rid of the [Thread Demon].
Perhaps the [Bone Demon] and [Thread Demon] had fought too fiercely last night, because tonight neither of them had come out to cause trouble.
That suited Su Hao perfectly. If he could secretly strike from the shadows and kill the [Thread Demon], he could save himself a lot of trouble.
Su Hao enhanced himself with the "Light Absorption" and "Air Breaking" runes, then silently approached [Thread Demon] Xike.
When Su Hao reached the small building, he suddenly stopped.
"What is this?"
Only after getting extremely close did Su Hao discover that the inner and outer walls of the small building were covered in countless dense, invisible threads, like transparent wires.
If not for the faint blood qi reaction coming from those threads, he would never have noticed them.
"Perhaps as long as I touch these threads, the [Thread Demon] will immediately discover my position like a spider."
Su Hao took two steps back, narrowed the range of his radar perception, and concentrated it on the small building.
What he discovered immediately stunned him.
The entire small building, inside and out, was filled with dense, invisible threads. Not even a mouse should dream of sneaking inside.
Thinking again of the scene two years ago when the [Speed Demon] had suddenly been sliced into pieces, Su Hao estimated that if some brainless person dared to force their way into this small building, the final result would probably be being mysteriously dismembered.
Su Hao gained a new understanding of how afraid of death this [Thread Demon] truly was.
This level of defense was a bit exaggerated.
Su Hao suddenly hesitated.
Could he still assassinate him like this?
In this world, unless a mutant's head was cut off and the body was chopped into several pieces, one could not be certain they were truly dead.
And if he wanted to do that silently, it clearly wasn't possible, was it?
He simply couldn't get close.
Su Hao took a deep breath and thought to himself, "Then I can only charge straight in."