Chapter 266: Gou Chen

The anticipated scene of interstellar warriors charging directly into the carriage and opening fire did not occur; instead, this group of armed personnel merely held up loudhailers and shouted, "City Hall is apprehending suspects involved in a terrorist attack. All citizens are requested to cooperate with our work. Please stand up everyone and proceed through inspection one by one."

While speaking, over a dozen Stormtroopers, each holding a device, entered different carriages.

These devices resembled oversized supermarket barcode scanners, with an LED screen embedded at the end of the gun body.

Li Cheng calmly activated the Information Integration Glasses' special effect and read out the information regarding this instrument:

This was a high-frequency millimeter-wave scanner; besides detecting firearms, props, and flammable or explosive items, it could also detect human respiration, heart rate, and pulse.

The vast majority of toys do not possess a heart rate or pulse.

'This indirectly confirms that Eugene, or rather the Toy City City Hall, already knows players are in this district but is unclear on the specific location, which is why they are conducting a large-scale dragnet investigation.'

Li Cheng thought silently to himself, quietly pressing his hand against his chest and secretly activating the Patchwork Doll special effect.

Inside the subway carriage, the passengers stirred slightly but soon calmed down, consciously rising from their seats to await inspection.

A rabbit plushie about 40 centimeters tall, dressed in a suit and tie like an office worker, who had originally been listening to music with headphones, was also ordered by a Stormtrooper to stand up.

"Hah?"

The rabbit plushie widened its eyes, pointed a finger at itself, and shouted in a street-blackster rap accent, "Man, aren't the suspects in the terrorist attack all human-shaped toys? I need inspection too?"

Theoretically, a rabbit plushie under forty centimeters in height indeed posed little possibility of committing a crime; the Stormtrooper shrugged and said, "This is a regulation from above; I don't want to do this either."

"Regulation my ass. I pay so much tax every year running my law firm just for this bullshit?"

The rabbit plushie cursed and grumbled for a while before still angrily removing its headphones and stepping onto the bench.

"Safe, safe."

The Stormtroopers, holding up their millimeter-wave scanners, quickly screened passengers in each carriage.

Hui Yu, who was already a liquid metal robot, passed the inspection smoothly—she had no heart rate or heartbeat to begin with.

As for Li Cheng, when the Stormtrooper swept the millimeter-wave scanner over his body, there was similarly no reaction.

This was because Li Cheng had just activated the 【Patchwork Doll】 special effect, removed his own heart, tossed it into his backpack slot, and replaced it with a small aquarium water pump powered by its own battery.

To put it plainly, the heart is an organ that provides power for blood flow, essentially the same as a water pump.

Furthermore, the one Li Cheng chose was a silent centrifugal pump specifically for aquariums bought from Taobao; it was extremely quiet, did not produce fluctuating blood flow, and therefore generated no heartbeat or pulse.

In the display results of the millimeter-wave scanner, Li Cheng was fundamentally no different from the residents of Toy City.

Meanwhile, on the opposite side of the carriage, another Stormtrooper stood before Gou Chen, "Citizen, please stand up."

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Gou Chen, still holding that magazine in hand, glanced at Li Cheng who had passed the inspection, then looked at the Stormtrooper holding the scanner before him, lowered his head, and remained silent.

"Citizen, please stand up."

That Stormtrooper repeated the question again; seeing that Gou Chen was still looking at the magazine in his hand, he vaguely sensed something was wrong,

and immediately exchanged glances with other Stormtroopers and the interstellar warriors standing outside the carriage (the interstellar warriors were too tall to enter the carriage), then quietly reached his hand toward the thermal laser pistol at his waist.

The other few Stormtroopers also silently approached from all sides, surrounding Gou Chen.

"I guarantee that if you touch me, you will die."

Gou Chen said coldly without even lifting his head.

The Stormtrooper's movement paused; he turned to look behind him. Upon seeing his companions all raising their guns and aiming at Gou Chen, he still summoned his courage, using the thermal laser pistol like a club to poke under Gou Chen's armpit, attempting to forcibly lift him up.

Click.

The moment the muzzle of the laser gun touched Gou Chen's body, dense sword light spontaneously erupted from within the latter, piercing through the Stormtrooper's body.

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The Stormtrooper standing in place went rigid throughout his entire body; the next second, he actually split apart along with his plastinated alloy armor, shattering into over a hundred uniform cubes that scattered across the floor.

"So, knowing you would die, why still try?"

Gou Chen sighed lightly and put down the shopping guide magazine.

Bang bang bang bang!

Without needing words, the remaining Stormtroopers in the carriage and the interstellar warriors on the platform all pulled their triggers in unison, unleashing a barrage of firepower.

The sounds of thermal laser pistols and bolt guns rose and fell one after another; the carriage instantly became riddled with holes, frightening the civilians into screaming in terror as they crouched down and fled in all directions.

Gou Chen remained unmoved; he dropped the shattered magazine and slowly stood up.

Every time his body was hit by thermal lasers or solid projectiles, it would become blurry, allowing the bullets to pass through.

【Item Name: Optical Deflection Amulet】

【Type: Consumable Item】

【Quality: Perfect】

【Special Effect: Light Refraction. Quantifies the user's overall defensive performance; if an incoming attack is judged to be less than 30% of the total defensive performance, subsequent attacks of the same type are ignored for 777 seconds.】

【Consumption: 500 Spirit Points, 100 Stamina Points, 200 Sanity Points】

【Cooldown Time: None】

【Usage Condition: Perception attribute greater than or equal to 12】

【Remark: The same move cannot be used twice against a Saint Seiya warrior.】

"Holy shit, an invincibility cheat."

Crouching on the ground, Hui Yu was utterly shocked; as a legendary tank who always took damage head-on, she had never seen someone blatantly activate an invincibility hack.

If the atmosphere weren't so inappropriate, she would have wanted to go over and ask, "Bro, where did you buy that cheat?"

"Cheat my head, let's go."

Li Cheng pulled Hui Yu, kept his head low, and quickly fled the carriage.

Gou Chen did not stop them; instead, he drew two iron swords, one long and one short, from the void, suspended himself in mid-air, and began his slaughter.

Under the effect of the 【Optical Deflection Amulet】, the threat of firearms to Gou Chen was minimized; he was like a tiger entering a flock of sheep, freely slashing and killing every toy he saw in the subway.

Plush fabric flew everywhere, plastic splashed in all directions; if viewed from the perspective of the toys, the scene was simply comparable to the Avici Hell.

A space warrior action figure silently climbed over the top of the carriage with agile, skilled movements, flipped its body, kicked open the window, and leapt inside, swinging its tactical knife with a "thwip" to drive it straight into Gouchen's nape.

This strike pierced 30% of the defense and inflicted real damage.

Yet before the space warrior could yank the tactical knife to sever the enemy's entire head,

Gouchen reversed his sword, chopping off the opponent's wrist, then pulled out the blade and pulled a life potion from his backpack slot, gulping it down in large swallows.

His wounds healed instantly; eyes bloodshot from rage, Gouchen ignored bullets striking from all directions, floating forward to stand before the space warrior with the severed hand, gripping his helmet and lifting him up.

"Excellent. You are the first toy to injure me. As a reward, I grant you this."

Gouchen whispered, carrying the space warrior action figure, floating out of the carriage and onto another track of the subway tunnel.

Wooo—

In the distance, bright headlights flared as the second train sped toward them; the LEGO driver spotted Gouchen and the suspended space warrior, frantically attempting to brake.

In that instant, everyone understood Gouchen's intent. The captured space warrior struggled desperately, his fists striking the otherworldly player—but like bullets, all blows were dodged by the 【Optical Deflection Body Device】.

Gouchen watched the approaching headlights with cold indifference; two iron swords pierced the space warrior's arms on their own, forcing his arms upward like a crucified Jesus.

It was too late.

Boom!

The high-speed subway train slammed into the two, the front car shattering and deforming against the space warrior's thick ceramic-steel armor.

The LEGO driver was the first victim—his entire body smashed through the glass, flying out and rolling onto the ground, limbs severed.

The civilians inside the carriage were first thrown upward, then crushed against the space warrior, pulverized by the unbreakable, wall-like ceramic-steel armor.

Like Moxi parting the sea, Gouchen held aloft the space warrior, cleaving through an ocean of "mangled limbs and severed arms."

All six carriages passed; every toy passenger inside, regardless of gender, age, or type, lay dead or dying.

"." Gouchen casually dropped the mangled space warrior; the toy's battery electrolyte drenched him, dark red as blood.

He floated around, his icy gaze fixed on every living thing still standing on the platform.