115. Misfortunes Never e Singly

  Bang!

  The professor chuckled. In the moment, the figure appeared behind Li Aozi, kig him in the spine, sending him flying. As Li Aozi's body was about to hit the ground, the professor appeared beh him, raising a cwed hand formed into a ko stab him.

  "Thank the old-era anti-gravity systems—though they were also taken from the os."

  The professor seemed to walk forward slowly, but the speed was incredibly fast.

  "They seem to call this... some kind of magic, 【Anti-gravity Sensing Array】? Quite a magical power, isn't it?"

  Splurt—

  At such speed, Li Aozi had no time to reaot even to activate his teleportation. He was stabbed through the lung on the spot. The intense pain made him feel an immediate chill, as if he had fallen into an ice cave.

  "Foolish child," the professor whispered, "I have long sinderstood your attack patterns."

  As the professor spoke, they slowly pulled out the bde, then swung around to ssh at his shoulder.

  Ssh—

  "This is the importance of education, young graduate."

  【Am I... going to die?】

  "Li Aozi, my dear child, you were perfect at first, just like me. We should both be cold-hearted, selfish individuals—but look at you now? You have flesh and blood, you lose your temper, it's pathetic. You've gained a weakness."

  The professor muttered and tutted, and from a distance, Du Zexin immediately fired a volley. The professor dodged nimbly, tinuing to taunt:

  "Fet about your humanity, and you be as strong as me!"

  Li Aozi's health dropped rapidly. As his body fell to the ground and the professor slowly withdrew their cw, his sciousness began to fade, and a buzzing sound filled his ears.

  Blood flowed outward, and as it left him, he uood what 'life slipping away' meant.

  Initially, it was very painful. Lying on the ground, his lung torn, blood filling, vulsions and coughing as his health dropped to single digits.

  Li Aozi's pupils dited sharply, and his heartbeat slowed.

  Then, he seemed to feel nothing.

  The world became sereranquil.

  The Vigorous One saw that he had lost his vital signs, and casually gave his heart a finishing blow. Li Aozi's body merely twitched, and she ignored him, turning to deal with Du Zexin.

  The sounds of explosive guns and drones gradually faded, the rending of high-speed movement and cw strikes being exceedingly gentle.

  Li Aozi's vision grew increasingly blurry.

  【You have ent...】

  Death... so this is what it feels like.

  pletely different from before.

  No matter how many times he had died before, it had never been this shog to experience firsthand.

  To be precise, he had just seen his owh retly, hadn't he?

  Being pursued and possessed by a spirit monster, losing body heat, freezing to death in the sunlight.

  What a pity... his former self had dreamed of driving a hovercar.

  He had beeed like a sve by his family, exploited, drained of every drop of blood, not even allowed to pin.

  【You have entered...】

  Many things fshed before his eyes, as if he heard the voices of people talking.

  They say that when a persohey see their life fsh before their eyes, a rapid pyback of their life's events.

  However, Li Aozi did not see his past life's memories. As a lone wolf, there wasn't muinisce about.

  Born from a meical womb, raised in a b school, growing up, graduating, being assigned work.

  Then disc "Star Abyss," gaming, luckily being a streamer, making a small fortune.

  If he hadn't bee the ace 【Starfall Master】, Li Aozi might have lived a simple, three-point-one-line life, ordinary and mundane.

  He never really had any signifit attats rets.

  The images fshing before Li Aozi's eyes were mostly trivial things.

  Nomi cursing while driving, Qiu Ran cutely rubbing her head after bumping it, even the awkward moment whe Yavanna stole his first kiss. Then there was Nomi pining about Frost-Pted's atrocities, standing by the nuclear wastewater expressing his ideals, jumping off the car hood to hug Qiu Ran.

  —Until the end, when Nomi was blown to pieces.

  ...There were so many images of Nomi.

  Was it because of unresolved feelings?

  Or because of dissatisfa?

  Sp!

  Suddenly, Li Aozi felt a sharp pain on his face, as if someone had spped him.

  "I—am not dead?"

  Instinctively, he opened his eyes. Despite his heart and lungs beiroyed, he suddenly felt strength returning, his brain started w again, his cells frantically regeing, quickly repairing his body.

  —This isn't a game.

  His body was different from a pyer's; it was still struggling desperately.

  Life screamed sharply, waking Li Aozi's sciousness.

  This isn't a game, damn it. Pyers disect before feelih, fetting what death feels like.

  Apart from tranquility and struggle, the subjective experience of life's moments fshing by, until the st moment, every cell fights desperately to live, frantically regeing, repairing body and soul.

  His Omega Energy, his cells were still desperately trying to save him!

  Unwilling.

  Unwilling to die here, to fall because of recklessness and overestimating his tolerance for real pain.

  Unwilling to let Nomi, who had left a deep impression in his heart, die without avenging him.

  Most unwillingly, the damn strategy lied to him!

  The inal work didn't have this kind of cheating monster!

  Whether this was a game or not.

  One day—Li Aozi would catch the writers of Catfish Strategy Group and give them a good beating.

  "Ha... ha—damn it! Move!"

  Trembling, he struggled to lift his hand, like a drowning person reag for any straw, no matter what it was, even a glimmer of hope.

  Sp.

  At that moment, his outstretched right hand seemed to be held by a rge, firm hand, a force eg through his palm and transferring to his body.

  【You have entered a dying state: remaining time—16 seds】

  "Is this... the pyer's dying state?!"

  Gritting his teeth, Li Aozi pulled out a geic serum and brutally ied it into his heart.

  Splurt!

  Strength surged through his body, cells went into a frenzy, extrag all energy from his genes, rapidly repairing nerves, blood, muscles, skin, even his soul—like being shocked awake by cold water, he regained trol of his body.

  "Don't die—live!"

  【Gene sequeress respoemporary mutation】

  【Proliferation variation—evolution at 100%】

  【Omega Energy evolving...】

  【Evolution plete】

  【Your subordinate Omega Energy evolved】: [Strong Parasitic Mutation]

  【Rating】: Zeta (ζ, sixth Greek letter)

  【Active activation】: Ignore all trol/restraint/inhibition recovery effects, directly overdraw strength from genes, frantically proliferate, immediately restore 60% of maximum health. Requires 40 minutes of cell self-repair before reuse.

  【Passive state】: When you suffer a fatal injury, you will not die immediately but enter a dying state.

  Note: Each dying state es 45 years of lifespan.

  "She hasn't given up, you 't die either."

  You 't die.

  Sp!

  Li Aozi ched his fist, his wounds rapidly healing, flesh mending, bones forcibly realigning.

  "—Ugh!"

  Li Aozi opened his eyes, immediately flipping and standing up. He looked ahead.

  The battle oher side didn't look promising. The Vigorous One, uo recover its health due to Li Aozi's mark, sent another body to deal with the overclocked Du Zexin.

  This new body had sharp horns, a banced physique, muscur like a lier, strong as a wild horse, and nearly 2.4 meters tall, covered in posite armor that barength and speed.

  Its left hand synthesized psma, stantly b Du Zexin with charged electric spheres, while its right haended bone spikes, blog his movements.

  "How about my Deg Ohis lead armor is specially desigo ter 【Meics】, with almost no gaps, impervious to bdes."

  The professor, trolling two biochemical bodies, seemed eager to pete, perhaps too long without versing, especially with a knowledgeable meitrodug iail:

  "Both at range and up close, its defense is unmatched. A 【Meic】 has no way to ter this strength."

  Du Zexin remained silent, overwhelmed by the AI's various data.

  Overclog needed cooldown time, but uhis dense firepower and the Vigorous One's sneak attacks, how could there be time?

  The professor of Abyss... very difficult to deal with, she was good at learning from experience, modifying biochemical bodies, always bringing out targeted teology.

  In this situation... he could only activate [Beautiful Wishes]'s self-destruct program.

  He made up his mind.

  The small three-stage power reactor of this armor, even if it was nuclear-powered, would still have enough power to take down two biochemical bodies.

  Doing this much was enough; he would have to gather equipment and strength for ime.

  "The professor of Abyss is too powerful, I 't be a match, especially since Li Aozi is dead—"

  Bang!

  The Deg One, firing at full power, suddenly had its spi, kneeling to the ground. A purple fme ignited in the air, the hilt of a bde entwined with murderous aura fell, Li Aozi stepped on its head, smashing the hilt into its skull.

  Sixty times gravity!

  Crack!

  The hilt's blunt impact transmitted through the helmet, destroying the Deg One's brain, taking it offline instantly.

  The Vigorous One paused, sciousness reeg, the professor's voice shocked:

  "Li Aozi?! This is impossible, your vital signs just vanished—"

  Whoosh—Crack!

  The Magnum explosive gun seized the moment, firing, hitting the Vigorous One's khe high-temperature metal jet vaporizing its entire leg bone.

  The Vigorous Oried to run, but immediately fell.

  Whoosh!

  "You told me to abandon my principles?"

  The sharp bde pierced the Vigorous One's head instantly. Li Aozi extended his tendrils, ing around its neck, seg it pletely, his voice hoarse:

  "—Never heard a more foolish demand."

  FAL