Others are fighting hard but I am the first to show off. I am rated S?

Xiaoguai rubbed his eyes, looked at Li Jing, then looked at their tightly clasped hands, and his eyes instantly lit up.

"Brother Li Jing?"

"I was afraid you would catch a cold, so I carried you to your room after you fell asleep."

"Then... then doesn't that mean you have seen all of my room, Brother Li Jing?"

For some reason, Xiaoguai felt inexplicably shy and his little face turned red.

Li Jing laughed and said, "Why, do you have anything that is not allowed to be seen in public?"

Xiaoguai shook his head, quickly glanced at the photo on the desk, lowered his head, bit his lip, and asked nervously:

"When Brother Li Jing sees my room, will he think I'm childish and like a kid who hasn't grown up yet?"

Li Jing felt a little strange. Isn't it normal for a girl to have such a pink and romantic little house? Which girl wouldn't like such a tender pink color and these furry stuffed toys?

"I feel pretty good." He touched the girl's head.

Xiaoguai was silent for a moment, and the little hand holding his clenched slightly.

"Brother Li Jing, I don't want people to think that I'm still a child who hasn't grown up, because I don't want to be a burden to others anymore."

Her gaze drifted towards the yellowed photo under the dim light, and her eyes contained countless inexplicable and complex emotions.

"I have never been able to do anything since I was a child. I have no talent or ability. I can do nothing except listen to adults and be a good child. When disaster strikes, I can't help at all. I am just a waste and a burden."

She raised her delicate and slender arm. If you ignore the scars on it, it would definitely be a perfect work of art.

But its perfection also reveals its fragility.

When the end of the world comes and the darkness and cruelty of human nature are exposed due to the crisis of survival, those so-called exquisite works of art are not even as good as a bag of food, a box of gunpowder, or a kitchen knife.

"Such a fragile body can only become a drag on others, dragging down oneself and dragging down other people's lives."

"When monsters suddenly appeared in this city, when danger and death came, I could only hide behind my parents trembling, useless and powerless."

"Sometimes I wish I could be strong enough to protect them, but I'm so weak that I can't do anything."

"Sometimes I really hope they can abandon me as a burden. If they leave me behind, they will definitely live a better life. However, just to protect a burden like me, they sacrificed themselves and saved me."

"My parents died just like that. Because they were a burden to me, they used their lives to find a way for me to avoid the nightmare beasts and survive in this apocalypse. But they will never come back and will never appear by my side again."

Xiaoguai's tone became sad and low, and his eyes were filled with tears as he looked at the photo.

"Brother Li Jing."

She held his little hand tighter and tighter, as if she was grabbing the last straw to save her life when she was drowning.

Unable and unwilling to let go.

"I put this photo of my parents on the table and carry it with me all the time, as if they are still with me."

"But every time I see this photo, I will think of the scene where my parents died to save me. It's a nightmare that repeats in my mind over and over again, reminding me that it was me, a useless burden, who dragged down my parents and caused their death."

"Little boy."

Li Jing held the girl in his arms with heartache, and his broad arms gently covered the scars in the girl's heart like a soft feather coat.

"Don't blame yourself for this. You are not a burden, nor a nuisance. In such a dark and cruel apocalypse, it is precisely because of the existence of kind and lovely people like you that people can still be full of yearning and hope for the future."

"Your parents must have come to their senses, so..."

-

Tian'an City.

The unconscious Xu Hao finally opened his eyes and woke up.

"Brother Hao!"

"Brother Hao, you're awake!"

"Brother Hao, how are you?"

"I'm fine!"

Xu Hao sat up from the bed, waved his hand and smiled heartily.

"He Jian, Guan Zhi, Xie Ke, thank you for taking care of me during this period of time!"

The light from outside the window illuminated his broken body on the white sheets. Everyone responded to Xu Hao's heroic voice with enthusiasm and strength, but there was a hint of sadness in their eyes.

Although Brother Hao doesn't seem to be mentally traumatized, he has lost a leg and an arm. Will he still be able to fight in the future?

Having lost Brother Hao, our backbone, where will our future go?

Xu Hao looked at the expressions of the people around him, as well as the negative emotions that were not well concealed, and suddenly slapped the bed sheet.

"He Jian, bring me a knife!"

"Brother Hao?" He Jian looked into his eyes in surprise.

Xu Hao slapped him on the forehead and said carelessly, "Hurry up, what's the point of being so fussy?"

Soon, He Jian brought over a kitchen knife.

Just when everyone was curious about what Xu Hao was going to do with the knife, he raised the kitchen knife with his only remaining left hand and chopped off the scab on his broken leg!

"Brother Hao!"

"Brother Hao, what are you doing!"

"Don't let it get you down!"

Just as everyone was dumbfounded by Xu Hao's actions and stepped forward to stop him, a shocking scene occurred.

At the cross section of the wound, countless flesh and blood poured out one after another, forming bones, muscles, skin...

It turned out to be flesh and blood regeneration, and soon a new leg grew out!

"My dear brothers, I know that seeing me so badly injured, you may feel a little discouraged about the future."

Xu Hao cut off the scab on his broken right arm with another knife. New flesh and blood continued to regenerate from the wound. This tough guy didn't even frown, as if he didn't feel any pain at all.

"But we haven't lost yet, and we can't lose! We still have the courage and strength!"

"Brothers, from the moment we obtain the source of power, we should no longer be bound by common sense and regulations."

"Source power is not just used to strengthen our physical fitness and enable us to break the limits of the human body. It is a power beyond common sense, an extraordinary power! We must use our imagination, make bold assumptions, carefully verify, and actively explore and master the use of this power."

"Regeneration of flesh and blood, this is the way to use the source power that I realized in my mind while I was in a coma. But the limit of this power is far more than this. I have a hunch that flying into the sky, calling the wind and rain, moving mountains and filling the sea, these will not be impossible in the future."

"Perhaps even now, someone has used the source power to perform sword energy and light waves that only appear in novels."

Seeing everyone staring in amazement, Xu Hao smiled, patted everyone on the shoulder and said:

"So brothers, we can't give up hope. Hope is not something we can just talk about, but it requires us to actually take action and pursue it."

He suddenly jumped up from the bed, walked to the window, and waved his hand towards the distance with heroic spirit.

"With such magical power in our hands, why can't we fight against the Nightmare Beast King?"

After Xu Hao woke up, he quickly boosted everyone's low morale, and the team's cohesion was once again tightly consolidated.

Under his encouragement, people in the team soon figured out how to use source power to release high-temperature flames, use source power to make weapons in their hands sharper and stronger, and even temporarily wrap source power around bullets to give them penetrating and explosive effects.

Hope is never just something we say.

Xu Hao's awakening, as well as the cohesion and drive of their team, made many viewers who were watching them feel the existence of hope.

Feel the shining light of humanity.

His popularity and that of his team members are rapidly increasing on Blue Star.

At this time, the person Xu Hao mentioned who might have learned to release sword energy waves was hiding in the corner of a building in a panic, avoiding another wave of nightmare beasts.

When will days like this end?

Even Liu Lingxue, whose emotions were usually calm, couldn't help but complain bitterly in her heart when faced with the relentless pursuit.

If she hadn't been lucky enough to meet a player with source power and have an extra helper, she wouldn't even have time to catch her breath and rest.

She looked to the side and saw a girl with delicate features and a cold expression, named Yun Duo.

Yun Duo's fighting ability was not that strong, but the source power seemed to have enhanced her spiritual attributes, allowing her to vaguely sense the surrounding environmental conditions even without using her eyes. This allowed the two of them to barely succeed in avoiding the Nightmare Beast's pursuit this time.

The reason why she chose to follow her was because she was curious about why so many nightmare beasts were chasing her, and she felt that there must be some characteristics or reasons on her that attracted the nightmare beasts.

She wanted to find out the reason.

How would Liu Lingxue know what the reason was?

All she knew was that since yesterday, as she was walking, she suddenly felt as if she was covered by some kind of aura of bad luck, and suddenly countless nightmare beasts appeared and started hunting her.

She could only guess that when the source power in our players' bodies grew to a certain level, we became extremely delicious prey in the eyes of the Nightmare Beasts, and they could evolve by eating us, so they kept chasing me?

She didn't think it was because of Li Jing and Xiaoguai, a player with no ambitions and a well-behaved and cowardly local survivor.

Who could recognize Xiaoguai's true identity at the first sight? Who could have thought that Xiaoguai was so possessive and jealous? Liu Lingxue had only made an invitation to Li Jing, but in Xiaoguai's eyes it was a signal that her beloved toy was going to be taken away and she must be severely punished?

At this moment, Liu Lingxue felt even more regretful that Li Jing had rejected her at that time.

If Li Jing had agreed to my invitation at that time and had an extra helper, it would be easier to deal with these nightmare beasts now, right?

Liu Lingxue couldn't help but think so in her heart.

And compared to Yun Duo, he followed her more out of curiosity and the desire to study her.

Having Li Jing around makes her feel more relaxed and at ease.

It's a pity that he didn't become my companion in the end.

When she thought of this, Liu Lingxue felt even more regretful in her heart.

Quping City.

"Mr. Adams, we have subdued this nightmare beast. Its core is right here. Please."

Reeves respectfully and enthusiastically handed Ander Adams a small knife with exquisite patterns.

Ander Adams took the knife with aristocratic courtesy.

"Thanks, Reeves."

"My pleasure, Mr. Adams."

Reeves stepped aside, and Ander Adams picked up the knife. Looking at the faintly flickering crimson light on the chest of the subdued dark and ugly monster in front of him, he cut out the piece of flesh and blood that wrapped the core.

He used a knife to scrape off the flesh on the core, then, amid the shocked expressions of the people around him, he picked up the core and pressed it against his own forehead.

"Mr. Adams!" Reeves looked at him in panic.

Everyone thought he was going to smash the core to obtain source power, no one expected him to do such a crazy thing!

At the moment when the core of the nightmare beast touched Adams' forehead, a scarlet light flickered slightly from the core, ominous and weird.

Adams closed his eyes, as if he was concentrating, or as if he was absorbing, until he opened his eyes.

A strange red light flashed across his emerald green pupils.

It was a nightmare for a child whose mother would prick his arm with a pen if he did not do well on an exam.

In the nightmare, everything seemed fragmented and bizarre, except for the pen that was stabbing into my hand again and again, which seemed so clear.

He threw the core back into the body of the Nightmare Beast, signaled everyone to release the suppressed Nightmare Beast, and then asked someone to find a pen.

"Reeves, do you believe me?"

The Nightmare Beast stood up from the ground again, showing a ferocious and terrifying posture. Adams handed a few pens to Reeves and pointed at the Nightmare Beast that required several players to subdue it.

"Go ahead and kill him with the pen I gave you."

"Yes, Mr. Adams!"

Reeves picked up the pen and charged at the nightmare beast without hesitation.

When Ander Adams saw that the terrifying nightmare beast became fragile and powerless in front of just a few pens and was easily killed by Reeves, his pupils lit up.

"Well done, Reeves, the experiment was a success."

"You didn't betray my trust in you."

"We have found a way to kill the Nightmare Beast with one strike, a way to truly open up the future."

He smiled slightly, "Tonight, everyone can go to sleep peacefully after a relaxing cup of coffee."

"Because the Nightmare Beast King of this city will surely perish under my wisdom!"