Step Back! Master is Here! - Chapter 41
Chapter 41: Killing Mechanism?
“This skill…”
Tang Luo’s words suddenly suppressed Sun Ang’s rising anger.
Was Tang Luo aware of his skill?
“How can that be!”
Not to mention that his skill was activated quietly and secretly. Moreover, he was not using any skills right now!
What was Tang Luo talking about?
“Could it be the legendary Incompetent Rage?” Tang Luo added, “I interpreted anger from your expression.”
Mocking! Openly mocking!
It was as though fuel was poured on the fire, as his rage shot up the sky.
Sun Ang felt a sweet fishy taste in his mouth. It was unknown if it was blood from his bite or the palm strike’s result now.
He opened his eyes wide, trying to see the scene in front of him. As long as he could see clearly, he had the power to fight back.
Sun Ang had a particular skill—Third-Person’s Sight.
It provided close to perfect surveillance and detection. It was through this skill that he knew of Tang Luo’s existence.
Of course, the target of skill was not Tang Luo, but Zhang Yuchou.
What the Jade Lotus of Virtuous Merit had dispelled was the Invisible Eye formed by Third-Person’s Sight.
Apart from that, Sun Ang also had a skill, called Object Manipulation Technique. It was unremarkable on its own, but when used together with Third-Person’s Sight, it formed a terrifying, invisible assassination technique.
To execute Object Manipulation Technique, Sun Ang must be able to see what he wanted to control with his own eyes.
Once the target left the range of sight, he would lose control immediately. Also, when executing it, he had to be almost immobile. The concentration required was equivalent to driving at high speed or playing a fierce, competitive game. He could not be distracted.
When using Object Manipulation Technique, the enemy was the target of his action.
However, he himself was also a living target. Moreover, he was unable to move, which meant he was gambling his own life with his enemy.
I can see you, and you naturally can see me too—when monitoring something, it was best to see it with your own eyes.
However, Third-Person’s Sight provided the effect of seeing with your own eyes—enough to let Sun Ang kill thousands of miles away, without a trace.
This was the truth behind the dish god incident.
Of course, because of some skill limitations, Sun Ang was unable to pull off a flawless assassination.
However, the main elements were sufficient to allow him to create a supernatural event.
At least, the police certainly would not be able to find evidence against him. Moreover, it was impossible to determine how he committed the crime. They would only feel suspicious that Sun Ang had contact with the deceased before their deaths.
However, as colleagues, wasn’t it normal for them to spend time with each other?
Jade Lotus of Virtuous Merit dispelled Third-Person’s Sight.
Because the power of virtuous merits would not harm people, Sun Ang received no damage. But it also caused his skill to enter the cooldown period, unable to activate.
Nonetheless, Sun Ang could still execute the Object Manipulation Technique.
Anyway, he now had difficulty even in lifting up his limbs.
He was afraid they were already broken. Even if he had extraordinary healing power, he was unable to get up within a short time.
Fortunately, Object Manipulation Technique did not require Sun Ang to get up. As long as his vision was restored, and he was able to turn his head to choose the appropriate object, he could secretly kill Tang Luo.
He would let him try the taste of failing miserably when faced with a very easy task.
This taste—would be the taste of Tang Luo’s blood and life.
“How do you impersonate the Dish God to kill?” asked Tang Luo.
The dark spots in front of Sun Ang began to decrease, and his eyesight began to recover.
“Do you think I will reveal that?” he said intermittently, his speech slurring.
Not for anything else, except to delay time.
“Okay, another question.” Tang Luo was very Buddha-like. He wouldn’t force Sun Ang if he didn’t want to say. “Would Zhang Yuchou be in danger going forward?”
“Ha!” Sun Ang laughed loudly, “I did something to him a long time ago. If I’m dead, he will be as well!”
He did not expect there was still such a good Employee of Gods and Demons, who was concerned about the safety of ordinary people.
“Oh, got it.” Tang Luo nodded. “Your acting skills are worse than Big Baby[1].”
The master of acting gave his criticism.
The forced smile on Sun Ang’s face disappeared. At the same time, the flashing black spots in front of him also disappeared completely.
Just that… a black shadow appeared this time. Upon closer inspection, it was the bottom of a shoe!
He couldn’t care about anything else.
Sun Ang immediately used the Object Manipulation Technique and targeted the shoe as the object of control.
His consciousness surged, transforming into an invisible power to control the shoe…
Within a short time, Sun Ang was unable to think of how to use the shoe to strike back. The most instinctive idea was very simple—that was to prevent the shoe from landing.
Tang Luo was slightly surprised. There was an unknown force holding onto his foot, opposing his foot, and preventing it from landing.
“Puff!”
A palm moved through the air, creating an invisible attack that instantly turned Sun Ang into a headless body.
Tang Luo was okay with not stepping.
Master Xuanzuang was proficient in all kinds of physical transformations. It was very simple for him to change to a different method. As such, he tried the skill of empty palm, which was a skill used to imitate Gautama’s Palm Hit.
Tang Luo was pretty satisfied with the result.
How should he put it?
The first level’s maximum distance was ten meters, which would reduce the power by 50%.
In the future, he could put a greater distance between him and the other party, without worrying about being splashed by the other party’s blood.
After a battle, he always had to use the Jade Lotus of Virtuous Merit to clean up, which was a little extravagant. Moreover, the blood-drenched appearance was not in line with the Tang Luo’s established Enlightened Buddha image.
As Tang Luo withdrew his feet and was about to leave, there was a strange aura that he could feel but could not see or touch hovering over Sun Ang’s headless body,
“Skill?”
Tang Luo had a feeling that it was a skill.
Except that before Tang Luo could reach out to probe, this aura hovered a little, and then disappeared.
‘…Could it be said that by killing an Employee of Gods and Demons, one could also obtain the other party’s skills? A skill that was randomly selected?’ thought Tang Luo.
It was not considered as a good piece of news.
According to the currently available information, there was no team formation in the Game of Gods And Demons.
However, it did not encourage the Employees of Gods and Demons to kill each other.
By having the same mission, the Employees of Gods and Demons were encouraged to cooperate to a certain extent.
However, if Tang Luo’s guess was true, there would be various conflicts between the Employees of Gods and Demons because of skills. Also, the kind of conflicts caused by coveting each other’s skills would result in deaths.
Even if it was equipment, there was a possibility of discarding it in order to protect one’s life.
However, skills could not be discarded.
If it was yours, it was yours.
If I wanted that, you would have to die.
“Interesting.” Tang Luo had a new understanding of the Game of Gods And Demons’ ecology.
Zhou Zhenguo had not mentioned this to him. Either he had wanted to hide it from him, or he had not been aware of it.
Tang Luo preferred the latter. He was aware that Zhou Zhenguo had revealed the skills he had obtained.
If Zhou Zhenguo had been worried that Tang Luo might kill him after knowing the killing mechanism to acquire skills, he would not have told Tang Luo that he had acquired Tide of Recovery back in the carriage.
Most likely, Zhou Zhenguo did not know.
Tang Luo believed that not many people would proactively share this discovery with other Employees of Gods and Demons under normal circumstances.
Information on this mechanism would only spread among the relatively stronger Employees of Gods and Demons.
Newcomers would not have known.
It was normal for Zhou Zhenguo, a pseudo-veteran who had just passed the novice period, not to know.
Taking the initiative to tell others was equivalent to saying to others, “I have a secret treasure, and you have a chance to acquire it after killing me.”
Wasn’t that telling others your address and asking them to send you knife blades[2]?
“This mysterious sense of déjà vu…”
Tang Luo shook his head. With the Jade Lotus of Virtuous Merit once again suspended above his head, he entered into an invisible state.
Sun Ang’s death also gave him some power of virtuous merits. Enough to make up for what he had expended in this matter, as well as some surplus.
Equivalent to power of virtuous merits: -333.
Gained power of virtuous merit from Sun Ang: +666.
This wave of punishing evil and advocating good was beneficial to him.
Honestly, even Tang Luo himself had not figured out how to define the boundary between good and evil when punishing evil and advocating good.
He could only say, “Specific issues required specific analysis.”
Sun Ang, who had killed several people, undoubtedly belonged to the category of evil.
Tang Luo had been set on killing him to gain the power of virtuous merits.
Had he led him to goodness and repentance, and succeeded in making him turn over a new leaf, Tang Luo might have gotten more merit.
Of course, Tang Luo was not interested. His style had all along been physical transformation.
Spiritual transformation? There was no such thing.
Tang Luo only knew how to use violence to counter violence.
After getting back to the hotel, Tang Luo instantly entered into the untouchable state and floated into his room, immediately releasing it once he was inside.
He must not take too long, or else, it would be detrimental to him.
After taking a shower, Tang Luo went to sleep.
Early in the next morning, Tang Luo was woken up by the ringtone of his mobile phone.
It was the police, hoping to understand the situation from Tang Luo.
“He came in and talked to me about the case, and then he left.” Tang Luo said that if he lied, he would be struck by lightning.
Anyway, he would not die. Moreover, what he said was really true.
Hadn’t they been talking about the case?
Sun Ang was a key person under protection. His death and disappearance would certainly attract attention.
The hotel reception, lobby, corridors, and stairs were all monitored.
The young lady at the front desk was also a witness.
The fact that he had met Tang Luo could not be hidden.
If nothing went wrong, things would be forgotten over time. The dish god incident would then become an unsettled case.
However, once something went wrong, the inexplicable meeting between Sun Ang and Tang Luo at the hotel would inevitably become a major suspicion point.
Tang Luo also did not deal with Sun Ang’s body. As long as he did not leave any clues behind, he was fine. Also, he had a perfect alibi. Surveillance could confirm that Tang Luo had never left the hotel the entire night.
His room was on the fifth floor.
Moreover, most of the hotel windows could only be opened a little. Not to mention adults, even children, were unable to get out. This was to prevent potential safety hazards.
There was no other route to bypass surveillance, avoid other people’s detection, and leave without anyone knowing.
At most, Tang Luo caught the police’s attention. And this attention was not enough for Tang Luo to let Sun Ang go.
To be honest, Tang Luo really did not care. If Victorious Fighting Buddha was overly cautious and fearful, he would not be worthy of the name.
Reliable and overly cautious were two different things. So were moving freely and being reckless.
However, thanks to Tang Luo, what was originally a wander around, had become Tang Luo’s solo journey.
As the last survivor, Zhang Yuchou was moved from being secretly protected to openly shadowing to ensure nothing would happen.
Until Tang Luo returned home, Zhang Yuchou was not released.
He believed he had to wait until the rent expired.
On the day when he returned home, Tang Luo received his customized game suit.
[1] The nickname of Angelababy, a Chinese model, actress, and singer.
[2] A term for death threats.
