Infinite Ebullience
Chapter 263 - 17: The Card Soldier and The Stone Bridge

Chapter 263: Chapter 17: The Card Soldier and The Stone Bridge

Tang Zheng didn’t fire his gun rashly. He glanced back and saw Lin Weiguo had climbed up to three-quarters of the way, but his energy was almost exhausted. This made it increasingly difficult for him to keep his balance. Now every step he took needed dozens of seconds.

Alice stood up.

Chuckle, Alice had a odd smile on her face. Suddenly, she threw the kitchen knife in her hand and took out a deck of poker cards from her apron. She flicked her fingers and the deck turned into a fan shape and fell on the ground.

The power was so great that she was pushed back several steps. However, the real trouble was the poker cards. After they fell on the ground, a burst of black mist surged like a tide and two poker soldiers emerged.

These soldiers were bending over, their faces skeletal, wearing red hoods. Many red heart patterns were printed on their bloody and dirty bodies. They had no weapons, but their sharp teeth and claws were enough to tear any creature apart.

"Fire, stop them." Tang Zheng wanted to fire in sweeping motions, trying to kill the crowded students coming towards him.

"Are you crazy?" Tang Zheng violently waved his arm and struck the muzzle of Zhang Hao’s gun upwards.

Dada... Bullets thundered, stones fell, students panicked, some pushed forward, some covered their ears and stood still, and some even tried to squat and dodge, but the crowd was really dense, none of these movements were feasible.

"At least we can’t let them die by our hands. Zhang Hao, Bai Guo, block the students rushing from the front for me." Tang Zheng scolded Zhang Hao, leaned against the wall, found several meat shields, finally not swaying like a small boat in stormy weather, then he immediately raised his gun and fired at the heads of the two Poker Soldiers.

Poker Soldiers successfully captured two students and ignored their struggles while forcefully dragging them to their master, Alice. A bullet hit them, and they faltered, but they didn’t die instantly.

"Aim right, and you guys, calm down." Zhang Hao was blocking the students with Howling Reaper. Seeing their disobedience, he immediately punched out several times indiscriminately. Several girls who were hit screamed.

"He fell." Han Zifeng suddenly shouted without warning, startling everyone. They all turned their heads in unison, only Tang Zheng continued shooting. He didn’t dare to look at the outcome.

"Bastard, what nonsense are you talking about!" Qin Yan was outraged and slapped Han Zifeng’s face with a swift movement of her hand.

"Uncle, Uncle Lin is fine." Lu Xun also reported nervously after taking a breath.

After consuming more than half of a drum magazine, the heads of the two poker soldiers were blown up. The two captured students ran away as soon as they were saved.

Alice, who was watching this game with crossed arms, frowned and pouted in dissatisfaction. She didn’t summon the poker soldiers again, but rushed out herself, grabbing a student from behind.

Watching his classmate get caught by Alice, this student felt relieved, and ran even faster, then desperately squeezed to the front. He didn’t want to stay in the back row anymore, causing another round of jostling.

Pat. Tang Zheng could not endure it any longer, and shot the man on his shoulder. After seeing him collapse, he had time to look back. As for the student who was captured by Alice, Tang Zheng didn’t provoke Alice deliberately because she stopped attacking after catching him.

"Where’s my kitchen knife?" Alice screamed, staring at the crowd.

All of a sudden, a student threw back the kitchen knife, not caring whether she would attack again after getting it.

Five meters away from the successful landing, because of a sudden gunshot, the highly concentrated Lin Weiguo lost focus, slipped down the climbing rope, and luckily his left hand caught a steel cable in time. However, his lower body was dipped in green liquid, and his clothes began to corrode.

Han Zifeng was slapped for no reason. He was right. Lin Weiguo indeed fell into the liquid. According to the circumstances of ordinary people, he would definitely not survive. Fortunately, Lin Weiguo wore the Level A Unicorn Protective Clothing which protected him from the venom.

Two students, unable to bear the screams of their classmates being abused by Alice in the tunnel, ran over and climbed up the chain, but one of them moved less than five meters before feeling their arms weak. They let go and fell to their death, being corroded until only a pile of bones sank into the pool.

The other climbed just two meters and was scared still. He didn’t dare to move. Several other students who also planned to escape on the chain broke out in a cold sweat, feeling grateful that they were half a step late.

"Help me." The student who had climbed two meters hugged the chain tightly, pleading for his life with a sense of despair and struggle in his voice.

Li Xinlan and Qin Yan both reached out their hands, but it was too late. With a bang, Zhang Hao pulled out his handgun and shot him to death.

"What are you doing?" Seeing the body fall into the pool, Li Xinlan cursed out loud.

"Such outcry can increase Lin Weiguo’s psychological pressure, do you want him to completely fall off?" Zhang Hao makes a point, Lin Weiguo is on the edge of life and death, he can’t be further stimulated.

Lin Weiguo, covered in sweat and gritting his teeth, swayed and with effort managed to grab the wire rope with his other hand. Making an upward pull-up movement, he bent his body, hooked both his legs onto the wire rope, and began to move forward.

"Old Lin, think of your wife and son, you can do it." Lin Weiguo had climbed nearly three hundred meters, and he dared not delay, fearing that Tang Zheng and the others could not hang on, which made him consume even more physical strength. He now felt his strength draining away as a feeling of falling enveloped his body.

When Lin Weiguo climbed to the opposite side, the students who were keeping a close eye on him cheered, while Lin Weiguo heaved a long sigh of relief, then got up to go look for any traps.

Tang Zheng had his target set on Alice but did not shoot.

The crazed Alice didn’t immediately kill her prey this time, either.

"Found it." Lin Weiguo shouted, pulling a lever on the wall. The ceiling above the poison pool began to shake, and with the falling debris, a half-meter wide roof came down to form a stone bridge across the pool.

Han Zifeng could imagine the pandemonium that would ensue in their desperate bid for escape, so just as the stone bridge was a few inches from touching the ground, he abruptly thrust his hips backward, knocking them over. He then picked himself up, stepped onto the bridge, and staggered towards the other side.

"This bastard!" Zhang Hao was furious, immediately raising his gun and firing two shots, but Han Zifeng was incredibly lucky, he scraped by without getting hit, and the lad had a good psychological quality as he ran rather steadily.

Zhang Hao didn’t want to waste time and wanted to be the second one onto the bridge, but Tang Zheng’s words made him stop in his tracks.

"Zhang Hao, push them away, let Li Xinlan and the others go first, then the girls, and finally the boys. If you dare to go ahead, I’ll kill you." Tang Zheng had no time to shoot, or else he would definitely kill Han Zifeng.

"Damn it, always ordering me around." Zhang Hao didn’t believe that Tang Zheng would die in a place like this, so to avoid incurring his wrath, he had to stop and push the students away to let Bai Guo and the others onto the bridge.

The students were dissatisfied, and some were even cursing loudly. They completely forgot that it was Tang Zheng who was guarding against Alice, that he was trying hard to maintain order, and that it was his friend who had successfully crossed the wire rope and lowered the stone bridge...

Faced with the only way out, they only wanted to escape, wanted to trample their classmates under their feet, and let them counter the crazed Alice.

"Don’t panic, I’ll be the last one across." Tang Zheng knew he couldn’t soft-pedal now. As he was preparing to shoot, Yin Shangwu had already fled from the Desert Eagle and blew out the brains of a male student who had disobeyed and stepped onto the bridge. With a splash, he fell into the pool.

"Stop gaping, move on." Pang Meiqin jumped on the bridge and ran forward without looking back. "The faster you move, the less danger Tang Zheng will be in."

"Tang Zheng, you’re being stupid again." After saying these words, Yin Shangwu stepped onto the stone bridge. Under the threat of her gun, the others did not dare to act rashly and order was restored.

"Girls first, boys stay back." Standing near the bridge, Zhang Hao shouted loudly, trying to earn some brownie points. As the female staff member was stepping onto the stone bridge in silk stockings, Zhang Hao reached out his hand, but before he could touch, a bullet whizzed past his head.

"Lin Weiguo, what are you doing?" Zhang Hao was furious, he saw Lin Weiguo on the other side aiming his gun at him and no longer dared to take advantage.

Lin Weiguo hadn’t really seen anything. He was just guarding against Alice and warning Zhang Hao not to play tricks. He didn’t know that Zhang Hao was feeling guilty.

Once order was restored, the students quickly stepped onto the stone bridge. Alice didn’t continue attacking, but let them leave.

"Let’s go, don’t just stand there." After saying that, Zhang Hao ran off alone, ignoring Tang Zheng.

"She really is crazy." Tang Zheng couldn’t understand why, but he was too lazy to think about it. He got on the stone bridge, but unfortunately couldn’t move fast because the students up ahead were too slow.

The half-meter-wide stone bridge was not narrow at all, but under the circumstances of having a deadly poison pool below and pursuers behind, they couldn’t calm down. Several people staggered and stumbled, almost falling into the pool. Fortunately, they crouched down to steady themselves, but this also slowed down everyone’s progress.