Players, Please Board the Train

With such tremendous force, Xu Huo had absolutely no control over his own body. He could only go with the flow of the water, doing his best to protect himself during the process. His protective suit item was damaged, and whether it was the pressure of the seawater or the uncontrolled collisions, the feedback was immense pain.

Wearing the item prevented breathing. Only after feeling the churning speed of the water current slow down did he put on the ”Oxygen Supply,” then unzip the outer protective suit.

Using the thread to hook onto fixed objects in the laboratory, he tried his best to stabilize his body and search for Dr. Deng and the others.

Although he had placed the Automatic Inflatable Boat outside the cabinet where Dr. Deng was hiding, he couldn’t guarantee it wouldn’t be damaged in the explosion. If the cabinet was washed back into the laboratory, that would be fine. But if it ended up outside, he’d have to go salvage it from the seabed, and he didn’t know if Dr. Deng could survive until then.

Right at that moment, he felt an unusual undercurrent surge from behind. He instinctively turned his head and saw a long knife slashing toward his face shield.

Dodging the blade by twisting his body to the side, Xu Huo kicked into the darkness. Kong Hui, who had been concealing her figure, seemed to peel away from a layer of algal clothing, being swept a bit further away by the water current.

She bore injuries from the explosion, numerous but not fatal. However, moving underwater in an ordinary protective suit was inconvenient, and her proud agility couldn’t be fully utilized.

Since she wasn’t dead, Kong Cheng was most likely alive too.

Xu Huo turned and swam toward the laboratory rooms.

Seeing him try to flee, Kong Hui immediately gave chase. The moment her feet touched the laboratory floor, a conveyor belt suddenly appeared beneath her, rapidly carrying her forward.Using the water flow to dodge the knife slashing from behind, Xu Huo lured her into the room and took out the Umbrella of Justice, hanging it from his waist.

Seeing the umbrella, Kong Hui’s movements clearly hesitated for a moment. She was probably thinking about the twin swords that broke earlier. She was exceptionally cautious, maintaining a distance of several meters as she stretched out her hands toward him, making a gripping and pulling motion.

Xu Huo’s ”Seeing is Believing” couldn’t avoid all characteristics—he had realized this after Kong Cheng used characteristics like ”Random Grab.” But seeing his own legs inexplicably shift to the right side still startled him. His body was split into two sections under Kong Hui’s characteristic!

It was a genuine split, like cutting a living person in a magic show. The part of him below the waist separated from his torso. He felt no pain, nor could he control his legs to walk... He was just fixed in place like that!

Kong Hui stepped forward with a triumphant expression, but just as she raised her knife, her expression suddenly changed. She stood in place, the light fading from her eyes.

The Constraining Star Sphere had taken effect, but Xu Huo couldn’t move his position either. However, Kong Hui wasn’t standing far away. A mere reach of his hand could finish her!

Just as he took out the Crimson Sword, a white undercurrent shot through the observation window outside. Kong Cheng, wrapped in a layer of bubbles, was upon him in the blink of an eye, swinging a broom that could cut through D-grade items toward the back of Xu Huo’s neck!

Xu Huo, who had been guarding against him all along, suddenly turned and raised his sword to meet the broom!

”Bang!” Metal collided with a dull thud. The two retreated from each other. Kong Cheng was shocked that Xu Huo hadn’t been controlled by the magician’s characteristic, while Kong Hui, freed from the influence of the Constraining Star Sphere, instantly regained clarity and moved to strike from behind.

Now both siblings were at the edge of the Constraining Star Sphere’s range. Xu Huo picked up the pen and activated ”The Power of Writing.” While they were watching his hand, he secretly used the piano wire to pull Kong Cheng toward himself.

However, he underestimated Kong Cheng’s strength. While being affected by the characteristic, the other party suddenly moved backward, instantly leaving the room!

Xu Huo’s brows furrowed. Having failed to trick him this time, it would be difficult to lure him close again.

Kong Cheng now also saw that his earlier pretense of being affected by Kong Hui’s characteristic was to lure him out. He turned to move away from the room.

But right at that moment, a swift figure shot out from the black water. With a swing of a long knife, it directly pierced through his abdomen and dragged upward!

Kong Cheng, wrapped in a layer of bubbles, spat out blood. But at the critical moment, he tilted sideways. The knife failed to split him in two, instead tearing open his waist and abdomen and severing his left hand in the process!

”You’re actually still not dead?!” Kong Cheng stared at the newcomer with shock and fury.

Miao Yu, clad in a metallic outer garment, swung her knife backhanded for another strike. ”How could I die before you do!”

The two fought, moving slightly away from the room. The effect of The Power of Writing also passed. Xu Huo quickly retracted the ”Tangle-Free Thread,” looped it around Kong Hui’s neck, and dragged her toward himself.

Kong Hui, having regained her senses, naturally wouldn’t wait passively for death. She touched the thread around her neck, and the previously tightening item immediately loosened and floated out over her head. Then, the debris fragments in the room shot toward Xu Huo like flying arrows!

Xu Huo blocked while retreating. With a wave of his right hand, the short arrow he had released upon entering the room mixed in with the bullet-like debris and pierced through Kong Hui’s throat!

”Ugh...!” A wisp of blood was carried out through her throat. Kong Hui clutched her throat, floating up with shock and disbelief on her face.

Confirming her death, Xu Huo checked the positions of Kong Cheng and Miao Yu. Finding they were quite a distance away, he abandoned the idea of going to help and turned to enter the laboratory.

Even with the lights on, the underwater view remained murky. Fortunately, the earlier explosion had cracked the laboratory’s outer walls, allowing free passage in and out.

He first checked all rooms with a view of the seabed, comparing the painting’s angle to feel along the walls opposite the windows.

The most solid and secure places to hide things in the entire laboratory were these metal walls. Such a massive explosion hadn’t completely destroyed them. If the S-version potion was indeed still hidden in the laboratory, then it could only be here.

While feeling along the expanded corridor section, he suddenly discovered a crack had opened in the wall corresponding to the passageway’s position. Prying the gap open and walking in, he found the inside wasn’t an unsealed structural frame as the data suggested, but a crevice just wide enough for a person to pass through sideways.

Reaching inside to grab something, Xu Huo felt something soft. Pulling it out, he saw it was actually a sex doll.

”Please select mode. Based on the user’s current heart rate, we recommend selecting Wild Mode.”

The extremely realistic sex doll looked just like a real person. Its chest had several icons of different colors flashing, as if urging Xu Huo to choose.

Xu Huo’s hand hovered over the icons for a few seconds, then stabbed into the doll’s mouth, plunging deep into its abdomen. After feeling around inside, he pulled out a long box about two fingers wide.

Opening the lid, he saw a syringe lying inside. The light blue medicinal liquid looked similar to the evolution agent given by the game, but he could tell at a glance—this was the genuine, perfect S-version syringe!

Putting the syringe, along with the sex doll, into his luggage compartment, he then turned and swam out. After exiting the laboratory, he opened the Automatic Inflatable Boat. The rapidly inflating boat shot him toward the surface like a cannonball!