[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-how-do-we-play-if-this-boss-isn-t-nerfed":3,"chapter-how-do-we-play-if-this-boss-isn-t-nerfed-how-do-we-play-if-this-boss-isn-t-nerfed-chapter-129":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","How Do We Play If This Boss Isn't Nerfed?",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1618154,2083,"Chapter 129 - 109: The Second Stage (3)","how-do-we-play-if-this-boss-isn-t-nerfed-chapter-129",129,"\u003Cp>There were still people at the school who needed to be evacuated, and he intended to help.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At Dongjiang First Middle School, the air-raid siren had long since fallen silent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A large number of still-shaken students were streaming out from the underground shelter, their faces etched with confusion and lingering fear.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the clamor of the aftermath, no one noticed Lin Ye.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He didn’t linger at the school. He cut through the crowd and went straight home.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He pushed open the door to find the house empty.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His mother was probably still at work, and his sister wasn’t back yet either.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Ye took out his phone and called his mother.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Hello, Xiaoye? Are you okay? The city-wide alarm went off just now, it scared me to death!\" His mother’s concerned and anxious voice came from the other end of the line.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I’m fine, Mom. I just got out of the school shelter. Are you all right?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"We’re both fine. Your sister came to find me. We’re in an air-raid shelter right now. It sounds like the alarm has been lifted, so we’ll be home soon.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Confirming his family was safe, the last trace of worry in Lin Ye’s heart finally vanished.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He returned to his room and locked the door from the inside.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He drew the curtains, plunging the entire room into darkness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He walked over to his computer, paused for a moment in silence, then reached out and unplugged the network cable from the tower.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After doing all this, he finally took the small, black USB drive from a pocket in his inner clothes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He inserted the USB drive into the computer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The screen lit up, revealing a single folder sitting there quietly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Ye clicked open the folder.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dense rows of documents, arranged by date and number, instantly filled the entire screen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He dragged the mouse, pulling the scrollbar all the way to the bottom.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The creation date of the first document came into view.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>July 13, 2048.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A date from before the Cataclysm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Ye recalled the Doctor’s crazed confession—\"I’ve relied on Source Crystals to live for over two hundred years!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the time, he had thought it was just the ravings of a madman.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now, it seemed it might not have been entirely false.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He took a deep breath and clicked open the first document.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The document had no number; it was more like a private diary entry.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Date: 2048.7.13\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I haven’t been able to eat much lately. I thought it was just from staying up late and working too much overtime.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Until today, when I got my own CT scan report.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I never would have imagined it. I, one of the country’s top oncologists, who has personally delivered death sentences to over a thousand patients, would end up in this situation myself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Late-stage pancreatic cancer with multiple liver metastases.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I didn’t dare tell Yajing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yaya is still so young. She just learned how to draw.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I don’t want her to lose her father before she’s even grown up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I don’t want to die.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The sun hasn’t risen for over a week. The news says that giant rift in the sky leads to another world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Another world...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Is that where people go after they die?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Date: 2048.9.12\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There’s no chance for surgery anymore.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Two whole months of chemo and radiation have made all my hair fall out, leaving me to struggle with vomiting and excruciating pain every day.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The tumor shows no signs of shrinking.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I know my life is coming to an end.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But I really don’t want to die. I don’t want to die!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Image] [Image]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Two photos were inserted in the document.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One was a selfie of the Doctor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The man in the photo was gaunt and emaciated. His bald head and deeply sunken eye sockets made him look like a living skeleton.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The other was of an eerie, blue crystal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lately, this stuff has been sprouting up all over the world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Some rich people are even buying them at high prices, collecting them as the jewels of a new era.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A patient’s family member insisted I take this one, as thanks for extending their son’s life by several years.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I don’t know if it’s just my imagination.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But I can’t shake the feeling that as long as I carry it with me, the symptoms of my cancer are much milder?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Date: 2048.10.27\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A medical miracle!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This is an absolute medical miracle!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The results of my follow-up exam are in—the tumor has actually stopped growing!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I stopped all chemotherapy drugs a long time ago and switched to palliative care.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All of this can only be because of that blue crystal!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This isn’t a curse, it’s a heaven-sent treasure!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I’ve heard that many other people have undergone strange changes after coming into contact with them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Their strength increases, their speed improves, and some have even awakened incredible superpowers...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If this thing were directly implanted into a human body, what would happen?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Date: 2048.12.06\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I succeeded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I opened the cold storage units in the hospital’s underground morgue.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I selected three corpses that had been dead for no more than six hours and implanted a polished crystal into each of their bodies.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They moved!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Those corpses, like puppets with their strings cut, stood up again!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Their skin had turned a strange ashen-gray, their pupils were dilated, and they made meaningless guttural sounds in their throats.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I tried to communicate with them, but they didn’t react at all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One of them even showed intense aggression toward me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They’ve become the living dead.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But this undoubtedly proves my hypothesis! This crystal contains some kind of life energy that surpasses our current scientific understanding!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Reading this, Lin Ye’s gaze sharpened.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was reminded of the living corpses he had encountered in the morgue of the Third Central Hospital.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’So those were the Doctor’s earliest experiments.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He suppressed the thoughts in his mind and proceeded to open the next document.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This time, a number finally appeared in the top-left corner of the document.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>#001\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Date: 2049.1.1\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I was wrong.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I was so terribly wrong.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yajing, my love, I’m so sorry.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yaya, my daughter, Daddy is so sorry...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>(Below this was a large block of deleted and re-typed gibberish, indicating the author’s extreme emotional breakdown.)\u003C\u002Fp>",1049,"2026-06-06T10:31:47.882Z",1,"novelbin.me","87ecb1e3552160234671cf0b4fcc3519f2275547fee04a0e3fbd67e1b138eafe","how-do-we-play-if-this-boss-isn-t-nerfed-chapter-130","how-do-we-play-if-this-boss-isn-t-nerfed-chapter-128",250,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fhow-do-we-play-if-this-boss-isn-t-nerfed-cover.jpg"]