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Tao Sai had a clear idea in his mind: if he wanted to find the player, he had to find his refuge ship first.
Because once a person disappears among the millions of people in Donghai City, it is difficult to find them. However, the appearance of the refuge ship is fixed. Whether it is a third-level ship or a fourth-level ship, Tao Sai can accurately identify it.
Tao Sai guessed that he had most likely upgraded to a fourth-level ship because he had already collected all the materials needed for the upgrade, as evidenced by the amount of scrap that had disappeared from the scrap yard warehouse.
A Class 4 ship was large and difficult to conceal, so it could only be anchored along the relatively short coastline of Donghai City. Furthermore, in such typhoon weather, it was unlikely he would choose to leave Donghai City. Even a large ship could still be capsized by a powerful storm.
A level 4 ship would definitely not be moored at the fishing boat pier, because a ship of that size would stand out at the pier where small fishing boats gather, and it would be hard not to attract attention.
Excluding the fishing docks, possible anchorages include Donghai City's deepwater cargo port and similar unoccupied anchorages like the one where the Deep Sea Fish is currently anchored. Regardless of the quality, there are simply too many such unoccupied anchorages along the coastline to even consider.
But Tao Sai thought of the scrap yard, which was located on the east side of the city, adjacent to the deep-water port. He probably didn't have a teleportation skill that could allow him to instantly teleport from one end of the city to the other, so it was likely that he had been looking for a nearby scrap yard.
Through simple elimination, Tao Sai basically locked down the deep-water cargo port in Donghai City.
The container is 9 meters long, 2.5 meters wide and 2.4 meters high. Nearly 20,000 containers of similar specifications are stranded in the Donghai Deepwater Port.
As the disaster spread further, shipping was completely paralyzed and the port was left unattended. Countless refugees poured into the port area, opening and dismantling the containers and taking them for themselves, using them as their temporary homes.
These steel containers are strong, structurally sound, and watertight. While their weight was a disadvantage during transportation, it has now become their advantage—their stability. Even in typhoon weather like this, the conditions inside the containers are far superior to those in tents, as a typhoon is unlikely to blow a multi-ton container away.
Hundreds of thousands of refugees live together in a port area of less than one square kilometer, which has undoubtedly become the most densely populated, most chaotic and dirtiest area on the entire island.
Garbage piles up like mountains, the stench is pervasive, and crime is a daily occurrence. While the port area has military and police forces responsible for maintaining public order, this small force of a dozen or so armed soldiers and police cannot extend their jurisdiction to every corner. They can only serve as a macro-level deterrent, preventing public security from getting completely out of control.
Tao Sai was wearing a dark hooded raincoat and tactical boots, stepping on the not-so-deep water and walking forward step by step along the long embankment by the water.
She held a high-intensity flashlight and shone her eyes through the rain at the ships docked in the harbor.
The wind speed was increasing, and she was walking against the wind. The water droplets falling on her raincoat could be blown away by the strong wind in an instant, but her steps were steady and firm.
A blue container lay across the shore, the container body was a little damaged, and several thugs were gathered at the door of the container smoking.
"Let me tell you, I saw it during the day. There was a pretty girl in the red box over there. She had an amazing figure." The man with tattoos said with a raised eyebrow.
"Your fucking taste is terrible. You were attracted to an old lady the day before yesterday." The man in a vest with dyed yellow hair teased, making others laugh.
"Fuck! You old turtle, you know shit!" The man with tattoos blew smoke in his face.
The skinny monkey, who was so skinny that he barely had any flesh on his body, made a gesture with his hand, asking everyone to lean over. He made a sly suggestion, "When the wind gets stronger, let's just rob them and get the guy over here. Okay?"
"...That's not a good idea, right?" The man with the earrings hesitated. "If we bump into a patrol officer, they'll actually shoot."
"What are you afraid of? You think they are any good? Just because they have a gun in their hands, they think they are human beings. They are patrolling. Who knows where they are having fun."
Amidst the smoke, several people had playful smiles on their faces.
They used this container as their base, and usually stole food from nearby. Sometimes the government also distributed relief food, so they would definitely not starve to death.
However, there is still a lack of fun.
At this moment, a dark figure suddenly appeared. The figure grabbed the door frame of the container and squeezed through the narrow gap between the sea water and the container.
"Oh my god, that looked like a girl when I just passed by." The man with tattoos finally reacted after the person left.
"I'm really impressed by you. You see girls in everything you see. Sooner or later, you're going to die on a woman. Do you believe it?" The yellow-haired man sneered disdainfully.
The tattooed T-shirt man struggled to get up, spit out the cigarette butt from his mouth, walked outside the container, and waved back, "Come."
Only the skinny monkey was moved by his call. Two of them ran towards the figure, while the other three stood by the door and watched the excitement from afar.
"Hey, beauty, a typhoon is coming soon. I'll take you to shelter from the rain." The man with tattoos shouted. He was wearing flip-flops, and the soles of his shoes were in the water, making a clattering sound.
"This place is too dangerous. Let your brothers protect you. Are you hungry? Do you want to eat something?" the skinny monkey echoed.
The figure seemed not to hear anything and continued walking forward. Further ahead was a container crane.
The man with tattoos and the skinny monkey looked at each other, understood each other's intentions, made up their minds, and the two of them took a step forward and pounced on him fiercely.
The three people at the door of the container were watching the excitement with great interest, but when the man with tattoos and the skinny monkey continued to chase, their view was blocked by the base of the tower crane.
More than ten seconds passed, and no one came out from the other end of the tower crane base, which proved that they had succeeded.
Two minutes passed and there was no movement at the base of the tower crane.
"What are they hesitating about? Why haven't they carried the person back yet?" the man with earrings asked in surprise.
"Damn it, you want to eat alone, right? Let's go!" The yellow-haired man spat and led the two men to chase after him.
The three men ran to the base of the tower crane in the rain, but heard no sound. When they turned the corner, they didn't see anyone at first.
Just as they were wondering, a bolt of lightning struck down. The yellow-haired man suddenly saw two bodies lying on the ground in the lightning, and a pool of blood. The blood flowed along the edge of the base into the accumulated water and was quickly diluted by the heavy rain.
Lightning flashed again, and a dark figure squatted beside the corpse and pulled out a gun. The other party tilted his head slightly to look at them, and a pair of eyes under the raincoat hood flashed coldly.
The yellow-haired man's whole body twitched, his legs instantly went limp, and he rolled and crawled backwards to escape.
Tao Sai ignored the escapee and pondered what to do with the bodies of these two scumbags. It wouldn't matter if she didn't, since no one would trace them back to her at this stage. But leaving them there was disgusting.
To Sai hadn't intended to cause any trouble, but since these two scumbags were so eager to die, she was forced to take action. This undoubtedly led to a difficult situation. The bodies would float if thrown into the sea, and there was no fuel to burn them.
In addition, in order to completely clean up the dregs, Tao Sai suddenly thought of her S-level skill [Collapse].
But with the current suction force of [collapse], the speed may be a bit slow, but she really can't think of a better way.
Dragging one leg with each hand, Tao Sai dragged the two bodies to the waterside of the tower crane base, which was relatively hidden and suitable for handling the bodies.
Tao Sai equipped herself with [Collapse] and activated it. She froze the light spot on the chest of the corpse, and the singularity was activated.
The tattooed man's chest began to collapse toward the center of the singularity. His T-shirt slowly ripped, revealing the jewelry dangling from his chest. The metal chain twisted like an earthworm before being slowly sucked into the singularity, disappearing bit by bit. Then, using the flashlight, Tao Sai saw the silvery-white metal cross sink into the singularity at the same speed. His skin, his resilient flesh, and even his hard bones all collapsed toward the singularity at the same speed.
Tao Sai frowned slightly, as if she had discovered a fact.
The singularity created by the skill [Collapse] currently has limited suction, but once an object approaches it, collapse is no longer determined by the solidity of the material. The singularity's "eyes" are no different from the extremely low-density air and seawater, the sturdy metal cross, human bones, and even the hardest diamond in nature.
This is the terrifying thing about weapons based on the laws of physics, Tao Sai thought silently.
The collapse was still proceeding at a slow but unstoppable pace. The tattooed man's skin stretched and then broke, his sternum and then his lungs were gradually annihilated into nothingness, his stomach ripped open.
It was a bit disgusting to watch any further. In order to speed up the process, Tao Sai pressed another body onto the singularity.
She turned and waited silently for the bodies to be cleared away, her eyes scanning the ships at the berths.
At this time, the wind speed had reached a terrifying level. The ship began to rise and fall under the influence of the waves, and waves rushed onto the embankment one after another.
The strong wind swept through the container array in the port area, making a strange whistling sound.
It was at this moment that Tao Sai noticed something unusual, a movement different from the sound of the wind and other natural noises, right on the tall crane behind her.
Tao Sai turned his back to the tower crane, sensing any movement, and reached into his raincoat pocket to grip the handle of the T7 pistol, his index finger on the trigger, ready to draw the gun at any time.
She had killed the two bastards without using a gun because she was afraid that the gunshots would cause unnecessary commotion in the port area and alert the snakes. But now there was no need to do that because the snakes were right in front of her.
"Hello, little sister, I..." Gao Shuai, who was standing on the tower crane, had not finished his words when his pupils suddenly dilated.
He quickly turned sideways, dodging a bullet aimed at his torso.
Tao Sai turned sharply and pulled the slide to shoot at an extremely fast speed.
The T7 pistol, a game prop, has almost no recoil. She can quickly draw the gun, aim, and shoot in one go, just like playing CS.
But the target's reaction speed was equally amazing. In the dim environment, he still nimbly avoided the bullet.
Gao Shuai hid behind the bunker, but the steel structure of the tower crane was not enough to cover his entire body.
He saw the sparks from the gunshot below and ran on the steel structure. Bullets chased his body and hit the steel frame with loud clanging sounds.
Tao Sai continued to shoot calmly. For the last bullet, she left a lead time based on the target's movement speed.
However, he seemed to have keenly perceived the difference in time intervals and chose to dive down directly to avoid the bullet.
Gao Shuai twisted his hands around the steel frame, exerted strength from his core, and swung behind a large steel plate.
Without any hesitation, Tao Sai quickly ejected the empty magazine, pushed another magazine full of bullets into the gun body, and pulled the slide.
She ran with the gun in hand to the other corner of the crane base, from which she could shoot the target behind the steel plate.
She took two steps, activated [Teleport], and disappeared from the spot. The next second, she appeared at the designated location.
However, just as she raised her gun and aimed, the target was not behind the steel plate.
Before Tao Sai could react, a figure flashed above her vision and a sneaker-clad foot kicked the gun out of her hand.
She leaned back, avoiding a kick aimed at her face.
Retreating to a safe distance, Tao Sai watched his T7 pistol fly several meters away, then slide on the flooded ground for a distance before falling into the sea.
Gao Shuai landed steadily, bent his knees, lowered his center of gravity slightly, and put his hands in a fighting stance.
"Have you been on the crane?" Tao Sai asked. She straightened up and took out the blood-stained gun from her raincoat pocket.
"Yes, I saw the whole thing." Gao Shuai glanced at the two corpses next to him, his mouth corners curved, and his neat and white teeth were very conspicuous in the dim environment.
"But you..." Gao Shuai's words were interrupted again. He wanted to say, "But you don't have to worry, I'm very tight-lipped and won't tell anyone." The girl in front of him jumped forward and disappeared.
Gao Shuai guessed immediately that it was the skill [Teleport], and he activated his own [Teleport] and flashed out.
The next second, Tao Sai appeared in his original position, and the sharp tip of the knife stabbed into his original body.
He had teleported three meters away from his original position, perfectly avoiding the fatal blow.
The attack missed, but Tao Sai did not stop. She held the spring knife in her right hand, leaped out like a mantis's sickle, and chased after him relentlessly.
One chasing and one retreating, the two figures disappeared and reappeared alternately, and the two sides always maintained a distance of three body lengths.
The maximum distance of [teleportation] is five meters. Tao Sai cannot break the distance limit. Even if she thought of leaving enough time to advance seven or eight meters, she would not be able to do it.
After seven or eight rounds, Tao Sai supported herself on her knees, panting, her heart pounding. Because of the continuous use of the [Teleport] skill, more than half of her energy was consumed in just a dozen seconds.
Looking up at her target, her face remained calm and composed, without showing any sign of fatigue.
Gao Shuai glanced out of the corner of his eye, bent down to pick up a long piece of rebar on the ground, clenched his hands, and the soles of his shoes rubbed against the ground, making a squeaking sound. He flew forward and teleported.
A second later, the rebar flashed across Tao Sai's face and hit Tao Sai's upper arm horizontally with a sound of breaking wind.
She had wanted to activate [Tempering] the moment the steel bar approached her body to resist the attack, but she obviously underestimated the speed of the swing. The steel bar hit her upper arm with a crisp sound, and the raincoat, quick-drying clothes and even the flesh on her arm were instantly torn apart. She was knocked to the ground by this fierce blow.
Gao Shuai didn't give her even a second to breathe. He raised the rebar and chopped it down vertically at the fallen Tao Sai.
Seeing this, Tao Sai endured the severe pain and turned over to avoid the fatal blow.
The rebar hit the ground hard, sending sparks flying.
The attack did not stop there, and a series of fierce blows followed. Gao Shuai waved the steel bars with a ferocious look on his face and pressed forward step by step. Tao Sai rolled desperately on the ground. Every time the rebar hit the ground, the sparks and explosions were like a death warrant.
Lying on the ground was not conducive to movement, Gao Shuai was in a dominant position, hitting Tao Sai tirelessly, hitting his legs and back one after another, and there was blood all over the ground.
Tao Sai had no skills in close combat, and she was even less good at hand-to-hand combat with fists and feet, especially when her opponent's reaction speed and physical fitness were far superior to hers. It was inevitable that she would be at a disadvantage.
The last time she was able to counterattack, it was more of a surprise attack.
At a certain moment, Tao Sai made up her mind. She unexpectedly stopped rolling and lay flat on the flooded ground, allowing the steel bar in his hand to hit her face.
The fatal blow to her right temple extended all the way to her right shoulder blade, and half of her face was instantly torn open. In the flash of lightning, one could even see the white cheekbone shattered.
Tao Sai took the opportunity to grab the rebar and pulled it hard. Both sides fought for the piece of steel bar and refused to give in.
Tao Sai, lying on the ground, suddenly lost consciousness, but his hands were still tightly gripping the steel bar.
Gao Shuai raised his leg angrily and kicked her hard on the belly.
Tao Sai held his breath and approached the furious Gao Shuai with light steps.
Her hand suddenly stretched out from behind Gao Shuai, and the reverse-gripped knife swiftly cut the aorta in his neck, and blood spurted out from the wound instantly.
Gao Shuai let go of the rebar in horror, and pressed down on his neck with his hands bulging with veins, trying to stop the blood from gushing out.
However, this is impossible.
Blood continued to flow out from between his fingers. He staggered and finally fell weakly beside Tao Sai's clone. The hands that were pressing on his neck loosened.
The illusion broke apart in all directions with Gao Shuai's body as the center. The next moment, the body on the ground, including Tao Sai's own clone, and the bloodstains on the ground disappeared, and the spring knife in her hand turned back into the T7 pistol that was kicked into the sea.
It was still an illusion that looked extremely real. Tao Sai didn't even know when the illusion began.
After the illusion ended, she was safe and sound, and even the physical energy consumed by continuously using the [Teleport] skill in the illusion returned to her body intact.
It was like she was having a lucid dream, and the experiences and feelings in the dream were very real. Rather than calling it a dream, Tao Sai actually preferred that her consciousness traveled to a parallel world and experienced it again in a real way.
The target was still alive, that was for sure, because no subtitle saying the kill was successful popped up in front of her eyes.
Tao Sai's mood sank in a second. She did not feel depressed because she missed the chance to kill. She looked around cautiously, sensing any unusual movements around her.
A flash of lightning illuminated the orange container in front of him. Gao Shuai was standing on the container. His clothes were gradually soaked by the heavy rain, and his hair was limp and stuck to his scalp and forehead.
"I'm in another illusion, right?" Tao Sai aimed his gun at him.
The reason I ask this is that no one can remain so calm when a gun is pointed at their head.
Gao Shuai stared at her noncommittally, trying to calm down and take steady breaths. After a few seconds, he asked, "Are you 330?"
"What?" Tao Sai wondered, not quite hearing what he was saying.
"That player nicknamed Cx330 on the world channel, is that you?"
If there was a player who could kill him twice in his illusion, the only candidates Gao Shuai could think of were the one on the world channel who had once soloed the public enemy of the players and the "Cx330" who had attacked and killed the top player not long ago.
"Yeah, you fucking must be!!"
Without waiting for Tao Sai to reply, Gao Shuai muttered to himself excitedly, his thoughts suddenly opening up. "His combat power is off the charts, and he has a teleportation skill. When he attacked me at the scrap yard last time, he teleported to the back of my head. It was exactly the same way they said Boss Hailan died... Shit, they matched! They matched!"
Tao Sai said nothing, staring at him silently, the coldness in her eyes becoming even stronger. The rain that seeped through the hood of her raincoat flowed over the faintly visible blood vessels on her forehead.
If she were compared to a bow, she would have been broken to the limit.
At the same time, explosive news suddenly appeared again on the world channel that had originally quieted down.
[Wild Dog (Lv4)]: Brothers, I caught 330!!!
[Wild Dog (Lv4)]: I'm 100% sure it's Cx330. It's incredibly powerful, and a female. I've trapped her with an illusion!!!
[Li Wu (Lv3)]:?
[One Sword Cuts Mountains and Rivers (Lv4)]: Big brother, are you kidding me? Don’t you know your level?
[GT (Lv3)]: He may not be joking. I remember this guy said before that he has an illusion skill. I also got it when I played "Insect Tide". It's really awesome. It can forcibly pull people into the illusion, and the player is invincible in the illusion.
[Gazing into your eyes (Lv3)]: Is it really that exciting?
[Blue Knight (Lv3)]: @(Cx330), Boss, is this true?
[One Sword, One Thought (Lv4)]: @(Cx330), where?
[Blue Knight (Lv3)]: No response, it must be true!
[Baby blue (Lv4)]: @(Wild Dog), brother, you are awesome!
[SAKAURA (Lv3)]: @(Wild Dog), judge him on behalf of justice!
[Blue Knight (Lv3)]: ...I have a bad feeling.
[Hinata Marinya (Lv3)]: Bro, can you still hold on? What's the situation now? @(Wild Dog)
[Wild Dog (Lv4)]: She's so strong! She killed me twice in my illusion! I can't take it anymore! Anyone close, come help!
[One Sword, One Thought (Lv4)]: Brother, tell me your coordinates. If you're close, I'll come.
[Wild Dog (Lv4)]: East China Sea Deepwater Port, (125°13′54″, 31°23′46″), Come on, come on, come on, come quickly
[Blue Knight (Lv3)]: What a coincidence! I'm in the East China Sea, coming right over!
[Big Bell (Lv3)]: I'm in the East Sea! Hold on, brother!
[Flame Demon (Lv4)]: Come on, too! Damn it, I want to see how awesome he is.
[Doraemon (Lv3)]: Woohoo, it's on fire!
[One Sword, One Thought (Lv4)]: I'm too far away to come here. I'll be waiting for your good news!
[One Sword Light Chills Nineteen States (Lv4)]: Who has time to do a text live broadcast on the channel? I'm so excited.
[Li Wu (Lv4)]: Come on, come on! Kill her!
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