Chapter 25 (1/2)

Translator: Atlas Studios

Editor: Atlas Studios

The teleportation process was smooth as usual. When Li Ang opened his eyes once again, he discovered that he was standing in a desolate place.

Below his feet was a relatively-narrow loess road lined with dense forest. The trees in the forest were tall, yet they grew in a curved manner with branches growing vertically. They looked like bodyguards observing the five figures standing in the middle of the road.

It was evening and the sun was hanging in the sky in the distance, where the mountain ridges were. Sunlight bathed the Earth, yet it provided no warmth for this forest-lined road.

The five figures stood in a pentacle. No one spoke, but the atmosphere was oppressive.

Everyone was observing each other.

The first person was a tall, burly, square-faced middle-aged man. He looked unapproachable and calm while he was standing rigidly upright. Although he was wearing a leisure shirt and Bermuda shorts, one could still sense the rigid aura he emitted from inside.

Was he a soldier or a policeman?

The second person was a steady-looking man in the 30s. He had a wide forehead, the end of his eyebrows curved upward, his eyes were small, and he had two small tufts of a mustache. He was wearing a pair of sunglasses, a white shirt, yellow beach shorts, and flip-flops. The aura he gave off was that of a greasy middle-aged man.

Yes, he looked like the character of Tian Boguang in the martial-arts TV series Laughing in the Wind, who had been portrayed by Sun Haiying.

The third person was a tall and slender young lady with long hair and black ninja clothes. She looked quite pretty, but there was no expression on her face. As a result, she seemed indifferent and unapproachable.

An iceberg beauty… just like the ones in novels.

The fourth person was a gentle and charming young monk wearing a gray robe.

He was indeed the muscled monk Li Ang had encountered a few days ago at the Jingan Temple.

However, in the Killing Field game, his facial features were slightly altered. Li Ang only recognized him thanks to his ingrained ability to differentiate between things.

“Hey.” The Tian-Boguang-lookalike looked at Li Ang and complained, “Punk, why are you narrating on your own and introducing everyone here? Also, how do I even look like Tian Boguang? Talk nonsense again and you shall be hearing from my lawyer!”

Li Ang definitely looked the weirdest out of the five people, as he was wearing a helmet, knee-high boots, a Monkey King mask, and a bulletproof shirt. He also had an AK47 gun in his hand and a fat backpack on his back.

He could not be a patient from a mental health institute, as he was holding a real Kalashnikov rifle, nor could he be a professional soldier since he was wearing an extremely hilarious Monkey King Sun Wukong mask.

Li Ang, who had been narrating, smiled and said, “So sorry about that. I felt that the atmosphere was too oppressive, which is why I did that to liven it up.”

The desired effect had indeed been attained. The square-faced middle-aged man’s gaze swept across everyone present before he said, “Everyone, we are now on a team quest. Based on its bountiful reward, the quest difficulty should be quite high.”

The man, who seemed to be a soldier, added confidently, “This is different from the electronic games we play. The team quests of the Killing Field game do not include the setting of ‘shielding attacks from players of the same team’.

“Players in a cooperative quest can attack one another, but the effects will be reduced significantly.

“In addition, any players who commit such an act will be severely punished by the system.

“Punishing methods include deducting all Game Credits, destroying all items in the inventory and all kinds of equipment, or immediately being forced to accept an even more difficult mandatory quest whose death rate could go as high as 80 percent.