[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-player-reboot":3,"chapter-player-reboot-player-reboot-chapter-33":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","Player Reboot",{"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},2271998,4438,"Chapter 33: Spider","player-reboot-chapter-33",33,"\u003Cp>Load the bullets, insert them into the barrel, install the spring\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thud!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A heavy impact came from outside the cabinet, as if something had smashed through the front door and burst into the classroom, followed by the rapid tapping of countless legs across the floor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Judging from the sound distribution, there were three spiders.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ye Jiaying’s face turned instantly pale; instinctively, her mind conjured the figure trapped in the cocoon, being transported somewhere unknown.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even so, she did not scream. Instead, she forced herself to calm down, slightly raising her phone hand and covering the flashlight on the back with her fingers, letting out only the faint light needed for Yuan Zhixia to assemble the firearm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With her other hand, she quietly returned the buzzer alarm, pepper spray, and other irrelevant items into her backpack, slowly zipping it shut.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The sound of spider legs walking grew closer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yuan Zhixia gave Ye Jiaying an approving glance, silently quickening her movements, completing the assembly of the entire pistol, then pulling out a titanium alloy suppressor disguised as a water filter.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The suppressor had openings at its front, connected internally to a series of layered chambers. When fired, the burning gases passed through these chambers first, weakened, then expelled forward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This both silenced the shot and prevented backflow of gases toward the shooter.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Similarly, this suppressor was also self-made by Yuan Zhixia using a metal sintering printer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With the suppressor attached, the entire pistol was fully ready.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yuan Zhixia gripped the pistol in her right hand, cradled it with her left beneath, and gestured with her eyes for Ye Jiaying to turn off the phone’s flashlight and insert sponge earplugs into both their ears.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The wooden cabinet plunged into darkness, leaving only the increasingly close tapping of legs outside.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Creak—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One leg hooked open the cabinet door; in the instant light flooded in, Yuan Zhixia pulled the trigger without hesitation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bang!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The bullet shot from the barrel, exploding with violent noise inside the semi-enclosed cabinet.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even with the suppressor on the muzzle and sponge earplugs in their ears, both still felt their ears ringing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The unknown creature struck by the bullet sank inward at the head, spraying green fluid. Its eight legs instinctively curled into a ball and rolled backward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was called an unknown creature because it was not merely a scaled-up version of ordinary Earth spiders.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Its jointed limbs were thicker, its abdomen bore gill-like respiratory organs, and the colorful patterns on its head faintly outlined a human face.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From any angle, it did not resemble a species naturally evolved in Earth’s ecosystem.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Run!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yuan Zhixia kicked open the cabinet door and dashed out of the classroom; Ye Jiaying followed close behind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The two spider monsters searching at the front of the classroom immediately chased after them, moving no slower than a human sprinting at full speed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Perhaps drawn by the gunshot, or perhaps due to some long-range communication ability, more spiders crawled from the webs along the corridor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dark shadows blocked the sunlight outside the corridor; their ears were filled entirely with the rustling of countless legs.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The two suppressed their fear and sprinted down the corridor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Through each window, they could see classmates inside the classrooms, still asleep in their midday nap, utterly unaware of what was happening just beyond the curtain separating them from this world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Reaching the end of the corridor, they ran down the stairs to the first floor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At least six spider monsters now pursued from behind, closing in rapidly; Yuan Zhixia slipped the Glock into a tactical vest holster, then removed a Coca-Cola glass bottle from the vest, biting off the cap with her teeth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This bottle was in fact a Molotov cocktail, filled with a brownish flammable liquid disguised as cola.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Beneath the cap, a strip of soaked cloth was glued.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On the front of the cap, a piece of sandpaper and a match were attached.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yuan Zhixia pressed one hand over the matchstick and scraped it across the sandpaper; the match head ignited instantly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She flipped the cap over, lit the cloth with the match, then spun around and hurled the burning bottle hard against the floor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Boom!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The glass bottle shattered on the tile floor; the spilled flammable liquid ignited immediately, forming a wall of roaring flame that temporarily blocked the spider monsters’ pursuit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Firing, fleeing, descending the stairs, throwing the Molotov.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All of this occurred within barely a minute and a half; Yuan Zhixia had done the optimal thing within her means.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But when she turned to look toward the teaching building’s exit, despair still rose in her heart.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Most of the surface of the adjacent science building was covered in spiderwebs.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dozens of spider monsters outside the building noticed the commotion—some descended via silk ropes from the rooftop, others climbed down the exterior walls, still others burst from classrooms, surging toward them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Front blocked by enemies, rear blocked by fire—nowhere to evade—the sound of running footsteps came from the end of the corridor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A figure smashed through the locked main door of the teaching building, leaping along the walls, charging through the wall of fire, overtaking the two who couldn’t react in time, and rushing straight into the Baoweiquan  of the spider monsters.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Watch out—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yuan Zhixia had barely time to warn before seeing the man swing his arm; a strange bone blade extended from beneath his wrist like a folding knife, and with a backward slash, he split the spider monster lunging at his face in two.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The two bone blades slashed back and forth, slaughtering every spider that came near; he repeated this several times until the spider monsters ceased their futile attacks, including those blocked by the fire wall, scattering and vanishing beyond sight.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Drip. Drip.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Green blood dripped from the bone blades onto the floor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A plain-looking man in black clothing—or rather, Li Cheng, whose face had been altered by worm genes—slightly turned his head, expressionless, and rasped to Yuan Zhixia and Ye Jiaying: “Five million, three hundred eighty-six thousand, eight hundred seventy-seven yuan and thirty-two fen.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Huh?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You two owe me this amount.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Cheng pulled out pre-prepared alcohol wipes from his pocket, wiped the filth off the bone blades, then strode forward coldly: “Follow me. Don’t die before you pay.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Who is this man?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yuan Zhixia and Ye Jiaying exchanged glances behind him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The unfamiliar black-clad man seemed unusually familiar with the current situation—no panic, no confusion, only firm steps guiding them through the campus blanketed in webs.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Meanwhile, the bone blades extending from beneath his wrist didn’t resemble Xiujian  or folding knives. They looked more like organs.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And how had he calculated that five-million figure?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The man seemed to sense their confusion and said coldly: “Last year, the average monthly per capita living expenditure in Yin City was 4,375 yuan. The annual inflation rate was roughly 2.5%. Assuming you both start working at twenty-two and retire at fifty, working twenty-eight years, the total comes to 2,693,438.66 yuan. Multiply by two: 5,386,877.32. That’s your life debt.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Life debt?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yuan Zhixia slightly pursed her lips; from an economic standpoint, this figure was extremely crude.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To measure inflation, one must select a price index to represent general price changes—such as the wholesale price index (WPI), retail price index (RPI), consumer price index (CPI), or GDP deflator.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The differences between calculation methods are substantial. Using CPI, the ten-year average inflation rate was only 2.6%; using M2 year-end growth minus GDP growth, it reached 4.6%.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Moreover, using monthly per capita living expenditure instead of monthly per capita net transfer income to calculate a life debt is unreasonable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But given the current crisis, there was no room for negotiation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yuan Zhixia carefully revealed a gentle, eight-tooth smile, sweetly and non-threateningly: “Sir, how should we address you?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sister, be normal—you’re wearing a bulletproof vest and holding a gun you clearly made yourself. Why are you acting like a sweet little girl?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Cheng internally screamed in disbelief, yet his face remained cold and serious as he replied: “I’m just a mercenary paid to do a job. Call me Da Zai Zhi.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Good name,” Yuan Zhixia praised. “The Rites of Zhou, Tian Guan Zhong Zai: ‘The Grand Minister’s duty is to establish the six classics to assist the king in governing the states.’”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Cheng glanced at her coldly: “Unrelated. It’s just a nickname. I have a younger cousin named Xiao Zai Zhi and an older cousin named Tai Zai Zhi.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Why not say you have a brother named Xiao Bi Zai Zhi and a big brother named Da Zhu Zai?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I really like a line from Dazai Osamu’s “No Longer Human”: f***, you little brat, you’ve never even seen the underworld? Daring to challenge me?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yuan Zhixia’s expression froze; she nodded numbly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>(End of Chapter)\u003C\u002Fp>",1466,"2026-06-19T22:31:22.154Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","c58ace6b982a6084df76542b9d29416fc201c76c0bb396fc15f3e0bce7fe0087","player-reboot-chapter-34","player-reboot-chapter-32",612,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fplayer-reboot-cover.jpg"]