Gamers Are Fierce - Chapter 9
Chapter 9: Upgrade
Translator: Atlas Studios
Editor: Atlas Studios
No sound was heard in the parking lot. The pale lights of the ceiling shone on the smooth dark gray floor, producing strips of a halo.
The scene of Li Ang standing opposite the possessive ghost was projected on the slightly curved windows of the vehicles on both sides.
“If you leave his body, I will ensure you won’t die. How about that?” Li Ang said with a smile.
“Are you kidding me?” Shi Qingsong grinned. “Do you know what it’s like to die? At first, you feel sweet oblivion, just like passing out after getting drunk. It is pitch-black all around, and you cannot see, hear, or touch anything.
“Then, as if someone has splashed ice-cold water all over you, you wake up. Your sight, hearing, touch, smell, and everything else starts to recover and becomes even sharper than before.
“However, this is definitely not a gift. You can feel the light but you can’t lift your eyelids. You can feel yourself lying in the freezer in the hospital morgue. It is ice-cold and it stings, but you can’t even move a finger. The undertaker of the funeral parlor will sew the wounds on your body with a needle and thread, yet you will scream yourself hoarse without getting a response.
“Then… you will be cremated.
“It’s a narrow space, and the flame is hot, blue, and pale. Every inch of your nerves is burning. Every inch of your skin is annihilated. All the pain in the world is incomparable to this.
“A pile of ashes has become a summary of your life.”
Shi Qingsong’s face showed sincere lingering fear. He shivered and said, “Do you think this is the end? No! No! Even after breaking away from this rotten body, you still won’t escape!
“You will float in the air and only be able to move where you used to be before your death. That pain is like a shadow and gnawing tarsal maggots. You look at the living people that you can’t touch and watch them be joyful.
“Every minute and every second, your inner resentment and jealousy grow under the spur of boundless pain.
“There is no Heaven, Hell, after-life happiness, or Six Paths of Reincarnation. That’s all bullsh*t! They were all lies! There is only emptiness. Endless emptiness!”
Shi Qingsong raged. He had expected to see panic and fear of death on Li Ang’s face, but Li Ang just nodded. “Oh.”
Shi Qingsong narrowed his eyes and said, “Aren’t you afraid? You will be like me after death.”
“So what?” Li Ang replied with a smile. “For ordinary people, the endless emptiness that comes after death could be an extremely terrifying thing.
“Wealthy capitalists will spend a lot of money to find a way to sleep peacefully after death, impious believers will increase their efforts to believe in God, and the State Apparatus will form a research team to study the nature of death.
“Social unrest? Panic? Religion everywhere?
“Sorry. For me, living a good life is more important than fearing what is behind you.”
Shi Qingsong put a cold expression on his face. “I will never leave this body! He is mine. Mine.”
“Then I’m left with no choice.”
Li Ang sighed. “I’m not skilled in killing ghosts, so it might hurt a lot later.”
Shi Qingsong grinned, and the veins on his face popped out. The skin around his eye sockets turned black, and his eyes quickly turned bloodshot. His eyeballs popped out like fish eyes.
His originally square skull was suddenly elongated, shaped like a long and narrow hatchet face, and his mouth expanded to the extreme. His flesh on both cheeks looked like broken drums jolting quickly.
“Roar!”
Shi Qingsong’s shrill roar reverberated in the underground parking lot. In a flash, the windows of dozens of vehicles on both sides were broken into pieces.
The shattered glass shards flew in the air, fell, and weaved a mottled dazzling light just like the dense water curtain of a waterfall.
The car alarms went off together, sharp whistles rang out one after another, and the lights of dozens of headlights were connected in a row, shining so bright that they hurt the eyes.
Through the sky, which was filled with white light, a sound traveled to Li Ang’s head.
It was Shi Qingsong’s karate chop.
His palms were ghastly pale and his blue nails, which extended for more than ten centimeters, were long and sharp.
Li Ang pushed the sunglasses lightly and stepped back unhurriedly. At the same time, both his hands reached out, trying to grab onto Shi Qingsong’s wrist.
Copious force was transmitted from Shi Qingsong’s palm. Unable to stop it, Li Ang’s hands were instantly deflected and his whole body involuntarily hit the vehicle on the right.
Upon seeing that he was about to hit the car door, Li Ang kicked the ground with his left foot and used this great force to jump up to the right. His feet trampled on the aluminum alloy door continuously. While avoiding the impact, he slid onto the car roof swiftly.
“Get up!”
Li Ang squatted on the car roof and shouted. He had a hold on Shi Qingsong’s wrists with both hands and was hauling Shi Qingsong toward the car door like pulling onions on dry land.
Shi Qingsong’s arm was also pulled by Li Ang, and his armpit slammed against the aluminum alloy car roof on the side of the vehicle, crashing the car roof shell and creating a dent.
“Go to hell!”
As if he felt no pain, Shi Qingsong howled bitterly without pulling back the arm that had been grabbed. Instead, he pressed his body against the car door. His other hand turned into a knife-hand and reached into the shattered car window toward Li Ang before he suddenly jabbed from the bottom up.
The sound of steel being distorted was sharp and ear-piercing. Thanks to Shi Qingsong’s fingernails, the alloy car roof was like frozen tofu being cut into shreds.
Li Ang’s face sank. He raised his sole to avoid the knife-like fingernails before he stepped down in a slanted manner and firmly stepped on Shi Qingsong’s palm with his sole.
Both of Shi Qingsong’s hands were restricted, so he could only roar sternly.
“Roar!”
“Why are you roaring so loudly?”
Li Ang roared at Shi Qingsong and lifted his feet to suddenly trample on the latter’s long and narrow hatchet face, leaving a pitch-black shoe print on it.
Shi Qingsong, who was suddenly attacked, subconsciously fell backward. Li Ang released his restraint on him and jumped down from the car roof, landing a knee strike on Shi Qingsong’s chest.
Thump!
Shi Qingsong took a few steps back and his whole body smashed against the car door of the vehicle behind him.
Before he could stand upright, Li Ang had seized this opportunity. He grabbed Shi Qingsong’s neck, dragged him out of the compartment, and pressed his head firmly to the ground.
After Li Ang put Shi Qingsong’s hands behind his back, he took off his sunglasses and shouted at him, “Look at my eye!”
The almond-colored eye met the bloodshot eyes of the possessive ghost.
The illusion was unleashed instantaneously and the mist lingered, slowly shrouding the parking lot.
A second later, the parking lot was replaced by the construction site. A brown-yellow asphalt and gravel spreader stopped beside Li Ang and Shi Qingsong.
“No! No!”
Shi Qingsong, who seemed to have realized something, started to struggle frantically. Li Ang, who had a prominent almond-colored eye, grabbed him firmly.
Thump!
The axle of the asphalt and gravel spreader truck was suddenly broken, and the thick, pungent asphalt poured down like a landslide onto Li Ang and Shi Qingsong.
Pain that could not be cooled down by death once again welled in the ghost’s heart. Just like a panicked person who was drowning, he crawled out of Shi Qingsong’s body.
The illusion disappeared instantaneously and Li Ang gasped. He took out a bundle of wicker that he had broken on the on-campus forest trail and whispered to the ghost, “Caught you.”
Swish!
The wicker swept across like a hot knife cutting butter, cutting the ghost’s body in two.
[Possessive Ghost Elimination 1/1]
[Routine Quest ‘The Thing Behind’ has been completed. The rewards are being determined.]
[Quest Reward 1: Player’s authority has increased. The personal panel has been unlocked.]
[Quest Reward 2: 30 EXP obtained by eliminating the possessive ghost. Additional reward of 45 EXP for completing the quest.]
[Quest Reward 3: 100 Game Credits]
[Quest Reward 4: Random Normal Grade Item*1]
[Player’s Overall Performance: S+, Game Credits and EXP obtained increased by 160%]
[Notice: After opening the personal panel, you can check your stats and equipment. You can submit your nickname through the menu. The nickname must not conflict with the player number.]
[Notice: The shop section has been unlocked. Because the current version of the killing field is still in the beta stage, players can only purchase shelf products. The auction house, lottery, and social hall functions will be launched in subsequent versions, so stay tuned!]
[Notice: The player’s current EXP is 120/100. You can upgrade from Level 1 to Level 2. Players can get one free stat point after an upgrade. Do you want to upgrade?]
