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Chapter 301 - 277 Cockroach

Chapter 301: Chapter 277 Cockroach

Gen-sys Corporation’s flagship injection, code-named "Cockroach", is meant to give its users life-preserving capabilities akin to a cockroach.

Throwing Eugene into the cesspool and waiting about ten minutes could potentially drown him in filth, but there might not be enough time—the support from City Hall will be arriving soon.

Li Cheng stopped Gray Rain from digging the floor and took out a red ladybug marked with the number one thousand, lightly pressing it,

The numbers on the ladybug’s back immediately began to jump, counting down at 16.66 times speed for one minute.

Li Cheng walked to the end of the corridor, glued the Millennium Bug onto the drone with adhesive, quickly set the hovering direction, and let the drone take off to then hover above the skyscraper.

He then doubled back, letting Gray Rain twist steel bars into handcuffs to bind Eugene’s wrists.

"What are you trying to do?"

Eugene, with his head covered by a trash bag, couldn’t see what was happening outside, which made him increasingly uneasy. Additionally, because of the constraints of the Arrow of Abalis itself, he was unable to use Skill Items for reconnaissance.

Li Cheng and Gray Rain certainly wouldn’t explain it to him. Instead, Li Cheng took out the Avenger Cannon and activated the Magic Cannon Master ability.

The machine gun is still a gun; driven by the Magic Cannon Master ability, the Avenger Cannon’s body structure disassembled into components. Li Cheng made some rapid alterations and then restored it.

Following that, he used the modified cannon to spray Eugene with a barrage of bullets while pulling Gray Rain into a tactical retreat.

The Millennium Bug, originally belonging to Bartmos, could create a chaos space with a diameter of one thousand kilometers. Within its range, all things, near or far, would be thrown into disarray, such as objects merging, matter vanishing, or time speeding up.

Being a Perfect Quality Consumable item, the Millennium Bug, in terms of mysteriousness, should be able to compete with the Invincible Shield currently enveloping Eugene, erasing him directly.

Li Cheng and Gray Rain quickly moved to a safe position, all the while maintaining fire suppression on Eugene with the Avenger Cannon, creating a raucous noise.

The bulky projectiles, squashed by the Holy Protection Decree, piled into a small mountain at Eugene’s feet. His unease intensified, and he faintly guessed Ant’s intent.

Ant likely set some high-power, timed trap,

If Eugene stayed put, he would likely sit and await his doom, falling victim to the trap.

However, if Eugene chose to end the effect of the Holy Protection Decree early, he would be immediately overwhelmed by a tide of bullets and wouldn’t have time to cast any spells.

Eugene’s protective gear, already mostly destroyed by Gray Rain in the previous nuclear power plant battle,

couldn’t be healed by a Gen-sys injection if his body were riddled with bullet holes.

What to do?

Eugene gritted his teeth, realizing he’d been given a blatant ultimatum; either way, he was gambling with his life.

"I was originally planning to use this tactic against Gouchen, no helping it, got to use it here."

He muttered to himself for a while, a trace of ferocity flashing in his eyes. Abruptly, he opened his eyes wide and prematurely withdrew the Holy Protection Decree.

The gold light symbolizing the Invincible Shield dissipated suddenly, and Eugene only managed to shake his Magic Wand with his bound hands before his body was penetrated by the cannon’s projectiles.

The Avenger Cannon used 30x173 millimeter depleted uranium armor-piercing incendiary rounds, capable of firing at a low rate of 2100 rounds per minute or a high rate of 4200 rounds per minute, specifically designed for prying open the skull of tanks.

The barrage of bullets exploding on Eugene was not something that could be described with mere bruising or injuries here and there;

His whole body burst open, turning into a charred mess of flesh scattered across the ground.

[Player Eugene has been eliminated]

In the moment this system notification sounded, time ground to a halt.

The clocks in the corridor stopped moving, the flames at the mouth of the machine gun froze, and the white-collar workers fleeing down the stairwell all came to a rigid stop.

"Hehehe hahaha."

The voice of Joker echoed from the pile of charred flesh.

A blurry green silhouette shadow slowly stood up, muttering to itself, "Didn’t expect that, did you? I can still possess others.

This move can only be used three times within six months, and I originally planned to save the last chance to possess Gouchen and live a second-generation rich kid’s life. Didn’t expect to be forced to use it on you.

Tsk.

But to be honest, you’re not bad.

An unknown Lv16, making waves in the deathmatch quest. If you were born a few years earlier, there would definitely be a spot for you among the top experts.

Too bad, this is where your journey ends.

In the ocean of consciousness, player’s equipment, skills, and items are all sealed. You can only rely on the strength of your own consciousness. In this regard, I would never lose.

You know, to train my willpower, I would sometimes kick the legs of stools with my toe, go months without flushing the toilet, and only watch videos in 320p despite having HD..."

Joker prattled on proudly, but at the end of the corridor, there was no movement, and Li Cheng, holding a machine gun, was as still as a statue.

Joker felt a sudden jolt in his heart. He stepped forward, walked around the bullets frozen in mid-air, and arrived in front of Li Cheng.

No mistake, Li Cheng, like the objects around him, was frozen in place, not at all like someone who’s been pulled into the ocean of consciousness.

But his fingers were not on the trigger of the modified gun.

Why is that?

Joker’s smiling face gradually stiffened, especially when he heard the rustling noise.

The noise was coming from the machine gun’s motor.

"..." After a moment of silence, Joker opened the motor casing of the machine gun, and aside from the normal components, there was a palm-sized giant cockroach inside.

The cockroach had obvious signs of bio-modification, with its abdomen glued firmly to the screen with adhesive. Two antennae on its head were each connected to a wire that led to the machine gun’s motor.

Joker realized in an instant what was going on and shuddered.

The long duration in the ocean of consciousness translates to only a fleeting moment in the real world,

Li Cheng, also hearing the system prompt, blinked his eyes and stepped back.

The drone-controlled machine gun gradually stopped firing, Li Cheng opened the motor casing and saw the giant cockroach inside struggling. He smirked, "How does this body feel?"

The cockroach stuck on the screen kept struggling, trying to break free from the superglue, moving so vigorously that one of its legs broke off.

Li Cheng took out the screen, and seeing Gray Rain still looked confused, he casually explained, "Remember the elimination order? First, Joker was eliminated, followed by Frankenstein.

At the same time, the aura exhibited by Eugene, was entirely different from the first time we met him, giving good reason to believe that Joker first possessed Frankenstein, then used Frankenstein as a stepping stone to make a second jump, possessing Eugene’s body.

I’m not too clear on the specifics and mechanisms of possession, but judging from the scene of Frankenstein actively seeking Eugene to commit suicide and discarding his equipment before dying, it seems that possession is accomplished through being killed.

So, while I was controlling the machine gun to fire, I made a slight modification."

While Eugene, or Joker, was held by his own Invincible Shield, Li Cheng had taken a cockroach from his Backpack, fed it an Insect Lord’s Divine Calamity Crystal, and forcibly induced a mutation.

(The cockroach was a gift from the Red Driver a long time ago)

Then, using the Magic Cannon Master’s ability to reconfigure the structure of the cannon, he connected the two antennae of the cockroach to the motor wires, using the minute bioelectricity of the mutated cockroach to drive the motor to work.

To the outside world, the person using the machine gun was Li Cheng, but in a strict sense, the one who actually fired was the hidden mutated cockroach.

When Joker used his skill after death to initiate possession towards the one who killed him, in the ocean of consciousness, there was only this cockroach, not Li Cheng.

"I won this gamble."

Li Cheng spoke indifferently, tossing the entire screen along with the cockroach Joker glued to it into a garbage bag.