Chapter 514

Li Cheng burst out of the carriage, pulled out the Edge Jet, and tossed two pairs of diving goggles and thermal space blankets to Wan Li Fengdao and Lei Yesi.

Both asked in unison: "What's this?"

"Your standing tickets."

The Edge Jet had only two seats; Li Cheng had Bai Ma Mubei sit in the pilot's seat (with onboard AI autopilot), the comatose astronaut in the rear, and Claudia transformed into a bat.

Wan Li Fengdao and Lei Yesi had to squeeze into the weapons pod—

He didn't keep Bai Ma Mubei out of the pod out of chivalry, but because Bai Ma Mubei, as a melee transcendent, had extremely high muscle density and excessive weight; putting him in the pod would throw off the aircraft's center of gravity.

Xiao Dao Ge instinctively asked: "Wait, what about you?"

"You go first," Li Cheng said rapidly. "On the train, my Radar Compass cursor kept slightly shifting with the train's movement. Using triangulation and calculation, the destination should be 800 kilometers directly above us. I'll go check what's going on."

Meanwhile, the Fungus King and others, well-versed in the principle that "who runs slowest gets the front row," all boarded a small hovering submarine floating in the air, racing toward the direction indicated by the Skeleton Knight.

"Alright, Mubei, don't shake and accidentally press the launch button."

Wan Li Fengdao said nothing more, gave the order, then crawled into the pod and hung himself beneath the bracket.

Li Cheng patted the wing, triggering the Edge Jet's engines to start on its own, following closely behind the Fungus King's hovering submarine. Then he took a deep breath and looked upward.

This wasteland resembled the initial plains where they were teleported, also featuring a dome structure, except here the dome was made of a spectacular mass of purple crystal.

Li Cheng didn't rashly use his light-speed elbow strike to pierce through the purple crystal strata—the battlefield was teeming with dangers, and numerous spatial anomalies existed; charging in blindly could land him in a black hole or a high-level security guard enclave, possibly killing him instantly.

So he first stepped out of the Eternity Field's range, retrieved from the 3D warehouse's refrigerator a large pile of transplanted monster organs weighing over 250 kg total, along with a bundle of high explosives and a high-definition digital camera, all connected via the Assembled Doll to his left hand.

He then pulled out the Crystal Array, inserted it into his right brain, completed the connection, extracted the crystal along with the skull fragment and cerebral gray matter, attached them to his left hand, and used the Assembled Doll to detach his left arm.

This procedure was tedious, complex, and utterly bizarre—even the Skeleton Knight couldn't help turning his head to glance.

Li Cheng, now missing a skull fragment, calmly covered his cranium with a sterile ceramic cap, then strapped a Casio F-91W digital watch to his left wrist, gripped the levitation engine, and adjusted its angle.

Launch!

Li Cheng remained standing in place, while his left hand—gripping the levitation engine and carrying the massive pile of monster organs—shot into the purple crystal strata like a superluminal vessel.

The Skeleton Knight's hollow eye sockets flickered with light. "You've separated your Chosen Qualification."

"Yes."

Li Cheng nodded. This idea came from his earlier experience in the inverted pyramid dungeon: actively separating his own body to partition his player qualification.

Back then, Xue Shi Paoxiao and others had their qualifications split by Cai Anjie's personality fragments, forcing them to lose access to their player panels and return to the real world.

This time, Li Cheng actively split his body, granting his left arm greater physical mass (monster organs) and the material basis for thought (cerebral gray matter embedded with crystals).

After the split, the left arm effectively gained 51% of the permissions, allowing it to use the levitation engine.

Why go through such a roundabout process?

Li Cheng mentally counted down twenty seconds, then turned and stepped back into the Eternity Field of the green train. The missing skull fragment and left arm instantly regrew, restored to their original state.

The monster organs and Casio watch previously attached to his left hand had vanished; however, the digital camera reappeared from thin air.

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The Skeleton Knight fell silent for a moment, then deduced Li Cheng's intent in just a few seconds: "You used your left arm to scout ahead in your stead."

"No wonder you're Senior Wu Gu. You see through flesh to essence."

Li Cheng sincerely praised him. He had first launched his left arm toward the endpoint indicated by the Radar Compass—800 kilometers away—activating the digital camera mounted on the arm to film the surroundings and confirm any danger.

After completing the filming, the left arm didn't need to fly back using the levitation engine; instead, it used player permissions to store both the levitation engine and the digital camera into its inventory slot, activated the timer function on the Casio F-91W digital watch, and detonated the high explosives, reducing the left arm to shreds.

The Casio F-91W was lightweight, cheap, had a seven-year battery life, minimal error rate, and durability rivaling the legendary Nokia 1100. Since the turn of the century, it had been favored by terrorists worldwide as the core component of IED roadside bombs.

A certain high-ranking building连连看 enthusiast, known only as Lā Dēng, wore one constantly.

The entire process was complex yet simple: with the left arm destroyed, Li Cheng's main body regained 100% player permissions. He stepped back into the Eternity Field, letting the green train repair him and regrow his left arm.

"Brilliant," the Skeleton Knight said, offering a rare emotionally colored evaluation. "You remind me of an old acquaintance."

"Oh? Who? Mind telling me?"

Receiving such high praise from the unfathomable transcendent Skeleton Knight made Li Cheng genuinely pleased. "Michael? Or Han Shuishi? Do you know either of them?"

The Skeleton Knight didn't answer. Instead, he spun his sword hilt, generating a spatial barrier that perfectly deflected the incoming plasma beam.

Li Cheng had no time to press further. He connected a data cable to his brain and directly downloaded the video feed from the digital camera.

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At the 800-kilometer destination, a metal platform was embedded within the purple crystal strata.

The strata inside were a vacuum, unchanging since ancient times; thus, the metal platform showed no signs of rust. Numerous brackets were mounted on it, and countless unknown-function cables hung down like grapevines.

From the cable trajectories and accumulated dust on the floor, the platform had originally held two reclining chairs. But now, both chairs were gone, along with the metal floor beneath them—removed, vanished without a trace.

【Task Name: Reset to Zero】

【Task Objective: Teleport to the Killing Ground, carry the Annihilation Device to the designated location, and install it properly】

Li Cheng slightly pursed his lips, suddenly realizing the trap: the task actually consisted of two parts. First, bring the Annihilation Device—the astronaut—to the designated location.

Second, install the astronaut properly.

Without the reclining chairs, even if he brought the astronaut to the platform, he likely couldn't complete the task.

Hum!

Far away, another plasma beam surged forth. The Skeleton Knight remained unmoved, gripped his sword hilt, and slashed horizontally, slicing the beam in two with spatial cutting.

He planted his greatsword back on the ground and said coldly: "You have three minutes and thirty seconds."

"Understood. Thanks, big brother."

Li Cheng flexed his left arm. His spiritual power was nearly depleted—he couldn't activate the levitation engine, and the Frog God spirit from the Heat Death Corridor was still on cooldown.

He pulled out the electronic pet egg and released Hui Yu. "Time to work."

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Hui Yu's lips drooped as he muttered: "Sigh. When there's trouble, you call Zhong Wuyan; when there's none, you ignore Xia Yingchun. You only summon me when you need me, then dump me in the cold palace. Is this the fate of robots? Is it fate? An unfair fate that drags me here?"

"Are you performing a stage play?" Li Cheng's eyebrow twitched. "Fine, I'll buy you a new phone when we get back."

"Oh yeah, not an Apple one, right? If it's not a Hongmeng phone, I won't use it."

Huiyu happily rubbed her palms together vigorously, took the small motorcycle drone Li Cheng handed over, and activated the epic prop 【Silver Wing Light Path】 shaped like frameless glasses, liquefying her own legs and swallowing the drone.

The specific effect of 【Silver Wing Light Path】 is to automatically optimize mechanical lifeforms.

Huiyu's shoes turned into two pulse detonation engines. She gulped down cola-flavored liquid oxygen kerosene, and the soles of her shoes instantly erupted with high-frequency detonation flames.

Aided by the hovering engine, and without much need to consider aerodynamics, Li Cheng hugged Huiyu like a koala in a heaven-defying manner. The two of them, riding on the massive thrust of the pulse detonation engines, accelerated to chase after Wanli Fengdao and the others in the distance,