Abyss Express

Chapter 439 Act.1 Straight to the Heart

Foreword:

When dealing with people, keep this in mind—

——People are not perfect rational creatures, they are dominated by emotions and prejudices, vanity and arrogance are the source of their motivation.

Dale Carnegie丨The Weakness of Human Nature

[Part ① Crossing the restricted area]

Outside the arena, the players of Fairy Tale Kingdom are also watching this game. There are four qualifying places in the Daji Township Division, and the last lucky one will be selected from the Amethyst and Zebra Power teams.

On the bus to the capital of District 41, the team members chattered about the day after tomorrow's schedule, and two old gamblers from the coaching staff were discussing the odds. The gunsmith happened to be taking an afternoon nap, covering his face with a sun hat and leaning against the car window with his head tilted.

Only Qi Ji's pupils constricted, staring at the live broadcast of the match.

The score stayed at one to one tie, and the final match between Amethyst and Zebra Power was about to begin.

From the entry of players from both sides, to the preparation of weapons in the activity area, to the tactical arrangement, until the end of the game——

——Qi Ji paid close attention to the two people on the field.

One of them he knew was Fiego Sebasti.

This kid could decide the outcome of this match, and in the final round of the endurance battle, only Fiego remained in a state of high concentration.

In Qi Jiyan's eyes, this attitude of unity of spirit and body and concentration is too familiar. That was the look in the gunsmith's and Daniel's eyes when they were on standby, with their pupils constricted and relaxed.

The other one he didn't know was Marley Perrault, who shocked everyone when he debuted.

He still doesn't know where the Zebra Power team found this player. There is indeed such a player on the roster-but he has never played before, only as a substitute for the attacker.

But the endurance of this substitute is too scary. At one point, Brother Qi Ji, who was watching the game seriously, scolded.

"I'm super! Hang up!"

Marley Perot's performance in the first two games was amazing, and there were many things that Qi Ji couldn't understand. As an attacker, this young red-haired brother is anti-common sense and anti-humanity in all aspects.

His sense of smell on the battlefield is very keen, as if he brought a biosignal recognition radar and opened a perspective.

His ability to continuously move is ridiculously strong, and he can withstand 1,500 meters of running and marching in different environments and terrains with different height differences and slopes.

His positioning ability is also one of the best. In the Daji Township competition area, only a few attackers can match him.

Qi Ji can use the worksheet in his brain to build a file library for each player, go through all the battle reports of Daji Township, and record the players' performance on the field.

In the roster of No. 2 personnel, Daniel's killing efficiency can be ranked among the top five in the first echelon. As a breakthrough player, Fiego Sebasti is actually more suitable for the attacker's position, and his positioning ability and killing efficiency are also good. Can squeeze into the top ten.

In addition, there are several very powerful attackers, including Zhou Yuncang, the captain of the Jinhao Club in the Daji Township Division, Bruce Carter, the attacker of the Fenglan Club, and the eliminated chainsaw killer.

There is nothing special about putting Marley Perot in this table at first glance, but the reason why Qi Ji thinks this guy is cheating is because of Marley Perot's very counter-intuitive performance on the field.

"This guy is like a robot when it starts and stops."

Qi Ji frowned and murmured softly, staring closely at Marley Perot, who was moving at high speed in the arena, and switched the perspective of the player's drone provided by the broadcaster to the red-haired boy.

"Why? Why doesn't he seem to need a break? Why? There must be something wrong!"

Looking at Mary Perrault from the perspective of Qi Ji, he can find many surprising doubts——

——Qi Ji is a serious game player, who disassembles the game into the simplest labor, that is, using the keyboard, mouse handle, or even voice and other sensors to input the corresponding commands and complete the corresponding operations.

This process is very intuitive, and the actions of the game characters are highly unified with the responses of the human brain.

When the player is tired, the game character will also be stiff, and the player needs to adapt to the rhythm of the battle. The game character will be like dancing, with a unique beat rhythm, to arrange various skills to feedback the strike effect.

Marley Perot's performance on the field made Qi Ji feel terrified——

— because this guy is like a robot, like a script that doesn't know the rest.

There are many very difficult games in the world that require players to deal with the high-speed environment in the game with high-frequency and high-intensity input.

They don't talk about timing, they just test players' hands and brains.

Even this kind of game will specially adopt elements such as [playing frame] to let the player rest for a while, because the human brain has a limit, like Tetris at 256 times speed, there will also be a settlement screen. Let the player relax.

But the way Marley Perot played, there was hardly any rhythm at all.

Since the start of the competition, he has been challenging the physiological limits of Homo sapiens. The quality of each of his positioning shots is terribly high. In the three games, the time for rushing into the same building and crossing the corridors was surprisingly consistent, and the difference between the before and after data was only a few tenths of a second.

It seems that it is not so appropriate to describe Marley Perot's performance as a stable play.

In Qi Ji's eyes, he was like a cheater who turned on motion-assisted aiming, and his physical strength far surpassed other players.

The final bout was a massacre, as the rest of the team was exhausted, emphasizing Marley Perrault's dominance of the endgame.

"This guy has a problem, definitely has a problem." Qi Ji muttered involuntarily in a low voice: "In the endurance battle of continuous high-speed movement, the two teams fought for more than an hour, and he can still maintain the most perfect state. It is in line with common sense that no amount of powerful supplements can achieve this effect.”

"If the Zebra Power Team has this miracle drug, why not give it to other players? Is Marley Perot a Morpho? Does he have Soul Power? Can it keep him at his best? I don't understand"

"It's time to decide the winner."

"Fiego Sebastian, come on!"

Unknowingly, Qi Ji actually sided with Fyego.

The reason is also very simple. Like him, Fiego has a heart that does not want to lose——

——From the perspective of the drone, Marley Perrault's demeanor made Qi Ji feel inexplicably uncomfortable.

That kind of eyes that are obviously dominant but extremely irritable and depressed, the combination of the two is so weird.

It seems that Marley Perot doesn't care about winning or losing the game at all. This dark horse never pays attention to Amethyst's opponents. It seems that everyone he meets in the game is an unsightly stumbling block.

The first and second arrays of Amethyst completely collapsed before approaching the two boxes of the red tower. The physical strength of the sentry tarantulas bottomed out, and the speed of the entire team was two positions behind the zebra power. , the game is about to end.

Marley Perot crossed the line of defense of the first team and broke into the restricted area of ​​the second team.

"Oops." It was too late for Qi Ji to scream out.

What can the desire to win make a person achieve? How far can you take him?

Fiego Sebasti handed over his answer sheet. The final score was 4 minutes and 13 seconds, and his personal score stayed at 18 points.

The two teams met in the supermarket, and at the moment of the exchange of fire, Amethyst's defeat was sealed.

Relying on the speed and stamina of Marley Perot, the Zebra Power team obtained the opportunity to select a spot in advance to invite the king to enter the urn, and firmly caught the invading enemy with bullets, and took away the two cores of the second array in just one attack player.

When Tamiya Yingtai's voice was offline, the tired captain didn't even leave a useful instruction, and both the support hand and the support hand were out.

For the next thirteen seconds, Qi Ji didn't dare to take a breath.

It was Fiego Sebasti versus Marley Perrault, their solo performance.

The gunshot was the unwilling roar of the breakthrough player, but in exchange for blood stains all over his body and serious bullet injuries.

At the moment when Fiego scored 18 points with his shooting skills and was almost out of ammunition, Marley Perot, like a cruel executioner, gave all the remaining bullets in the gun to this unruly-looking man. breakthrough hands.

Perhaps it was because the scene was too cruel. When Fiego was shot, the director immediately switched the scene back to a panoramic bird's-eye view, and replayed the scene of the supermarket encountering firefights.

Qi Ji opened his mouth slightly, his face became very ugly, like a discouraged ball, he suddenly lowered his head and clenched his fists.

Even though he couldn't hear what the contestants were saying, he was able to decipher a few words of trash talk from the shape of his lips and the way Marley Perot shot from the gun.

"Who allowed you to look at me like that?"

"What an eyesore! Difficult to deal with! Can it hurt me? Die! Garbage!"

The bullet pierced through Foyego's right eye, and the live broadcast also cut away at this moment.

This made Qi Ji furious, even if he was not a member of Amethyst, even if he was once in the same boat as Fiego Sebasti, a bayonet opponent.

"Marley Perrault."

"This guy is definitely a cheater!"

"If it was the live ammunition rule, Fiego would be dead"

"He wants to kill! He doesn't take his opponent's life seriously."

"Is this guy a hybrid beast?"

At this time, the rematch in Daji Township had ended, and the other members of Fairy Tale Kingdom finally started to watch the replay video, to get the best of it, and let the director select the most precious few shots from the long hour. Kill the footage and make it into a highlight show for them to watch.

Marley Perot's personal performance is very eye-catching——

——From the perspective of the post-match video, since the other players’ physical energy has already been exhausted, he is like an adult walking into a kindergarten. Every time a firefight is fought, it is like an adult beating a child. It is unilateral of crushing.

Daniel and Brother Hao were dumbfounded. They had never competed in an endurance race, and they had never seen such a scene.

After a while, Brother Hao became excited and started to praise Mary Perot.

"What a ruthless gun!"

"No!" Qi Ji shouted immediately: "No! Ah Hao! No! This guy has a problem!"

Daniel turned his head and looked at the team leader suspiciously: "Miracle, you think there is something wrong with this person? But judging from the post-match video, it seems that he is only relatively strong in all aspects, and he is not particularly top-notch."

"No, no, no, no!" Qi Ji couldn't explain clearly in a few words, so he scratched his nose anxiously: "No, I can't describe it, it's hard to explain it in two or three sentences."

Younger sister Kathy is even more important, she can be regarded as the kind whose three views follow the five senses——

—Marley Perrault had the same beautiful red hair as Husburn Madison, whom she had admired since she was a child.

"This guy is a bit handsome! Captain! You have to give a good reason! Otherwise, how can you slander others? Is there something wrong with him if he looks stronger?"

"JK!" Qi Ji was already getting annoyed, his expression was distorted, he didn't know what to say, and he choked out a few angry voices: "This guy definitely has a problem! You should think about it after watching the whole game video!"

Everyone is silent——

——Qi Ji felt quite embarrassed and asked tentatively.

"Could it be...you never watch the original video of the game?"

Ah Hao replied carelessly: "We watch movies with a three-minute commentary and watch the whole movie! Now is the fast-paced era of self-media."

Daniel went on to explain: "There are too many battle reports in the past few days. We all look at the slices after the game to understand the opponent. If I have enough time this time, I will take a good look at this opponent."

"Coach! What about you?" Qi Ji turned to Shark Pepper for help.

Shasha also looked like an enemy, and it answered seriously——

"——I watched the whole game, team members, this guy is really strong, ridiculously strong, if the player ID is masked, I think he should be a Morpho unit."

Little Shark specially saved the live video and pulled the progress bar back to the moment of the final round, when Fiego Sebasti and Marley Perot exchanged fire.

Now the team members are silent——

——Foyego's brains were knocked out by Marley Perrault. Mrs. Bai's product saved his life, but it will definitely leave serious sequelae.

When Ah Hao saw this scene, he roared angrily: "What does this guy want to do?! Does he want to kill someone?"

Daniel was more rational, and could distinguish the gunshot from the noisy environment: "He shot Fiego four times in the head, and he will be punished by the organizing committee. This is against the rules."

In the post-match interview, there was a lot of controversy about Marley Perot, especially the execution of Fiego Sebasti. These four bullets were too dangerous and deadly.

In order to protect the player, the coaching staff and business representatives of the Zebra Power team collected a lot of video materials to provide evidence, showing that in previous games, Fiego Sebasti's shooting habit was also aimed at other people's vital brains. He reluctantly gave an explanation—even brought out the grievances between Foyego and the fairy tale kingdom, and wanted to discredit Foyego as a lewd and rude athlete who covets the buttocks of female players.

All this off-court noise aside, Amethyst's journey is over.

This year they are doomed to miss the Twelve-Stone Gold Cup, and they will have the opportunity to touch the [Cauldron of Dagda] in the coming year to chase after this supreme Holy Grail—it is the holy vessel that represents fertility in Celtic mythology, and it is also Prototype of the Sage's Cup at Lahad Academy of Magic.

[Part② Gauntlet]

The gunsmith who had been silent all this time suddenly poked his head——

"—I think Qi Ji is right."

The friends all turned their heads and looked at this living legend.

Jiang Xueming picked up his mobile phone, and immediately after the game ended, he contacted Amethyst's coach to get some useful information from Toussaint.

He slept for more than two hours, and only watched the beginning and end of the game. It was just such a little content, but Jiang Xueming felt a familiar and friendly taste.

Until he took off his gloves, removed the shackles of fragrant dreams, and put the Heart of Steel on his ring finger again, even through the TV screen, he could clearly realize that the divine power on Marley Perrault probably came from Crazy Butterfly.

He and Crazy Butterfly have been chasing and killing each other for so many years, and countless young talents have been born in many evil sects. Their combat styles are ever-changing, but the composition of the essence is not bad. They all rely on the holy blood and Vita brand, and human flesh as fuel, working together to run a high-speed engine.

Jiang Xueming could see the problem at a glance—Marley Perot was probably not a Homo sapiens, and he had little relationship with the Calamity Beast, so he should be a blood-granting unit.

"Coach Toussaint will send the injured players to the big hospital in the capital for treatment. They are recuperating in the Renxin Hospital. I want you to visit, bring some fruit, and have a good chat with them. Especially Fiego Seba Stie, he must have been impressed with Marley Perrault, remember the man."

Ah Hao immediately asked: "Teacher! This guy has a problem? Do you want to report to the organizing committee?"

"Continue to compete, there are millions of people watching you, leave the rest to me." Xue Ming opened the window and took out the summons bell from his pocket.

The clear bell rang, and the friends were refreshed, and finally realized that the situation was not as simple as they thought.

Anonymous's big head shakes people——

——The last time the gunsmith's summons bell rang, it was the war time.

When everyone came to their senses, the gunsmith had disappeared. He jumped off the highway and wanted to return to the competition area of ​​Daji Township to find out the background of Marley Perot and catch the mastermind behind it.

Six hours later, a young man who was seriously injured and was about to recover was pushed out of the emergency room of Renxin Hospital.

Fiego Sebasti's right eye is still blind, and was destroyed by bullets beyond human form——

——Sitting on the hospital bed, he has regained consciousness, but his inner world has almost collapsed.

In the same ward with him, there is also the captain Eitai Tamiya and coach Toussaint.

Like Toussaint's early experience, Viego lost more. Except for his eyesight, he couldn't smell anything, couldn't speak, and I'm afraid it would take a long time to recover.

The bullet opened his brain, but healed part of the brain tissue in an instant. These suddenly disconnected synapses need time to recover, and panacea cannot cure this kind of damage.

Hasben Madison was cut into pieces by [Gate of Heaven], and it was thanks to Canaan's life that he could retain his complete consciousness.

Taussaint sat by the bed in silence, sticking nicotine tablets on his arm. He wanted to smoke very much, and the pressure almost destroyed this middle-aged man.

"It's my fault, kid."

"I misjudged the situation and underestimated the strength of the enemy."

Toussaint almost subconsciously called his opponent "the enemy" because what Marley Perot did was inexcusable.

"It's my problem, don't blame yourself, it's my problem."

As the captain, Tamiya Eita stood up to speak for the coach at the moment——

"——It's my fault! It's because I'm not strong enough that Foyego got so badly injured! It's my fault!"

Fiego Sebasti couldn't speak. He was holding a pen and paper, with a heart rate and blood pressure sensor clamped on his thumb. He was stunned for a long time, not knowing what to write.

How long does it take for the body to heal from an injury? He doesn't know, he doesn't know.

He remembered the arrogance and contempt in Marley Perrault's eyes when he shot him, almost forever.

"I do not want--"

"--lose."

When the last typed word was slowly written out, before Verego realized what it was, tears had already fallen on the paper.

With the last stroke of the English word LOSE, the ink smudges along with the teardrops.

Toussaint sighed: "It's over, boy. I may not be able to stay in the club anymore-and you are the same. If the injury doesn't heal, you still won't be able to speak in the coming year."

Speaking of this, the coach lowered his head, not daring to look into Foyego's eyes.

Tamiya Eitai: "It's all my fault! It's my fault! I didn't protect Foyego! Coach Toussaint! Please don't talk about frustration! I don't know who loves knights more than you! I don't know Who else can replace you and continue to coach Amethyst me."

Fiego just stared blankly, continuing to write lines on the paper.

Repeat "I don't want to lose", repeat, repeat.

He still didn't realize that his opponent, Marley Perot, had taken some extra-game measures.

He didn't care about the trash talking in the final round, he only thought it was a psychological tactic, and he didn't care about the four bullets aimed at his head, because he also aimed at the vital parts of his head in the game, maybe as long as he was a little bit stronger and faster. Little by little, it was Marley Perrault lying on the hospital bed.

He just doesn't want to lose.

Right now, right now.

The visitor application came to coach Toussaint's mobile phone, and the staff at the nurse's station invited the players from Fairy Tale Kingdom into the ward.

When Ahao and Fyego looked at each other——

——Ah Hao's eyes can spew fire.

However, Fyego's expression was as if he saw the girl he liked, and he became coy and wanted to hide under the quilt-this made him feel ashamed and made him feel ashamed.

Daniel wanted to stop him, but he didn't.

The little shark also wanted to stop it, but couldn't stop it anymore.

When Ahao passed Coach Toussaint and pulled Fyego out of the quilt, he carefully observed Fyego's eyes and the bald right half of his head.

"What did Marley Perrault do to you?! Viego! Why do you look like a dead man? Did he break your soul?"

Ahao was furious. He fiddled with Fiego's eyelids, carefully observed the out-of-focus eyeballs, saw the spiral texture of the wound, and finally realized that Marley Perot seemed to have a unique spiritual skill. Force can't be so terrifying.

"This bastard!"

Tamiya Eita shouted loudly: "He is a patient! Calm down! Hao!"

Ahao put down Foyego angrily, and sat on the side of the hospital bed with his arms folded, not knowing what to say.

When Fyego recovered a little bit of energy, he wrote a few words on the note and said it to Ahao.

"Thank you for coming to see me."

"I'm no match for that guy."

"If we can meet each other in the city competition, I hope you can defeat him."

Little Shark and Coach Toussaint were still discussing information about the Zebra Power Team on one side, while Ahao on the other side was bluffing when he saw the note.

"Do you want me to help you avenge?! Viego!"

Ah Hao tore the note into pieces and threw it into the air, turning it into snowflakes.

"I won't agree to the entrustment of this bitch! Get up! Come to my team! Let's go and settle accounts with that red-haired boy!"

Fiego was stunned for a while, then suddenly looked at Coach Toussaint.

Taussaint thought for a while, and whispered a few words to Shasha.

"It's not impossible. Both Yingtai and I can continue to participate in the city competition as members of the Fairy Tale Kingdom—Foyego, but I don't know your body."

Before he finished speaking, Fiego immediately got up from the bed, performed six sets of push-ups for everyone on the spot, and used the steel pipe for fishing bottles as fitness equipment to do pull-ups vigorously.

The little nurse who could see the change of dressing was taken aback for a while.

"Can it move? So it can move?"

In the Zebra Power training room—

——Marley Perot was wearing an oxygen barrier mask, hitting the sandbag again and again, challenging his physical limit.

He was very satisfied with this body, and the monster of unknown origin didn't seem so hideous anymore.

Eye of the Storm: "People are not perfect rational creatures, they are ruled by emotions, they are swayed by prejudice, vanity and arrogance are the source of their motivation - Fiego Sebasti, you defeated him and shattered him. Completely beat this arrogant kid, which means you are stronger than him."

Marley didn't reply, a strong sense of hunger was urging him to continue training and keep getting stronger.

An hour ago, he led the team to a big victory, and he was hungry after the interview.

He was looking forward to stronger opponents and more delicious food.

The fist and the sandbag collided together, and there were bursts of crisp sounds from the rammed sand——

——That is the divine power of the eye of the storm, and the serious soul power.

It was the spiral wind that he deliberately attached to the four bullets that destroyed Fiego Sebasti.

Fingerprints were left on the outer skin of the sandbag, but the sand inside had already begun to swirl, drawn by the berserk spiritual energy, turning into a high-speed whirlpool.

This powerful spiritual force destroyed Foyego's consciousness almost instantly. When the first bullet hit Foyego's eye socket, it almost smashed his brain into pieces.

The spirit thread attached to the warhead is like a frenzied tornado, which can cause very terrifying tearing injuries.

"Keep going, Marley Perrault."

Eye of the Storm said so.

"Continue to become stronger, fully grasp the power of soul power, and defeat the gunsmith's students."

"In the eyes of the audience, at the scene of the urban hegemony competition where tens of millions of people are watching, tell people with your strength-you have to challenge the gunsmith and defeat your idol as an admirer!"

With one punch, the sandbag burst.

The scattered sand turned into a horizontal tornado, leaving a horrible spiral wound on the wall.

Like a typhoon vortex on a weather map of the earth, the sand grains are completely embedded in the wall.

Marley Perot took off his oxygen barrier mask, breathing heavily, his eyes became excited. The hunger is getting stronger, and it seems that it has found a suitable prey.

"Yes, you're right! I'm going to beat the gunsmith's student! Then the gunsmith!"

"The next one is you!"