Qiankun Twins
A head fell to the ground.
Dripping fresh blood spurted out, splashing all over Chen Ling, dyeing that black overcoat with mottled bright red spots, but his expression was incredibly calm.
"Finally opened for business..." Chen Ling took a deep breath. His gaze didn't look towards that young man who had already fled far away again, but fell onto the other few bewildered participants hiding in the dark on this street.
Chen Ling stepped forward slowly. A harmless smile surfaced on his cheeks that were still stained with warm fresh blood.
"I am Lin Yan, I Mean No Harm..."
"Everyone, you might as well come out first. I have some things I want to chat with you about..."
[Audience Expectation Value +2]
Spectators: !!!
Chen Ling, having tasted the sweetness of Expectation Value growth, naturally couldn't let these prey go. He casually chose the direction where the most people fled, and chased after them stepping on air!
"Everyone, I really Mean No Harm, no need to panic like this..."
Hearing this sentence, the crowd fled even faster, while cursing crazily in their hearts... That person was just watching the excitement by the roadside and was chopped by you with one knife, and now you say you mean no harm?!
Just looking at your current appearance, who would believe your nonsense?!
Those participating in the competition for the [Heaven-Reaching Star Position] this time were all young people under 25 years old. For Ordinary People, being able to step into the Third Tier at this age was already not easy. A small portion with talent could ascend to the Fourth Order... Only an extremely small portion of monsters could reach the Fifth-Tier.
Chen Ling's actual age was under 20 and he was already Fourth Order, already a monster. But among these people he was hunting down, no Fifth-Tier appeared. Even if there were one or two Fourth Orders, they were also frightened by Chen Ling's blood-stained body and terrifying imposing manner, not daring to approach.
Chen Ling hunted them down all the way. During this period, he also caught a few who couldn't run away in time. He raised and dropped the knife, basically instantly killing them.
The bloodstains on his body became heavier and heavier, even dyeing the black windbreaker blood-red. He almost slaughtered his way through ten streets of the Old District, and his fierce reputation began radiating and spreading to the surroundings through those hunted victims.
"Is this Lin Yan crazy?"
A fluorescent robe stood in the darkness in the distance. Referee 06 saw this scene and couldn't help but murmur to himself,
"The competition just started, and everyone else is thinking about preserving their strength, or investigating the backgrounds of other participants... Only he is burying his head in killing people. Up to now, he should be the one who killed the most people, right?"
"The bird that sticks its head out gets shot. Him killing people so arrogantly will sooner or later incur public anger." Beside him, Referee 15 spoke slowly. "Those S-rank participants are not to be trifled with..."
"I also think this kid won't be arrogant for much longer."
"Eh, he killed another one... Do you go or do I go?"
"You go, I'll continue following him."
"Alright."
As his voice fell, Referee 15 leaped up from the darkness. After crossing a few buildings, he landed steadily on the bloodstained street.
He arrived beside the corpse whose throat was slit by the Bone-Stripping Knife, squatted down, and carefully investigated. After confirming that this participant was already dead, he pressed the button on the Walkie-talkie:
"Participant Li Erquan, confirmed dead on Pomegranate Street, tell the people from the rescue team to come pull him away."
"Received, arriving within two minutes."
Referee 15 slowly stood up, looking thoughtfully in the direction where the blood-red Chen Ling left.
...
"Have you guys heard? Over in the south of the city, there's a madman killing people everywhere."
"No way? It just started, is it already this intense?"
"Really, a friend of mine was hunted by him for several blocks. It's said that the number of people who died under his hands has already exceeded ten... But their Ranks all seem to be not high."
"I heard those experts from official organizations are all still waiting for the opportunity. I guess his strength is just average, and he wants to use this opportunity at the beginning to kill some weak Juniors to make himself stand out..."
"Why does he need to do this? No matter how fierce he is, can he fight continuously for 48 hours? In the end, when the Heaven-Reaching Star Positions appear, that's the real time for life-and-death combat, right?"
"You don't understand this, do you? The referees will report the combat situation of all participants to the higher-ups of the Five Great Realms as soon as possible. I guess this person feels that he can't snatch the Heaven-Reaching Star Position with his own strength, so he wants to find another way to let his name be seen by the higher-ups of the Five Great Realms."
"Putting it this way, it's quite smart?"
"Just petty smarts."
"What's his name?"
"Seems to be called something... Lin Yan? Anyway, I haven't heard of it before."
Several blocks away, three figures were gathered together, whispering something.
Right at this moment,
Two emaciated figures who looked incredibly weak leaped down from the roof above them, like two heavy bombs, loudly smashing two terrifying deep pits into the street!
Thud—!!
The three whispering people were directly knocked to the ground by the tumbling air waves. They looked up in terror.
In the tumbling dust, those two, one holding a rake and the other holding a long staff, slowly surrounded them from the left and right. Under their thin and weak figures, the terrifying sense of oppression was like a mountain, making one almost suffocate.
"They..."
"[Tu Tian] and [Earth-Brushing]?!" One person spoke in terror. "I have seen them... They are the new generation Qiankun Twins of the Dragon-Strangling Warriors, both Fifth-Tier experts!"
Hearing this sentence, the faces of the three people instantly turned deathly pale.
The two thin and weak figures stopped in front of them. Two pairs of scorching pupils like the sun were looking down at them indifferently...
"What did you just say... that person's name is?"
"Ah?" One person was stunned for a long time before reacting. "Called... called Lin Yan."
The Qiankun Twins looked at each other.
"Is it him?"
"Yeah, there is still no news of that Assassin until now. I didn't expect this Lin Yan to jump out first..."
"He seems very arrogant?"
"If he wasn't arrogant, how could he swagger into Third Master's funeral to provoke us?"
"Then..."
"He managed to run away back then. This time, it's absolutely impossible to let him go."
The thin and weak man carrying the rake slowly squatted down, grabbed one person's collar with one hand, narrowed his eyes and spoke: "I ask you... Which direction did that Lin Yan go?"
"Over... over there." That person tremblingly pointed in a direction.
The rake man released him, exchanged a glance with the staff man, turned around and walked in that direction...
Just as the three thought they had escaped a disaster and breathed a slight sigh of relief, a heaven-supporting giant pillar roared as it descended from the sky, directly crushing them into meat paste on the spot!
After a brief pause, the heaven-supporting giant pillar spun and rushed forward, gradually shrinking into an ordinary long staff, and was casually grabbed by the thin and weak figure.
He didn't even look back, speaking faintly:
"I'd like to see, this Lin Yan... exactly how many strikes of my staff can he withstand?"