Chapter 12 Ice and Snow

John Joyce and the others were all sporting significant injuries, clearly the result of their earlier struggle with the spellcasters.

Seeing the situation inside the palace, they understood that the icy monster was the enemy, even without Chai's reminder.

Now that they had reached the final stage of the scenario mission, with the spellcasters and snow mountain beasts chasing from behind, they naturally used all their trump cards to end the battle as quickly as possible.

John Joyce's bones crackled as dozens of thin, steel snakes extended from his spine, attaching to his limbs and forming a mechanical exoskeleton armor, providing greater speed and strength.

John belonged to Prometheus Labs, a company that, like many corporate groups, specialized in collecting items, technologies, and data from scenario worlds.

But they seemed to have gotten a head start, always managing to convert their gains from scenario worlds into usable real-world technology ahead of others.

This mechanical exoskeleton armor was one such example.

"Bang!"

John Joyce slammed his foot on the ground and leaped high into the air, his fists hurtling towards the frozen giant like meteorites.

Julia, who was standing next to him, sat on the ground with her right leg tucked in front of her. Her left thigh was raised to her chest, and her left calf was parallel to the ground, with her hands gripping her calf and ankle.

Qi Qi Ku Ku Ka Ka—

The sound of a Transformer transforming suddenly rang out. Julia's raised left leg split apart from the middle, revealing countless metal parts. In an instant, her entire calf transformed into a futuristic sniper rifle.

The rifle had no buttstock, and its barrel was long and narrow, vaguely resembling Julia's original left leg. The gun body was covered in black and white paint, much like the winter pants Julia had been wearing.

If the operation of turning a left leg into a sniper rifle was already shocking enough, Bob's transformation was even more earth-shattering.

This seemingly honest and simple black old man reached under his left rib and tore open his winter coat, along with his skin, splitting into two human figures on the spot.

The two figures stood side by side, reaching out to grab each other's ribs.

The one on the left still looked like the old black man, Bob, except his skin was darker than before.

But the one on the right, although still wearing Bob's winter coat,

had a skin tone that had turned extremely pale, and his facial features had also changed. His nose was higher, and his lips were thinner, clearly turning him into a white man!

[Skill Name: Hei Bai Yi Wu Chang (Black and White are Both Impermanent)]

[Type: Psionic]

[Grade: Excellent]

[Effect: Differentiate Black and Defend White. The caster tears himself apart, splitting into a black and a white body. The two bodies must be connected to each other and cannot be separated. The split bodies inherit the original attribute values, but still share a single soul, item slot, and skill slot. During the split, any damage dealt to either body will be shared equally by both bodies. The split can last up to 5 minutes, automatically disappearing and re-fusing into one after taking excessive damage. After fusion, the caster will only have the shared damage.]

[Cost: 300 Stamina, 300 Psionic Energy, 100 Sanity]

[Cooldown: 5 hours]

[Requirements: Constitution attribute greater than or equal to 10 points, Sanity value greater than or equal to 250 points, caster possesses no less than 1/3 Black ancestry and 1/3 White ancestry]

[Note: Black people, White people, we are all people]

[Note: Users who do not meet the bloodline requirements can inject enough Black and White blood into their bodies before use]

This [Hei Bai Yi Wu Chang] skill, full of吐槽points, was actually obtained by Bob from an Eastern-style scenario world similar to "Forbidden City Cop," and was created by an evil and powerful demonic grandmaster.

That demonic grandmaster was born into a wealthy family, and relied on his family's power during his childhood, sailing smoothly without encountering any setbacks. In his youth, his family declined, and after a sudden change, he suffered from severe schizophrenia, fell into the demonic path, and eventually became a generation of evil cultivators.

In the hands of that demonic grandmaster, the [Hei Bai Yi Wu Chang] technique could be used with powerful internal force and shadow puppetry to create puppet dolls to fight alongside himself, while also treating his schizophrenia.

Bob ran into the demonic grandmaster in the wild, originally thinking he would die miserably,

But he never expected the other party to see his dark skin and, in a fit of mental illness, actually mistake Bob for a peerless good seedling for practicing the [Hei Bai Yi Wu Chang] technique.

On a whim, he took Bob as his disciple and taught him this technique with meticulous care.

Under the magic modification of the Killing Game, this demonic internal art was transformed into a fairly powerful Excellent-quality skill scroll.

As for what price Bob paid to please that capricious demonic grandmaster... in any case, Bob would never tell outsiders.

For some reason, Bob always felt that this skill, from its name to its notes, had a very strong sense of discrimination...

He might look a bit black, but his grandmother was actually Italian, and his grandmother's side also had Spanish blood, just enough to meet the bloodline requirements.

Putting these aside, Black Bob's left hand held up the *C璨焰花火猎枪an Yan Hua Huo Lie Qiang* (Li Ang had previously given it to him), while White Bob took out a chicken feather duster made of white silky fowl feathers.

This chicken feather duster was also given to Bob by the demonic grandmaster. It made a formidable sound when waved, and could also release silky fowl feathers as hidden weapons, which were incredibly insidious.

The three teammates were each more bizarre than the last, to the point that Smokey seemed unremarkable in comparison—he simply slapped his chest, roared, and grew thirty centimeters taller out of thin air, turning into a burly man, holding a great obsidian sword in his hand.

John Joyce, clad in his exoskeleton power armor, punched at the ice giant.

Smokey pressed forward, slashing with his sword.

Julia fired fiercely forward.

Black Bob pulled the *C璨焰花火猎枪an Yan Hua Huo Lie Qiang*, releasing fireworks, while also drifting up, his toes skimming the ground, allowing White Bob to wave the chicken feather duster at the ice giant.

The four players used all their means, but the ice giant, located in the center of the battlefield, seemed to freeze in place, standing motionless.

Boom—

Qing'e's orthodox assassination fist struck the ice giant's head.

John Joyce's fist smashed into its shoulder, Smokey's blade struck its waist and abdomen, and Julia and Black Bob's bullets grazed under their allies' arms, hitting the frozen monster's eye sockets.

All the attacks hit, and countless ice crystals burst from the ice giant's body,

But at the same time, a look of pain appeared on everyone's face!

Their hearts... were lamenting.

Sharp ice cones grew out of the ice giant's fist, and the force of the punch, comparable to a wolf's fang mace, swept across, grazing John and Smokey's chests, tearing huge wounds in their chests.

In an instant, the wounds burst open, and blood splattered. Through the gruesome wounds, one could see that these two's hearts had shrunk dramatically, just like Anna's.

The ice giant's crude and simple face clearly showed a smile with a hint of "mockery."

In this ice monster form, Anna could maximize the use of the energy within Aisha's body, strengthen her talent for stealing the essence of life, and by simply being attacked, adjust the enemy's body to be the same as her own.

Then, relying on the congenital malformation of the heart, she could block the flow of blood in the enemy's body in the shortest amount of time, killing them.