Super Soldier in the City
Chapter 650 - 685: Deadly Flying Dagger

Chapter 650: Chapter 685: Deadly Flying Dagger

Li Yifei moved. Although he spoke with ease, he had experienced Sophia’s Flying Daggers and knew they were more dangerous than a gun. He could dodge bullets not because he moved faster than them, but because at the moment the trigger was pulled, he could predict the bullet’s trajectory and then make an evasive move, making it look like he was dodging the bullet itself.

Sophia’s method of throwing Flying Daggers made it even harder to predict her movements, and that was the most dangerous part.

Standing still and waiting for Sophia to throw her dagger was undoubtedly a foolish choice. He had to keep moving to force Sophia to follow his movements, which would allow him to judge the direction of her Flying Daggers.

Sophia didn’t make an immediate move. She squinted her eyes and turned slightly on her left foot, always facing Li Yifei, like a grandmaster facing an ordinary martial artist with calm composure.

However, Sophia’s mind wasn’t as calm as her appearance. Li Yifei’s footwork seemed simple, yet it concealed an oddity. Just a moment ago, he seemed to move forward, then suddenly stepped back, and what appeared as a left movement shifted slightly to the right.

When playing with Flying Daggers, the primary skill was to judge the opponent’s position accurately, so that the thrown dagger would hit the target. Against ordinary people, Sophia could almost completely ignore this slight error, because her daggers were so fast that the target’s movement within range was almost negligible.

But now, she faced Li Yifei, the strongest opponent she had encountered. Even the slightest deviation felt like a failure, so she held back several times just as she was about to make her move.

"Hmph, I want to see how long you can keep this up. It’s exhausting to maintain such movement, and once you slow down, you’re dead." Sophia wasn’t in a hurry. A master of her caliber had solid mental strength. An impatient person could never become a true master, let alone an assassin.

Sophia stayed still while keeping a close eye on Li Yifei. As soon as Li Yifei made a mistake, her Flying Daggers would be unleashed, and this time she intended to release five daggers at once, using her most powerful killer move.

Sophia had no sense of mercy. She grew up without friends or anyone she truly cared about, losing her parents early in life and having no memory of them. In such a brutal training environment, survival required coldness and becoming stronger. From the age of six, after stabbing a boy of the same age to death with a knife, Sophia had become a cold-blooded person.

Even though she shared a small boat and had lived with Li Yifei and others for two days, her hard heart remained unmoved. Even if she had to kill Li Yifei now, she wouldn’t feel any guilt.

Both of them maintained a standoff for three minutes, and suddenly, Sophia felt something amiss. As she stared intensely at Li Yifei, she experienced an illusion where there appeared to be not just one but two Li Yifeis. This phenomenon had never occurred to her before. To master Flying Daggers, sharp vision was crucial. She could clearly see a fly’s flight path across her eyes, so how could a person as large as Li Yifei cause such confusion?

Just at that moment, Li Yifei’s figure paused, and the illusion vanished. Sophia wasted no time, unleashing five Flying Daggers toward Li Yifei, with trajectories as elusive as lightning, impossible to predict.

Usually, Sophia relied only on her vision and wrist strength to throw her daggers, but these five seemed to have consumed all her energy. At the moment they were released, her body involuntarily swayed. Although she struggled to remain steady, her legs felt weak.

These were Sophia’s fatal daggers, calculating all of Li Yifei’s movement trajectories. One aimed for the forehead, one for the throat, one for the heart, while the other two positioned towards the left and right. Should Li Yifei dodge downward, the dagger aimed at the throat would surely hit his forehead.

If Li Yifei dodged to the left, the dagger lying in wait would take his life, the same for the right. A jump would make the forehead and throat daggers pierce his body.

These five daggers created a death trap, not only testing Sophia’s wrist and eyesight but mainly her calculation skills. Every different opponent required calculating different speeds for these precise trajectories. These five daggers drained her mental energy, but she was confident they would kill her target. If they didn’t, even if she had more strength, she’d have no chance to kill him and would be at his mercy.

"Your so-called killer move is nothing special," Li Yifei remarked, leaving Sophia stunned, staring intently at him. "Impossible, absolutely impossible!" Sophia screamed internally. Li Yifei wasn’t dead, nor had he even fallen. "He must be faking; he must be seriously injured. It’s impossible he evaded all five of my daggers."

Yet, looking at Li Yifei, he seemed unscathed, smiling as he approached her, unbelievable to Sophia’s eyes.

"How... how did you dodge it?" Sophia asked weakly, her body swaying and almost collapsing.

Li Yifei smiled faintly, saying, "Your dagger skill is indeed impressive, but unfortunately, just a little short. I managed to dodge them."

Sophia rasped, "That’s impossible! I calculated all your evasion paths. You shouldn’t have been able to dodge."

"There are no absolutes," Li Yifei responded with a faint smile. "You believed your daggers were unavoidable, but that was only your perception," he continued. "Given your current state, if I wanted to kill you, it would be too easy. However, as a man of my word, since you didn’t harm Shanshan and the others, I’ll spare you. Hopefully, you won’t cause me any more trouble."

As he finished, Li Yifei turned and vanished quickly into the thicket, cracking a smile and rubbing his chest. He couldn’t help but admire Sophia’s daggers’ deadliness. He had dodged four of them, but the last still hit his chest. If not for wearing a bulletproof vest, which he’d prepared beforehand, it would have been fatal.

Sophia’s daggers were powerful but still lacked the sheer force of real bullets. The bulletproof vest could stop a bullet, and it blocked Sophia’s dagger as well. Even with the vest, his chest hurt intensely, not unlike being hit by a bullet.

A bulletproof vest disperses a bullet’s force, though not entirely, so the impact remains substantial.

Li Yifei didn’t think himself despicable for wearing the vest. His overall strength surpassed Sophia’s significantly. If it came to life or death, he wouldn’t risk dodging five daggers directly but rather use other means to take her down before she could throw them.

Sophia’s act of tossing others overboard but sparing Xu Shanshan and two others on the small boat earned her a reprieve from Li Yifei. Hence, he spared her life. But he had no intention of taking Sophia with him; a woman so dangerous should be kept at a safe distance.

On reaching the beach, Xu Shanshan rushed up, taking Li Yifei’s arm and checking him over. "Brother-in-law, what did you do to that woman?" she asked.

Li Yifei smiled slightly and said, "Neither of us did anything to the other."

Zheng Mingrui exclaimed disbelief, "No way, boss! Is that woman so powerful, or were you too tender-hearted to strike?"

Xu Shanshan glanced suspiciously at Li Yifei, prompting him to shoot Zheng Mingrui a stern look. He then told Xu Shanshan, "Shanshan, don’t listen to his nonsense. The woman is indeed powerful. If I could have killed her, I would have done it on the yacht instead of letting her take you hostage."

Zheng Mingrui chuckled awkwardly, realizing he misspoke. Even though Xu Shanshan wasn’t Li Yifei’s wife, she was his sister-in-law, and such words shouldn’t be tossed around lightly. However, he still harbored some doubt, feeling there weren’t many who could rival Li Yifei. Given how quickly Li Yifei returned, it seemed mysterious.

Yet Zheng Mingrui knew better than to probe further. If he caused trouble in Li Yifei’s personal life, he’d be in real trouble. Now that he had a girlfriend, he understood not to joke as freely as before. Girlfriends and wives carried greater emotional weight than past flings; even the mightiest heroes would find their courage diminished by love.

He urged everyone onto the plane, and after three days stranded on the island, Li Yifei was finally going home.