King of Assassins - Chapter 10
Chapter 10: Self Reflection
Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
Yun Qingshang was unconscious for a long time before she finally groggily woke up.
The moment she opened her eyes, she felt that something was off. She was in a cramped and dark place. It was damp and cold, and the decorations in the room were exceptionally simple.
More importantly, the room was constantly swaying, which didn’t make her feel safe.
“This is a boat…”
Yun Qingshang immediately came to her senses. Even though she’d never been on a real boat before, she had experienced it many times during her simulation training, so she wasn’t a stranger to boats.
“You’re awake.”
Gao Xuan, who was sitting in a daze in one corner of the room, immediately noticed Yun Qingshang’s movements.
He shuffled to Yun Qingshang’s side and stuffed a nutrient supplement into her mouth. “Eat something,” he said, “Then continue sleeping. It’ll be a few days before we touch land.”
Yun Qingshang didn’t think too much about what was going on. Even if she were in hell, she wouldn’t be scared as long as Gao Xuan was at her side.
She obediently consumed ten vials of the concentrated nutrient supplement and couldn’t help but slip into another deep sleep after her body received the nutrients it needed.
“Sleep without worry, obedient child. Leave everything to me…”
Gao Xuan sighed, “Unfortunately, I don’t have a suitable identity to surf the web with. I’ve bitterly stayed at this dilapidated place for a dozen days.”
There were communication satellites throughout the skies of Pegasus Planet. The signal of the Skynet covered the entire planet.
However, Gao Xuan didn’t have a suitable identity to access the Skynet with. He would definitely leave behind lots of digital traces if he suddenly accessed it.
It would be easy to trace the sign-on back to him if any problems arose in the future.
It was extremely boring on the narrow deck of the boat. There was no one to talk to. All Gao Xuan could do was bitterly tolerate the situation.
Gao Xuan had just lay down when he suddenly heard footsteps in the corridor. Even though there was a wall between them, detailed features of the two men appeared clearly in his mind.
One of the men had a height of 193.33654 centimeters and weighed 162114.24457 grams. The other one was much shorter, only 165.54471 centimeters tall. He weighed 64457.24574 grams.
The two of them were equipped with guns, daggers, anti-poison masks, and two poison bombs.
They could be described as “fully equipped.”
Both men were rather tanned and had wrinkles on their faces. Their hair was also abnormally withered and yellow, a characteristic of divers who permanently lived on the water.
Gao Xuan hadn’t been slacking off during his dozen days on the boat.
He had made use of his leisure time to consolidate what he’d learned and create a database for himself.
Optical computer technology was going to improve in a few years. Artificial intelligence would become more advanced and capable of in-depth observations of the human body. Humans would also become used to managing themselves with optical computer chips.
Everything from their thoughts to their bodies could be analyzed and quantified with numbers. That was the true digital age.
Gao Xuan didn’t have such an advanced optical computer chip, nor would he install such a thing in his brain.
This so-called digitalization was a human’s attempt to understand and analyze themselves on a deeper level.
It was like going to a hospital for a full-body checkup and going through tests using machines to obtain various data.
Data like blood pressure, blood sugar, and blood lipids were all an attempt at quantifying the human body.
However, because of the limits of the testing equipment, many areas of the human body couldn’t be quantified. For example, emotional state, intelligence quotient, etc.
The Six-Winged Heavenly Cicada was a top-notch Gold Grade Miracle Item. It trumped any scientific equipment in the world. It was better than any intelligent optical computer out there.
In this universe, the Six-Winged Heavenly Cicada was the entity that most understood Gao Xuan.
Through the Six-Winged Heavenly Cicada, Gao Xuan could examine his body and mind and quantify them using the simplest of data.
Name: Gao Xuan
Age: 18 years
Gender: Male
Height: 188.88888 centimeters
Weight: 100000.00013 grams
Constitution: 13 (The standard number for an average healthy 20-year-old male is 10)
Mind: 28
Strength: 12
Dexterity: 15
Source Power Level: Level Three (Iron)
Extreme Light Sword Technique: Level Five (Gold)
Flying Swallow Twin Dagger Technique: Level Five (Gold)
Six-Winged Heavenly Cicada: Gold Grade Miracle Item (Bronze)
God Slaying Sword: Gold Grade Miracle Item (Bronze)
Twin Black Crow Daggers: Made of titanium
Arbalest Handgun: Premium handgun
…
All of this data stemmed from Gao Xuan’s data-driven analysis of himself.
Out of all the data, the areas of Mind, Constitution, Dexterity, and Strength were all adjusted values using an average healthy 20-year-old male as a baseline.
The human body was complicated and intricate. Source Power, abilities, body, and mind all affected one another. Thus, Gao Xuan’s strength and dexterity stats were all rather normal. In fact, they weren’t much stronger than Yun Qingshang’s.
However, his mental power had reached 28 points.
This kind of mental power was stronger than even an average Gold fighter’s.
In his previous life, Gao Xuan was a King of Assassins with a name that struck fear in the hearts of everyone: Heavenly Cicada.
While he might not have been the strongest fighter out of the many Gold fighters in the world, he’d been acknowledged as the person with the strongest spiritual quality.
No one could detect any traces of him when he killed someone.
It was only with such incredible mental power that Gao Xuan could wield the God Slaying Sword.
Thus, Gao Xuan had easily killed Xu Hui and Zhou Lang, much less the rest of the guards at the base.
The Source Power in Pegasus Planet was restricted by an external force. The highest level a person could reach here was Source Power Level Ten, which was also the limit of the Bronze Grade.
With the God Slaying Sword, Gao Xuan stood a chance in battle against anyone other than a Level Ten fighter.
The two men that were outside the door might as well be sitting ducks.
There were no good men on this smuggling boat. Even though Gao Xuan had paid a large sum of money to get on this boat, a few of the divers still wanted to kill Gao Xuan and usurp his fortune.
However, Gao Xuan hadn’t stepped outside this room these last ten or so days, nor had he consumed any of the food they’d brought him.
The bunch of them hadn’t been able to find an opportunity to strike.
They’d scouted the situation multiple times and realized that there might be a problem with Gao Xuan’s eyes. More importantly, Yun Qingshang was extremely beautiful and unconscious. They didn’t know what was going on with her.
Yun Qingshang’s beauty had incited evil intentions amongst this group of men.
They were about to enter the inner seas in two days. There would be many boats around them when that time came, which would make it inconvenient for them to take action, so this group of men couldn’t help but try to force their way in now.
The two divers were rather cautious. They shot each other a look as they stood outside the door and silently pulled out their guns.
Gao Xuan, who always had his eyes closed, creeped them out. They were especially creeped out by Gao Xuan because his handsomeness was beyond human.
They had to deal with a person like that carefully.
However, they shouldn’t have a problem dealing with a blind man with two guns.
The shorter diver whispered to the taller one, “I’ll knock on the door first. Shoot him the moment he opens the door. Try your best to not kill him. A handsome man like him could be sold for quite a sum of money!”
The bulkier man nodded.
The shorter diver knocked on the door twice, but there were no movements from within the room.
The shorter diver was a little confused. He pressed his ear to the door and attempted to listen to what was going on inside the room.
A ray of red light flashed, and a blade that was the color of blood suddenly pierced through the shorter diver’s ear.
His head was pierced through by the sword. The shorter diver, who’d been unable to react, died on the spot.
The larger diver was incredibly shocked. Everything had happened right next to him, yet he didn’t understand what was going on.
The red blade of light flashed again. The blade of the sword pierced through the middle of the diver’s forehead.
Then, an orb of blood-colored light shone brightly. The two divers were broken down into balls of blood-colored light.
Gao Xuan pushed open the door and let out a cold laugh of disdain. “I was a little embarrassed to silence you, but I guess I don’t have to hold back if you’re sending yourselves to the door.”
Escaping from the Beikun Base wasn’t the end. Instead, it was just the beginning.
The Blood Deity Association’s influence spanned galaxies. It was incredibly massive. Even though the Beikun Base was but a tiny splinter in the grand scheme of things, the death of Zhou Lang and Xu Hui would definitely attract the attention of the Blood Deity Association.
Gao Xuan knew that he and Yun Qingshang would definitely have to face the unending pursuit of the Blood Deity Association if they left behind any traces.
Fortunately, the Beikun Base was completely sealed off from the outside world, and the data of all the students was saved in the base’s optical computers.
The data hadn’t been handed up to the superiors, as the host, Xu Yan, had met with some problems.
As long as he erased all of their data, the Blood Deity Association wouldn’t know of his and Yun Qingshang’s existence.
Gao Xuan had taken notice of the fierce-looking captain of this ship when in the middle of selecting a smuggling ship to get on. He was a Spirit Being.
Spirit Beings were an extremely unique, intelligent race. Their main body was a ball of materialized green light. They didn’t have a physical body. Spirit Beings could only leech onto the bodies of other intelligent races.
The parasitic Spirit Beings would continuously devour the life force of the host until they completely took over its body.
Humans inevitably came into contact with Spirit Beings after they entered the age of galaxies. Spirit Beings also successfully infiltrated the human race and proliferated.
Even though the humans who were overtaken by the Spirit Beings kept their human knowledge, their memories and thought processes completely changed.
The existence of the Spirit Beings destroyed the humans’ unity at its very core. They destroyed the basis of human societies, directly resulting in the humans’ defeat and destruction in the galactic war.
It could be said that Spirit Beings were humans’ mortal enemy. It was impossible for them to coexist.
Gao Xuan had the Six-Winged Heavenly Cicada, which was the strongest in terms of spiritual quality. He was exceptionally sensitive to the aura of the Spirit Beings and could immediately detect a Spirit Being whenever he came near one.
From his point of view, Spirit Beings had to be exterminated.
Gao Xuan had wanted to wait two days longer. However, he wasn’t going to hold back now that the other party had taken action.
Gao Xuan closed the door behind him and walked forward with the God Slaying Sword in hand.
This smuggling boat was small. There were only about a dozen divers and a captain on board. The main purpose of this boat was to smuggle forbidden items and sell them in various places.
Smuggling humans was a way to earn some money on the side.
The ocean was vast, and life on the boat was extremely boring. The divers also had to deal with Gao Xuan. They excitedly gathered in the captain’s room and talked nonsense with the captain of the boat.
“That lad is really handsome. I think he looks even better than his sister!”
“No matter how handsome he is, he’s still just a man. I want to play with his sister.”
“What do you know?”
The group of smelly divers got extremely animated on this topic and became abnormally excited.
A few of the more mature divers said, “Don’t you know how to act properly?”
The captain was a bald, muscular man with a reddish complexion. He was wearing a waistcoat that exposed his midriff, and the shirt he wore underneath didn’t cover his arms. He sat there like a blob, looking extremely stately.
He said with a stern expression on his face, “Why haven’t Fatso and the rest come back yet? Send a few more men and have a look. Don’t let anything happen to them…”
“There’s no need. Something has happened to them.” Gao Xuan added from outside the room before pushing open the door and stepping inside.
Gao Xuan had his head slightly lowered, and his long fringe obscured his sunglasses. There was an exquisite red scabbard in his hand.
He looked mysterious, dangerous, and had a somewhat devilish aura about him.
Without waiting for the group of divers to react, the blood-colored blade of unparalleled sharpness shimmered in the air, leaving behind a trail of light that instantly covered the entire cabin.
