Chapter 35 Pretending I've Been Reborn Too A True Reborn Person: Heaven's Justice is Unfair...
More and more people in the leadership began to believe the truth of Si Qi's words. Even if they didn't believe it, they didn't dare to risk betting that Si Qi was actually lying.
While sending people to obtain detailed information about Si Qi, they also quickly dispatched people to protect Si Qi's mother—if Si Qi wasn't trying to imply that the authorities should do this, he wouldn't have needed to say so much. The authorities understood this tacit understanding hidden in the shadows.
Fortunately, Yin Chou's cowardly, arrogant, and foolish mind hadn't considered the need for hostages beforehand, and there were no people he had planted in the hospital.
Yin Chou's father, who truly held power and was also intelligent enough to think things through, was unaware that his illegitimate son had been reborn, let alone that Si Qi was the true savior. Therefore, he had no suspicion of Si Qi, his lackey, and certainly wouldn't send anyone to monitor Si Qi's mother.
Sima's mother was in a very safe situation at the time, and after the authorities sent people to protect her, this safety was further enhanced to the extreme.
After saying these words, Si Qi had done everything he could for his mother within the instance, and there was nothing more he could do.
As long as Yin Chou isn't truly eager to die and doesn't vehemently demand in the live stream that people outside kidnap Si Qi's mother, or simply reveal the address of the hospital where his mother is located and incite netizens and fans to attack her, then his mother will definitely be fine.
If any unexpected danger arises, Xiuxiu is still monitoring the hospital closely, believing that he can handle it.
After saying so much, Si Qi was tired and, too lazy to pay attention to the group of people opposite him who were giving him unfriendly looks, turned around and left the area.
Someone tried to stop him and make him pay for his insolence.
Si Qi kicked out, causing the burly man, whose strength was four times that of Si Qi, to buckle at the knees and fall to his knees.
The audience was completely stunned: "..."
The head of the special mission's eyes lit up: "Impressive!"
The timing of his move and the speed of his reaction clearly indicate an expert.
The warriors inside the dungeon were provoked by Si Qi, and they all raised their weapons and aimed them at him.
Si Qi's expression remained unchanged, but Yin Chou was terrified by the horrifying scene. Fortunately, he wasn't scared out of his wits and shouted, "If you want to die, don't drag me down with you!" Instead, he rushed forward and said, "Stop it, don't be impulsive!"
How could he dare to go against Si Qi? He didn't want to die so young!
Even the evil god could be killed by Si Qi, so what does he have to fight Si Qi with?
With his thick skin like a city wall?
The world consciousness that brought Si Qi back is still watching from above!
Si Qi chuckled, glanced at everyone, and turned to leave.
Everyone was indignant and couldn't understand why Yin An would let Si Qi off the hook even when things had come to this.
"An'an, you're too easy to talk to."
"I couldn't stand it."
"I'll let it go this time for your sake."
Everyone expressed their opinions, while also trying to curry favor with Yin An.
Deep down, she was actually quite relieved that Si Qi left so readily and didn't continue to leech off Yin An, allowing Yin An to win him back.
This would free up a spot in the team, and those heroes who aren't regular teammates might be able to join Yin An's team directly.
Besides, with Si Qi's weak skills, it wouldn't be long before any monster could kill him after he left the team.
They didn't need to kill Si Qi in front of so many people in the live stream, adding a stain to their own record.
Regardless, it's still a human life. Netizens are currently clamoring for Si Qi to die, but if they actually killed him, they definitely wouldn't be so vocal; they'd likely be demanding he pay with his life.
After all, nobody wants to be selected for a dungeon and then accidentally drag others down, only to be killed by them without having to pay for it.
At this point, the team split up, and most netizens remained in the perspective of Yin An and others, watching their next dungeon walkthrough.
A small group of haters who wanted to see Si Qi die, and netizens who believed that Si Qi might really be a big shot, chose Si Qi's perspective to see what he would do next.
Just as everyone expected, it will be extremely difficult for Si Qi to survive in this instance.
It wasn't just because Si Qi's priest class lacked strong and effective killing power, but also because after Si Qi teamed up with Yin Chou, the opportunities to kill monsters were constantly intercepted by Yin Chou and his group, and all the items, red and blue potions in the treasure chests dropped by monsters also belonged to Yin Chou and his group.
Without killing monsters, you can't gain experience to level up. If your level is low, the power of your spells will be like scratching a monster or applying a band-aid to your teammates—the effect is negligible.
Having no items or health/mana potions in your pocket is even more fatal. When in danger, you can't heal or replenish your mana, and you don't even have a decent weapon to kill monsters. Speed potions, invisibility potions, one-time-use bombs—all these useful life-saving methods are useless.
No one knows how they would survive in this instance if they were in Si Qi's situation.
We had no weapons, no items, and magic spells were completely useless.
"He's probably just waiting to die after all," someone gloated in the comments. "His outburst just now was probably Si Qi's last struggle before he died. He thought he was going to die, so he might as well vent his anger one last time."
"No matter what, Si Qi is fighting for us. You people shouldn't be so unreasonable." Some rational people expressed their dissatisfaction: "If you were in the dungeon, you might not perform as well as Si Qi."
Aside from frequently encountering various traps and bringing danger to everyone in dungeons, Si Qi has always been very reliable in other matters.
As a priest, he constantly monitors his teammates' health, never letting them worry about their own condition. When fighting monsters, he doesn't recklessly charge in, disrupting his teammates' battle; he has a clear understanding of the situation.
Many people don't understand why netizens are so eager to kill Si Qi. But the more someone wants to vent their emotions online, the louder their voice becomes, while the silent majority has virtually no presence.
This makes it seem as if Si Qi is truly hated by everyone and is an enemy of the world.
"Hilarious! He claims to be fighting for us, but he's the one who's been dragging down the brave warriors who are fighting for us. He's the black sheep in the team."
"Si Qi is a disgrace to the team, a walking jinx! He not only courted death, but he also almost dragged us onlookers down with him."
"That's right, it's like when we want to hand over the decision of survival to Si Qi. The hero is randomly selected by the system, not someone who voluntarily stepped forward to be the hero, so it's not our place to thank him."
"I think you're just infatuated with Si Qi because he's good-looking, right? Otherwise, how could anyone really feel sorry for a weak and pretty boy like Si Qi?"
"Maybe the person who spoke was Si Qi's dying mother? Besides his mother, who else in this world would like him, hahaha."
As soon as a slightly neutral comment was posted, a bunch of trolls immediately followed with sarcastic remarks. At a glance, all the comments were against it, so the person who initially spoke probably realized it was pointless and stopped talking.
The screen was filled with messages of joyful discussion about how many more minutes Si Qi could live.
"If Si Qi had stayed in the safe zone, he might have been able to survive until the end of the dungeon. But if he went out, it would have been pure suicide."
"Don't even mention going back to the safe zone, just thinking about it gives me a headache."
"If Si Qi hadn't been injured and slowed down the team's progress, forcing them to return to the safe zone to rest, An An would have already cleared the haunted house. We wouldn't have been delayed for so long."
"Yes, An'an is just too kind!"
When Si Qi first arrived in this world, his teammates had so many complaints about him because they were about to clear the haunted house level in one go, but Si Qi got injured.
Yin Chou knew he wasn't strong enough and that the haunted house was full of elite-level monsters. He was worried that without Si Qi's help and healing, he would die in the dungeon. So he insisted on leaving the haunted house, using the excuse that he was afraid something might happen to Si Qi.
Si Qi's teammates had always ostracized him, feeling it wouldn't matter if he died. Seeing their progress on the level going smoothly, only to be forced to leave because of Si Qi, they were undoubtedly furious.
They couldn't blame Yin Chou for caring too much about his teammates, so they could only pin the blame on Si Qi, thinking that Si Qi was too incompetent and easily injured, forcing Yin Chou, as the captain, to be distracted and take care of him.
They didn't even consider that Si Qi, a priest, had no combat ability. His only means of self-preservation was healing, but healing should prioritize the warriors and mages fighting at the front, not the priest himself. The monsters broke through the warriors' and mages' blockade and attacked the priest from the back. By all accounts, it was the front-line warriors' fault; their negligence in overlooking the monsters and endangering their teammates. Yet, they turned around and blamed the short-legged (low agility) priest for failing to protect him.
Anyone with a modicum of rationality could see this, but judging from the chaotic and murky environment of the comments section, it's clear that rational people either remain silent or are in the minority.
The original owner had spoken up about this situation before, but it had a terrible effect. Yin Chou insisted that he was a priest and didn't need to kill monsters, not even leaving him a single monster's head. He couldn't practice or level up, and could only watch helplessly as Yin Chou, under the guise of "for your own good," blocked all his options, while he had to force a smile and say thank you.
As the difficulty of later dungeons increased, he, a low-level newbie, encountered monsters several times faster than himself. He couldn't escape or fight them, and even if he wanted to, he was powerless.
He couldn't guarantee that he could survive alone in the dungeon after leaving Yin Chou's group. Considering that leaving the group might mean immediate death, he chose to endure it, just as he had endured his father's beatings when he was young.
Resisting and arguing will only make the punches harder. It's better to protect yourself and endure it all. Maybe if the other person is in a better mood, you'll get hit less often.
He couldn't bear to die so soon. Even though he knew he would die here sooner or later, he wanted to use his own life to prolong his mother's life as much as possible.
Unfortunately, Yin Chou was too useless. On one hand, he wanted to use him and dared not let him die, and on the other hand, he couldn't protect him. After clearing the dungeon a few times, he killed him, who had the potential to be a savior.
The original owner was so frustrated, and the overwhelming resentment he felt after learning the truth after his death... Si Qiguang still thinks this person was really unlucky.
Thinking it over, Si Qi bypassed the path ahead, left the safe zone that had been cleared by Yin An and the others, and officially stepped into the depths of the instance.
The scene before him was bizarre and ever-changing, like a montage of a strange and beautiful world unfolding before his eyes.
A constantly rotating carousel, with silhouettes of a Gothic black castle seemingly rotating and moving in space against the backdrop.
It's like a three-dimensional living person stepping into a two-dimensional cartoon space; it looks abstract and bizarre no matter how you look at it.
Upon discovering the intruder, the wooden horses turned around in unison and galloped towards Si Qi.
Without a doubt, if you were to be hit by this herd of horses, you would be sent flying into the air, broken, and trampled into a bloody pulp upon landing.
The comments section suddenly became lively.
Si Qi casually retrieved the cross used by the priest, and the cross turned into a pendant hanging around Si Qi's neck.
Then, with a backhand slash in mid-air, a dagger was taken out from his spatial storage and firmly held in his palm.
"Huh? What? He put away his professional gear?"
"He really is acting crazy."
"That dagger is from the beginner set, right? It's not very useful in the beginner dungeons, why did he bring it here?"
"Hahaha, this is hilarious! The most idiotic battle in history."
Some people widened their eyes excitedly, eager to see Si Qi scream as he was killed; others lowered their eyes in unbearable pain, silently praying for a miracle; still others' eyes lit up as they noticed Si Qi's practiced, almost effortless movements as he gripped the dagger, and they slapped their thighs and couldn't help but shout, "Good!"
The special task force's office area, the official team that found the corresponding live broadcast room after hearing the news, and the brave teams that various forces had invested heavily in training... all their expressions turned serious the moment they saw Si Qi step into the battlefield and take out his weapon.
They realized that the person in front of them was not simple.
And that is indeed the case.
The wooden horse, hurtling like a chariot, hurtled straight toward Si Qi.
Si Qi remained calm and composed, his figure nimbly shifting slightly as the wooden horse was within reach, weaving through the gaps!
As he brushed past her, he plunged the dagger into the joint of the wooden horse with swift, precise, and decisive action.
The injured rocking horse let out a mournful cry and staggered noticeably. Like a toy with a damaged part, it moved with a limp, its speed visibly slower than its counterparts around it.
A rocking horse, which is born to run and spin forward in a fixed position, would be much more clumsy than a real horse when it tries to turn, go backward, or turn around.
Si Qi watched the herd of horses gallop past him, showing no intention of escaping. Instead of advancing, he retreated, taking advantage of the moment before the wooden horse could turn around. With a short, low-powered novice dagger, he plunged the knife into the horse's hamstring, severely injuring it once again.
The wooden horse groaned and collapsed to the ground, its left legs limp and powerless, its right leg struggling to get up, but unable to support it. Only then did the audience notice, in that brief five-second frame, the clearly calculated fighting style of Si Qi's attack, and exclaimed in disbelief, "Holy crap? What did I just see?"
"He dodged it? He just dodged it like that? That horse is faster than a car, isn't it?"
"I can't even guarantee I'll open the gas cap of a passing car while I'm standing on the street, yet Si Qi managed to stab the joints of a running rocking horse with a dagger?! Twice???"
"Cheating! It's definitely cheating! I don't believe he has that ability."
"Speechless... If someone can cheat in this kind of dungeon, I'll be the first to support it wholeheartedly, okay? Do you really think this is some kind of entertainment game? Don't be ridiculous."
"Holy crap, could what Si Qi said earlier really be true...?"
The official heroes watching the live stream instinctively stood up and exclaimed repeatedly at the fallen wooden horse on the screen, "Those two strikes were so clean! Did you see that? That skill with a dagger is absolutely amazing!!"
A true expert's skill is immediately apparent.
After Si Qi crippled one of the horses in a few moves, he had no intention of stopping. Ignoring the gasps and wide-eyed stares of the people outside, eager to see the details, he got up and rushed forward, finding the common weaknesses of the horse and the wooden horse, cutting off the horse's legs, stomping on its back, and dislocating its joints.
What was clearly an extremely brutal and terrifying scene was handled by Si Qi with effortless grace and naturalness. Like a beautiful and elegant martial arts performance, he effortlessly seized the enemy's lifeline, suppressing them completely and leaving them no chance to retaliate, leaving the audience thoroughly entertained!
After all the rocking horses fell, Si Qi lightly touched the ground with his toes, his breathing barely changing.
The audience was stunned. The official leaders couldn't help but call on their subordinates, reminding them once again to find Si Qi's location in the instance as soon as possible and to contact Si Qi at the instance's exit.
We absolutely cannot let this kind of talent slip through our fingers!
The subordinate accepted the task, adjusted his glasses, and said, "The derivative setting of this instance is an amusement park, involving facilities such as haunted houses, carousels, and tour buses. We analyzed the decorations on the haunted houses and carousels, and roughly identified several amusement park areas..."
The scenes in dungeons are often connected to locations in the real world. Furthermore, they distort all the geographical environment and facilities of that location, adding bizarre attributes derived from human imagination.
For example, a ceiling fan in a classroom might fall down and sever someone's head; ghosts in haunted houses might actually rush out and kill people; a carousel horse might go out of control and knock down and kill people standing in place; and the safety railing on a roller coaster might lift up midway and throw people off...
These are things that people would naturally think of in their daily lives, but in a dungeon, these products of divergent thinking will actually appear in front of the hero.
If all the heroes die in the dungeon, the dungeon will be integrated into reality from an independent space, becoming something that people can truly experience.
The starting point is this distorted, rule-distorted replica of the real-world scene.
If it's an amusement park, then the place overwhelmed by monsters will be the amusement park itself. If it's a café, then the place that falls will be the café.
The authorities need to use the extremely abstract information in the instance to pinpoint the real-world location of the amusement park and cafe, in case the monsters flood into reality after the instance breaks and they are unable to stop them in time.
As they were talking, Si Qi landed and walked toward the wooden horse that had fallen to the ground and was now in pieces.
Recalling Si Qi's previous swift and decisive fighting moves, everyone felt that he would definitely slice open the necks of the wooden horses with a particularly dashing stroke, ending these helpless monsters.
But the way things turned out was clearly unexpected, even shocking.
All we saw was Si Qi approach the wooden horse, squat down, grasp the dagger, and stab it repeatedly.
Because the sound produced had a dull, wooden quality, people even associated it with a woodpecker.
Tap tap tap... very rhythmic.
The crowd that had just been praising Si Qi as awesome: ? ? ?
"Ah, no, what is Si Qi doing?"
"What's going on... I had just started to change my opinion of him, and I thought he was pretty awesome, and now he's gone crazy again?"
"I'm speechless. Can't some of you open your eyes and look at the scene before you speak, and then use your brains?" One netizen couldn't stand it anymore and said, "This is a monster, a monster! There are health bars on its head. You can't just cut its neck and stab it in the stomach to kill it."
"The attack power of beginner weapons is extremely low, starting at a random value of 5-10 points. Now this dungeon is much more difficult, the monsters have built-in defense values, and the beginner dagger can only reduce one point of health. What else can Si Qi do but grind them down repeatedly?"
Upon hearing this, the group, caught in a heated discussion, felt as if a bucket of cold water had been poured over them: "…………"
Even though they were mentally prepared that Si Qi might be a big shot, they never expected that the weapon in this big shot's hand could only deal a "huge" critical hit that only caused one drop of blood.
Moreover, the more they saw Si Qi struggling to kill a monster with a beginner's dagger, the clearer they realized how difficult, or rather unbelievable, it was for Si Qi to kill monsters in the dungeon with his equipment and level.
But he actually did it.
After poking it more than two hundred times, Si Qi finally managed to take down the first Trojan horse monster.
He was lucky; with a 50% chance of getting a treasure chest, he got one after killing the first monster.
Moreover, because of the double experience bonus from killing monsters of a higher level, Si Qi leveled up directly and unlocked a new healing skill.
Of course, the attack power hasn't changed much; the magic power attribute has increased, but the strength, agility, and other attributes remain almost unchanged.
He casually opened the treasure chest, and it vanished instantly, revealing a blue bottle, a pair of boots that increased his maximum mana and a small amount of agility, and a plain, broken longsword that no one would bother with.
No, Si Qi would find it interesting.
Everyone watched as Si Qi sheathed his dagger and, with the air of a powerful figure and a martial arts master, skillfully gripped the tattered, chipped longsword and twirled it.
"...It's like the richest man starting a business while holding a broken bowl in his hands."
"I felt a strange sense of bitterness."
"The main thing is that he has such a strong aura, it feels like he could kill a dungeon boss with just a tree branch."
"I've felt like there's something wrong with my eyes since just now. In the footage you saw, is Si Qi really still alive? Or am I seeing things?"
"I'm still alive, but I feel like my eyes are playing tricks on me. I've been caught in an illusion in the dungeon."
The netizens' tone became more or less hesitant, and they subconsciously toned down their previous righteous and abusive attitude.
However, what would have been an amazing achievement for someone else would have been praised and cheered for. But for Si Qi, it was merely that he "didn't get any criticism." It has to be said that the negative impression left from before is still deeply rooted in the minds of many people.
Si Qi, sword in hand, swung it toward the neck of the next wooden horse. The gust of wind it created as it swung, and the ruthless indifference to loss of life it displayed, made it hard not to wonder just how many people or monsters Si Qi had killed in the past.
There were a total of twelve wooden horses present. Seven treasure chests dropped, containing items such as health potions and a priest's class set (an upgraded version of the cross), which Siqi replaced and wore around her neck.
Since he didn't lose any health, he skipped the steps of healing and restoring his status, packed up his things in his space, and headed straight to the next location.
Netizens watched silently, no longer gloating or making bets on how many minutes it would take for Si Qi to die.
However, this reminded some people of Yin Chou, and they wondered how things were going for Si Qi after he left the team.
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