Chapter 475: Headless Corpse
Chapter 475: Headless Corpse
With a loud thud, the Armored Man threw the heavy long-handled iron axe in his hand to the ground.Then, his right hand covered in iron armor reached behind his back, groping around for a bit.
He felt a chain, and hanging from the chain was a gilded key.
After that, the Armored Man slipped the chain around his neck. Now, the final key was hanging on his neck.
Then, he extended his left hand and crooked a finger towards the Explorers in front of him.
The worst-case scenario had finally been encountered by the Explorers.
The key being in the Hunter's hand meant they had to snatch food from the tiger's mouth.
The five Explorers looked at each other.
Then they looked at the motionless, fully armored figure holding a sharp axe standing ten meters away, and all fell silent.
Earlier, Kaitou Kid's Older Brother, that woman, had even said: There are five of us, plus some of the informed people here, and only three Hunters. Taking back the keys will be as easy as turning over our hands!!!
This time, only one of the three Hunters had appeared.
Logically speaking, with five people on their side against one person, shouldn't it be more than enough?
Why weren't they going?
Was it that they didn't want to?
The scene seemed to have deadlocked right there.
And Jiang Ran, who was beside the five people.
Silently retreated to the back, putting everyone in front of him as a shield.
None of his business, he kept retreating.
However, that classmate of his was quite brave, running over to Never Forget the Original Intent to ask what had happened and if they needed help.
Truly a man controlled by his lower half.
Never Forget the Original Intent saw him and snorted coldly, "I want the key on that person's neck over there. Can you get it for me? If you get it for me, I'll give you my contact information, and I'll even take the initiative to accompany you for three meals!"
This classmate of Jiang Ran's was called Tang Junjie.
Tang Junjie himself was quite a playboy, and chasing women fell into the persistent and clingy type.
He was the kind of guy who was either sleeping with a woman or on his way to sleep with a woman.
He raised his head and looked at the Armored Man about ten meters away.
There really seemed to be a key hanging from his neck.
"Oh ho, is this something Gu Bei arranged?"
For someone like Tang Junjie who was completely in the dark.
Even though the Armored Man ahead looked imposing and had a sharp weapon in hand.
He didn't feel any danger.
But he did remember the arrow earlier, even though it hadn't hit anyone.
He turned his head and asked Never Forget the Original Intent, "Don't be angry, I have a question. What use is that key to you? Why don't you go get that key yourself?"
Never Forget the Original Intent: "That key is very important to me. As for why I don't go get it... I'm scared, okay? Look at all that stuff on him, he's even wearing armor."
"Are you going to get it or not? If not, I'll have my friend get it for me?"
"I'll get it, don't be impatient, I'll get it."
Tang Junjie strode forward, completely fearless.
As he walked forward, he shouted towards the Armored Man ahead:
"Hey, I'm Gu Bei's classmate. You must be someone Gu Bei hired to work here, right? Specifically wearing this kind of Western armor to be part of the atmosphere crew?"
The Armored Man nodded in response to these words.
Getting an affirmative answer.
Tang Junjie became exceptionally excited. He said, "Great, brother, I'm Gu Bei's classmate, and also a good friend! I have a favor to ask. Could you give me the key on your neck?"
The Armored Man shook his head.
Tang Junjie frowned, stopped walking, and said, "That key hanging on your neck is useless anyway, give it to me! I'll talk to Gu Bei later and have him give you a raise!"
The Armored Man chuckled and extended one finger.
You could see that his palm was also covered by a glove made of fine iron rings.
Tang Junjie didn't understand what it meant at first, but later realized: "You want money? One hundred?"
The Armored Man nodded.
Tang Junjie was a bit unhappy. Why was he asking for money?
But thinking about it, getting the key would open the door to pursuing that beauty.
It was worth it.
So, he said, "Fine, I just happen to have cash on me."
As he walked, Tang Junjie took out his wallet. He pulled out one hundred yuan.
Holding it in his hand, he continued walking towards the Armored Man and asked, "By the way, that arrow earlier was shot by you, right?"
"You're playing way too rough. If it had hit someone, several months of your salary wouldn't be enough to cover the compensation."
When he was still over a meter away from the Armored Man, Tang Junjie raised his right hand, pinching the hundred-yuan bill between two fingers.
And the Armored Man also gripped the long-handled iron axe with both hands.
Then, a horizontal slash.
The sharp axe head, carrying a heavy and powerful blow, moved with lightning speed.
It chopped towards Tang Junjie's neck.
Caught completely off guard, Tang Junjie had his head severed by this horizontal axe swing.
The head flew into the air, traced a perfect parabola, and then fell to the ground.
His body remained frozen in the motion of handing over the hundred yuan.
The surroundings instantly fell into dead silence.
The people present, the five Explorers.
Jiang Ran.
And the two sisters.
Eight people in total. You could say, all villains. Maybe not to that extent, but pretty close.
The two sisters had actually been present the whole time, still sitting on the ground, just a bit farther away.
They were like bystanders, silently watching Tang Junjie step by step approach the Armored Man, that extremely dangerous element, without making any move.
The five Explorers, each with their own ulterior motives, also watched Tang Junjie walk towards his death.
As for Jiang Ran, this person who started out kind but gradually became tainted.
He initially thought about warning Tang Junjie, but was afraid Tang Junjie wouldn't believe what he said.
After all, given everything that had happened to him.
Many things he'd experienced before, when he said there was danger, no one believed him.
He was truly numb.
Which led to him deciding, alright, he'd still give a friendly reminder, but by then Tang Junjie's soul had already returned to his hometown.
He didn't make it in time.
Perhaps this was Tang Junjie's final ending, dying on the road to pursuing a woman.
And Tang Junjie's death completely, utterly, suppressed the atmosphere on the scene to the point where everyone's heart was pounding at 200 beats per minute.
After Tang Junjie died, no one made a sound, no one made a move.
The people present seemed to have turned into wooden figures, into a static painting.
Until many unfamiliar screams of terror turned into giant hands, tearing this static painting into shreds.
Approximately twenty to thirty people barged into the area.
Leading them were Vice Monitor Yu Xiaobo and a few others who knew the detailed situation at the main gate earlier and had gone out to gather people.
They had gathered twenty to thirty people, felt it was about enough, and not wanting to waste time, planned to head to the main gate to regroup. Passing by this area, they saw so many people here.
So they came over to see what was going on.
They never expected to see a headless corpse slowly bleeding from the neck, and a head on the ground with eyes wide open in death.
And then there was the Armored Man holding an axe stained with blood.
The people gathered by Yu Xiaobo and the others had also heard what Yu Xiaobo told them.
But they all held a half-believing, half-doubting attitude, even though Yu Xiaobo used his own electrocuted miserable state as an example.
These people even said that if they found out he was lying to them, they would definitely settle accounts with him and such.
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