Chapter 64: Windfall [VIP]

Squidward gave Lin Chen a polite "grunt" and his huge body moved slowly, like a slowly starting sea fortress, carrying Lin Chen towards the land.

Lin Chen sat cross-legged on top of Squidward's head, satisfied, and opened the map to take a look. "Hmm, New York isn't far away. Estimated time of arrival—"

“…”

She was silent for two seconds.

…The game shows the estimated arrival time is five minutes?

Wow! Is this octopus swimming so fast?

She glanced down at Squidward's thick tentacles. Each one was like an efficient propeller, swiftly paddling through the water. The entire tentacle monster surged forward with a fluid dynamics that defied common biological principles.

The waves rolled up huge white foam behind it, startling flocks of seabirds.

From afar, it looked like a chaotic black shadow gliding rapidly across the sea. It was majestic, like the arrival of some ancient mythical sea god.

Cool! Lin Chen was very satisfied. This tentacle monster was a good catch! It was fast and powerful, making it a perfect pet.

Lin Chen let the tentacle monster dive and then quietly approached the deserted beach, successfully reaching the destination without alarming anyone.

It was time to anchor on land. Lin Chen jumped off Squidward with ease and grace, and walked forward without even a second glance.

A tentacle tried to gently pat Lin Chen's clothes, but she dodged it as if she had eyes on her back.

She looked at Squidward, who was curled up in the sea with only the edge of his flesh showing.

Squidward's little tricks did not escape Lin Chen's eyes.

"What are you doing?" She took a step back warily, staring at the tentacle that was trying to "keep" her.

Squidward curled up in the sea, his tentacles slowly retracting, like a naughty child who had been caught, pretending nothing had happened.

“…Don’t do that.”

Lin Chen patted his clothes in disdain. "The line between pet and owner must be clearly defined, understand?"

Squidward gurgled innocently, his huge eyeballs rolled around, and then he slowly dived underwater, leaving only ripples.

Perhaps because this was her pet, Lin Chen actually felt a hint of cuteness in the tentacle monster's movements.

So she summoned Squidward back from the bottom of her heart, cut off ten of his tentacles and put them in her backpack.

The loyal Octopus endured the pain without crying out, but used his severed tentacle to fondly hook Lin Chen's finger.

But the cold-blooded player turned and left without a trace of emotion, as there was an anchor point waiting to be opened nearby.

By the way, Lin Chen stopped and saved the file under Squidward’s bright and expectant eyes.

Now no matter what happens, everything will be fine. Lin Chen ran forward with peace of mind.

Lin Chen, who did not avoid any person, building or object, was blocked by an inexplicable NPC in a dim alley.

NPCs in black emerged from both ends and surrounded Lin Chen, with the leader standing opposite her.

"Found you, trouble-making rat."

"I didn't expect you to escape so quickly, fleeing from Japan to the United States in such a short time... But, haha, didn't you notice? You were already under our organization's surveillance the moment you arrived in New York! I don't know how you got to the United States, but from now on, you can't escape!"

"Bring out the research materials you snatched from Cointreau."

There are so many things to say.

The words of the unknown NPC entered Lin Chen's left ear, slid across his smooth brain, and came out of his right ear.

She pulled out the gun that she had gotten from the NPC some time ago and fired a bullet at him without saying a word.

Lin Chen has never used such backward weapons. After all, our Xianzhou is a country that likes to turn high technology into cold weapons with a unique sense of ritual.

An ordinary-looking sword may be an electric-frequency sword with floating cannon capability, and an ordinary-looking bow may be a plasma beam launcher.

Although it seems that you need to draw the bow, the cadre is actually equipped with automatic aiming and tracking functions, which perfectly avoids the law of hot weapons that there is smoke but no damage (thumbs up).

But it doesn’t matter. The game will automatically give the player several skills the moment the player gets the weapon to prevent the player from being killed.

So it’s reasonable that Lin Chen can hit the target every time even though it’s his first time holding a gun, right?

It's reasonable to hit a sniper aiming on the roof from hundreds of meters away, right?

It would be reasonable to have a regular pistol that automatically reloads bullets into the backpack, right?

As for the enemy's attacks? Hmm... they were pointless. Lin Chen dodged and deflected them nimbly, taking virtually no damage.

Occasionally, Lin Chen felt that it didn't matter if he didn't avoid the bullets. He would save up some health and wait for the health bar to drop before eating some food to replenish it in one go.

So the men in black were facing ruthless people who remained calm even when injured, bleeding, or had broken bones, and who could recover extremely quickly!

There is no way to stop her from moving forward. All the harm she suffers may seem like a joke to her, right?

When the first NPC loses his courage, the entire team will be defeated.

Lin Chen took it out under the NPC's horrified gaze and put it into his backpack.

It's a useless little piece of trash, but it's okay. When I have enough trash, I can sell it to the system and buy back her favorite sword.

More than ten minutes later, accompanied by the NPCs screaming in fear and crying out for their mothers in pain, all the red-named characters fell into a baby-like sleep with Lin Chen's help.

In the woods, all kinds of captured equipment and sundries were piled at my feet.

She squatted down without any guilt, opened her backpack, and began stuffing it in frantically:

Gun, take it away.

Bullet, take it.

Wallet, take it.

Clothes, take them off and take them away.

The phone dinged, but he took it away without even looking at it.

A new task appeared in Lin Chen's taskbar:

[Hunted by an organization]: The box you "picked up" in Tokyo seems to be an important research data of an organization. Carrying it will cause the organization members to hunt you down crazily.

"Wow." Lin Chen exclaimed.

Got it, a mission to gain experience, money, and weapons.

Just like every guide for beginners about fighting five slimes/pokoblins/meerkats, the purpose is to allow players to quickly get started with the game's combat methods.

Lin Chenwangan understood and said that there were many such tasks.

After licking the bag, Lin Chen stood up, clapped his hands, and turned to look at the alley exit behind him.

——A black SUV was parked there quietly, with the car keys still in it and the headlights still on.

Lin Chen casually saved a file, got into the driver's seat without hesitation, and adjusted the seat.

“It feels good.”

She stepped on the accelerator with satisfaction, and with the screeching sound of tires rubbing against the ground, the SUV sped away.

As for the black-clad NPCs who were left there with only their underwear on?

Who cares!

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—New York Thruway, ten minutes later.

While driving, Lin Chen opened the map and started tracking the next anchor point.

Lin Chen doesn’t know how to drive this car, but it doesn’t matter. No matter what it is, there will be simple beginner’s guides at the beginning of the game!

She followed the game tutorial for a while, got the hang of it quickly, and ignored traffic lights, traffic police, and speed limit signs as she stepped on the accelerator to the floor.

Lin Chen looked at the scenery that she had forgotten, felt the excitement of adrenaline surging, and an impulse surged in his heart.

Imagine that you are on a high-speed vehicle, with people and objects left far behind. Don’t you want to do something at this time?

For example, opening the car door and responding to the call of inertia and gravity to embrace the asphalt? Or perhaps chasing other e-cars and engaging in a real-life bumper car battle?

Lin Chen followed his wishes, opened the sunroof, stood in the driver's seat, raised his hands and shouted loudly.

“Ah-ho!”

The strong wind blew across her cheeks and blew all her hair back.

A New York police officer drove beside her with the window open and shouted, "Danger! Slow down! Stop! Or I'll shoot!"

But Lin Chen turned a deaf ear to it, threw a stone and stepped on the accelerator, letting the car keep running at high speed and climbed onto the roof.

Lin Chen stood steadily on the roof of the high-speed SUV, screaming loudly against the strong wind, completely immersed in the joy of "Fast and Furious".

“Ahahahaha!!”

The wind whistled in my ears, and the neon lights and skyscrapers of New York flashed by.

The car was already speeding past the limit, leaving the vehicles in front of her behind one by one. The scene was comparable to the real-life version of GTA.

——There was a chorus of sirens blaring from behind.

Three New York Police Department police cars were following closely behind, and the officers were furiously shouting at Lin Chen on the roof of the car through a loudspeaker:

"What kind of lunatic is this?!"

"Get out of the car! Get out now!"

Lin Chen turned a deaf ear to the shouts, and even turned around and waved at them, smiling happily.

"Wow, this game has a great physics engine!"

As she spoke, she stood on the roof of the car, opened her backpack, and casually took out a gun that she had stolen from an NPC.

"Want something exciting?"

Lin Chen glanced casually at the rear, and fired two shots into the air amidst the sound of the wind and the roar of the engine.

Bang!

"She shot!?"

"Open fire! Don't let her get away!"

——Then, the situation began to completely get out of control.

——Bang bang bang bang!

The surrounding NPCs turned red in seconds, and bullets from the police car rained down. The rearview mirror of the SUV was shattered, and the rear windshield was directly cracked into a spider web shape.

Lin Chen looked at the bullet holes in front of him, shrugged his shoulders, took out the system interface and saved a file.

——The next second, she jumped off the roof and landed accurately on the hood of a police car.

"?"

"She jumped down!"

The police officer in the driver's seat turned pale and slammed on the brakes, almost throwing the car into the isolation zone.

Lin stood on the hood as calm as a mountain and knocked on the windshield from a high position.

"Drive faster! You can't even catch up to half of me at this speed."

“…”

"madman!"

Lin Chen looked at the driver's nervous expression and couldn't help laughing.

But before the other party could react, she had already done a backflip and jumped directly onto another police car.

“?!”

"She jumped again?!"

The police officer behind was so angry when he saw Lin Chen jumping on the roofs of the high-speed cars one by one as if he was doing parkour.

"Is this guy a monkey?!"

"I can't catch it, I really can't catch it!"

——After playing for a while, Lin Chen finally had enough.

She casually jumped off the roof of the car and stood in the middle of the highway, her hands in her pockets, facing all the police cars.

Several police cars screeched to a stop, and dozens of policemen got out of the cars, panting, pointing their guns at her.

"Hold still! Put your hands up!"

"...Get out of the car! Don't let her run away!"

Lin Chen kept all the guns in a state where half of them were in the system backpack and the other half were taken out and suspended in the air.

"System?" she muttered to herself.

"I'm here." A cheerful voice, identical to Lin Chen's, sounded.

The next second, Lin Chen rushed in with the weapons provided by the black-clothed NPC!

"Fire!"

"Don't let her get away!"

——Bang bang bang bang!

Bullets whizzed in from all directions, grazed Lin Chen's sleeves and trouser legs, and even accurately hit her shoulders, abdomen, and arms...

Then?

"Hmm? That's it?"

Lin Chen looked down at his gradually decreasing health bar, his face still expressionless.

The bullet passed through her body, but it was like a tickle, and nothing could stop her from moving forward.

Even though his health bar was reduced to half, Lin Chen just calmly opened his backpack and ate some barbecued skewers to restore his health.

"Ah, it's full."

She nodded with satisfaction and continued to charge forward.

——Melee time!

“Ah ...

A policeman rushed up hysterically with a gun in hand. He was obviously scared out of his wits and fired several shots at Lin Chen.

Bang bang bang!

“So noisy.”

Lin Chen dodged the bullets nimbly, and when his last shot missed, he stepped forward and kicked him directly into the green belt next to him with a whip kick.

“…”

The other policemen watched this scene with their expressions changing from seriousness to horror, and then to despair, and they almost collapsed in an instant.

"She's a monster!"

"This kind of person is not an ordinary human being at all!"

——They are not wrong.

Lin Chen kicked over two more people, then held the gun in one hand and smashed the third person's helmet like a baton, then threw the gun into the system backpack.

"Guns are something you get tired of after shooting them over and over again."

She silently said in her heart: "System, cut the sword."

--brush!

The next second, several swords floating in the air instantly fell into Lin Chen's hands.

She tossed it with one hand, changed to a more convenient posture, nimbly dodged the bullet by turning sideways, and knocked down another policeman who rushed over with her scabbard.

"Hey, not bad, it feels good."

——The battlefield was in chaos and the police completely collapsed.

In just a minute, Lin Chen had already knocked down more than a dozen policemen with precise precision. Gan Cheng didn't use a gun, but every punch and every sword he struck sent his opponents tumbling to the ground, unable to even get up.

She wandered around the battlefield, picking up the equipment of every fallen person.

Gun? Take it away.

Handcuffs? Take them.

Police hat? Tried it on, didn't look good, sold it.

Walkie-talkie? Useful. Take it.

"I made another profit from selling these things. Today is another fruitful day!"

——However, while Lin Chen was playing, he suddenly discovered a small accident.

"?"

She opened the panel and suddenly saw a strange object inside.

——【Police Wanted Warrant】

[Description: You have been listed as a wanted criminal by the police, and your wanted notice will be spread throughout the country.]

“…”

Lin Chen tilted his head, "Is there a ranking list?"

The thoughtful system brings up the wanted list.

What? The player isn't the most expensive one!

Lin Chen, annoyed, was prompted by the system to open the map. She took a quick look and discovered that the entire New York map had suddenly become dotted with red dots, each representing a law enforcement team approaching her.

"Wow... Gancheng chase?!"

Her expression suddenly changed from anger to excitement, and her eyes lit up frighteningly.

——An hour later, Lin Chen stood in the middle of a ruin.

Next to her was the roof of an overturned SUV, and the ground was littered with collapsed law enforcement officers, each of whom had been stripped of their equipment.

Lin Chen opened his backpack and clapped his hands contentedly as he looked at the overflowing police equipment and the countless cosmic fragments that looked like heavenly workmanship.

“It’s not a loss this time.”

——Save the file and keep going.

The player will definitely become the number one on the leaderboard! TOP cancer has struck!

But, I feel like I have forgotten something. What is it?