Chapter 211 Canglin Tournament (26)

In the underground caves, the battle became a tug of war.

The fire ape’s skill was really strong, it moved up and down as if on the ground. Also, there’s no obvious pattern during its moving period. The entire grotto space had become its own battlefield, but there’s not much terrain could be used by the player.

If Dispirited and Wang Tanzhi didn’t have arms in their hands, they might have been hurt by the fire ape.

“It’s not a good thing. The bullet’s been used up a lot, but it didn’t cause damage to the monster.” Said Dispirited, “Maybe we’re going to run out of bullets before we kill it.”

Little Tan was standing overlooking the ground with her, looking for the fire ape that could jump from any direction or angle.

“Say it.” Dispirited answered.

“I start by drinking a bottle of supplement to fill up the blood. Then I’ll put the gun away and have a close fight with it,” he said.

Dispirited turned to look at him: “And we all know that you can’t win?””

“It’s okay, I’ve seen it. The guy’s biggest strength is speed, and he’s not very good at attacking. While it’s troublesome to have a full body on fire, but this does not mean that it is very defensive. “Said Little Tan, and he really closed his shotgun, and took out his main melee weapon, [Damascus Dagger].

“Instead of using guns, I should be able to keep up with it if I focus on close combat. If I can touch it, I can use [Bee Sting] to consume its blood,” he continued.

“You want to fight like this, I can’t cooperate with you then. With my shooting ability, I have less than a 30 percent chance of hitting a fast-moving target,” Dispirited signed. And I need to make sure I hit it, don’t hit you and while it’s engaged with you… ”

“No, I’ll do it alone.” Wang Tanzhi interrupted, “If I think I’m in danger of being killed, or if I can’t, I’ll run back, and then you can cover, give me time to breathe and recover.”

“Well, be careful then. “Dispirited could not think of a better idea than this, so she had let her partner try. Her own combat expertise is only an E level, and when she faced with an ultra-agile BOSS, she can only do some site-specific cover work unless there is support from a controlling teammate.

“I know.” A bottle of survival supplement had been used during Wang Tanzhi said that. Almost at the same moment, the fire ape gave another bark and shot out from behind a rock again. The raid was right next to Wang Tanzhi, giving him the chance to enter the fight.

Instead of trying to catch the monkey’s paw but leaned over and avoided the blow. As he passed fire ape, he leaned forward with his dagger and rubbed it against the monster’s fur. The blooding of [Bee Sting] was also added successfully and starting in this second.

In fact, When Wang Tanzhi said that “I should be able to keep up with it” was just modest. After this trial and observation, he was 90 percent sure that he could keep up with it, and so he spoke of the idea of solving the battle alone.

And the reason he said that with a weak tone intentionally… One is that he thought about the personality of Dispirited, and he wanted to take care of her self-esteem; Second, he liked the feeling of being worried.

“GRRR –” the fire ape seemed to get very angry after being wounded by the skill, and immediately roared and turned to Little Tan again.

As an agility monster, its hit recover is very short when attacked.[1] The second attack was coming. It turned head and stepped forward, while put its hands to form another stroke. This move of fire ape had some martial arts expert’s meaning vaguely and the power was very fierce. The hot wind that the fist blows out toward Wang Tanzhi.

Facing this sudden attack, Little Tan didn’t panic. He kept on the defensive, moved back a few steps and defused the attack.

Wang Tanzhi was never in a hurry, and unless he was frightened by something he was afraid of, he was usually a very patient person. Without the right opportunity, he would rather not sell. And if he made a move, means his opponent had revealed the flaw.

Although that fire ape was fierce, it is only a monster in which intelligence was limited. It was wounded by Wang Tanzhi, and after a series of attacks was dodged by Wang Tanzhi, it suddenly became irritable brandishing the burning claws fanatically.

Little Tan saw its rush but he didn’t retreat. He already saw that that fire ape will show a flaw at abdomen when raising a claw. He bowed with short sword chopping and added the effect of the second [Bee Sting].

In these two rounds, Little Tantan used up 14% of his Stamina Value for two skills, but the damage to Survival Value could be ignored, except that when he got close to the fire ape, he will lose 1% of blood every two seconds or so, and even this damage could be gone out of 1 meters away.

On the other side of the fire monkey: Although the damage was not great, the bleeding effect was already two-tiered. As an agile BOSS, its blood volume was not high enough. It had been wiped by bullets several times before, and now it was accompanied by a two-minute bleeding effect, thus it moved to a weaker condition.

What Wang Tanzhi had to do was to be patient without being hit by a deadly attack, and to make the monster bleed faster.

But at this time, that fire ape suddenly gave up on Little Tan and turned toward the direction of Dispirited.

The monster also saw that the speed of Little Tan was not bad, and it is also futile to chase down the fight, it was afraid that even itself was dead, Wang Tanzhi will be ok, so it decided to kill one at least.

Dispirited didn’t want to die. So, she turned around and went into the corner of two great rocks, there’s only one direction for the monster to attack.

As the monster lunged from the only angle, her MP5 shot poured out. With the nice distance and environment, most of the bullets hit the target.

By the time her shooting had finished, the ape had a dozen holes in its body, and the wound was bleeding. That did not stop it from moving. Since it was desperate, it will not be stopped by this level of attack.

The fire-monkey gave its last wailing roar, its ruby face glowing red. Dispirited saw its body whirling, while its long tail behind it whistling out like a whip: The red ruby on the tip of its tail was shot like a red iron cannonball to Dispirited.

The position in which she stands can limit the angle of attack indeed, but it also takes away her own space of detour. She had no idea that the creature would be able to fight off a submachine gun. She should take her sniper rifle, although this is in the short distance, as long as it hits, this monster will not die, and won’t be able to attack.

Seeing that the tail was going to hit her, she had to fight it off. She prayed in her heart that her survival would withstand the cannonball blow.

Hissed, a warm wind brushed her cheek.

The fire ape’s attack was off… She stared into her large, watery eyes and wondered at this incredible scene.

She saw a cold light from the monkey’s throat.

From behind the ape of fire, Dispirited saw a figure dressed as an assassin standing close to the burning body. A steady, precise hand, penetrate the monster’s neck with a dagger searing in the flames.

Plop, fire ape fell forward, Dispirited saw Little Tan standing behind the monster.

In fact, when the monster threw its tail, Little Tan has been rushed in its wake. He could not care about the flames sustained by the fire ape’s body. At that moment, he was like a cold butcher, maybe his medical training working at this time, or it’s a reveal of killing ability that born with him. Little Tantan’s eyes captured the burning ape’s only one and the deadliest attack point accurately and quickly.

The spine of the neck had been cut, so fire ape threw out of the long tail of the deviation, accompanied by the inertance, it was missed for sure.

“Ooh… It’s hot hot hot hot…” As soon as the monster fell down, Little Tan returned to the flat and stupefied look of the day. His action was like burning on a baked potato, and he tossed the dagger from hand to hand.

As Dispirited walked forward, she looked down at the corpse of the monster, then raised her head, pointed at the Little Tan with the muzzle of the MP5 gun (Because she had put the torch on the gun) “I don’t know you are such reliable sometimes.” she said.

“No, no… It’s luck, luck… “Little Tan answered politely, but his face cannot hide the matter. He smiled happily, with one hand touching his head, and he added in his heart, ” I’m not that good…”

While they were talking, the burning ape’s body quickly turned to ashes, except for the red spar at the end of its tail.

“This is one of the two slates.” Said Little Tan, and he bent down to pick up the crystal stone.

Since the monsters in the TP don’t have anything on them, even Little Tan know that they are probably a mission item.

At first touch, the stone was still hot and Little Tan almost failed to hold it, but after touching the player’s hand, the red stone which was originally a diamond quickly turned into white light and changed its shape. When the light dissipated, the red stone became the shape of a piece of jade, just like a piece of Tai Ji.

 

[Name: The Slate (Yang)]

[Type: Plot related]

[Quality: Ordinary]

[Function: Insert the slates (Yin) into the pebbly stone plate on the stone door with this one, and then open the stone door.]

[Whether can be taken out of the scenario: No]

[Note: As a key, the shape and principle of the thing are very confusing.]

 

When they got the item, Little Tan and the Dispirited explored the cave again to see if there was anything missing, lest they go back in a moment. As a result, they have really gained something. In the crevice of a stalactite, Dispirited found a consumable.

 

[Name: Talc Crystal]

[Type: Consumables]

[Quality: Ordinary]

[Function: Recover 50% of the survival value of the player after use, and increase the recovery speed of survival value within a certain period of time]

[Whether can be taken out of the scenario: Yes]

[Note: the recovery effect is not affected by diminishing survival value supplements]

 

This item is supposed to be a compensation for the player, as in some games when you take out the boss and drop the blood bottle. Apparently, the system also thought that killing the fire ape would cost a price, either in terms of blood or other resources.

However, for the two “rich people” present, this type of consumable is always available, although it is good to find, it doesn’t really matter. If they feel they need it, they can buy dozens or even hundreds of life-value supplements to take with them. If the bag is full, they can just buy more space for their bag.

This [Talc Crystal] was directly handed to Little Tan. After all, he had done a lot to deal with the ape, and he lost some survival value for saving the beauty.

The two of them took a brief tour of the cave, then returned to the entrance where they had come. After a few minutes, they passed the intersection leading to the road on the right again.

It was not long either and appeared to be symmetrical to the length of the tunnel opposite, and five or six minutes later they had another cave in front of them. The cave was not very big as an oval, and the rocks on the walls reflected a bluish halo of light. The middle of the cave was almost filled by a pool, and there was a circle around the edge of the cave for standing.

When they were standing by the pool, they could feel a coolness on their faces. They scanned the cave with their lights and found nothing valuable, so the Yin piece must be in the water. Little Tan squat down with his finger to explore the water, the result was immediately frozen and he pulled back to the hand: “Wow… Maybe this is the zero degree of water without freezing… ”

“I’ll go.” As Dispirited spoke, she strapped a flashlight to her clothes. Her outfit, which has a wide range of functions, has buckled settings on the outside of her shoulders and thighs to hold all kinds of small objects in place.

“Hey… It’s really cold.” Exclaimed Little Tan.

“Nothing.” She put some water on her face and neck, and though her expression did not change, she said to herself: I am freezing to death… “You can’t shoot under the water. If it’s dangerous, come back immediately.” Said Little Tan in a concerned tone.

“I know… “She returned impatiently.

“How about this? If you don’t come out in three minutes to breathe…” Little Tan was interrupted.

“Stop whining!” Dispirited turned to stare at him, then took a deep breath, and jumped into the water.

The cold water covered Dispirited from head to foot. She opened her eyes in pain, it was almost muddy. But she bit her teeth and swam hard toward the bottom of the pool.

Although Dispirited usually looks like a very cheerful, fun girl, her heart is actually very stubborn and unbeatable, especially on losing to the fool on the bank. She would rush into the water only because of an idea: Since you can save me from the fire, I can also be a bit frozen to fish up the item.

In general, a person wearing a normal suit can only tolerate in freezing water for a few minutes at rest. In fact, with numbness, loss of mobility, or mindless struggle due to fear caused by low temperature… Most people will drown before they had their minds.

This shows the choice of Dispirited at the moment was extremely dangerous. At least, Wang Tanzhi is a doctor. He also knows this knowledge so he would remind her again and again with great worry. Unfortunately, he is not appreciated by others.

As time passed, each second seemed infinitely long.

One minute… Two minutes… It’s almost five minutes. Even if player has a fake body, they should come up and change breath. Drowning in the game will not faint, but the survival value will be reduced.

Little Tan lay down on the shore, one hand on the top of the miner’s cap, the other on the ground, closed his eyes, and plunged his head into the water. He didn’t know how far it would go, but he just wanted to try.

Unexpectedly, when Little Tan just opened his eyes in the water, Dispirited went out not far from the water. As Little Tan put the whole head into the water, he didn’t hear the sound nearby.

She climbed to the shore and was relieved that the mission item was now in her purse.

She brushed her hair back from her forehead and her face, then turned her head to look at the fool next to her who had stuck his head in the water.

It’s like hibiscus out of clear water, natural to carve. At this moment, although Gu Xiaoling was frozen with a pale face, this instead showed her appearance delicate and beautiful. While the smiling and the extremely beautiful glance of Dispirited was not seen by Wang Tanzhi.[2]

A few seconds later, there’s a crash voice in the cave. Little Tan was kicked by someone into the water. He swam himself out of the water, looking back at the shore. “When did you get behind me?”

“The slate is founded. Let’s go.” Said Dispirited, already turned and walked.

“Huh? Why you still kick me into the water then?”

“Ah… There is no remedy for a great fool.” Dispirited snickered and did not respond to him.

“Hey! Wait for me!

 

 

 

[1]Hit Recover: Which is recovered by the Hit, affects the immobile and unassailable time after being attacked. The higher the hit recover is, the shorter the time will be. It does not affect the speed of moving, retreat the moving, floating down, getting up. Seen in lots of combat games like KOF or Street Fighter.

[2]All Chinese characters to describe a beauty. I apologize for can’t translate them as the author wrote.