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Chapter 129 The Methods of Crushing the Other Team (6.6k)

The fat man does not possess any abilities such as "infinite regeneration".

Moreover, even if the basic attributes are enhanced and the person becomes much stronger than a normal person, it is still impossible for them to withstand the huge piece of aircraft wreckage flying towards them.

Sensing impending danger, his expression changed drastically, and he was no longer as relaxed as before.

"Boss, save me!"

Sister Xiao also noticed the situation and frowned somewhat impatiently.

However, she has no intention of giving up on the fat man.

These four teammates had been with her for a long time, and their teamwork was excellent.

If we find a new teammate, it will undoubtedly take a lot of time to get them to mesh.

As Sister Xiao took a step, everything around her, including the huge piece of airplane debris, froze in mid-air, and everyone's expression was frozen in the previous second.

The raindrops that kept falling from the sky were now suspended in mid-air, layer upon layer, dense and numerous, like a misty, indistinct rain curtain.

Time stopped flowing.

She casually tossed out a few exquisitely crafted small spheres, which then adhered to the surface of the wreckage after flying away.

Beep beep!

The red light flashed violently.

With a loud bang, the huge fragment was blasted into pieces, turning into a rain of firework behind the fat man.

The cold raindrops hit my face again, and time began to flow once more.

Some tiny fragments flew past at high speed, scraping bloody wounds on the fat man's face. The rain stung them.

The fat man had no time to worry about any of that; he was terrified and breathing heavily, his face contorted with fear.

Even after experiencing it many times, the feeling of brushing shoulders with death can still be suffocating.

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"Time stops?!"

In the white room, Gao Mingzhe pushed up his glasses perched on his nose, his eyes gleaming.

From their perspective, what they had just witnessed was extremely shocking.

Sister Xiao did nothing but take a step forward, and the huge wreckage of the plane behind the fat man was blown to pieces.

Moreover, this level of intervention doesn't seem to affect space—if it were merely a spatial-level manipulation, it would leave some clues.

Through the huge semi-transparent panel, none of them noticed that Sister Xiao had made any special move.

Therefore, it is quite reasonable to speculate that Sister Xiao can pause time.

Lu Ming analyzed, "Her time-stopping wasn't without its price, and if I'm not mistaken, time can only be paused for a very short period of time; it can't be stopped any longer."

The reason I say this is because, just a moment ago, Sister Xiao's appearance changed.

Her facial muscles have undergone subtle adjustments, making her look younger.

The change wasn't obvious, but it was very clear to Lu Ming.

“Unlike the six-layered ghost realm in the mysterious revival that can stop time, when Sister Xiao stops time, her own time will reverse at an extremely fast speed, which is equivalent to growing in reverse... If the time is stopped for too long, Sister Xiao will even return to the state of an embryo... So she can only stop time for a very short moment.”

"The side effects of this ability feel similar to an uncontrolled single-unit reboot."

"Although it is a side effect, as long as it is used properly, it will not cause much harm and can help users keep their bodies in a youthful state forever."

Although it has many limitations and cannot be used frequently in a short period of time, it is still a law involving time, and this ability is quite rare even among fifth-tier challengers.

Thinking of this, Lu Ming couldn't help but sigh.

Under the control of the Supreme God, the teams matched this time are much stronger than the teams matched in [Ghost Call] last time.

Lu Ming wasn't afraid that he was no match for his opponent.

Unfortunately, if the two teams didn't enter the dungeon at the same time, he wouldn't be able to get any equipment from those five people.

This Sister Xiao definitely has something good on her.

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The Final Destination instance.

Sister Xiao did not say anything to blame the fat man.

Since what's done is done, there's no point in saying anything more.

As long as everyone understands in their hearts that if there were a next time, even Sister Xiao wouldn't go to such great lengths to save him again.

"Death is still here, the operation continues."

Soon, the five-person team took control of the entire airport and sealed off the airport terminal.

To make amends, the fat man somehow acquired two small black trucks.

"All flights have been cancelled, so there aren't many passengers left in the airport..."

"Only these passengers are our targets for protection; the rest of the staff are not on the death list."

The skinny man who could foresee the future asked, "So, boss, we only need to manage these passengers and don't need to deal with the staff?"

With a blank expression, Sister Xiao pulled out her gun and pressed the dark muzzle against the head of a staff member who was sneaking around trying to tamper with things.

boom! ! !
Brain matter was spilled all over the ground.

"These people aren't on the Grim Reaper's list, but they're on ours. Anyone who disobeys orders will be killed."

Many airport staff who weren't on the plane had no idea how ruthless these five men were.

Originally, there were some other thoughts hidden within.

It wasn't until what they just witnessed that they realized with horror that the thinking of these five thugs could not be measured by common sense.

You have to stay put.

Otherwise, they would definitely die.

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After a flurry of activity, Fatty approached Sister Xiao and reported, "Boss, everything is ready."

"Okay, begin the transfer."

The plane explosion, along with the clearly visible wreckage, gradually made Sister Xiao see the current situation clearly.

When that so-called "Grim Reaper" takes action, he doesn't consider whether it makes sense or not.

It may have started as a series of coincidences and accidents that pieced together a disaster.

Later on, "Death" was even able to completely disregard physical rules and natural laws.

Including the staff, there are too many people in the hall, and if this goes on for too long, it will attract the officials as well.

If we stay here, the probability of an accident will increase significantly.

So Sister Xiao had Fatty prepare two small trucks and selected twenty passengers from the plane to be loaded into the trucks.

Sister Xiao didn't forget Mike, the blond guy who had been yelling about a plane crash from the beginning, or his friends.

After all, this young man is special; he's clearly destined to be a protagonist.

They might live longer than the average person.

The loading process went very smoothly, without any problems along the way.

As it turned out, Sister Xiao's decision was correct.

Just after the twenty passengers were strapped in and sent into the dark carriage, a series of faint cracking sounds came from the glass ceiling of the airport.

As everyone knows, in the world of "Final Destination," there's not much else, but the most common problem is shoddy construction.

Screws aging and loosening, load-bearing columns breaking and collapsing, suspension bridges suddenly collapsing... these accidents are quite common.

Some have even jokingly called "Final Destination" a collection of shoddy construction projects.

Those in charge of constructing these buildings should be dragged out and beheaded.

Amidst the flames, torrential rain, and the collisions with a flock of disoriented birds, cracks immediately spread across the glass roof of the airport, covering the entire dome.

Snapped! ! !
There was a crisp sound.

Countless shards of glass fell down.

The staff below and the passengers left behind had no chance to escape.

Some people were smashed into a bloody mist.

Someone was cleaved in two by a sharp piece of glass falling from above.

Some people were injured and pushed to the ground by the panicked crowd, their wounds bleeding profusely, left helpless and in agony awaiting death...
the other side.

Twenty people were crammed into the dark carriage.

They also left small holes in the walls of the compartment to facilitate ventilation.

After confirming that the truck was locked and there would be no accidents, the fat man and another team member drove the small truck out of the airport where the incident occurred.

Places with high pedestrian traffic are the most unsafe.

They now have to get away from the city.

Although there were only twenty survivors in the carriage, Sister Xiao believed that rescuing them would be more than enough.

"Boss, who set the difficulty of this dungeon? It's so unfair! The five-star dungeons I've challenged before weren't this difficult."

Sister Xiao glanced at him: "The difficulty of the dungeons in the God Space is only for the basic tasks that need to be completed... If we calculate based on the basic tasks, surviving in this world for a month is indeed not a difficult thing."

The other teammates nodded in agreement.

They were mostly Tier 5 challengers, and simply surviving in the "Final Destination" instance for a month wasn't particularly difficult.

Moreover, the danger of death was not ever-present during this month.

The five people now face a dilemma: they must save ordinary people with no abilities from the clutches of death.

These people's lives are incredibly fragile; they could die if they are not careful when disaster strikes.

Sister Xiao pulled out another lollipop from somewhere and popped it into her mouth.

"However, you don't need to worry too much. Save as many as you can. Apart from the captain being a fourth-tier player, the rest of that team are not much of a threat."

"It's too difficult to save people from the clutches of death. Whether they can even save their own lives is another matter. If you don't believe me, just wait and see. We definitely won't lose."

"..."

The small truck, carrying twenty people, drove along the highway toward a remote suburb.

Sister Xiao originally thought there would be many pedestrians and vehicles on the road, and that Death would hold them back by causing traffic jams and then create accidents similar to car crashes.

They had long been prepared for this situation.

But the road was clear all the way, and the number of pedestrians and vehicles was strangely small.

Sitting in the driver's seat, all you could hear was the dense sound of raindrops hitting the metal of the truck bed.

Of the two trucks, the one driven by the fat man was traveling behind when he suddenly heard a loud banging coming from behind him.

bang bang bang! ! !
bang bang bang! ! !
"What's going on? Weren't we told to keep those people in line and not to make any trouble?"

The fat man clicked his tongue impatiently, honked twice to signal the car in front to stop, and then got out of the car with the golden revolver in his hand.

The two people killed on the plane and at the airport were there to intimidate the crowd.

However, in the current situation, the number of survivors has been reduced to twenty through their own selection process.

Every one more we kill is one less.

So unless it's a very special situation, the fat man won't just randomly shoot and kill someone.

Holding the gold revolver was just for show.

He initially thought it was some troublemaker causing trouble again, but the fat man was stunned when he got off the bus.

Blood splattered everywhere, mixed with rainwater, and two already cold corpses lay rolled on the ground in the distance.

Nearby, a young man with curly hair was strangled by an iron chain and was lying on the ground struggling in pain.

The bloodstains on the ground indicate that he had fallen out of the truck earlier, but was pierced by the iron chain attached to the truck and dragged for several hundred meters.

The flesh on his back had completely rotted away, becoming a bloody mess. Upon seeing the fat man, he struggled to raise his hand, as if he wanted to say something, but he could no longer utter a word.

He didn't breathe his last breath, and his life ended there.

"Damn it!"

The fat man angrily slammed his fist against the wall of the room, ignoring the increasingly dense raindrops; he was so angry he wanted to kill someone.

There are now seven people left in the carriage.

The carriages were clearly locked, but these damned guys somehow managed to open the doors silently.

One by one they jumped down.

The first person to jump fell and hit the back of the head, dying instantly.

The second person who jumped off was crushed into a bloody pulp by a passing truck before he could even get up.

The scene looked incredibly tragic in the gloomy and hazy rain. The people who got out of the car in front of them also silently looked at the three bodies lying on the ground, and for the first time, they felt such a strong sense of helplessness.

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What happened next needs no further explanation.

The five-person team led by Sister Xiao took the remaining twenty-seven people to a secluded cabin on the outskirts of the city and protected them with all their might.

The attacks from "Death" are becoming increasingly terrifying.

Sister Xiao and her gang certainly have a lot of tricks up their sleeves, but they can't stop these people from dying in such a variety of ways that they just can't keep up.

The unseen and intangible "Grim Reaper" seemed to be harvesting in a certain order.

But nobody knows the exact order.

Sister Xiao grabbed Mike and interrogated him thoroughly, getting a clear and detailed account of every aspect of his hallucination.

According to Sister Xiao's speculation, the order in which Death reaps heads is likely the same as, or the opposite of, the order in which people die in Mike's dream.

But Sister Xiao soon realized that this didn't seem to be of any use.

Because in Mike's hallucination, he knew nothing after the plane exploded.

Who would care about who dies first or last before they die?

In the end, the five paid a heavy price, constantly guarding against the death traps laid by Death.

I spent thirty days in a safe house on the outskirts of the city.

Of the twenty-seven, only Mike remained.

Countless supernatural items were also consumed during this period.

The fat man even lost an arm in an accident and can only undergo full recovery by spending 300 points after the dungeon ends.

For them, this was a stroke of good luck amidst misfortune.

Several times, they themselves almost escaped death's pursuit and were left forever in the instance.

The leader of the group, Sister Xiao, used her ability to pause time several times at crucial moments, which caused her to enter the dungeon as a mature woman in leather clothes and pants, but to emerge as a cool little girl.

The leather jacket and pants he was wearing looked very mismatched, as if a child had secretly put on an adult's clothes.

"Boss, in this past month, we've only managed to save one person from the clutches of death... Can we win?"

Sister Xiao was now completely exhausted, lacking the energy for her usual antics. She said wearily, "Normally, it's just the few of us directly confronting those monsters. But after entering this instance, I realized how tedious it is to lead a bunch of useless trash..."

"Saving one person is already the limit. Even if they learn some of the rules of the dungeon through our experience, they still can't save a person from death."

In many competitive activities, more participants are not necessarily better.

Teammates who are like pigs are more terrifying than opponents who are like gods.

They are not incapable of playing a significant role.

Rather, it's already considered a drag on the team.

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Outside the copy.

Lu Ming gave a stiff smile without showing any emotion.

This team has a very high average level.

Especially Captain Xiao Jie, who can even manipulate the laws of time. Although she doesn't usually take action, she can use her abilities to save her teammates or make key moves to change the course of the battle at crucial moments.

Moreover, when several high-level challengers work together well, the combined effect is definitely greater than the sum of its parts (1+1>2).

"This is a good thing for me. To be honest, this team-based arena dungeon is more difficult than any dungeon I've ever challenged before..."

"My current accumulated points are not far from the points required to become a fifth-tier challenger. Maybe after this, I can directly become a fifth-tier challenger."

The better you perform in the dungeon, the more points you will receive.

Therefore, the stronger the opponent he was matched with, the more excited Lu Ming became.

Perhaps this can be considered as benefiting from the matchmaking mechanism to some extent.

Led by Sister Xiao, the five people left the "Final Destination" instance and returned to the white room in the Main God Space.

Sister Xiao looked at Lu Ming and gave him a malicious smile: "Good luck to you."

Lu Ming didn't respond, but couldn't help laughing.

His smile was seen as blatant mockery by the five people opposite him.

But Lu Ming wasn't actually being sarcastic.

He laughed simply because the contrast between Sister Xiao's behavior before and after was too great.

The last time we met, she was so nonchalant, acting like a tough, bossy woman.

Now she's transformed into a little girl with her hands on her hips.

However, the disdainful expression on his face remained unchanged.

Lu Ming thought to himself, "If this Sister Xiao doesn't want to become an embryo, or a toddler who can't even speak, she probably won't be able to use the ability to stop time for a long time."

As for what Sister Xiao said in the previous instance about Lu Ming learning about the [Final Destination] instance through them, that's pure nonsense.

Lu Ming did not deny that the team was quite strong.

But it's only just good.

Their understanding of the "Final Destination" instance is still at a rather superficial level.

As for the subsequent actions, Lu Ming had already made plans in his mind.

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When the two teams meet, the halftime transition period is not long.

Soon, Lu Ming and his group of five entered the instance.

Just like the process of entering the dungeon before, there was a complete darkness where nothing could be seen.

Then, a specific scene appeared from the darkness.

It was midday, and sunlight filtered through the leaves, casting dappled shadows on the ground.

There were elderly professors riding bicycles around, as well as blonde, blue-eyed, and well-built American female college students.

Let's take a look at the architectural design not far away.

It can be basically determined that this is a university in the United States.

Jiang Zi asked in confusion, "Why aren't we on flight 180?"

Lu Ming did not provide an answer.

However, he knew very well that the Supreme God was not so kind as to let them relive the events of the first "Final Destination" movie.

In that case, what's the difference between this and copying the answer?
A girl walked towards the five people.

The girl was a student at the university. She had dark skin, but she wasn't a pure Black person—mixed-race people like her were quite common here.

Lu Ming recognized her at a glance; she was Daisy, the female protagonist of the sixth installment of "Final Destination," a bloodline curse.

Daisy and he seemed to know each other well; in her memory, Lu Ming seemed to be her classmate.

Despite not doing anything, Lu Ming and the others still triggered the plot under the powerful intervention of the Supreme God.

"Hey Ming, I'm not in a good mood. I've heard that you Chinese people all know kung fu and even the magic of exorcising ghosts and summoning gods. Can you help me?"

Classic Chinese people know kung fu.

What is this ultimate stereotype?
Lu Ming was taken aback at first, then replied as naturally as possible, "No problem, Daisy, go ahead."

So the group found a shady spot and listened to Daisy's story.

According to Daisy, she has been having the same dream on repeat for the past few days.

The protagonist of the dream was her maternal grandmother.

My grandmother was very young at the time, and she was dancing on the rooftop of a high-class restaurant at an upper-class gathering.

The decorations here are extremely luxurious, and all sides are made of glass, offering unobstructed views of the scenery high above.

A waiter accidentally hit the crystal chandelier overhead while opening a bottle of red wine.

The falling glass shards hit the ground, cracking the glass floor.

Even more outrageous, a kid on the rooftop threw a coin against the wind.

As a result, the coin was blown into the pipe by the wind...

These seemingly small incidents, when linked together, triggered a series of butterfly effects that led to the collapse of what was arguably the most luxurious rooftop restaurant in the country.

Everyone who attended the party died, without exception. The scene was extremely gruesome. Some were smashed to pieces by the heavy piano, some were decapitated by elevators, and many more were killed by falling from great heights...

"So, your grandmother really did die in that disaster?"

Chen Xin asked a very crucial question.

Daisy shook her head: "No, she's doing just fine living alone in the countryside."

Upon hearing this, Chen Xin was unsure of the specific situation and could only look at Lu Ming.

After pondering for a moment, Lu Ming said, "I can't help you with just these descriptions. How about this, if you don't mind, you can take us to your home so I can understand the situation first."

The reason for saying this was certainly not because Lu Ming wanted to know more about Daisy's family situation.

It's no exaggeration to say that Lu Ming knows her family better than Daisy does.

Although they traveled to the timeline of Final Destination 6, this timeline is actually earlier than the first movie.

Only Daisy's family made it onto the Grim Reaper's list.

Judging from the initial number of players, it seems that Xiao Jie's team doesn't have an advantage.

But in fact, it is quite the opposite.

Lu Ming only needs to protect seven members of this family to complete both the extra mission and the team competition mission.

Daisy took him home simply to better protect Daisy's family.

"According to the original plot, as long as Grandma doesn't leave the safe house, no one can kill her."

"However, things are probably not that simple. The Main God Space has never been so kind."

Lu Ming analyzed the situation step by step in his mind.

It's unlikely that the mission can be accomplished by preventing the grandmother from leaving the safe house.

But even if he couldn't do that, Lu Ming had other options.

He has made ample preparations.

If he could really do it, let alone a month, Lu Ming could get this family off the Grim Reaper's list forever.

This is a dimensional reduction attack achieved by leveraging information asymmetry.

This approach fundamentally crushes the behavior of Sister Xiao and her group who used brute force to defy the rules.

"The only way to defy the rules is with stronger rules."

"But no one is sure how strong the rule that death is inevitable is."

"Therefore, the only remaining option is to comply with the rules and solve the problem within the scope permitted by the rules."

　Where the plot seems to flow smoothly, it won't be divided into chapters. Therefore, the word count for each chapter is not fixed; the word count will be indicated in the title. The price is set by Qidian based on the word count.
　　
　
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