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Chapter 307: Revised - 283: Scorpion’s Tail

Chapter 307: Revised: Chapter 283: Scorpion’s Tail

Apartment building, balcony,

A young white-collar worker named Sakura Kinomoto looked at the distant sky filled with flames, the endless stream of various monsters pouring out of a deep pit, and the panicking citizens screaming and fleeing on the streets. She sighed deeply, placed the half-drunk beer on the balcony railing, and turned back into her room.

All armed forces at City Hall, whether the Terrorist Mobile Team or the Stormtroopers, were fighting with all their might.

But they couldn’t stop the advance of the Second Machine — the latter was surrounded by an AT field, ignoring all external attacks, and heading straight for City Hall.

All the firepower switched to targeting the thick and long cable trailing behind the Second Machine, but the sheer number of monsters was overwhelming, with many possessing the ability to fly, bravely engaging in battle with the city hall forces to protect the cable.

Sakura Kinomoto calmly opened the wardrobe, took out the OL uniforms stacked together, and found the long, narrow wooden box covered in dust at the bottom.

Opening the box, inside lay a pink bird-headed wand.

Even though she had long left that life of fighting, thinking she would never have to battle again...

She reached out and grabbed the wand, walked out of the bedroom, and with a push of her palm, jumped off the balcony, landing gracefully on the ground floor, standing out among the scattered and fleeing citizens.

A few monsters noticed her and pounced in unison.

Just as the claws were about to touch her face, she swung the wand suddenly, smashing the monster away with immense force, directly knocking over a large SUV parked by the road.

"Don’t underestimate a retired Magic Girl."

In the light of the exploding vehicle, she flicked off the bloodstains on the wand, sighed lightly, and charged towards the group of monsters, randomly swinging the wand to summon storms, ice, flames, and strong light.

The final strong light pierced through the sea of monsters, plowing through the entire street like a plow, clearing obstacles for others.

Kurosaki Ichigo and his two companions descended from the sky, cleared the remaining monsters, and with one slash, cut the power supply cable for the Second Machine.

With the power cut off, the Second Machine staggered, tilting forward in slow motion, the vibration particle blade in its hand following a predetermined trajectory, stabbing into the City Hall building.

Rumble——

Bricks crumbled, buildings collapsed, the vibration particle blade easily sliced through the thick floors, penetrating the multiple underground structures hidden within City Hall, reaching the deepest parts.

One second, two seconds.

In the terrified eyes of Toy City’s citizens, the Second Machine slowly stood up from the rubble, holding a mass of flickering red flame.

Mr. Amazing’s eyes widened, "That is..."

"Furnace fire," Kurosaki Ichigo said with tightly pursed lips, "The factory’s furnace fire."

Having seized the toy factory’s furnace fire from City Hall, the Second Machine regained immense power, no longer needing to rely on cable energy.

It directly sprinted along the street, reaching the edge of Toy City, to the transparent barrier,

and stabbed the blade into the barrier, climbing up along it like a mountaineer.

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From a distance, it really did look like a climbing southern cockroach.

On the overpass, Li Cheng spotted the Second Machine climbing along the barrier from afar, vaguely guessing Ye Shen Yue’s plan — he indeed wanted to break the barrier, but not with rockets, rather by having the Second Machine chisel it open with its blade.

Buzz——

The sound of something breaking through the air came as a surprise attack, Gouchen and his three clones swung their swords and charged, but Li Cheng dodged with his jetpack and Bat Hook Claw, counterattacking with a burst of flames from the Nuclear Energy Lighter.

However, the smoke on Gouchen’s body was too ridiculous, surprisingly able to withstand the fierce flames for several seconds. His clones also partially inherited this formidable defense, splitting the flames with Sword Qi, covering each other, leaving marks on the Power Armor’s surface.

The armor tore, hydraulic oil leaked, parts flew about,

Li Cheng’s ears were filled with the sound of alarms, so he simply tore off his helmet, discarded the ruined machete, and faced Gouchen, who had retracted his sword and was standing.

"Just like I said, you don’t have a chance."

Gouchen slightly lifted his chin, coldly said: "How long have you been a player? A year? A year and a half?

Do you know how long I’ve been preparing and planning for this day."

Li Cheng did not answer, his Information Integration Glasses reflecting a strange light, and his expression became quirky.

"Those Transcendents on the forum always boast about their numerous life-and-death battles, but in fact, due to players’ rapid neural reflexes, each battle’s actual duration is only a few, a dozen minutes at most.

A Level 25’s total on-the-line combat time is only dozens, at most a hundred hours."

Gouchen calmly said: "But I am different, my brother is a senior executive at GOC, with ample resources for me to receive the best training.

In those virtual environments with a realism close to one hundred percent, I’ve killed countless transcendent types like you.

Relying on the Power Armor, placing great power in external things. When the Power Armor breaks, what do you have left?"

"Training in a virtual environment, isn’t that just VR gaming? You actually took gaming achievements seriously."

Li Cheng shook his head and said: "You can fool the guys, just don’t fool yourself. If the guys are fooled by you, it doesn’t matter, a laugh is all it takes. But hope you wipe your eyes after saying this, don’t let tears fall to the ground."

"Stubborn as a duck."

Gouchen sneered as he charged forward, with his three clones surrounding Li Cheng from different directions.

The jetpack on the Power Armor had failed due to damaged pipelines. Just the Bat Hook Claw alone couldn’t pull the heavy armor.

At the edge of life and death, Li Cheng showed no fear, instead calmly put away the Nuclear Energy Lighter, reached into the void, and took out a...