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Chapter 70 - 73 Driving Away the Tiger

70: Chapter 73: Driving Away the Tiger

70 -73: Driving Away the Tiger

A group of people leapt onto the rubber raft, with Li Cheng starting the engine and speeding forward in the assault boat.

The motorbike rider was nearly unconscious from excessive blood loss, with four magical creatures squeezed into his embrace, crying out in panic.

“Make way!”

Su Jie stretched out his hand to press on the rider’s shoulder stump spewing fresh blood, desperately releasing his healing skill.

As the flesh at the wound squirmed, it finally stopped the bleeding by plugging the blood vessels.

The greatly drained Su Jie had no time to wipe the sweat from his forehead.

He then rummaged through the backpack to pull out a bandage covered in powder and wrapped it tightly around the rider’s shoulder.

Finally, he took out a red potion and stuffed it into the rider’s intact left hand, forcefully pouring it down.

[Item Name: Micro Life Potion]

[Type: Consumable]

[Quality: Rare]

[Usage: Perform a “drinking” action (no need to actually drink), considered as completely consumed]

[Special Effect: Heals a portion of external injuries and most common diseases.

Healing speed and effectiveness depend on the user’s physical strength]

[Cooling Time: Only one potion can be consumed within 1 hour.

Effects will be overridden by Small, Medium, Large Life Potions]

[Note: Suitable for carbon-based life (both left and right-handed), silicon-based life, arsenic-based life, ammonia-based life, sulfur-based life, nitrogen-based life, etc.]

Li Cheng glanced at the emptied square crystal bottle, unlike the healing potions consumed like water by players in online games, the life potions produced by the killing field are genuine panaceas.

The treatment spectrum includes but is not limited to trauma, cancer, sepsis, rheumatism, AIDS, uremia…

With one dose, the remedy cures the disease.

As long as the injury isn’t something like a shattered brain or crushed heart, which would cause immediate death, it can keep a person hanging on by a thread.

Also, as life potions only appear as mission drops and player’s personal store merchandise (there are two store systems: one is the public marketplace visible to all players, refreshing fifty items daily.

The other is the personal player shop, refreshing fifteen items daily),

Their price is much higher than the average cost of rare level consumables, and they’re usually priceless in the market, snapped up by major guilds as soon as they appear.

(The super-rich and powerful in the real world also hoard life potions for emergencies, directly driving up their prices)

“Dun dun dun dun dun.”

After drinking the life potion, the motorbike rider’s severed shoulder finally stopped oozing blood.

He lifted his head in a daze and weakly said to Su Jie, “…Thank you.”

“No need.”

Su Jie administered a pain reliever injection to him and finally wiped the sweat from his forehead before turning to look behind him.

The evil spirit Alma, in the form of a little girl in a red dress, remained standing in the same spot, not moving.

The deep-sea octopus tentacles around her attempted to retreat but were forcefully pulled out from the ventilation ducts by her telekinesis and exploded into nothingness one by one.

In the world of the video game “F.E.A.R,” Alma Wade had been an innate spiritual ability user similar to Zhenzi since childhood, with superpowers like telepathy and telekinesis.

At the age of 8, she was imprisoned in a research facility by her father and a tech company closely cooperating with the U.S.

military and subjected to various inhumane experiments every day to develop a new generation of military communication systems based on telepathy.

Later, at the age of 15, while unconscious, she was implanted with her father’s genetic material and forced to conceive two male infants who also had spiritual abilities.

These two infants were also taken away by the tech company for further scientific research.

After this series of gruesome tortures, Alma turned completely malevolent.

Even in death, her physical body returned to the world as an evil spirit to exact bloody revenge on the ATC company and humanity.

In the ending of the first installment of the game, not even a nuclear explosion could kill her.

It’s not just Su Jie, who specializes in medical skills, or the driver, who specializes in summoning—bringing in three higher-level combat players probably wouldn’t fare well against Alma—

Her physical body was dead; the little girl in red was merely an illusion created by the powerful spirit power that remained in this world.

“On the other side of Ocean Park, there’s a long way that leads to the Command Center.

Let’s take that route.”

Li Cheng, who was driving the rubber boat, recalled the map he had seen earlier and quickly said, “Su Jie, what are they saying on your headset?”

All Eyes Communication Headsets are connected to the Heavenly Eye System located in the Eyes Room, where the service ladies pick up the call and provide guidance.

This wasn’t a secret in the killing field; sometimes, the Special Affairs Bureau would even gift or lend headsets to friendly guilds.

“It’s safe for now, the deep-sea octopus doesn’t have time to bother us…

Be careful!”

Before he could finish his sentence, the towering water slide standing in the water was pulled by an invisible force, toppling toward the dinghy.

Li Cheng jerked the steering wheel, narrowly dodging the collapsing steel frame, but more buildings, human corpses floating on the water, and shark carcasses were driven by telekinesis, smashing towards the small boat.

At the critical moment, Su Jie pulled out a candle, rolled his fingers over the wick, and lit it.

The candlelight was faint, enveloping the surroundings of the small boat and blocking all the external objects.

Holding the candle, Su Jie shouted, “We’ve got limited time; we have to shake her off!”

Dressed in red, the resentful spirit Alma had already dealt with the deep-sea vampire octopus.

Appearing and disappearing on the water surface like a glitchy TV screen, she plunged through the Pokémon’s thunder and flame skills, closely following behind the small boat.

Wherever she went, the water flowed backward, metal twisted, and buildings collapsed.

It was an apocalyptic scene.

Apparently, once the candle in Su Jie’s hand burned out, she would swoop down and crush them from afar.

The killing field wouldn’t set up a mission with certain death, especially not right from the start.

No matter how desperate the situation, there must be a way to survive…

With a determined look, Li Cheng turned the steering wheel sharply, skillfully drifting the small boat 90 degrees and heading back in the direction they came from.

Bang!

The rubber boat shot onto the shore, and Li Cheng sprung into action, picking up the Le Malchance Mysterious Box from the ground amidst the shocked gazes of his companions.

Activating the Multi-threaded Brain Domain Method, he rapidly considered parallel thoughts, mentally simulating the structure of the Magic Cube.

Holding the severed hand, he twisted the Magic Cube through his palm, transforming it into a long strip, then violently threw it onto the ground.

Clang!

The Magic Cube hit the ground, and a sharp needle protruded from its top.

Just like in the movies, it was designed for a sneak attack.

Li Cheng placed the severed hand gently on the needle tip.

As the needle pierced the skin, drawing blood, an indescribable eerie sensation descended upon the narrow corridor.

Shalala shalala—

The inexplicable sound of dragging chains echoed, and the once smooth walls tore like human skin, spewing out a massive amount of fresh blood.

Two Hell’s Messengers, a man and a woman dressed in black leather jackets adorned with numerous spikes and torture instruments, stepped over the blood and into the corridor.

Their faces expressionless, they first scanned the three players and the Taylor father and daughter, then their gaze shifted to Alma on the water surface.

Hell’s Messengers and the spiritual resentful ghost both targeted these living beings, neither willing to back down, even though they knew it was Li Cheng’s strategy to set them against each other.

Invisible forces, using both parties’ gazes as a medium, clashed.

In an instant, the sea of blood churned, bricks and stones flew, and the corridor shattered like a demolition site.

“I won’t disturb you, I’m off then.”

Li Cheng gave a thumbs up with the severed hand, picked up the Magic Cube, grabbed Su Jie and the others, who were still stunned in place, and bolted.