Chapter 271

Player card cockroach, get☆daze!

Li Cheng tied up the garbage bag, then casually pulled a thick glass jar used for storing kimchi from the warehouse, tossed the bag inside, poured in a small amount of expanding foam, and sealed the jar shut.

"Huh? Why not just kill him outright?"

Hui Yu blinked in confusion, thinking Li Cheng might be planning to keep cockroaches as pets.

"No, it's better to let it suffocate to death."

Li Cheng offhandedly explained: a joker with postmortem possession ability is like a toad on your foot—it doesn't bite, but it's infuriating.

Killing him directly risks giving him a chance to escape; better to seal him in the jar and wait for him to suffocate or kill himself, thus preventing possession.

Come to think of it, Li Cheng could also bring the cockroach-transformed joker back to the real world and sell it on the black market.

A player's qualification can be transferred through killing; a fresh qualification sells for around ten thousand game coins on the black market, guaranteeing immediate profit.

But after thinking it over, Li Cheng gave up.

The joker can possess and be reborn—he might use the buyer's body to live again. Better to nail down his coffin lid with several nails to prevent resurrection.

Hum—

The roar of aircraft engines grew louder, and several Eagle Cannon Gunships sped toward them, circling between the towering buildings.

Blinding searchlights pierced through the glass windows, illuminating the corridor; the onboard broadcast began with a dull warning: "Terrorists inside, surrender immediately and cease resistance."

But when they saw only Li Cheng and Hui Yu standing in the corridor, with Eugene reduced to a pulp of meat, they ignored the possibility of ordinary citizens still inside and opened fire without hesitation.

Cannonballs and magnetic acceleration rounds rained down on the office building; Li Cheng and Hui Yu kicked off the floor, leapt out of the corridor, and smashed through the glass window at its end, emerging outside.

Under gravity's pull, Hui Yu—herself a massive lump of iron—plummeted downward, crashing with a boom onto the concrete ground and denting it deeply.

Dust swirled as she knelt on one knee, bracing herself with a clenched fist against the ground, striking a dramatically elegant hero's entrance pose before slowly rising and brushing off the dirt.

Li Cheng, meanwhile, fired his bat hook a second before hitting the ground, simultaneously releasing the 【Death Curse Current】 to cushion his fall, landing with remarkable lightness.

"Do you really think you can escape after committing such a grave crime? Where is Eugene?"

A cold laugh echoed ahead; Mr. Fantastic, Naruto, and Kenshin stepped slowly from behind the greenery, surrounding him from three directions.

All three bore varying degrees of injury: Mr. Fantastic's palms were wrapped in bandages, Naruto had retreated from his four-tailed beast form back to three tails, his expression utterly drained.

They caught up so fast? Gouchen, are you even capable? You can't even handle one-on-three. Even Ye Wen could fight ten at once.

Li Cheng internally grumbled, yet his face remained expressionless as he raised a finger: "First, strictly speaking, I haven't committed any major crime—the subway massacre was Gouchen's doing, not mine.

The nuclear plant incident was self-defense, and the subsequent video release was exposing the truth—not illegal.

Second, you shouldn't have come. The countdown has ended."

Kenshin's eyelid twitched; he instinctively asked: "What countdown?"

Squeak—

A strange, cicada-like sound from high above answered for Li Cheng.

As the one-minute countdown ended, the millennium insect glued to the drone finally triggered its effect: 【Chaotic Moment】.

Within a one-kilometer radius, sunlight twisted violently, flickering erratically and shifting colors.

The top half of a skyscraper, along with the five Eagle Cannon Gunships, alternately bent and warped, changed materials, soared into the sky, then collapsed and disintegrated.

The pilots and soldiers inside the gunships, unable to comprehend what was happening, tried to call for help—but the moment they opened their mouths, butterflies, apples, even tigers and whales spilled out.

Like a video game crashing from a sudden bug,

every object within the one-kilometer-diameter sphere plunged into chaotic disorder.

Every Toy City citizen who witnessed this spectacle gaped in disbelief.

Only after several seconds did all the changes gradually cease.

The whale, having briefly experienced flight, plummeted from the sky and crashed with a thud, crushing parked cars beneath it.

Other bizarre objects rained down like hail.

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Kenshin's face darkened further; these outsiders' energy levels weren't high, but their methods were stranger and stranger.

"Third, Eugene is dead. I've taken his key."

Li Cheng tilted his head calmly: "Eugene was your man. You should know—the final winner collects all keys.

Though we don't know the exact function of the collected keys, one thing is certain—they will profoundly impact Toy City's future.

Your wisest move is to abandon conflict and cooperate."

"Precisely because the keys will profoundly impact Toy City's future, they must not fall into the hands of outsiders like you, who see only profit."

Mr. Fantastic narrowed his eyes: "According to our intelligence, every outsider possesses a 'spatial item' capable of storing objects within.

When an outsider dies, items stored in the extradimensional space vanish with them.

But keys are the exception—they drop upon death.

In other words, even if Eugene unfortunately died, as long as we capture you and Gouchen, we can still obtain the keys—and keep them in our hands.

Damn, man, why aren't you following the script?

Hui Yu's expression twisted with disbelief; even Li Cheng struggled to maintain his composure under the exposed logical flaw.

This Toy City version of Mr. Fantastic copies Rubber Man Luffy's moves—so why's his IQ suddenly spiked? What's going on?

(In manga canon, Mr. Fantastic Reed Richards possesses extraordinary intellect, holding doctorates in engineering, mathematics, and physics, hailed as the smartest man on Earth.)

From the city hall's perspective, Li Cheng and the terrorist joker are fundamentally identical—both treat this world as a playground and resource depot, just as most players stereotype outsiders.

"Don't think I bombed the nuclear plant—I'm actually a good person."

Li Cheng sighed helplessly: "Once I saw a news report about a child needing organ transplants—I immediately went to the hospital and donated three hearts, six lungs, five kidneys, seven pancreases, and ten corneas.

Even the judge, prosecutor, lawyer, and prison guard all praised me as a good person."

???

You're an organ trafficker, aren't you? Reward: execution for one hour.

Words are useless; Hei Qi Yihu drew his blade again, "Getsuga Tensho!"

(End of Chapter)