Chapter 1 When Darkness Falls

When the darkness fell just now, the lonely girl over there screamed. The lonely guy was also quite scared, but his girlfriend was still holding his arm, and he couldn't very well scream along with her. He had no choice but to pretend to be calm and say to the lonely girl, "Don't be afraid, I'm here." But in reality, the level seven lonely guy didn't even have a weapon to fight monsters with; he could barely protect himself.

He and the lonely girl had been queuing together for the multiplayer training mode since level one. After reaching level five, they entered a team survival scenario once, but they both died. However, he had contributed a little more than the lonely girl, so when the other players cleared that scenario, the lonely guy got a little more experience. Later, they queued for another team survival, but they still failed to clear it and died together. So now, one was level seven and the other level six, neither had any equipment or skills, and they basically relied on their hands to fight monsters.

Seeing this, I think many people understand. The reason why Long Aomin was assigned to this team was also specially arranged by the system. There might be hundreds of players queuing at the same time, so why this combination of five people? It was because the system, based on the previous performance of the lonely guy and girl, had judged them to be weaker players.

In order to help them, the system added Long Aomin, a level ten and relatively strong player, to the team. At the same time, in order to maintain the overall difficulty, the system also found two players with relatively low levels but strong clearing performances to lower the average level of the team.

Thus, there was this group of five people, whose total level was 33, and the average level was 6.6... exactly the difficulty of a level six or seven scenario.

To put it more plainly, this was the system creating an opportunity for the lonely guy and girl to ride on the coattails of a strong player, hoping that they could successfully clear a scenario once, so that they wouldn't die too many times and develop a psychological shadow...

"What was that just now?" Long Aomin said. Actually, this was just a slip of the tongue. He didn't expect anyone to be able to give him an answer, but because the situation was quite scary, he felt flustered and wanted to ask for other people's opinions.

Unexpectedly, Feng Bujue replied in a calm tone, seriously, "There are three possibilities, I'll explain them to you later."

Wang Tanzhi didn't shout this time, but his face was pale, and his voice trembled as he spoke, "D-d-do we really... h-h-have to g-g-go this f-f-far? Turning off the lights in the s-s-subway is... j-j-just f-f-fine... b-b-but turning off the lights u-u-under this d-d-dark sky... that's j-j-just trying to s-s-scare us to death!"

"The scary thing is over there," Feng Bujue said expressionlessly, pointing in the direction behind Wang Tanzhi.

Xiao Tan stiffly turned his head, and Long Aomin and the distant lonely guy and girl also saw what Feng Bujue was pointing at at this moment.

They saw the last grotesque infant climb onto the roof of a bus and let out a sharp cry. Its appearance had changed. Its skin had turned black, its eyes shot out green light, and its teeth had become narrow, long fangs. Although the size of its body hadn't changed, the scythe in its hand and its pair of beast legs had grown nearly twice as long. Now, when this monster stood up straight, its height was close to one meter and sixty centimeters, and the range that its scythe arms could attack was obviously longer than a human's arm span.

Wang Tanzhi swallowed, looked down at the fruit knife in his hand, and then looked at the monster's "arm blades"... a sense of inferiority arose spontaneously.

"It feels like it evolved perfectly after eating a strange sweet..." Feng Bujue said, walking down from the bus with a pipe wrench in his hand.

"I'll distract it from the front and lure it down. You guys watch for the opportunity and attack it from the side." Long Aomin said as he walked forward. He couldn't joke around at a time like this like Feng Bujue could.

Unfortunately, Long Aomin's strategy failed to be implemented successfully. It was possible that this grotesque infant could understand the players' conversations, or that its intelligence setting was far higher than they had imagined. The grotesque infant completely ignored Long Aomin. It bent its legs and kicked off, leaving two sunken hoof prints on the roof of the bus, and bounced up high, drawing a parabola in the air. It actually flew over the heads of the three people and pounced towards the lonely guy and girl more than ten meters away, its target was under the streetlights.

At this moment, Long Aomin really wanted to activate the skill from just now to rush over and help, but he was powerless. The skill 【Lightning Collision】 that he used to help Feng Bujue out of trouble was a special ability granted to him by his title 【Brave Charger】, and the consumption of activation was 30% of his stamina limit, and the cooldown was a full hour.

The various situations regarding the "Title System" will not be described for the time being. In short, the only people who are capable of saving the lonely guy and girl now are themselves.

Seeing the grotesque infant descend from the sky, its scythes slashing diagonally towards the two of them, the three people standing in the street ran towards that place together. But the grotesque infant was like a falling stone flying from a catapult. With its exaggerated jumping power after being strengthened, the movement it made in the air was difficult for players to catch up with on foot.

"Run towards us! Lower your heads!" Feng Bujue shouted loudly.

This was undoubtedly instructing the lonely guy and girl to respond, and it was also a very correct response. Whether the two retreated backwards or dodged to both sides separately, at least one person would be killed immediately after the grotesque infant landed. And standing still or trying to block the attack would probably result in an even faster death.

The two only had the chance to survive if they lowered their bodies and rushed forward, getting as close as possible to the three of Feng Bujue in the few seconds that the monster missed its pounce and turned back.

At this life-or-death moment, a command that sounded confident was very effective. Those who were helpless and fearful in their hearts often obeyed without thinking too much. Sure enough, the lonely guy pulled the lonely girl and rushed forward with their heads lowered the moment he heard the words.

When the grotesque infant killed from the air, the two happened to slip past under its feet and scurried to its back. The scythes slashed into the empty air, and it seemed to be exasperated. Its hooves tapped the ground, and it turned around to chase, approaching the two who were running away in just two seconds.

But this grotesque infant was very unlucky. A strong man running in the opposite direction to the two of them had arrived at this time, and with a flash, he blocked the path of the grotesque infant. A gray metal round shield, like an iron wall, blocked the grotesque infant's path.

The strengthened scythe arms waved and slashed rapidly, and sizzling sounds came one after another, but this attack still only stirred up some sparks on the surface of the shield, without even leaving a scratch. The grotesque infant seemed to gradually slow down its attack speed and reduce its strength.

【Name: Fragments of Ultron】

【Type: Armor】

【Quality: Fine】

【Defense: Strong】

【Attribute: Refraction】

【Effect: None】

【Equipment Requirements: Fighting Specialization E, Level 8】

【Remarks: This is the wreckage left behind after a certain generation of Ultron was destroyed. It was originally only the size of a thumb, and was made into this shield after being re-smelted with secondary adamantium alloy. It seems to be slightly stronger than other mass-produced shields of this type, but multiple experiments have shown that there are no significant data differences to support this theory.】

The attributes of this shield were very strong. Compared with Feng Bujue's pipe wrench, its role in the early stages of the game was obviously greater. The grotesque infant's attack would slowly stop, also because it understood that if it continued to cut like this for a while, its scythe hands would probably be ground flat.

The grotesque infant gave up trying to break through Long Aomin's defense. It wanted to use its speed advantage to bypass this tough bone and deal with the others, but it had wasted too much time. A man wearing a black steel helmet and holding a fruit knife had quietly circled behind it...

Because his weapon was not very powerful, and he was also relatively timid, Wang Tanzhi didn't dare to act rashly. He went around a car, slipped to the rear of the grotesque infant, and then raised his weapon, stabbing the grotesque infant's cervical spine straight in with his knife. One didn't know if this choice of attacking a part of the body that would either kill you or cripple you was something that people who studied medicine would do.

With a strange cry, black pus and blood spurted out, splattering all over Wang Tanzhi's face. But this grotesque infant was still not out of breath, and still wanted to struggle.

At this time, a pipe wrench killed from the side, inhumanely stabbing into the grotesque infant's left eye socket...