Starforce Warriors

Chapter 43: 100% Accuracy

The slum and the rule-of-law district were entirely different worlds. There was a saying, ‘If I had never seen the light, I might have accepted the darkness’. This perfectly described the slum.

No one who left the slum never wanted to return. Zhong Ling was a typical example. Once she had witnessed the cleanliness and order of the rule-of-law district, she never wanted to endure the filth and chaos of the slum again.

Moreover, the officials of the base city essentially turned a blind eye to the slum. As long as nothing crossed their bottom line, very few people cared about what happened there. What constituted crossing the bottom line? Murder definitely didn't count.

But Li Xiaofei was an exception. When he stepped out of the slum and into the rule-of-law district, it felt like he had crossed hundreds of years, from the light-core technology era back to the age of electricity and computers. Perhaps this was one of the reasons Li Xiaofei liked staying in the slum? At least here, there were traces of the atmosphere from 500 years ago.

However, the slum had actually become much cleaner and tidier over the last few days. The sweeping cleanup campaign had removed many dirty and smelly garbage piles, filled in numerous filthy mud pits, and cleaned up the excrement on the streets. Even the public toilets, which were previously too dirty to use, had become much cleaner.

Li Xiaofei's brow suddenly furrowed. The alley ahead was very quiet. There were no pedestrians, but he scented strangers and stopped in his tracks.

"Hehe, you're quite alert for a little guy." A soft laugh echoed. A tall woman with a flaming red Mohawk hairstyle sauntered out from around the corner.

She wore a tight red leather suit, and her smokey eye makeup didn’t hide her striking features. Red high heels and red leather pants accentuated her fiery figure. She was skillfully flicking a butterfly in one hand. It was clear she was an adventurer, and one who had taken up the darknet bounty.

Li Xiaofei instantly understood her intentions.

"I heard the White Pig siblings met their end at your hands," said the woman.

The woman in red leather sauntered closer to Li Xiaofei, her movements like those of a graceful hunting leopardess. She radiated a captivating yet dangerous aura.

White Pig must be referring to that bald, fat guy.

"Are you alone?" Li Xiaofei assessed the woman's strength silently. "Why don't you have all your people come out?"

"Hehe, you're young, but you talk big."

The woman in red leather whistled, and about a dozen adventurers clad in light metal armor closed in from both sides of the alley, wielding gleaming knives, swords, axes, and other weapons, blocking Li Xiaofei's way in the alley. A few were even perched on the walls, aiming crossbows at him.

"You're here to kill me?" Li Xiaofei asked.

"What do you think? Here to play with you?" The woman in red leather giggled.

Li Xiaofei glanced around and said, "Can we discuss something?"

The woman in red leather laughed, "No negotiations."

Li Xiaofei sighed, "Not even a little leeway?"

"None." The woman replied, still smiling. "You're young and have some skill. If you were given enough time, you might really grow strong. But unfortunately, the one who placed the bounty only wants you dead. We're here for the money, so today, you must die. No negotiations."

"You misunderstood," Li Xiaofei said. "I wasn't talking about that."

"Then what is it?" the woman asked curiously.

"It's..." Li Xiaofei grinned.

In the next instant, Li Xiaofei moved like lightning, closing in on the woman in red leather. He threw a Vajra Thunderous Strike at her. The force of the punch was like a dragon.

The woman in red leather chuckled as her left hand formed a claw to catch Li Xiaofei's fist. Her right hand swung the butterfly knife towards his neck. "Kid, we know all about you. This bit of strength won't hurt me—"

Before she could finish her sentence, a strange energy exploded from Li Xiaofei's caught fist. He had changed moves. He was now using the Vajra Wrathful Mountain Split, the fourth move of the Great Strength Vajra Fist. One punch was capable of shattering mountains.

The terrifying tearing force instantly pulverized the woman’s left hand and arm. Blood splattered everywhere, and she was torn into seven or eight pieces.

The poor woman in red leather, a master at the tenth stage of the Qi Refining Realm, and an experienced wild adventurer, had been careful in her approach. However, her lack of information had been a fatal miscalculation, and she became a wisp of a ghost under Li Xiaofei's newly mastered fourth move of the Great Strength Vajra Fist.

Even in death, her beautifully smoky eyes held a look of disbelief. She was shocked by the boy's decisiveness in combat. She was also shocked by his terrifying strength, which far surpassed what the intelligence had suggested and what his age implied.

"Why can't we just have a proper conversation?" Li Xiaofei sighed. "I really don't want to kill anyone."

Then he struck decisively.

Boom!

His starforce qi fully erupted, his entire body shimmering with golden light. Li Xiaofei used the dashing effect of the Vajra Thunderous Strike to instantly cover the ten-meter distance between him and the other assailants. He fought like a tiger among sheep as his punches mercilessly killed seven or eight of them within seconds.

Sss! Sss! Sss!

Crossbow bolts sliced sharply through the air as the adventurers on the walls fired armor-piercing bolts at Li Xaiofei. Fortunately, his reflexes had been honed during the level-four trial, the Ancient Desert City, where he had fought against Sand Scorpions and learned to evade their elusive stinger attacks. The training allowed Li Xiaofei to avoid most of the arrows.

Whoosh.

He raised his hand and hurled a throwing knife at the first adventurer on the left wall.

"Ah!"

A scream rang out as the knife buried itself in the thigh of the fourth adventurer on the right wall. He fell with a cry of pain.

Damn.

Li Xiaofei cursed inwardly. This was ridiculous. Even though he had the surname Li, why did his throwing knives always miss the mark by so much? Refusing to accept his inadequacy, he continued to throw his knives. He threw all the knives he had taken from Dugu Jue.

More screams were heard. Several more adventurers who were aiming crossbow bolts at him were hit in the thighs and fell.

Li Xiaofei was speechless.

Every throw missed its intended target. And I was aiming for their throats. Why did they all end up in their thighs?

However, something even stranger occurred. Although his throwing knives never hit the person he aimed for, they always managed to hit someone else.

A 100% miss rate? Uh... In a way, this could be considered a perfect hit rate, couldn’t it?

These thoughts flashed through his mind in an instant, but he didn’t stop moving. Fifty-nine seconds later, the alley was filled with mutilated bodies. The assassins were all buried under his fists.

These adventurers, who accepted darknet bounties and dared to kill within the base city, were not good people. Moreover, they were here to kill him, so Li Xiaofei felt no need to show any mercy.

At that moment, footsteps approached.

"Brother Xiaofei..."

The chubby Yang Cheng arrived, panting heavily, with his loyal henchmen in tow. The chubby boy was stunned as he eyed the alley full of corpses.

He hesitated. "Brother, am I late again?"

"What do you think?" Li Xiaofei replied, exasperated. "Hurry up and clean up the bodies."

"Yes, yes," the chubby boy said with a fawning smile.

He turned around towards the others, his spine instantly straightened like an unyielding spear as a look of authority befitting a boss appeared on his face. "What are you all standing around for? Clean up the battlefield! No hoarding, hand everything over, or I'll personally skin the lot of you."

Then he turned back around, nodding and bowing to Li Xiaofei with a sycophantic smile, "Brother Xiaofei, did I do it right?"

Li Xiaofei sighed in response.

This guy...Everyone else is starving in the slum. So how did he become so fat? It turns out he has a natural talent as a bootlicker.

The cleanup was soon complete. The woman in red leather had been carrying two vials of Starforce Reagent, which naturally became Li Xiaofei's spoils. Other valuable items were temporarily stored in the Cloudy Sky Gang's warehouse.

"Pretty lucky. Just spent some star coins in the light-core world, and someone delivered more to me... Much appreciated," Li Xiaofei said happily.

***

"I'm back," Li Xiaofei called as he arrived at his front door and pushed it open.

"Little Aunt, I got into another fight today, please help me with a massage... Hmm?"

His words abruptly stopped as Li Xiaofei's heart sank instantly. Both his aunt and Little Jie were gagged, while their hands and feet were bound. They also had remote-controlled blade collars around their necks.

A stranger sat in the living room chair, smiling as he held up the blade collar remote in his hand to show Li Xiaofei.