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Minghao suddenly felt a chill on his neck. He lowered his head slightly and watched the blood spurting out with wide eyes.
He covered the wound with his hands in horror, but the knife was fast and fierce, deeply cutting his Adam's apple and trachea. Blood flowed into his trachea while oozing out, and he felt suffocated instantly.
“…”
He wanted to curse, tried hard to speak, wanted to shout to vent his emotions, but the part where his voice came from was filled with blood and he couldn't say even a word.
He could only struggle with his face flushed, veins bulging, and his eyeballs looking like they were about to fall out of their sockets.
Due to rapid blood loss and suffocation, Minghao's legs became weak and he fell to the ground in despair. His head hit the ground with a loud splash, splashing water everywhere.
As time passed, the struggling movements gradually weakened until they stopped. The fear in his eyes and the resentment towards his killer were frozen in death.
But just when Minghao was about to lose consciousness, the illusions on all sides broke.
He suddenly woke up and found himself standing there intact. The storm had attacked his whole body. He reached out and touched his neck. The skin was intact without any wounds.
It's fake! He's not dead! It's just an illusion!
Minghao quickly realized this, then regained his composure and looked up at Tao Sai opposite him.
He could actually escape now. He could use the remaining energy to open another space wormhole of about tens of kilometers. As long as he entered the wormhole, he could instantly put dozens of kilometers between him and her.
But he gave up the idea of escaping.
Although the illusion was fake, he actually experienced the process of death. He fell to the ground, struggling helplessly in pain and despair, and was completely enraged by the blood.
He wants revenge, crazy revenge!
Minghao clenched his palms, tiny arcs of electricity lingered on his fingertips, [Thunder] was activated, and the miniature electric ball shot out again at the speed of light.
Tao Sai had no room to react, because no matter how fast a person can go, it can never be faster than the speed of light. The electric ball directly penetrated her abdomen and exploded on the container behind her.
The wound was not big, just like being shot by an arrow. Tao Sai covered the injured part, thinking about something.
Minghao continued to gather the light ball, and the next second, he decisively fired again, this time aiming at her heart.
He had already realized that she had just used the [Clone] skill. Although he didn't have it, he had heard someone in "Jian Ge" use it before, so he was familiar with the basic effects of the skill.
So in order to avoid the scene in the illusion from happening again, after shooting out this fatal ball of light, his nerves were tense, ready for her real body to attack him from any direction.
However, to his surprise, the ball of light disappeared when he was distracted and paying attention to his surroundings, and she was standing there, with her heart intact.
Blocked? How is that possible!
Minghao's face was full of disbelief until he saw her open her palms, electric currents swirling around her white fingertips, and she gathered a ball of light!
She also possesses the skill [Thunder]?!
As soon as this thought popped into Minghao's mind, the microscopic light ball penetrated his thigh at the speed of light.
He felt such unbearable pain that one of his legs instantly dropped to his knees.
But Tao Sai's attack did not stop. His skill [Thunder] was not limited by energy and had no cooldown. The light balls he fired continued to attack him.
Because of a serious leg injury, he lost his ability to move and became a sitting duck on the spot.
In just a few tens of seconds, the ball of light pierced his body like a hornet's nest, and blood spurted out of his body like a fountain.
The last ball of light, which had been charged for a little longer, went straight through his forehead and brought out sticky brain tissue.
Minghao fell to the ground in despair again. He was in excruciating pain. His pain nerves were like rusty, decaying saws, slicing at his brain until the pain finally numbed him...
I felt my blood flow gradually decreasing, slowly changing from a surging state to a steady flow.
At the end of his life, his entire vision was covered by a white light, his hearing was covered by noise, and his mouth and nose stopped breathing in a mixture of rain, sea water and blood.
But similarly, the illusion was broken just before Minghao completely lost consciousness.
He was standing there intact, without any wounds on his body, and all the pain in his body had disappeared.
Obviously, what just happened was still just an illusion.
There was no doubt that Minghao was completely ignited at this moment. There was no other emotion in his eyes except the rage of hatred.
He hated her to the core, and killing her would not be enough to quell the anger in his heart.
He wants to tear this woman apart!!!
The micro wormhole opened, and Minghao jumped into the vortex. The other side of the vortex was Tao Sai's back. As he jumped into the vortex, he pulled out the T7 pistol on his waist.
He rarely used a gun in battle, because his uncharged [Thunderbolt] could perfectly replace it, and the charged [Thunderbolt] was even more powerful than a blasting thunderbolt. But now he had to use a gun, because he couldn't fire [Thunderbolt] continuously and seamlessly like Tao Sai without running out of energy.
The moment the vortex opened, Minghao pulled the trigger in the dark space wormhole.
The initial speed of the bullet was faster than the speed of sound. Theoretically, the bullet hit her body later than she heard the gunshot, and she would not have had time to react.
But at the moment when he pulled the trigger, he realized that the target he was shooting at was not Tao Sai's back.
She was facing him, staring at him with cold hatred through the mouth of the wormhole.
The bullet was already flying towards her, but in a flash, she nimbly moved to the side and avoided the bullet that was originally aimed at the back of her head.
Although the initial speed of the bullet reached supersonic speed, under normal circumstances, she should have been hit by the bullet first, and then she could hear the sound waves of the bolt firing the bullet propagating in the air.
But she saw it, she started to react the moment she saw sparks coming out of the muzzle, so she reacted.
Even so, this reaction speed was still abnormal to the point of being terrifying. You have to know that the distance between the two of them was less than three meters.
Minghao's brain froze for a moment, then he quickly came to his senses and continued shooting at her with his gun.
Tao Sai on the other end completely saw through his routine. Amid the "bang bang bang" sound of gunfire, she moved sideways, spun around, lifted her legs, and jumped like a dancer, perfectly avoiding every bullet.
Minghao emptied his magazine but still couldn't hurt her at all. He threw his pistol away in anger, then leaped forward and kicked her hard.
Tao Sai kicked the pistol away first, then spun around and kicked Minghao's ankle with his other foot. His combined attack of real and fake was easily resolved in less than a second.
Before he could think about his next move, Tao Sai had already flashed in front of him. But unexpectedly, she did not use a fatal killing move, but instead pinched his neck with her hands and pressed down hard, pressing him to the ground.
The reason why Minghao felt that she did not kill him was because he could feel that the force used to strangle his neck was not the force of normal fighting. She was just holding him.
Tao Sai stared into his eyes closely, and when their eyes met, [Energy Steal] was activated.
In an instant, all the energy in Minghao's body was drained, and he lay limply in the water. There was still hatred in his eyes, but he no longer had the strength to struggle.
Tao Sai released the hand that was strangling his throat, stood up straight, and his expression relaxed.
"What? Don't you want to kill me? Come on!" Minghao's eyes bulged.
Tao Sai's sudden softening gave him a feeling that she didn't dare to kill again. She was just taking advantage of the illusion to take advantage of others' power!
Yes! She doesn't dare to kill anyone!
Public opinion is now one-sided and she cannot change it. As long as he refuses to admit it, she will still be the scapegoat with no way to defend herself.
Just like what they say online, I'm timid in real life, but I hit hard online. She's very aggressive when she's talking on the world channel, but in real life, when she's really standing against all the players, she's scared to death.
Minghao was too weak to move, but he still tried to curl his lips and put on a smiling expression.
If he hadn't been drained of energy right now, he would have been laughing uncontrollably.
Tao Sai walked away from him and searched around in the dim light, finally finding the bent rebar.
She picked up the threaded steel bar that had fallen into the water, walked up to Minghao, raised her hand, and swung it down at him. The steel bar hit his flesh with all its might, leaving a deep blood mark in an instant, and his skin was torn and bloody.
"Ah——" Minghao howled in pain.
But the beatings did not stop there. Tao Sai continued to swing the rebar, again and again, and his face and chest were covered in blood and flesh.
The sounds that could come out of Minghao's throat gradually changed from curses at first to painful howls, and finally to desperate sobs. Tao Sai was like a cold-blooded butcher, cutting through him like a knife, until he was tortured to death.
At the moment when he completely lost consciousness in the severe pain, he woke up from the illusion again safely.
But the next second, he was knocked to the ground again by Tao Sai who flashed in his face.
He still used the piece of rebar underground. In the previous illusion, the rebar had been severely deformed due to the collision with his flesh and bones, but in the new illusion, it had returned to normal and became the butcher's most handy knife again.
Tao Sai raised the rebar high and swung it at him with a grim expression. With the help of the skill [Charge], his strength increased dramatically, and this blow directly knocked his skull into a dent.
"I'm going to kill you! I must kill you!!!" Minghao roared at the top of his lungs.
Tao Sai turned a deaf ear and launched the next attack.
Then came the third blow, the fourth blow... Minghao was tortured to death again in extreme pain.
The illusion was broken again.
He was knocked to the ground again, and the rebar was deformed from pen to paper again. He was tortured to death again in the illusion.
The same pain repeated again and again, he lost the ability to resist, to struggle, and his mentality completely collapsed.
The cursing voice became increasingly hoarse and turned into heart-wrenching cries.
He wished he could end the pain with real death, but in one illusion after another, what came after death was rebirth.
He seemed to be thrown into endless darkness, a purgatory without sunlight. Flames were burning him, vicious dogs were gnawing at his body, and he kept crawling and crawling, but he would never reach the end.
If there is a real hell, it would be just like this.
But in this claustrophobic environment, he seemed to glimpse a ray of light.
While his body was being lifted up again and again by the reaction force of the rebar, he quietly equipped himself with a skill. It was not a combat skill, but it was very useful in this scenario.
[Emotional Desensitization], a D-rank skill, equips him with a level that prevents him from being swayed by his emotions. This is a low-level skill he stole from Hailan's first mate, Su Yi. Because it lacks combat attributes, he briefly glanced at it and then left it unused in his skill list.
Currently, his energy was drained by Tao Sai, and he was completely limp, unable to use any skills. However, this was a passive skill that did not consume any physical strength and was automatically triggered, so he could still use it even if his energy was drained.
Once again tortured to death, once again dragged into an illusion, Minghao is about to suffer a new round of painful torture. He doesn't know when this torture will end.
But at this moment, there was a quiet voice in his heart reminding him that it was just an illusion, just an illusion.
Minghao let out a long sigh. He stopped cursing and instead began to enjoy the whipping of the rebar and the pain, because he knew that this was just an illusion. After the illusion disappeared, he would not be hurt at all. It didn't matter.
She just wanted to use this trick to torture him.
With a "bang", the rebar hit Minghao's cheekbone, instantly bending his nose and leaving a long bloody mark on his face.
But even though his facial nerves were twitching, he still managed to put on a peaceful smile.
Tao Sai paused and looked at him in confusion.
"Come on, kill me, you idiot." He spoke clearly, no longer with the impotent rage as before, but more with provocation.
Tao Sai thought for a moment, took out a blasting bomb, pinched his mouth open with his palms, and stuffed the blasting bomb with the pull ring opened into his mouth.
Minghao exaggeratedly opened his mouth and held the smoking explosive bomb, but his eyes were unusually calm.
With a loud bang, his head exploded.
Minghao still calmly came out of the illusion. His passive skill [Emotional Desensitization] continued to work, making him immune to the painful torture and fear of death.
"Your physical strength is declining, right? I wonder how many more illusions you can create." Minghao said.
After no longer being controlled by emotions, Minghao could even begin to observe the changes in her physical condition.
He was confident that this illusion skill would not cause any substantial damage to him, except for causing him to have a mental breakdown. However, he had now completely resisted it through [Emotional Desensitization], and he only needed to wait for this illusion skill to run out of power.
But this time, Tao Sai did not knock him to the ground again. She bent down, supported her hands on her knees, and breathed deeply.
"Are you really tired?" Minghao asked half-doubtfully.
Tao Sai stood up straight indifferently, a cold light flashed in his eyes, and he instantly moved to his face, strangled his throat again, and drained the energy in his body.
Minghao collapsed powerlessly on the flooded ground, but his eyes remained expressionless.
"I'm still in the illusion, right?" Minghao asked indifferently.
"Guess." Tao Sai said, taking out a blasting bomb.
At first, Minghao ignored her action with the blasting bomb, but suddenly he noticed a very small detail, and her chest unconsciously took two more breaths.
Tao Sai bent down and prepared to reach out and use his palm to pinch open his jaws. His eyes changed slightly and he asked again: "Isn't it true that I am still in the illusion?"
Tao Sai detected a hint of panic in his voice and comforted him, "Why are you panicking? You'll know if you die again. You have a 50% chance of survival anyway. In probability terms, this is a high-probability event."
As she spoke, she clamped his chin with her thumb and index finger, but she suddenly had an idea and let go.
Instead of pulling the ring of the explosive bomb, she put it away.
"Do you want to try something new this time and die in a different way?" Tao Sait asked.
Minghao's expression appeared slightly disturbed, but inside he was actually feeling like a thousand horses were running through his mind.
"Before you die, are you curious about my S-rank magical skill? Well, let me show you. It's called collapse," Tao Sai said in a calm, narrative tone. "I don't know if you follow astrophysics, but on a cosmic scale, there's a phenomenon called collapse, which literally means the compression of a celestial body from the outside inward. For example, when a star reaches a certain stage of development, it will collapse, becoming a dense white dwarf. But if the density and mass of the singularity at the center of the collapse are infinite, the collapse will be unstoppable. Not even light in a vacuum can escape the collapse's gravitational pull. This is what we often call a black hole."
Tao Sai said a lot at once, and the words themselves did not make Minghao feel anything, but there was a bit of weakness in her broken sentences. The more she spoke, the more signs of fatigue she showed.
This is not good news for Minghao.
"My S-rank divine skill [Collapse] can artificially create a singularity. Of course, its current density and mass aren't high enough, and its gravity is limited, so it can only cause some nearby matter to collapse." Tao Sai paused. "But this is collapse, a true disappearance. Do you understand me?"
As he spoke, Tao Sai activated [Collapse], freezing the blue singularity 10 centimeters above the ground.
Then a magical phenomenon happened. The pouring rain turned when passing near the singularity. With the naked eye, one could see streams of water mist being sucked into the singularity and annihilated into nothingness.
"Of course, collapse is not affected by the solidity of the object. Let me give you an example," Tao Sai added.
Then she picked up the rebar on the ground and stretched it towards the singularity. With the naked eye, it was visible that the hard steel bar was twisted and stirred in the moment it touched the singularity.
Minghao's heart skipped a beat as he watched the steel bars disappear.
Tao Sai grabbed the back of his collar and dragged him towards the singularity with great effort.
She panted, her tone still calm, "This time you will experience a slow death, because the suction power of the singularity is currently very limited."
Tao Sai was trying to bend his legs. He tried to struggle desperately, but he had no strength in his body and could only let him move his legs.
"What are you doing! Wait a minute!" Minghao's voice was anxious.
Towser completely ignored what he was saying and moved his legs straight towards the singularity.
The moment his leg touched the blue light, Minghao had a strange feeling, like being stung by a bee, and then someone grabbed a handful of it. Then, he felt a strong suction, as if he had stepped into a swamp, and the mud was constantly squeezing his calves.
He tried hard to look over there. The singularity tore his pants, then his skin, and then his flesh. Before the blood could flow to the ground, it was sucked into the singularity and collapsed into nothingness.
The pain was much less than being hit in the face by rebar, but he witnessed his body being annihilated into nothingness.
The force of the collapse was indeed very small, just as Tao Sai had said. After a minute, only a bloody hole the size of a ping-pong ball appeared on his calf.
The flesh was not cut by a knife, nor was it squeezed by a bullet, nor was it burned by flames and produced a chemical reaction, but it truly disappeared.
Fear spread endlessly in his heart.
This is like a form of torture in ancient times - Lingchi, which uses the last of 3,357 cuts to end the life of the criminal. The pain is not the last fatal cut, but the long process of death.
He now looks like he is being tortured to death.
Minghao's body trembled unconsciously, and his eyes unconsciously turned into fear.
At the same time, the skill [Emotional Desensitization] took effect, trying hard to suppress his fear.
There was a voice in his heart comforting him, saying that this was an illusion, it was just an illusion, and everything would be refreshed when the illusion ended, and he would not die.
But at this moment, another voice reminded him: What if this wasn't an illusion?
He glanced to the side and saw Tao Sai, who had walked to the side. She took out a bottle of recovery potion and was unscrewing the cap. Drinking the recovery potion proved that she was in urgent need of energy. If she was in the illusion, her energy would be almost endless. How could she be short of energy?
Then there is only one possibility!
Minghao's pupils suddenly dilated, and in an instant, the emotions that had been suppressed by [Emotional Desensitization] surged up.
Under the influence of exponentially negative emotions, he lost his reason and all judgment, and his defenses were completely broken.
"Do you dare to give me a good fuck&*/,.;%..."
"If I can kill Hailan, I can kill you too!"
Hearing this, Tao Sai suddenly turned towards him with a slight smile on his lips.
"Did you hear that?" Tao Sai turned around and asked, looking at the other end.
At this moment, the illusion shattered from all sides, right under his feet.
On the other side, the five people and three players tied to the base of the tower crane nodded in unison; they heard the full original words.
Before this, Tao Sai told them something in advance.
"After a player dies, their information will be erased. It won't be long before we all completely forget about them. This is the workings of the game system, and even those with the best memories can't overcome it. Think carefully now. Do you remember any player whose information was reported on the world channel?"
Several people tried hard to think about it, and it was just as she said. They couldn't remember anything. They even had a vague idea of the player nicknamed "Wild Dog" who had died not long ago.
"There's only one person who won't forget, and that's the killer himself. For example, I killed a public enemy named Cao Yu. His name was Cao Yu, his refuge ship was called Hanjiang City, and his nickname was Wei Ai Qu Wu Yi." Tao Sai said confidently, "If you have time, scroll down the world channel chat messages. You'll find the announcement from that time to verify my words."
And now, Minghao blurted out the name "Hai Lan" in a state of broken defense. The truth is self-evident.
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