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Chapter 90 - 70: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon in the Small Shelter (Requesting Follows, Monthly Tickets, and Recommendations)

Chapter 90: Chapter 70: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon in the Small Shelter (Requesting Follows, Monthly Tickets, and Recommendations)

"You set out on your journey once again."

"After another death, you couldn’t help but feel that heroes are as plentiful as carps crossing the river. You realized your strength was still far from sufficient, and your resolve to become stronger solidified. You threw back Gu Pan’s blanket."

""Brother, what are you trying to do!?" Gu Pan asked in panic, her arms crossed over her chest. Your gaze sent shivers down her spine."

"But she seemed to forget that she didn’t actually have a chest at that moment; so, her curled up slender white legs under the skirt were fully exposed to you, to your great delight."

A dynamic portrait appeared before you, showing a small, curled-up Gu Pan on the bed, her face flushed with a mix of embarrassment and shock, which sparked a desire in you to tease her.

"I always feel like the Tai Chu Scroll naturally leans towards a cheesy tendency," Xu Shu commented.

"One whole you, not bad," was your remark.

You had seen her torn in two by an unknown monster. Now seeing her alive again stirred feelings within you. After making a comparison, you asked her, "So, what kind of monster can turn ordinary ground into quicksand that corrodes human flesh without being visible to the naked eye?"

"What the heck?" Gu Pan was baffled by your question.

"...Never mind, get up. It seems we are surrounded by monsters," you realized the question was too much for her, sparing further explanation, you informed her of the imminent trouble.

Moreover, you deduced these enemies were well-prepared and had surely laid traps around the shelter.

She didn’t believe it at first, but recalling how you had demonstrated a similar predictive ability in prison, she guessed it might be a special aspect of the scripture you were practicing. Reluctantly, she had to believe and quickly got in stride with you.

Ignoring the bowing Wasteland Wanderers, you headed straight to the hall’s entrance, examining the ground from your memory to the edge of the quicksand trap.

After careful observation, you found that it was impossible to distinguish the quicksand from regular ground with the naked eye. The trap’s camouflaging was exceptionally cunning; no wonder you were fooled.

Carefully, you skirted the quicksand area, marking out a large circle on the ground with a steel bar.

Embarrassingly, your vehicle was in the middle of the quicksand area, which was a trap.

You spat out a Black Widow Silk, trying to be like Spiderman by using the web to pull out the high-quality armored vehicle.

Unfortunately, unlike Spiderman, your Spit Silk formed a huge net.

The web enveloped the armored vehicle, but you couldn’t pull it out, proving your failure at emulating him.

Calculating the time, you took Gu Pan back to the shelter hall and smashed a large vase to draw everyone’s attention.

You ignored the vase owner’s whining and warned them of strong enemies and monsters seeking revenge. They could choose to flee or fight, but first, they had to tell you where the man named "Ao Yaolin" was, otherwise, they’d be killed by you before the monsters could even reach them.

The shelter residents didn’t dare argue with your brash manner, but still, some were courageous enough to form a group of over thirty self-proclaimed shelter security guards.

Their quality was poor, nowhere near those robbers. Observing their actions with the gun slide, you knew they were all but a group of useless shooters, hardly better than nothing.

With no choice, fueled by your Killing Heart Burning, the real elites of the shelter had been sacrificed to the great Lie Zhenzi last night – quickly say, "Thank you, Lie Zhenzi."

"Meanwhile, you hadn’t inquired about that man’s whereabouts, and it turned out that no one in the shelter even recognized who Ao Yaolin was. He must be hiding very deep."

"Coward," you spat bitterly at him.

The enemy forces would reach the battlefield in thirty seconds.

Gu Pan had assembled and calibrated the sniper rifle, having fought alongside you more than once, and she tactfully moved to the rooftop of the building diagonally opposite, the place where Gun King Cheng had fought.

Before she left, she whispered to you, "Why insist on sharing life and death with these wanderers? If monsters really attack the shelter, can’t we just run away?"

"A true man born of this world should never regard human lives as mere weeds. I will share the fate of the people," you declared fervently, deeply moving Gu Pan and touching the wanderers so much they wanted to bow down to you, you were really too righteous.

Thirty seconds flashed by, and suddenly you saw a monster falling from the sky, emitting a cry like that of a baby.

It was it! The Exotic Species·Gu Diao.

The scene paused momentarily.

A monster nearly three meters long, resembling a bird with a beast-like appearance and wings on its back, with a body full of bony ridges, flew over.

It landed on top of the security booth, watching the people in the hall with a human-like yawn, its wing edges sharp as blades.

At a glance, Xu Shu knew that this was the monster that had sliced Gu Pan in half during the last expedition.

"In half an hour, that freak shouting for revenge, Ao Yaolin, will appear. We must fight quickly and defeat them one by one!"

While the Gu Diao was still observing you, you didn’t hesitate to grab a steel rod and hurled it whistling through the air. Your Throwing Skill had become very proficient, the steel rod striking fast as lightning, accurate as thunder.

At the same time, Gu Pan on the rooftop also fired her gun.

Your steel rod pierced through the Gu Diao’s chest while Gu Pan’s sniper shot exploded the Gu Diao’s head. The Gu Diao didn’t have time to scream before it fell from the security booth—a perfect mixed doubles.

However, the critical weakness of the Gu Diao was in its buttocks. Without a head or a heart, it struggled to rise from the ground.

Damn, its brain was in its ass?

Is this what you call a Gu Diao?

Xu Shu was incredibly frustrated and grabbed another sturdy steel rod, ran out, and mercilessly pounded the Gu Diao into a mushy pile of flesh.

Embedded within the pile of flesh was a faintly visible white Erosion Crystal. It was ten-level.

"When the Warrior goes to war, not a blade of grass grows."

You had killed it, revenge was yours, but you knew stronger enemies were coming, and you didn’t let your guard down.

Suddenly, there was a commotion in the crowd, and you noticed a hole had broken open on the floor of the hall. Many monsters looking like oversized shrimp had climbed onto several people’s faces, shrieking and injecting a white liquid into their mouths.

"You hear screams again, ’Ah! Help, get away, get away~’, ’Dad, save me, there are monsters!’ ’Son, quickly get the knife, the knife ahhhh...’ And you suddenly realize, the voices are coming from this place."

"These insect-like monsters are biting people, causing their bodies to twitch and emit strange groans, while dark red hairs eerily grow on their skin."

"During this time, a few security guards were so terrified they started shooting at the faces of those embraced, killing their own people*6."

"At the same time, they were shouting explanations to the deceased’s relatives, ’If we don’t kill them, they’ll turn into monsters too,’ while suddenly vomiting out a lot of last night’s dinner, the leftover food now covered in black blood-stained fur!"

"People scattered in every direction, and in a blink, these few seemed to have been mysteriously contaminated too, sprouting red hairs on their bodies."

"Well now, it turned out they were the ones becoming monsters."

"You decide..."

"You go up and throw a few punches, turning these four mutating security guards into Headless Knights."

"Shoot! You’ve killed a flesh body of an Evil Spirit, you’ve been cursed with its malignant spell, you’ve been contaminated, and your body is starting to mutate into it!"

"Suddenly you start bleeding from your nose and mouth, your heart beats violently, your limbs swelled as if ants were crawling inside them, your eyes bulging as if about to explode."

"Damn, Jingwei!" you roar as you activate the Jingwei Shield. You are now hardly susceptible to external damage."

"However, this doesn’t work very well because you’ve been contaminated, and the damage you’re suffering is coming from within yourself."

"The Jingwei Shield can block various external attacks, but it cannot reverse the internal erosion and pollution in your body. You need transcendental-level treatment, or you will die a slow death."

"Your body starts convulsing, and the people around you watch in fear. Several security guards start shooting at you, attempting to kill you, but fortunately, Jingwei blocks their bullets."

"You immediately lie down, start doing sit-ups, and under the boost of forbidden words, your life steadily begins to recover as you start a tug-of-war with the curse."

"You are more skilled, and it finally couldn’t pollute you, it was contained by you and failed to successfully latch on. Deprived of the energy of life, it died on the spot."

"As a victim of the Evil Curse, you were infused with a wealth of knowledge, discovering the branch information about this Evil Spirit among the ten relatives!"

"Yang God·Corpse Dog!"

"Everyone who kills the Corpse Dog will be parasitized by it, turning into a new Corpse Dog, unless you keep enough distance, or, as you did, overcome it with tenacious vitality."

"You overcame this special contamination of the Evil Spirit, but the bullets from the security guards around you didn’t stop, as they all thought you had mutated."

"Damn it, everybody cease fire!" you roar, but your voice is hoarse and the tug-of-war had greatly harmed you."

"They listened, and grew even more terrified: ’Quick, kill him, his mind has been parasitized by the monster!’"

"Ratatatat! Machine guns blazing."

"They were timid against the monsters, but against you, who appeared to have mutated into one, they struck hard."

"You had no choice but to keep doing sit-ups and use Jingwei to block the bullets, but you wouldn’t last much longer like this."

"At that moment, with a few bursts of gunfire, Gu Pan’s support arrived, and she pinpointed and killed those ineffective and harmful security guards."

"At last, my pain wasn’t in vain." You finally breathed a sigh of relief, turned to look at Gu Pan, and intended to give her an approving look."

"But what met you was a sniper bullet passing through your head. You weren’t doing sit-ups at that moment, and your Jingwei had just been turned off, so her shot exploded your head."

"Just before you died, you vaguely saw her lips moving as she said:"

"’I’m sorry I couldn’t save you, but at least I can let you die with the dignity of a human. I guess that would be your choice too. Thank me, Xu Shu!’"

"Her eyes slightly drooped, filled with pity and reluctance, then she pulled the trigger several times."

"Bang! Bang! Bang!"

"???"

"’I choose to fuck you, you brainless idiot!’"

"You died, this journey ends, settling now..."

"Evaluation: You were a strong and powerful warrior; even a bizarre one like the Yang God·Corpse Dog couldn’t harm you, but in the end, your pig-headed ally killed you. Who else can you blame? It was your own choice, master."

"You have learned a skill: Curse Resistance (Normal)"

"Curse Resistance (Normal): Your resistance to curses has increased a little bit; when facing curses, you can resist being contaminated for just a tiny bit longer."

"Reminder: These types of skills provide permanent attribute enhancements, directly affecting yourself."

"Today’s open count: 1/3"

"..."

"Fuck, I could still fight!"

"These clueless idiots."

Xu Shu shivered, waking up from the fog.

Now he was standing in Gu Pan’s room, seeing her still sleeping soundly, curled up like a baby silkworm, and recalling her perfectly aimed headshot.

He couldn’t help but pull back Gu Pan’s blanket and fiercely slammed her head three times.

Slap! Slap! Slap!

Bewildered by sleep, Gu Pan clutched her forehead and looked at Xu Shu in confusion:

"Ow, what are you doing?"