099. Ruins Iigation

  "What's going on?"

  The emergency brake caught the other bounty hunters off guard, some were momentarily stunned and uo grasp the situation.

  "That shamarayed us! He killed Ox—"

  The warrior's panion had just spoken when Xue Nian lifted his bear paw, cws pierg the ears, crushing the head immediately.

  Bang bang bang bang bang bang!

  Someoed, firing the rifle tinuously. Xue Nian ducked behind the seat, the narrow space of the bus blog the oppo's long on, making it impossible to aim.

  "It's a bear shaman! Damn it, focus fire on him, don't let him get close, he tear a car apart with his bare hands!"

  At this moment, Luo Le hacked into the vehicle's lighting system again.

  Pop pop pop!

  The power overload caused all the light bulbs to explode, shattering gss ihe nearby bounty hunters. Just as they were about to retaliate, they were plunged into darkness.

  【Air ditioning system hacked—[Heating mode] temperature: 38.9°C】

  "I 't see anything!"

  "Use thermal imaging sights—damn it, why did the air ditioning temperature suddenly get so high!"

  Xue Nian remained silent, activating his spiritual power. His ghostly green eyes, like ghostly fmes, saw through the spiritual vision, those bounty hurapped in darkness were defenseless, like mbs to the sughter.

  "Jump out of the car—" Someone realized something was wrong, groping in the dark to find the window, immediately lifting their on and breaking hammer to try to smash the gss and escape.

  【Protective panels raised】

  Luo Le leisurely sat in the back, his eleic eye glowing red, watg these NPCs break the gss only to hit the bus's protective steel ptes, creating a resonant g sound.

  g g g...

  Lu Run was stunned by this se. In a brief moment, the ferocious desperados were hunted down and sughtered by Xue Nian and Luo Le.

  Although he couldn't see in the dark, the tinuous screams and the experience gains from team bonuses left the newbie deeply shocked.

  "Here."

  Suddenly, Luo Le handed him a pistol:

  "Gain some experience, boost your attributes. In danger, you only rely on yourself."

  Lu Run suddenly realized, hurriedly holding up the pistol, asking Luo Le how to use it, then started to finish off the enemies and gain kills.

  This battle was pletely one-sided, not to mention Xue Nian as a 【Shaman】 of the 【Eerie】 system, his strong physique and spiritual power erosion made the bounty hunters helpless. Luo Le's sedary profession 【Hacker】 pyed a crucial role in this battle.

  The power system was restored, some lights were reactivated, and the entire bus was illuminated again, leaving only the three of them alive.

  "The blog time is seventy minutes left, I o hato the bus's program ae the destination."

  Luo Le hahe asks, while Xue Nian and Lu Run began to t the loot.

  "These people's equipment is of such low quality." Lu Run couldn't help but pin as he watched Xue Nian dismahe syic spines from their bodies.

  Xue Nian was aced to it: "It's normal, poor people 't affood prosthetics—these third or fourth-hand items, bined, aren't worth 20,000 Derbies."

  "I'll help you." Lu Run stepped forward to help dismahe prosthetics from the dead bodies, suddenly realizing something: "Hey, if a pyer dies, will their prosthetics disappear too?"

  "It depends." Xue Nian said: "You probably don't know about the pyer's resurreeism, right?"

  "No. That's right." Lu Run nodded: "I only know that our bodies seem to be formed by summoning NPCs. What happens to pyers after they die?"

  "Simply put, you desd into an NPC's body, also having some special abilities."

  Xue Nian said:

  "If you check the information of yourself as an NPC, you'll find that pyers have signed a lifelong service with the 'an Member Medical Institution.'"

  "an Member Medical Institution? What's that?" Lu Run caught the term.

  "I don't know, but it's there, probably arranged by the AI—in short, this medical institution impnts special nanomaes in the body you desd intive me the gun."

  "Oh." Lu Run quickly hahe gun back.

  "It's like this."

  Xue Nian took the gun, adjusted it to burst mode, and casually shot himself in the head.

  Bang!

  Under Lu Run's gaze, Xue Nian's brains and blood spttered all over the row of seats.

  "Fuck!"

  Lu Run screamed.

  Xue Nian, shot in the head, k on one kruggling slightly before colpsing to the ground, his pupils gradually diting, but a calm expnation came through the voice el:

  "No matter what fatal injury a pyer suffers, they won't die immediately. When your health drops to zero, you'll enter a 'dying' state for up to one minute. During this period, if you receive treatment, you recover from the 'dying state'—take the healing agent from my pocket and give me a shot."

  Xue Nian's calm tone quickly brought Lu Run back to his senses. Following his instrus, he took out a healing agent from Xue Nian's pocket and ied it into his neck.

  "As long as the pyer's dying state doesn't exceed one mihey return safely."

  The moment, Xue Nian's head swayed, the wound quickly healing before their eyes. Aside from a slightly pale plexioood up as if nothing had happehen ate and drank, taking some medication to restore his health.

  "It's amazing..."

  Lu Run was very tempted, pig up the gun, about to try it on himself.

  "Even if you die, it's fine," Luo Le, who was hag into the transport vehicle's puter program, interjected: "If you exceed one mihe pyer's character is sidered dead, aan will immediately activate the nanomaes to revive you."

  "Does that mean pyers resurrefinitely?"

  "Not that easy—although even if only a molecule is left, as long as it doesn't exceed one minute, you be saved... well, it does sound amazing."

  Xue Nian expined:

  "But it doesn't mean you die limitlessly—based on our calcutions, nanomaes only perform full-body repairs three times. Also, after each death, you don't revive on the spot, but at the pyer hub or main city."

  Lu Run's eager heart quickly calmed dowantly asking:

  "What happens after three deaths? Perma at deletion?"

  "No, only the NPC's body you desded into dies." Xue Nian said: "After dying three times, the body is pletely useless, uo bear your dest anymore. Your at needs a 24-hour cooldown—in the game, that's about 30 days."

  "What a loss... Will there be any other effects after that?"

  "Yes, after the 24-hour cooldown, when you log bato the game, your interface won't be 'Dest.'"

  Xue Nian said:

  "You o redeploy, carrying your knowledge, experience, level, and rank, and desd into a simir NPC character."

  "Wait, won't my previous identity, accumuted tasks, held equipment, and favorability be gohen—"

  "Yes, your identity will ge, the fa usually won't, task progress resets, current level experience progress clears, as for favorability..."

  Xue Nian said meaningfully:

  "As far as I know, NPCs with favorability below 500 (Respect) won't remember you anymore. Those above 500 points won't care how you came back."

  He wao ask more, but Luo Le suddenly said:

  "The position is adjusted, we'll arrive at Abyss Humanitarian in about 15 minutes."

  "Be prepared." Xue Nian nodded: "The difficulty of Abyss Humanitarian seems very high. Even if Li Aozi destroyed it, before the Rose Army arrives, nearby bandit gangs might target it."

  "Those scum aren't even enough for me to level up." Luo Le scoffed: "Let's quickly find Li Aozi's footage, plete the pany's promotional task, a on with our tasks—I don't want to work overtime four or five hours a day. I really don't get it, prisoners work eight hours a day, this is svery, isn't it? I'd rather watch meteorites on a y."

  "Stop pining, at least the pany doesn't withhold wages."

  "Nonsense, prises are so low, after buying a few crates of soda and a meal, it's gone. If they withheld that, Tricksy work must be broke."

  Xue Nian and Luo Le bantered, leaving Lu Run uo interject. He idly tinued watg Li Aozi's footage and data, thinking about how to edit the footage.

  Suddenly, he noticed his refle on the s—pared to his previous thin appearance, his tours and edges seemed increasingly simir to his real self.

  "What a magical game..."

  Not long after, they arrived at the P-205 shelter. The three of them carefully sneaked in through the mairance. Along the way, they saw severed limbs and remains everywhere, the rotting stench making them nauseous. They couldn't help but put on respiratory masks, even in the game, to avoid any iion.

  However, their caution seemed to be unnecessary.

  The pce was empty, not a single person around.

  "The lower levels were burned by fire, the first floor is basically cleared out, not even a rat."

  Luo Le found the Abyss Humanitarian's mae room and server, while Xue Nian noticed some not-so-fresh military boot prints and Frost-Pted bullet gs on the ground.

  "Looks like Frost-Pted came here earlier." Xue Nian said regretfully, "They probably took the most valuable information."

  "Not necessarily."

  Power was restored, Luo Le hacked into the Abyss Humanitarian's server. After searg for a while, he immediately ughed:

  "Frost-Pted's hag expert must have gotten in through es, their crag methods are very poor. Look at this database, they actually tried to use a virus to break in—if it were me, I would extract the host puter's authentication protocol like this, bypass the firewall, and unlock it."

  As he finished speaking, he unlocked the Abyss Humanitarian's fidential database.

  "Let me see... Holy crap, what is all this? Bio King Kong, anti-gravity system, bio-maery, virus pods, camoufge form, Theseus brain, bio high-voltage current, living batteries, cellur puters, chitin bio barrels, brainwave remote sensing, psioniunication—"

  The wealth of information stunned Luo Le.

  "These materials... at least involve 40 basiowledge topics of the 【Exquisite】 system, 3 advaopics, enough for a 【Biochemist】 to quickly advao Beta tier (β, the sed Greek letter)!"

  "There are also 75 human experiment records: 'Physiological Mutations Caused by Omega Energy in Adolest Males and Females: Detailed Anatomy Diagrams'—my God, how many lives were sacrificed to obtain this."

  As Luo Le browsed, he quickly found a special video. Its name was a string of numbers aers, different from the orderly arra.

  Out of curiosity, he immediately clicked to py:

  The s went bck first, then brightened up. The sound of a subway whistling came through, and the light illumihe station name: Krasnaya Gora Station.

  "Is this subway surveilnce?"

  A fierce armored train arrived, braked, and stopped. The doors opened, and a group of tall, imposing soldiers in bd white uniforms slowly disembarked, carrying crates of ammunition, supplies, and equipment.

  Soon after, a woman's voice slowly sounded:

  "You finally arrived, agents of Law III, you've had a long journey."

  "No problem, Professor Anna."

  The camera moved to a young intelligence officer with a peaked cap, a stern look, and half-bck, half-white hair. He saluted Anna, without shaking hands, his blue eyes extremely cold, and he said calmly:

  "Law III, Level 2 Iigator, Du Zexin, ordered to trahese supplies."

  "Du? That surname is rare in Frost-Pted..." Doctor Anna was slightly surprised, "Five me, what is your retionship with Ms. Du Jiali?"

  "Same surname, nothing more."

  Du Zexin said coldly:

  "If you doubt my gender and position, don't. I earned my pce through my own ability."

  As Du Zexin finished speaking in the video, Luo Le had already retrieved the relevant information:

  Du Jiali: Deputy Director of the Frost-Pted Republic's Education Bureau

  Retionship: Du Zexin—nephew.

  "Damn, this one is even more heavyweight."

  FAL