Corridor of Blood
【Warning: You attacked a member of the same fa!】
【Due to the fa leader 'Professor' having a special expertise, fa favorability is bound to the leader's personal favorability.】
【Abyss Humanitarian Relief favorability: 200 (Like)】
【You killed a member of the same fa!】
【Due to the fa leader 'Professor' having a special expertise, fa favorability is bound to the leader's personal favorability.】
【Abyss Humanitarian Relief favorability: 200 (Like)】
No matter hoeople he killed, as long as the Professor's favorability towards him didn't ge, Abyss Humanitarian Relief would urn against him and attack him.
How ridiculous... how pathetic... but not pitiful at all.
Because doing so meant that each of them obeyed the Professor's will, they had assisted in what the Professor had done and were willing to assist.
When Li Aozi walked out of the Iomi and Qiu Ran had already been waiting for a long time. The former swung a wrench, crag a nurse's skull. She turo Li Aozi, pouting:
"You sure took your time. The arm has gone off twice, why are you only out now?"
"Got some information—Assistant Doctor Anna has already obtaihe Professor's authority and has headed to the third floor."
Li Aozi said, casually pocketing the scalpel stuck with an eyeball to avoid losing it during a fight ter. He looked at Qiu Ran and asked:
"Are you okay? Are you sure you want to follow? It's not too te to hand over the are energy to me now."
"Thanks for the , but from now on, I don't want to rely on others' prote."
Qiu Ran tied her red hair into a ponytail and gave a thumbs up to the two, saying:
"A real woman never bees anyone's burden. Fight freely, Mr. Li Aozi, Miss Nomi."
Li Aozi nodded and stepped into the corridor.
Beep—beep—
The arm sounded again, and a syic female voinounced over the broadcast:
"Warning: Unknown intruder—please stay in your rooms, do not go out, I repeat, do not go out—"
Creak!
Li Aozi kicked open a door, and the Abyss medical staff hiding in the dorm er screamed immediately. Oed quickly, drawing a on and aiming at Li Aozi.
"Kneel."
Li Aozi gestured, and uhe heavy gravity, the person instantly kneeled, her shattered knees oozing red blood, staining her pants. She colpsed, her skeleton seemingly filled with lead, uo even lift her head. The sudden pain made her actally discharge the on, and her roommate's abdomen ierced, iines and blood gushing out.
He turo Nomi and said, "Don't e in."
Li Aozi gently closed the door. Soon, the room was filled with horrifying wails and screams, pleas, and shrieks, chilling to the bohen suddenly went silent.
Snap.
The door opened, and Li Aozi, unstained by blood, lightly said, "Let's go, to the pce."
Nomi didn't ask, hefting her wrench to follow. Qiu Ran couldn't help but peek inside.
"Ugh—ugh—"
Immediately, she g to the wall, vomiting untrolbly.
"Idiot big sister! He told you not to go in for a reason."
Nomi patted her shoulder and g Li Aozi who had broken in.
"Although we attacked Abyss to resist the Four Nations... this guy seems to have a personal vea."
Never mind.
Though she hadn't goo school, she still uood some basics of dealing with people.
Everyone has their own privad secrets. If hedgehogs get too close, they'll prick each other and bleed.
That Red Arrow guy seems to have more and more secrets—but so what?
At least now, being able to fight side by side, resisting the uable Four Nations together, feels enough.
"Get moving—don't die here, Qiu Ran." Nomi muttered, "Li Aozi's gonna do something big, you'd miss it if you die."
"Just don't let me see these ses..." Qiu Ran, pale, recalling the floor covered in bloody remnants, felt another wave of nausea:
"Ugh—"
"Damn! you ha? Hey, Li Aozi, you go ahead..."
Nomi's call received no response. When she looked back, Li Aozi had already vanished.
"Well, he's run off again..."
【Target: 34/109】
Li Aozi's pace was slow.
Iy, he derived no joy from the sughter. Every swing of the and release of gravity was just maniputing an a, then waiting for the result.
In esse was the same as before, like pying a game, numb, bored, meically repeating, killing these data.
But iy, sihe eighteenth female doctor had her head stuffed into her neck, Li Aozi began to feel a bit tired.
Blood soaked the , making it slippery and heavy in his hand. The ans dragged out from the bodies were still warm, almost alive, boung in the air.
These vivid ans imprinted deep shadows on his retina. Their death cries refreshed his uanding of human despair.
Curses, insults, pleas, hatred, fusion, bewilderment, pain.
The frequency of human despair and fear was so monotonous that it made Li Aozi feel a strong physiological resonand disfort.
"Scary…"
Li Aozi clutched his chest, the lingering fear gradually subsiding. He finally realized why it was rated 'Memorialize'.
As long as he was human, he couldn't face such age—humans instinctively feel fear at the sight of their kind's tragid, and involuntarily imagi happening to themselves.
The nurse's shattered head kept fshiween decay and a sweet smile, finally showing his face.
Li Aozi's dismembered face.
"Unbelievable..."
Li Aozi shivered; it hysiological rea.
Fear is the body's self-proteeism, instinctively geiowards things that could threaten life.
He lifted his blood-soaked hand, vaguely remembering that these hands, just half a month ago, were those of a bank security guard, a brother, a good kid, also used for typing on a keyboard to make a living online.
He was doing something very sinful... killing, especially sughtering defenseless women, these female doctors couldn't even provide him with experience.
But Li Aozi didn't feel guilty for it.
"I'm actually feeling fear... am I still human?"
Whether as a 【Mutant】 or a former pyer who crossed into the game, he couldn't really be sidered "human" in this world, and Li Aozi had never regarded the dead as people.
"I'm killing, sughtering lives. I'm human, I'm alive, I'll die too..."
No!
Li Aozi's pupils rapidly tracted and dited. He suddenly realized that the narrow space of Abyss Humanitarian Relief seemed iionally arrahe deeper he went, the narrower it became, and the walls turned from white to brown... the color of dried blood.
This bloody corridor intensified his psychological suggestion.
"Psychological fear—this is a 【Medium's】 teique, but there's no malice..."
Li Aozi calmed down. He had no feelings about sughter.
Not to mention, just the void demons he sughtered were in the hundreds of thousands if not millions. Crawling out of mountains of corpses and seas of blood, he had long been desensitized to dismembered bodies.
It was the space he was in, plus the 【Medium's】 teique—stantly warning him.
"Warning…"
This wasn't a malicious warning. Li Aozi was familiar with the 【Medium's】 abilities. If it was a malicious warning, there should be ghostly spirits for intimidation.
"Someone's helping me!"
He opehe system panel, and sure enough, saw a new buff:
【High Tension】—easier to deteearby stealth targets.
He touched the wall, and at a slight touch, the brown wall shattered like an illusioing to white.
"It really is a spiritual setup. There's a 【Medium】 helping me… who is it?"
Li Aozi uzzled. He had only met one 【Medium】 since crossing ent Yavanna.
But Agent Yavanna had lo. With Nimotin severely injured, she must have gone back for debriefing... how could she be here at Abyss?
Psychological fear is a teique that ignores levels, if used properly, it cause a mutiny in an army.
versely, it serve as a beneficial effect, making the ander more aware of overlooked details.
When did Yavanna learn this teique?
Psychological fear only be performed by those with strong spiritual power, and to use it as a beneficial effect requires even higher proficy—
Wait.
Dr. Siqi's intelligence echoed in his ears.
………………
“Xue Nuo's are energy is a powerful spiritual force that read thoughts, ideas, and brainwave ges within a certain range and transmit them to each other—this is equivalent to a super-rge-scale mind reading and telepathietwork. If used in the military, it would be a war work more ve and powerful than quantum unication!”
………………
Previously, he had been so blinded by ahat he almost fot about this detail.
A psychic of Abyss Humanitarian Relief...
Strong spiritual power...
High proficy...
And willing to help him, at least have some goodwill towards him.
Li Aozi paused, suddenly realizing something.
—He remembered receiving a strae shortly after triggering the "Unmemorable" mission, someone in a hurried and sloppy maelling him: Run.
He opehe system records, quickly scrolling back to the time he first joined Abyss Humanitarian Relief.
At that time, he had just joihe anization, and there were many fa character favorability notifications.
Among the string of 'Indifferent' and 'Ordinary' favorability ratings, he found the only 'Like':
【Test Subject ZX-101】 Jane Neria: Indifferent (49/1000)
【Test Subject ZX-626】 ???: Like (200/1000)
“...Is it you?”
Li Aozi whispered:
"Xue Nuo."
A breeze swept through the underground corridor, brushing past his ear.
The wind didn't even lift his hair, but upon refle, he realized: how could there be wind in an underground pce ed tightly with t and frozen soil?
………………
“Xue Nuo's brain, due to the excessive release of are energy, may have experienced mutations in brain cells enes... In short, her body o longer be patible.”
Dr. Siqi paused and said:
“Two months ter, she died from massive bleeding caused by reje reas.”
………………
The body dies, but the soul is immortal.
"I see."
Li Aozi tightened his grip on the .
ZX-626 was Xue Nuo's new body.
From the beginning, that child had been helping him.
Li Aozi had always been liked by children, and it was no surprise that Xue Nuo noticed him, which is why she warned him to escape.
He had been iigating ZX-102 all along, and she saw it through her spiritual power.
The so-called "Unmemorable"... actually referred to Xue Nuo, who ehe brutal experiments of Abyss Humanitarian Relief but was never remembered.
With the explosion of the Azure Star, everything about her was buried, along with all the crimes of Abyss Humanitarian Relief, unremembered.
Until this moment of return, she pletely trusted him and gave him her unique blessing.
Do not fet fear, do not fet your humay...
"Fear—indeed, keep fear, maintain reverence for life. I will not fet."
Li Aozi calmed down. The right amount of fear made him more vigint. After a few steps, he pulled a nurse hiding in a trash and punched her to death.
"The 35th."
Li Aozi released the body, his eyes stantly sing:
"Even if history fets you, I ot five."
The hung down, dragging on the grouing a chilling sound that sent shivers down the spine.
FAL
