181: You are such a kind person!

Ge Chang stared at the crossbow in his hand in disbelief.

“I’m not even using stale items, so why do they have no effect on these NPCs?”

“So, I spent all that time on the mission, just to end up running around naked?”

Even if you beat Ge Chang to death, he wouldn’t have guessed that his alchemy items failed because his opponents were wearing knock-offs…

As for Cheng Zhen… his figure was completely hidden behind the Fat Buddha bodyguard, nowhere to be seen.

An annoyed Ge Chang threw the crossbow bolt to the ground.

“What kind of crappy alchemy is this? A pistol is much more effective!”

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He immediately shot down two of the closest NPCs, who had also been hitting him the hardest, but then he was stabbed twice in the back by others with throwing knives.

Ge Chang snatched a glance at his status bar, growing even more anxious.

During the previous chase, he had been bombed several times by Snowmen, and now he had 24 stacks of Snowman Resentment, which significantly slowed his movements.

Coupled with the disease effect, which made him feel hot and cold in turns, the slight pain and weakness made Ge Chang feel completely drained.

“I can’t drag this out any longer; if I do, I’ll be the only one who dies!”

Ge Chang’s mind was incredibly clear on this point, and he could only change his tactics again.

He noticed that Cheng Zhen had been hiding behind his summoned creatures from the very beginning of the fight, never showing his face.

Perhaps it was because Cheng Zhen was good at close combat but not at dealing with firearms, which is why he kept his head down?

If that’s the case…

If Cheng Zhen isn’t good at it, then force him to deal with it!

Ge Chang changed his footwork, enduring a palm strike from a Kung Fu Survivor that sent him flying far away.

He suppressed the pain, used the recoil to create distance, and then threw a grenade towards Cheng Zhen.

The Fat Buddha bodyguard blocked in front, preventing him from hitting Cheng Zhen with a pistol, but he couldn’t block an area-of-effect explosion.

Ge Chang deliberately adjusted his position so that the NPCs wouldn’t have time to stop him as before.

As for how Cheng Zhen would counterattack…

Ge Chang thought, there are still so many NPCs here, and Cheng Zhen is relying on them to block him.

Moreover, if all the NPCs die, it might affect his completion of the level. Using NPCs as human shields should make Cheng Zhen hesitate.

He couldn’t possibly slaughter his own allies, could he?

“As soon as that little brat Cheng Zhen shows his head to dodge, I’ll activate my skill, and a burst of concentrated fire will send him to his gr… hey, hey, hey?!”

To Ge Chang’s shocked gaze, Cheng Zhen, through a gap, unleashed an internal force push without hesitation, sending the grenade right back where it came from.

Ge Chang: “…”

The Kung Fu Survivors: “…………”

BOOM!!!

After the explosion, regardless of the building damage.

To summarize the consequences of that grenade in one sentence—it definitely wouldn’t pass censorship on screen and would need to be pixelated.

“Oh, still alive, huh?”

As the saying goes, where there’s smoke, there’s no injury. Cheng Zhen wasn’t surprised to see Ge Chang still alive.

The latter’s face was grim, and a transparent shield around him subtly shattered and disappeared.

From Ge Chang’s expression, that was another rather expensive item.

“You actually killed those NPCs directly…”

Ge Chang had thought that Cheng Zhen, for the sake of completing the level, would at least be somewhat wary of the NPCs. But Cheng Zhen didn’t hesitate at all, raising his hand and wiping out his allied NPCs in one go.

It seems this guy thinks that as long as he clears the level, he can surpass Jing Zhiyuan and become number one, and he doesn’t care about being the MVP at all.

The other party’s words made Cheng Zhen a little strange.

You, an assassin, are so protective of NPCs?

That “landmine return home” trick just now did seem a bit unethical to allies.

But in reality…

In reality, it was indeed quite inhumane.

Facing Ge Chang’s ‘condemning’ gaze, Cheng Zhen sighed, feeling that no one could understand his painstaking efforts.

To be fair, minion waves refresh every 33 seconds. Who would feel bad about their own minions and siege units lying all over the entire Summoner’s Rift?

What’s more, the ‘shelf life’ of those survivors was almost up.

Since they were summoned, they had all been wearing pirated protective suits, which didn’t have the normal function of isolating the plague. Looking at previous experimental records, they would all be falling ill soon!

He helped them avoid the suffering of getting sick, and they could directly revive with full health in the territory. Who wouldn’t praise him as a great philanthropist?

Ge Chang didn’t want to praise him; he only wanted to be a great villain and kill him.

But the Fat Buddha bodyguard blocked bullets, and Cheng Zhen could even deflect bombs, making Ge Chang feel like he was fighting a turtle, completely at a loss for how to proceed.

Should he rush over and fight in close combat?

Ge Chang looked at the stout bodyguard and the tiny bit of health bar that was scraped off when bullets hit him, and he gave up the idea.

Several attempts all ended in failure…

Ge Chang’s eyes narrowed.

“Then… I can only use that move!”

Under Cheng Zhen’s gaze, Ge Chang suddenly stood still.

He was so quiet he seemed to have turned into a dummy, not even caring when a Snowman suddenly exploded.

(The duration of Title Skill 2 had just ended; Skill 1 was still active.)

Hmm? An explosion?

Cheng Zhen knew that Snowmen only exploded suddenly when they were more than ten meters away from their target, and then regenerated next to the target.

So, that motionless ‘Ge Chang’ must have used the decoy skill he used before to confuse him, and his real body had escaped!

This truly was the best of the Thirty-Six Stratagems: running away…

Cheng Zhen was a bit speechless.

Is Jing Zhiyuan any good? What kind of unprofessional assassin did he hire?

Mistaking someone was one thing, but his target was right in front of him, and he still ran away…

Cheng Zhen looked towards the tunnel, dismissed his bodyguard, and stepped forward.

“Running away like this won’t do. I waited half the day, and it wasn’t to come up empty-handed!”

…

Clatter clatter!

In the underground passage, Ge Chang moved with some difficulty.

The tunnel dug by the Digging Hand this time wasn’t that big, making passage inconvenient.

But it didn’t matter; Ge Chang was almost out.

Even if he couldn’t beat Cheng Zhen alone. But as long as he reunited with his two subordinates, everything would be fine!

Ge Chang, full of hope for escape, poked his head out of the hole, just in time to encounter a newly refreshed Snowman, who smiled benevolently at him.

Ge Chang: “!!!”

“What the hell kind of skill is this, so persistent?!”

He leaped back in surprise, trying to avoid the Snowman in front, not wanting to stack more debuffs.

But he didn’t expect that when he hopped backward, he would actually run into an embrace full of elasticity and stickiness.

“What is this?!”

An unknown ‘soft wall’ firmly stuck to him, making him unable to move or escape for a moment.

“The effect is pretty good, I’ll have to thank them after I get out.”

Cheng Zhen used the Digging Hand to expand the passage a bit and elegantly emerged from the tunnel.

The item that trapped Ge Chang was precisely one of the items Cheng Zhen received from the bald man as a thank-you gift after clearing the first dungeon—the Sticky Mouse Wall.

【Sticky Mouse Wall (1/5)】

【Quality: Excellent】

【Throws out a huge glue wall, sticking the target (the stronger the target’s strength, the shorter the duration)】

【Note: Oh, my little mouse, I can’t go back…】

Seeing Ge Chang firmly trapped like a plucked rat, Cheng Zhen walked over with a smile.

“You assassins really don’t understand what it means to maximize resource utilization.”

“Killing is just a nod of the head, but that’s too wasteful, isn’t it?”

Under Ge Chang’s terrified gaze, Cheng Zhen pulled out the 【Cloud-Grabbing Hand】.

“I’ve been waiting for a long time; the time for harvest has finally arrived.”

“Now, hand it over!”