144: Be a little harder on yourself

"Is that it? If you have no other tricks, then it's my turn to make a move!"

The girl finished speaking, then suddenly lunged forward. In the blink of an eye, she was right in front of Ling Chao, her cold blade slicing across his neck like a shadow.

Before Li Xiao and the others could even see clearly, she appeared behind Zhou Shuang the very next second, slashing at his throat just the same.

The girl's speed was so fast that Li Xiao couldn't even track her movements. It wasn't until she had circled every soldier, including Li Xiao, that she returned to the living room entrance.

"This..."

Li Xiao felt a chill on his neck, followed by a sharp sting. When he checked, he saw that his Life Pool had dropped by 20,000 points.

"Hmph, goodbye everyone! Three, two, one, fall!"

The girl turned confidently and walked into the living room, but she soon heard someone speaking.

"Little sister, aren't you being a bit too confident?"

As the voice fell, the girl's delicate body trembled. She hurriedly turned around, only to see Li Xiao and the Shadow Special Operations Soldiers looking at her with smiles on their faces.

"How is this possible!"

"Nothing is impossible! Little sister, I see you're a talent, why not work for me?"

Li Xiao joked, but the girl's face darkened.

"If that's the case! Then I'll just have to put in a little more effort."

With that, the girl repeated her old trick, wielding her twin swords as she charged out again. This time, the Shadow Special Operations Soldiers weren't as passive; they scattered and opened fire at will.

The courtyard was filled with constant gunfire and flashing sword shadows. The girl's twin swords collided with the bullets, creating dazzling sparks. Her agile movement and swordsmanship were like something out of a xianxia story.

However, this few-minute duel between cold and hot weapons ended with a loud bang. The girl fell into a pool of blood, looking at the few Shadow Special Operations Soldiers in front of her with unwillingness.

She couldn't believe that none of these people, whom she had slashed countless times, had actually died.

Li Xiao blew the smoke off his quad-barrel rocket launcher, put it back into his backpack, and then walked up to the girl with his gun raised.

"Little sister, times have changed. I admit that your kung fu is the rarest I've ever seen, but this is as far as it goes."

Li Xiao turned back to Ling Chao and said, "Tie her up and apply some medicine to stabilize her."

"Dream on!"

The girl let out a cold shout and suddenly performed a backward roll, retreating back into the living room.

"Not good! She's going to take hostages!"

Li Xiao shouted and rushed in immediately.

Although the girl was seriously injured, her speed hadn't dropped much, and Li Xiao couldn't catch up.

Ling Chao was the fastest; he went upstairs in a few strides. By the time Li Xiao caught up, he saw the girl holding a pistol to the head of Mavis's wife, with her daughter, a girl of about eleven or twelve, held in front of her.

"Damn! Little sister, don't be impulsive. Let's talk this out. At worst, I'll let you go!"

"Let me go? Hmph, although I don't know why you have such high vitality, I know one thing: if this mother and daughter die, Mavis will absolutely refuse to work for you."

Li Xiao said helplessly, "Little sister, what exactly has the Black Hawk Empire given you to make you risk your life like this? Money, or something else? Is one million Star Coins enough? As long as you agree, I will keep my word!"

"Do you think I'm short on money? The glory of the Empire has already shone across the globe. My mission is to strangle you stubborn elements in the dark of night!"

After the girl finished this speech, Li Xiao felt that she had probably been brainwashed.

The opponent was at most twenty years old, at an age of innocence; it was impossible for her to have such strong convictions on her own. It seemed the Empire's brainwashing methods were quite effective.

"Then tell me, what now?" Li Xiao spread his hands. "You can't kill us, and you can't take the two of them away either."

"Is that so? I'm not afraid of death, but I can kill them at any time and make you regret it for the rest of your life."

The girl's cold tone was devoid of emotion. She thought for a moment and then smiled, "By the way, a large number of imperial troops are rushing here now. I advise you to leave now, otherwise, I'm afraid you won't be able to withstand the bombardment of tanks!"

"Trying to bluff me? I'm afraid you don't know yet that we were the ones who attacked the Wu Province base. Do you think we'd be afraid of tank shells?"

"What! You were the ones who took Mavis away?"

The girl's expression was stunned; for a moment, she didn't know how to force Li Xiao and the others to retreat.

Seeing this, Li Xiao took a step forward, but Ling Chao said worriedly, "Boss, be careful, she might hurt the hostages!"

Li Xiao laughed loudly, "Don't worry, she doesn't dare to make a move. The Empire she is loyal to still needs to use the mother and daughter to blackmail Dr. Ma!"

This remark hit the girl's weak spot. She immediately said anxiously, "You are too confident. I'll kill them right now!"

With that, the girl made a move as if to slash the blade across the neck of Mavis's wife.

But seeing this, neither Li Xiao nor the Shadow Special Forces moved.

"You... are you really not afraid that I will kill them?"

"Go ahead, if I lift a finger, I lose!" Li Xiao folded his arms, putting on an act of watching a show.

"Fine, you're good. Let's just wait it out and see who has the last laugh!"

After saying that, the girl hid her body further behind the mother and daughter. At this moment, the mother and daughter were too scared to speak, trembling all over.

However, Li Xiao had no intention of waiting. He pulled out his pistol and aimed it at Mavis's wife and daughter. The girl saw this and said anxiously, "What are you doing! Aren't you here to save them?"

"That's right, I originally intended to save them, but since I can't take them away, I'll just have to kill them."

Li Xiao said with an evil grin, and then, amidst the shocked eyes of everyone, he fired several shots at the mother and daughter.

Bang! Bang! Bang!!!

The bullets pierced the bodies of the mother and daughter, and bright red blood immediately soaked through their clothes.

"You madman!"

The girl watched the little girl in her arms go limp on the ground, and she cursed in horror and anger.

"Ling Chao, go! Take her alive!"

With no more hostages to worry about, Ling Chao and the others put away their firearms and rushed toward the girl.

Besides their superb marksmanship, combat tactics were also the specialty of the Shadow Special Operations Soldiers.

However, the girl's combat ability far exceeded that of the Shadow Special Operations Soldiers. Combined with her twin swords, for a moment, the six of them couldn't get close to her.

Seeing this, Li Xiao took a piece of C4 explosives from his backpack and pulled the fuse. When there were only two or three seconds left before the explosion, he threw it directly into the group fight.

Boom!

With a violent explosion, all the glass on the second floor of the villa shattered, and the Shadow Special Forces and the girl were knocked to the ground by the shockwave.

"Damn! Boss, you're too ruthless..."

Zhou Shuang stumbled to his feet, covered in dirt and dust. His combat uniform was almost in rags.

At this time, the other members also climbed up from the ground, all of them injured, and not lightly.

Among them, Ling Chao had shielded the girl from most of the impact. Even so, the girl was already seriously injured, and after being hit by the C4 shockwave, she was left with critical health and passed out.