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Chapter 266 - 244: Blue Line

Chapter 266: Chapter 244: Blue Line

Opening his eyes again, he found himself back in his living room, the familiar ceiling above.

Li Cheng stretched lazily, casually taking out the Electronic Pet Egg and releasing Gray Rain.

"Hey there!"

Gray Rain landed on the ground cautiously, transforming one hand into a Wolf Fang Club and the other into a Chain Saw Sword.

Seeing that he was still in his home’s living room, he raised an eyebrow and asked, "What’s going on? Weren’t we supposed to enter a script task?"

"It’s over already."

Li Cheng spoke casually, "This time it was in full role-play mode, the kind that seals the backpack."

When players carry out Otherworld script tasks, they enter and exit instantaneously, with no gaps perceptible from an external view.

If you accidentally die in the task, one second you’re a healthy living person, the next second you become a crushed corpse or charred rotten flesh.

"What?"

Gray Rain’s hands returned to normal, his lips protruding in disappointment, high enough to hang a water bottle from.

"There’s nothing much to regret."

Li Cheng scratched his head, "80% of the script this time took place in an illusion, there wasn’t much room for you to shine."

"It still feels like a loss not to appear for a while."

Gray Rain sighed, "For anime characters, continually losing opportunities to appear, gradually having less personal plot, and lacking uniqueness,

means that the character is not far from death. Just think about Yamucha in heaven."

Yamucha is miserable enough already; let’s not persecute him further.

Li Cheng’s eyelid twitched, watching Gray Rain lamenting like Xianglin’s Wife, leaning on the wall as he walked to the study, muttering, "Without killing, hatreds will never end;

without killing, how are the weak like me different;

without killing, all sentient beings are sins;

without killing, dreams and illusions are emptiness..."

Hey, Special Affairs Bureau? There’s a psychopathic killer in my house, hey!

Shaking his head, Li Cheng opened the log to check the rewards from this task.

[Player overall performance: S+, received Game Coins and Experience Points increased to 160%]

[Task Reward 1: Experience Points 1300]

[Task Reward 2: Game Coins 1800]

After multiplying by the factor of 1.6, Li Cheng gained a total of 2080 Experience Points and 2800 Game Coins, his level raised from the original Lv15, experience bar 340/1500, to Lv16, 920/1600.

The total amount of Game Coins reached 12393, breaking the ten thousand mark once again.

"Um... actually, if you think about it, this task wasn’t too hard."

Li Cheng took a Coke from the fridge, mumbling to himself: "From the normal timeline, William already had all the escape items. It was just because his brain was shocked by electricity and trapped in an illusion,

the player’s role was to retrace the journey to the west, collect the items again, strengthen the will, and help William break out from the illusion.

Moreover, since the goal of the task was ’survive five hours’ and not ’escape from the asylum’,

even if the player failed to break free from the illusion, they would still survive past the time limit, at worst having their frontal lobe removed before being teleported back to the real world."

From this perspective, the killing field system actually showed a rare bit of humanity, not maliciously setting up a no-win situation... probably.

[Task Reward 3: Random item *1, quality dependent on the rating of completion]

[Task Reward 4: VIP Mall Experience Card*1]

Here comes the thrilling unboxing moment.

Li Cheng rubbed his palms together, closed his eyes, and opened the treasure chest, only opening his eyes when he heard the prompt sound.

There, in the last empty slot of his item bar, lay a walkie-talkie.

[Item Name: Frontline Police Walkie-Talkie]

[Type: General Item]

[Quality: Fine]

[Special Effect: Call for backup. Upon use, immediately summons a fully armed police officer to fight for you. The officer can understand the user’s commands to some extent and can exist for up to 1 hour. During this period, if the officer is knocked down by enemies, more police will be summoned]

[Consumption: A dozen donuts, at least 100 Spiritual Power Value]

[Cooling Time: 24 hours]

[Use Conditions: Must be a U.S. citizen and hold a police officer’s badge]

[Note: After the initial officer is knocked down, the equipment of subsequent dispatched police forces will progressively improve, from Glock Pistols, rubber batons, Electric Shock Guns, to AR rifles, Bulletproof Vests, Shotguns. If subsequent forces continue to be defeated, police cars, armored vehicles, and helicopters can also be summoned]

[Note: Police can upgrade up to four times, with each wave increasing the Spiritual Power Value consumption by 30 points. If summoned to the fifth wave, the Cooling Time will extend to 48 hours]

[Note: We found a kilogram of bullets in the body of a deceased criminal, which indicates that the suspect died from heavy metal poisoning, not excessive police force]

What a situation, a real-life version of GTA five-star wanted, right?

Li Cheng wore an especially interesting expression as he took the walkie-talkie out of the Backpack, examining it.

This item isn’t much different from an ordinary walkie-talkie, except for the most noticeable feature of a line of English on the side of the rubber handle—

Blue Lives Matter.

Here ’blue’ refers to the thin blue line, originating from the blue uniforms of the Metropolitan Police in the UK, used in the UK and the US to honor officers who have died in the line of duty or who serve on the front line.

...Just from the description, this item seems pretty useful.

A total of five waves of police forces, each stronger than the last, not to mention the officers are all armed and can even summon armored vehicles and helicopters.

An hour’s duration, enough to resolve a skirmish.

Truly a beginner player’s entry-level wonder item, one item meets needs for firepower coverage, survival, relocation, and delaying the enemy.

But for mid to high-level players, the cost-effectiveness is not so high.

For expert confrontations, at least the fifth wave of armored vehicles and helicopters are needed to influence the battle,

There’s not enough time to gradually upgrade the police force, nor enough Spiritual Power Value to waste on a single item—just upgrading the waves would consume 800 Spiritual Power Value.

"Also, you must be registered as a U.S. citizen and hold a police officer’s badge, which is really troublesome."

Speaking of hell, there are also U.S. embassies in the slums, along with USCIS (United States Citizenship and Immigration Services).

For ordinary people, it means being repeatedly exploited by human smugglers and immigration lawyers, working in factories moving bricks, washing dishes in restaurants to pay off debts, dreaming of one day getting an American Green Card.

But for Transcendents, acquiring U.S. citizenship is a snap, USCIS would plaster ads in every corner of the slums, informing any player that if they wanted U.S. citizenship, just go take a picture, even N-400 forms are filled out by immigration officials.

Most other countries do the same, eagerly welcoming Transcendents to acquire citizenship.

Let me tell you, don’t be unconvinced, you hear that? The big shot of the killing field is indeed the boss, spending days just eating and drinking, nothing else.

Li Cheng put the walkie-talkie away, this item was of no personal use to him, better to throw it in the auction house.

Summoning-type fine quality items are somewhat more valuable than similar-level items, it should fetch three to four thousand Game Coins.

His attention mainly focused on the last task reward—the VIP Mall Experience Card.