Chapter 1280: Zhang Tie's Rule

"Outside Lin Dui, it seems there's some movement!?"

"It seems to be Awakened Ones!?"

Standing on the castle's outer wall, Zhang Tie looked somewhat surprised at the chaotic crowd outside the city. Thanks to his excellent eyesight, he immediately saw that on the outer roads of the city, two noble-looking convoys seemed to have collided.

And within the convoys, two youths whose attire and demeanor differed from the natives were loudly shouting something.

Since a little over ten days ago, when he and Lin Dui finished raising their affinity, the two have stayed here to strengthen their strength.

Unlike Lin An, who can tolerate loneliness, he likes to go out for a walk two laps every day.

After entering the instance, upon encountering Awakened Ones for the first time, he actually felt somewhat "strange".

"No need to pay attention."

"Has your rule shown up?"

On the team channel, Lin An calmly replied, indicating he shouldn't pay attention to these Awakened Ones.

In this non-competitive instance, for the two of them, they just need to stay until the Alien Species outbreak; everything else can be ignored.

Stroking his big bald head, Xiong Hanzi suddenly froze, his expression inevitably becoming a bit embarrassed.

"It's shown... Lin Dui..."

"I followed your advice and converted my talent. But damn it, I can't understand this explanation..."

Instinctively, Zhang Tie couldn't help but look at his own panel.

On the panel information, his chosen rule conspicuously came from the talent of absorbing energy and the stance from the Immortal's set.

The former had already accumulated 30% progress, while the latter remained completely vague.

It's obvious that his understanding of these abilities is far inferior to Lin An's, making his efficiency much lower. In other words, the 'beaten' talent is often used, but the transformation is faster.

"What is this rule? Shared Life and Death?"

"It says that as long as I receive damage, I can reflect the same damage onto any target. The distance limit is 10 meters?"

After stammering through a long explanation of the rule that he barely understood, and not being fond of thinking, Zhang Tie simply sent all his rule effects to Lin An.

Shortly after, inside the castle master's bedroom, Lin An couldn't help but raise his eyebrows, somewhat surprised at looking at the message Zhang Tie sent.

This silly bear's rule had never fully evolved; today it finally showed all its effects.

Looking at the explanation in the talent, he couldn't help but feel somewhat surprised.

"Shared Life and Death..."

"Reflect damage? Transfer damage?"

He muttered to himself.

Compared to Zhang Tie not really understanding his own rule, he instantly grasped Xiong Hanzi's rule ability.

A bit... perverted...

The rule is actually quite simple, far simpler and clearer than his rule.

Under the Shared Life and Death rule, Zhang Tie can gain three special abilities.

First, when receiving damage, he can inflict an equal amount of damage on nearby targets; depending on the power difference and the rule power used, theoretically he can achieve up to 120% damage effect!

This means that any target attacking Zhang Tie, before killing him, might end up killing itself first.

Second is pain transfer.

When suffering pain, Zhang Tie can transfer an equivalent degree of pain to any target, without restriction on whether it's due to external influence.

This means he can even self-torture, making himself feel pain to the point of near death, relying on his thick nerves to severely disturb the enemy.

If Lin An remembers correctly, this bear's tolerance for pain can be called perverted...

Third is the shared death rule.

This clause is also one that Lin An found most surprising.

"Choose a target; as long as the target stays near you, when you die, the chosen target will also die instantly. (Weak tier, limited to same rank)"

Overbearing and bizarre.

After looking at Zhang Tie's rule, Lin An also couldn't help but feel a jolt in his heart.

If one says his two rules are complex, requiring him to study and gradually master different usages, like a pile of raw materials waiting for him to create various powerful tools.

Then Zhang Tie is pure, naked mindless violence.

You hit me, you'll die; you don't hit me, I'll beat myself to death, you'll still die...

Three rules, simple and crude, with no logic whatsoever, like three major events, basically unsolvable.

Especially the third shared death rule, which even Lin An cannot understand, how such a rule can exist.

If placed on another Fourth Rank, this rule might be strong, but it's mostly useless. After all, the upper limit is at most a one-for-one exchange, which any Fourth Rank powerhouse cannot tolerate as an extreme cost.

Activating it means death, so this rule is essentially equivalent to nothing.

But for Zhang Tie...

He can even kill himself, then rely on resurrection to wipe out any same-rank enemy... even Lin An doubts whether he can survive.

For some reason, Lin An suddenly recalled the day he resurrected Zhang Tie, and what Chu An said to him at that time...

The resurrected Zhang Tie will become his strongest aid.

After a moment of silence, Lin An slowly exhaled a breath, and solemnly instructed over the team channel:

"Zhang Tie, you must never reveal your ability to anyone."

"Especially, the last one!"

If Zhang Tie is compared to a trump card, Lin An has no doubt that this is his strongest trump card short of reversing to Fifth Stage; indeed, he isn't even sure if he can still reverse back to Fifth Stage.

Used well, in the upcoming battles Zhang Tie can greatly reduce his pressure.

But likewise, this ability of Zhang Tie foretells that anyone who knows of his existence will develop greed! Controlling Zhang Tie allows one to swap out a same-rank powerhouse! Regardless of whether the opponent is a perfect being!

If one insists on a flaw, it's probably the distance issue.

As Lin An gave his rare warning to himself, Xiong Hanzi, having roughly heard his explanation, also nodded heavily.

Can I swap out any enemy of the same rank? As long as I die once, that's enough?

He blinked his eyes.

In a situation unknown even to Lin An, Xiong Hanzi unconsciously looked up at the sky, and in his eyes a strange color seemed to flash.

"That Lin Dui, from now on..."

"Bang!!"

Before Zhang Tie could even think of saying anything else, in an instant, from the two groups of troops he had originally overlooked, came the sound of a gunpowder explosion.

The huge explosion kicked up orange-red flames that shot into the sky.

In this world where there is hardly any combat power, under the violent explosion, the teams containing the two Awakened Ones instantly suffered heavy casualties.

But what truly caught Zhang Tie's attention was not this explosion, but rather, in his unconscious glance, several soldiers who had fortunately avoided the blast now, as if obeying orders, fiercely began to bite their own enemies.

They were clearly still human, and still sane.

But at this moment, they were like zombies, tearing at each other; the knives and swords in their hands, as if ignoring pain, were viciously stabbed into one another.

Seeing the scene of a soldier having a chunk of flesh bitten off, Zhang Tie's face instantly changed.

The reason was simple.

For the survivors after the apocalypse, nothing could imprint this scene more deeply in their memory.

"Lin Dui?!"

"Something's wrong! Something's wrong! Come over and look quickly!"

"You pledged allegiance to me two days ago! You've started liking to eat them since yesterday!"

"Kill! Kill him for me!!"