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Chapter 470 - 436: AFK

Chapter 470: Chapter 436: AFK

"Heh heh, heh heh heh."

A sinister laugh echoed from the shadows a hundred meters away. A bronze poker card slashed through the void, cutting through space like Moses parting the sea.

The blind Card Emperor emerged from the spatial rift, carrying a heavy, bulging cloth sack over his shoulder.

"You all seem to be in good spirits."

He swept the scene with his empty eye sockets, looking somewhat puzzled when he saw Li Cheng, "Their player essence has been taken, they can’t escape. Your essence is still there, why not run?"

"Betraying teammates isn’t my style."

Li Cheng shook his head, "Even in games, I always hit ’no’ when it’s time to surrender, even when all four teammates curse me for AFKing since the start."

He lifted Red Spider’s body with one hand, taking a skull fragment from Gray Rain with the other, and poured the brains held in it back into the skull.

For the sake of a sneak attack, the card the Card Emperor just played had no additional spiritual power attached, relying solely on spatial teleportation and the card’s mass and kinetic energy for the damage effect.

Perhaps, maybe, possibly Red Spider’s brain can still be put back together... right?

"Ha ha, stubborn,"

The Card Emperor shook his head, said lightly: "Since you want to die, then I won’t..."

Before he finished speaking, Binary Tree suddenly stomped a foot forward, green data streams spread from under his foot, instantly covering the entire passageway.

This move was called [Cyber Secret Technique·Space Anchor], literally anchoring space, forbidding any spatial teleportation.

As a core member of the Whale Song Guild, Binary Tree naturally had some information on the Card Emperor.

Apart from being able to inject energy into cards for remote detonation like the character in Marvel comics, he also had a bootleg Flying Thunder God technique, quick cooldown, low consumption, and short-distance teleportation.

Therefore, Binary Tree immediately disabled the opponent’s space teleportation ability. This prevented sneak attacks and kept him from escaping.

Binary Tree wasn’t the only one with this idea, Zhangsun Yao suddenly raised her arms, releasing a mass of paper airplanes from her sleeves.

The Card Emperor didn’t dodge, flicked his left hand downward, summoned a stack of poker cards, spun them into a three-layer fan shape, and waved them forward.

While dispersing the paper airplanes and causing them to collide and explode, he also untied the large cloth sack on his shoulder, chuckling, "Want to gang up? I’ve got people too."

The sack opened, from which flew out over a dozen... corpses.

Some players from the second and third batches who entered the Secret Realm, with blank expressions, bloodied bodies, their torsos and limbs first severed and then crudely sewn together with wire,

their bodies, especially their heads and backs, were punctured with wires and metal rods.

(Somewhat strangely, Templar Knight Father Andre wasn’t seen)

"Rise, my warriors."

The Card Emperor grinned, leaping back and leaving the pieced-together corpses to protect him, "Follow my command, take them down."

Whoosh——

All the pieced-together corpses moved in unison, drawing various weapons from the void, whether it was machine gun fire, sword qi, or Thunder Python and Electric Snake, they attacked the living side.

"How’s this possible?!"

Nikola’s eyes trembled dramatically, retrieving something from the Backpack, a privilege exclusive to players.

And forum tests had long shown that once a player dies, their essence transfers immediately.

Attempting to force revive with necromancy now, newly revived corpses could only use the power systems they mastered in life and couldn’t use all the skills or some items under the killing field system.

Yet the dozen or so pieced-together corpses released by the Card Emperor could each use skills normally... What on earth was going on?!

How could they retain player essence?

No time to slowly consider, battle erupted in an instant.

A purple-haired corpse with ID [Noise Warrior], holding a skull-shaped electric guitar, suddenly yanked the barbed steel strings.

Zheng——

A visible sound wave swept the entire scene, the cacophony pierced through eardrums, driving people into irritation.

Especially Anthony, whose spell was interrupted halfway through chanting, his face paled slightly due to mana backlash.

The lanky and stout figures with IDs [Fat Head] and [Skinny], dressed in Republic-era long robes, drifted like kites in mid-air,

with a thud, they collided with Infinite Justice Gundam, grasping the two ends of the Double-headed Giant Sword, spinning and pushing forward with all their might.

Forcing the Gundam’s joint motors into overload, billowing smoke.

Both parties’ teams, one had been through numerous intense battles, the other was "in full condition."

And worse, this Secret Realm exploration was supposed to be a team collaboration, no one expected a player civil war.

To better coordinate with each other, information had been shared in advance, so the Card Emperor’s side clearly knew the player camp’s data.

"Don’t let her place the coffin in the ground!"

The Card Emperor shouted, a burly pieced-together corpse inserted a hand into the ground, inducing an earthquake that forcibly shook the coffin of White Horse Tombstone implanted in the ground out.

Meanwhile, a petite corpse wearing a witch’s hat came riding on a broomstick in a dive.

"The Scarlet Witch of the Witch Alliance Guild..."

Binary Tree had a solemn expression, recognizing the witch-hat girl.

Clang!

The witch-girl leaped off the broom, punched toward White Horse Tombstone, the speed fast enough to generate a sonic boom.

White Horse Tombstone sidestepped, grabbing the witch’s arms, twisted her waist and back, about to slam her shoulder down onto the ground.

The witch’s body arced in the air, her floating broomstick quickly swooped to her feet.

The witch kicked off the broomstick, using the counter-thrust to deflect the over-the-shoulder throw, instead hugging White Horse Tombstone from behind, full of energy, arched her slender waist, and flipped her opponent over to slam her on the ground.

This move, called the German Suplex, requires great strength in the waist, and once successfully executed, it could likely cause the opponent’s head and cervical spine to hit the ground first, resulting in unconsciousness at best, a broken neck and instant death at worst.

Of course, as the highest level close-combat Transcendent in the field, White Horse Tombstone wasn’t easy to kill.

She supported herself on the ground with her left hand, gradually bending her elbow to dissipate the enormous force. Her right arm, bonelessly flexible, whipped toward the witch’s temple like a long whip.

Both their wrists blocked each other, as they simultaneously climbed up from the ground, exchanging blows, shadows flickering, battling back and forth.

"WTF?"

Gray Rain, who was helping Li Cheng scoop Red Spider’s brain matter, stared in shock. White Horse Tombstone was a level 29 close-combat Transcendent, the kind of strength to turn a Mutated Enhanced Tyrannosaurus into a Hajimi Love, undoubtedly strong,

"Wasn’t it supposed to be the Scarlet Witch? How’s she going toe-to-toe with Sister Tombstone?"

"Not the Scarlet Witch, it’s Feihong Witch. Feihong as in Huang Feihong." Binary Tree quickly explained: "Within the Witch Alliance, most are mages, but there are also close-combat legacies.

They cast a series of spells on themselves like Giant Transformation Skill, Stone Skin Technique, Blessing Skill, then wield a two or three hundred-pound metal magic wand with Flash Skill attached to smash people."