Chapter 1

The sound of wind echoed through the dark subway tunnel, growing louder and closer.

Small pebbles beneath the tracks were stirred and swept up by the gale, rolling and striking the steel subway rails with a clattering sound.

Ash and Chu Yin exchanged a look and immediately made a decision.

Like Wu Mu, they dared to hide in this abandoned subway station, naturally having prepared for an enemy attack.

The difference was that they were members of the Mobile Task Force, with more resources than ordinary players to deploy more powerful and wider-ranging traps.

Ash extinguished the flashlight and deftly kicked Wu Mu backward with a hook kick. He quickly retrieved a sci-fi-looking long gun from his inventory and aimed it at the subway tunnel.

Chu Yin immediately picked up a green onion, slowly retreated, and pressed herself against the wall.

Wu Mu, lying beside her, realized the urgency of the situation. He silently flipped over, lay on his back, and waved his shackled wrists at Chu Yin, signaling her to unlock him.

Chu Yin took a key matching the shackles from her pocket. After hesitating for a moment, she still didn't throw the key to Wu Mu, but held it firmly in her palm.

Players from different teams could harm each other, and she couldn't be sure that this Wu Mu was trustworthy and wouldn't attack them after being released.

Sha sha—

The wind grew more mournful, and a deep, emerald-green light appeared at the end of the curved subway tunnel, illuminating the tunnel walls.

A Wraith, draped in a tattered cloak, flew through the tunnel, one hand cradling a shrinking, ball-like, glowing, translucent green worm, and the other holding a lunar phase locator.

The gale brought up by the flight swept up all the sand and dust on the ground, startling the insects hidden in the darkness.

The screen of the lunar phase locator clearly showed red dots symbolizing the players.

Wu Mu was staying with two other players. In addition, there were two red dots approaching from the edge of the barrier.

Within a narrow range of less than two kilometers in diameter, there were a total of seven players.

If it had been before, when Gu Lulu Gu was seriously injured, the Wraith might have chosen to retreat—he wasn't human and was more likely to be targeted and resented by other human players.

In other words, the Wraith and Gu Lulu Gu might face a two-on-five situation.

But now, Gu Lulu Gu, the green worm teammate in the Wraith's arms, had recovered most of his injuries—

After being seriously injured by Li Yi and Liu Wu Dai, Gu Lulu Gu simply abandoned most of his body, consuming a lot of energy to maintain this energy-saving form with only a head left.

Anyway, most of its abilities didn't rely on a strong body to be triggered. The current state would only have a slight impact.

But, the more enemies they encountered at the same time, the better for them.

Boom—

Suddenly, the subway tracks beneath the Wraith exploded from the inside out, and the intense light and heat illuminated the entire dark tunnel as bright as day!

In the confined space, the shock wave from the explosion reverberated back and forth, tearing the old steel tracks into countless fragments, scattering in all directions.

A piece of iron the size of a palm even bounced back and forth, flew to the subway station waiting area dozens of meters away, and was nailed into the gap in the stone ceiling of the waiting area.

What caused the explosion was a special item manufactured by the Special Affairs Bureau and the Different Arts Society—it could not only generate a powerful shock wave, but also release searing energy similar to the blazing sun, killing those demons and monsters.

Ash, who had suffered a great loss from the Wraith before, had already set up various traps and monitoring facilities in the tunnel. He hadn't detonated them before because he saw that Wu Mu was a heavily injured human player.

Now, it could be used to deal with the flying Wraith and Gu Lulu Gu.

The light extinguished, and after a long time, all sounds returned to silence.

Ash, wearing equipment similar to night vision goggles, looked into the depths of the tunnel, holding a gun.

At the corner of the dark tunnel, a faint green light slowly lit up.

The only light in the darkness was flying towards Ash at an extremely fast speed.

Ash squatted down without hesitation, his arm, transformed into gray dust, tightly gripping the futuristic giant sniper rifle, and aimed at the green light.

Hoo, hah.

He adjusted his breathing, waiting for the Wraith's cloaked figure to appear in the center of the scope.

Suddenly, the afterimage of the cloak flashed across the crosshairs of the scope.

The trigger was pulled, and a giant beam of light directly pierced through the long subway tunnel, blasting onto the afterimage of the cloak, melting a large, circular pit in the tunnel wall behind it.

But, no system prompt for a kill!

Missing the shot, Ash's face was several shades paler and thinner than before. His originally indistinct facial features now clearly showed prominent cheekbones.

The price of forcibly driving this gun was a large consumption of body fat.

A few more shots, and he would probably faint before the enemy could kill him.

Before that, he could fire one more shot!

Ash exhaled a breath of stale air and was about to pull the trigger of the sputtering giant sniper rifle again when he heard a familiar, frightened roar, "What are you doing?!"

It was Chu Yin's voice.

The scenery in front of Ash blurred. Only then did he see that next to Chu Yin, who was hiding in the shadows of the subway station, a giant, candle-like melted circular pit had appeared in the wall.

[Warning, teammate damage behavior detected in cooperative mission, teammate attack weakening has been activated]

[Hint, in team cooperation missions, teammates must not engage in subjective malicious attacks, violators will be punished by the system]

The system prompt came late. Only then did Ash realize in astonishment that he hadn't shot towards the tunnel, but at his teammate Chu Yin!

If it weren't for the tacit understanding between teammates and the system's automatic weakening of friendly fire, this shot would have killed Chu Yin.

This is illusion!

Wu Mu, who had been lying on the ground in silence, suddenly changed his expression. Ignoring concealment, he shouted at the two Special Affairs Bureau employees, "I remember! Si Wenbin once told me that he had obtained an extremely powerful psychological manipulation skill scroll!"