107: Chapter 107 Going to Show Off Alone

"Mr. Cao, was it you who just shot and hit that speedboat?" Duan Hong asked as he dragged a burly man into the room with each hand, seeing Cao Xiao resting calmly in the living room.

"Mm, how is the situation on your end?" Cao Xiao asked back, lazily lifting his eyelids.

Duan Hong was speechless seeing Cao Xiao's expression. A rookie who had never used a gun had actually taken out a target over three thousand meters away at night; how were veterans like them supposed to feel? Moreover, he didn't have the slightest psychological burden after killing for the first time, still acting drowsy here. He really didn't know how thick this man's nerves were. "Little Li is watching over there. No one survived on the two speedboats hit by grenades. I'm not sure how many survived on the one you hit."

"Three died, two jumped into the sea. We just have to wait to catch the fish in a bit. With such a big commotion, the police are definitely on their way. Remember to hide the weapons later. I'm going to sleep first. You guys deal with the police; they won't make things difficult for us. Whether something happens or not, don't disturb me!" After saying this, Cao Xiao turned and went upstairs.

Duan Hong stood frozen in place. Was sleeping really that important?

After going upstairs, Cao Xiao no longer looked sleepy. A sharp glint flashed in his eyes. Seeing Duan Hong walk out of the villa, he went downstairs, stored the BMW from the garage into his space, and entered the secret passage in the storage room. A few minutes later, he appeared by the road outside the villa area. Avoiding the road surveillance, he placed the car on the road. The car keys were with Duan Hong, but such a small matter couldn't stop him; he retrieved them stealthily. He had even swapped the license plate.

He got in, started the engine, and put on a wide-brimmed hat to cover his face from the surveillance cameras. Stepping on the gas to the floor, the car roared and flew off like a swift arrow. With the license plate changed, he wasn't afraid of being caught speeding. There were few cars on the road in the early morning, so he sped directly toward the Angress Family estate at two hundred kilometers per hour, arriving at the fifty-kilometer destination in less than twenty minutes.

The Angress Family estate was massive, a combined agricultural and pastoral manor covering over two thousand acres, equivalent to more than twelve thousand mu—even larger than Cao Xiao's Tianxing Garden. Originally, Cao Xiao was worried it would be hard to find the target in the pitch black, but as he drew closer, he found one area in the estate brightly lit. Since it was the middle of the night, it went without saying that this was the main residence of the Angress Family. They were likely still waiting for the good news of him being taken out.

After identifying the direction, he turned off the headlights and slowly approached the estate's main gate. Upon arriving at the gate, he saw two men in black guarding it with guns. Cao Xiao suddenly switched on the headlights and floored the accelerator, charging forward.

Seeing a car rushing toward them, the two men in black immediately pulled out pistols and shouted toward the car, "Who is it! Stop immediately!"

Cao Xiao didn't stop to waste words with them. He extended a hand from the car window holding a golden pistol—it was none other than the TX-1 pistol. However, unlike the silver ones Duan Hong and the others had, his was gold and equipped with a silencer. He pulled the trigger without hesitation, aiming at the forehead of one man in black, then turned the muzzle toward the other. By then, the other man had reacted and fired two shots toward the driver's seat, but the expected sound of glass shattering did not occur. As he fired, the bullets were stored into the space by Cao Xiao the moment they left the barrel. The command he had given the industrial mother machine was that as long as an object approached his body rapidly, the industrial mother machine would collect it into the space. Another faint gunshot rang out, and a small hole appeared in the man's forehead, his face full of disbelief.

After taking out the two men in black, Cao Xiao didn't even slow down, still charging at the gate. As he neared it, the gate vanished into thin air. The car rapidly approached the lights. Stopping a hundred meters away, Cao Xiao saw that the building before him wasn't the villa he imagined, but a small European-style castle. Considering the history of South Africa, the presence of such a castle here was normal.

Cao Xiao didn't get out of the car. The two shots fired by the man in black earlier had already alerted those inside the castle. At this moment, the castle gates were wide open, and over a dozen men in black were aiming rifles at the car. He took out a golden face mask from his space and put it on. He had changed into a black suit, with a long blade strapped to his back. The scabbard was slightly curved, making it look like a katana at first glance, but it was actually an alloy Tang Dao Cao Xiao had made himself. He slowly opened the car door and stepped out, walking toward the castle gates as if taking a stroll.

"Who are you? Halt!" Seeing Cao Xiao slowly approach, the men in black uniformly chambered their rifles, and one shouted at him.

Cao Xiao ignored the threat and continued his slow approach without saying a word.

*Bang*

Seeing no response, a man in black fired without hesitation when Cao Xiao was fifty meters away. The bullet struck the ground fifty centimeters in front of Cao Xiao, leaving a small crater in the concrete. Cao Xiao didn't stop, but his hand moved, grabbing the hilt on his back and swiftly drawing the snow-bright Tang Dao. He made a seemingly casual horizontal slash toward the men in black, then continued forward with the blade in hand.

Seeing Cao Xiao ignore the warning and make a strange gesture toward them with a drawn blade, the men in black were about to fire. But as soon as they moved, they felt their vision shifting rapidly. They saw their own headless bodies and views filled with bright red blood spraying into the air.

In truth, Cao Xiao was just using his spatial ability to scare people, using the blade to put on a show. These armed personnel working for the Angress Family weren't good people, and he had no sympathy for those who aided the wicked. He wondered what the members of the Angress Family would think if they saw this through the surveillance. Walking to the main entrance, Cao Xiao looked up at the camera above and split it in half with his blade.

Now, the entire castle was within his detection range, and the internal situation was fully presented in his vision. He kicked open the main door. Suddenly, someone ahead began firing wildly at him with a submachine gun. However, the face hidden behind the golden mask didn't show a hint of emotion. Dozens of bullets fell vertically one meter in front of him, clattering onto the floor. The man finished a magazine and was about to reload when he was stunned by the sight of the bullets falling to the ground. Ignoring his daze, Cao Xiao swung his blade, and the man's wide-eyed head was separated from his body.

*Bang!*

A massive gunshot, different from a submachine gun, rang out, followed by a large-caliber bullet falling to the floor. Without even looking, Cao Xiao made another light slash toward a certain direction in the darkness. Two seconds later, a dull thud of a heavy object hitting the ground came from that direction. In Cao Xiao's vision, that was where someone had just fired at him from the perimeter wall with a Barrett sniper rifle.

"Ahhh~"

A burly Black man rushed out from inside the house, holding a cylindrical object. He aimed it frantically at him, and dazzling flames spewed from the front of the cylinder. The gun roared, yet Cao Xiao stood in place, tilting his head at the man, with a small pile of large-caliber bullets already accumulated at his feet.

"Devil! You're a devil! Ahhh~" The burly man screamed frantically. After firing all his ammunition and finding Cao Xiao standing there unharmed with a pile of bullets before him, he instantly broke down.

The man was holding a six-barreled Gatling Vulcan cannon. With a 12.7mm caliber, it wasn't just a heavy machine gun anymore, but an autocannon. Driven by electricity, it could spit thousands of rounds per minute. Any non-heavy armored object within a hundred meters would be shredded. If it hit a human body, even body armor was useless; it could tear a person into pieces.

"Heh!" Cao Xiao chuckled softly. He slashed his blade upward through the air toward the burly man who was trying to flee back inside, and the man's body was instantly split in two. Simultaneously, piercing screams—both male and female—erupted from several rooms in the castle, accompanied by the sound of objects crashing to the floor. Cao Xiao made two cross-slashes at the closed lobby doors. The doors shattered, revealing the scene inside the lobby.

"Who is the head of the family?" Cao Xiao scanned the shivering people in the lobby. There were no more armed personnel, so he asked in a low, muffled voice in Dutch.

A man in his sixties with graying hair stood up trembling and replied in terror, "I am the head of the family. May I ask where our family has offended your distinguished self? I am willing to exchange all the family's assets for your forgiveness!"

"Oh? How much wealth can you offer? If it's enough to move me, I will consider it carefully," Cao Xiao said, pretending to be interested.

"Distinguished sir, I am willing to offer one hundred million us dollars as an apology! Please, spare us," the slightly chubby old man said cautiously, seemingly catching a glimmer of hope upon seeing Cao Xiao's reaction.

"One hundred million us dollars? Haha! Are you insulting me?" Cao Xiao slowly raised the Tang Dao, staring at the old man with feigned anger as he raised his voice.

Seeing the bloodless killing blade about to move again, the old man's legs went weak, and he nearly collapsed. He bowed fearfully to Cao Xiao and pleaded, "Please calm your anger, sir! I will surrender all of the family's funds to you! Please do not strike!"

"I don't trust you. Call everyone in the castle here immediately. I'll give you only five minutes. If even one person hasn't appeared after a second late, I will kill one person." At this moment, Cao Xiao felt extremely gratified. The head of the Angress Family, who normally acted with impunity in Cape Town and whom no one dared provoke, was now cringing before him like a dog. This feeling was truly satisfying; even his sleepiness seemed to have faded.

The old man didn't know what Cao Xiao intended to do, but he didn't dare object, fearing Cao Xiao would lose his temper and go on a killing spree again. He could only comply. "Go and call everyone out of their rooms immediately, every single one of them!"

Cao Xiao sat down on the sofa with a domineering air, examining the people huddled together in fear with great interest. Everyone kept their heads down, not daring to meet his gaze. Suddenly, a cold smirk played on his lips. The fat man who had led people to his company today was among them. He didn't know what the police were thinking, but they had actually released the fat man today. Still, this was for the best; it saved him the trouble. If the fat man had behaved and stayed in the police station, he might have lived a few days longer. To come out today of all days—it truly was an inescapable fate!

In less than three minutes, everyone in the castle appeared in the lobby. The Angress Family was indeed a large clan! Besides the uniformed servants, there were more than thirty people. This put Cao Xiao in a dilemma. He wasn't a mass murderer. He had killed those armed personnel earlier without hesitation because they were desperate criminals who had taken up arms for the Angress Family. Even if they didn't have blood on their hands, they had committed plenty of evil, doing things for the family that were worse than murder; they deserved to die, and he felt no psychological pressure. However, the men and women before him couldn't all be bad. Especially the women and children, who might just live their lives like ordinary people without committing evil. He couldn't bring himself to kill these innocent people, so he didn't plan on a massacre—killing the primary culprits would suffice. Violence couldn't solve problems directly, but it could directly solve the people creating the problems.

Actually, he could collect evidence of their crimes and hand it to the police, and they would surely be severely punished. But the Angress Family weren't ordinary criminals; they were ruthless drug lords. Right now, they seemed like lambs to the slaughter, cringing before him because they were terrified by his mysterious killing methods. Otherwise, they would dare to act even against a structured army. Many police officers had died at their hands. He was currently wearing a mask and hat, so they didn't recognize him. But if he didn't finish them off today, as the owner of Tiandu Company, he would become a prime target for their retaliation.

"Your family head just promised me that he is willing to use all your family assets to appease my wrath. I believed him, yet he disappointed me greatly. So, I had to call you all out to discuss it properly. Originally, I planned to send you all to hell to repent together, but now I'm in a dilemma. What do you think I should do?" Cao Xiao stood up, pointing the Tang Dao at them as he spoke in a sinister tone.

"I am willing to hand over all my assets to atone!"

"I am also willing, please spare me!"

"Me too!"

...

Ignoring the family head's reaction entirely, the members of the Angress Family scrambled to state their positions.

"Very good. You are all smart people, and smart people live longer!" Cao Xiao was satisfied with their eager responses. However, three people in the crowd remained silent and stood their ground, far more composed than the others. Cao Xiao pointed his blade at them and said in a heavy voice, "God does not like dishonest children. Have you three not realized your sins?"

Among the three, a burly man in his thirties stepped forward with a composed face and looked Cao Xiao in the eye. "Sir, we believe we have not offended you. What they did has nothing to do with us. We will not atone for them."

Cao Xiao slowly withdrew his Tang Dao and put it back into the scabbard on his back. The man thought he had swayed Cao Xiao and, drawing confidence from somewhere, immediately spoke again: "My family is a great family in Africa. As long as you cease being our enemy, you will gain the friendship of the Angress Family... Urgh!"

"You talk too much!" Cao Xiao withdrew his palm, speaking to the man before him who now had a line of blood appearing on his forehead. He had seen in the information from Zhou Zhengkun that this man was the leader of the Angress Family's mercenary group and deserved to die. He hadn't even finished seeking revenge, yet the man had the audacity to drone on about the 'friendship' of the Angress Family; it was nauseating. So, he had used his palm as a blade to strike the man from a distance.

"Ahhh~"

Screams erupted in the lobby as everyone retreated in terror. Cao Xiao looked at the remaining two who hadn't stated their positions and asked with a smile, "Have you made up your minds?"