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Chapter 78 The Last Few Dozen Meters
Fang Senyan didn't waste any time with the Cardinal. At that moment, he was only calculating one thing in his mind - to be precise, a number!
"Mi"
This wasn't altitude or anything similar, but the distance Fang Senyan had meticulously calculated on Google Maps.
The distance from here to the eleventh floor of the Manhattan Financial Center.
In a way, it was the distance between success and failure, between life and death.
Fang Senyan's goal was to do everything possible, seize every opportunity, to shorten this number. If this number was reduced to 0, then he would succeed.
In such a difficult situation, only by being single-minded and without distractions could he possibly hold out until the end and achieve success. Otherwise, once doubt crept into his heart, his courage faltered, he would lose all motivation.
The surrounding air suddenly evaporated and changed, rippling like water. Fang Senyan took a deep breath and watched as a huge white cross slammed into his body.
This time, the Cardinal had perceived him taking away cash and drugs from Hua Shanfei in the real world, so the sin inflicted this time was greed.
A terrifying creature appeared out of thin air. It looked a lot like a water elemental, or something akin to a genie from the Aladdin myths, but its color was a deep amber yellow, and bubbling bubbles constantly emerged from its translucent body. It hovered in the air, its lower end about thirty centimeters from the ground, but its height could reach five meters, and it rapidly glided towards Fang Senyan.
"What is this thing?" As Fang Senyan was wondering, he saw a yawning black man still listening to rap, walking out of the subway station with a rhythmic gait. The strange liquid creature completely ignored his existence and crashed into the black man from behind, actually swallowing him directly into its body.
In that instant, the black man, swallowed into the translucent body of the liquid creature, immediately showed an expression of extreme pain, seemingly wanting to scream but unable to make a sound. What was terrifying was that his body surface rapidly turned red, scorched, and finally became like a charred piece of wood. His clothes also quickly turned black, and even his phone and other items started to catch fire and explode.
As soon as he saw this thing, Fang Senyan couldn't help but feel his scalp tingle. According to the information he had, this was actually an oil elemental made of boiling oil! The punishment for the sin of greed was to throw the sinner into a pot of oil - or, to put it in more fashionable terms, the processing mode of KFC's Finger Lickin' Good Original Recipe Chicken...
Seeing this thing, Fang Senyan knew that he couldn't be "hugged" by this oil elemental and enter its body; otherwise, the consequences would be very troublesome. Even if he wasn't scalded to death, he would be suffocated. However, while doing his best to conceal his intention to escape towards Morgan Center, he was rapidly thinking in his mind:
"Logically speaking, the greater the sin committed, the greater the punishment received. But now the oil elemental created by the Cardinal is so perverted that I don't even have a chance to fight back. Although its movement speed is not fast, it is not slow either. The difficulty is far greater than the gluttony sin before. Hmm? According to the characteristics of the oil elemental, could its weakness be...?"
With this thought, Fang Senyan grabbed a trash can next to him with his backhand.
This trash can was surprisingly large, filled to the brim with garbage. Cleaners usually used hooks to attach to the biting edges of the bucket and used mechanical force to dump the garbage, but in Fang Senyan's hands, he threw it more than twenty meters away without much effort, smashing it into the waist of the giant boiling oil elemental and splashing out large clusters of oil stains.
The entire trash can took the opportunity to crash heavily into the body of the oil elemental, destined to be repeatedly baked at several hundred degrees.
Fang Senyan also noticed that after the trash can hit the ground, the oil stains that splashed out were like mercury, condensed into clusters, gathered but did not disperse, and slowly wriggled towards the oil elemental as if they had their own lives, seemingly having the ability to self-heal. However, Fang Senyan also noticed that when the giant boiling oil elemental contracted to scorch the trash can inside its body, its movement speed clearly decreased.
"I understand!" A look of understanding appeared in Fang Senyan's eyes. He then slammed his shoulder against the curtain of a shop next to him. The unlucky curtain immediately emitted a metallic entanglement groan that could not bear the weight. The outline of Fang Senyan's shoulder was easily branded on it, and finally, with a crash, it was torn open.
Fang Senyan lunged forward, rolled to his feet, and carried two-liter plastic buckets from the water dispenser next to him, rushing back onto the sidewalk.
Next, Fang Senyan simply picked up the plastic bucket that was still half-filled with purified water and threw it at the giant boiling oil elemental.
The plastic outer layer of the plastic bucket probably only lasted for about five seconds under the torture of the boiling oil. Then, about a liter of water came into contact with the high-heat boiling oil inside the giant boiling oil elemental. Everyone probably knows very well what happens when a drop of water falls into a pot of boiling oil, and now that more than a liter of water had dissolved into the giant boiling oil elemental that was up to five meters high from the inside, what it produced was a shocking explosion.
After Fang Senyan threw the plastic bucket, he didn't say a word and seized the time to escape into Morgan Center at full speed.
The reason why he didn't want to escape directly when he first saw the giant boiling oil elemental was that if he had escaped directly, the giant boiling oil elemental's movement speed would have exceeded his, and he didn't know if this guy had any ranged attack abilities. It was equivalent to selling his back to the enemy. That situation was not called escaping, but being chased and beaten.
After a loud bang came from behind, Fang Senyan had escaped at least a hundred meters, but in an instant, he still felt an indescribable hot feeling on his back, densely packed, as if thousands of hot needles were about to pierce his skin. Obviously, it was the shattered boiling oil that had splashed over from behind, covering him.
However, Fang Senyan didn't care and continued to run with force. He believed that after this explosion, he would at least have a minute of safe time behind him. In fact, it was true. Almost half of the giant boiling oil elemental's body was blown apart. The boiling oil at the wound wriggled like a snail's antennae, constantly merging, and its movement speed clearly slowed down.
In this situation, not to mention catching up with Fang Senyan, it would take at least ten minutes to heal the injury. Just as Fang Senyan was feeling pleased with himself, the giant boiling oil elemental actually exploded automatically when he just rushed to the entrance of Morgan Center?
The scene was extremely terrible, just like a fountain rushing straight into the sky. Thousands of square meters nearby were all covered with boiling hot oil, which of course also caused severe burns to seventy or eighty innocent and curious New York citizens.
After this huge monster representing the sin of greed self-destructed, Fang Senyan suddenly staggered. The sudden sharp pain made him fall to the ground in a very wretched manner. It could be clearly seen that the mark of the sinner symbolizing greed appeared on his leg again.
"This guy is really vicious. Seeing that he didn't have time to catch up with me, he decisively self-destructed and pasted the sinner mark on my body."
Fang Senyan gritted his teeth and climbed up, slammed hard, and finally entered Morgan Center. Although his appearance was wretched, he was only eleven floors away from success. As long as he could grit his teeth and endure, then it would be a great harvest.
But at this time, the Cardinal mysteriously appeared a hundred meters behind Fang Senyan again. He tilted his head slightly and once again pulled Fang Senyan into the illusion.
This time, the sin that the Cardinal used to punish Fang Senyan was the same as Aziz's: *yinyu*.
The things that the Cardinal could pronounce as sins seemed to be experiences in the real world. The ones in the Nightmare World were not included, so although the *yinyu* punishment for Aziz at that time was very grand, and the lava smoke was almost like a forbidden curse, when it came to Fang Senyan, two lava elementals directly appeared and fiercely chased Fang Senyan. The magnitude of this punishment was completely different from Aziz's.
After Fang Senyan regained his freedom, he didn't take the elevator, and he didn't dare to take the elevator. Instead, he directly climbed the stairs in the fire escape. The speed of the two lava elementals was not high, and they didn't pose much of a threat to Fang Senyan. Fang Senyan then forcibly endured their attacks and climbed the stairs.
But when Fang Senyan climbed to the eighth floor, a lava elemental actually reached out to hug Fang Senyan. Fang Senyan immediately kicked him. The orange-red flames on this guy's head quickly spread to Fang Senyan's feet, but he was also kicked away. After landing, the flames on his body quickly withered, revealing the rocky body inside. The rocky skull heavily hit the hard road surface, and it actually shattered.
"Damn, do you have no shame? You actually committed suicide again." Fang Senyan said sadly and indignantly, "I just wanted to push it away."
At this time, Fang Senyan was only three floors away from the eleventh floor, and the Cardinal's judgment on him was getting weaker and weaker. This time, Fang Senyan was judged to be guilty of arrogance. The punishment was to tear people apart like *wu ma fen shi* (the five horses dismembering).
Aziz probably also had a serious crime in terms of arrogance. It was estimated that once the crime was pronounced, it would be difficult to resist, but for Fang Senyan, it was just to drag the things above the five huge shackles that suddenly appeared on his body and continue to move forward like wearing shackles.