Player Reload
Chapter 478 - 443: Cardboard Box (4K)

Chapter 478: Chapter 443: Cardboard Box (4K)

Alright, so this is how you want to play?

Li Cheng, who had lost his eye, had veins bulging on his face. Without hesitation, he extended his left hand, shouting, "Unification!"

Gray Rain took a step forward, interlocking fingers with Li Cheng, as liquid metal transformed into a staff, indicating the direction of the hooded silhouette.

The next second, Li Cheng sliced his chest with the Liangyi Blade, switching to Insect Form. Simultaneously, he grasped the Ape-man Degeneration Gun with his right hand, thrusting the muzzle into his bloody eye socket, and pulled the trigger toward his brain.

Bang!

The bullet vanished into nothingness, causing Li Cheng to slightly tilt his head back. Anyway, he had lost his vision and was relying entirely on Gray Rain’s guidance, so he straightforwardly welded the Ape-man Degeneration Gun onto his head with the [Assembled Puppet·Modified] and gripped the Floating Engine with his right hand.

And then...

Superlight Speed Elbow Strike!

The blind Li Cheng dashed forward at light-speed, compressing the surrounding air to the extreme, forming a blast wave that shattered all the basalt pillars formed by the volcanic lava crystallization.

The Infinite Justice Mecha blocking the front was annihilated, disappearing entirely. The Diving Bell shield previously deployed by the Binary Tree shattered and faded.

The seawater that had just filled the underground passage evaporated mostly. The remaining waves parted like Moses parting the sea, split into halves, only to slam down heavily after several seconds.

Suspended in mid-air, Li Cheng twisted and panted, "Is it dead?"

"It probably is."

In Gray Rain’s vision, the hooded silhouette, along with the area of basalt pillars where the entire Infinite Justice Mecha stood, had all vanished, leaving only a deep crater like a meteor impact.

Around the crater, there was still lava melted by high temperatures.

The Superlight Speed Elbow Strike is almost the pinnacle of physical attribute attacks for transcendents at this stage. The only ways to counter it are Blood Rebirth, Body Elementalization, and Space Anchor.

Gray Rain saw it clearly. At that instant when Li Cheng dashed at light-speed, the hooded man did not teleport or dematerialize. It was most likely reduced to particle state by the light-speed elbow strike.

Li Cheng didn’t rush over; instead, he used the anti-gravity function of the Floating Engine to continue staying suspended in the air until the [Vast Sea Soul-locking Bell] completely stopped shaking. He waited for a few more minutes on the spot before floating over to check the scene.

At the edge of the crater, Li Cheng found the... shadows of three players.

The impact wave generated by the blast of the Floating Engine, reflected off the ground, formed a high-temperature and high-pressure shockwave, also known as the Mach rod, with temperatures reaching up to two thousand degrees Celsius.

Zhangsun Yao, Red Spider, and Nikola, who were swept by the Mach rod, melted and carbonized in a few microseconds, "imprinting" themselves onto the ground in the form of dust particles.

Blood Lion Roar was even worse, as he was directly behind the hooded figure, being swept away by the aftermath, turning to ashes without leaving a trace.

"..." Li Cheng pulled off the Ape-man Degeneration Gun welded to his forehead, activated the self-healing gene plundered from the large group, and grew a grape-sized eyeball in his eye socket, quickly expanding into a normal eyeball.

"What do we do now?"

Gray Rain hesitantly asked, as this hooded person F was even more dangerous than Gray Green Giant A and Horse-headed Man S.

Those trapped in illusions like Zhangsun Yao and the Binary Tree were as good as dead futures, turning into puppets like the Card Emperor if they didn’t die, so Gray Rain didn’t feel any guilt over harming teammates.

She was more concerned about how to get out of the Secret Realm, and... how to determine if they were still in the Illusion Realm.

Li Cheng crouched on the ground, carefully touching the three human shadows distributed in a radial pattern.

The touch felt warm and scalding, incredibly real. Even the most advanced brain-plugged virtual games in the slum couldn’t achieve such a high degree of realism.

He lifted his head and earnestly asked Gray Rain, "Tell me something I don’t know."

"Huh?" Gray Rain blinked in confusion.

"Whether it’s Illusion Technique or Hypnosis, one thing is certain: a person cannot imagine something they’ve never seen or heard of."

Li Cheng said seriously, "To know if you’re still in an illusion, the best way is to test if you can break the cognitive barrier."

"Oh, oh." Gray Rain nodded and mused, "Recently, the divorced single mom downstairs with two kids, Xiao Hua, has successfully become the community leader with my help."

"...What?" Li Cheng didn’t understand.

"Xiao Hua downstairs."

Gray Rain said matter-of-factly, Li Cheng’s current residential area mainly housed elderly folks who were financially stable, carefree, and compassionate. They collaborated with animal rescue organizations to catch all the stray cats in the community and have them sterilized.

And ever since Gray Rain got the Floating Engine and didn’t worry about breaking the elevator, she frequently wandered downstairs in Li Cheng’s form.

As she went back and forth, she got to know the stray cats and even gave them names.

"Xiao Hua escaped from the neighboring community. Just after getting sterilized, as a divorced single mom with two kids, she got beaten up by the local cats.

I couldn’t bear to watch, so I mixed protein powder, taurine, arginine, deep-sea fish oil, L-carnitine, and multivitamins into its cat food...

Now its arm girth and shoulder width have wildly increased, and it dominates the community. The next step is projected to sweep the entire street, becoming the underground cat king."

??? Are you feeding a cat or raising a tiger?

Be careful not to get caught by the elderly residents.

Li Cheng had a peculiar expression; he was usually busy assembling screws and had no idea about this.

Well, at least it proved that Gray Rain wasn’t a part of his illusion.

As for now...

"Wait!"

Just as Li Cheng was about to move, Gray Rain raised her hand, eager to try, "Can you also tell me something I absolutely don’t know?"

Li Cheng was startled for a moment, "Huh?"

Gray Rain said as a matter of course, "Now we can confirm that I am not part of your illusion. But I can’t be sure you aren’t part of my illusion. We have to be careful, right?"