29: Chapter 29 Slaying Ma Tao with a Sword

"Ma Tao, is your head really okay? You're bleeding so much, maybe we should call 120 for you first?"

"Oh, I said I'm fine! Turn off the light first!"

"What do you mean 'fine'? You knocked on our dorm door for no reason in the middle of the night and kept asking me to turn off the light. What exactly are you trying to do?"

"I'm fine, just turn off the light first."

"Forget it, I think your brain really is messed up. I'll call 120 for you... Hey, why did you suddenly fall to the ground? Holy crap, your damn back of the head is flattened and you still say you're fine? Hang in there, I'm calling right now... Are you guys just lying in bed like corpses? Hurry up and find the first-aid kit, let's give him a quick bandage first..."

"My... head hurts. This light is making me dizzy and blurred, turn off the light first!"

"Alright, alright! I'll turn off the light first..."

Chu Xuan left the closed door of Dorm 308 and continued his search further back. While still at a distance, he could faintly hear voices coming from the last dormitory.

"Ma Tao?"

Chu Xuan narrowed his eyes, immediately remembering that this person had his head smashed by Huang Guangming back on the fourth floor, but had managed to slip away while no one was paying attention.

He didn't expect him to have run down to the third floor.

The eight-sided han sword was already unsheathed. Chu Xuan strode to the last dormitory and kicked the door open. The person inside was about to turn off the light and was startled by the commotion.

Especially seeing Chu Xuan's face covered in blood and holding an eight-sided han sword that gleamed with a cold light, their mind went blank, and they were completely terrified.

With a shudder, the raised hand pressed the switch.

Snap!

The switch clicked, and the dormitory's fluorescent light went out.

However, Ma Tao failed to turn into a monster as he had hoped.

The blinding beam of the high-intensity flashlight spilled in from the doorway, illuminating the entire dormitory as bright as day, and causing Ma Tao's face to instantly become incredibly hideous.

"Ah!!"

With a frantic roar, Ma Tao acted as if he had gone mad.

"No longer hiding yourself and going straight into Berserk mode?"

Chu Xuan sneered. When Skinny Monkey went Berserk earlier, he was at least holding a broken beer bottle, but Ma Tao was now empty-handed.

In contrast, not only had his own agility attribute increased by a point, but the broken fruit knife in his hand had been replaced by a high-quality eight-sided han sword, causing his combat power to jump up a level.

In the blink of an eye, Ma Tao swung his arms and pounced like an ape. Seeing this, Chu Xuan immediately took a small step back and swung his sword in horizontal slashes from side to side with one hand.

The high-carbon steel longsword, weighing over ten catties, felt weightless in Chu Xuan's hands, yet it carried a sharp whistling sound. Accompanied by a spray of blood, two arms instantly flew off.

Ma Tao's expression became even more hideous. Even after losing his arms, he remained fiercely aggressive, roaring as he lunged forward with his mouth open, aiming for Chu Xuan's neck.

Unfortunately, Chu Xuan already knew that the opponent felt no pain and lacked the fear of a normal person. Taking another step back, he slashed sideways!

Swish!

A head flew high into the air.

With the advantage of the over-one-meter-long eight-sided han sword, the extra agility points Ma Tao had over Chu Xuan were useless; he couldn't even get close. In less than five seconds, his head had been severed.

[You have killed an Eerie Clone, your spirituality value +17]

[Current spirituality value: 21 (Exchangeable)]

Able to exchange for two more attribute points, Chu Xuan didn't save them and added them all to his agility attribute on the spot, raising it directly to 8 points.

"You, you, you..."

Incoherent voices came. Chu Xuan turned to look; the four survivors in this dormitory were all scared witless by this horrific scene. When they saw Ma Tao's corpse transform into a massive monster covered in rotting skin, their legs went weak, and they could barely stand.

But this was lucky enough, as at least all four people in this dormitory were still alive.

To be safe, Chu Xuan tested it anyway. Pressing with his left thumb, the high-intensity flashlight beam disappeared, and the four people inside remained in human form.

"There's no time to explain. The dormitory is dangerous. Don't bother getting dressed; if you want to live, follow me quickly."

After saying that, Chu Xuan had already turned and walked away quickly.

The four of them followed him out in terror. Upon discovering the horrific scene of the corridor and the other dormitories filled with corpses, they were all stunned, their minds in a state of chaos as they began to question their very existence.

"Hey, wait for us..." After a few seconds of daze, seeing that Chu Xuan had already run far away, the four of them shuddered in unison and chased after him with cries of alarm.

Meanwhile, Tang Zheng on the other side also had some gains.

Behind a broken door was a dim four-person dormitory.

With a bit of light from the corridor shining in, Tang Zheng saw a monster crouching over a corpse, tearing at and devouring a section of large intestine.

Crimson fluid along with filth dripped down its fangs. The monster grunted in extreme excitement, burying its entire head into the chest and abdomen of the corpse.

Tang Zheng suppressed the churning in his stomach, stood at the door, and reached out to turn on the light inside.

The monster inside, which was eating vigorously, immediately reverted to human form. Before it could react, Tang Zheng lunged at it and chopped off its head with two slashes.

"Do you feel anything?" Chu Xuan ran over and asked.

"Hiss!"

Tang Zheng grimaced: "My whole body is aching, but it feels great. I feel like all my muscles are pumped and tight, rock hard..."

Did he directly add to his Strength attribute?

Chu Xuan was stunned for a moment, then asked again: "No other feelings? Like any sounds, or strange things appearing in your vision?"

"No, I just feel like my strength has increased a bit! Can killing monsters improve physical fitness? This is awesome!"

Tang Zheng moved his body, extremely excited.

No Awakening Talent, and no System binding...

Chu Xuan felt a slight sense of disappointment.

In his heart, he was still very much looking forward to Tang Zheng Awakening a Talent.

According to what Future Tang Zheng said in the dream, it was an incredible power that directly smashed Chen Qing's head with a single punch.

What kind of power could directly smash a person's head?

Chu Xuan had been curious about this in anatomy class. After the professor refused to answer, he looked up relevant information himself.

The human skull is extremely hard, requiring about 230 to 600 kilograms of force to fracture under static pressure. To reach the point of exploding, the destructive force might need to reach around 1000 kilograms.

Chu Xuan felt that if he threw a full-power punch at a vital spot now, he might be able to kill an ordinary person, but compared to smashing a head with one punch, he was still far from it.

Among land creatures, perhaps only an elephant's stomp or a grizzly bear's full-force paw strike could achieve that.

Chu Xuan believed that Future Tang Zheng might have awakened some kind of Talent, though he didn't know if he was also bound to a System like himself.

"Oh!" Tang Zheng suddenly slapped his forehead, feeling a bit annoyed: "I should have let you kill it. Rather than spreading the resources, it would be better to stack one person's strength first."

"No need. Kill monsters as you encounter them; our time is also very tight right now."

Chu Xuan shook his head, leading the way with the high-intensity flashlight as he led everyone into the stairwell and continued upward.