Chapter 10: Contamination (1/2)

[TN: Will this chapter be the one without mistakes?]

Chapter 10: Contamination

The moment before the helicopter crashed, the helicopter blade swept at Liu Gan’s waist while he was suspended mid air. Just in time, Liu Gan clenched his abs, and swung his leg up on on to the remains of the billboard as as The helicopter blade powerfully scraped his back. Afterwards, the fuselage of the helicopter tumbled down into the area below the billboard sent dozens of zombies flying, and rolled ten meters.

The helicopter fuselage ignited, but didn’t explode immediately. The zombies had no fear of death, so they even stepped on fellow zombies in an attempt to get inside the helicopter – searching for fresh meat within.

Liu Gan, still shocked, climbed back onto the broken remain of the advertisement structure. He looked at the helicopter that had landed ten meters away. Before this moment, all he had wanted was to be rescued – to be able to leave the billboard. The next moment, the Trembling World had once again given him another obstacle. He wasn’t able to be rescued, and the rescue helicopter was unluckily struck by lightning and crashed.

Is heaven too harsh? Before, there were so many lightning strikes, yet none struck the billboard. All were diverted away – yet now that the rainstorm had weakened, a sudden lightning strike actually struck the helicopter that was there to rescue him?

Right now, he had not only not gotten rescued, the helicopter crew nearby were also out of luck. Even if they didn’t die from impact, half of them would become food for the zombies.

“Save…me…”

His eyes and mouth were wide open, as he stared at the helicopter crawling with zombies, when he heard another voice coming from the direction of the support structure, a weak voice calling for help. He turned his head towards its direction and looked around. It was the female crewmember wearing the San Xing corporation uniform, holding onto a piece of support structure that was still hanging.

Liu Gan recognized her – it was the one who threw the rope ladder to him. Her body was covered in blood, probably from the moment the helicopter had smashed into the billboard. It most likely flung her out of the helicopter, or she voluntarily jumped out of it, and then grasped onto the remains of the billboard.

Liu Gan carefully crawled as close as possible to that part of the billboard, to test out the sturdiness of the structure to ensure it wouldn’t collapse. Then he positioned himself as carefully as possible, and used his strength to pull the fragmented billboard up.

After pulling the female crewmember up, Liu Gan found out that the female worker’s body had been pierced by sharp iron shrapnel. Unsure if it was from the helicopter or the billboard structure, it pierced straight through her abdomen. This was the main reason for her loss of blood.

After she was pulled up by Liu Gan, she sat down on the destroyed billboard, while her expression turned painful. But, she was still conscious and alert.

“Are you a GM for this game?” Liu Gan asked her.

The female crewmember stared at Liu Gan, not fully understanding his question’s meaning.

“The Trembling World has an error where players are trapped within the game, unable to logout. You are the representatives that the game company assigned here to resolve the issue, right?” Liu Gan asked the female crewmember.

“I don’t understand what you’re saying…” The female crewmember had a confused look and stared at Liu Gan.

“San Xing Corporation made a game, this billboard here is within The Trembling World – therefore, this is San Xing Corporation’s game. I am a game player, trapped within and unable to logout…” Liu Gan let the female crewmember look at his alloy watch, while telling her.

The female crewmember looked at Liu Gan, as if he was a mentally retarded patient, and didn’t speak in reply.