Chapter 997
Chapter 997: Chapter 927: “General!
I want to operate the mech!â€_1 Chapter 997: Chapter 927: “General!
I want to operate the mech!â€_1 “Help~me~~fuck!!!”
As Yi was shouting for help, the safety rope suddenly released, scaring the crap out of him.
But he only had time to shout once, because in the next second, his skull hit the steel frame of the next floor!
“Duang!”
The sound was very crisp.
His head buzzed.
“Duang!!”
The second collision, again with his skull and the steel frame.
Yi fell one more floor.
“Duang!!”
The third floor.
His skull and the steel frame.
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“Duang!!” “Duang!!” “Duang!!”
The fourth floor, the fifth floor, the sixth floor….
Every floor he hit was with his skull and the frame, accurate as could be, and the sound became louder and louder.
Under normal circumstances, he should have been killed by now.
He survived for only one reason: this wasn’t coincidence; it was all arranged by Lincoln.
He was unable to react in time to grab onto the steel frame after the first three hits, and what happened afterwards was completely out of his control—
On the seventh collision, the sound was no longer just the simple clash between his skull and the steel frame, but the sonorous sound of a bell!
“Dong——”
“Dong——”
“Dong——”
The bell was incredibly loud, one strike following another.
Even the monsters in pursuit and the fleeing crowd were drawn in by the massive bell sound, turning their heads towards where the sound was coming from.
As for Yi, who was the “bell clapper,” he wished he were dead.
The steel frame had 20 floors in total.
Not counting the one where he was hanged upside down, there were 18 more steel frames below him to the ground, and his skull didn’t miss a single one!
With a “Dong, Dong, Dong” all the way down, he ended up bowing down in an exceptionally kowtowed manner, and landed alive on the ground!
He even triggered an achievement trophy!
But Yi didn’t have time to look at the trophy, as a huge shadow covered him.
As he sprawled on the ground, he forced his head up and, in a dizzy world, he saw a giant monster’s foot.
“Lincoln…you bastard…blargh~~~~”
Before he could finish his dying words, Yi vomited violently.
The kind hearted monster slammed its foot down heavily, ending his pain.
…
…
After a brief resurrection process, Yi returned to his previous save point.
He opened his eyes and found the world to be upside down.
But he immediately realized that the world wasn’t upside down—it was him.
—He was still hanging upside down from the top floor of the steel frame, with a glowing trophy not far in front of him.
Yi was so furious that he could hardly control himself, “Again?!”
And that achievement trophy was, unbelievably, a Gold Trophy!
The achievement’s name was also incredibly ridiculous—
[Great Head!]
“Great your ass!
You’re the great head!”
As Yi cursed and grumbled, he started to rescue himself by pulling the safety rope—since he knew the rope would break when the monsters landed, as long as the monsters had not yet landed, this rope was indestructible!
Bring it on!
And indeed, Yi successfully climbed up the steel frame before the safety rope broke.
But everything was just beginning!
The monster was about to land on the beach, and it might reach the Wall of Life in less than a minute.
In other words, Yi had a minute to get down from the hundred-meter-high steel frame to the ground, then run through the passage of the Wall of Life to the other side.
—Even though he could successfully run to the other side, the Wall of Life might not necessarily be able to protect him.
Yi still vividly remembered: when he achieved the [Human Extinction] ending, the system had already told him, “All the high walls collapsed.”
Although he didn’t know if the monsters that were landing now had this ability, it was always better to prepare for the worst!
“So, how am I gonna get down?” Yi looked at the distant ground and the fleeing crowd, trying to come up with a plan, “Climbing down floor by floor would definitely be too slow.”
“Should I gamble on the steel frame not collapsing and the monsters ignoring me?”
At this thought, he immediately shook his head.
How could that be possible?
Could Cloud Dream be so kind?
He had just been stomped to death!
Yi quickly scanned the surrounding environment and items, looking for clues.
Thanks to the painful fall earlier, he noticed something—the welding machine.
This thing was connected to a cable that ran down the inside of the steel frame, and he couldn’t see where it extended to.
Apart from this, there didn’t seem to be anything else.
Yi could only choose one between taking a gamble on this, or “freehand fast descending.”
Without a system-given skill, for him to play high-altitude fast descending would be a bit too much.
So—
Yi took a hammer out of his toolkit, smashed open the fixed point of the cable, wrapped the cable around the steel frame, attached it to his waist, took a deep breath, and jumped!
Each iron ring that temporarily fastened the cable was burst and flown away one after another, with his body plummeting fast, pulled by the ever-lengthening cable.
The earth was racing towards him at a speed visible to the naked eye!
“Aaah —”
Yi screamed as he fell.
Not until he had fallen considerably did the cable reach its limit, unable to lengthen further with his fall.
The excess tension even loosened the knot tied around his waist.
Yi abruptly lost all his protection, falling to the ground with nothing to hold onto, courting death.
“Again?!”
His eyes clamped shut, prepared for the next game reload.
Many viewers also subconsciously recoiled, averting their gaze.
But —
“Thud!”
A dull sound of impact echoed.
Yi opened his eyes again.
“I’m not dead?”
He checked his surroundings and found that he had conveniently landed on a pile of sand at a construction site.
That pile of sand was so small that he couldn’t even spot it from mid-air, let alone the highest point.
Yet, by some bizarre stroke of luck, he fell right onto it, not a single hair hurt!
Even an Achievement Trophy appeared in front of him —
[Leap of Faith]!
Within less than 30 seconds, he had successively obtained two Achievement Trophies!
Yi blinked, and couldn’t help but ask his fans, “I’m not really good at physics, but can one really fall from such a height onto sand and remain unharmed?”
The fans responded vehemently:
“No harm my ass!”
“You’re lucky to be alive, let alone unharmed!!”
“Damn, physics has ceased to exist!”
“Anchor…While everyone else escapes while their building collapses, the game they’re playing is a matter of life or death.
Why are you so nonconformist?”
…
The earth was trembling beneath them.
As Yi ran towards the entrance of the Wall of Life together with the crowd, he interacted with the live-streamer community.
— He was really curious.
“Does everyone else escape simultaneously as the collapse happens?
That intense?”
“It’s clearly you who’s more intense!
Everyone else has system prompts, alright!” the comments answered.
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“System prompts?
Why don’t I have them?
Is Cloud Dream biased against me??!”
“Don’t blame others for your blindness!” The comments showed him no mercy.
“Clearly it’s their prompts that aren’t conspicuous enough!” Yi bantered with the comments while rushing into the Wall of Life.
Thanks to his incredibly fast descent, he evaded the monsters’ first wave of attack.
But he wouldn’t escape the second wave — because the monsters had shattered the Wall of Life!
When such a magnificent construction collapses, the scene is even more magnificent than when it is intact!
The monster protected its head with its wings and plunged head-on into the gigantic, sturdy Anti-Monster Wall.
The solid concrete wall was breezily smashed open, creating a large hole.
Giant cracks began to spread from the large hole.
The monster continued to push forward, beginning an extraordinary collapse centered around the damaged hole!
“Run!
Run!”
The crowd began to scatter again.
Yi also ran for his life, with absolutely no time to enjoy the spectacular collapse of the great wall.
Run!
Nothing left but to run!
The city’s defense measures were launched, and aircraft cannons were deployed again.
Explosions, collapses, monster roars, screams, horns, curses… a completely jammed road, falling debris from above, pushing and shoving amongst the crowd, intense gunshots that were unclear whether they were targeting the monsters or the crowd…
In this apocalyptic scene, Yi made a desperate dash.
He had no intention of resisting, nor hopeful delusions of survival by a stroke of luck, much less fanciful illusions of the army’s victory.
Moving to face such a monstrous behemoth with a mortal’s body, it was hard to believe he could escape unscathed.
The only means to deal with such a monster were monsters of the same caliber!
Which is to say——Mechs!
At this moment, Yi had an extraordinarily strong affirmation for this voiceover in the game!
Where’s the Mech?
Where is the Mech?!
As though responding to his desire, a loud noise of rotating propellers suddenly came from above.
He lifted his head, and saw the Mech.
— Transported by a fleet of 16 specially designed heavy helicopters at top speed, the Mech arrived!
The second-generation mass-production model Mech of Daxia: Horizon Warrior Revision!
Witnessing such a disaster as a small human would naturally feel like a cataclysm.
Yet, observing a Mech of the same scale as a small human, what surged up within were indescribable feelings of admiration and desire!
To those in a desperate situation, it seemed nothing less than a messiah come to save the day.
Witnessing the Mech descending from the sky to fight the monster, Yi could only feel a rush of emotion.
Just then, another helicopter started to hover and slowly descend.
The General that Yi had seen in the prologue stepped off the helicopter and approached him with a solemn expression on his face.
But before the General could even speak, persuading him to rejoin the army and operate the Mech, Yi took the initiative to throw himself at him—
“General!
I want to operate a Mech!”
“Even if it’s outmoded, backward, and soon to be phased out, a second-generation Mech!”
“Any Mech will do!”