168: Cheng Zhen: Am I Cheng Zhen???

"Gulp, gulp..."

Cheng Zhen chugged a bottle of mental power recovery potion, then casually slapped several martial arts secret manuals onto the survivors beside him.

The survivor, now in a protective suit, instantly had his Ren and Du meridians cleared. With a powerful shake of his body, he let out an 'A-da!' sound.

Then, he strode confidently, his nimble form flipping through the window. Using a Wudang Cloud Ladder technique, he ascended the gap between the two buildings, agilely climbing the water pipe to the top floor.

What is a 'assembly-line martial arts master'?

It's the dimensional reduction strike that industrialization inflicts upon handicraft!

"What astonishing human alchemy!"

The remaining Twitch looked utterly shocked.

Just now, Cheng Zhen had also given a Twitch a set of secret manuals. That lucky fellow was so excited he immediately performed the second form of a mysterious fist technique—'The Era is Calling!'

His strength, agility, and constitution all increased comprehensively. He even gained a mysterious inheritance in his mind, just as amazing as the gift from Twitch during his departure!

The Twitch really wanted to rush to the rooftop and show off, but Cheng Zhen only allowed them to use alchemy to transform ordinary clothes into protective suit-like styles, which were then given to the survivors to put on.

After all, NPCs are one less every time they die, and too many deaths might affect the dungeon's rating.

But survivors can be resurrected infinitely; they just need to wait for an ad refresh.

Although the mental power consumption was a bit high, he had just fleeced the Twitch warehouse for mental recovery potions, so this minor issue was negligible.

Cheng Zhen pondered about having the Twitch make more potions for him in the future. After all, his and his companions' prestige had already been established, and they had helped them so much. Asking for a hundred or so bottles of potions wasn't excessive, right?

These were a group of alchemist NPCs! And his faction reputation was almost at 'Revered.' Not taking advantage of this would be a huge loss, wouldn't it?

Cheng Zhen was calculating in his mind when he suddenly heard a 'whoosh' behind him, as someone landed.

He looked back warily, only to see a survivor had jumped back.

"My Lord, the enemy has fled!" the survivor reported to Cheng Zhen.

"?"

Question marks appeared above Cheng Zhen's head.

Something isn't right?

With Xiao Jiao's intel, Cheng Zhen naturally knew Ge Chang's skills and attack habits.

Ge Chang

『Male, 31 years old』

『Skill: Fire Water Gun!』

『Effect: When holding a water gun, it will cause others' rage values to skyrocket.』

『Note: Fire Water Gun!!!』

This guy's skill was a bit like [Level 4 Dog Tag], a taunting skill.

However, while Brother Tian's [Level 4 Dog Tag] could only be used once, this guy could continuously draw aggro as long as he held the water gun.

Cheng Zhen was relatively cautious about such mental control skills; he didn't want to get enraged and then suffer an unexpected defeat.

Moreover, the intel mentioned that this guy had bought a lot of firearms and weapons from the exchange and black market using points and currency. Therefore, Cheng Zhen planned to first send survivors to deplete the guy's ammunition reserves, then find an opportunity to take him down in one fell swoop.

He just didn't expect that after only a few people went up, the guy would run away?

But while the survivors possessed martial arts, their stats weren't high. Why would that guy need to run?

Did he realize something was wrong? Or did his ammunition run out so quickly?

No way. Coming to secretly assassinate him, and not even bringing enough ammo? Is this assassin really that unprofessional?

Cheng Zhen was puzzled when he heard the survivor add, "My Lord, I heard him open his walkie-talkie, and someone told him they found Cheng Zhen! Then he abandoned us and jumped away!"

"???"

Cheng Zhen produced a string of question marks.

Can someone explain to me what 'found Cheng Zhen' means?

Nobody's looking for me?

Am I not Cheng Zhen?

Do I need to recite 'red phoenix yellow phoenix pink phoenix flying on a pink house' to prove I'm the real one?

While Cheng Zhen was utterly confused and couldn't figure it out, Ge Chang had already used an item to quickly leap off the rooftop.

"Tsk, this trash dungeon!"

Ge Chang cursed as he ran, his face full of anger.

He had been fighting for a long time, and the more he fought, the stranger it felt.

The people jumping up were all too identical; their movements and techniques looked like they were taught by the same master.

Ge Chang took several hits from hidden weapons, gritted his teeth, swallowed a healing pill, then used his gun to shoot down those few people.

This time, he didn't use a grenade to finish them off but used a knife to pry open their masks, revealing the faces of those 'Cheng Zhens.'

Beneath the masks were faces as if carved from a knife, with perfectly symmetrical features, truly 'model faces.'

Ge Chang knew that Cheng Zhen was handsome.

But certainly not *this* kind of handsome!

Look at the faces under these masks; weren't they all blonde, blue-eyed foreigners?

He had put a lot of effort into investigating Cheng Zhen, not only gathering intelligence from Thousand Eye Tower but also learning about the [benevolent king] title ability from forum experts.

These people were neither 300-pound fat guys nor the ones brought by the [benevolent king] title. That could only mean they were NPCs.

So, he had been battling the air for half a day, only to fight a group of NPCs?

Ge Chang was so furious he almost fell backward.

Are you sick? Is this dungeon sick!

Why would foreign NPCs in a Western fantasy setting know Chinese kung fu?!

While he was lifting the masks, a few more capsule people climbed onto the rooftop, striking a 'come at me' pose.

Ge Chang: "..." He was numb; he didn't even want to open fire anymore.

And just at that moment, his walkie-talkie rang.

"Big Brother, I know where Cheng Zhen is!"

Ge San's voice came through, followed by an explanation of what happened.

After leaving the small couple, he went to other locations, trying to find Cheng Zhen.

He then heard two other strategists, outside their small team, screaming from being beaten.

"Damn, that guy is too fierce; we can't fight him at all!"

"Luckily, we ran fast, or both of us would have been done for!"

The two were wailing on the walkie-talkie, almost crying from the beating.

Ge San immediately realized something and quickly asked the two what had happened.

"According to the plan, we went to attack NPCs to lure the opposing strategist over. We initially thought that since not many people came, and there was only one leader with a sword, two of us against one would definitely be fine."

"But that kid almost stabbed us right through with one sword!"

"He looks like a martial arts practitioner, and although he sounds young, his combat power is extremely strong!"

"Not only that, his summoned creature is also very difficult to deal with. We used rare items to escape..."

The two spoke voluminously, from which Ge San extracted many keywords—

『Male』 『Young』 『Young』 『Has a summoned creature』 『Very high combat power』

Ge San: It's Cheng Zhen, no doubt about it!!!