And once the enhancent failed, the occupational weapon would completely shatter, necessitating a rebuild.
For safety's sake, during the enhancent process, this person had spent a fortune on a protection stone, ensuring that even if the enhancent failed, the occupational weapon wouldn't break. However... his wife, wanting to keep her husband from danger and from venturing daily into the secret realm,
took advantage of the mont her husband closed his eyes to pray for the enhancent's success, and stealthily stole the protection stone from the enhancent matrix.
Should the man's occupational weapon enhancent fail, he would no longer have the courage or strength to enter the secret realm.
So—
the enhancent failed, and the occupational weapon shattered.
On the spot, the man died of rage-induced apoplexy.
His only wish was to take his wife with him to the afterlife, for if she loved him so much, she could keep him company in hell.
Well, that seed reasonable.
I saw no reason to object.
"Quite good."
Chen Miao, looking at the three completed hidden quest panels in front of him, couldn't help but grin again. The efficiency of Hungry Monkey and his team was more outrageous than he had imagined—it felt entirely trustworthy.
...
Zhou Shen, after all, had been a manager for a long ti and was highly organized in handling personnel; upon receiving three consecutive tasks from Miao in a short span of ti, he didn't hesitate at all. While leveraging his own connections,
he instructed Hungry Monkey and Yuan Buping to lead two teams, while he led another, dividing into three teams to complete the three tasks given by Miao as quickly as possible.
The execution of the tasks was escorted by police cars, the traffic police clearing the way ahead.
The way was unobstructed.
...
"Woo woo woo!!"
In front of the vehicles, two police cars with sirens blaring were speeding ahead to clear the path, a scene that caused Yuan Buping, sitting in the back, to have a complex expression, not knowing what to say. There was a ti when they were re thugs, unworthy even to et the police.
After all, these small-ti thugs never really did anything significant.
But now...
When they went out on business, the police would clear the way!
He had always thought one needed to be of a much higher and terrifying rank to have police cars clear their path; he never imagined he would one day enjoy such treatnt.
"Boss, have you realized it yet?"
A young man sitting next to Yuan Buping, his face filled with emotion, said with a click of his tongue, "I used to love playing a MOBA ga, 5v5. When I played that ga, I always lost, whether I was on a winning streak or a losing streak, I kept losing."
"I reflected on the reasons why."
"Then, one night, I had a revelation. I stopped playing the carry role. Each ga, I would just farm passively, focus on getting the last hits without dying, and wait for my teammates to carry. Soon after, I reached an extrely high rank."
"Since then, I've understood one thing: never trust yourself, but instead, trust others."
"If you were trustworthy yourself, you wouldn't be in this wretched state. Since you can't trust yourself, you must find a reliable 'big thigh' to cling to."
"Look at us. We used to work so hard, and yet life was still destitute and miserable."
"Now, our brothers are hardly making any effort, but life is getting better and better."
Yuan Buping looked at Wen beside him with a complicated expression, and after a long ti, he said resentfully, "You've realized the way indeed, managing to learn sothing real from playing gas."
...
The Hell Bus's third stop: "Surpassing Oneself".
The third stop was a battle platform, where everyone would face a slightly stronger version of themselves—reflected in being one level higher, having one higher skill level proficiency in every skill, and slightly higher attributes for each item.
Just a tiny bit higher...
But the overall enhancent was significant, almost surpassing the player by 20% in strength. Players had to rely on their high combat experience or breakthrough on the spot to kill the clone that was marginally stronger than themselves.
The platform had seventeen stages.
Each player stood on a stage, engaged in a fight to the death with their unclear-faced clone. Only one living person could leave the stage.
...
"Damn it!"
Doctor Gou was sowhat bedraggled, rolling around the stage dodging attacks from his clone, barely able to fight back. Many tis, he really wanted to use that one skill of his.
'Skill Na': Life and Death Ambiguity.
'Skill Level': D-rank.
'Skill Restriction': Only for "Swordsman" class and its advanced professions, and the player level must be lv.10 or above.
'Skill Effect': After activating this skill, the next strike has a 50% chance to unleash five tis the attribute of your full-force strike, a 40% chance that the knife energy backfires and gravely injures you, and a 10% chance that it backfires and kills you.
This was his trump card, which he used to face off against nurous opponents before fleeing Fengtian City.
However, after leaving Fengtian City, he had never used this skill again. He had once speculated that when his heart was filled with a resolve to die, it would 100% trigger the fivefold attack power.
But... he no longer had such a strong desire to die as he did before.
Now that his revenge was complete, he no longer wished to die, he was even afraid to use this skill, and was consequently forced to retreat step by step.
...
Chen Miao, sitting on the bus, furrowed his brows slightly at the scene before him. It looked like Doctor Gou was at quite a disadvantage. Chen Miao wanted to help, but the battle on the stage was sothing no outsider could interfere with.
But at that mont—
The clone of Doctor Gou on the stage suddenly leaped into the air, with both hands wielding a knife, he brought it down heavily towards Doctor Gou's head, and the blade burst into a scarlet glow. It was foreseeable that if the knife ca down, Doctor Gou would likely be severely injured.
However...
Just as the blade was raised, and the scarlet light on its edge trembled violently, it didn't strike Doctor Gou, but instead backfired, killing the clone of Doctor Gou on the spot.
The next second.
The protective barrier on Doctor Gou's stage slowly dispersed, signifying that Doctor Gou had survived and beca the first victor of the battle.
"This..."
Chen Miao was initially sowhat baffled, but quickly realized sothing. Doctor Gou had shown him the skill "Life and Death Two Sharp Edges", an extrely perverse skill that could turn the tide at crucial monts, if luck was on one's side. However, there was also a not-so-small chance of it backfiring and killing oneself.
It beca a self-sabotage skill.
On the night Doctor Gou left Fengtian City, using this skill more than twenty tis on the Sankui Wilderness, it triggered the 50% probability of a quintuple full-force strike each ti. The shock lingered with Chen Miao for quite a while.
After that, he even thought that the skill didn't have the other two effects. It couldn't be that Doctor Gou's luck was that good, right?
But in fact, it was.
The clone copy of Doctor Gou died by his own skill.
...
Doctor Gou climbed back onto the bus, feeling as light as a feather, and took the seat behind Chen Miao. Facing Chen Miao's looking, he let out a wry smile with a hint of relief, "Lucky my luck wasn't too bad, otherwise, it would've been dead there."
He was close to activating that skill, ready to take a gamble; prepared to die an inglorious death, but unexpectedly, his opponent used it first.
"Isn't your skill 100% successful?"
"Definitely not. There's a 50% chance for a quintuple full-force strike, 40% for severe injury, and 5% for instant death."
"Then you struck twenty-so blows in a row in the Sankui Wilderness, all of them critical hits?"
"..."
After a long silence, Doctor Gou finally spoke softly, "I've reviewed it later and ca to a conclusion: I can only achieve critical hits with every strike when I have a strong sense of inevitable death using this skill; otherwise, it's all up to luck."
"Although the clone's inventory and skills are the sa as mine, and its attribute points are even a bit higher than mine, the clone after all lacks a heart, and it certainly doesn't have my will to survive. Luck was in my favor this ti."
"That's how I survived."
"Otherwise, I don't know what would have happened."
"Wait a minute—"
Chen Miao suddenly thought of sothing and spoke with a peculiar expression, "You just said, you get critical hits with the skill only when you have a very strong sense of inevitable death?"
"Yeah."
"Are you sure?"
"Eighty percent sure, I haven't really experinted, my spirit was scattered after leaving Fengtian City, and I haven't dared to wield a knife much anymore."
"I see..."
With a puzzled look on his face, Chen Miao found an item in the Nothingness Space that he had collected for a while.
As he focused on the dagger, a panel popped up in front of him instantly.
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「Taboo Item Na」: Undying Loyalty.
「Taboo Item Rank」: E-rank.
「Taboo Item Effect」: Within a 10-ter radius of this dagger, when a person experiences extre negative emotions such as emotional breakdown, pain, sadness, etc., the inner desire for death is infinitely amplified.
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An E-rank Taboo Item with diocre attributes and a low level, it was the first Taboo Item he obtained, and he hadn't figured out how to utilize its effects until now.
It seems that this item would be quite suitable for Doctor Gou.
Although only E-rank, it might perform at a higher level in Doctor Gou's hands, and it seed to be tailored for Doctor Gou. The only issue was...
The amplified desire for death was too overpowering.
The stark warnings from the deaths of over ten people stood blatantly before him—they had committed suicide directly. Although it seed it might enhance Doctor Gou's combat power, if it led to Doctor Gou's death, it might be unnecessarily excessive.
Still, he asked, "Doctor Gou, if you don't mind my asking, when do your emotions usually reach a state of extre negativity like breakdown or sorrow?"
Doctor Gou lowered his head without speaking, and after a mont, he murmured softly, "When I rember how my parents, while searching for , were deceived into a secret realm and t their tragic deaths."
"Hmm..."
Chen Miao didn't inquire further, but looked up thoughtfully at the middle-aged man sitting in the back row of the bus seats. He rembered that not long ago soone had taken the initiative to talk to him, a psychologist.
As a psychologist, wouldn't he be able to create two psychological valves in one's mind?
For instance, using a keyword to open and close one's emotions?
...
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