Five billion...
This sort of amount, released as a contract, don’t even ntion hunting down a retired forr rcenary.
Even blowing up the Anti-Violence Squad Four Headquarters, there would be lunatics willing to take the risk.
Additionally, this is not a "targeted bounty," but an "open bounty."
An open bounty ans that there are no restrictions on the identity of the taker, it’s completely open, anyone can accept it.
This level of open bounty, hanging on the main page of all the major dark web interfaces, will be seen sooner or later by rcenaries and killers across the Human Realm. They’ll surely co swarming for the high reward.
Nuobai is in danger...
What’s more deadly is, Nuobai has already retired, returned to a normal life, and no longer cares about industry matters, nor does she have the need to log into the dark web.
In other words, she might not even know she’s been targeted by a bounty!
Su Mo quickly took out his phone, dialed Nuobai’s number, attempting to warn her.
"Hello, the number you dialed is not in service area, please try again later."
However, only the icy prompt tone ca through the receiver.
Su Mo felt puzzled at once.
Not in service area... what’s going on with Nuobai’s side? Isn’t she in New Moon City?
Su Mo couldn’t get through, so he could only send a text ssage:
[Your identity has been exposed, soone has put a bounty on you!]
[No matter where you are, upon seeing this ssage, escape quickly!]
After sending the text ssage, Su Mo imdiately left the basent, anxious and running towards the flight vehicle hangar.
"Please don’t let anything happen..."
...
"Bai Yatou, co help check this, why isn’t tomorrow’s weather forecast showing?"
In the small shop, Grandma Zheng, wearing reading glasses, was fiddling with her phone.
Today Nuobai accompanied the old lady for dinner, and was washing dishes in the kitchen when she cleaned her hands upon hearing the voice and wiped them on her apron, coming over.
She took the phone and found the weather forecast app displayed "network disconnected."
After checking, she found that the phone had no signal.
Nuobai took out her own phone and found that the signal was also zero bars.
She typed:
[Disconnected, no signal]
Grandma Zheng mumbled, "Disconnected again... In this old residential area of ours, the network goes out every other day, the signal is poor, and the network people don’t know to co and fix it, sigh..."
The area where Nuobai lived was quite old, and the network base station had never been renovated, so poor signal was the norm.
She didn’t think much of it and returned to the kitchen to finish washing the dishes, typing to Grandma Zheng:
[It’s getting late, I’m heading back now]
[You should rest early]
Grandma Zheng smiled kindly: "You’ve spent another day with today, it’s really hard on you. Tomorrow, you should go and et up with your friends. It’s New Year, you have to foster feelings with those you know, right?"
Nuobai pressed her lips together lightly and smiled, nodding her head.
[Then I won’t co over tomorrow]
[I’ve bought all the groceries and put them in the fridge, it’ll be hard on you to cook]
"Oh dear, I’m old but not to the point where I can’t cook, haha, go on, head ho."
Nuobai waved goodbye to Grandma Zheng.
January is the peak of winter, the coldest season of the year.
Coming into the cold from a heated room, the winter chill seeped through the seams of her clothes. Nuobai exhaled onto her hands and then tucked them into her sleeves.
Walking outside in winter is truly unpleasant, but fortunately, ho is just nearby.
A cat for a thousand days, use a cat at a ti.
Soon, she would be able to hold those little furballs at ho as hand warrs~
Nuobai walked into her apartnt building and went up to the sixth floor.
Normally, just the sound of her footsteps would bring cries of cats welcoming her ho from behind the door.
But today was very quiet, there was no sound, she guessed that it might be too late and the cats were asleep.
She took out her key and opened the door.
As soon as the door opened, a strange stench rushed over.
This sll, she hadn’t encountered in a long ti, and it awakened her buried mories at that mont.
It was a sll she had encountered countless tis in the first half of her life.
The sll of blood.
Nuobai hurriedly turned on the light, and the scene before her left her completely frozen.
The originally neat ho was in shambles, the floor was stained with blood.
The cats’ bodies were scattered across the floor, so with twisted necks, killed by strangulation.
Others had their skin peeled back, covered in blade cuts, the agony of their final monts driving them to run and crash around, their blood painting the floor, ultimately bleeding to death.
When she was a rcenary, Nuobai was always a loner, without many friends.
If there was any comfort to be found in a life of licking blood from blades, it might only be these fluffy cats at ho.
Whenever she returned ho weary, just a hug from them seed to bring peace.
Now, the cats that had accompanied her for years lay dead in front of her without warning, it felt like a deep wound had opened in her heart, her sadness nearly drowning her.
"ow... ow..."
Then, a piercing, stifled cat cry filled the room, with a scratching at the door, clearly a cat was still alive, heard her and was calling for help.
A lifeti of companionship told Nuobai imdiately, that was her oldest cat, Fan Fan.
She rushed to open the door.
"Boom——" As the door opened, a trap that had been preset exploded.
Flas swept over, burning Nuobai’s exposed hands and face, the shockwave surging through her body like nurous hands twisting her insides.
The explosive impact threw Nuobai back heavily against the corridor window opposite the door, the fragile fra couldn’t withstand the impact and burst apart.
Nuobai went flying with the shattered window, losing control of her body as she tumbled through the cold air, eventually plumting to the ground.
"Bang!!!"
First bombarded by the explosion, then falling from the sixth floor, most of Nuobai’s bones were broken, and her internal organs severely damaged.
Blood sprayed like rays at the impact site, she struggled in the pool of blood, each breath drawing out grueso foam.
In a daze, she spotted so scraps nearby.
It was the fur of an animal, large sections charred, and from the remaining color patterns, it was Fan Fan, already blown apart...
The intense pain and anger roiled within Nuobai, she gritted her teeth and activated the Crimson Rose Blood Code, using its rapid regeneration to heal.
Yet, within seconds, a barrage arrived.
"Bang bang bang bang bang——" Gunfire flared from the shadows, bullets aiming at Nuobai.
Since her retirent, due to her state of mind transforming, her awareness wasn’t as sharp as before.
But countless battles from life and death still ingrained within her bones, it’s sothing one could never forget.
Nuobai swiftly rolled to dodge bullets, leaving chaotic indentations where she lay.
She lowered her body to reduce exposure while sprinting in a zigzag towards the nearest shooter.
The shooter drew a dagger for close combat, but in terms of strength and speed, he wasn’t a match for Nuobai; the knife barely out when he was seized by the wrist.
Nuobai abruptly pulled the shooter towards herself, destroying his balance, then kicked at his knee with her right foot.
"Crack!!!" With a hair-raising fracture sound, the shooter’s knee bent into a V shape, collapsing like a snapped bamboo pole, letting out a painful scream.
Nuobai stepped on the fallen dagger, flicking it up and catching it midair, then efficiently stabbing into the shooter’s heart.
Just as the shooter was about to die, a playful voice sounded from a short distance: "Hey, do you want this old lady to get shot in the head?"
Instantly, the dagger stopped at the shooter’s chest.
Nuobai turned her head towards where the voice originated.
A few soldiers erged fully ard from a nearby convenience store, leading them was a young man in hip-hop attire.
Grandma Zheng appeared bewildered by the situation, trembling and asking, "What’s happening here..."
The young man whistled to Nuobai, flashing a mysterious smile, "Good evening, Silent Death God. By entry years, you’re my senior, aren’t you?"
"Then I’ll introduce myself, I’m the leader of the ’Hellhound’ rcenary Corps, ’Taiwei Star’ Lucifer, and I’ve co to claim your head today."
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