Chapter 226 - The Car Arrives

Chapter 226: Chapter 207: The Car ArrivesThe sky seemed to have shed a thin veil of gossamer, becoming incomparably clear.

"Where is this?"

To the left of the Y-shaped pipe, Midnight Howl, who had collapsed on the ground, shakily stood up. He looked at his own hands with a blank expression,

"Huh?"

Li Cheng turned his head to glance at him. As the pipe’s gate closed and the chaotic flow of time was no longer leaking, it seemed that the broken Mystery Lock had reset Midnight Howl to a certain temporal node.

"Why am I... still alive?"

Like Li Cheng, Midnight Howl had also experienced two looping patterns, A and B. In Loop A, he was instantly killed upon meeting Cliff. In Loop B, he was brainwashed by Mithril and killed by Li Cheng in that loop.

Two completely contrasting pre-death memories floated up in Midnight Howl’s brain, giving him a splitting headache as he began to groan in pain.

"Are you alright? Is it a headache?"

Gray Rain kindly passed over a large sledgehammer used for demolition, "Here."

Midnight Howl was flabbergasted, "What is this?"

"It’s a remedy for headaches." Gray Rain spoke earnestly, "When my head hurts from reading too much, I hit my forehead with a hammer a few times, and the headache disappears instantly."

Headaches disappear? More like whether the head remains is the question!

Midnight Howl’s twitched the corners of his eyes and declined the offer swiftly.

Swish, swish.

More noises came from the bushes. Not only Midnight Howl had been resurrected by the chaotic flow of time, but so had the dead Red Driver, the bandaged man, and even Cliff and others. They stood on the spot, looking around in confusion.

The many restrictions in this place were broken, the area of the bushes was drastically reduced by more than a dozen times, no longer causing people to get lost.

If they all could be resurrected, then the mastermind behind this mission, the root of everything...

"Ah—"

From deep within the bushes came Mithril’s furious roar, his face appeared in the high air like a 3D projection, overlooking Li Cheng on the ground from on high.

The left half of his face still resembled a mummy, while the right half was slightly swollen, showing the flesh color of a normal face. It looked as if his resurrection had been suddenly interrupted halfway through.

"It is you," Mithril spat bitterly and resentfully, grinding his teeth, "who destroyed the Mystery Lock?!"

Li Cheng spoke confidently, "What’s the deal with the destruction of the Mystery Lock? Everyone knows about the Mystery Lock, so why was it destroyed? Today, let’s take a look at this. The fact is, it has been destroyed. You might ask why, but that’s how it is, it surprised me as well. That’s the truth about the destruction of the Mystery Lock."

The Red Driver, who had just resurrected, nearly stumbled and fell, instinctively retorting, "What an old, stale joke! What year is this?"

"Mercury Alloy has been missing for a year, and the bandaged man has traveled here from four years ago. For them, this joke is not that old or stale."

Li Cheng curled his lip casually, "Mithril, you should be around level 15, 16, or 17 now, right? At least you’re half alive.

How about we go our separate ways?

I won’t hold a grudge for the many times you’ve tricked us, and you don’t come seeking revenge."

"Die!"

Mithril’s massive phantom swooped towards Li Cheng. He couldn’t allow Li Cheng and the others to leave—setting aside the interruption of his own resurrection process, which left him excruciatingly half-dead-half-alive,

if he let Li Cheng go, allowing the truth about this place to be revealed to the outside world, Mithril, who had killed his teammates, would also end up utterly disgraced in the killing field.

Mithril’s mind was as still as water, and Li Cheng and his team hadn’t completed their mission and couldn’t directly withdraw,

but Mithril himself had far more actual combat experience than this group of novices at level 10 or so. Plus, with his Spirit Enchantment System’s brainwashing power, it would only take minutes to kill everyone present.

Eliminate all witnesses.

"Sigh."

Li Cheng anticipated the other party’s reaction, sighed, and calmly raised his hand to snap his fingers.

Skill, activated.

His figure instantly vanished from the spot, replaced by a paper crane fashioned from paper.

This paper crane, created by the Summoning Technique, theoretically could last up to two hours.

But, due to the Trait of Mystery Lock, each time Li Cheng reappeared through the cycle, he would release his own paper crane.

Step.

Li Cheng stepped back twice, moving to the spot he had previously marked with chalk as the landing point for the patrol train, raising his arm high, index finger pointing to the sky, took a deep breath, and shouted, "Train’s here!"

The human voice echoed above the grass.

After a brief delay, the inexplicable sound of a train engine clanging rang out, and the green train that could freely traverse the killing field burst forth from the void.

"Woo-woo—"

Steam billowing from the train’s chimney, it gently landed behind Li Cheng.

In the eleventh carriage, the Fishing fellow dressed in an ancestor bird’s windbreaker, a headless reindeer, looked out the window at Li Cheng in confusion, "Ant, brother?"

There was no time for detailed explanations, Li Cheng spoke straightforwardly, "Reindeer bro, I invite you to a feast, a nearly dead Lv30 Transcendent’s corpse."

The headless reindeer himself had strength at least equivalent to a Lv33 Transcendent, and he was most fond of devouring the corpses of powerful Transcendent creatures, regardless of the state of decomposition.

Mithril, proficient in the Spirit Prophecy system, instinctively sensed something was amiss and immediately dispelled the shadow, attempting to use the system’s login function to force an exit from the killing field.

Unfortunately, it was a step too late.

In a flash—

The headless reindeer, moving at a speed invisible to the human eye, burst through numerous tall grasses, charging next to the mud pit where the corpse of Mithril lay, pinning Mithril’s shoulders with its two front legs, lifting him up.

"No, don’t!"

Mithril, halfway through resurrection, screamed in horror, releasing one mind blast after another at the headless reindeer.

The latter, completely unaffected, held Mithril high above his head.

The reindeer, lacking a head, had a miniature and collapsing black hole appearing out of nowhere above its neck stump.

The wind howled around, and the reindeer slowly but firmly stuffed Mithril’s whole body into the black hole.

Half a minute later, the headless reindeer, having finished its meal, turned around slowly. The faces of Zhao Zijing and others standing around the mud pit turned pale, not daring to make a move.

The reindeer paid no heed to them, waving at Li Cheng beside the highway through the clearing he had just broken through in the grass, "I’m full this time, thanks for the hospitality, Ant brother."

"Don’t mention it."

Li Cheng sighed in relief; he couldn’t be sure whether the reindeer would definitely help.

The reason the reindeer could maintain a friendly relationship with human organizations like the Global Supernatural Alliance, in addition to being powerful and communicable,

The main reason was that the reindeer adhered to rules and would not violate the agreement with the GSA by killing human players to satisfy its hunger.

Especially since Mithril’s state was peculiar, he had already started the Resurrection process, but hadn’t fully revived, so the reindeer eating him did not break the agreement with the GSA.

"So full, so satisfied."

The reindeer patted his belly contentedly, having just devoured the head of a Lv30 Transcendent, temporarily losing interest in the nearby bismuth-colored corpse,

After a friendly chat with Li Cheng, giving him something as a token of thanks, he boarded the patrol train and left once more.

The green train roared away, and Li Cheng turned to look at the now-less-mysterious tall grass.

What followed was the wrap-up work.