Chapter 40 (1/2)

“That killer today was really powerful.”

Yun Qingshang didn’t pay attention to the access cabin in her room when she returned home. Instead, she discussed today’s killer with Gao Xuan.

Yun Qingshang had passed her cruel training and had long developed an acute sense of danger. However, she hadn’t sensed anything when the other party had opened fire, which was scary.

A bullet from a sniper rifle that traveled at six times the speed of sound would pose a certain threat, even to exoskeleton armor.

No matter how much a cultivator trained, the human body was ultimately made out of flesh and blood. Any cultivator below Silver Grade would’ve died if they’d been hit by the bullet.

Wei Yue would’ve died if it hadn’t been for Gao Xuan. And everyone else would’ve been killed alongside her, including herself.

“Ghost Gun,” Gao Xuan said, introducing him. “A notorious killer in the Eastern State. Ghost Gun has always ranked in the top ten assassins list on the dark web.”

“There’s a list that ranks assassins?”

Yun Qingshang was rather surprised. To think that there were rankings for an indecent job like an assassin. It sounded ridiculous.

“That’s normal. Assassins have to accept orders and do business too. The greater their notoriety, the better business is for them,” Gao Xuan said nonchalantly. “In the end, assassinating people is but a business. It has to follow the rules of economics. If the masses like a list that ranks assassins, then there will be a list that ranks assassins.

He then said, a little envious, “The commission fees for the killers ranked in the top ten are very high. Even though it’s dangerous to be so famous, they do earn a lot more.”

Not only did the killers with high rankings command a higher income, but also they were able to obtain more points on the dark web.

Gao Xuan’s true motive for becoming a killer along with Yun Qingshang was to obtain more points on the dark web and enter the Holy Palace of the Dark Door as soon as possible.

The Holy Palace of the Dark Door was hidden deep within the dark web and was the oldest assassin organization in the history of mankind.

The Holy Palace of the Dark Door had three core principles—one, protect the human race; two, balance; and three, exclusion.

Defending the human race was the Dark Door’s guiding principle. That was their so-called “North Star.”

With that as their guiding star, even if they died in the process, they’d have no regrets.

Their second principle was balance. The balance between yin and yang, low and high, good and evil, strong and weak.

The Dark Door thought that human society was massive and complicated and that the most important thing for a stable human society was balance.

The Dark Door was like a small balancing weight, traversing between two extremes to keep the balance so that they could guarantee the stability of human society.

Thus, the Dark Door hid in the shadows and used assassins to keep the balance in human society.

Their third principle was that anyone not from the human race definitely thought differently from the human race.

Thus, they were allowed to kill anyone from a race other than their own.

In his previous life, Gao Xuan had joined the Dark Door when he’d escaped from the Blood Deity Association. He approved of their values.

It wasn’t until the annihilation of the human race that he’d been nominated the Seventh Saint of the Holy Palace of the Dark Door due to special circumstances. He’d then gone on to discover many confidential secrets of the Holy Palace of the Dark Door.

The Holy Palace of the Dark Door was extremely powerful. They were one of the most secret organizations in human society.

Now that he’d been reborn, Gao Xuan definitely had to get into their good books.

But all these matters were too complicated, and he didn’t need to explain them to Yun Qingshang.

Gao Xuan patted Yun Qingshang’s shoulder somewhat forcefully. “Young lady, whether or not we, the Sunshine Boys, can make it into the top ten ranks in Mingjing—no, the Eastern State—depends on you.”

“How are the rankings determined?” Yun Qingshang still didn’t fully understand the situation. A killer had to keep a low profile if they wanted to kill someone, and climbing up the ranks would attract too much attention.

“There’s a point system. It’s rather complicated,” Gao Xuan said. “The simplest way to move up the ranks is to kill an assassin on the ranking list and directly replace them.”

“So we would get on the top ten list of assassins of the Eastern State if we killed Ghost Gun?” Yun Qingshang felt that this method of ranking assassins was laughable. Killing Ghost Gun didn’t mean that they were stronger than him.

“I guess. What else could they do to rank us?” Gao Xuan said, amused. “Are they supposed to organize a skills competition and have all the assassins compete to see who’s the best?”

Yun Qingshang hugged her legs and squirmed into a ball. “That’s not funny,” she said softly. “It was really dangerous today. We nearly died.”

Yun Qingshang’s heart grew a little cold when she remembered how the bullet of the sniper rifle had brushed past her. Faced with such a mysterious sniper, she wasn’t so sure that she’d be able to stay alive, even with the Crimson Heart. She didn’t have the strength to protect Gao Xuan.

Their encounter today with Ghost Gun had made her feel useless and depressed.

Gao Xuan understood what Yun Qingshang was thinking. After all, she was an assassin who’d gone through cruel training.

Even though Yun Qingshang didn’t like to kill, she was very confident in her own strength and skill.

Yun Qingshang must feel bad that she’d suddenly encountered a powerful killer who had out best her in every regard.

“It’s all right,” Gao Xuan consoled her. “I’ll kill Ghost Gun in a few days to vent your frustrations for you.”

Honestly speaking, Ghost Gun was very powerful. Even he hadn’t sensed that something was off before Ghost Gun had opened fire.

That was because Ghost Gun hadn’t been targeting him. His target had been Wei Yue.

It was only after Ghost Gun had opened fire and threatened Gao Xuan that he’d immediately reacted and made an accurate assessment of the situation. It was only because of that that he’d had time to save Wei Zhenzhen and Wei Yue.

Ghost Gun hadn’t managed to succeed after firing three times in a row and had immediately fled far away.

However, Ghost Gun didn’t know that Gao Xuan had left a mental mark on his body.

Ghost Gun wouldn’t be able to escape Gao Xuan’s detection as long as he was still in Mingjing City.

Gao Xuan had to wait two days, as he didn’t want to stand out too much.

He’d already drawn attention to himself by saving Wei Yue today.

Wei Yue and the justice department would be working together to find Ghost Gun. It wasn’t the right time for him to attract attention to himself.

Ghost Gun wouldn’t take action again so soon now that he’d failed, so it wouldn’t be too late for Gao Xuan to take action two days from now after all the dust had settled.

Furthermore, Ghost Gun, who was now branded with a mental mark, had been dragged out of the shadows and into the open. He was no longer a threat.

Gao Xuan didn’t think that Ghost Gun was troublesome, but Yun Qingshang did.

“I’m still too weak,” Yun Qingshang said seriously. “I want to absorb the Heavenly Dragon Blood.”