Chapter 71 - Monk

The noise of the gods fighting behind them grew fainter as the group wound their way through the twisting corridors.

The motorcyclist, having lost an arm, coughed and said admiringly to Li Cheng, “Dude, you really have guts.”

Summoning the Hell Monk through the Le Malchance Mysterious Box subjects the summoner to punishments beyond human endurance and drags their soul into hell for eternal torture.

For ordinary people, it’s better to die quickly than to fall into their hands.

This self-proclaimed Chu Xuan, a wicked cosplay enthusiast, is either a reckless fool or a psychopath with extreme calmness, even gambling his soul into the stakes.

“It’s not too bad, just this level of adventure.”

Li Cheng continued running, casually saying, “Last time I used my newly bought Sony 8k resolution 240hz monitor to watch the Zhenzi videotape, that was really scary.”

The driver paused, “Did Zhenzi climb out of the monitor?”

“Yes, that esports monitor was so expensive and then it dropped frames after buying it, which was really terrifying.”

Money deducted for the pun!

Su Jie and the driver almost spat out blood.

You really are leisurely, making jokes at such a tense moment.

On the surface, Li Cheng was calm; inside…

he wasn’t too panicked either.

Hell Monks were indeed strong, but as long as he solved the Magic Cube, he could easily send them back to hell.

Moreover…

“We are indeed in the killing field, right?” Li Cheng twisted the Magic Cube while turning to look at Su Jie.

Su Jie put away a nearly burned-out candle, guessed what Li Cheng wanted to ask, and said, “Yes.

Players who accept a Regular Task of exploring the killing field cannot use the logout function.

There are only three ways to exit: one, complete the task.

Two, withstand the time limit of the task, making it invalid.

Three, leave the task area, find a phone booth, and teleport to the shabby streets.

The task is automatically considered failed.”

Considering the strength of Alma, Su Jie didn’t think players could survive her relentless pursuit for two hours.

Thus, the only options were to complete the task or to escape the Bunker—which actually were the same.

According to the map, if players wanted to escape directly, they’d have to dig through nearly a hundred alloy-reinforced walls.

It was simply impossible.

“Here’s the Command Center.”

Li Cheng stopped, standing in front of an alloy-made blast-proof security door, scanned the palm print lock with a severed hand.

Beep—

The palm print lock lit up red, obviously, the ordinary Security Guard’s access from the severed hand’s owner was not enough to open the door.

“I’ll do it.”

Taylor stepped forward, his hand on the palm print lock, “click”, the door opened.

Inside the Command Center, the lights blazed brightly, hundreds of screens were hung on the walls showing surveillance footage from all over the Bunker.

On the floor, there were fifteen or so human corpses, including several underage children, all long dead.

None of the bodies showed signs of being tortured or eaten by monsters; each person had been shot in the head, cleanly.

The sole handgun was clutched in the hands of a middle-aged man dressed in a bespoke suit.

Li Cheng stepped into the room, scanned one of the bodies with a stern look, and mused, “Shot through the forehead twice, seems like suicide.”

Su Jie tried to ignore this full-pot comment, closed the blast door, glanced at the large screen on the wall, “All the people in the Bunker, almost all are dead.

Those few survivors in the Command Center probably saw the monsters slaughtering humans,

and through the external surveillance cameras of the Bunker, saw that the Bunker itself had moved to the Otherworld—also known as the killing field.

These people believed that they would never be rescued, and in despair, they ended their lives and the lives of their children with a gunshot.”

In fact, if they had held on a bit longer until the players arrived, there might have been a chance for them to survive.

But now it was too late to say anything.

The driver didn’t care about the fate of these people; he stared at the large screen and murmured softly, “Outside the Bunker, there are Security Guards from the killing field.”

Outside the Bunker was a barren desert, thousands of differently shaped Security Guards roamed, as if waiting for something.

Taylor didn’t understand what the players had been talking about concerning the killing field; he frisked the body of the suit man, pulled out a key, excitedly shouted, “Found the main control room key!

Here!”

He handed the key to Li Cheng, cautiously said, “Mr.

Chu, can my daughter and I leave here with you all later?”

“That you should ask him.”

Li Cheng pointed to Su Jie, took the key himself, and approached the control panel in the Command Center, pressed the buttons, continually switching surveillance views on the large screen.

All the monsters in the Bunker were out of control, roaming aimlessly in the corridors, some blocking the path to the main control room.

Jason from “Friday the 13th”, Michael Myers from “Halloween”, the killers from “Texas Chainsaw Massacre”…

Li Cheng assessed the combat power of these monsters, which ones he might be able to fight, which to avoid, matched with the Bunker map in his memory palace, swiftly planning a route.

“Uh…” Su Jie scratched his head, “If by leaving the bunker and heading to a safe zone, Mr.

Taylor, that is possible.

However, I can’t guarantee that we can send you back to your original world.”

“Surviving safely is enough.” Taylor replied, sighing in relief, without daring to ask for too much.

“Remember to be a good person once we’re out.” Li Cheng said without turning his head, “Don’t think about all those nonsensical things.”

At first, this sounded rather odd, but during their frantic escape just now, Su Jie was so exhausted he was gasping for breath, and the driver had no choice but to be helped by his Pokémon to run, whereas Taylor remarkably wasn’t sweating much.

Moreover, according to what he had said earlier, he was just an electrical engineer, and it was his deceased wife who had the authority to open the command center…

“Ah?” Taylor was bewildered, about to say something, when a metal chain suddenly shot out from the wall behind him, piercing through his shoulder, winding around his body several times, and suspending both him and his daughter in midair.

The driver and Su Jie were also hoisted by chains.

Li Cheng instantly reacted, grabbing the magic cube and twisting it forcefully—originally intending for Hell’s Messenger to shield the players from Alma’s resentful spirits, they unexpectedly exceeded the task, killing or repelling Alma, who was now coming to continue claiming lives.

Previously, Li Cheng had nearly restored the Mysterious Box, only lacking the final step, but the hand holding the magic cube felt as if it had frozen, unable to move.

Moreover, this numbness spread from his hand and shoulder up to half of his body.

Whish—

A female figure slowly emerged from the pool of fresh blood, flowing inexplicably from the metallic ground in front of Li Cheng.

She was one of the two Hell Monks, a female whose height neared 1.9 meters, with pale grey skin.

Her already voluptuous and sexy figure was accentuated even more by a black tight-fitting leather dress and suspenders stockings.

Her ample bust was only supported and covered by two thin straps.

However, her other features were not so lovely—her lower leg’s skin was peeling off, exposing bloody muscle fibers, and each hand was nailed with a rusty boat nail.

Her originally beautiful face was crisscrossed with bloody trails, each intersection nailed with an iron pin.

Her overall appearance was madly distorted, broken and depraved, exuding an alien, sinister, and solemn vibe.

Gazing down from above at Li Cheng, she grasped the Mysterious Box in her left hand and extended her right with slender fingertips towards Li Cheng’s chest, teasingly slicing through his skin.

Li Cheng remained expressionless, flicking out the Mantis Arm Bone Blade from his still mobile left hand, and slashing it into the woman’s neck.

Blood splattered, and the nearly beheaded female Hell Monk not only showed no expression of pain but instead began to smile joyfully.

In their world, pain equated pleasure, and suffering was delight.

Eternal torment meant eternal bliss.

Above the command center, the male Hell Monk floated, his robe extending into chains that penetrated the shoulders and limbs of the driver, Su Jie, and Taylor, tightening slowly around their necks.

Taylor, on the verge of suffocation, vaguely saw a chain creeping towards his daughter in a blurry vision.

Driven by intense emotions, his chest burst open, and a segment of blurry limbs stretched out, firmly grasping the Hell Monk’s chains, preventing it from moving any further.

The Hell Monk, who was about to enjoy the torturous delight, paused, slowly shifting his gaze to Taylor.

Taylor, who had morphed out of human form, had his head split into two, blood-soaked tentacles growing inside his body cavity.

‘So, I am not Felix Taylor; I am just an Alien.

No wonder the earlier zombie chased after me.

Monsters with similar attributes are more likely to attack each other.’

Taylor thought slowly as his head split in two, controlling the tentacles to safely lower the frightened little girl to the ground.

‘But what does it matter?

I have inherited Felix Taylor’s memories and thoughts, I am Felix Taylor, I am her father, I have to protect her…’

Taylor, completely transformed into a monster, climbed up the chains, opened his bloody maw, and lunged towards the male Hell Monk, biting off one of his arms.

The Hell Monk’s figure swayed, the chains trembled, ceasing their pursuit of the little girl and releasing Su Jie from his bonds.

Unfortunately, Hell Monks are immortal and can only be banished.

Li Cheng, whose right side remained rigid and immobile, suddenly cracked a smile, knowing full well that ordinary physical attacks were useless against Hell Monks.

The previous slash at the female in front of him was actually to adjust the angle.

The angle of the Bone Corridor.

Bang!

Transforming into the shape of a Protective Arm, the Bone Corridor activated a special effect named “Burned Prison,” using the Hell Monk’s blood as a source, mimicking the Death Curse and spraying high-pressure water jets, hitting precisely on Li Cheng’s right wrist.

The previously unresponsive right hand, under external force, forcibly rotated, altering the Mysterious Box’s shape, restoring it to its original…

square form.

Boom—

The Mysterious Box suddenly erupted with tremendous suction power, and the female Hell Monk in front of Li Cheng, caught off guard, was directly sucked into the Mysterious Box, banished back to Hell.

The male Hell Monk in the air was also affected by the terrifying suction force, plunging downwards.

He remained expressionless, nonchalantly flinging away the soulless Felix Taylor, pulling the driver in front of him, attempting to drag him down to Hell together.

“Screw you!”

At the moment of life and death, the driver, having thoroughly toughened up, shouted: “100,000 volts!”

Responding to the command, Pikachu, curled up and closed its eyes tightly, releasing a dazzling thunderbolt, striking directly at the Hell Monk,

The lightning traveled along the chains, conducting between the driver and the Hell Monk.

While the former was electrocuted to the point of smoking all over, the latter was forced to let go of the chains, engulfed by the Mysterious Box’s suction force, falling into Hell alone.