Chapter 4: Drops! |
“Damn!”
Guan Shan's heart tightened as he rolled to the side.
"Slash! Boom!"
The chef roared, swinging his knife, cutting through the nearby table and a customer in one stroke. The force didn't stop there, ripping up the floor, sending debris flying.
Thanks to his significantly enhanced physique, Guan Shan reacted in an instant, dodging the blade.
But the next moment, the tumors and tentacles on the chef's shoulders suddenly grew, twisting into a third arm that attacked him.
The speed was so fast that it formed an afterimage.
"Boom——"
Guan Shan felt like he had been hit by a mammoth.
He rolled on the ground a few times, got up, and coughed twice.
Wiping his mouth, he found it full of blood.
But... it didn't hurt?
[This simulator is for entertainment purposes, aiming to provide a realistic environment, and promises never to cause players pain.]
The mechanical prompt sounded timely.
“So considerate of you!”
Guan Shan cursed, scrambling to his feet and crawling to a corner, collecting the glowing items along the way.
Though the wounds didn't hurt, the damage to his body didn't disappear.
His left arm and right leg seemed to be broken, and his breathing was not smooth, likely due to internal injuries.
But thanks to being knocked away, he had temporarily put some distance between himself and the BOSS.
Guan Shan took the chance to check the loot, instantly overjoyed.
“These monsters drop healing items!”
[Entwined Parasite Flesh *3]
[Effect: Slowly restores health]
[Description: A connective tissue exuding a strange stench, seemingly part of someone's body, containing a bit of tenacious vitality]
This item looked rather unappealing.
But in a critical moment, Guan Shan didn't care. He gritted his teeth and swallowed it whole.
“Thankfully it has no taste, but the texture is awful…”
Guan Shan saw his health bar start to rise immediately, ten points at a time, about once per second.
Physically, his wounds began to heal automatically, and his arm and leg were quickly enveloped in white light, gradually recovering.
“This isn't slow at all!”
“If this is slow, how effective is a fast healing potion?”
He was pleasantly surprised, feeling a bit more at ease. He turned back to try shooting the chef's eyes.
But the chef instantly pulled his fat and tentacles around his face, forming a meat shield. The bullets sank in without a sound.
Two pathetic "-30" damages floated up, chilling Guan Shan’s heart.
“This guy's defense is really high. I can’t deal effective damage without hitting vital spots.”
“I only have three bullets left. If I can't find a way to incapacitate him, I'm dead. And there's still that scheming waitress… I can't stay passive!”
Guan Shan took a deep breath, calmed his mind, and raised his gun.
“There’s no unbeatable BOSS. There must be a weak point he can't protect.”
“If it's not on the obvious parts, I’ll have to rely on the simulator's hints.”
But the hints required "gazing" to trigger, meaning he had to keep his eyes on the target long enough.
And face the BOSS directly!
——
Lin Shuman stayed under the table, completely stunned.
The man had taken her gun, and after alerting Zhao Hong and Fang Minmin, the first thing he did was shoot three customers dead.
The sight of the customers' brains bursting and blood splattering was vividly imprinted in her mind.
Her initial guess that he might be "one of them" was instantly overturned.
Someone who would unhesitatingly shoot controlled ordinary people couldn't be from the Special Safety Team!
Moreover, their mission's most important rule was to save the restaurant's "hostages" if possible!
But the man's precise headshots while moving, and his decisive actions, seemed like those of a highly trained soldier or someone from the gray areas.
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Could he be a mercenary who makes money off low-level ability users’ heads? Or a member of the recently surfaced ability organization “Murder Hornet” in Binjiang City?
Not far away.
Zhao Hong roared, his muscles swelling to the extreme, transforming into a muscle-bound devil, charging at the young man with a butcher knife.
Meanwhile, the latter was weaving through the restaurant, continuously and precisely taking out customers, moving faster and faster.
Every gunshot meant the death of a customer.
Captain Lin’s voice came through the earpiece: "Xiaoman, I heard gunfire. Did you start? Where will you come out? I'll have them ready to cover you!"
Lin Shuman quickly replied: "It wasn't me!"
Lin Wu: "What's going on? What’s the situation?"
Lin Shuman stammered: "The last customer who came in ten minutes ago, he just took my gun and is now fighting Zhao Hong, but he's also killing the hostages!"
Lin Wu said solemnly: "Calm down. Are you saying this customer might be a third-party force?"
"Yes!"
"I’ve pulled up the customer's file. He's a reporter named Guan Shan. Nothing unusual on the surface… He might have been replaced."
Lin Wu’s experience in handling emergencies far exceeded Lin Shuman’s. He immediately changed strategies: "That person’s main target is Zhao Hong, and you haven’t been exposed yet, right?"
Lin Shuman nodded: "Right!"
"Good."
Lin Wu said: "Your task now is to kill Fang Minmin."
Lin Shuman widened her eyes and couldn't help but say: "Brother, but—"
"Xiaoman, trust me."
Lin Wu said gently: "Fang Minmin is less aggressive than Zhao Hong. Zhao Hong is being held off by the third party, so the biggest threat is temporarily gone. This is the best time to kill Fang Minmin."
"The hostages will lose control and no longer be hostages. Only then can we take action."
"So, use your ability and kill her."
"Understand?"
Lin Wu’s decisions were never to be challenged. Lin Shuman took a deep breath: "Understood!"
The situation was urgent. She carefully peeked out, then moved towards Fang Minmin, who was controlling the customers, drawing a dagger.
Lin Shuman’s ability ensured she wouldn't be discovered, and her training and special combat suit gave her the strength to kill Fang Minmin.
The rest was simple.
However, just as Lin Shuman got behind Fang Minmin, ready to strike.
She saw Guan Shan, who had been kiting, suddenly get distracted and stop.
Zhao Hong grinned, sped up, and punched Guan Shan.
"Crack!"
The dull sound of the punch brought with it the sound of bones breaking.
Lin Shuman was shocked, her heart sinking.
Although Zhao Hong was only D-class, the brute force of a flesh-type ability user could penetrate alloy plates when fully unleashed, let alone a human body.
From that man’s performance, he seemed like a trained ordinary person.
That punch would likely incapacitate him…
Without this distraction, Zhao Hong would quickly refocus on Fang Minmin, making the assassination much harder!
Lin Shuman gritted her teeth, aiming to slit Fang Minmin's throat from behind.
Just then, she saw Guan Shan, who had rolled on the ground several times, get up cursing, unharmed and moving at full speed.
More terrifyingly, he then quickly dug into the customers' brains with his bare hands, extracting writhing, tentacle-like, heart-like objects.
Then, he swallowed them! Her pupils constricted in disbelief: "How is this possible… What is he doing?! What are those things?!"
But these three questions flashed through her mind in an instant as her dagger slit Fang Minmin's throat.
Unexpectedly smoothly.
Fang Minmin's corpse fell at her feet, but Lin Shuman suddenly felt a chill crawl up her spine.
If the customers’ brains had turned into those things…
Then, from the start, there might have been no hostages, only replacements with Fang Minmin’s parasitic tissue!
But what really made Lin Shuman's scalp tingle was that they had previously rescued over a dozen “hostages” and placed them in the research institute for several weeks.
During such a long period, the experts in the research institute and all members of their third team had been in contact with these parasitic entities from Fang Minmin.
She looked up.
All the customers had turned to her, smiling eerily, and said in unison: "Xiaoman, did you kill Fang Minmin? Why aren’t you speaking?"
Their voices perfectly overlapped with the one in her earpiece.
——It was Lin Wu’s voice.