Chapter 491: The Big White Coat (9/10, Autumn Subscription)

Two prompts rang out almost simultaneously, separated by less than half a second.

Fang Yue didn't even bother to check what state he had entered, and simply pulled his attention back.

Are you doing some... acrobatics here?

Although Fang Yue didn't bother with this wave of blood mist, the members of the Long Spear Squad's Lucky E were enveloped within it.

They suddenly began shrieking and rolling on the ground, with little blood-colored blisters sprouting from their bodies like bamboo shoots after rain, crazily bursting out one after another, and in no time covering their entire bodies.

Accompanied by a pop, the first blood blister burst open, and the spot where it burst was a mangled mess of flesh and blood.

In that instant, the Lucky E members were bewildered, desperate, and in agony, and they even cast a glance toward Fang Yue with an expression he couldn't read.

And in the very next moment.

Pop Pop Pop!

The blood blisters burst one after another in a frenzy, and the Lucky E members, their entire bodies blown into a mangled mess of flesh and blood, collapsed with corpses that didn't even retain a human shape.

The remaining four numbered prisoners, seeing Lucky E fall while Fang Yue stood there as if nothing had happened, had their originally lifeless eyes now revealing a sense of bewilderment.

"Why are you fine?"

Anyone who asked that question was more or less touched in the head.

A flash of fire, and in that prisoner's eyes, Fang Yue abruptly appeared before him as if by teleportation.

Before 【Jia-zi No. 17】 could say anything more, Fang Yue's Fire Fist had already smashed into his forehead, sending him flying to crash heavily against the wall, his skull caved in by half, already lifeless.

"You..."

【Jia-zi No. 16】 had something to say, but Fang Yue used his condensed Fire Blade to easily pierce through his chest, forcing 【Jia-zi No. 16】 to swallow his words back hard.

When Fang Yue withdrew the blade, 【Jia-zi No. 16】 lay rigid on the ground, staring blankly at the brightly-lit ceiling, with no signs of life.

"Don't move!"

"You're already under our control!"

【Jia-zi No. 15】 and 【Jia-zi No. 14】 seemed to be a pair of twin brothers, one with blood streaming from his left nostril, the other from his right nostril, standing on either side of Fang Yue.

And strangely, under the illumination of the Human Soul lamp, Fang Yue's shadow seemed to be controlled by the shadows of those two.

Fang Yue gave the two a puzzled glance, and performed a Fire Kagura.

That is, using himself as the center, he spun around in place with his Fire Blade.

And the moment Fang Yue made his move, the shadow on the ground that had been entangled by the two instantly Synchronized with Fang Yue, completing the spinning motion.

The twin brothers' two heads flew off directly, landing on the ground, and the headless corpses collapsed along with them.

Fang Yue:?

What kind of flashy nonsense is this?

Fang Yue had thought that since the Underground Secret Chamber was built so large and hid so many secrets, there should be some very powerful people guarding it.

And the result is just this?

Just these acrobats?

If you put these things on the streets of Qingsi County, I could hold two watermelon blades in my hands and slash from Dongjie all the way to West Street, and from West Street all the way back to Dongjie, without even blinking!

If there's one thing to say these people had going for them...

Fang Yue reviewed the battle with the five acrobat-prisoner brothers.

It was that... the methods of these five had a somewhat eerie, uncanny feel to them.

That's right, it was similar to the kind of special abilities and special traits that uncanny beings possessed.

But it was limited only to imitation, or rather, very low-level, and couldn't compare to true uncanny abilities.

It might be useful against ordinary martial artists, but against Fang Yue, it was utterly useless.

Even so, the uncanny-like moves they used still left Fang Yue feeling somewhat puzzled.

【Guai-su】, human head Extraction, prisoners, uncanny abilities...

Fang Yue's brows furrowed tightly.

Could it be... that the people of Ning Mansion were actually collecting those special people, those who had something to do with 【Guai-su】, and then through the Extraction of 【Guai-su】, they could grant humans uncanny-like abilities?

Thinking deeper, Fang Yue vaguely felt that this guess of his actually had some truth to it.

But he was only guessing; what the truth was, remained unknown.

But what he didn't know was that there was someone who probably did.

"Come out." Fang Yue shouted toward the corner ahead.

Eek?!

A person wearing a big white coat immediately gave a shudder, and trembling walked out from the corner, looking at Fang Yue in terror with legs gone weak, squeezing out a smile uglier than crying.

"G-good day, big boss!"

Originally, Fang Yue hadn't felt much of anything upon seeing someone in a big white coat, but the moment this guy blurted out "big boss," Fang Yue suddenly caught on.

Oh my, I'm in a game!

This is an ancient setting, where would anyone wear a big white coat?!

Coupled with that familiar tone.

"Brother, nice coat."

"B-big boss like it? Take it! Take it! I had the tailor make several, you could change ten times a day without repeating!"

Saying so, the man took off his big white coat and tossed it to Fang Yue.

But it seemed he had never learned martial arts, his base attributes were poor, and the big white coat he tossed out drifted lightly to the ground.

The man instantly stiffened, looking at Fang Yue with extreme nervousness, utterly humble.

"What's your name?"

Fang Yue walked over.

"My name is Foggy Morning…"

"Morning, how many years have you been working here? Are you familiar with the roads around here? Why did you attack me together with them? What kind of place is this? And what are those prisoners for…"

Fang Yue's questions came one after another, leaving Morning completely dumbfounded.

Especially the question "how many years have you been working here"—it had that exact vibe of a former boss grilling him.

Familiarity laced with disgust, disgust dripping with nausea, nausea carrying the urge to kill.

But he couldn't act on the urge.

Because the madman before him was even more impulsive than he was.

With a dry laugh, Morning said carefully, "I—I was just captured to do research.

"Ever since I was little, my dream was to become a scientist. In reality I never got the chance, so I brought my dream into the game.

"I heard the game is different from reality—it's a whole new world. On the research level, everyone starts from the same place, and you can actually do research, so I bought a Game Watch and came in…"

"Stop, stop, stop!"

Fang Yue's face darkened as he cut in, "Get to the point."

"Oh, oh! Got a bit worked up there, big bro, don't be mad. I saw you chopping up those test subjects, and it looked so easy for you—is that the average strength of players these days? Way too strong! Here I am getting bossed around by NPCs all day. Big bro, I won't lie to you—while I've been here, I've felt like we players are just too pathetic! Until now, when I met you, it was like meeting the light! How does that line go… Reforge the glory of players, it is our duty that cannot be shirked!"

Fang Yue:???

No—stick to the point, where's the point? What are you going off on about??

This IQ… oh, this EQ, and he's a researcher, and he even wormed his way among the NPCs to deal with me. If it weren't for that conspicuous white coat, I'd have cut him down ages ago.

Fang Yue eyed Morning's thick head of hair with suspicion.

"You… don't really have many friends in normal life, do you?"

"Huh?"

"Ever thought about performing at a circus?"

(End of chapter)