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Tao Sai certainly didn't know everything that was happening on the World Channel.
At this moment, she remained silent, holding the gun in her right hand and supporting it with her left hand, with her eyes, the sight and his head all kept in a straight line.
In the dim environment, Tao Sai's eyes were as sharp as torches, staring at his face through the rain curtain.
He looked a little tired, and his eyes seemed to lack energy. Although he was trying hard to hide it, it was completely different from the calmness and composure he showed in the previous illusion.
Tao Sai wasn't surprised by this. Illusion was a skill, and activating it would inevitably consume her energy. Generally speaking, the larger the scale of the supernatural phenomenon a skill created, the more energy it consumed. For example, [Space Warp] was the most energy-consuming skill she knew of.
If one can forcibly pull people into an illusion, and it is such a real illusion, where one can completely empathize with the person in the illusion, then the energy consumed in creating the illusion must be considerable.
If he's still in the illusion, then kill him again like before to break the illusion. He might not have enough energy to activate his skills next time.
Tao Sai made up his mind and pulled the trigger with his index finger without any warning. The bullet shot out from the black muzzle with an initial velocity of 400 meters per second.
Almost at the moment when sparks came out of the gun barrel, Gao Shuai dodged the bullet again with his agility.
The T7 pistol's bolt fired bullets continuously. Gao Shuai moved swiftly on the container. He was so fast that even supersonic bullets could not catch up with him.
If agility, one of the five major attributes, was used to measure his speed, Tao Sai conservatively estimated that his agility value was above 20 points.
But an accident happened. Because he moved too fast, his feet slipped and he stepped on the steel surface of the flooded container and fell hard.
Tao Sai seized the fleeting opportunity and shot him in the shoulder and chest with two bullets respectively.
The bullet went through the hole, and he howled in pain, bleeding profusely.
Just as Tao Sai was about to fire the third bullet subconsciously, a kick came out of the darkness and hit her back. She was kicked away by the sudden force.
Tao Sai rolled around awkwardly on the ground for a few rounds. While sliding, she looked back and her pupils suddenly dilated when she saw the figure.
The person who just kicked her in an unexpected position was actually him? !
Tao Sai looked back at the container and saw the figure lying on the ground after being shot twice, with blood still oozing from the wound.
Clone?
Will he use a clone?
In an instant, Tao Sai suddenly realized that he didn't originally possess the [Teleport] skill himself, but rather imitated himself. Even the [Avatar] he was using now was an imitation, and then used it exactly.
This is so perverted.
For the first time, Tao Sai felt a terrifying sense of powerlessness, as if she was in a world filled with cotton on all sides. No matter how hard she swung her fists, they would only hit the soft cotton and the force would be absorbed.
And this cotton world is still shrinking inward, squeezing her and eroding her remaining living space.
From the very beginning, Tao Sai had observed that his agility, strength, and stamina far surpassed those of an average person, yet she had skillfully employed her own abilities to deliver unexpected and fatal blows. And now, he had replicated her abilities precisely, possessing the same skills and mastering their application, leaving her with no advantage.
Tao Sai was on the verge of collapse, fear spreading endlessly in her heart. Maybe she could still give it her all this time and pull off another counterattack, but what about the fourth and fifth times?
She could clearly feel that he was getting stronger each time, and the cotton was tightening around her, and she felt suffocated.
If she died in the illusion, did she die in reality at the same time?
Tao Sai shook his head vigorously, temporarily suppressing the spreading fear.
She propped herself up and got up from the ground, clenched her fists, and ran towards the container array area deep in the port.
The container area was miraculously quiet. Apart from the patter of raindrops hitting the steel plates and the strange sound of the wind sweeping through the obstacles, there was no other sound, no light, and no one in sight.
Tao Sai wanted to use the noisy crowd to cover herself, but it was obvious that they were not in the illusion. In the illusion, there were only countless messily stacked containers and her alone.
If she continued running, the same scene might occur. She was like the Monkey King who had somersaulted ten thousand miles a day. No matter how hard she tried, she could not escape from the palm of the Buddha's hand.
She ran forward on the puddles on the ground. She wasn't sure if he was chasing her, but her anger and powerlessness drove her crazy.
She wanted to break through this ball of infinitely thick cotton that surrounded her on all sides.
Apart from a life-and-death struggle, apart from killing him or being killed by him, is there no other way to escape from the illusion?
Are there boundaries to the fantasy world?
Tao Sai suddenly stopped when this thought suddenly came to her mind. Two seconds later, she started again and turned into the narrow alley formed by containers.
She left her clone in an abandoned shipping container and leaped forward.
A twisting vortex suddenly appeared right in front of her, and she flew into it, and the wormhole closed immediately.
At the other end of the wormhole is the rooftop of a residential building about 40 stories high outside the port area.
Unlike the container area just now, the residential building was noisy and bustling with voices. A mother was scolding her son for stealing stored food, men were playing poker to make the best of a bad situation, and a premature baby was crying uncontrollably.
Everything Tao Sai heard clearly indicated one thing: there was someone in the building.
Some people represent that this is the real world outside the illusion.
The wormhole helped her break through the boundaries of space. The illusion has boundaries!
Tao Sai's eyes were filled with excitement after regaining his freedom. He breathed a sigh of relief, and all his irritability and depression were swept away.
The strong wind on the rooftop was howling, almost blowing her body away without using [Gravity Adaptation].
She raised her head and felt the wind and rain with joy.
Ten seconds later, she thought of the unfinished business and her mood instantly sank.
Tao Sai switched her consciousness back to her clone again. The clone she left behind before entering the wormhole was still in the illusion, because there was still no human voice in the huge container area.
The next moment, her consciousness switched back to her clone on the top of the tall building. This was the real world because she could hear noisy voices.
Switching again, it was the illusion of the silent port area.
Tao Sai completely found the weakness of this seemingly unsolvable illusion skill. She can use the [Space Fold] skill to break through the spatial limitations and escape from the illusion. At the same time, she can also use the [Clone] skill to switch freely between the illusion and the real world.
Tao Sai narrowed his eyes slightly, and an idea formed in his mind.
Tao Sai stood on tiptoe and moved carefully along the container.
Soon, she heard approaching footsteps amid the sound of wind and rain. As if sensing her presence, the footsteps suddenly stopped.
Tao Sai held his breath and stood still. Judging from the binaural effect before the footsteps disappeared, he knew that there was a high possibility that he was only separated from him by a container board.
Tao Sai put his ear to the box board and listened carefully.
With a bang, a powerful punch came out from the other side of the box, shattering the steel plate, and the fist hit Tao Sai's face accurately.
She was slow to react and activated the [Tempering] skill, causing her entire brain to vibrate. She heard the sound of bones breaking and fell towards the container on the other side of the alley.
"Hiss, hiss, hiss... Oh my god, my hand hurts so much," Gao Shuai teleported out from the other side of the container through the wall, shaking his right hand non-stop, and asked Tao Sai, who was lying on the ground, "How did you throw that punch last time and it didn't hurt? What skill did you use?"
Gusts of wind were howling, and the refugees in the port area hiding in the containers were shivering. Most of them came from inland areas and had never experienced a typhoon themselves. They were afraid that the strong wind would blow the containers into the sky.
The two yellow-haired men crawled and rolled for their lives, and they hid in an abandoned warehouse in the port area, panting.
"Awei and the skinny monkey are gone just like that?" asked the man with earrings with lingering fear.
The yellow-haired man nodded while panting. He stood up from the ground with the help of the wall and looked in the distance in the direction of the container crane. He wanted to see if the brutal woman had caught up with him, but suddenly he saw that the space above the crane was distorted by some force.
The space wormhole opened to the control room at the top of the tower crane. In the relatively quiet cab, Gao Shuai was sitting comfortably in the soft chair with his eyes closed, without a trace of rain on his body.
Tao Sai stepped out of the wormhole, raised his hand and pressed the wet muzzle of the gun against his forehead.
He didn't wake up immediately because his consciousness was still in this illusion.
The reason why Tao Sai was able to open the wormhole here accurately was because she noticed that when he first appeared twice, although his body was soaked by the rain, some of his clothes were still dry. He entered the rainstorm from a place where he could shelter from the rain.
From this, Tao Sai speculated that his real body might be hiding in a closed place not far from here that was not exposed to rain. The container could be ruled out, as all the containers were packed with refugees, so it could only be the control room of this container tower crane.
"What skill are you using? Speak." Gao Shuai asked.
Without waiting for an answer, he raised his leg and kicked her, but she still didn't react.
He suddenly realized that something was wrong and looked down. Tao Sai, who had just been knocked to the ground by his punch, had lost his expression in his eyes.
Hold!
Another clone!
Gao Shuai reacted instantly. He leaned against the container cautiously, alert to possible attacks from all directions.
Every failure makes one wiser. He has been killed by the same trick twice, there will never be a third time!
"Hey! Get out here, you piece of trash! I've seen through all your tricks!" Gao Shuai shouted loudly, moving close to the wall of the container.
Suddenly, his eyes went dark, his legs lost strength, and he fell heavily to the flooded ground.
The illusion collapsed and shattered.
Gao Shuai suddenly opened his eyes and woke up in the enclosed tower crane control room.
The strong wind and heavy rain kept hitting the glass windows on all sides of the control room. He breathed a sigh of relief and wondered how he had escaped from the illusion. He was clearly not dead.
Then he was surprised to find that he had been sitting on the soft chair in the control room before the illusion, but now he was sitting on the floor. He muttered, "What the hell."
Gao Shuai tried to use his hands to support his body and get up, but his hands were out of control and he had no strength in his whole body.
His expression was stiff, and he slowly raised his eyes. There was a person sitting on the soft chair in front of him.
A few seconds later, a flash of lightning passed by, and he finally saw her appearance clearly in the light.
The thunder that followed the lightning seemed to strike directly into his heart.
"You!" Gao Shuai couldn't stop trembling all over.
He tried to struggle desperately. His hands and feet were clearly not tied up by ropes, but he couldn't muster any strength in his body. He couldn't even move backward, let alone dream of creating another illusion.
The wet T7 pistol was placed on the dashboard, next to it was a spring knife that had been washed clean by the rainstorm. She sat in the soft chair in a leisurely posture with a relaxed expression.
But he still couldn't stop feeling scared and his legs couldn't stop shaking.
He was terrified. The two times she had killed him in the illusion flashed back in his mind. The switchblade had stabbed into the back of his neck... The switchblade had cut the aorta in his throat...
In the illusion, he can act recklessly. He is the omniscient and omnipotent God in his own illusion. Even if he dies, he can be refreshed and started over again.
But this is not an illusion.
After leaving the illusion, he was just a useless scumbag lacking any combat skills. And now he was like meat on the chopping block. The butcher didn't hold the knife, but stared at him with a smile.
Gao Shuai swallowed hard and tried to calm himself down.
He still had a look of fear on his face, but quietly opened the world channel.
[Wild Dog (Lv4)]: Help!!!
[Wild Dog (Lv4)]: She's about to kill me! I'm doomed!
[Blue Knight (Lv3)]: Hold on, brother. I'm catching up. I'm catching up.
[Big Bell (Lv3)]: I'm at Deepwater Port, coming right up!
[Little Bear Snail Rice Noodles (Lv3)]: @(Cx330), if you have something to say, please talk to me.
[One Sword Cuts Mountains and Rivers (Lv3)]: @(Cx330), Chusheng, do you dare to try it?
…
Gao Shuai's heart was beating fast, and an idea popped into his mind: delay time.
Yes! Delay, delay as much as possible.
"How...how did you find me?" Gao Shuai asked forcefully.
"Guess." There was no emotion on Tao Sai's face. She put the spring knife on the dashboard back into the sheath, put it in her raincoat pocket, and then picked up the pistol.
Gao Shuai's heart instantly leaped into his throat. He said anxiously, "Big Boss, please don't kill me. I mean no harm. I really don't. This illusion is fake. Everything inside is fake. When the illusion ends, everything will be refreshed. I just want to spar with you. Really, really."
She didn't speak on the world channel, and Gao Shuai was sure that she hadn't seen the message record yet.
Keep her stable first. As long as she doesn't die, you can wait for other players to support you.
Tao Sai acted as if he didn't hear anything and calmly pulled the magazine out of his pistol.
There were only two bullets left in the magazine. She took out a handful of bullets from the pocket of her sweatpants and patiently loaded them into the magazine one by one. Then she pushed the full magazine back into the gun body and pulled the slide.
Gao Shuai watched silently. The series of tedious actions made him feel extremely tormented. Cold sweat broke out on his forehead and he almost fainted.
At this moment, she raised her gun-holding hand and pressed the muzzle of the gun against his forehead from top to bottom.
His wide eyes saw her index finger slowly pulling the trigger.
At the critical moment, Gao Shuai shouted: "Stop!!!"
"You want to kill me? I tell you, I have already reported the current situation on the world channel. All players are paying attention. They all know that I am with you. They have come to support me. If you kill me, you will die too!" In the extremely desperate situation, he was completely hysterical. He just wanted to survive and didn't care about anything else.
As soon as he finished speaking, Tao Sai put down the hand that was holding the gun.
Gao Shuai noticed that her gaze suddenly froze. Obviously, she must have opened the system panel and entered the world channel.
Two minutes later, Tao Sai's gaze returned to him, and his expression suddenly changed.
"So you are the wild dog." She couldn't help but grin, and was in a good mood.
How can I describe this feeling? The world is so small, and fate is such a wonderful thing.
"What are you laughing at! What are you laughing at!" Gao Shuai screamed in a hoarse voice.
This smile was so weird that his scalp tingled and his whole body was covered with goose bumps.
"Honestly, I didn't kill..." Tao Sai wanted to say the nickname of the player who was competing with her for the top spot on the leaderboard, but when the words came to her lips, she couldn't remember the two words. In the end, she could only find other words to replace them. "I didn't kill that top player. Do you believe it?"
"Believe it, believe it! I believe it!" Gao Shuai said with an extremely certain tone without even thinking about it.
In this situation, even if Tao Sai asked him to say that he was an idiot, he would probably admit it without hesitation.
"Don't rush to confirm it," Tao Sai raised his hand to persuade him, "Use your brain and think carefully about why I can't be the murderer."
Gao Shuai really started to think.
Even he had been able to dodge her sudden attack at the scrapyard before, so why couldn't that top player? This didn't make sense.
Another thing is her motive for killing. If she wanted to get rid of her competitor, why did she wait until the end of the season to kill him?
Finally, the players' locations were extremely hidden from each other. If she could pinpoint the player's coordinates, why would she have gone through the trouble of trekking to find him, only to be discovered and pulled into the illusion by him first? Wouldn't it have been much better if she could teleport directly to his ship?
"Have you thought of anything?" Tao Sai asked.
Gao Shuai nodded slowly.
"Am I the murderer?" Tao Sai asked, staring into his eyes.
Gao Shuai's expression was solemn. "I can't be sure, but it should be... not."
"Then why did you want to lead me? I remember that you were the first person to point at me on the world channel, and your tone was very affirmative at that time. I still remember it." Tao Sai smiled.
Gao Shuai's face froze for a moment, then filled with regret. "Boss, I was wrong, I was really wrong. I was just being mean. I was just joking from the beginning. I really was joking... Give me a chance, I'll go to the world channel right now to help you clarify. I'll make them all believe you..."
His transformation was so fast that Tao Sai couldn't help laughing and felt that this performance could even be included in the teaching materials of Beijing Film Academy.
Seeing her right hand moving while holding the gun, Gao Shuai's brain raced in panic: "Big Boss, how about this? Don't kill me, spare my life. I'm useful! I can be your human punching bag. I can help you train your fighting skills. In my illusion, you don't have to worry about getting hurt or wasting your energy. After the illusion ends, everything will be refreshed. Let me go! I'm really kidding!"
The trigger was pulled all the way down by the index finger, and with a bang, blood splattered on the inside of the windshield of the tower crane cab.
"Don't joke around in your next life," Tao Sai said.
Subtitles popped up in front of Tao Sai's eyes.
【You killed the player [Gao Shuai]. 】
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