Seventy-five white pearl shells also dissipated, after all the distance was so close, less than forty meters, and the opponents were skilled.
Equivalent to 58 people concentrating fire for 5 seconds - even shooting once per second would be 290 times, plus scattered shots afterward, at least over 350 total shots.
From when Henry initiated the attack with throwing knives until now was less than nine minutes. The roads here were winding, so the sheriff would probably need more time to arrive.
Moreover, the sheriff couldn't possibly not know what this place was.
So there were definitely two groups having a firefight. The sheriff would most likely wait until the gunfire completely stopped before coming over after some time.
After all, they were also made of flesh. When two armed forces fought, they would most likely avoid it if possible.
Henry quickly ran downstairs, collecting all guns, ammunition, wallets, and miscellaneous items like identity plates, then emptied all the drawers in those negotiation rooms.
Then Henry doused the wooden tables, chairs, and walls of these conference rooms with kerosene and lit them one by one.
After the fire initially started, Henry took out two 50-pound TNT packages with 15-second delays, simultaneously activated the detonators and placed them in the main building's first floor hall, then ran frantically out of the villa.
After he distanced himself seventy to eighty meters from the villa, a tremendous roar came from the villa's direction, and heat waves blew over with the wind.
Henry returned along the route he came. Having walked through once, he had already memorized all the routes.
His twice-enhanced body also gave him memory far superior to ordinary people.
Along the way, all the houses Henry passed through were empty - perhaps the original occupants had all run to the main building and been released.
A few minutes later, after the final turn, Henry saw five black market men who had searched him earlier, about twenty meters away.
Henry instantly activated his Super Reaction talent, his hands rapidly dancing phantom-like.
One second later, each man had 3 throwing knives 12 inches long and weighing 12 ounces embedded in their chest and abdomen.
Henry quickly approached them as they screamed in pain, a swift sword appearing in his right hand from nowhere.
"Stab, stab, stab, stab, stab!"
Large holes instantly appeared in each person's throat.
Henry collected them all, then unlocked and opened the back door of Hamlet Bar.
Henry flashed into the bar and closed the back door.
The bar was surprisingly quiet with few customers - just a handful of people.
Most people had run outside to look toward where the explosion came from, discussing among themselves.
As Henry passed the bar counter, the bald bartender suddenly noticed him.
After all, his stature was so tall.
Facing the bald man's puzzled gaze, Henry didn't stop walking. His right hand flicked once, then again - two throwing knives were already crossed and embedded in the bald bartender's neck.
The bald bartender's throat made rattling sounds, his eyes desperate. His hands instinctively went to his neck but didn't dare apply pressure, and soon he became weak all over from suffocation and fell softly to the ground.
Only then did another bartender who was chatting with customers notice something wrong with the bald bartender.
"My God, Larsen, what happened to you? How did you suddenly get throwing knives in your neck?" This was the voice Henry heard after walking out of the bar's swinging doors.
Passing through the large crowd of onlookers outside the bar, Henry walked over two hundred meters, found a building's dead angle, released a brown quarter horse, mounted it and left, heading toward the Aston Hotel.
It was only around 7 PM now. Henry had left Mellon Manor just after 6 o'clock and accomplished his mission in just over half an hour - extremely efficient.
Upon reaching the hotel vicinity, Henry found an unoccupied dead angle to tear off the beard and mustache stuck to his face, then rode to the hotel.
After stabling his horse at the hotel stables, he went to the front desk to get a room.
Opening a room in this era only required manually filling out a guest register - very simple.
After Henry entered the room, he locked the door from inside, then stacked three chest-high granite stones at the entrance with several boxes of miscellaneous items on top, then sat in a chair to tally his gains.
Henry had just released 226 black market people to the underworld, gaining 3 green pearls, 128 white pearls, and 95 gray pearls, of which only one green pearl had skill or talent halos.
The release progress bar reached Level 3 at 16.67%.
Below the progress bar were 313 gray pearls, 261 white pearls, 15 green pearls, plus 64 gray pearl shells, 7 white pearl shells, and 2 green pearl shells.
Of these, four green pearls had skill or talent halos.
Henry possessed energy equivalent to 1,768 gray pearls, enough to upgrade both Warning and Divine Speed talents.
Henry decided to first extract talents or skills from green pearls, one by one, since he was in a hotel - safety first.
As Henry silently recited: Use one green pearl containing talent or skill.
Instantly, Henry was surrounded by warm energy. He felt that since childhood his ears had been sensitive with hearing exceeding ordinary people.
Two minutes later, when Henry regained consciousness, he found he had gained a talent - Super Hearing +50%, hearing 50% stronger than ordinary people.
Continuing, the second green pearl gave Henry a skill - Harmonica LV4. Henry could now play over twenty classic pieces with masterful harmonica technique.
Then the third green pearl gave Henry another skill - Card Skills LV4. Henry now mastered 21, stud poker, and faro - the predecessor of Texas Hold'em.
The fourth green pearl gave Henry yet another skill - Intelligence LV4. Henry now had deep understanding of how to collect and analyze intelligence.
Five minutes total passed, and Henry gained one talent and three skills.
From departing Fresco Town until now, he had released 423 bandits, equivalent to a 1% talent and skill extraction rate.
As Henry became more comprehensive, future extraction rates would definitely be lower.
However, Henry was very satisfied with his current skills and talents.
In fact, each skill was a new world, a new life experience.
It was just that Henry had only recently crossed over and was still busy developing, unable to carefully experience the various joys these skills brought.
Having used 4 green pearls now was equivalent to accumulating 40 gray pearl energy.
Collecting his thoughts, Henry again spent energy equivalent to 192 white pearls, making up 1000 gray pearl energy to upgrade his Warning talent.
192 white pearls radiated light and merged into the panel, then the panel emitted milky white light that entered Henry's body, making his whole body warm as if returning to the moment of life's birth.
Two minutes later, Henry regained consciousness. Warning LV1 had upgraded to LV2 - sense personal danger 2 seconds in advance, and sense danger to others within a range equal to the release progress bar level number in meters, with relatively accurate prediction of actions causing danger. Upgrading to LV3 requires energy equivalent to 10,000 gray pearls.
The release progress bar was currently Level 3, meaning Henry could sense his own danger 2 seconds in advance and also sense danger that would happen to others within 3 meters around him.
This was indeed much more powerful, but currently there were no enemies, so he could only test this talent's effects later.
(End of Chapter)
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