Chapter 155 - The Forest Python

Chapter 155: Chapter 141 The Forest PythonLi Cheng jumped off the pirate ship at the end of its voyage, quickly glanced at the third stamp that appeared on the tourist card, and followed Andre out of the hut.

The sky was filled with dark clouds, and the already dim sunlight of the setting sun appeared even more gloomy under the cover of the clouds.

From the shadows of buildings, narrow alleys, and dark woods, dolls with no eye sockets and vacant smiles on their faces slowly walked towards the two men.

Tap tap tap—

Father Andre charged forward with large strides, pulling out a pistol, and precisely shot at the head and heart of a Donald Duck doll in the forefront.

The bullets hit Donald Duck’s body, disappearing like a stone sinking into the sea, leaving only two shallow holes without any response.

Seeing this, he violently pulled his straight sword from his waist with his gloved thick palm, twisting his body and rotating in an elegant manner to slash down.

The twin swords slashed into the duck doll’s abdomen, forcefully slicing open, blood and entrails splattered everywhere in an instant. Donald Duck thudded to the ground.

Andre, his right side smeared with blood, still expressionless, held the knife in his left hand and thrust it horizontally, piercing into the temple of another strawberry bear doll. His right hand stabbed forward, penetrating the throat of a rabbit doll.

Behind him, the sound of rushing wind approached, and abandoning the sword, he dodged sideways to avoid the frontal kick sneak attack from a third turtle doll, tightly grabbing the doll’s thick thighs with both arms, his muscles and the veins on his forehead suddenly bulging,

He flung the turtle doll through the air, its head knocking heavily on the ground, an eerie protrusion of bone shape emerging at the back of its neck.

As a priest not using divine arts, but sending enemies to heaven with a blade, similar to the legendary mage Gandalf who enjoyed using a staff to physically smash strong Orcs’ skulls.

"Hu—"

Andre exhaled the hot air, about to plunge his blade into the heart of the turtle doll, but then he heard the rustling noise.

The dolls he had just knocked down were shaking and unsteadily stood up again. Donald Duck’s abdomen still had a horrifying wound, with a lot of entrails flowing out.

Strikes like crushing skulls and piercing hearts seemed unable to deal fatal damage.

Li Cheng, who was at the back, noticed this too. The few dolls he had downed with his 170 straight blade were standing up again.

They leaped high and charged toward Li Cheng with the momentum of a mountain crashing down.

Li Cheng immediately pulled out his bat hook claw gun, pressed the trigger, and his whole body, driven by the hook claw, swiftly drifted away to dodge the collision.

Thud!

The doll heavily smashed onto the ground, leaving a circular concave in the concrete, with visible footprints.

One by one, they were bulletproof, thick-skinned, with an extremely high damage tolerance, and there were lots of them.

Li Cheng glanced around, and with the continuous blaring of air raid sirens, more and more dolls had surrounded the area.

It was time to retreat.

Every zone of the amusement park had an absolutely safe phone booth; the phone booth in the Pirate Harbor area was located on the western side.

With the bat gun cooled down, he shot the hook claw towards the top of a lamppost, swinging Li Cheng onto the rooftop.

Without needing his reminders, Andre also knew they couldn’t let themselves be surrounded and slashed down a few dolls with his sword, following Li Cheng to break through to the west side of Pirate Harbor.

Li Cheng, leaping between buildings and woods, rapidly processed thoughts in his brain.

Something was off.

The outer skins of those dolls seemed to be made of some high-strength synthetic fiber, requiring much more effort to cut through than the displayed furry fabric suggested.

And the outer skin and the inner body were fused together.

Inside, the distribution of bones, entrails, blood vessels, and nerves were all... bizarre. The Donald Duck doll was half-human, half-duck, the Goofy doll was half-human, half-dog, the Minnie doll was half-human, half-mouse, and Pluto doll, well, Pluto was all dog.

This was rather a hellish joke; both from the main characters of "Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck," where Mickey’s friend Goofy was an upright walking, talking dog with a human figure, while Mickey’s pet Pluto was a four-legged purebred pet dog.

No more buildings ahead, Li Cheng jumped down from the rooftop, crossed a shaded path, and arrived in the middle of the road, only to see two people already standing inside the red phone booth.

Su Jie and Ding Shaohua.

With a Special Affairs Bureau standard Bluetooth earpiece, Su Jie raised both hands, casting a skill, summoning a phantom of Copper Bell to envelop the phone booth. His guarded target was Bai Lang standing outside the phone booth.

"She’s just an ordinary person; are you sure you want to turn against her for her sake?"

Bai Lang’s voice was deep, his cold gaze sweeping over Ding Shaohua’s pale face inside the phone booth, "Move aside, otherwise I’ll smash the phone booth. No one will have it easy."

"I’m sorry, I can’t do that," Su Jie clenched his teeth, "first come, first served, Ding Shaohua and I got here first."

Bai Lang said in a deep voice, "You want to protect her, I have no objections, then give up your spot."

"No way."

Su Jie shakes his head in refusal, "Although my shield doesn’t have invincibility, it can still hold up for a while. You still have time to seek shelter at another phone booth in a different area."

Having said that, he glances apologetically at Li Cheng and the other person outside the phone booth.

There are only four phone booths in the entire amusement park, and they are far apart from each other.

Just from listening to the conversation between Su Jie and Bai Lang, Li Cheng roughly guesses the situation—after getting separated from the others, Su Jie encounters the ordinary person Ding Shaohua and keeps her beside him.

Right when the air-raid alarm begins, he takes Ding Shaohua into the phone booth at Pirate Harbor, and coincidentally, Bai Lang is also exploring this area.

From Bai Lang’s standpoint, from a purely utilitarian perspective, the right thing for Su Jie to do would be to drive Ding Shaohua out and instead cooperate with him, as the survival chance of two players together is greater than one player fighting alone.

But from Su Jie’s standpoint, as a member of the Mobile Task Force, he cannot actively endanger a civilian’s life. Also, he would not leave the phone booth himself and let Bai Lang stay with Ding Shaohua,

Knowing that players are a group willing to go to any lengths for survival with fluctuating moral standards, they could certainly do something like killing an ordinary person in the phone booth casually to make space for themselves.

Li Cheng shows neither approval nor disapproval of Su Jie’s thoughts, shoots a hook gun towards the streetlamp, and moves again—now, it’s too late to rush to another phone booth, so he might as well try his luck at the food store mentioned in the seventh rule of the visitor’s guide.

Seeing Li Cheng leave first, Bai Lang no longer holds back and directly unleashes his Snake Control Skill, summoning a nearly ten-meter-long giant horror python from beneath the suspiciously space item-like black robe.

The python slithers flexibly, spiraling around the surface of the Copper Bell illusion several times before suddenly tightening.

Creak—

The Copper Bell illusion emits a grating metal twisting sound, making one’s teeth sour. Su Jie shudders but still raises his hands, striving to maintain the skill.

Just as Bai Lang is about to gain momentum and continue to control the python to strangle, he suddenly notices something.

Dolls are showing up more and more around the area; it’s too late to leave now, and there’s a certain interesting smell emanating from inside the phone booth.

Swiftly.

Bai Lang withdraws the python, takes a deep look at the phone booth, corners of his mouth involuntarily rising, without further explanation, he immediately turns and leaves.

"He’s gone?" Ding Shaohua can’t believe it.

"He’s gone."

Su Jie coughs lightly a few times, the exterior of the phone booth glass still retains the foul-smelling viscous fluid left by the entwined python, fortunately, the structure of the booth itself isn’t damaged.

"Um, really, thank you."

After hesitating for a moment, Ding Shaohua sincerely thanks him. She is very aware that Su Jie bore Bai Lang’s attack in order to protect her.

"No problem..."

His voice abruptly cuts off, and Su Jie’s expression changes abruptly as he looks out the window at the increasingly nearing army of dolls surrounding the phone booth, a sense of foreboding growing stronger in his heart.

What’s going on? Did I miss something? That shouldn’t be!

Each park area has one red phone booth, which is absolutely safe. Each phone booth can accommodate up to two humans at the same time; if the number is exceeded, the protective effect of the booth will fail...

Wait, two people?

"Are you pregnant?!"

Su Jie’s voice cracks a bit, and without regard for Ding Shaohua’s denial of "No, I’m not!", he places his hand gently on her abdomen, releasing a medical skill with diagnostic function.

Pregnancy... two months.

Su Jie’s expression turns to despair, as two-month pregnancy has yet to form the outlines of a fetus, indeed some pregnant women have no early pregnancy reactions and might not even know they’re pregnant. But according to the amusement park’s rules, a mother and child count as two people.

Adding him, that makes three people, surpassing the phone booth’s safety capacity...

Thud!

Dolls crowd in, submerging the phone booth like a tide.