The copy has 0 error tolerance, and the last words on the ground are all wrong for me.

Chapter 387 Maybe I can try

The executioner fired only one shot and half of Baishe Street became ruined. Dozens of extraordinary people died on the spot without even a sound.

Looking at the ruins around him and the corpses of the extraordinary people lying around, the priest from the Western Union had a blank mind, and his ears seemed to be filled with mercury. Everything around him seemed unreal.

Priest, ranked 92nd in the battle power list, is a rare player with a specialty in inspiration attribute. His inspiration attribute has reached an astonishing 70. In order to match the inspiration, his will attribute has also been increased to 45.

As an ordinary top 100 player, his understanding of S-level copies is not significantly different from that of other players.

Not to mention him, there are no less than a hundred players who have entered the Abyss of Steam Phantom, and among them, no more than three have experience in S-level copy strategies.

Half of the dungeon time has passed since he entered it. Apart from the magic-breaking bullets that even extraordinary people find difficult to dodge, and the haze that permeates Grimland and suppresses his abilities, he did not feel any danger.

Including the previous battle for the invitation letter, none of them posed any threat to him, because he directly joined the Holy Revelation Church through application and became a priest.

This brings us to his job transfer ability, piety.

As long as he uses his skills, he can show amazing devotion to any god and directly join the camp to which the god belongs.

Relying on her piety skill, Julie accepted this "overseas Stylan" without any hesitation.

In the evening, Glad and several other parties held an investigation meeting, and Julie asked him to attend as a representative of the Holy Revelation Church.

More than ten days of calm and peace gave him the illusion that this newly created S-level copy was only as difficult as an ordinary A-level copy.

As long as you continue to live your life, don't take the initiative to cause trouble, and survive until the end of the copy world, you can easily leave with the minimum living allowance for passing the level.

But the executioner's shot woke him up from his sweet dream.

The suffocating pressure on the executioner made him feel fearful.

If it were in other copies, the fear of life and death would arouse the anger of players, causing many players to try to fight hard.

But in the Steam Phantom copy, players are under the steam rules, and all their skills are unusable, even the ultimate skill for job transfer that they use to fight for their lives cannot be activated.

When facing the executioner, even if they wanted to resist, all they could do was rush out of the cover and use their physical attributes to fight the executioner in hand-to-hand combat.

It just so happens that the priest is a player with specialties in inspiration attributes, and his physical attributes are extremely poor, so the path of melee combat is blocked.

The only thing he could do now was to hope that the executioner belonged to some evil cult, so that he could kneel down on the ground when the execution came and join the cult out of piety if he couldn't defeat the enemy.

For the priest, this is not shameful. From the time he joined the Abyss game to now, there have been at least four copies in which he survived by joining the BOSS side.

Just as he was thinking about how to surrender, he saw the executioner open the carriage again and prepare to reload ammunition.

Just as the priest was hurriedly looking for a safer shelter, three beams of light attacked the executioner from three directions.

The three players who took action were Leng Shan, Jian Xing and Huan Ying.

As the few players who possess the power of the root and can still take action, they know that if they continue to drag it out and let the Executioner continue to release bullets, they will be exhausted to death sooner or later.

Only by taking advantage of the cooldown of the Executioner's skills and fighting with all your might can you have a chance of survival.

The fastest one was Jian Xing. His flying sword flashed with golden light, and then it pierced the executioner's chest.

During the final battle for the invitation letter, Jian Xing saw the scene where Wu Chang subdued the self-destructing cyborg, and remembered that the chest was the cyborg's weakness.

But the long wind that was always invincible in the Steam Parliament’s base had no effect on the executioner.

The tip of the flying sword penetrated less than an inch before it was directly clamped by the executioner's body. Thick steam gushed out of the executioner's wound, which not only prevented the flying sword from advancing an inch, but also blew out the strands of sword energy surrounding the sword.

After the flying sword, came the phantom.

This time the phantom was serious. Unlike the previous time when he fried fish, he was casual and drew out a huge saber as soon as he started.

As the sabers were swung, the shadows of the swords overlapped, as if hundreds of swords were slashing at the executioner at the same time.

If other players were faced with the phantom's knife, and thought that only one of the knives was real and the others were phantoms, they would probably be chopped into pieces by the other knife shadows while trying to block the "real" knife.

This move is Phantom's famous skill, Phantom Knife Dance. Every knife shadow he swings is real.

Each knife shadow was actually the result of him using the power of the root of speed to temporarily solidify the knife energy when swinging the knife. He swung hundreds of knives in a very short period of time, and then adjusted the speed of the knife through the power of the root, resulting in the seemingly false knife energy and the final real knife hitting the target at the same time.

If one does not know the intelligence about the phantom beforehand, even a player ranked in the top 50 of the battle power list is likely to be killed at the first sight.

The power of Phantom Blade Dance lies in its difficulty in distinguishing between reality and illusion, as well as its intensive strikes, but these two points have limited effects on the Executioner.

The sword energy emitted by the phantom was more condensed than the wispy sword energy around the Changfeng sword, but its concentration was limited. Most of it was dissipated by the steam sprayed out by the executioner.

The remaining sword energy had lost its sharpness and it chopped into the executioner, leaving dense dents on his face. The executioner's appearance was disfigured, and his face was reduced from 99% new to the color of a battlefield, but in fact it did not hurt or injure him, and the wound was not as serious as that caused by Jian Xing's sword.

The most powerful and substantial blade was blocked by the executioner's serrated long knife.

Just as the phantom was about to change the knife's position, he saw the executioner's left hand moving, changing from a two-meter-long gun to a short and thick cannon barrel.

Along with the flash of fire, densely packed tiny bullets were fired from the barrel.

not good.

Seeing this, Phantom changed his tactics in time and dodged by using the power of the source of speed and slowness.

But he was too close to the executioner, and the bullets shot by the executioner were wrapped in steam and were not affected by his ability, so it was too late to dodge.

Jian Xing did not see how badly the executioner was injured. He only saw a cloud of blood mist burst out in the air, and then the phantom turned into a beam of light and staggered away from Baishe Street.

The last one to take action was Leng Shan. After testing with Jian Xing and Phantom, he had already seen that the steam rule was protecting his body, and scattered energy attacks could hardly hurt the executioner's essence.

So he compressed the energy to the extreme, turning it into a 20-centimeter-long thin ice cone. With the help of the phantom as cover, after the executioner fired the gun, he took advantage of the gap to come in front of the executioner and stabbed the ice cone in along the gap created by the sword star.

The ice cone sank into the body of the executioner, and the power of the source of coldness exploded. The executioner instantly solidified, his body became stiff and motionless, and a layer of ice shell formed on his body surface.

Leng Shan did not hold back in this attack, using all his strength. Even if the boiler of a super steam engine was burning vigorously, it would be frozen into ice on the spot if it was stabbed by him.

If it were any other steam-modified human or steam senator, they would be frozen into ice sculptures even if they were protected by steam rules.

But the Executioner is different. He devours and fuses all kinds of things and possesses extremely strong vitality.

Before Leng Shan could press on and concentrate on his next attack, he saw the gears in the executioner's body slowly turning under the ice shell.

The Executioner was adapting his root power to create extreme cold at an incredible speed.

Now even Leng Shan was somewhat helpless for a moment. If the Executioner completely adapted to his root power, broke free from the frozen state, and the phantom escaped, it would be extremely difficult for him and Jian Xing to win.

They now have only two choices. One is to fight the Executioner desperately, using all their abilities, and try to activate and kill the Executioner before the Executioner breaks free from the freeze.

The second option is to retreat strategically and reunite with Heping and others first. With the addition of two ranked players, Heping and God's Tongue, it will be much easier to face the Executioner.

However, as a price to pay, many extraordinary people and important figures on Baishe Street would probably be killed or injured.

The two results were weighed on the scale. Because Leng Shan was in a hurry, the scale didn't even have a symbolic stalemate and tilted directly towards option one.

I would rather die than let my friend die. He has frozen the executioner for a short time, buying time for everyone. Whether they can escape depends on their luck.

He pulled out the flying sword from the executioner's chest and threw it to Jian Xing. Without any further conversation, the two of them started to leave quickly in tacit understanding.

As we passed an alley, a man in a priest's robe suddenly rushed out and shouted:

"Two bosses, take me with you."

Leng Shan frowned, stretched out his hand and prepared to freeze the guy in front of him and throw him back to his original place.

The priest quickly said, "I know where there are good horses!"

Leng Shan changed his actions, patted the priest on the shoulder, and said, "Lead the way."

Under the guidance of the priest, the three found the place where the police department parked the carriages, and the priest unloaded three horses from the carriage of the Holy Enlightenment Church.

In order to demonstrate his role, the priest did not forget to say:

"The horses of the Holy Revelation have undergone special training. They did not become weak even when there was a big stench. They are definitely good horses."

The three of them got on their horses, and Leng Shan said, "Follow us closely, don't fall behind."

The three of them rode their horses and galloped towards Baishe Street. Leng Shan said:

"In half a minute at most, the Executioner will completely break free from the frozen state. We must find a safe place." Jian Xing remembered something and said, "Gray Church Slums! There is a special ability shelter there that can resist the steam rules of the copy plane."

"When we met before, Heping said that no matter who is chasing us, as long as we enter the slums, Mrs. Sean there will guarantee our safety."

Leng Shan asked in confusion, "Sir Sean's wife, a native of the plane?"

Jianxing nodded, "That's what Peace said."

Leng Shan had no time to hesitate and said immediately: "Believe in peace, let's go to the Gray Church Slums now!"

In the West End of Grimland, on the estate of Chancery Gascon.

When the Conservatives were doing dirty work, they would gather in this manor to discuss, and they would meet here afterwards. Within the Conservative Party and the landed aristocracy, this place was also known as the House of Lords.

However, the noble councilors who belonged to the land aristocracy had now completely fallen. Under the attack of the Arcane Knights, they did not even have time to resist and were easily defeated.

The Conservative members who came to discuss the matter were taken into a single room by the arcane knights and fed with truth serum before being questioned.

The thugs who worked under them had their hands and feet tied, their mouths gagged, and thrown into a carriage. Afterwards, they were directly sent to the police department and exiled overseas.

As for the players who joined the Conservative Party, after Wu Chang learned that the Gun God was missing, he did not make things difficult for other players. He just sent people to control them and bring them back to the Secret Security Department first.

Once the matter is over, they can be set free by paying bail.

If you can pay enough benefits, you can be released and complete the main mission; if you can't pay the ransom, you will be imprisoned until the main mission is completed.

Now that the matter has come to an end, Wu Chang asked Ravington who had walked out of the interrogation room:
"what's the result?"

Ravington shook his head slightly. "They said everything they could. Brook even said that he had an affair with Gascon's wife last weekend, but none of them admitted to launching an assassination attempt on Prime Minister Ron."

“As for the Industrialists Association, it seems to be a coincidence.”

"The conservatives who came here are all deep-rooted believers of the Holy Bishop. They are very dissatisfied with the Holy Revelation Church that Ron and Her Majesty the Queen reformed, and they are even more disdainful when mentioning the Tranquility Church."

Wu Chang shrugged and asked, "If we follow the laws of Stian and tell others about their confessed evil deeds, what sentence will they receive?"

Ravington curled his lips and said, "Gasco is the chief justice. Eighty percent of the judges in Stilan are his people. What sentence do you want him to impose?"

"Moreover, most of the cases they planned were against ordinary civilians, not involving important people or treason, and they were not punishable by death."

"Even if Gasco doesn't use his connections, he only needs to prove that he is in a bad mental state, and at most he will be temporarily imprisoned, or even acquitted."

Wu Chang said regretfully: "I wanted to give Randy and Her Majesty the Queen a favor and hand them over to the law."

"But if we really make such a ruling, wouldn't others think that the dignity of our Mystic Knights, like the laws of Stilan, can be trampled on at will? The judges may not have dignity, but I still have dignity."

He waved his hand towards the arcane knight in charge of the interrogation and said:

"Go to the manor and find some hemp ropes. They should be of good quality and strong enough to hold up. These noble lords are heavy. Don't let them fall."

Then he turned to Ravington and said:
"When we pass by Westminster on our way back, we'll find a good spot and hang them on the street lamps. Let's make it more conspicuous. Tomorrow morning, everyone passing by Westminster will be able to see them."

"So we can tell those guys watching from behind in Grimlan that the Mystic Knights will not tolerate them."

After dealing with the Conservative Party, Wu Chang brought the members of the Arcane Knights back to No. 6 Baishe Street.

When passing the Garden Square in front of Baishe Street, the convoy stopped briefly and left a dozen swaying sunny dolls on the street lights in the square before continuing to move towards Baishe Street.

When they were still a few hundred meters away from Baishe Street, Wu Chang's expression became serious. He signaled the convoy to slow down and everyone to remain alert.

He sniffed, smelling the scent of gunpowder and blood in the air.

The convoy slowly drove into Baishe Street. As soon as they entered, everyone saw Baishe Street that looked like it had been swept by bullets.

At a glance, the corpses of extraordinary people can be seen everywhere.

If they had not died in the same way, Wu Chang would have thought that the Arcane Knights were isolated by the old supernatural organization, and no one even greeted them when they lined up for a private battle.

The situation on Baishe Street was terrible, but the worst damage was to the Police Department.

Wu Chang and others entered the police station and found corpses everywhere, with a large number of police officers and secret police dead.

Unlike the battles outside, most of these ordinary people who died were killed by knife wounds or disembowelment, in a very cruel way.

Following the blood trail inside, they saw the broken door of the conference room and Acting Prime Minister Glad nailed to the wall.

Wu Chang sighed, and he knew that the player's thinking was correct.

It is useless to fight for the position of prime minister through public opinion and political tactics. Only the one who survives can become prime minister.

Now, both Glad and Gascoigne, the two favorites for the election, have been eliminated early, and Randy's competitive pressure has dropped sharply.

There were not many people left alive in the police department. After the drastic changes, even the surviving police officers were mostly unconscious and talking nonsense.

It was only then that Wu Chang followed his inspiration and found a hiding clock tower magician, and finally understood what had happened.

While they were away, the serial killer who had been wandering around Grimland at night, specializing in hunting extraordinary people, seemed to be dissatisfied with the slow hunting efficiency and directly attacked Baishe Street.

The extraordinary people tried to stop it, but were slaughtered unilaterally by the executioner and had no power to fight back.

To be precise, there was resistance at first, and three extraordinary people took action and temporarily froze the executioner into an ice sculpture.

But when the extraordinary people thought everything was over and relaxed, the executioner broke free from the freeze and continued to kill.

Not only did he kill all the remaining extraordinary people on Baishe Street, he also rushed into the police department and killed Acting Prime Minister Glad who was holding an investigation meeting in the police department.

Based on the survivors' descriptions and the attack methods of the three attackers, Wu Chang guessed that they were Leng Shan, Jian Xing and Phantom.

Judging from the Executioner's previous actions and the survivors' description of him, he must be a member of the Steam Council.

Leng Shan and Jian Xing appeared here, and were willing to expose their undercover identities and fight the Executioner. It was definitely not to protect Glad.

Most likely they were being hunted by the Executioner, and they came to the Secret Security Department for help, but ended up attracting the monster.

They attacked together with Phantom, but fled when they found they were no match for their opponent. The Executioner came over and killed Glad, then continued to chase Lengshan and Jianxing.

As long as Jianxing hadn't been beaten to the point of losing his memory, facing the executioner's pursuit, they would probably all flee to the Gray Church slums.

There should still be enough time.

Wu Chang controlled the real me and said to the clay doll: "Lend me your car, I will go save people."

The clay doll handed over the control of the car and said with some concern:
"The executioner is dangerous. Let's go with you."

The real me shook my head and said, "No need, you are responsible for staying and protecting Sir Sean."

The Executioner possesses a skill that causes large-scale damage. Ordinary extraordinary people will be killed instantly if they are hit by him. Bringing other players along will not only make him unable to help, but he will also have to distract himself to take care of them.

My true self got into the car made of clay, stepped on the accelerator to the bottom, and sped towards the Gray Church Slums.

On the other side, Lengshan, Jianxing and the priest were still five hundred meters away from the Gray Church Slums.

Five hundred meters is a very short distance at ordinary times, but at this moment it seems like an insurmountable chasm. Behind them, the thick fog belonging to the executioner has caught up with them.

Not only that, the horses under their crotch had also been killed by ultra-long-range snipers.

Although they could not see the executioner through the thick fog, they could clearly feel that they had been targeted.

It seems impossible to get through these 500 meters safely.

Leng Shan took a deep breath, his eyes became firm, and he made a decision in his heart.

He said to Jian Xing, "I will be responsible for stopping the executioner. You are quick. Fly into the slums on your sword and see if you can ask Mrs. Sean for help."

Jian Xing knew the risks and said, "The executioner's attack range is extremely long. If we separate, he might defeat us one by one. If we join forces and retreat while fighting, we may be able to enter the slums together."

While the two were arguing, the priest looked towards the slums nervously, wondering who to go with.

When he saw the gray church looming in the mist, he suddenly had an inspiration and realized something.

Before Leng Shan could continue speaking, he carefully raised his hand and said:
"Maybe I can give it a try in the last 500 meters."

(End of this chapter)