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Explosive Bear Locke had already perished, leaving the rest of the people in the villa hesitant to make any dangerous moves. Qin Fang briefly wandered around the villa and then calmly left the building.

Su Xiaoxiao had been secretly watching over the villa the entire time. She had prepared to run as far as possible the moment she saw Explosive Bear Locke appear, even if it meant abandoning the mission, to avoid putting herself in danger.

An assassin is still an assassin, always knowing to seek fortune and avoid disaster…

As for Qin Fang, her potential collaborator, since he didn't manage to escape, she certainly wasn't going to worry about his safety, as they weren't that familiar with each other.

"How… how is this possible?"

However, when she saw Qin Fang swaggering out of the villa's front door, she almost thought her eyes were deceiving her.

In the villa was Explosive Bear Locke, a brutal butcher; falling into his hands meant there was no chance of getting out alive, as the fate of the Three-Star Assassin Ghost Bear best demonstrated.

"Could he be one of Sinan's people?"

For Qin Fang to stroll out in such a manner, without interference from anyone, either Qin Fang had alone eliminated everyone inside, or he knew the people inside the villa...

The former seemed nearly impossible to Su Xiaoxiao at the first thought—after all, there was Explosive Bear Locke inside, along with many gunmen and bodyguards. Even an average Four-Star Assassin might not come out unscathed, let alone Qin Fang, a newbie One-Star Assassin.

But if Qin Fang were one of Sinan's people, it wouldn't make sense for him to get close to Su Xiaoxiao, nor to jointly target Sinan with her...

"Right, his face..."

Fortunately, Su Xiaoxiao soon found a reasoning she considered reliable—Qin Fang could change his face. At least, the face she saw wasn't his real one. It was very likely another face from Sinan's ranks, allowing him to blend in and safely walk out...

"That's not right either, Explosive Bear Locke's nose..."

But quickly, Su Xiaoxiao shook her head. Even she could detect Qin Fang's scent, and Explosive Bear Locke's ability in this area could only be stronger, not weaker. It made no sense for him not to have noticed.

Thinking hard, Su Xiaoxiao couldn't come up with a rational explanation for the bizarre scene she'd just witnessed…

Meanwhile, lost in her thoughts, Qin Fang had already safely left the range of that villa and quickly met up with her outside the villa area.

"Are you alright?"

Seeing Qin Fang again, Su Xiaoxiao scrutinized him carefully and asked with great uncertainty.

"I'm fine, what could be wrong with me?"

Qin Fang also looked at Su Xiaoxiao a bit strangely, as there seemed to be no injuries on him anywhere. Why would this beauty ask such a thing?

"You didn't run into that lunatic Explosive Bear Locke?"

Su Xiaoxiao still asked incredulously. Explosive Bear Locke had just killed the Three-Star Assassin Ghost Bear and she had seen him return to the villa herself. With his sense of smell, there was no reason he wouldn't have detected Qin Fang's presence.

"I did run into him! We even clashed..."

Qin Fang nodded, speaking nonchalantly… Even though his fight with Explosive Bear Locke had been tough and he had taken some slight advantage, his wounds healed rather quickly as if nothing had happened.

"You fought… then you…"

Su Xiaoxiao's eyes widened, filled with disbelief, she scrutinized Qin Fang from top to bottom, left to right, front and back, finding it impossible to believe that Qin Fang had managed to escape from Explosive Bear Locke's grasp.

"I'm fine, he's dead…"

Qin Fang shrugged his shoulders and said calmly.

"Dead… dead?"

Su Xiaoxiao couldn't help but be astonished, her initial reaction to his words was—he must be boasting. But soon she felt differently because Qin Fang indeed had come out alive, whereas Explosive Bear Locke and those gunmen had not shown up.

"You killed Explosive Bear Locke?"

Su Xiaoxiao's disbelief intensified, increasingly feeling that Qin Fang was boasting, his words completely ludicrous, none of them true.

"Pretty much!"

Qin Fang hesitated a bit, then still provided a quite definite answer, to be precise, Explosive Bear Locke had suffered severe injuries and couldn't endure Qin Fang's onslaught, dying in agony… Essentially, he'd been tormented to death by Qin Fang, so it counted as his kill.

"I have a photo…"

Suddenly, Qin Fang remembered and quickly took out his phone, pulling up a photo that was indeed a grizzly sight of Explosive Bear Locke's dead body…

Explosive Bear Locke had such fame that naturally, he had made quite a few enemies. In the Underground World, there was also a bounty list, and every person with such a reputation had a price on their head. Whoever killed someone on the list could claim the corresponding bounty.

This was just an incidental sum of money, and Qin Fang certainly did not hold back...

"By the way, how much is the bounty for Explosive Bear Locke on the bounty list?"

Of course, Qin Fang had just thought of this as he seemed not to know how much Explosive Bear Locke was worth, so he casually asked Su Xiaoxiao.

"Er... eight hundred thousand US Dollars!"

Su Xiaoxiao mechanically replied, although her thoughts were clearly not entirely on this matter.

This photograph had already proven that everything Qin Fang said was true. With her professional assassin's keen eye, she could tell whether Explosive Bear Locke was truly dead or faking it. However, this proof made her feel as though her entire worldview had been completely overturned.

Explosive Bear Locke was a ferocious figure who had walked alive out of the Black Fist Arena after slaughtering a hundred people. Such a person had incredibly terrifying strength and a far superior sense of danger than others; even using a gun might not easily kill him, let alone... she hadn't heard any gunshots outside.

The most critical part was, Qin Fang gave off an impression that was not very strong; she could easily subdue him herself, so how could he be a match for Explosive Bear Locke...

Wait, it seems like he was bluffing me before!

Su Xiaoxiao suddenly remembered that she almost castrated Qin Fang, who seemed to have been pretending to be unconscious, and maybe that disturbing sound was made by Qin Fang.

"Eight hundred thousand US Dollars... not bad at all!"

Qin Fang curled his lip; this amount, converted into RMB, was also five million, making the killing of Explosive Bear Locke quite worthwhile.

Of course, Qin Fang felt a bit regretful too.

If he could have peered into Explosive Bear Locke's mind, he might have learned the account numbers and passwords of his bank accounts, which would undoubtedly have been a significant sum.

"By the way, I brought the stuff out for you, see if there's anything useful..."

Qin Fang immediately took out all the items he had brought with him that might have retained traces of Sinan's scent. Luckily, he had prepared a backpack before leaving the house; otherwise, just conjuring items out of nowhere would have probably made Su Xiaoxiao think she had seen a ghost!

"Okay..."

Though still shocked that Qin Fang's strength allowed him to slay a butcher like Explosive Bear Locke, she thought about how they were currently in a collaborative state; the stronger her partner, the more secure her safety naturally became.

Su Xiaoxiao then started to carefully distinguish each odor preserved on the items Qin Fang had brought out, using the process of elimination to directly discard those scents that were completely impossible.

After over half an hour of discerning, Su Xiaoxiao ultimately identified three different scents, one of which might have been Sinan's scent...

Of course, there was also the possibility that Sinan had never appeared in this villa at all.

"What should we do next then?"

Even with a target in mind, Sinan was not in this villa. In a vast city like this, finding Sinan was still like looking for a needle in a haystack.

Su Xiaoxiao knew much more information than Qin Fang, as the Assassin's Alliance must have provided some very useful information when they issued this mission. Thus, Su Xiaoxiao should know where to go next to look for him.

"Canal Bridge..."

Su Xiaoxiao gave Qin Fang an odd glance, hesitated a bit, and finally revealed such a location, causing Qin Fang's eyebrows to twitch slightly.

He had just learned from that gunman bodyguard about a clue involving "the bridge," and now that Su Xiaoxiao had directly mentioned Canal Bridge, his reaction was understandable.

"But it's already very late today; I'll go back to rest first. Sinan should show up tomorrow night..."

However, Qin Fang had too little information, and Su Xiaoxiao didn't reveal much, just yawned and decided to call it a day.

As for those items Qin Fang had brought out, she would directly burn them all to a clean state...

"Then I'll also go back to rest..."

Qin Fang nodded, appearing to have no intention of continuing to follow Su Xiaoxiao.

Both of them left the villa area and hailed taxis on the roadside, heading back towards the downtown area separately.

Su Xiaoxiao did not trust Qin Fang, and Qin Fang naturally did not trust Su Xiaoxiao either. Thus, both of them kept their own methods. Although it seemed like their cars were headed in two different directions, almost immediately after losing sight of each other, they switched to another vehicle...

However, after changing vehicles, Su Xiaoxiao indeed went back to the Yangcheng Hotel, while Qin Fang went to the Canal Bridge. Honestly, he felt that Su Xiaoxiao was definitely hiding something, especially when her eyes flickered as she spoke.

Qin Fang vaguely felt there was something amiss about this Canal Bridge, so he had come to check it out first...

By killing Explosive Bear Locke and removing such a strong assistant from around Sinan, this was as much about reducing problems for Qin Fang as it was for Su Xiaoxiao.

However, exactly because of this, there was no guarantee that Su Xiaoxiao wouldn't leave him to finish the mission on her own...(To be continued. If you enjoy this work, you are welcome to vote and recommend at Qidian (qidian.com). Your support is my greatest motivation.)

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