"Didn't you say last time that it was 'artificial' so you wouldn't eat it?"

"Hey, think about it carefully. What's the big deal? You can't just believe everything you hear, right?"

"There's something wrong with you today."

"I got promoted, let's celebrate, I'll treat you, will you come?"

“Oh my gosh, I love chicken.”

"By the way, let me ask you something."

"What?"

"Do you live alone?"

"Yeah, what's the problem?"

---

Liu Xiaoheng was observing the earth from one hundred meters in the air.

Everything seemed so strange and small. Even the city walls that were tens of meters high seemed extremely narrow. It seemed as if everything in the world had nothing to do with him.

He had never been to such a high place before, and he knew the current altitude only by looking at the altitude display provided by the [Sky Curtain] on the mask.

However, he could not do anything else at this time, because he was grabbed by the shoulders by a third-level flying monster and lifted up from the city wall.

At that time, he was cutting grass on the city wall with a sword in hand. In other settings, he might have reached an SSS-level combo score.

Unfortunately in Hope City, not only will you not receive any points reward if you perform too well, you will also be subjected to the enemy's decapitation operation.

Accompanied by the sudden severe pain and the sudden feeling of overweight, Liu Xiaoheng was in a trance for a moment and found himself rising from the ground.

This beast's sharp claws, which are a bit like a giant eagle, can even pierce the metal shell of the exoskeleton. A total of eight claws on the left and right cleverly pierced into Liu Xiaoheng's shoulders, making it impossible for him to even swing the sword.

He didn't believe it was just a coincidence, but he couldn't figure out what was going on.

Anyway, the matter had already been reported, so Liu Xiaoheng had no regrets. He just died.

When fighting with strange beasts, no one can be sure of survival, and death is normal.

But it’s still a bit hard to accept that he died from falling.

At this moment, the voice of [Tianmu] came to his ears again:

"【Extinction Legion 0】Please maintain stable flight."

“How can I keep this up?”

Liu Xiaoheng blurted out, it’s not him who is flying.

"Just don't move. I'm aiming."

[Tianmu]'s voice sounded a little anxious:

"Why are you flying higher and higher? You don't care about your dignity anymore."

At this moment, Liu Xiaoheng suddenly felt a piercing pain in his right shoulder, followed by a distinct feeling of weightlessness.

He thought that the giant bird had thrown him down, but he found that it just turned sharply to the lower left, which made the tearing feeling in his shoulder even worse.

At the same time, something seemed to be passing through the sky above, but the speed was so fast that Liu Xiaoheng could not see it at all and could only vaguely hear a little sound.

"Are you out of gun?"

Liu Xiaoheng asked thoughtfully, and then added:

"Why did this beast suddenly turn a corner?"

"It sensed I was aiming."

[Tianmu]'s voice sounded a little helpless.

"You can detect this? Did you look at it or..."

"[Extinction Legion 0], I will remind your instructor to review your knowledge of radar within three days. Please review it well."

"Within three days? If I don't survive today, do I still need to take the exam?"

"Even if you die, you have to be resurrected and tested."

[Tianmu]'s tone became perfunctory, but the sound of bullets flying through the air became more and more frequent, as if the computing power was concentrated where it should go.

Liu Xiaoheng finally understood why the other party told him not to move, because if he was not careful, he would be completely turned into a sieve.

Finally, under the siege of three anti-aircraft machine guns, the monsters' heads exploded one after another.

If Liu Xiaoheng hadn't been holding on to it, [Sky Curtain] would have blasted it into pieces long ago. However, since one of its companions was captured, it could only carry out the encirclement and kill as carefully as performing surgery.

Liu Xiaoheng began to fall from the sky, and a line of red and yellow text appeared on the display in front of him:

[Warning: You have lost weight]

The alien beast's body covered with feathers and equipped with multiple wings obviously fell slower than the exoskeleton.

Liu Xiaoheng felt the pain of the sharp claws being pulled away from his shoulder, and began to accelerate downwards, getting further and further away from the corpse of the strange beast.

While falling, Liu Xiaoheng suddenly began to recall the past.

This is what is commonly known as a revolving lantern.

But the first thing that came into his mind was not the beast tide, nor the beautiful past between students, but...

A physics lesson.

It was a physics class about free fall, and he himself had become the small ball in the question, on the way to a hard landing.

"Shit, why did I think of this?"

Liu Xiaoheng felt that his life was a bit of a failure. At least in the last few seconds of his life, he hoped to think about something better.

Judging from the current situation, he will definitely not survive today. He will fall to his death in a few seconds.

The fact that the exoskeleton is sturdy does not mean that the body inside is not a human body. Liu Xiaoheng knows this.

Even if you are lucky enough not to die from the fall, the corpse of the giant bird above will serve as the finishing blow.

But at this moment, the voice of [Tianmu] sounded again:

"Hold your breath."

"What?"

Liu Xiaoheng didn't hear clearly what [Tianmu] said, or rather, he heard it but didn't quite understand it.

"Hold your breath. No matter what happens, don't exhale. It's the only way you'll survive."

Liu Xiaoheng understood it completely this time. He endured the discomfort caused by weightlessness, took a deep breath and then actively closed his mouth and nose.

He didn't dare look at the approaching ground below, for fear that he would see his body explode with his own eyes.

And every second before landing seemed like a whole year of torture.

The next moment, everything in front of his eyes suddenly became dark, and all the light disappeared, as if it was blocked outside by an invisible membrane.

Liu Xiaoheng’s first reaction was that he was dead, but then he remembered that his shoulder was still painful, so he thought that he was blind and should be dying soon.

But he immediately thought of Tianmu's instructions and the reminder for him to hold his breath. Feeling everything around him, he had a new feeling.

Fall into water.

This is the conclusion Liu Xiaoheng came to based on the surrounding environment.

But this doesn’t make sense.

He only felt that he was gradually sinking in a bottomless quagmire, but his speed was constantly slowing down.

At some point, he seemed to be rising again, and he could feel that somewhere in his exoskeleton was exerting an upward force on his entire body, helping him to float.

Ten seconds later, Liu Xiaoheng's head emerged from the ground and he was able to see the light again.

A boy who looked only in his teens was grabbing his exoskeleton arm and pulling him out of the ground little by little.

The voice of [Tianmu] sounded at the right time:

"You can exhale now."