Vol 7. Final Destination
Chapter 1
Zheng closed his eyes and recalled everything that happened in The Mummy. For a
while, his mind could not calm down.
Qi Tengyi, who was a normal guy, only liked ancient writings and cultures, yet scolded
him like a man before his death, and those final words of his.
Zero, who was calm and cool, an assassin with a tender heart, that little girl with a
boy’s appearance he wouldn’t let go of, and the words until death.
Many more things. The movie characters, the powerful team India, the tragic Imhotep,
it felt like years had gone by in just ten days.
When he finally opened his eyes, it was the same platform without an edge, the same
sphere in the center, and five people standing around him. Honglu and Heng looked
around with surprise.
“God! Heal everyone! Deduct the points from me!” Zheng yelled. Several beams
shone from the sphere and covered the six of them. The beam on Honglu was the
faintest. It disappeared in just a moment. Then the boy looked at his hand in surprise.
A cut on his hand had completely healed.
Zheng and Yinkong stayed inside the beam the longest. Yinkong took even more
time than Zheng. When he finished, Yinkong’s shoulder had healed but she was still
inside the beam.
Zheng closed his eyes to feel his body. For some reason, he had a feeling that he
could control his body. Not just moving his arms and legs but control over his cells.
Of course, he was aware that was only a delusion, but this delusion felt so real to
him.
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When he opened his eyes again, a girl was standing in front of him with tears flowing
down her cheeks. Lori didn’t run into his arms. She stood a few meters away, smiling
with tears.
Zheng then quickly turned to Jie. Jie had woke up, the beam on him wasn’t intense.
It seemed like his lost of consciousness was just normal condition but those black
circles around his eyes indicated the state of his mental health. He was no longer
laughing. He walked up to her woman quietly, embraced her and put his head on
her shoulder. After some time, he walked to his room without a word.
“Jie.” Zheng shouted. Jie stopped his steps but he didn’t turn around. Zheng hesitated
and said. “We will talk tomorrow. Take a good rest today. I thank you on behalf
of everyone.”
Jie waved his hand and walked away with Nana. The back of his body gave off a
sense of loneliness. The other five people could only watch in silence as he walked
further away.
Zheng sighed then turned to the others. Yinkong had came out of the beam by now.
Everyone had healed to their perfect condition. Zheng gave a laughed and said.
“Go take a rest. Honglu, Heng, go get a room. You just have to hold onto the door
handle and imagine the environment you want. The room will then change. Also,
God gives everyone a chance to create a free living being. It can be man or woman,
any age, size, face, but keep in mind that this being can be created with two times a
normal person’s stats, I am referring to muscle density and reaction speed. So you
can create a bodyguard for yourselves. That’s basically it. Don’t use the points yet.
We will discuss what everyone should enhance tomorrow. Now everyone go to their
room.”
Honglu asked. “It was probably someone that told you about bodyguards right? Can
you tell me who was it? Is he still alive?”
Zheng was about to take Lori’s hands when he suddenly heard it and asked curiously.
“Why do you think so? Don’t I look like someone that can come up with it?”
Honglu laughed. “The deduction is simple, I won’t go into details. Judging from the
fact that you created a woman and how you are as a person, you definitely won’t be
one to think about creating a bodyguard. I am curious, who is this person? Did he
die in a previous movie?”
Zheng nodded in silence. That calm man with glasses, he was definitely the strongest
mastermind that surpassed Honglu in wisdom and calmness. Even though there was
no contest between the two of them, but Zheng just had this feeling.
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Honglu lowered his head and pondered. “Then I will stay here for a bit. I want to see
what God has for enhancements. It sounded quite complex when you explained. Oh,
do you cook in your room when you want to eat?”
Lan smiled. ”You can cook and also take out cooked meals from the fridge. Just
imagine what you want to eat. Anything that you can think of is available.“
Honglu was surprised then cheered. He said with a smile. “I am a gourmet. Ok, I
won’t interfere with you. Ten days of rest? We can only stay here for ten days.”
(So similar. The first reaction in this dimension was to look through what God has
for exchange. The only difference was one could focus on looking and the other got
excited over food. He can probably become an important part of this team. Probably.)
Zheng carried Lori back to his room. The girl started crying as soon as they entered
and Zheng’s words couldn’t help. She calmed down after quite some time and said
lightly. “I was worried. No matter how many days you were gone, it was only one day
in this dimension. We were still playing with Zero’s little sister but she disappeared
this morning. I was so scared, scared that I will just disappear like she did, and never
see you again.”
Zheng sighed and held on to her tight. “Don’t worry. I won’t die. I won’t die no matter
what happens. Trust me, Lori. I will fulfill my promise. I will fulfill it by all means!”
“Hmm. Don’t die.”
“I won’t die. I can’t die!”
Really won’t die? Zheng suddenly felt lost. He didn’t have much confidence over
surviving after experience several movies. If possible, he just wish to return to the
real world. He didn’t want the enhancements, didn’t want to become a superman,
didn’t want to evolve. He just wanted to bring Lori back. He didn’t want to see the
blood of his comrades anymore, nor the endless terrors and deaths.
But was that possible?
After a night of passion, Zheng came out to the platform with Lori. Lori woke up early
and made some cookies for everyone. When the two of them knocked on the doors,
everyone woke up quite early and was holding on some food.
“Where is Jie?”
Zheng called everyone to the platform but Jie was not there. Yinkong said calmly. “I
don’t know what happened between you but don’t disturb him. Give him some time
to think. Don’t you feel like he’s forcing himself to make a choice?”
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Zheng looked at Yinkong in surprise. He never knew she was so understanding and
smiled. “Right, I was too impatient. Haha, lets have a picnic together, even though
this place doesn’t seem like outdoors. Honglu, did you discover anything yesterday?”
Honglu smiled as he took out a big spider from a basket, causing Yinkong and Lan to
scream. He took a bite of the spider, it was already cooked. “I actually did find some
problems but I am more interested in the points and rewards we obtained. I certainly
have the least. I am looking forward to how much you and Yinkong got. Give me a
surprise.”
Zheng was curious also. He didn’t think he would receive a lot of points or rewards
though. He stood up and closed his eyes to connect with God. Once inside the
exchange system, he asked for his points and rewards.
“Zheng Zha, 13770 points, 1 rank B reward, 2 rank C rewards, 1 rank D reward.”
Zheng then looked at everyone in shock. At the same time, Yinkong also opened
her eyes and they could see the shock and excitement from each other’s eyes.
“Shit. Let me calm down and count again. My god, it’s really 13770 points. Where did
they come from? Isn’t this too much?” Zheng had lost himself. It seemed like he was
totally shocked by these points and rewards.
Honglu finished the spider legs, leaving its body and head and laughed. “It isn’t too
much, at least about a thousand points less than I guessed. Hehe. But it’s still a
lot. If I am not wrong then the amount of points God gives out is correlated with the
difficulty of the movie. The more difficult it is, and more likely you are to die, the more
points he gives out. This is probably it.” Then he took out a worm from the basket.
The two women couldn’t look straight at him anymore. Yinkong was better off but
Lan’s face was pale and she kept massaging her stomach. She forced a smile and
said. “But the Alien movie we went through was more difficult than The Mummy,
yet we received less points and rewards than this one. Is that because of the team
battle?”
Honglu finished the worm by now and put his hand into the basket again. Everyone’s
gaze was fixed on his hand until he took out a sandwich before they let out a sigh of
relief.
Honglu said. “Don’t you feel that we are very fortunate during this team fight with
team India? To be honest, I had prepared to die in the beginning but we survived
with six people at the end. We are very lucky that we countered them. Think about it,
they have a strong team. Their psyche force user could monitor the whole battlefield
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and control our weaker members. We were fighting under their radar. They had
information of our every move, every word we said, even our plans. They would at
least not lose even if they were against a team stronger than us.”
Just then, everyone realized it was not a normal sandwich but filled with centipedes.
“This psyche force user could also cooperate with the needle user for an unbeatable
pair. Unless the opposing team had something like a defensive shield, they could just
stay in distance and kill everyone off. That’s the power of a team. We don’t have such
complementary powers in our team. This is also what I am confused about. Team
India was strong but not overpowered, otherwise we wouldn’t have beat them. But
how did they learn to choose complementing enhancements like this? Why didn’t
we do so? I think our team is missing something, or someone that guides us to what
we should enhance. I’ll call this person the leader.”
Honglu put his hand into the basket and took out a can of cola. Just a normal can of
cola.
“So we were fortunately to survive with such a disorganized team, and had just the
right powers to counter them. It is fate that let us live, or you can call it luck. We
should be proud.”
Honglu took a sip and pulled a string of hair. “Their strongest psyche force user was
countered by someone in our team. And judging by the fact she didn’t appear toward
the end, she was probably killed. Then Zero was almost invincible in such a large
battlefield. In fact, it was Zero’s existence that held team India back the most.”
“Then God determined we were the weaker team and gave us the Book of the Dead.
Oh right, Zheng, did you take the book from the movie?” Honglu asked.
Zheng immediately activated the ring and took out the book. This book actually came
out of the movie with him.
Honglu nodded. “This is the last deciding power of our victory, the Book of the Dead.
Furthermore, someone from our team could actually read it. I have to say it was
extremely lucky.”
“I’ll also have to mention the stupidity of team India.” Honglu sneered. “Perhaps I
don’t understand how foreigners think or were they just stupid? I don’t get why they
didn’t go all out in a fight in the beginning. If they had done so from the start, we
would have been wiped, although it would probably cost them a few lives. And now?
How should I describe it? They didn’t have the determination of a player!”
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Honglu got on the ground and frowned. After a while he asked Zheng. “Was there
any movie that was easy in the ones you’ve been through? Oh and can you know
what the next movie is?”
Zheng paused for a moment. “It can’t be easy right? We were on the brink of death
several times. To be honest, if it wasn’t being so close to death, I wouldn’t have
reached the second stage of the unlocked mode. As to knowing the next movie,
how is it possible?”
Honglu snapped his fingers. “Bingo! That’s right! Had you noticed the clothes team
India was wearing? Aside from a select few, almost everyone of them were in robes
suitable for the desert. Maybe it was a coincidence since there was an Arabic but I
am more pronged to believe they knew what the next movie was. That was why they
could exchange weapons and enhancements suitable for each movie. If that was so,
then why don’t we have such ability?”
“Simple deduction leads me to believe that 1. we didn’t do something. Like if this was
a game, we forgot to talk to some NPC or didn’t obtain a quest item, or didn’t go to
a specific place, and the progress of the game is stuck. So God didn’t activate some
options and we couldn’t know what the next movie is. 2. Lan said that their leader ran
away in the end of the fight. I think someone that had reached the second stage of
the unlocked mode wouldn’t be so weak mentally. He should be someone that has
the courage to face death and fight for his life, yet he ran away. I can only believe
that team India was stronger than us only because the movies they experienced
were easier and could obtain more points. While we have to struggle for a chance to
live every time. That made us weaker but also gave us the courage to fight. So my
question is, what didn’t we do? Why did we have to struggle so hard every time?”
Zheng looked at Lan and also noticed her gaze. They both thought of a name, Jie.
The only one that could tell them something was Jie.
Honglu looked at Zheng and smiled. “I’ll leave that to you. Leader. Hoho, you’re
the leader after all. So I’ll leave diplomacy to you. We will move on to the next topic.
You’ve so many points and rewards this time, so have you thought about what to
exchange yet?”
Zheng smiled. “This is the most I’ve seen since I entered this world. I am planning
to get my Vampire bloodline to rank B then it should increase my blood energy pool
by a lot. I haven’t thought about the other enhancements yet. Do you have any
suggestion?”
“Buy mini surface to surface missiles.” He laughed. “One that can destroy all lives
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within a kilometer. I checked it, it’s only 2000 points. Inexpensive and powerful.
What do you think?”
Everyone sweat at the suggestion. Zheng touched his forehead and said. “We are
only normal people, aside from Yinkong. We basically have no confidence controlling
such missiles. And don’t you think it’s too big of a thing to use? Haha.”
Honglu smiled. “It’s not a big deal. Look at what I exchanged from God.” Then he
started going through his basket. Everyone looked at it like there were so many
weird things in this basket.
Honglu took out several pieces of paper and looked at them with craze. “Haha, look
at these. Gauss dynamic drive analysis report, human genetics deciphering manual,
the relationship between electric currents in human body and Qi. I don’t know if you
found out about these but their costs are extremely low. It only took 30 points to
exchange all these theories. They are the biggest treasure in the exchange system.”
Zheng and Lan smiled bitter. The boy discovered the same thing as Xuan. Except
that Xuan seemed like he knew more and skipped the theories to manufacturing
his items, that was how he supplied them with so many bullets. Did smart people
think the same things? They could discover what was underneath the surface of
direct enhancements and stats. Such persons were the treasures of a team. At least
Zheng didn’t find such person in team India.
Honglu said. “To be able to understand these, I will have to review my college knowledge.
Takes about seven days. Then I’ll use two days to learn how to use the missiles.
Of course I won’t be skilled but you can create and test weapons inside your room
right? Aside from magical weapons, I tried creating a tactical fusion bomb and it was
so powerful I had to let it disappear. But then I can learn to use surface to surface
missiles in the basement of my room. Why are you all looking like this? Don’t you
know you can create and test weapons in your rooms?”
Heng laughed bitterly. “I don’t know about these. I slept until the morning. Haha, I
am too lazy.”
Zheng shook his head. “It’s my fault. We know about these things but forgot to tell
you. Just like Honglu said, aside from magical items, you can create anything in your
room. But remember to make your basement bigger and tougher. I don’t know the
limit but the basement can go at least ten kilometers big. We had tested it in Jie’s
room. You can test your weapons but don’t hurt yourself. Ok? I don’t want to enter
the next movie with five people.”
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Honglu laughed. “Of course, I will be careful. Then please exchange a missile. Don’t
you think it is suitable for team fights? You can also disassemble the launcher and
we will each carry a part.”
Honglu acted like a child again. Zheng couldn’t help but said. “Missiles aren’t our
most needed items now. Although it’s powerful but one, it’s too expensive, two, you
need a lot of scouting before using it, and three, don’t you think the other team will
notice us launching it? They won’t just stand there and get hit. Unless we encounter
a battlefield with huge amounts of monsters, it doesn’t have much value. I hope you
can exclude your hobbies for now and think for the team.”
Honglu played his hair for quite a while before he said. “Sorry, I was too full of myself.
Rationally you should spend your rewards on enhancements suitable for yourself.
Just like Zheng’s Vampire bloodline and Qi. I think Vampire is your next exchange,
not because of my interest but now that you have the Book of the Dead, it will give
you more blood energy to use the magic on the book.”
“As for Yinkong, I recommend that you choose dexterity related enhancements. I’ve
looked at the list. Most enhancements need to start from rank D. Although the ones
that start from rank B are strong, like the Ogre bloodline’s description was as long
as your have over one half your body, even if your head and heart were destroyed,
you can recover within an hour. It’s a scary power but that’s only it. It can’t evolve
further and doesn’t enhance your stats by much. So the result is you can survive
in the beginning but as time goes on, you will become a dead meat. Yinkong, you
should best start with a rank D enhancement and evolve it. When you finally get to
rank B, it will be stronger than a normal rank B enhancement.”
Then Honglu turned to Lan with a serious look. “Lan, you have been enhancing your
mental capacity, and your spells also depend on the stat right? Can you use the
spells?”
Lan stood up and cast the endurance spell on everyone. Honglu looked at his hands
and said. “Congratulation. You are the most special one here. In fact, you will become
the nervous system of our team. You are our psyche force user in the future.
Hoho. You probably don’t know about this. Zheng, choose one of the techniques
that require psyche force. Don’t enhance it, just take a look.”
Zheng closed his eyes and connected with God. Then navigated to the psyche force
section but as soon as he chose one of the techniques, he heard God’s voice.
“Your body can not sustain psyche force. Unable to learn psyche force techniques.
Please make sure your mental capacity is over 3000.”
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Zheng looked at Lan then said these words to everyone. Heng and Yinkong also
gave it a try. Honglu said. “The requirement for me is over 2500. What about Yinkong
and Heng?”
Heng scratched his head. “5000, that’s so much higher than you.”
Yinkong said calmly. “3500.”
Honglu snapped his fingers. “That’s right. I was thinking why did team India only
have one psyche force user when they are so useful? So I checked the techniques
and received the notification. I originally thought it was because these techniques
were expensive but that’s not the case. Not everyone can psyche force, and such
persons are probably very rare. Then Lan, as long as you continue on this path and
learn all the techniques, you will become as important as that Indian woman. Your
importance will be higher than everyone else in our team!”
Lan was shocked and surprised. She closed her eyes and connected with God.
“That’s impossible. These techniques are too expensive. Not to mention the lowest
level ones I learned, but a simple psyche force scan that can increase radius as
your mental capacity increases costs 4000 points and a rank C reward. I can’t afford
these.”
Zheng was also pleasantly surprised. “No problem. Save up your points and rewards.
Haha. Why don’t you increase your mental capacity for now. We will have a chance
to exchange them.”
Honglu laughed. “Didn’t I tell you I discovered something else? Zheng, do you still
remember you paid for our recovery when we just came back? If I am not wrong then
we can exchange things for someone else, and probably also enhancements. Why
don’t we give this a try?”
Chapter 2
Zheng was dazed then expressed excitement. That was also a problem he currently
had, his powers lack variety. His close combat ability was much higher than his magic
ability. Of course he planned to enhance both sides in the future. For close combat,
he wanted to exchange kungfu and for magic, he planned to use blood magic. The
Book of the Dead was a surprise and gave him an extra choice.
So for now, he needed a lot of ranked rewards, especially the higher ranked ones.
In contrast, he didn’t need that many points. The reason was simple. After several
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body enhancements, increasing his stats with points wasn’t that effective anymore.
To a newbie with 100 points of muscle density, increasing it to 200 with 1000 points
doubled his strength, and built the basis for his survival.
However, to someone that already had 400 points of muscle density, increasing it to
500 wouldn’t increase his powers by much. Because his fighting style adapted to
his enhancements of Qi and blood magic instead of pure strength. So the effect of
this 1000 points was limited.
Zheng said with excitement. “It would be great if that’s the case. After the battle
with team India, we definitely lack a psyche force user. We never thought about this
before but since Lan has the talent for it, perhaps this is a turning point for our team.
How’s it Lan? I only need a rank B reward for the Vampire enhancement. You can
take the two rank C rewards from me and I probably won’t be able to spend all the
points. Which technique were you looking at? I can try to get it for you.”
Lan hesitated for a moment but she didn’t refuse. Zheng connected to God and
chose the psyche force scan ability. When he chose it, God notified that he couldn’t
exchange it for himself. Then he thought about exchanging it for Lan.
“Scanning complete. No memory of being forced. Exchange confirmed. Unable to
exchange for another person until the next movie finished.”
After God’s voice, a beam shone on Lan. Green particles floated down from God. A
minute later, the beam disappeared. Lan fell on the ground panting. Her forehead
and body was soaked in sweat.
Yinkong helped her up and asked calmly. “Are you alright?” Lan had her eyes closed
for quite a while before she opened them and said. ”Much better now. Thanks
Yinkong. Hehe, this ability is amazing. I just have to order my psyche force following
the direction of the ability and I can sense within a radius of 20 kilometers. I can also
focus my attention as a line and sense up to 200 kilometers.
Zheng was delighted. He was about to say something but then Honglu asked. “Close
your eyes. Can you sense the difference between the four of us?”
Lan nodded. “The waves of your mind are very different. I can’t explain it in words
but once I use this ability, your waves are engraved into my brain. So I can distinguish
each of you.”
Honglu then put out three fingers. “Can you see my movements?”
Lan leaned her head to the side and said after a while. “Is it three fingers?”
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Honglu asked. “How far can you reach under your current condition?”
Lan hesitated. “About two kilometers. I had to concentrate my psyche force to sense
your movement. Two kilometers is my limit.”
Honglu immediately crouched down and drew on the ground with his fingers. Then
he raised his head. “I summarized the rules of this ability. I think your mental capacity
is above 200 points but not 300 yet, right?”
Lan nodded. Then Honglu continued. “On the basis that 100 points in mental capacity
increase your scanning radius by 10 kilometers, and 100 kilometers if it’s in a straight
line. This type of sensing is fuzzy. You can only feel the people there but not what
they are doing. If you want more detail, the radius shrinks to one kilometer. In other
words, you need to get your mental capacity to 500 points before this ability can
become useful in battles. Otherwise, it’s just a better tracking ability.”
Lan sighed with disappointment. Zheng smiled and said. “This is already a very
important step. We didn’t have the ability to track any movie character or people
before. I remembered team India could communicate through their psyche force
user. What ability does it need?”
Lan smiled at Zheng tenderly then closed her eyes. Then said bitterly. “There are
several abilities that can accomplish this. The cheapest one is Soul Link. Needs
a rank B reward and 8000 points. It’s too much. Psyche force abilities are all so
expensive.”
Everyone paused. Yinkong was about to say something but she sighed and kept
didn’t say it. Zheng patted her shoulder and said. “Haha, don’t worry about this. As
long as we can stay alive, you will be protected by our whole team. And you will
eventually have enough to exchange these abilities.”
Lan’s shoulder shivered. She glanced at Zheng then nodded her head and sat down.
Heng stood up and laughed. “Hearing about all these enhancements, I am just a
normal person, how about let me experience the feeling as a superman. Let me take
a look at the enhancements.”
Honglu said with a sarcastic smile. “You? I picked an interesting enhancement for
you. Your rank C reward won’t go to waste. Look for the Elf archer bloodline. Even
though it’s only a rank C enhancement, it can be evolved. Satisfied now?”
Heng closed his eyes with a sour expression. He originally wanted to look through
all the enhancements and maybe the magical bows. But now that Honglu gave him
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the suggestion, he couldn’t help but to get the enhancement right now. After going
over the description briefly, he chose the enhancement.
“Elf archer bloodline, rating 74. Suitable for most movies. Effective against most
enemies with the appropriate bow. Special ability Charged shot, focus all your power
into an arrow. Extremely powerful, able to reach five times the range and five times
the power of a normal shot. Become weak and feeble for ten minutes afterward.
Needs a rank C reward and 2000 points.”
Everyone felt the bloodline was a match for him, especially the special ability was
comparable to Zero’s Gauss rifle. Although the range isn’t as long but it can one shot
most enemies within mid range.
Honglu laughed. “Don’t you still have a rank D reward and 3000 points? You are still
missing a bow. Hoho, I found a super strong bow for you, called Sirius. Go search
for it.”
Heng was convinced of Honglu’s wisdom since seeing it in the last movie, especially
the plan inside the tomb. So he had no choice but to accept the suggestion.
He was holding a bronze colored longbow the next time he opened his eyes. It was
more of a curved bow than longbow.
“Sirius, needs a rank D reward and 1500 points. Increases range and speed substantially,
also enchants arrows with the killing intent of Sirius, eradicates evil and dazes
the enemy. Ineffective against people with a strong mental fortitude.”
Heng was totally absorbed in his bow. Zheng then checked his rewards and points.
He still had 9770 points and one of each rank B and D reward. The vampire bloodline
was decided, as for the rank D reward, he planned to buy a scifi firearm.
Zheng stood up and said. “Then let me begin the enhancements.”
Just like he had planned. Zheng chose the Vampire Count bloodline.
“Vampire Count (rank) genetic mutation, rating 90, applicable to most movies. Has
blood energy and access to most blood magic. Rank Count increases vitality substantially,
can recovery from any injury as long as brain and heart are not destroyed.
Owner will not be affected by sunlight and silver. Requires rank B reward, 3000
points, and Vampire Viscount mutation.”
This was one of the stronger rank B enhancements. It didn’t cost that many points
but the rank B reward and the prerequisite made this stronger than the average rank
B enhancement.
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Zheng connected to God then chose it without hesitation. Just like the previous enhancements,
a beam shone onto him and he floated to mid air, about several meters
off the ground. Countless particles entered into his body for up to ten minutes. Under
everyone’s cry of surprise, Zheng saw the pair of black wings on his back. The
beam then gradually disappeared and he landed on the ground.
“Wh-what’s that?” Lori was most caring on everything about Zheng. She immediately
ran over and asked. Yet, aside from two holes on the back of his shirt, there was no
wings.
Zheng touched his back and only felt his back muscles, no such thing as wings. But
it couldn’t have been an illusion as everyone saw them and the two holes on his shirt
were not something an illusion could cause.
Zheng muttered. “Does it signify that I will eventually grow a pair of wings if I continue
down this enhancement path? But I don’t think vampires have wings.”
Honglu said. “Vampires are a branch of human in the official records of the European
churches. From the religious texts I had read, vampires are a type of demons, so it
isn’t strange having a pair of wings. In fact, my speculation was your body will change
the deeper enhanced with the bloodline. And it seems to be true.”
Zheng closed his eyes to feel all the changes that happened within his body. The first
was the blood energy residing in his head. This energy had filled up his head now.
About ten times more than before. Not only in quantity, the quality of this energy also
increased. If you describe the energy as a gas before, it became a liquid now. If he
downgrades the energy to a gas and use it like he had, he could increase the total
quantity to twenty or thirty folds.
This was not the end. His stats were also increased by a lot. He had reached
Intelligence 277
Mental Capacity 332
Cell Vitality 521
Reaction Speed 487
Muscle Density 602
Immunization Strength 431
Now that he had an abundant amount of blood energy, he only lacked the abilities
to utilize it. He still had a rank C and D reward each and 6770 points. It should be
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enough to get him a scifi weapon and learn some spells from the Book of the Dead.
This enhancement increased his power level by a large margin.
He opened his eyes when he heard Honglu’s voice. “How does it feel? Any huge
power ups?”
Zheng nodded with a smile. He took a breath and began to control the blood energy
on his head. Then used the only ability he knew, Red Flame. A blood colored flame
flared up from his body. This flame rose up to three feet high, much higher than
before. And there was a tiny amount of golden flame within. Although they hadn’t
tested it, but everyone felt that this golden flame was much more destructive than
the blood colored flame.
Zheng could only use the flame for several minutes when he was a vampire viscount.
However, this was no longer a concern anymore. His energy could sustain the flame
for at least half an hour now. It was such a drastic difference between just one rank,
not only in blood energy but also his stats. This rank B reward and 3000 points were
worth more than their value.
When Zheng was about to stop his ability, a bit of blood energy spread throughout
his body instead of returning to his head. He was caught off guard but fortunately
this energy didn’t exhibit its corrosive property inside his body. He thought that this
was a change that came with the enhancement and didn’t do anything to stop the
energy.
However, when the energy reached his navel, also where his Qi rests, the blood
energy became excited, like a when water came in contact with boiling oil. It was as
though the rest of the energy received a signal and came rushing from his head to
his pool of Qi. He felt a strong prickling pain on the path the blood energy passed
through. The energy then invaded into the Qi.
The blood energy was boiling violently as they invaded and corroded the pool of Qi,
as though they couldn’t allow the existence of Qi. However, the Qi accepted this
energy gently and fused with it. Qi seemed like a stronger type of energy, however
the amount of blood energy was ten times that of Qi.
Zheng screamed as he fell to the ground during this invasion of energy. His skin
became red and hot, the path that was traveled by the blood energy felt like burned.
He also felt his navel was tearing apart. The collision of these two energies were a
disaster. A few seconds later, he spit out several mouthful of blood.
“Enter the unlocked state! Hurry. Control your blood energy back to your head. Then
constrict them. Don’t let them leave your head. Hurry!”
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As Zheng was about to pass out in pain, he heard Jie’s voice. Without thinking, he
instinctively entered the second stage of the unlocked mode. He slowly gained back
his consciousness and realized the situation he was in.
This was probably what people described as deviation of energy, two energies trying
to devour each other. Although these two energies had been in his body the whole
time, but they were at about the same quantity and quality before and maintained a
balance. It was also easier to maneuver such energy, like he was able to combine
blood energy with Qi during The Mummy. This was also the reason he couldn’t use
much blood energy because as the weaker of the two, the blood energy stayed in
his head as a self defense. Now that it became much stronger than Qi, the balance
was broken.
“Unlocking the genetic constraint brings you much more power than you can imagine.
Without the unlocked mode, you can only utilize a small fraction of your enhancements.
Either you get backfired by your enhancements or you control them. This is
also a part of evolution.”
Zheng was still groaning in pain with his eyes closed. However, now that he was
in the unlocked mode, he had control over his muscles, blood, nerves, and partial
energy flow, an ability that came with the second stage. He paused the flow of blood
energy completely.
Yet the energy was still boiling and resisting even under control since it was at much
a higher quantity and quality. It wouldn’t leave the navel position that easily. Zheng
had to force them back to his head bit by bit. Almost ten hours had passed before
he moved them all back to his head, then even more time for him to confined the
energy in place. When he finally woke up, the other people were having a barbecue
by the side.
Lori was the first to notice Zheng waking up. She jumped in his arms with a cheer,
despite staining Zheng’s shirt with the kebab she was holding. For a moment, Zheng
didn’t know whether to laugh or cry.
The others also moved their gaze toward him. Zheng noticed Jie and Nana were
also sitting by the fire. He was sipping a can of beer and raised the can when Zheng
looked at him, carrying a sense of loneliness.
Honglu said. “How’s your condition? Any damage? Are your blood energy and Qi
still there?”
Zheng carefully felt his body and said. “Both energies have calmed down. I enhanced
them both simultaneously before. Didn’t expect such a disaster when en-
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hancing just one. Eh? Wait, what is this?”
Zheng felt something strange about his Qi. It was tainted with some quality of the
blood energy, and turned slightly red. Like an after effect of the fusion of the two
energies.
Without any delay, he picked up an empty beer can from the floor and channeled the
Qi to his hand. The can started to melt like it was under high temperature. But Zheng
knew that this was similar to when he mixed blood energy with Qi and brought over
the corrosive property.
Everyone saw the change on the can. Jie laughed. “You obtained a new power huh?
Come to my basement and show us.”
Zheng nodded without hesitation. In fact, if it wasn’t for Jie, he might have been dead
by now, or most likely had to use a large amount of points to repair the damage, since
he was still in God’s dimension. It was difficult to die here with enough points.
Zheng looked at the barbecue and felt hungry, not aware how long he had stayed in
that condition. He grabbed over ten kebabs at once and quickly finished them. Then
he ran back to his room for the toilet.
After he was done cleaning himself and grabbing some snacks, he hurried over to
Jie’s room with Lori. Everyone was already waiting for him inside.
A granite tablet about twenty meters in thickness stood in front of him. Although
not as tough as plate armor of the same thickness but it was only slightly worse in
resilience. A normal person would not be able to destroy it without any weapons.
Zheng took a deep breath. He focused his Qi onto his fist. You could make out a
faint reddish light covering his fist, but the light was barely visible to the human eyes.
Zheng struck the tablet using this new fused energy and his hand penetrated the
tablet. It didn’t destroy the tablet in pieces but actually went through, this was due
to the corrosive property.
Zheng breathed out and said. “This is basically it. This attack used about a tenth of
my Qi. Twenty-meter thickness is about my limit but my Qi is about ten times more
powerful than before. This is too strong. I have confidence fighting anyone in close
combat using this new Qi even without exchanging any kungfu.”
Jie shook his head. “No, it’s still best to exchange some basic kungfu. Don’t you
still have a rank C and D rewards? The rank C can be used to get the cheapest
movement technique. Takes a rank C reward and 2000 points. It’s one of the entry
level kungfu.”
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Zheng replied with a surprise. “There wouldn’t be entry level kungfu for the various
disciplines like fist, and swords?”
Jie nodded with affirmation.
Zheng thought for a bit and said. “Let’s go upstairs for a drink. Jie, it should be time
to tell us some things right?”
Jie nodded without replying, then shook his head. But he still led everyone upstairs.
He had Nana brought them drinks, some of these liquor required points to get.
“What do you want to know? Some things I can tell you now but some must wait until
the next movie. Don’t worry, I will tell you everything in the end.” He binged a bottle
of liquor and said.
Zheng thought for a moment then said. “Then first tell me about the genetic constraint.
Xuan mentioned the concept but it was just touching the surface. Seems like
there are some big secrets I don’t know about. This is what I need to know the most.”
Jie nodded. “In a sense, unlocking the constraint is the key to utilizing enhancements.
For a rank A enhancement, a normal person can only utilize ten percent of its power,
that’s his limit. However, someone that reached stage one can utilize twenty to thirty
percent of its power, and stage two from forty to fifty percent. There are five known
stages. In fact, stage four can already utilize a hundred percent of the power. And
stage five is when the organism evolves. Stage five is when you can begin to change
and optimize the enhancement to adapt to this world. This is the ultimate goal of
evolution.”
Zheng nodded. “Then what about my Qi and blood energy? I don’t feel entering the
unlocked mode helps much.”
“It’s not what you think. The reason you were able to learn to use Qi so quickly
was because you had already unlocked your constraint. When you obtain your first
enhancement, your body will not adapt to the change in genetics or energy. Ask
Heng, do you feel a drastic change after exchanging?”
Heng shook his head. “My body do feel faster, my eyesight and hearing also feel
enhanced but they are not strong enough to be unstoppable. Isn’t this how it should
be for only a rank C enhancement?”
Jie laughed. “It’s not as simple as you think. Once you unlocked your constraint, your
fighting ability will change drastically due to the unleash of combat instincts. Zheng
and Yinkong can feel this the most. Unlocking the constraint is a key. The higher
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ranked the enhancement is, the higher you need to be unlocked to utilize its full
power.”
Jie paused for a moment then continued. “As a matter of fact, these enhancements,
abilities, and other things are all the creations left by people that had reached a higher
unlocked level. They either controlled their genetics and evolved to a higher form
of life, or they controlled their energy and created these abilities. Your Qi mixed with
blood energy is similar to one of the rank A enhancements in properties, they are
both highly corrosive. However, you formed it by fusing Qi and blood energy. This is
also a form of creation. It consumes less energy to use than the rank A enhancement.
So when you reached a higher level, is when you can create your own power.”
Everyone listened quietly. After he was done, Zheng muttered. “The other question
is, who are you?”
Chapter 3
“Lan, give me the position and speed of the enemies.”
Zheng said to Lan through the communication device. In front of him was a forest.
Jie couldn’t answer the last question that day. After a long silence, he muttered. “I
will tell you inside the next movie.”
Although Zheng was still curious about Jie’s identity, how he knew so much, yet
didn’t give them any advice. He was curious, but an unexplainable feeling stopped
him from inquiring any further. They laughed and ate in Jie’s room just like before,
hiding the heavy topics inside their hearts.
A few days later, Yinkong also chose her enhancement, one called Shining genetics.
It also started at rank D and maxed out at rank AA, a total of five stages. Yinkong
spent most of what she obtained from the last movie on this enhancement, including
all the rewards and the majority of her points. To everyone’s surprise, she gave 2000
points to Lan to get her mental capacity up. Lan could now scan up to forty kilometers
with her ability. This number allowed them to monitor a lot of things in most movies.
Yinkong’s enhancement increased her speed substantially. Its special ability, Shining,
increases her speed further by several folds for ten seconds. As long as her reaction
was up to par, she could kill anyone during this time. The enhancement also
strengthened her mental fortitude. Judging from the description of it, she shouldn’t
have to worry about normal mind controls anymore.
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Honglu chose something interesting. He didn’t use his only rank D reward for an
enhancement but rather exchanged a magical item, a jade pendant with defensive
ability. This pendant would block critical attacks automatically thirty times or until the
energy within depletes, similar to Shiva’s Dharmacakra. Of course its not as good
since the Dharmacakra was a rank C item.
Everyone had basically finished enhancing. The team’s power level had increased
by at least one magnitude. And more importantly, Lan’s psyche scan helped them
progressed to becoming an actual team. Everyone obtained their roles. Of course it
was still not perfect but as more newbies come and go, this team will eventually be
completed and become a team that could survive any movies easily.
Zheng finally found the time to choose a sci-fi weapon. He still had a rank C and D
rewards. The rank C one had been decided to use toward an entry level movement
technique. Afterward, he would have a rank D reward and 4770 points left. What
seemed like so much from the last movie just used up like this. It was near impossible
to save up.
The only thing Zheng required from the weapon was power and speed, of course,
he would also like unlimited ammunition if possible. After looking over, it was Honglu
that pointed him to an interesting weapon.
“Air cannon!”
A cylindrical item about the size of a hand. It was almost the same gadget from
Doraemon, although this one cost a rank D reward and 2000 points. The description
was this weapon has unlimited ammunition because it uses pressurized, condensed
air for attack. The user has to provide the energy to use it. Qi and blood energy
were also forms of energy it accepts, so this made it count as half a magical weapon.
However, it was ineffective against spiritual beings.
Since the description contained the words extremely powerful and unlimited ammunition,
and also accepted his Qi and blood energy, Zheng made up his mind to exchange
it. Most sci-fi weapons didn’t need any rewards to exchange so the ones that
did were usually more powerful or contained special effects. Zheng also hoped so.
He wasn’t disappointed. He just had to channel energy into the air cannon then pull
the trigger. It would suck in nearby air and shoot out a shock wave after about two
seconds. After testing the power of the shock wave, the vibration could turn a plate
armor into sand and had a reach of fifty meters. Instead of air cannon, it was more
fitting to call it a pulse cannon.
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This new sci-fi weapon made Zheng delighted. He also finally exchanged the movement
technique and a large quantity of magical bullets. These bullets tended to be
consumed in large quantities and were also inexpensive so he didn’t hesitate exchanging
them. After everything was set, Zheng only had 1270 points left.
Only three days until the next movie. Honglu suggested they perform a training battle
against each other. Forbidding the use of powerful weapons and attacking critical
areas. Zheng teamed up with Lan while the other four people formed a team. They
would use the training to get accustomed to their new enhancements.
Lan’s voice came through the communication device. “Two people in the forest to
your left, Heng and Yinkong. Heng was hiding on top of a tree, the tree wasn’t too
big. Yinkong was hiding under the shadows of a tree. She was not far off from the
edge of the forest. Jie and Honglu are moving very fast. They should reach us in ten
minutes. Hurry.”
Zheng sighed with a special feeling. The psyche scan was too useful. Lan became
the eyes of the team, and if she could obtain the Soul Link ability and send what she
sees directly into their minds, then their enemies would feel like totally naked in from
of them, and couldn’t even realize they were watching.
Zheng then sprinted toward the forest. When he was about to step in, an arrow
came through the trees with great power, speed, and accuracy. It reached Zheng in
the blink of an eye.
However, Zheng had an incredible reaction speed, especially after the Vampire
Count bloodline enhancement. His stats reached a very high point. Plus, this arrow
was shot from afar. Although it was still powerful, Zheng easily brushed it aside. He
then jumped six meters high and stood on top of a tree.
This was from the movement technique. When Zheng wanted to use the technique,
his Qi would circulate inside his body in a special path. Then he would feel his body
became light. A small jump could bring him up to several meters high. He fell in love
with this feeling at once. This was just only the entry level technique, what about the
higher ranked ones?
The movement technique offset the speed and range limitation Zheng had. Especially
in complex terrains like this. He could almost break out of the limitation that
terrains put on close combat. After he got up on the tree, a figure jumped off a tree
from afar.
That was definitely Heng, Zheng laughed to himself. He jumped at Heng’s direction
at once. The movement technique consumes a huge amount of Qi. He could only
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use it for several minutes but it was enough. He could reach Heng in under a minute
with his current speed.
As he was jumping on the branches, a silver knife flew past him, almost touching his
foot. That gave Zheng a shock since any little bit of injury during this training meant
he would lose.
While he was shocked, a figure was running at him with high speed. She pulled
out her flaming dagger and jumped up when she was seven meters away, with the
dagger aiming at Zheng’s feet. When Zheng finally looked down, the dagger was
already ten centimeters away. It was too late to dodge.
Zheng stepped on air and jumped up twenty centimeters further, dodging the dagger
by a split second. But its flame still burned the bottom of his shoes. Then Yinkong’s
body began to fall at increasing speed.
Everything happened in an instant. By the time Zheng landed on the ground, he had
entered the unlocked mode. Yinkong was dashing at him with her dagger, so Zheng
had no choice but to jump forward again to dodge, then immediately jump back at
her.
Zheng charged her to a tree before she could react. His left hand was pressing on
her neck and the other hand on her body against the tree. Although neither of them
were injured, they both knew Zheng won the fight.
Yinkong blushed. Zheng was surprised that she would show such expression. “I lost.
I will withdraw from this battle. Can you move your hand now?”
Zheng moved his eyesight toward his hand and noticed he was pressing on her
breast. Although she wrapped her chest with cloth but he could still feel that softness.
Zheng subconsciously squeezed it. It wasn’t until he heard her moan before
he moved his hand away panicking. Yinkong’s face was totally red by then.
She quickly returned to her normal expressionless face, although still a little red.
Yinkong said calmly. “Then this is it. I will withdraw from the battle. You’re great.
Your way of fighting is not confined to any style. I cannot predict your next attack
when you entered the unlocked mode.”
Zheng couldn’t get himself to look straight at her. He jumped up to a branch and
scouted around. Just then, the communication device rang. “Zheng, they found my
location. They are coming over. Heng is behind you to the left. He’s taking aim at
you. Be careful and you must win.”
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This place was the basement of Jie’s room. After testing, they found out that the
basement could be expanded to up to a hundred kilometers. They could also create
natural sceneries like forests and lakes. Zheng and Lan decided on the plan soon
after choosing the teams. Lan would hide somewhere and tell him the location of
everyone through the device while Zheng go and fight alone.
Shortly after Zheng’s group left, Jie and Honglu split up with their team. Honglu was
the only one allowed to use firearms. The two of them stayed in the open plains
so it was difficult for Zheng to attack them. Even though bullets couldn’t deal much
damage to his body but he also couldn’t evade them all. So he had to go for Yinkong
and Heng. These two posed the most threat. He would find a way to deal with Jie
and Honglu once he got the two threats out of the battle.
Zheng immediately turned his head around. Two arrows were coming at him from
1.5 kilometers away. It was Heng’s special attack. The team had seemed his performance
with the bow Sirius. He could reach up to two kilometers using the bow.
If he used the charged shot, he could extend the range further to up to ten kilometers!
Though that would be difficult to Heng due to his current aim and skill. Two
kilometers was where he was most powerful at.
As Zheng jumped to the side, one of the arrows hit the tail of the other, giving it a
burst of speed. The arrow then went through the bottom of his trousers and missed
his leg by just a centimeter.
Zheng was also shocked by Heng’s technique. He couldn’t have imagined this was
something Heng originally knew and not an exchanged ability.
Without hesitation, Zheng jumped from one tree to another using the movement technique.
He reached Heng in just a few minutes. To his surprise, Heng got on the
ground and immediately said. “I lost! I lost!”
Zheng asked. “Why? You sprained your ankle?”
Heng said bitterly. “No. After I shot the arrows and saw you coming at me with an
angry look, I got so scared I couldn’t move.”
“…”
Zheng helped him up with a laugh and said. “Not so exaggerating right? This is only
a training. I won’t hurt you.”
Heng replied with shame. “I am really scared. When I think that you might hit me, I
couldn’t move my body. It seems like I am just not fit to survive in this world.”
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Zheng looked at his trousers and shook his head. “Your ability is strong. The team
can’t go without a sniper. You are the important member that take Zero’s position.
Don’t look down upon yourself. Overcome your fear and you will definitely become
a strong member of our team. Trust me!”
Heng sighed but Zheng said before he could do so. “I lost this battle. You are really
strong. This isn’t to flatter you. The strong doesn’t need such words. Remember,
you have to become strong, not only in your ability but also your heart, to survive, for
yourself and for the people you love. When you have this determination, you will be
able to aim your bow at anyone. Trust me!”
Heng followed Zheng’s eyes and looked at his trousers. There was a blood line on
his leg. Although the arrow missed, the air pressure it generated scratched Zheng’s
skin.
Zheng’s team lost the training at the end. Heng’s archery was a surprise and most
importantly their teamwork.
“Yes, teamwork. We can see that during the battle with team India, we were at a disadvantage
the whole time. However, aside from luck and our team composition, the
most important part is everyone of us were working together. I don’t know what’s the
issue with team India but their team seemed like it was forced together. It’s difficult to
lead a team when you lose your momentum. That’s why we obtain the final victory.”
It was late into the day by the time the training was over. Under Honglu’s suggestion,
they had a bonfire party in the plains. Aside from having a barbecue, Honglu
convinced Zheng to make team rules.
Zheng also thought about this before. Rules make or break a team. After discussing
with Honglu and obtaining opinions from everyone, he finalized five rules for now.
“One, our team currently has six members. When we receive newbies in a movie, we
will first get to know their profession and fitness level. Then we will vote if anyone
can become a temporary member. We can save temporary members if it doesn’t put
us in danger.”
“Two, anyone who doesn’t pass our vote will be given a weapon and gold. If it’s a
movie that takes place away from the civilization, then we will give them food and
water instead. If these people cause conflicts with veterans or temporary members,
or if they put the team in danger, we can kill them or impair their movement.”
“Three, everyone’s points and rewards will be recorded at the end of a movie. Then
we will exchange enhancements based on what you are good at. You can’t get en-
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hancements solely for your own survival. This isn’t efficient for the team. After three
warnings, the other members will hunt you down.”
“Four, the leader will be in charge of quest items. We will vote if you have objections.
If over seventy percent of members agree, then the leader will share control of the
control to everyone. If the vote fails, there will not be a second vote.”
“Five, the team’s first priority is to protect the psyche force user, mastermind/strategist,
and members with unique abilities. If combat members have enough points and rewards,
then they will buy enhancements for these three types of members. However,
it won’t exceed a quarter of your total points.”
Zheng was holding a golden plate that was carved with these five rules. He muttered.
“These are the temporary rules of team China. We will amend them if the situation
calls for it. I hope that when we are to leave this world, the six of us, or even more
people can still be looking at these rules!”
Chapter 4
Two days left until the next movie. All preparations were set, including weapons and
supportive items such as bandages, hemostasis sprays, packaged food, solidified
water. After the training, they also needed a bit of time to relax. Since learning of
what they could do with their basements, everyone went back and created their own
resort. Aside from the lack of humans, these places looked exactly the same as Earth.
“When we go back, we will find somewhere quiet and beautiful like this place to live.
We will probably be very rich by then. Haha. If I feel like it, I will wear my briefs on the
outside and go save the world. Then go shopping with you on my free time. Stop
laughing like this, not like it’s impossible.” Zheng sat on the grass with Lori in his arms.
The weather and atmosphere seemed so real except that there was no sun.
Lori never watched Superman before her death. However, they had been watching
a lot of movies here. Mostly horror movies with Zheng but also some recent movies
by herself. So she learned about Superman and laughed when Zheng said it. A wave
of gentle wind blew past them and rippled the grass field.
The two of them snuggled quietly without saying anything, feeling this tranquility.
Until Zheng slipped his hand into her collar.
Heng was aiming at a tree a thousand meters away. The elf bloodline increased his
dexterity, eyesight and his control over bows by a lot. Plus he was naturally talented
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at using bows. He had gotten used to using Sirius within these few days and also
improved his archery skill.
Ricochet and explosive shot were two skills he saw from an ancient book passed
down in his family. Even with his hard working, he only learned to use ricochet. There
were other archery skills but those seemed so unreal. It wasn’t when he saw these
skills in the exchange system that he realized these were real. That was why he
started to train explosive shot.
Explosive shot, shoot two arrows continuously, place more strength on the later arrows
such that the back arrow would hit the one in front and double its speed and
power. Legend was that the strongest archer could connect nine arrows.
Heng knew he had a bit of talent with bows, but not enough to be regarded as a
genius. The most crucial part was he didn’t have the courage to shoot a second time.
So he could only make up for his weakness by putting in more effort. He had to place
all his hope in the first shot.
Unfortunately, he had reached his limit of two arrows with the explosive shot. It
seemed like he had to enhance the elf bloodline further. But he had to at least get
proficient with two arrows.
Blood dripped from the bow. His hand was covered with cuts and the string stained
with blood. Heng frowned as he walked toward the stairs. “Only 800 points left.
Should be enough for eighty more recoveries.”
Lan sat in her room with her eyes closed. After quite a while, she lay down on her
bed lazily. Her eyes looked lost. She picked up a pillow and kept hitting it, muttering
baka at the same time. After a while, she held onto the pillow and continued looking
lost.
“Am I a baka? They are obviously not the same person. Why won’t I create him? Do
I really love two people at the same time? No, that’s because…”
Lan muttered the words as if she was talking in her sleep. In fact, she didn’t realize
what she was saying. The two figures were flashing in her mind. In the end, these
two figures superimposed as one then she felt even more troubled.
Lan sat up from her bed and took out a locked journal from the nightstand. She
opened it and began to read.
“Such a miraculous place. Perhaps we can’t go back like Jie said and this is hell. Then
can I see you again here? I am about to forget your face.”
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“I’ve been here for several days already. Jie said we will be entering the next movie
in ten days. I hope we can be as lucky as the last one. I almost died to that monster.
That was when I realized I am actually afraid to die. No, not just dying. I am afraid
that I will forget everything. Forget about myself, about you, about love, and about
hate.”
“We will be entering tomorrow. That Zheng is so lucky. But people always said happiness
is inversely related to luck. Yet, he was laughing with such happiness. Should
I also create you? I don’t know. Really. Death is death. Even if I create you, it won’t
be the same person. When I think that someone that looks the same as you and has
the same memories as you touch me, I get so scared. Am I scared to see you again?
Or is it because I hate you too much that I don’t want to see you again? I am going.
I hope I can come back.”
Lan laughed as she read it. Yet tears dripped on the diary like pearl.
“He’s actually a nice guy, just too stubborn and kind hearted. He should have left me
and ran away by himself under that circumstance. He’s just like you, stubborn and
kind hearted. Such a baka.”
“When I was dragged away by the Alien, I suddenly realized how that girl must have
felt. She was probably in despair yet attached to this world. No matter how much
one wants to die, she will still feel attached to this world. I took him as you at that
moment.”
“I suddenly feel sympathy toward the outsiders in a relationship. Aversion and sympathy.
Not toward what they did but pity how they felt.”
“I feel so upset, because I saw him embraced Lori.”
Lan was sobbing by now. She cried and cried until she took out a pen and wrote. “I
really give up. Sorry, will you forgive me? I won’t love anyone anymore from now on.
Staying with you until we meet in hell. Then I will apologize.”
Honglu was assembling mechanical parts fanatically. Electricity flared from a part
and bang, the whole thing exploded. When the smoke went away, Honglu was sitting
there with a face covered in black ashes. He touched his face then laughed out loud.
“Little master, this made people worry. Can you use some protection?”
A gorgeous woman about twenty eight or nine dressed in cheongsam stood behind
Honglu. She looked mature and had a great body that could provoke every man’s
fantasies.
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Honglu shook his head. “I told you not to come down with me and you just won’t
listen? Ran nee-san, didn’t I tell you to call me younger brother? It’s fine. These are
low power none explosive machines. They are not destructive even if they explode.
I know how to avoid danger. Hehe, don’t worry.”
She wanted to say something but in the end she sighed and kept it to herself. She
took out a handkerchief to clean his face and said. “Master Young, these clothes are
too… at least let me wear underwear.”
Honglu laughed pervertedly. He slapped her butt and said. “That’s not possible. You
are not going out to the platform anyway. There are no other people here. Or do you
not want me to see?”
She blushed and muttered. “No. It’s just that this is not right.”
Honglu turned back to assembling the mechanical parts. “That’s not possible. I like
to see you dressed like this. You have to wear those pajamas too when we sleep,
and you have to snuggle me. Then let’s continue. I will assemble this by the end of
today.”
The parts exploded again and his face was covered in ashes once again, and also
that handkerchief.
Inside Yinkong’s room. The room was designed in such a way that it looked like
a prison. There was no furniture or decorations of any sort, only a hardwood bed
without mattress and gray sheets, and a little closet. It looked like a prison more than
anything.
The room was pitch black at the moment. Yinkong sat on the rim of the bed with her
legs crossed. She focused deep into her mind. She had merged with this darkness
aside from her faint existence. After some time, she opened her eyes and stood up.
She pulled a chain on the floor, revealing an entrance to the basement. Even this
entrance looked so weird, nothing like a normal girl should know.
The basement was also pitch black. But if you turned on the light, you could see
wooden pillars the height of a person. These pillars were not arranged in any order.
In the center of them was a metal pillar that looked like a human. However, this metal
one was filled with scratches.
Yinkong entered this basement without any light. She couldn’t even make out anything
beyond a meter herself. So she closed her eyes, held onto the dagger sheath
with her right hand and slowly walked to the pillar in the center. Then she began to
speed up until she was running.
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Miraculously, she dodged every pillar when she came within a meter of one without
slowing down. There was also barely any sound from her running. She was just like
a cat. Looking closely, Yinkong wasn’t wearing any shoes.
She was getting close to the center. Yinkong opened her eyes as if she could have
felt it. As she was about to unsheathe her dagger, bang! She ran into a wooden pillar
and knocked herself dizzy. It took some time before she got up from the ground.
As she sat there with her eyes staring into the blank, she looked like such a beautiful
loli. One that would make any lolicon go crazy over her. She got up from the floor
and put a bandage over her forehead then muttered. “I can’t maintain my mind emotionless
the moment I attack. I keep emitting killing intents. How did they do it? Or
do they not think of themselves as humans?”
Yinkong walked to the stairs as she said. Those pillars were filled with blood stains.
She had failed countless times already.
Jie was doing the same thing as Zheng. He took the woman he loved to a grass field
in the basement. They were walking with their hands holding onto each other.
Jie felt burdened. They just walked without saying a word, until they reached a lake.
Nana said tenderly. “Want to fish for a bit? I will get the rod.”
He wanted to reject but saw a hint of begging in her eyes, so he smiled and accepted
the suggestion. Then he sat on the edge of the lake, looking over this silvery calm
water. Nana came back a little out of breath. She handed Jie a fishing rod.
“Something on your mind? Is it your team members?”
She helped him attach the bait carefully. Jie sighed then cast it into the lake.
She sat next to Jie elegantly, leaning against him and muttered. “Can’t tell me? It’s
best to talk with people close to you when you are agitated or unhappy. Tell me, Jie,
I want to know what makes you so unhappy.”
Jie was silent for a bit then said. “Are you willing to disappear with me? Not death nor
alive. We will hold onto each other’s hands and leave this world. Are you willing?”
Nana placed her little hands into Jie’s palm and smiled. “My hands are always in your
palm. Jie, no matter where you go, even if you are to disappear, I will always follow
you, until forever. As long as you don’t let go of my hands, I will never let go of yours.”
Jie stared into her eyes with love then felt the sand in his eyes. He turned around
and continued. “I… I’m just worried about you. What does this world have to do with
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me? I am just afraid of you feeling sad and cry. If one day I am gone, you will cry
right?”
She smiled at him. Her voice was still tender but her tone was determined. “There
won’t be this day. When you disappear, I will follow you to anywhere. No matter if it
is death or to disappear. I will never be alone.”
Jie took a breath then laughed. “Is that so? Then I said the wrong thing. Let us face
everything together. Let us finish the last journey holding onto our hands in the next
movie. Stupid girl, I promised I will never let go of your hand and I will do it. We will
hold onto each other even when death comes.”
(We will face everything together, even death. From now on until then, we will never
let go of each other’s hands.)
As time passed by, the final day had come. Some people knew and some didn’t that
one thing would come to a conclusion in the next movie, whether they wanted it to
or not. Many things were destined since the beginning. All they could do was just
struggle.
Zheng began to organize his ring since the morning. Gold bars, bullets, knife, guns,
air cannon, grenades, the Book of the Dead and some miscellaneous stuffs like food
and water. Even though each item only took a space but they filled the whole 1.5
cubic meters. Zheng even thought about getting another ring but just thinking. It
was not worth the reward to get another item with the same function.
“Packed everything? Did you get your rifle? I didn’t see you put it in.” Lori was more
anxious than Zheng.
Zheng stroke her hair and smile. “Don’t worry, everything’s set. Weapons, gold,
bullets, everything. Stupid, why are you so anxious? This isn’t the first time.”
Lori said in a serious tone. “Stop being so careless. No matter how many times
this is, I won’t allow you to be so careless! Any mistake can cause death, even two
seemingly unrelated event…”
Zheng immediately stopped her. “I told you not to watch the Final Destination series
and you still did. Don’t worry, we are going to horror movies, not suspense or
thriller. We won’t enter that one. I will fulfill my promise. I won’t die no matter what.
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