Chapter 2

Eighteen years of materialism, and it all crumbled tonight. Who would have thought it would be something like this, a creature of nightmares?

He slowly dismounted his bicycle and heard a strange woman's laughter coming from the bridge. That must be the culprit who trapped him on the bridge.

Li Changhe also laughed, a laugh like that of a man playing with vectors, then abruptly stopped, his eyes revealing a fierce light: "Sorry, you're laughing at me! If you want to get rid of me, you need some skills!"

This wasn't just boasting; he had never been the type to submit to fate.

Otherwise, he wouldn't have gone from an orphan in a dilapidated orphanage to a student at Yan Yun Middle School.

Even in the orphanage, he had realized that too many people complained about their fate but did nothing about it.

"Being unfortunate is not scary. What's scary is doing nothing."

The orphanage director's words were etched in Li Changhe's heart.

What fate gives you, you can refuse. What it doesn't give you, you can take! And while you're at it, strangle it, as Beethoven said!

Thus, through repeated struggles, even without being adopted, this penniless young man could become a classmate of the rich kids.

He and Xiao Nan, from two different worlds, would tease each other.

Today, Li Changhe planned to struggle again! To reject fate's arrangement once more.

To survive!

He saw a black shadow crawl out from the shadows of the bridge, flapping arms like eagle wings, landing on a nearby bridge arm.

Clearly human-faced above, but with the body of a raptor below. The eagle claws scraped sparks on the bridge arm upon landing, and despite its nearly two-meter frame, it moved with agility.

It emitted a strange laugh, its eyes fixed on Li Changhe, a look that reminded him of how he looked at pig trotters.

A harpy? This creature... no, not even a legend, but a monster conjured by someone's imagination, actually appeared before Li Changhe.

"Do you want to eat me? Then you have good taste!"

Li Changhe gritted his teeth and took a few steps back. He forced his trembling body to calm down, knowing he had nowhere to run.

"No wonder there were so many feathers at the scene this morning. Were they all left behind from its hunts? It must have been watching me this morning." Li Changhe's eyes grew fierce. In the orphanage, he wasn't a good boy; that's why no one adopted him.

Bullying happens everywhere, and orphans without parental care had to protect themselves.

Fighting and being tough were part of life before leaving the orphanage. Li Changhe envied his classmates.

When he was fighting with his "companions" in the orphanage, his classmates were probably enjoying their parents' care.

But he hid it well; no one would think that this jokester was the most vicious problem child in the orphanage.

Of course, the benefit was that it honed Li Changhe's athletic physique, comparable to that of an athlete.

Now, Li Changhe again showed the ferocity he had when fighting for food. This time, it was to... take a life!

Sensing that this prey was not easy to handle, the harpy stayed at a distance and didn't approach.

At this moment, Li Changhe's backpack hit the ground with a heavy thud.

Li Changhe reached in and pulled out a... shot put.

He also took off his T-shirt, wrapping the shot put in it, and looked at the wary harpy. Li Changhe murmured, "As a sports student, carrying a shot put isn't too much, right?"

Only a sports student who exercises daily could use a shot put for self-defense.

Unfortunately, no one picked up the joke. The harpy, losing patience, let out a shrill scream and flapped its arms, closing the distance in an instant. Its metal-like eagle claws seemed ready to tear apart its prey.

"You can't even pick up a joke, what good are you! Come on, let's go!"

Li Changhe gritted his teeth, coiled the T-shirt, and swung the shot put like a流星锤 (meteor hammer).

In his mind, he chanted: "Ling Bing Dou Zhe Jie Zhen Lie Qian Xing, Amitabha, hurry as the law commands, Hallelujah, Amen..."

The next second, Li Changhe's arm was slashed open. Fortunately, some deity must have been on his side, and the seven-kilogram shot put hit the harpy's chest precisely. The sound of bones breaking echoed from its chest.

"wooooo" The harpy screamed and fell to the ground. Li Changhe's face turned pale. The harpy's eagle claws were still embedded in his left arm, pulling him down with it. The harpy's scream made Li Changhe's mind go fuzzy.

But he still managed to laugh. He had bet right! The harpy couldn't kill him in one move!

When experimenting with the mineral water bottle, Li Changhe had realized that if the harpy could hunt humans, why bother with a strange space?

Upon further thought, the space's effect was to destroy the prey's psychological defenses and drain their energy.

In other words, the harpy itself didn't have the ability to hunt a prepared human, or it was too troublesome. It needed the space's assistance!

Li Changhe imagined that the previous victim had wandered on this bridge for a long time. After the harpy appeared, the victim, in despair, chose to jump into the river to escape, but was still influenced by the space and fell to their death on the bridge, becoming the harpy's food.

Li Changhe gritted his teeth, raised his right hand, and threw the T-shirt-wrapped shot put at the harpy's face. He showed no mercy, even though it had a human face; it was a ferocious, man-eating monster. To survive, he had to kill it!

Unexpectedly, the harpy, which had been flailing on the ground, suddenly flapped its wing-like arms. The feathers on its wings were as sharp as blades, tearing the T-shirt and causing the shot put to fall to the side.

"Damn!" Li Changhe reached for the shot put, but the harpy instantly jumped up, flapping its arms to fly, and with its eagle claws, it knocked Li Changhe over.

Watching the shot put roll farther away.

Li Changhe's heart sank. Without the heavy shot put, he had no way to deal with the harpy.

However, the previous attack had caused some damage to the harpy.

It didn't choose to continue attacking Li Changhe but instead flapped its wings and retreated a few meters, emitting a sharp cry, as if to intimidate.

Li Changhe panted heavily, having suffered significant damage in the first encounter. His left hand was pierced by the eagle claws, and he had lost his weapon.

He had thought that, as a tough guy from the orphanage, with regular training, the combination of a shot put and T-shirt as a meteor hammer would be enough to take down the monster.

Now, it seemed he had overestimated himself.

The harpy's combat ability and physical strength far exceeded that of a human.

And its steel-like eagle claws and feathers were even more troublesome.

"Are you waiting for me to bleed to death?" Li Changhe saw the harpy keeping its distance.

His heart sank. Indeed, if the harpy didn't act, Li Changhe could only wander on the bridge. If the space had no time limit, the harpy could wait for Li Changhe to die of thirst or hunger.

"Wait?" Li Changhe suddenly paused, seeing the shot put, which had rolled to the side, now rolling back from another direction.

He instinctively stepped on the shot put and looked at the harpy, or rather, the water stains under its claws.

That spot was where the mineral water bottle had broken during his earlier experiment with the strange space.

In other words...

"Ha ha ha!" Li Changhe burst into laughter, grabbing the shot put and staring fiercely at the harpy.

Li Changhe lifted the shot put with all his strength but didn't throw it at the harpy. Instead, he threw it off the bridge.

"I'm going to buy some oranges. Stay here, don't move!"

The harpy, watching its dying prey, licked the blood from its hands, clearly not caring about the words.

"Thirty meters above the river, ignoring air resistance, the fall time is just over two seconds!" Li Changhe quickly calculated in his mind.

Seeing the harpy still watching, he laughed even more: "Have you... ever seen a palm strike from the sky?"

In the next instant, the shot put that had fallen off the bridge hit the harpy's head precisely.

Blood splattered. The tall body instantly fell to the ground.

There was no need to check; it was clearly dead. Humans are declared dead by brain death.

But this thing... its brain was completely smashed.

At the same time, a voice sounded in Li Changhe's ear.

[Detected player YSNY89****91 of the fantasy species being killed by non-player Li Changhe]

[Li Changhe gains player status]

[Achievement: Non-player kills player, skill from the killed player is drawn]

[Achievement: Reaches LV1 player, random attribute point 1]

[Random attribute: Constitution +1]

[Achievement: Human kills fantasy species, skill from the fantasy species is drawn]

[Task completed: 'Eternal Bridge', reward: one premium loot box]

[Player name: Li Changhe]

[Level: 1]

[Strength: 7, sports student] (average is 5)

[Agility: 7, sports student]

[Constitution: 8, very tough]

[Stamina: 5] (average is 5)

[Personality: Neutral-Good]

[Equipment: Bloodied shot put, effect: increased damage to supernatural and fantasy species (a shot put that has killed a fantasy species, a big shot in the shot put world)]

[Passive skill: Eagle Eye LV1, effect: you can see farther]

[Passive skill: Ranged Mastery, increased accuracy in ranged attacks]

[Human player Li Changhe, congratulations on entering the Evolution Game!]

[You are the 2,333,333rd human player]