On my second playthrough, they were full of malice towards me.

"A savior? Hahaha! Did you hear that? He's actually talking about a savior! And there are actually people who believe it, who believe that prophecy, who believe that a savior will appear in this hellish world!"

After the female leader spoke, the scavengers in the square burst into wild laughter.

"Come, let me tell you, do you know where we got the hand cannon that broke down the gate to your settlement and the gun that killed you fire-bearers?"

"That's right, it came from the machine servant you mentioned."

"Impossible! Servants would never communicate with anyone, much less sell you weapons!" In his agitation, a red glint appeared in the boy's eyes.

The female leader nodded first, then shook her head.

“You’re right, that’s the ironclad rule of the machine servants, so we didn’t buy it, we stole it from them.”

"Hahaha! That's hilarious! With your meager strength, you can only bully a gathering of freshmen like us. Stealing mech servants? You're not worthy!"

"But what if it's a servant in the battle against the Turbid Calamity?"

Upon hearing the female leader's words, the boy's pupils contracted, and he looked utterly incredulous, the red light deep within his eyes intensifying.

"Your so-called saviors, those machine servants, are nothing in front of Zhuo'e, in front of monsters, in front of that witch. They are only fit to be torn to pieces. Since that's the case, we might as well do it for them. It's a waste to use these good equipment to fight against Zhuo'e. It's meaningless. What we are doing now is meaningful."

"You don't know, those mechs really do, just as you said, only attack the Turbid Monsters. Even if we ambush them from behind, as long as there are Turbid Monsters nearby, they'll still target the Turbid Monsters first. Tsk tsk."

As the female leader mocked him, the boy's mind seemed to conjure up images of his mech servants fighting for them, only to be ambushed by those who were "their own people."

This kind of thing. This kind of thing.

"I...I'm going to kill you all!!" The boy's eyes turned completely blood red, and a certain power, accompanying the boy's explosive emotions, finally descended upon him.

Under these circumstances, he successfully broke through and became a Calamity Transformer.

Unfortunately, having just become a Calamity, he was clearly unfamiliar with power and was still unable to break free from his opponent's grasp. The female gorilla leader was only slightly surprised before she used her other hand to slap the boy's head. With the leader's strength, the boy's head would definitely be smashed open.

Playing with ordinary people's male servants is fine, but for those who have been corrupted, especially those with hatred towards them and the potential to break through in battle, the right way is to kill them all.

But just then

Bang!

The sound of a sniper rifle rang out from the warehouse, followed immediately by a laser beam piercing through the female leader's large hand. She screamed in pain and immediately put the boy down. With her free hand, she kept covering her bloodied hand, which had been pierced through.

The scavengers in the square were stunned by the sudden change. After they came to their senses, they all pulled out their weapons and stared in astonishment at the source of the sniper beam.

The food silo of the survivors in that prisoner's settlement.

There, the thugs who had been guarding the warehouse had seemingly vanished without a trace, leaving only the open warehouse doors and a large number of surviving villagers who had been freed from inside.

Directly in front of these villagers stood a young man, a man they had never seen before, wearing a gray trench coat and holding a sleek, high-tech sniper rifle with smoke still rising from its muzzle.

"Who are you?!"

Regarding this question, Liao Ji glanced at the young man who had finally gotten up from the ground. He hadn't let his long wait go to waste; he had finally successfully advanced to the level of a Calamity-Transformer, truly possessing the power to resist. After pondering for a moment, he said:

"I?"

"Is it... the savior you just mentioned?"

Happy Spring Festival

Happy Chinese New Year everyone! I'm really sorry, I got dragged off to visit relatives today and I probably won't be back until very late. If I stay up all night writing when I get back, I probably won't be able to update today. I'll take a day off this month and add an extra chapter later.

(ps: Of the two volumes I've written so far, Dragon Knight 2 is complete. I'm still missing Shadow Dragon Knight and the author's personal fantasy story, which is an "what if" scenario where Xiao Liao uses tentacle props to embark on a grand adventure with a dark elf.)

(P.S.: The second playthrough is definitely not an adult game!)

Chapter 202 is malfunctioning.

Savior?

Upon hearing Liao Ji's self-introduction, the tense atmosphere among the scavengers, who were initially panicked and disoriented due to the sudden attack, was immediately alleviated.

The previous surviving teenagers already had enough to laugh at for believing that there would be a savior in this hellish world, but this newly appeared youth seems even more hopeless, actually claiming to be a savior?

It's not that they haven't seen people like this before; on the contrary, it's precisely because they've seen too many fools like this, who think they can save the world just because they've gained a little power, that they automatically included Liao Ji in their group.

Perhaps the only difference is

Is Liao Ji better looking?

The burly female leader of the scavenging thugs seemed to have forgotten about her bloodied hands and who had caused the hole in them. She was now staring intently at Liao Ji with an intensely fervent gaze.

Delicate skin and tender flesh, fair and clean

With his piercing, thick eyebrows and large eyes, his handsome, angular features, and the vibrant energy he exuded that seemed impossible in this apocalyptic era, he possessed an extraordinary vitality.

The female leader really didn't know how to describe this young man who had captivated her at first sight.

Because it really is, truly a very special kind of thing.

Even though the other party had clearly ambushed her, she was still deeply attracted by the young man's tall and straight figure. His deep eyes made her unable to extricate herself. Even the childish and ridiculous words like "savior" became a cute symbol in her ears, making her unable to resist wanting to protect this innocent and handsome boy, and embracing the young man with her strong arms.

Thinking of this, the female leader looked around at the scavenging thugs who were about to retaliate against Liao Ji. Her eyes widened in anger, her thick thighs slammed into the ground, her broad chest held its breath, and then she roared.

"Stop right there!"

The roar echoed across the square, startling many of the scavenging thugs. They looked like children in front of the two-meter-tall female leader. Seeing that the female leader had stopped them, they naturally put away their weapons and dared not make any more rash moves.

And on the other side was Liao Ji.

Ten times brighter than the sniper rifle's light, a burst of blue light erupted from the machine gun muzzle, like a dense blue storm, bombarding the rioters. Many rioters didn't even have time to scream before their bodies were pierced by the laser rain, quickly turning into grains of sand and dying in this space.

"I've disliked this pretty boy for a long time!"

That's really something.

These rioters didn't have time to brake and turn around. They stared wide-eyed, first in disbelief, then in terror as they tried to steer away, but it was too late.

Although the cool sniper rifle in Liao Ji's hand, which they had never seen before, was extremely powerful and was interpreted by the thugs as Liao Ji's Evil Transformation ability, they were not afraid, because the advantage of a sniper rifle is single-target kills, while its disadvantage is against groups of enemies.

Liao Ji lifted the combat mechanical arm, and the female leader's furious, charged attack was seized by the arm's large hand, which gripped her like an iron clamp. The female leader's strong and powerful body was utterly powerless in the face of the cold steel machinery. No matter how desperately she struggled, she was firmly held in Liao Ji's mechanical arm.

So he pointed the sniper rifle directly at the female leader's head and pulled the trigger without hesitation.

Since they've already asked, Liao Ji should at least be polite.

"What's your name!" The same familiar opening line, clearly the female leader's habitual first step in "seeking pleasure"?

the other side.

Once they swarm in, no matter how powerful that sniper rifle is, it can't just turn into a machine gun, can it?

86 gave their answer.

When they were five meters apart, the female leader, with her gorilla-like body and bulging muscles, leaped high into the air, raising her blood-red spiked club above her head. She was about to take advantage of Liao Ji's inability to move his machine gun and smash him to pieces with the club.

"Varied"

The nearly one-meter-long sniper rifle in Liao Ji's hand began to rapidly rotate, adjust, and recombine its mechanical parts like a Rubik's Cube. In the short time it took the rioters to rush out, it had already been reconstructed into a new weapon in Liao Ji's hands: a heavy machine gun with double-digit gun holes.

Bang!

Blue flames shot from the gun muzzle, but the female leader was no pushover, having become the boss of this group of scavenging thugs. Since this wasn't a sneak attack, she raised her spiked club the instant the gun fired, shielding her and successfully blocking the sniper beam.

"Damn him!"

A sniper dared to get so close to them; in the eyes of the rioters, he was no different from a fish on a chopping board.

Roar!

A furious roar, fueled by rage, erupted from the spot where the female leader had fallen. Seeing Liao Ji slaughter the scavenger group she had painstakingly built up, the female leader no longer cared about "male servants." Her eyes were bloodshot, and a strong aura of evil emanated from her entire body. The spiked club in her hand turned a deep crimson, and she was able to charge forward despite Liao Ji's barrage of gunfire.

This development seems to be quite different from what he imagined?

Next, the female leader of the thugs, whom Liao Ji had temporarily designated as the "female gorilla," didn't even bother to glance at the surviving boy she had previously captured to be her "favorite male servant." All her attention was focused on Liao Ji. She then roughly pushed aside her underlings who were blocking her way and stood directly opposite Liao Ji, who was about ten meters away.

"Fuck him!"

Before the female leader could finish uttering the word "me," the weapon in Liao Ji's hand suddenly changed shape again. After detecting the enemy's approach, it transformed from a heavy machine gun into a combat mechanical arm that wrapped around Liao Ji's arm in the blink of an eye.

Of course, although she managed to block it, the enormous impact still sent the female leader flying. Her muscular, gorilla-like body arced through the air before crashing heavily into the thugs.

Liao Ji: "."

"How dare you treat the boss like that?! All of you, attack!"

Ok.

Now we can torture them.

Liao Ji, who had just captured the female leader, was still pondering what questions to ask next when the mechanical arm in his hand suddenly moved on its own, specifically by slightly tightening the grip.

As for the result...

puff!

The female leader looked like a crushed tomato.

At the same time, Liao Ji also heard the mechanical apology voice of the maid.

"Oh dear, I'm sorry, Master, there was a mechanical malfunction just now," Number 86 said, trying to get away with it by mimicking the tone of a virtual idol on the spacecraft.

Chapter 203 Three Stories

The scavenging female leader, now a pile of minced meat and exploding all over the ground, was clearly beyond saving. This was one good thing about Zero Dream: the corpses wouldn't linger. No matter how gruesome the death, they would soon turn into sand and dust and drift away with the wind.

Because scavengers often roam the wilderness, they are a good source of intelligence, so Liao Ji had planned to interrogate the female leader first. However, due to her previous behavior, especially the fact that she had shown him that kind of interest, 86 made a small mistake.

Liao Ji must have felt a little regretful about this, but he felt more helpless than anything else.

He really wanted to correct the maid's perception. He wasn't some indiscriminate bulldozer. With such an ugly character design, there was no such thing as turning enemies into friends or whitewashing. The maid had nothing to worry about.

Meanwhile, on the other side of the square, the scavengers who had taken over the place were terrified to see their usually ruthless and brutal leader treated like a toy in front of Liao Ji's mechanical arm, and even crushed by it.

The thugs scattered and fled. It must be said that scavengers who can roam the wilderness may not be good at other things, but when it comes to escaping, they are definitely first-rate.

86 had asked if she should transform into a small drone or something similar to hunt down and annihilate these people, but Liao Ji glanced at the direction the thugs were fleeing in, which was the same direction the swarm of crawling ant beasts he had encountered near the gathering place had come from, and shook his head, indicating that there was no need to waste this time.

The rioters were driven away, but the survivors in the settlement still had a heavy heart. They looked at Liao Ji and the terrifying weapon in his hand that could change shape with fear in their eyes.

The first among these villagers to speak up was the boy who had dared to defy the female leader.

"Thank you, Lord Xie. We, the people of Kano Village, will forever remember your kindness. But we have nothing left now, and I'm afraid... I'm afraid we cannot offer you a reward that will satisfy you."