15: Fight for Liberty City again with Superman

Lin Fei combined the nearly eighty thousand killing coins he had scavenged with the twenty-something thousand he had left over.

Without hesitation, he invested all of them into the medical store.

[Elementary Healing Spray (White Common Grade): Quick spray, slightly restores HP, stops bleeding.

Price: 500 killing coins.]

[Strong Painkiller (White Common Grade): Significantly reduces pain for a short time, slightly increases mental resistance.

Price: 1800 killing coins.]

[Military First Aid Kit (Green Fine Grade): Can treat moderate injuries, handle bone and organ trauma.

Price: 3000 killing coins.]

[Regeneration Ointment (Blue Rare Grade): Apply to wounds, accelerates cell regeneration, significantly restores HP, has some effect on severed limbs. The most powerful healing drug in the first ten worlds.

Price: 20000 killing coins.]

[Adrenaline Injector (White Common Grade): Temporarily stimulates potential, ignores some pain, slightly increases reaction speed, and restores some HP.

Price: 3000 killing coins.]

Lin Fei bought every first aid item he deemed useful.

Afterwards, he handed all these things, along with a [Pocket Safety Box (Medium)] worth 20,000, to Lin Mengzi.

"Sister Mengzi, keep all of these safe. Especially this safety box, put the medicines inside.

As soon as you will it, you can take out the drugs to use." Lin Fei earnestly instructed.

Looking at the large pile of medicine and that exquisite square backpack, Lin Mengzi was deeply moved.

She understood Lin Fei's intention in doing this.

Lin Mengzi secretly resolved in her heart that she must grow stronger quickly and not become a burden to her brother.

Soon, Lin Mengzi also put on a bulletproof vest, shouldered the backpack, and equipped herself with weapons.

It's worth mentioning that the Node Tower's bulletproof vests automatically adjust to the user's physique.

Just like in *Peacekeeper Elite*, no matter the size, the level three armor can be used by any character, male or female, as long as it's looted from a box.

Then, Lin Fei operated on the System panel and sent a team invite to Lin Mengzi.

[Lin Mengzi (lv0) has joined the team.]

Although Lin Mengzi's Rank was still lv0, and she had no skills.

But in a team state, Lin Fei, as the team leader, could directly bring one team member into higher-level trials.

This was a special benefit the System granted for teaming up.

Lin Fei also thought that perhaps in the future, he could use this mechanism to make some money by helping others open maps.

After all, the Node Tower seemed to have better items in the shop the higher one went.

With enough killing coins, skill books, and runestones, how much easier would it be for the kids ten years from now to start their accounts!

Lin Fei couldn't help but let his thoughts drift, imagining.

"Sister Mengzi, I'm going up to the second floor."

"Ok."

Lin Fei followed the stairs to the second floor.

If one hadn't completed the trial of the previous floor, they would be blocked by a membrane of light.

Lin Fei passed through easily. Some players watching showed expressions of envy.

At this stage, anyone who could enter the second floor was a top dog!

Arriving on the second floor, Lin Fei walked directly to the central area.

It was still rows of elevator doors connected to trial worlds.

But this time, there were some additional prompts on the doors.

[Solo Regular Trial: All matched players are solo.]

[Solo Queue Trial: Solo players can be matched with team players, but rewards are higher!]

[Team Trial: Enter as a team.]

Lin Fei chose the elevator door marked "Team Trial (Recommended Rank lv1-lv3)".

This time, after entering, a prompt appeared in his mind.

[Matching suitable teammates for you...]

[Match successful! Team members: 10/10.]

[Teleporting to trial world: Free City - Kara Bay.]

In a flash of light, Lin Fei and Lin Mengzi's figures disappeared from the spot.

The next second, Lin Fei found himself in a dimly lit warehouse.

The air was filled with the smell of engine oil, dust, and dried feces.

The warehouse corners were piled with various clutter. A few old incandescent lights hung from the ceiling, emitting a sizzling electrical hum.

Besides him and Lin Mengzi, eight other people stood in the warehouse.

Six men and two women, dressed differently, their expressions also varied.

One wore a leather jacket, smoked a cigarette, had visible neck tattoos, looking unruly and arrogant, like a Tokyo gangster.

There were fully armed soldiers, as if they had just come from the battlefield.

The two girls, petite and delicate, both wore tight black combat suits with half-face masks.

It seemed they were a team of two.

Lin Fei roughly figured it out: a total of four groups.

He and Lin Mengzi were one group.

The two black-clad girls were one group.

Three tattooed gangsters.

Three soldiers.

As Lin Fei's gaze swept over them, the System panel automatically displayed their basic information.

Additionally, it briefly showed some of the skills some of them possessed.

[Battlefield First Aid lv3]: Increases potion effect and activation speed by 30%.

[Eagle Eye lv1]: Increases visual range and clarity.

[Precision Shooting lv4]: Increases firearm accuracy.

[Vehicle Driving lv4]: Proficient in driving most common vehicles, increases vehicle stability.

[Stealth lv1]: Reduces noise made while moving and chance of being detected. From one of the black-clad girls.

[Basic Melee Combat lv5]: Mastery of basic close-quarters combat techniques. From the leader among the gangsters.

Clearly, these people had some foundation in reality or had gained something in previous trials.

But no one was like Lin Fei, who obtained a massive amount of killing coins and a national martial arts Cultivation Technique in a single trial.

The leading gangster, a man with a mohawk, looking about twenty-seven or twenty-eight.

His gaze swept over Lin Fei and Lin Mengzi, especially when he saw the glaring "lv0" on Lin Mengzi's info panel.

He immediately exploded.

"Hey, what the fuck! I'm talking to you, kid!" The mohawked gangster spat out the cigarette butt in his mouth, ground it under his foot, and tilted his head to look at Lin Fei.

"You're bringing deadweight to a second-floor trial?

Trying to get us all killed?

What can a fucking level-zero rookie do?

Hold us back?"

His two underlings also snickered, their eyes disdainful.

Lin Fei's eyes remained calm and unrippled. He didn't even bother to look at the mohawked gangster, just replied calmly, civilly, and politely.

"Mind your own damn business!

Take care of yourself, complete your own mission. Keep your nose out of other people's affairs."

"What the hell is your attitude?!" The mohawked gangster flew into a rage, stepping forward as if he wanted to start a fight.

And Lin Fei was already considering, after hearing the mission later, if this bastard proved useless, he'd just twist his head off.

Like twisting a pretzel.

But for now, he had to spare the dog's life.

After all, the last Free City mission required splitting into groups to execute.

Right then, *click*.

The warehouse's heavy iron door was pushed open.

A familiar figure walked in. It was Ford.

He was still wearing that signature floral shirt, a warm smile plastered on his face.

"Aha! My dear elites!

Looks like everyone's here!" Ford spread his arms wide, as if he hadn't seen the little friction just now at all.

"Good! Excellent!

It seems our team this time is quite formidable!"