Chapter 36 (1/2)

Translator: Atlas Studios

Editor: Atlas Studios

The seven stone coffins were, in fact, small cuboid spaces. They were similar to coffins stuffed into a wall and resembled the cells in the organization’s underground laboratory.

The positions where everyone’s names were engraved were the locations of the coffins.

Tang Luo opened them all by punching them, respectively.

The instant they opened their own coffins, Zhou Zhenguo and Chu Chongtian didn’t even have time to react, as they felt a spell of dizziness. Soon, they were lying in the coffins.

After they struggled and got out, they saw that they were still wearing their original clothes.

Tang Luo was standing inside the crypt, wearing his original sportswear clothes. Underneath his jacket, where a slight bulge was, was Ill Omens. A part of the revolver was stuffed into the inner pocket, keeping it from falling out.

As expected, Ill Omens was a piece of equipment that could be brought in and out of the mission world.

Tang Luo put his palms together, bowed his head, and recited several sentences from the Buddhist classics.

Inside the other stone coffins were the corpses of Li Liang and the others.

Zhou Zhenguo and Chu Chongtian sighed.

They had all been temporarily gathered to complete a mission, so it was impossible for them to have developed any real feelings for each other. Also, it would be hypocritical to speak of any significant grief.

However, they sighed silently in their hearts, as all beings would grieve for their fellow beings.

“It should be possible to open the door now,” said Tang Luo.

Zhou Zhenguo approached the iron gate and tried opening it. Surprisingly, he opened the previously immovable door effortlessly now.

“So we’ve been moving around in our souls out of our bodies the whole time,” said Chu Chongtian.

“This mission…”

Zhou Zhenguo felt his thoughts couldn’t be described easily.

The whole mission had been centered around a world of dead souls. Everyone they had met had been souls, and Jack the Ripper had been the soul in the soul and the dead among the dead.

Given these, all kinds of strange events this far could be explained.

How had Li Liang been able to rise from the dead? Because, at that time, he hadn’t really died. At most, he had received a soul injury.

Why had the city residents’ bodies and even bloodstains disappeared? Jack the Ripper had devoured them.

There was even a probable answer about the abyss-like chasm’s existence. It might be the boundary between the world of the living and the world of the dead.

This mysterious small city was actually long gone from the world. Maybe it was just what had happened before being repeated continuously.

Perhaps it would wait for the next batch of Employees of Gods and Demons to start the mission once again.

…

The trio walked downward, walking on the road toward the world of the living.

At the same time, the surroundings seemed to shake slightly.

Although Master Xuanzang had killed Jack the Ripper, Zhou Zhenguo and Chu Chongtian couldn’t help but quicken their footsteps, anyway.

Tang Luo’s footsteps paused slightly. He looked back briefly, before continuing down.

A few minutes later…

A carriage from which the outside couldn’t be seen was shaking slightly from the movement. It was transporting Tang Luo and the others back to the real world.

Suddenly, three beams of light appeared out of thin air and fell on the three.

“Psst… Ahhh!” Chu Chongtian couldn’t help but utter a moan.

He was like a man who had been tired for three days and three nights, soaking in a warm hot spring—all his fatigue began to disappear.

However, the whole process was short. It stopped when Chu Chongtian felt he had recovered and was going to enjoy it properly.

“This is treatment.” Zhou Zhenguo explained, “The treatment after the mission is completed. But not exactly. I think recovery is a more suitable word to describe it.”

“Hmm.” Tang Luo nodded.

F*ck treatment!

It was a cup of water to prevent them from dying from thirst at best.

It could only give the dying Employees of Gods and Demons a chance to return to the real world, go to the hospital, and say that they could still be rescued.

For Tang Luo, it had ended before it had started.

Gods and Demons were actually that stingy.

The model of completing the mission against a BOSS with no regard for one’s own life and expecting to return and heal all injuries was clearly not encouraged in the Game of Gods and Demons.

Furthermore, there were also missions, such as the one just now, where one couldn’t return immediately, and even the returning method was part of the mission.

Going to a specific place to return after fighting to the edge of death was too sad.

“Did you get any skills?” asked Zhou Zhenguo. “I’ve got new skills.”

Chu Chongtian nodded.

The light beam not only provided a little recovery but, more importantly, rewarded them with skills.

When the light beams enshrouded them, the information related to the skills appeared quietly like how the mission appeared.

They had all acquired skills.

Zhou Zhenguo’s face was jubilant, smiling so widely that his gum showed. “There’s actually this kind of reward for not dying after six missions, eh?”

Chu Chongtian, who was repeatedly reading before the information disappeared, couldn’t help but ask, “What?”

“Passive Strengthening Skill,” said Zhou Zhenguo. “Not dying after six missions, rewards you with a comprehensive strengthening of physical qualities, in aspects of strength, reaction speed, endurance, resilience, ability to recover, and so on.”

“That’s so good,” said Chu Chongtian.

That was an all-rounded improvement. More importantly, it opened a gap between an Employee of Gods and Demons and an ordinary person. Such body-strengthening skills were better than simply relying on consumable skills and not being much stronger than ordinary people without them.

“You can also obtain such a skill, so long as you go through six missions,” said Zhou Zhenguo.

This skill was not randomly rewarded. All Employees of Gods and Demons who had gone through six missions and hadn’t perished would get it.