“Where is he?”
Lu Bai opened the car door.
The car door wasn’t locked, and the mobile phone was also left on the seat without being taken.
Based on his understanding of that guy Yao Yi, unless something major happened, he shouldn’t have abandoned the car and run off randomly.
Where the hell did he run off to?
Lu Bai closed the car door and turned his head to look around.
There were no traces of violent abduction, perhaps he went to a nearby convenience store to buy something?
He leaned against the car door, reaching up to rub his chin.
Lu Bai had originally planned to wait and see like this, but before he had to wait too long, a series of mechanized prompt sounds suddenly rang in his mind.
[Current Deathmatch Arena node has appeared.]
[Death Fighters who obtain the node will receive double points reward.]
[Node has been located in real time. (Click to view)]
Lu Bai had originally just planned to tap open the location map and glance at it, but when he saw the “node” position, his gaze sharpened.
“This position…”
……
Secluded alley.
A figure flew backward, smashing through a waterproof tarp and kicking up a large cloud of dust.
“‘Node’ is actually him?!”
The female high school student widened her eyes.
As death fighters, they could naturally hear the system prompt sounds too.
The skinny boy held a section of iron railing, his expression grave: “I think I get it. This guy is both a monster and humanity.”
“Cough… cough cough, cut the crap.”
Another boy struggled to his feet; the butterfly knife he had been gripping was nowhere to be seen: “What do we do now?”
All three were actually very hesitant.
On one hand, they felt Yao Yi was very dangerous right now; on the other, they didn’t want to give up the “node” so easily.
After all, Yao Yi’s current physical condition wasn’t optimistic.
The female high school student gritted her teeth and pulled out a dagger hidden in her pant leg.
“‘Node’ is right in our faces. We’ve finally run into an opportunity like this—do you guys really want to give it up?”
“Don’t forget, that big boss is nearby.” The skinny boy’s face was full of conflict.
“Wang Ting” didn’t care what they were thinking.
The flesh and blood on her chest writhed, continuously shooting out sharp bone spikes; the flesh strips connecting these bone spikes were red and white, extremely grotesque.
Under the relentless offensive, these three death fighters had little room for resistance and could only desperately dodge.
But even so, in this narrow environment, several new wounds inevitably appeared on their bodies.
Clang!
The female high school student tried to block an incoming bone spike with her dagger, but after the collision, she felt a tremendous great strength feedback from the dagger, making her unable to hold onto it.
She glanced at her palm, which was cracked and bleeding from the shock, and instead, a fierce determination surged in her gaze.
The female high school student shouted fiercely: “Stop fucking dawdling—what are you still hesitating for?!”
Without waiting for the two boys to respond, she did a tactical roll, quickly picked up the dagger, then pounced toward Yao Yi’s main body with her legs like coiled springs.
Pfft!
After taking two deep, bone-visible stab wounds, she successfully plunged the dagger into Yao Yi.
This couldn’t be blamed on Yao Yi’s slow reaction; it was purely because he had already been knifed several times before, with the tendons in one leg severed, greatly reducing his agility.
“Wang Ting” failed to stop the female high school student’s forward pounce and, in urgency, produced two bone blades that spun like fan blades, severing the female high school student’s outstretched arms.
The other two boys weren’t idle either; as the female high school student charged desperately ahead, they followed closely behind.
Even if they had some hesitation in their hearts, once they committed, they wouldn’t hold back, both tacitly attacking Yao Yi’s vital positions.
Fortunately, “Wang Ting” was very rigid in battle.
This rigidity wasn’t derogatory.
It could make the optimal choice in the shortest time; to survive, it didn’t mind making trade-offs.
At the cost of Yao Yi being stabbed twice more, its long-prepared thrust pierced the skinny boy’s heart.
It lashed out left and right, also trying to sever the other boy’s head, but unfortunately, the opponent dodged.
Having avoided decapitation, that boy said with lingering fear: “Run! This monster is very strong.”
“Of course it’s strong.”
A calm voice suddenly rang out.
Lu Bai pushed aside a wooden plank and looked at the scene before him, clicking his tongue in wonder.
His praise for “Wang Ting” was truly not just polite words.
Back then on the hot air balloon, Wang Ting as a monster had forced him to choose Long Fang.
The few parasitic organisms he encountered later at the scrap yard, though partly because he had Long Fang in hand, didn’t give him as much pressure as Wang Ting had.
Yao Yi was covered in wounds and had lost too much blood; he had been holding on by sheer will. The moment he saw Lu Bai appear, his mind relaxed, and he immediately passed out.
[Ding!]
[Current Deathmatch Arena node has been obtained.]
[Double points reward loading remaining time——]
[23:59:59]
……
[23:59:55]
[23:59:54]
The system prompt sounds rang in Lu Bai’s mind; he wasn’t surprised by this.
Based on the intelligence he had learned on the deathmatch forum, the judgment method for a living “node” didn’t require possession—just both parties needed to be friendly in the same space.
The male high school student saw the pure smile on Lu Bai’s head; he had no mood left to care about his teammates and bolted on the spot.
Unfortunately, Lu Bai had no intention of letting anyone leave.
[Flash Time] activated; arriving after but striking first, one slash instantly killed him.
He noticed the skinny boy had his heart pierced and was clearly near death; out of a simple notion of thrift, he conveniently slashed again to end the other’s suffering.
Seeing this, the remaining female high school student, who had lost both hands, hurriedly said: “Big boss, don’t kill me—I still have value. I know the death fighters who colluded plan to…”
Slash!
Before she could finish, Lu Bai slashed her dead.
[Ding!]
[Points +3, current points: 7, current rank 2/354]
“What are death fighters?” Wang Ting’s two strange eyeballs blinked; her language ability was much smoother compared to the first time Lu Bai saw her.
Lu Bai put away Long Fang, somewhat puzzled: “Why do you have to use Yao Yi’s girlfriend’s voice?”
“I think he’ll like it,” Wang Ting replied.
“That’s true enough…”
Lu Bai’s teeth ached a bit: “But I feel like this will also remind him that you killed his girlfriend.”
Wang Ting turned to glance at Yao Yi: “I’ll consider it, but no time for chit-chat now. He needs immediate treatment.”
“Alright, trouble you to transform these three into the appearance of parasitic organisms.”
Lu Bai pulled out his mobile phone, found Bureau Chief Xu in his contacts, and dialed directly.
The call connected quickly; as he watched Wang Ting modify the heads of these three high school students, he casually said: “Old Xu, come over to clean up.”
“……”
“Yes, Yao Yi’s here too—he’s badly injured. Hurry up or he’s gonna die.”
“……”
“……Yeah, yeah, yeah.”