Swordsmanship Coach: Kill with One Slash

Chapter 287: Chapter 189: Who Is Outside?

"..."

Su Xing stared at the three corpses, silent for a moment. He hadn’t even noticed when the woman had made her move.

"Huh?"

Lu Anning was the same,

except her perception was even worse than Su Xing’s.

She only snapped to her senses when the three bodies hit the ground.

Su Xing stepped over to the three corpses and performed a quick examination. The three were indeed ordinary people, their hearts shredded at some unknown point.

Sure, it would be all too easy for an Extraordinary Being to kill them. But to do so this effortlessly right in front of two Martial Artists was still a bit too much.

"..."

Su Xing stood up and looked back in the direction the woman had left. For some reason, he had an extremely strong premonition that he would meet her again very soon.

"There really are a lot of powerful people in this world."

Su Xing couldn’t help but remark with emotion.

The number of powerhouses in this world far exceeded what the three major factions revealed. Many more remained hidden; they might not be famous, but they were never lacking in strength.

’I need to find some time to make a breakthrough.’

’Otherwise... this whole situation feels unstable.’

Su Xing thought to himself.

The instability he was referring to wasn’t this Secret Realm,

but the woman who had left.

For some reason, Su Xing had a persistent premonition that he was about to meet her again. This feeling intensely urged him to become stronger—and then stronger still.

"Coach Su, what do we do now?"

Seeing Su Xing standing there in a daze, Lu Anning hesitated for a moment before nudging him and asking her question.

"Sorry, I zoned out."

Su Xing shook his head, reigning in his wandering thoughts. Only then did he turn his gaze back toward the resort in the distance and say,

"Let’s keep moving."

"We need to figure out what’s going on first."

"Okay."

Although two incidents had occurred one after another,

Su Xing and Lu Anning’s goal had never changed.

It was just that both of them vaguely sensed that the world was about to become even more different.

...

「Deep within the fog, at the Summer Resort.」

Inside the main hall, more than thirty men and women were gathered together. A massive energy barrier beside them prevented the fog from intruding, but every one of them still wore a grim expression, as if something momentous was about to happen.

A few of the more timid ordinary people even had expressions of clear terror and unease, their bodies already beginning to tremble uncontrollably.

"..."

"Everyone, I don’t want to demoralize you, but I have to say, we’re almost out of food. Even if you Extraordinary Beings don’t eat another bite from now on, it’ll still only last a few more meals."

Su Yu said, holding a notebook:

"Not all of our organization’s members can go out; we have to leave some behind to maintain the energy barrier. We’re extremely short-handed otherwise. I suggest that one Extraordinary Being takes four to five ordinary people out to search for anything to eat."

"On what grounds?!"

"Don’t we pay taxes for you to protect us?! Why should we have to go out and risk our lives at a time like this! I’m not going, and that’s final!"

A tall, skinny man showed Su Yu no respect whatsoever. He was already annoyed that someone who looked like a kid was daring to order everyone around, and now that this same kid was telling him to risk his own neck, he immediately erupted.

Su Yu frowned but said nothing. However, another member of the special organization standing next to him had a much shorter fuse and immediately pointed at the man and cursed:

"If you don’t go, you’ll be the one to starve to death!"

"..."

The man clearly hesitated.

It was true. An Extraordinary Being could go a few days without eating and be perfectly fine, but an ordinary person would probably kick the bucket and go meet Confucius.

But he still said stubbornly:

"I don’t care! I’m a legal citizen, a taxpayer! Since you’re a government agency, you should be protecting me."

"Besides..."

"Going out now is just suicide, isn’t it?"

"Tax my ass!"

The man cursed, annoyed.

"Alright, alright, let’s not argue for now." Su Yu immediately waved his hand placatingly. He pulled over a member of the special organization who had just returned from outside and asked:

"Exactly how much food do we have left? How many days will it last?"

"..."

"Comrade Su, a week at most."

"And that’s assuming we Extraordinary Beings don’t eat a single thing. Even so, we can barely hold out for a week. If we can’t resolve this situation in a week..."

If that happened, it would be difficult to get any of the ordinary people out of here.

Of course,

he didn’t say this out loud.

After all, such words were simply too cruel for ordinary people. Their fates were not their own to control, and some of the more emotionally fragile ones might even do something irrational.

"One week..."

Su Yu couldn’t help but let out a long breath.

To be honest, since entering, they hadn’t found any way to break free of this Secret Realm. With only a week left, the pressure was immense.

"If we ration things a little more each day, could we last a bit longer?"

"Hmm... this is already the result of extreme rationing. There’s no way to save any more."

The man shook his head.

The faces of the other ordinary people turned even uglier.

Most of them were survivors who had seen too many terrifying and bizarre things recently. Their psychological defenses were already on the verge of collapse, and now they had to hear this news on top of it all.

One week.

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