On the side of the Mimbo Republic, the Nen ability user who had been watching all along turned around and ran frantically almost the moment Oboro finished speaking, without needing his teammates to remind him.
His intuition was warning him that the man in the suit would definitely attack him first.
Because he was the closest...
The man fled for his life, using all his strength. He used the terrain and trees as cover, and ran quickly... However, he hadn't run far before he sensed the sound of the wind behind his head!
The man's expression was flustered, and fear gradually appeared on his face...
He was just about to turn around, launch an attack, and try to force back the Grim Reaper who was pouncing over... His body had just turned halfway, and the next second, he lost his balance and fell to the ground.
A large amount of minced meat and blood splattered in his vision. He couldn't even see the other party's movements clearly, and everything was over!
Half of his torso seemed to have been run over by a heavy machine, and immediately exploded.
In the gaze mixed with minced meat and blood, the man caught a glimpse of the back figure that had already turned back and was darting toward another female teammate... And the man in the suit's pair of bloodstained hands.
"We're not on the same level!"
A thought flashed through his mind. He looked at the scarred man, who had just rushed to the front. The two people's eyes met in mid-air.
The man couldn't speak. At the last moment of his life, he used his eyes to signal his captain, "Run! Take advantage of the fact that this person killed the two of us, and run! With your ability, escaping shouldn't be a problem!"
The poker-faced man understood his teammate's gaze, and his eyes were about to split open.
Immediately after, he stopped, and didn't follow Oboro to stop him... His speed and agility were completely not as fast as the former's. He could only watch helplessly as the enemy wantonly slaughtered his partners.
From the time the man in the suit had appeared, the balance in the field had completely tilted.
The poker-faced man bit his gums tightly, exerted force on his legs, and ran in the opposite direction of Oboro, turning into a black dot in the distance, and quickly escaping!
And at this time, Oboro had already flashed in front of the woman with the whip.
The woman hadn't expected her captain to desert, and her face was horrified.
She immediately adjusted the direction of her weapon's attack, and frequently whipped Oboro.
But even if her whip was swung very quickly, without exception, it only hit the illusory shadow that the man had left in the air. It couldn't hit his main body.
In the blink of an eye, that pair of cold eyes had already approached her.
Crack!
She only saw a black shadow rise. Oboro crossed his hands, and the woman's head instantly turned 180 degrees, and she was no longer breathing.
Thump...
The woman's corpse lay on the ground, and she died violently without any power to fight back.
Menchi was quite calm when she saw this scene.
She had an estimate of Oboro's strength... In addition, the team members had become a bit numb to Oboro's performance these past few days. Therefore, even if Oboro had some heaven-defying performance, it was a common thing in Menchi's eyes.
She put away her kitchen knife, jumped down in front of her, and looked at the direction where the scarred man had disappeared, "He escaped!"
"He can't escape."
Oboro wasn't in a hurry to chase after him. Instead, he instructed, "You take the few of them and find a place to hide first... It's not certain whether there are any other ambushers from other forces around."
"Okay."
Menchi nodded.
After saying this, the ghost mist swayed, and rushed toward the location where the scarred man had left, like flowing fire.
...
On the other side, the scenery in the forest was quickly receding behind Steve.
Steve was the scarred man's name.
His heart was surging, and he was finding it difficult to calm down.
He thought about the scene of that terrifying guy attacking him... An Enhancer?
No... Judging from the form of his Nen ability, it seemed to be another type, but why was the attribute and intensity of his Nen, and the destructiveness it created, almost comparable to an Enhancer's... This wasn't an increase that pure physical quality could give.
That kick... Had even almost broken through his 'Ko'.
Rich combat experience!
He had clearly noticed the other party's entry beforehand. In the situation where a teammate had been killed, this person's attack... Still didn't give him a chance to defend or block head-on!
His body's subconscious reactions and movements had been seen through in an instant.
Their team's prediction of the enemy's combat power had a major error!
They had completely underestimated the man in the suit!
"Damn it!" Steve couldn't help but curse loudly when he thought of this.
Besides the man in the suit, the remaining five people weren't worth fearing. They were obviously trash... But why?
Why would this kind of powerhouse lead such a naive team?
It was unexpected.
Suddenly, Steve's breath stagnated, and his feet slid on the ground, stopping abruptly.
The inertia that he hadn't been able to stop made his feet push up a trail of rotten branches and soil on the ground, leaving two footprints behind him.
He looked up, and saw a familiar figure walking out of the darkness in front of him.
It was him!
Steve's pupils shrank.
The other party was actually able to catch up to him, who was fleeing with all his strength, and had taken a step ahead... It was as if he had intentionally gone around in a circle, and had intercepted him in advance.
"I thought... Your three teams inside the restricted area wouldn't easily make contact with us, and have a conflict. After all, your purpose is the resources inside the ruins... But everyone has different ways of thinking and ideas, and the plans they set up are also different..."
Oboro walked step by step, and said coldly, "Deducing the reason from your actions, you should be the group that has gained the least among the three teams, and want to kill us in order to buy more time... Right?"
"Our ambush was perfect... You didn't notice it at all, including you!"
Steve clenched his fists.
He knew that he couldn't escape!
For him, what was coming next would be a fierce battle.
"You're right... You guys are very outstanding. I don't deny that."
Oboro said, "You should have seen the other two groups, right? Tell me the information I need, and I'll let you go..."
"I'm not a rookie. You should save this kind of lie to deceive children!"
Steve sneered, and immediately pounced on Oboro, and launched an attack.
His fists were powerful and heavy, but his swing speed was extremely fast. There was also a 'variation' effect mixed in... Oboro was entangled in close combat with him. Although he dodged most of the attacks, he was still grazed a few times.
After being touched by the fist, a palm-sized electronic screen appeared above Oboro's head.
It was a scoreboard.
Every time the scarred man hit him, the score on the screen would be different... Sometimes high, sometimes low.
It ranged from 700 to over 900.
"Interesting..."
Oboro only used a few seconds to analyze the other party's ability.
The value on the screen represented the power of each of the scarred man's punches.
The full score should be 1000, and the former could select and lock a value from a bunch of values. Once locked, the damage caused by his fist would almost stop at that level, and wouldn't decrease anymore.
This was actually very terrifying... Because no one could guarantee that every strike they made would be full of power.
If he always maintained a destructive power of 1000 points, and cooperated with the scarred man's Enhancer methods, ordinary people simply couldn't hold on.
The key to this ability was to score!
Of course, Oboro wasn't an ordinary opponent, and the scarred man couldn't score for a long time... After they had been fighting fiercely for two minutes, the scarred man was knocked to the ground by Oboro's punch. He bounced up like a grasshopper, distanced himself, and spat out a mouthful of bloody water on the ground.
Then, he saw the value on the screen above Oboro's head locked at 948, which was the highest value that the scarred man had hit.
Immediately after, the screen disappeared... The Nen ability in the man's hands instantly increased almost twofold.
"The show has only just begun!"
Steve clenched his fists, and his fighting spirit was surging.
But... What was strange was that the Oboro on the other side suddenly retracted his Nen ability, and looked at him with an extremely calm gaze.
"It's already over."
Oboro said softly.
As soon as his voice fell, Steve's face suddenly turned ashen, and he covered his chest with one hand, widened his mouth, and knelt on the ground... Unable to breathe.
He looked at Oboro, who had walked in front of him, in disbelief. He clearly didn't understand what had happened.
The ghost mist rippling outside Oboro's body would occasionally emit the roar of evil spirits, which made people's minds agitated... And unable to concentrate.
Steve thought that this was Oboro's ability...
"Your lungs had their tissues destroyed by me a minute ago, but you've been fighting hard all along, and didn't notice... Your physiology, or rather, your adrenaline, paralyzed your brain. Of course, I also temporarily cut off some of your sensory nerves."
"If you had noticed it in advance, there would still be room for recovery... Now, it's too late."
As Oboro said this, he bent down, and carried the scarred man, whose pupils had already dilated, and whose hands and feet were twitching due to extreme lack of oxygen, and left the scene.
Close combat was just a facade...
Death Touch and Tendon Severing were the killing moves.
He was in a hurry. He hadn't collected the dropped souls and black mist yet... After a while, they would disappear.
"No! My ability's target must retain some initial consciousness... He's already..."
Soon, Oboro met up with Menchi and the others.
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