201: Chapter 201 Yes, I'm all alone.

"Could it be that the way I killed those zombies just now made me look too much like a good guy?"

Third floor of the [Main Hospital Building].

Chu Hong brutally kicked open the door to the [President's Office], then suddenly let out a soft sigh and muttered to himself.

The moment the squad from the [Exotic Beast Research Laboratory] quietly approached his direction, Chu Hong had already detected their movements.

The effect of the [cobweb brain-computer interface] display cabinet placed the entire map under Chu Hong's transparent coverage.

This was a full squad with fairly decent combat literacy, barely deserving to be called an assault team.

The middle-aged man at the head wore something resembling a shaman wizard's hood and gripped a sheep-bone staff in his hand, looking like a savage wizard, yet he genuinely possessed the standard of the ninth stage of the [Energy Gathering Realm].

As for the rest of the people in the team, they were likewise not weak.

Right at the instant Chu Hong walked to the [President's Office] and pressed one hand against the [safe], two people had already silently crept up to the second-floor stairwell.

Under Chu Hong's "gaze," without the slightest sound or source energy fluctuation, they crept toward the [President's Office].

Amidst the "click, click" sounds of the combination lock turning,

the password "10086" was unlocked by Chu Hong.

Searching [Safe (High-Value Container)]: ...

The exact moment the black retrieval box appeared, two sharp whistling sounds suddenly came from the back of Chu Hong's head.

Those two attack styles were clearly both of the assassin type, but one was a magic-side [Pioneer] and the other was an ancient martial arts-side [Pioneer]. As soon as they struck, it was a fatal killing blow targeting Chu Hong.

"Heart-Piercing Stab!"

"Venom Magic · Corrosive Poison Spear!"

The timing of the two's actions was grasped quite skillfully, as if they had done such things before, and more than once.

[Pioneers] who began searching for high-value items were often at the time when their vigilance was at its worst.

Coupled with the fact that they hadn't caused any commotion all the way up the stairs,

the two gazed at the corrosive spear and short sword in their hands, as if they could already see these stealth attacks—which had additional damage bonuses against armor defenses—instantly piercing through Chu Hong's head.

What's the use of being able to fight?

Even if you kill all the zombies in the secret realm, wouldn't it just benefit us in the end?

Reckless brute...

The two sneered inwardly.

However.

Right in that abrupt flash of lightning, the figure of Chu Hong, who had originally been facing away with one hand still resting on the safe, suddenly vanished before their eyes.

As if they were seeing things.

"Hiss..."

The turbojet sprayed forward fiercely, carrying Chu Hong, who was crouching on the ground, horizontally across from between the two's sneak attack to their backs via jet propulsion.

Cold gun muzzles pressed against the backs of both of their heads, one on the left and one on the right.

"Pretty young, what a pity..."

A faint utterance devoid of much sympathy drifted into the ears of the two from behind, sounding like someone passing by a meat stall casually remarking that the color of the fresh-food lamp was nice.

"Bang!"

"Tat-tat-tat!"

Two gunshots instantly caused the expressions of the remaining three members of the squad, who had already quietly crept to the second floor, to change drastically.

"Damn! We've been discovered! Attack together!"

The shaman-dressed captain's expression was gloomy, but at this point, he couldn't care whether the opponent was easy to deal with or not. He waved the sheep-bone staff in his hand, accompanied by a few strange-sounding shouts from his feet.

He waved the staff toward the direction of the [President's Office] above where Chu Hong was located.

The next second.

"Snap!"

Without the slightest warning, as if appearing out of thin air, three people instantly blocked in front of Chu Hong.

A sharp sword slashed toward Chu Hong's neck, which Chu Hong dodged instantly.

His eyes narrowed slightly, and his right eye had evidently activated the display cabinet effect of [Cliff Young's Crimson Eye]. The calculation paths of several people's reactions and subsequent actions were clearly transmitted into Chu Hong's brain.

"Spatial shifting? Or something similar to a reverse summoning method?"

Chu Hong pondered inwardly.

He had underestimated this squad's strength, especially that ninth-stage [Energy Gathering Realm] shaman captain.

If not for the overlapping effects of his two display cabinets, the [cobweb brain-computer interface] and [Cliff Young's Crimson Eye], allowing him to raise his guard within milliseconds,

if it were anyone else, even if they hadn't been killed from behind by the two assassins just now,

they would definitely have been severely injured or even... died on the spot from this suddenly descending rescue-style attack.

However.

the current situation was that the squad before him had suffered fatal casualties.

At the chests of the two assassins, a pendant each burst apart.

The magic-side assassin was quite lucky.

He was saved by the life-saving [Substitute Amulet (Gold)] with a market value of 600k source energy points.

It offset a fatal bullet from the [inheritor sv-98] at that very instant.

But... that ancient martial arts-side assassin, who also only had one [Substitute Amulet] but had to meet three 9x19 purple bullets fired consecutively from the [biochemical suppression 93r] with his head,

didn't have such good luck.

The first bullet instantly triggered the [Substitute Amulet], which was offset to save his life.

But the second and third bullets that followed

instantly blasted the latter's brains out in a splatter.

The surviving assassin, as if suffering some enormous fright, turned pale as death and immediately rolled away to put distance between himself and Chu Hong the moment he was rescued by his suddenly appearing teammate.

On the floor of the [President's Office],

the corpse of the assassin whose back of the head had been blown open into a large hole, instantly transforming him into a street-trash corpse, lay face down on the ground with eyes wide open in grievance.

"Don't give him a chance! His source energy hasn't fully recovered yet!"

The shaman captain roared, and the next second, the sheep-bone staff in his hand waved once more.

On both sides of Chu Hong, a pungent sulfurous flame instantly rose, and two ferocious, terrifying monsters resembling horned demons from Western legends

appeared on both the left and right sides of Chu Hong.

Their sharp claws instantly thrust toward Chu Hong.

Within the team, a woman who was also from the ancient martial arts side brought her hands together and fiercely struck out two palms toward Chu Hong.

"Qi-Prohibiting Palm!"

The brief, instantaneous stagnation of source energy made Chu Hong's eyes tighten slightly.

However...

The final [precious gold watch] display cabinet effect of this match activated!

The armor jet propulsion device that had just been triggered and entered a cooldown state

fiercely restarted amidst the stunned and puzzled gazes of several people.

"Hiss."

The horned demons' sharp claws slashed through empty air, and immediately afterward, two [golden apples] abruptly popped up before their eyes.

"Boom—!"

"Boom—!"

The jet stream carried Chu Hong smoothly down onto the plaza between the [Main Hospital Building] and the [Underground Dissection Center]. With a calm glance, his eyes swept over another squad that was walking out of the [Underground Dissection Center] precisely at that moment.

It was also a full squad of five.

The aura of the leading captain couldn't compare to the shaman captain who had fought with him just now,

but he also clearly possessed the stable appearance of the seventh stage of the [Energy Gathering Realm].

He had never seen these squads before; they were not squads from [Huangshan Base City].

The two squads sandwiched Chu Hong in the middle.

The atmosphere at the scene suddenly turned bizarre in an instant.

Chu Hong's expression remained unchanged. However,

[Old Feng] and the others from the other squad had rather gloomy looks in their eyes when they saw this.

They had been seen...

And right under the circumstance where someone on their side had just died in battle.

"This friend, this brat just fished out at least three red-quality collectibles from the boss's corpse! The items are right on him!"

"Let's go up together and kill him, and we'll split the items evenly!"

As soon as these words were said, the gazes directed at Chu Hong by the members of this newly emerged squad behind him instantly changed.

The leading captain frowned: "Who are you trying to kid? Fleshing out three red-quality collectibles by oneself, is this secret realm run by his family?"

"We have drone footage!" [Old Feng]'s single sentence

caused the words that were about to echo the skepticism to be swallowed back down immediately.

However,

the captain on this side still didn't agree directly.

Instead, his gaze looked toward Chu Hong, whose aura was only at the second stage of the [Energy Gathering Realm], looked like his source energy consumption was quite heavy, and appeared isolated and weak.

"Little brother, there are only three squads of us in this secret realm. If you really looted three red collectibles, how about this... take out two of them so everyone gets a share, and then we all evacuate together? How does that sound?"

"You should be all alone, right? Young people need to know how to cherish their lives."

"With so many of us blocking you, you have no chance of evacuating at all."

This person wore an old-fashioned, preachy demeanor like an elder.

However, the greedy look in his eyes when looking at Chu Hong was no different from [Old Feng] and the others, and the actions of several members in his squad spreading out to prevent Chu Hong from escaping

already explained their attitude.

Chu Hong swept his gaze around the circle.

"I am indeed all alone..."

The greed in the eyes of [Old Feng] and the others grew even thicker. Ghostly nonsense like letting Chu Hong go was said by the opposite side; they certainly hadn't agreed to it. Besides, how could splitting three red-quality collectibles between two squads not be troublesome?

Everyone harbored their own sinister intentions, yet they all treated Chu Hong, who was low in strength, as fish on a cutting board.

But then they heard Chu Hong murmur softly,

"You've only half got it right... It's not that you've blocked my path; rather, you've been blocked by me from your path of evacuation!"

Before several people could react to these words,

suddenly,

three brutal and robust roars, carrying a pressure like dark clouds covering the summits, descended abruptly from the sky.

"Kill them all!"