Chapter 134: Sen Ran

Li Cheng jumped off the pirate ship at the end of its voyage, quickly scanned the third stamp on his tourist card, and darted out the door behind Andre.

The sky was thick with dark clouds, dimming the already faint glow of the sunset.

From the shadows of buildings, narrow alleys, and gloomy forests, eyeless dolls slowly emerged one by one, their faces frozen in vacant smiles, swaying toward the two of them.

Tap-tap-tap—

Father Andre charged forward, drew his pistol, and fired precise shots at the head and heart of the first Donald Duck doll.

The bullets struck the doll's surface and vanished like mud into the sea, leaving only two shallow holes with no further reaction.

Seeing this, he yanked his straight sword from his belt with a gloved hand, twisting and spinning in a flamboyant motion before slashing down.

They were bulletproof, thick-skinned, had absurdly high damage thresholds, and were terrifyingly numerous.

His dual blades sliced into the duck doll's abdomen, cutting deep—blood sprayed, organs flew—and the Donald Duck doll collapsed with a crash.

What's going on? What did I miss? This shouldn't happen!

Li Cheng immediately drew his Bat Hook Gun, pulled the trigger, and was yanked sideways by the hook, dodging the collision with swift drift.

【Type: Universal】

Without needing to be warned, Andre knew he couldn't be surrounded—he swung his sword forward, felling several dolls, then followed Li Cheng toward the western side of the pirate harbor to break out.

【Cooldown: 5 minutes】

The phantom bronze bell emitted a grating metallic screech; Su Jie shuddered all over but still held his hands up, straining to maintain the skill.

"It's fine."

"She's just an ordinary person—are you sure you want to turn against her?"

Shu.

"No."

Su Jie shook his head, "My shield may not be invincible, but holding out for a while is still possible. You still have time to reach another phone booth for shelter."

Something's wrong.

Li Cheng, leaping between buildings and trees like a hare evading a hawk, raced his mind.

After a moment's hesitation, Ding Shaoxia sincerely thanked him. She knew Su Jie was taking Bai Lang's attacks to protect her.

The few dolls just knocked down staggered back to their feet. Donald Duck's abdomen still bore horrific wounds, with internal organs oozing out.

Just from listening to Su Jie and Bai Lang's conversation, Li Cheng deduced the situation—after getting separated from the group, Su Jie encountered the ordinary person Ding Shaoxia and brought her along.

Bai Lang was about to press his advantage, tightening the python's constriction, when he suddenly noticed something.

Su Jie and Ding Shaoxia.

Su Jie's voice cracked; ignoring Ding Shaoxia's protest of "No, I'm not!", he placed his palm gently on her abdomen and activated a medical skill with diagnostic functions.

Seeing Li Cheng leave first, Bai Lang no longer held back—he unleashed his Snake Taming skill, summoning from beneath his suspected space-item black robe a giant Sen Ran nearly ten meters long.

Saying this, he glanced at Li Cheng and Ding Shaoxia outside the phone booth, offering them a slightly apologetic look.

Thud!

The doll slammed onto the ground, crushing a circular depression into the concrete, its footprints clearly visible.

"Whoosh—"

The python's body writhed flexibly, slithering upward and coiling several times around the phantom bronze bell before tightening abruptly.

Andre exhaled hot air, readying to stab his blade into the turtle doll's heart, when he heard a rustling sound.

"Let's go."

Each zone has one red phone booth—this place is absolutely safe. Each booth can hold at most two humans; exceeding the limit nullifies its protective effect.

Wait—two people?

"Are you pregnant?!"

The Bat Gun's cooldown ended; he fired the hook toward the top of a lamppost, swung himself upward, and landed on the rooftop.

The internal bones, organs, blood vessels, and nerves were all... strange. Donald Duck dolls were half-human, half-duck; Goofy dolls were half-human, half-dog; Minnie dolls were half-human, half-mouse; Pluto doll—uh, Pluto was all-dog.

【Cost: 150 Spirit Energy, 80 Sanity】

Su Jie, wearing the Special Affairs Bureau's Bluetooth earpiece, raised both hands and activated his skill, summoning a phantom bronze bell to envelop the phone booth. His target was Bai Lang, standing outside.

Li Cheng, lagging behind, noticed the same thing—the several dolls he'd cut down with his 170 Straight Blade had risen again.

And the outer shell was fused directly to the inner body.

But from Su Jie's perspective, as a Mobile Task Force officer, he could not deliberately abandon a civilian to die. Nor could he leave the phone booth himself and let Bai Lang stay with Ding Shaoxia.

Remember, players are a group who spare no means for survival—their moral standards fluctuate wildly, and they're perfectly capable of "killing an ordinary person in the phone booth to free up space."

【Skill Name: Feeding Fear: Sen Ran】

His voice cut off abruptly; Su Jie's face darkened as he stared at the growing horde of dolls approaching the phone booth from outside—his sense of dread intensified.

Blows like skull-cracking or heart-piercing seemed unable to deliver fatal damage.

Leapt high, crashing down on Li Cheng with the force of a mountain descending.

As a priest who refused to use divine arts but instead used sword and blade to send enemies to heaven, it was no different from the legendary wizard Gandalf preferring to physically crush Uruk-hai skulls with his staff.

Just as the air raid siren blared, he dragged Ding Shaoxia into the phone booth at Pirate Harbor, and Bai Lang happened to be exploring this area.

【Note: "My wife's perfect in every way—she's just too clingy." Xu Xian, frequently fractured, explained to his sister and brother-in-law's family.】

Time to go.

"Um, really, thank you."

Li Cheng glanced around; with the air raid siren still blaring, more and more dolls had surrounded them.

Bai Lang's voice was low; his cold gaze swept over Ding Shaoxia's pale face inside the booth. "Give up your spot, or I'll smash this booth—none of you will get out alive."

"He left?" Ding Shaoxia couldn't believe it.

"Sorry, I can't." Su Jie gritted his teeth. "First come, first served—I got here with Ding Shaoxia first."

The stuffed toys around them kept growing in number—if they didn't leave now, it would be too late—and on top of that, a certain interesting smell was wafting out from the phone booth.

There were no more buildings ahead. Li Cheng leapt down from the rooftop, cut through a tree-lined path, and arrived in the middle of the road, only to see two people already standing inside the red phone booth.

Li Cheng neither agreed nor disagreed with Su Jie's idea. He shot a grappling claw toward the streetlamp and moved again—there was no time to rush to another phone booth now, so he might as well try his luck at the food shop mentioned in the seventh rule of the Visitor's Code.

Bairan recalled his python, took a long look at the phone booth, the corners of his mouth lifting of their own accord. Without offering any extra explanation, he simply turned and left.

The entire amusement park had only four phone booths, and they were all very far apart from one another.

Andre, the right half of his body still smeared with blood, remained expressionless. His left hand held a blade in a horizontal thrust, stabbing into the temple of another Strawberry Bear plush. His right hand thrust forward, piercing the throat of a rabbit plush.

A gust of wind rushed at him from behind. He dropped the blade, twisted his body to dodge the front-kick sneak attack of a third turtle plush, then locked both arms tightly around the toy's thick, long thigh. Every muscle on his body, along with the veins on his forehead, suddenly bulged.

He hurled the turtle plush through the air; the back of its head slammed heavily into the ground, and a strange section of bone jutted out from the back of its neck.

Bairan said in a low voice, "You want to protect her—I have no objection. Then give up your spot."

Standing in Bairan's shoes, from a purely utilitarian angle, Su Jie's correct course of action should have been to drive Ding Shaoxia out and instead cooperate with him. Two players' survival odds were always better than one player fighting alone.

Creak—

Two months pregnant.

Every area of the amusement park had one absolutely safe phone booth; the phone booth of the Pirate Cove area was located on the west side.

【Special Effect: Silent Killer. After releasing the feeding snake, it wraps around and strangles the target】

The outer skin of those plush toys was like some kind of high-strength synthetic fiber—cutting through them was far more laborious than the plush fabric they appeared to be.

This point is still pretty much a hell of a joke. As main characters in "Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck," Mickey's friend Goofy is an upright-walking, talking human-shaped dog, while Mickey's pet Pluto is a four-legged purebred pet dog.

Su Jie coughed lightly a few times. The outside of the phone booth's glass still had the foul-smelling slime left behind by the python's coils, but thankfully the structure of the phone booth itself hadn't been damaged.

Su Jie's expression turned desperate. At two months pregnant, the fetus hadn't yet taken shape, and some pregnant women indeed had no early pregnancy symptoms—even unaware they were pregnant. But according to the amusement park's rules, mother and child counted as two people.

Add him in, and that's three people—exceeding the phone booth's safe capacity.

Thud!

The plush toys surged forward in a swarm, drowning the phone booth like a tide.

(End of this chapter)