Chapter 1123: Chapter 122: Giant Beast (Part 2)
"Hm?"
Hearing the System notification sound, Li Ang raised his brows slightly. "So this time it’s finally not annihilation?"
This team scenario mission, titled [Sea of Giant Beast], had a failure penalty of randomly destroying a certain number of players’ personally bound items.
According to the regulations of the Killing Field Game System, personally bound items cannot be discarded, abandoned, transferred, sold, or purchased.
As long as the player is alive, the binding cannot be severed. Even if you take the equipment out of your inventory and throw it into some corner of the world,
others still can’t pick it up and use it freely.
Many Perfect-quality and above items carry the personal binding attribute.
On Li Ang, whether it was the Origin of Life, the Divine Mark, or the Shining Dice of Destiny, none of them could be lost.
So for this mission, naturally there was no reason to refuse.
He sorted out the equipment and items on his body, tuned himself to his optimal condition, and, following the mission requirements, entered the ocean at 20:00.
The moonlight was cold and desolate, the seawater icy.
Li Ang’s entire body was submerged beneath the surface, silently counting down to the moment of teleportation.
The next second, the feeling of being immersed in seawater vanished. Flickering neon lights lit up before his eyes, his soles stepped onto solid ground, and noisy sounds rose in his ears.
The honking of car horns,
the clatter of chopsticks and spoons against porcelain bowls in restaurants,
the chatter of pedestrians,
the pop music blasting from street-side shops.
This place is...
Li Ang looked around. He was standing on the sidewalk of a not-so-wide concrete street.
The buildings on both sides of the street looked like products of the last century—old, low, faded. On the outer walls you could see air conditioner compressors everywhere, sheltered under green rain awnings.
The ground floors of the buildings were crammed with all kinds of shops, each one hanging a brilliant, colorful traditional-character signboard, radiating bright light in the night.
[New Radiance Optical Store]
[Grand Pharmacy]
[711]
[Lucky Jewellery]
[Star China Hotel]
[Zi Kee Macau Noodle & Tea Stall]
These multicolored signboards were layered, dense. Some, having no room to fit, climbed upward section by section, stretching out across mid-air like a suspended city wall.
Looking up, you could see not only the dazzling variety of signboards, but also the wires strung between residential buildings like spiderwebs.
And gazing into the distance, past this old, cramped yet extremely bustling and lively district,
you could see rows upon rows of skyscrapers, packed together like scales and teeth.
The sidewalks were packed with pedestrians,
foreign tourists in casual shirts and straw hats, holding camcorders to film the street,
middle schoolers in uniforms and backpacks walking in small clusters,
young couples in matching outfits,
and office ladies with handbags, hurrying along.
The distinctive streetscape, the East Asian features of the passers-by, and the Cantonese they were speaking all confirmed where Li Ang was.
Beeeep— be-beep—
The green light at the crosswalk had already gone out.
Li Ang, the only one still standing on the crosswalk, had drawn the displeasure of the drivers behind him.
A middle-aged driver in a red taxi and a white undershirt pressed the horn twice. Seeing that Li Ang still didn’t move, he impatiently stuck his head out the window.
He had just opened his mouth when he noticed Li Ang’s gaze.
Indifferent, tranquil, as if it pierced through layer after layer of the Steel Jungle to stare into the deep night sky.
For no reason at all, the middle-aged driver shivered, and the image of the Buddha statue he had just brought back from the temple two days ago flashed through his mind.
He silently pulled his head back into the driver’s seat, and his hand left the horn he’d been using to urge people on.
Fortunately, Li Ang didn’t insist on occupying the crosswalk.
He took a few steps forward and stood at the roadside.
This city... is not Nankong in the real world.
It looked very similar, but when he released Spiritual Energy Mind Reading toward the pedestrians, the results showed this place was called [Port City].
Some subtle details also showed how this place differed from the real world—
On both sides of the street, every hundred or two hundred meters, there was a staircase leading underground.
Judging from the shape of the staircases and the signs standing beside them, they seemed to be air-raid shelters.
Such densely packed air-raid shelters—were they to avoid war? Or to avoid natural disasters?
Just as Li Ang was thinking, a further System prompt sounded by his ear.
[Mission Objective: Evade the pursuit of the human camp, and kill three Deep Sea Giant Beasts]
[Mission Reward: 1 item or scroll of the same grade as the highest-quality item carried by the player]
Hm?
Li Ang clicked his tongue in interest. This time, the mission reward was an item or scroll of the same grade as the highest-quality item he was carrying.
He had the Shining Dice of Destiny, an Epic-quality item. In other words, after clearing the mission, at worst he would get an Epic-level piece of equipment.
This rule was perfect for players with terrible luck.
So these are the mission objectives, huh...
Killing three Deep Sea Giant Beasts was easy enough to understand. Just monster hunting. Li Ang had watched plenty of tokusatsu shows before.
Evade the pursuit of the human camp.
Pursuit?
Li Ang flexed his fist on the spot. His power wasn’t restricted at all in this scenario mission and could be unleashed perfectly.
The Bullet Teleportation Technique, Psychic Abilities, Divine Mark, Life Blueprint, Heart Monkey Staff—all these gear and skills were available for use.
In this situation, ordinary modern conventional troops are already completely incapable of stopping him.
Even if the Special Affairs Bureau’s Mobile Detachment formed up in numbers and deployed extraordinary weapons, he was confident he could cut his way in and out seven times over.
"If, in this scenario quest, the human faction’s military strength is the same as that of conventional forces in the real world,
then for a player of my level, it’s really nothing.
Since the Killing Field Game System sets ’shaking off pursuit from the human faction’ as either a prerequisite or a parallel condition to ’killing three Deep-Sea Giant Beasts’,
that proves that in the game’s assessment, the human faction in this scenario world still possesses enough firepower to pose a threat to High-level Players.
Interesting."
Li Ang tilted his head, glanced around, and saw no familiar silhouettes.
This scenario quest was tagged as team-cooperation mode, yet there were no players he knew anywhere nearby.
Were they not in this area, or had they deliberately hidden themselves?
Woooo!!
A large loudspeaker mounted on a utility pole at the end of the street started blasting out a sharp, piercing air-raid siren, shattering the quiet of the night,
and at the same time the pedestrians walking along the street all felt their phones vibrate at once.
Passersby, drivers, the owners of the little shops by the roadside—
everyone put down what they were doing and picked up their phones to read the text message they’d just received.
Li Ang became the only person on the street who didn’t take out his phone,
but that didn’t matter,
the perception of a Level-6 Spiritual Energy user let him sense and glance into the phone screens of others.
[Reminder from the Port City Garrison of the Pacific Joint Defense Force: A spatial energy anomaly has appeared in the Yau Ma Tei district where you are currently located. Please follow the map instructions in the official City Defense app and proceed immediately to the nearest underground air-raid shelter.]
[Reminder from the Yau Ma Tei Police Station of the Port City Police Department: A spatial energy anomaly has appeared in the neighborhood you are currently in. Please follow the map instructions in the official City Defense app and proceed immediately to the nearest underground air-raid shelter.]
...
Several messages were sent at the same time to the phones of every pedestrian on the road.
A second ago they had still been chatting, laughing, and walking as normal,
but now panic and unease instantly surfaced on their faces,
and they hurriedly surged toward the stairways leading down into the underground shelters.
Strangely enough, there was no shoving or trampling in the crowd; panic carried a trace of order, as if these citizens had drilled this countless times.
Li Ang raised an eyebrow, watching the surrounding pedestrians run for it,
then slowly turned his head to look at the surveillance camera hanging beneath a neon signboard at the side of the street.
He had a hunch that the human authorities in this world had already spotted him.
And reality played out exactly as he’d anticipated.
Within just thirty seconds of the messages being sent, the sound of rotor blades beating the air came from the sky,
and a strangely designed hovering vehicle drifted around the corner at the end of the street, accelerating straight toward Li Ang’s position.
The upper half of the vehicle looked like a standard armed armored car,
its outer Metal Armor painted pitch-black, exceptionally thick, able to withstand rifle fire and even machine-gun rounds,
and its blast-resistant glass windows were slanted to effectively deflect incoming gunfire.
Warning lights flashed constantly atop the roof, and red-and-blue police light strips were mounted around the body.
Around those light strips, orange-yellow "S.W.A.T." Special Weapons and Tactics insignia were printed.
The lower half of the vehicle wasn’t fitted with wheels but with six sets of hexagonal Vector Noozle Mouths, currently spewing pale blue flames to provide fierce upward and forward thrust.
Of course, on this armored police vehicle—more advanced than anything from the real world—
the most eye-catching thing was still the three-meter-tall Mecha hanging beneath it, suspended midair by eight steel cables.
The Mecha had a humanoid outline; its two arms were thick and powerful like battering rams, its fists as large as the tires of an ordinary car,
and mounted behind each of its shoulders was a huge beehive-like Vector Noozle Mouth.
Its thick legs bent forward,
and each foot had three sets of webbed, duck-like metal hydraulic load-bearing structures on the sole,
its whole frame clad in alternating black and yellow,
its overall shape like a headless silverback gorilla—with the pilot standing inside the armored "belly cavity" of the gorilla.
The hovering armored police car, dragging the armed Mecha, hurtled toward Li Ang,
then slammed on the brakes and came to an abrupt halt some twenty meters in front of him,
its forward-facing police spotlights shining on Li Ang like white pillars of light.
Bang!
Both side doors of the hover car snapped open at once, and four S.W.A.T. operators in multi-piece Bulletproof Vests and full-face gas masks, wielding heavy assault rifles,
grabbed hold of the lines thrown out from inside the car and fast-roped rapidly to the ground.
The four operators were well trained, their muzzles locked on Li Ang the entire time,
and the moment they landed, they moved up at a run, using the empty parked cars by the roadside as cover to secure favorable firing positions.
At the same time, the hovering armored car above released the eight steel cables beneath it,
and the three-meter-tall Silverback Gorilla Mech crashed heavily onto the ground.
Even with the hydraulic load-bearing system in its feet offsetting some of the impact,
the Mecha still stomped two spiderweb-shaped craters into the concrete road surface.
Vmmm—
The Vector Noozle Mouths behind the Silverback Gorilla Mech’s shoulders roared to life with blue flames,
and the pilot hidden behind layers of armor manipulated the Mech to step forward, planting itself in front of the four S.W.A.T. operatives,
and casually reached back to pull a pitch-black, heavy water-cooled Rotary Machine Gun off its back.
Using the loudspeaker system built into the Mech, he shouted at Li Ang, "Citizen, please stand where you are, citizen, please stand where you are.
We are the Port City Special Mobile Response Unit. You are currently suspected of being connected to Deep-Sea activity.
Please cooperate with us.
Stand still, slowly raise your hands, and turn around."
