Although Lu Xiao said it very coolly, he was actually wiping his own actions. After all, these Templars probably followed his footsteps.
John Standish is a senior employee of an entertainment company affiliated with the Abstergo Group, but even the Templars have not noticed his true identity as a saint.
Lu Xiao broke into John's residence through forceful means, knocked him unconscious and then took him away.
Although his actions were not noticed by nearby neighbors due to the obstruction of his breath, the surveillance camera outside the gate of the residential area captured his departure.
Forced to rush for time, Lu Xiao did not regret using such a crude infiltration mode to take John away, but the consequences that followed would naturally be borne by him.
Not only was Sean, a historian on the Assassin side, who recognized Lu Xiao's identity, the Templars also had a large amount of resources and various high-tech image comparison technologies.
Not long after catching Lu Xiao's figure, they quickly determined that this person was the ancient assassin in Leonardo da Vinci's handed down painting.
Immortality is one of the ultimate goals of mankind, and a living sample appeared in front of them. The Templar high-level officials were overjoyed to see the hunter, and ordered the Sigma team, which had just achieved a major achievement, to rush to the American continent immediately and try their best to save Lu Xiao
Capture him alive and bring him back to Abstergo headquarters.
The captain of the Sigma Team is Juhani Otso Berg, whom Gavin Banks reminded William of not long ago. He is a former member of the Finnish Special Forces and has outstanding personal combat effectiveness and leadership abilities.
The Sigma team was not large in number, with only a dozen people in total. The Templars invested a large number of manpower in this capture operation, and Berg was under unified command of these action team members who were transferred from various places.
Seeing Lu Xiao actively jumping out of the car, Berg was confused and immediately issued an order through the radio headset: "Attention, the target has left the vehicle. Repeat, the target has left the vehicle. Everyone is ready for battle."
The Abstergo operation team headed by Berg did not know that their position had been remotely locked by Lu Xiao. Under Berg's dispatch, the snipers continued to stand in place just in case, and the other team members were on the hill in an orderly manner.
Scattered around the hill.
Lu Xiao has not activated aura blocking for the time being. Judging from the opponent's action pattern, he can deduce that the Templars want to capture him alive, and their intention is naturally self-evident.
"System, how long will it take to return to cooldown?"
System: "8 minutes and 13 seconds."
"Eight minutes..."
Lu Xiao narrowed his eyes. As expected, the Abstergo team gave up the pursuit of William's team and focused on him. At this time, they had surrounded the area.
"Let's play with you, just think of it as a warm-up before entering the next mission world."
Since the other party had the idea of capturing him as a specimen for study, Lu Xiao would naturally not show mercy to the enemy.
As Lu Xiao turned on the aura blocker, Berg was surprised to find that the target targeted by more than a hundred people had just disappeared out of thin air.
"Light deflection?"
Berg pressed the headset and asked one group of people: "Did the thermal imaging mirror find anything?"
"No, the target's heat has completely disappeared, we...ah!"
The screams coming from the other side of the radio made Berg's heart tighten: "Odd, please answer what you heard, Alpha Team?"
“god damn it!”
Berg didn't get any response from the Alpha team. With his rich combat experience, he knew that the opponent was probably in danger.
This was just the beginning. Curses and screams from various action teams could be heard from time to time in the radio headsets. The elusive enemy alone had disrupted the Templars' elite action teams.
"Brush~"
After shaking off the blood in the blood tank of the Uru Hidden Blade, Lu Xiao hid behind a huge rock and took a breath.
The sudden increase in four-dimensional attributes takes time to master, and these enemies coming to his door just allow him to get familiar with his body again, so as to avoid making mistakes in the official battle in the mission world.
"Found it!"
A soldier wearing a thermal imaging goggles briefly spotted Lu Xiao and hurriedly reported to the Sigma team.
"At three o'clock, he was... hmm? He disappeared again."
Berg is an elite proficient in modern infiltration warfare. Since joining the Templars, he has repeatedly made achievements and caused considerable harm to the Assassin Brotherhood.
But facing an unprecedented enemy like Lu Xiao, Berg felt powerless for the first time.
The target not only possesses the Artifact of Eden that can hide traces (Berg thinks), but his physical fitness is unbelievable.
He saw with his own eyes that the strongest soldier in his team failed in a struggle with the target, and even had one of his arms torn off alive by the opponent.
This kind of power has completely surpassed basic human cognition, and Berg, who has experienced hundreds of battles, is also feeling hairy in his heart.
In fact, this was a problem because Lu Xiao was not yet proficient in mastering his soaring strength. He just wanted to grab the strong man to block the gun for him, but he did not expect that he used too much force in a moment and broke his arm.
If he were to fight more than a hundred people in an open place, Lu Xiao would not be 100% sure of winning.
Unfortunately, the terrain around the hill that Berg chose was relatively complex and the trees were very dense. Although it made it easier for the Templars to hide their tracks and launch an ambush, it also gave Lu Xiao every opportunity to defeat it.
"There are 10 seconds left for the return cooldown, 9, 8..."
"Oops~ Looks like the game is over."
Withdrawing the Uru Hidden Blade that pierced the enemy's heart, Lu Xiao raised his head and looked at Berg who was hiding in the distance and giving anxious orders.
"5,4,3..."
"Let me give you a surprise before I take it away."
Injecting a small amount of magic power into the Uru Hidden Gun on his right arm, Lu Xiao fired a miniature magic bullet at the unconscious Berg as his body began to fade away.
"Whoosh!"
At the same time that Lu Xiao disappeared, Berg's foreknowledge of danger, which he had developed through many battles on the battlefield, made him subconsciously tilt his head back, and the magic bullet originally aimed at the center of his eyebrow barely missed his right ear with the headset on it.
"Bang!"
The radio headset exploded completely under the frontal bombardment of the magic bomb, and Berg's entire right ear was blown to pieces.
"Ahhhhhh!!"
The nearby Sigma team members shouted nervously: "Medic! The commander is injured! We need support!"
At this time, William's team had also broken through the weak defense of the port, which had attracted most of the attention, and successfully boarded the Altaïr II to rendezvous with Gavin Banks.
On the observation deck of the ship, two old friends, William and Gavin, each held a pair of high-power telescopes to observe the situation in the distance.
The original strict formation of the Templars had completely collapsed. The more than 30 survivors who were lucky enough to survive gathered together like frightened birds, back to back, nervously looking around with their respective firearms.
"……incredible."
Gavin opened his mouth in surprise: "Is this really something that just one person can do?"
William had initially seen Lu Xiao's edge in previous contacts, and his expression was relatively calm.
"Our ancestor has at least three Eden artifacts in his hands, and there are two Isu people who survived in soul form to help him. It's not surprising to see such a performance... right?"
"I have a hunch that maybe one day in the future, we will meet him again."