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Chapter 243 - 240: ’You Still Came Back

Chapter 243: Chapter 240: ’You Still Came Back

Flax’s gaze fixed on Su Ming’an.

On Su Ming’an’s desk, a full bottle of potion was still placed.

"Moreover, Student Thirty," Flax looked at him, "why haven’t you drunk the potion yet?"

Su Ming’an stared at her.

He truly felt the malice emanating from this instance.

If last time, no Player had attacked Flax, and they hadn’t triggered the Force Path, then what awaited them would have been the same scenario as now.

Players who had drunk the potion would also end up crying their eyes out, as if they had lost their personas and dignity.

He glanced at Mo Yan.

Mo Yan had drunk it before him, perhaps unable to withstand Flax’s pressure. The bottle in front of Mo Yan was already empty.

This young man was still holding his sword, standing up, sobbing, and repeatedly uttering the same words.

"I’m sorry, I’m sorry, I’m sorry, I’m sorry, I’m sorry..."

Just like those deranged Players before him, Mo Yan’s eyes looked vacant, his face streaked with tears, as if he had lost his rationality.

In his moment of hesitation, Flax released Dong Xue and walked up to him.

"You really haven’t been a good boy," Flax glared at him.

She clapped her hands.

Four crying Students stood up from their seats, suddenly rushed toward him, intending to restrain Su Ming’an to submit him to electrotherapy.

Su Ming’an extended his hand, his hand radiating with a glow.

"I issue you, the High Tower Invitation."

He said.

"Boom——!"

Layer upon layer of pressure transmitted from the sky to the ground. The four who came at him suddenly collapsed onto the ground like dead dogs, unable to move.

[The High Tower Invitation has been established.]

The next moment, the light in Su Ming’an’s hand changed color.

"Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!"

[HP-987! (Combat Power Suppression! Fatal Injury!)]

[HP-879! (Combat Power Suppression! Fatal Injury!)]

[...]

Four blood-red numbers soared up from the bodies of the Students, who lay on the ground, their bodies as if their bones had been broken, suddenly silent.

[Exp+2000! (Total)]

[Current number of invitations: 6 people.]

Su Ming’an withdrew his hand.

Flax, still looking at him, had already changed her expression.

"Number Thirty," Flax looked at him, her voice gradually deepening, "are you challenging the entire White Sand Paradise?"

"Didn’t you want to reconcile with your past, Flax?" Su Ming’an smiled, "Looking at you now, it seems you really have lost your former self."

Flax’s face changed.

All the still crying Students watched this scene in shock, their faces filled with disbelief towards the resister.

...Why, does anyone dare to challenge authority under these circumstances?

System alerts popped up in front of Su Ming’an:

[Your actions are altering the current storyline!]

[Current Path: Peaceful Path.]

[If you successfully persuade Flax, you will enter the hidden Years Line.]

[If this action fails, you will enter the Force Path. Together with all Players, you must defeat Flax to advance to the next stage of the story.]

[Currently detecting the number of Players...]

[Current number of "normal" Players: 1, receiving hidden information about the Escape Line.]

[(Note: The Force Path contains a hidden route, Escape Line, requiring you to successfully escape White Sand Paradise with Dong Xue to perfectly pass through).]

[(Note: The Escape Line is extremely difficult, please proceed with caution.)]

...

[Key Clue Triggered: (Flax’s Words)]

[Persuasion Progress: 25%]

...

"I really intended to reason with you," Su Ming’an said, "but it seems like you don’t want to hear me out."

"You killed my students and still expect me to listen to you?" Flax sneered.

"Ding-dong!"

[Hidden Path: Years Line has failed.]

[Boss battle mode initiated.]

[BOSS: Flax, Combat Power 2000, Current Health Points: 100%]

[Challenger: Su Ming’an (Total Combat Power 1780)]

[Probability of Winning: 43%]

...

Life is always so dramatic; in the last instance reset, Su Ming’an thought the group of players who suddenly attacked were too reckless.

This time, it was his turn to make the first move.

He still had 2000 Mana Points left; if used properly...

He heard the system’s judging voice:

[Flax activated a skill, conducting a Mentality Points assessment...]

The Flax in front of him seemed to split into fragments in an instant, and after days of quiet, bizarre singing echoed in his ears once more.

[You notice Flax gazing at you, twisted patterns appearing on her...]

[Current Mentality Points: 131 points>40 points, assessment passed!]

The next moment, Su Ming’an quickly snapped back to reality and saw Flax, seemingly in a rigid state.

"—Flax! I issue you a High Tower Invitation!"

He immediately spoke out.

Flax stood dumbfounded, seemingly unresponsive.

[(High Tower Invitation) initiated.]

Energy Suppression and Spatial Vibration almost occurred simultaneously on Flax, the air seemed to boil instantly, her knees slammed into the ground, bursting a large amount of blood, and bright red numbers appeared on her.

[HP-128!(Energy Suppression!)]

[HP-2109!(Critical Hit!)]

Her health points instantly slid from 100% to 53%.

Caught in the violent vibration, the surrounding chairs and tables instantly shattered, the floor cratered, and even the ceiling was impacted.

The whole classroom, like a small boat in a turbulent sea, was about to be swallowed by fierce waves.

Crying students were flung into corners of the classroom, and notebooks on the tables were torn to shreds.

Even Su Ming’an himself was affected; he was suddenly struck with a force that propelled him toward the back of the classroom, showing 98 points of impact damage.

This Spatial Vibration, which had activated the Aurora Ring’s Mentality Points conversion effect, had injected over eighteen hundred Mana Points just to make the attack hit home.

He looked at the classroom, which had turned chaotic in an instant, and quickly got up from the ground.

The damage was high... but it wasn’t enough.

His Mana Points were only enough for him to teleport twice.

He had no excess to attack the opponent.

Flax’s rigidity had ended.

She slowly got up from the ground, looking at him, her eyes as still as midnight.

"Number Thirty," she said, "you really don’t listen."

A blood-red halo appeared around her, accompanied by a hoarse cry, rapidly covering the entire classroom.

The halo seemed to carry a strong negative effect; just being covered by it, Su Ming’an saw his sanity points steadily decreasing.

...This was an attack aimed at all the students.

But now, there was only one challenger, him, which made the damage of this attack concentrated.

He glanced at Mo Yan, who stood there dumbfounded, like a log, seemingly unresponsive to the outside world.

The barrage became frantic, as if they hadn’t anticipated the situation would escalate to this point:

[Can’t overcome it! Seriously!?]

"[It’s normal, Ming’an’s skills are one-time use, lacking endurance. Attack once, and if there’s no effect, it’s over.]"

"[1700 against 2000... It was a losing battle from the start, it’s all because you people kept pushing, and now look what happened!]"

"[Impossible! How could the Number One Player lose?]"

"[How can you blame us!? Wasn’t it Su Ming’an who took action himself? If he had just talked to Teacher Flax like last time, how would he have triggered the boss fight?]"

"[Here we go, the blame game is starting, the market’s chaos has begun.]"

"[...Is it still possible to beg for mercy from Flax, can we get a chance...]"

Su Ming’an closed the wildly scrolling comments.

At this moment, his whole body was surging with a deep blue glow.

The moment he launched his attack, he had activated the effect of Dawn’s Fall, which would rapidly restore 450 mana points within five seconds.

As for other props, things like the Defensive Barrier and various arrays, those supportive items were essentially useless against something with 2000 Combat Power Value, due to an absolute rank suppression.

Facing the overwhelming blood-red light and Flax, who was gradually regaining his senses, he immediately called out:

"Shadow."

The blood light from Flax’s hand shot forward, condensing into a roaring bloody maw before him.

Spatial light flashed instantly, and the next moment, he teleported behind Flax.

"—Kill yourself immediately," he ordered the Shadow, which was being blocked outside by the boss’s fight air wall.

The moment Shadow fell, a sensation of being slashed surged instantaneously.

It felt like countless needles were stabbing into him, every cell roaring in pain. A rush of darkness momentarily pressed over his slightly blurry vision.

The pain of Cloning’s death, transmitted in sync.

Flax turned swiftly, a streak of blood-red brilliance coming at him again—

"[You notice the ring of light expanding on Flax, covering you with twisted consciousness...]"

"[Luck Points determination in progress...]"

Su Ming’an stretched out his hand, his figure enveloped in darkness, emerged once more.

...The Shadow was blocked outside the boss fight by the air wall, unable even to enter the battlefield via Spatial Displacement.

The only way to get it into the battle was to have it die first, then employ the Clone Skill to resurrect it.

In the sweeping wave of crimson, Shadow stood before him, likewise reaching out his hand towards the blood-filled sky.

The air boiled again.

Against the backdrop of deep red, fragments seemed to merge together, like molecules in an ancient Earth’s primordial soup constantly colliding.

White space’s Cross Light twinkled like stars, bringing waves of mottled light and shadows.

"[HP-134! (Energy Suppression!)]"

"[HP-2234! (Critical Hit!)]"

...

"[Flax (BOSS) Current Health: 6%]"

...

"[Luck Points determination failed!]"

A line of blood-red text appeared before his eyes.

He suddenly spewed a mouthful of blood, his whole body numb.

A strong emotion surged from the bottom of his heart, an awareness seeming to arise in his body, struggling with him for control over his body.

As his Sanity plummeted, he no longer had the energy to look.

His vision was abruptly and briefly snatched away in that instant.

He was now blind.

He only felt a sense of danger and instinctively teleported—

"Boom—!"

A fierce sound exploded where he had been standing, as splinters flew towards him, and his arms felt a series of slashing pain.

His Mana Points had now recovered to over four hundred.

6%.

...Enough.

He once again activated the Aurora Ring.

His remaining 276 Health Points dropped in a flash to 15, as his Mentality Points soared rapidly.

It seemed as if an energy wave had passed through his body, and once again, a judgment appeared before his eyes.

[Under the influence of Flax for too long, you have heard voices that should not exist...]

[Conducting sanity value judgment...]

Although invisible, he could clearly feel that the temperature in the air was rising.

It was as if someone was trying to embrace him, a faint touch lightly pressed against him, and after the blood-red prompt jumped out, he felt something strangling his neck.

[Sanity value judgment failed!]

"Report... location."

His throat was restrained, and the air he could breathe was compressing and diminishing little by little.

With eyes open yet seeing nothing, he raised his hand, which was already charged with spatial vibration.

"Right here."

The voice of the Shadow came from the front right.

Su Ming’an did not hesitate, immediately shifted direction, and channeled all his remaining mana points toward where the shadow’s voice had come from.

He launched the final spatial vibration.

"Boom——!"

In the moment when an invisible force clutched his neck.

He felt that everything around him was disappearing.

His vision was disappearing, his perception was disappearing, it seemed everything was moving away from him.

He seemed to hear a scratching sound from his arm; among it, there was a thread-like pain.

Through a sheet of blood-brewing, profound darkness, he seemed to see a gaunt young man.

The young man sat amidst the darkness, clutching a piece of wood fragment, his eyes bloodshot, teeth clenched, slowly carving words onto his leg.

Blood slid down, droplets fell into the darkness, merging like water into water.

"I will definitely... save you all..."

The young man shouted in a low voice, as the blood gradually soaked his entire hospital gown.

"Wait for me, wait for me... to come back..."

Su Ming’an blinked.

The next moment, he saw light, once deprived, surging back like a tide.

In the center of the pitch-black vision, suddenly light flared up.

The young man carving words vanished, and he saw, in the center of a chaotic classroom, a woman lying among broken desks and chairs, her head hanging.

Her body was covered with various marks left by ripples, those patterns sprawled like thorns across every corner of her body, blood seeping through her hair, staining her entire body.

Above her head, a bright red value shone:

[BOSS: Flax]

[Current Health: 0%]

...

The moment Su Ming’an lowered his gaze, her body suddenly trembled and she lifted her head.

Those blood-filled eyes were also looking at him.

"Ah, I remember now... everything about this place..." she murmured softly, "I didn’t expect you to come back."

Blood crisscrossed over her pale cheeks, her limbs limply sprawled on the ground, making her appear extremely terrifying.

Those charming, beautiful eyes were now dull and lifeless.

"... You really did come back."

Her voice was intermittent.

Su Ming’an walked over, grabbed her hair, and made her face him directly.

"Tell me." he asked, "What is my real name."

Those beautiful eyes, filled with moisture, were staring straight at him.

...

"Yang Xia."

"Do you want to hear the story about you?"

...

[Escape Line·Perfect Completion Progress: 40%]