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Chapter 292 - 269: Sprint

Chapter 292: Chapter 269: Sprint

The six bombs sported a distinctive design, with a gleaming golden sphere on the front engraved with a huge grinning face, baring its teeth.

Item Name: Timed Golden Instant Bomb

Type: Consumable Items

Quality: Fine

Special Effect: Gold Instant Explosion. Set to detonate in a timed sequence after three hours, creating a chain reaction of ten explosions.

Consumption: None

Cooling Time: None

Use Conditions: None

Note: Oh Golden Instant Explosion! Be the hero in the fairy tale. Oh Golden Instant Explosion! Passion flows in our hearts.

Note: Can be placed in the Backpack, cannot be taken out of the theater world.

Six fine-quality consumables were quite a generous offer, but their power was yet to be seen.

Li Cheng picked up a bomb and weighed it, then countered, "What can you offer me?"

"This."

Ye Shen Yue walked to the wall and pulled down a piece of thick black cloth.

Behind the cloth stood a power armor over two meters tall, in red color scheme and plain construction.

Its helmet was round and smooth, with an antenna on the top, equipped with a three-eyed night vision device and a pig-nose style gas mask respirator. Its chest armor flashed a red star, and on its back was mounted a revolving barrel-type Gauss Machine Gun.

And on the waist belt were written four bold characters—

"Death to the American Empire!"

Item Name: People’s Power Armor

Type: Power Armor

Quality: Perfect

Special Effect: Death to the American Empire. The armor material is specialized steel capable of resisting large caliber armor-piercing incendiary bullets. It has an integrated nuclear fusion cell for extended battle duration. Additionally, it is equipped with a Gauss Machine Gun, a medical pump, stealth components, and a Jetpack.

Consumption: None

Cooling Time: None

Use Conditions: Constitution Attribute greater than or equal to 5

Note: Defeat American imperialism and all its lackeys!

Note: Can be placed in the Backpack, cannot be taken out of the theater world.

This power armor came from the game series "Radiation."

"This is too kind of you, really, we’re all friends here."

Li Cheng’s brows lit up with joy, and without another word, he immediately took the red power armor.

Witnessing this spatial ability, Ye Shen Yue raised an eyebrow and said indifferently, "I’ve set these bombs to explode in three hours. Chaos will erupt throughout the city then. I’ll carry out my plan, and you outsiders can seek your revenge."

"Deal."

Li Cheng, rubbing his hands together like a fly, took out the Suicide Notebook from his Backpack and chuckled, "Ye bro, you got any more cool stuff? I could trade you this book - looks familiar, right?"

"First, my surname is Ye Shen, not Ye. Second, your book is not a Death Note. Third, this isn’t some roadside shop."

Ye Shen Yue glanced at him, "You have less than three hours."

Seeing that no more value could be squeezed out, Li Cheng gestured ’ok’ with his hand and briskly left with Gray Rain.

Once they were out of the infected territory, Li Cheng’s smile vanished, and his brows furrowed. Gray Rain asked in confusion, "What’s wrong?"

"We’ve got a problem."

Li Cheng spoke softly, "Ye Shen Yue said he has no reliable hands to help him place bombs on the surface, so he’s enlisting us outsiders. Meanwhile, he’ll take advantage of the chaos to launch a rocket, puncturing the atmospheric barrier of Toy City.

The problem is, who built that rocket for him?

Despite Ye Shen Yue being a high-IQ criminal high school student with excellent academics, all-around sports capability, strong mental fortitude, and acting skills, his capabilities do not extend to rocket building."

Gray Rain pondered for a moment, "Maybe it was automatically built by the toy factory? Like that power armor."

Li Cheng still shook his head, "The toy factory is located inside City Hall. It’s not like Ye Shen Yue could sneak into City Hall and steal a rocket tens of meters long, right?

Plus, from his tone, the rocket seems to be underground, probably sitting in a silo.

And constructing a silo—excavating soil, pouring concrete, building steel frames—each task is a major project. It’s a problem how to conceal this from others."

"He didn’t tell us the truth."

Gray Rain understood, "So what do we do, go back and confront him directly?"

"We could, but there’s no need. When it comes to causing trouble for City Hall, we’re on the same page."

Li Cheng casually said, "Moreover, he’s very cautious. Throughout our conversation, he was quietly clutching a button in his hand, ready to press it and summon a bunch of bodyguards to rush in and beat us up if the negotiations broke down..."

As he spoke, he suddenly paused, "We need to move fast."

Gray Rain was puzzled, "What happened?"

"Joker is gone."

————

[Player Joker has been eliminated]

At the same moment, on the highway of Toy City,

Eugene, who was sitting in a black armored limousine and still wrapped in bandages, heard the system notification and his face went pale.

Wait, Joker is gone? Wasn’t this guy hiding after launching a terrorist attack? How did he get eliminated without any warning?

Eugene’s mind was in chaos,

Kurosaki Ichigo, sitting in the passenger seat, answered a call and then turned to him, "Just now, the safe house holding Frankenstein was attacked by a drilling bomb, resulting in serious casualties and injuries, Frankenstein’s whereabouts unknown.

The surveillance footage outside the safe house showed the attacker was the Joker you mentioned."

Eugene took a deep breath and quickly shared the system notification he received with Kurosaki Ichigo, "Looks like Joker attacked the safe house, attempting to forcefully kill Frankenstein, but got countered and fled?"

Even if Joker was a member of the Wild Laughter Troupe, this embarrassing death was a bit too comical.

"I don’t know."

Kurosaki Ichigo shook his head, "To control Frankenstein, the people at the safe house injected him with a large dose of muscle relaxant and removed part of his spinal nerves; he shouldn’t have been capable of movement.

But the abilities of you outsiders are too unpredictable."

Compared to in-play Transcendents, the biggest advantage of killing field players is the infinite possibilities provided by the vast world.

The combination of strange and bizarre Skill Items from different worldviews could produce effects far greater than the sum of their parts.

For instance, there was an example on the player forum where someone got a Ritual Stone, which could exchange body parts for wealth when sacrificed to an Evil God, and they just happened to have the Giant Troll Bloodline that enabled fast regeneration of flesh.

So, they crazily chopped off their hands and feet, skinned themselves, and gutted their insides, amassing a small mountain of Gold Coins in one day,

To the point that the Evil God responsible for the Ritual Stone couldn’t take it anymore and disconnected, swearing all the while.

Who knows what kind of item combination Frankenstein had that allowed him to escape and turn the tables on Joker.

"The situation has changed, no more safe house, we’re heading back to City Hall."

Kurosaki Ichigo spoke with a deep voice, "Driver, can you go any faster?"

The young driver with an ordinary appearance answered lethargically, "With the road this jammed, it’s inevitable to bump into others if we go too fast, I need permission from City Hall."

The nuclear power plant video that Li Cheng disguised as Eugene released this morning had taken full effect.

A large number of Toy City citizens, whose relatives and friends were taken away due to the fault, poured into the streets, holding placards and banners to protest, demanding City Hall to disclose the truth,

resulting in a particularly congested city traffic.

Kurosaki Ichigo glanced at the slow-moving traffic ahead, made up his mind, and nodded at the driver.

"As you wish."

The previously listless driver’s eyes suddenly turned sharp.

He slammed on the gas pedal, and blue flames shot from the exhaust. The previously sluggish black armored limousine burst into high speed, nimbly weaving through the traffic like a dragonfly.

This driver, appointed by the City Hall intelligence department, had unparalleled driving skills. For some reason, though, when he could avoid it, he intentionally hit a few Mercedes with the bumper.

Mumbling to himself, "I hate those who drive Mercedes the most."

Sitting in the back, Eugene, shaken by the car’s G-forces and already injured, nearly vomited and saw through the rearview mirror the driver’s work badge.

Fujiwara Takumi? No wonder.

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