Chapter 45

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Chapter 45: Star Death Reality Show (XXVIII)

His right hand slammed against the emergency close button, and his body rushed out with the instant acceleration from pushing off it. As if Qi Leren had thought about the plan in his mind for a long time, he opened a hand and threw a grenade behind him without looking, sprinted out like an arrow leaving the string, and repeated this old trick when he rounded the corner, throwing down another hand grenade!

Two consecutive explosions shook the corridor like a tottering boat. Qi Leren threw himself to the ground, feeling the turbulent heat flow from the corner and blow his hair into a mess.

He coughed twice on the ground, got up, and ran away again.

Leviathan didn’t catch up, and Qi Leren who had already run to the floor where the arsenal was located finally breathed a sigh of relief.

The research institute was huge, and it would take “extraordinary luck” to run into that monster again. However, he didn’t know whether Leviathan had a sensitive sense of smell… Qi Leren looked back, and the world was immersed in a bright silence. This kind of terror hidden under the light was frightening.

He Yi had been parasitized by Leviathan, who was obviously Su He’s doing. He himself had said that he’d released the dangerous creature in the underground glacier. The octopus was similar to the alien queen in Aliens, much more difficult to deal with than the ordinary octopuses. What’s more, it also had human intelligence… Hey, why did you listen attentively to He Yi just now and forget to smash his head?

Qi Leren walked on, and when he came to the corridor where the arsenal was located, he saw at a glance that Dr. Lu was poking around.

“Ah! Qi Leren! You’re still alive!” Dr. Lu excitedly ran out, “How is it on your side? Have you seen Su He?”

“Have you met Du Yue?” Qi Leren asked.

Du Yue also ran out of the arsenal and took Qi Leren’s arm: “Qianbei! I thought you were going to die! Thank god! You can’t die!”

Hey, what did this kid say? Qi Leren lamented Du Yue, who was too agitated and incoherent, and patted him on the shoulder in comfort.

“Why is that guy so stalker-ish?” Dr. Lu muttered with a bitter expression.

Qi Leren said with a straight face: “He can hear you.”

Dr. Lu’s face went white with fear, staring at him, looking overwhelmed.

“I’m just scaring you, he should be gone.” Qi Leren pondered that Su He seemed to have too much free time. He was acting as both a prison guard and a Devil, and he also had a lot of beautiful subordinates. No matter how much he divided his time, he couldn’t do everything. He shouldn’t be idle enough to come here to peep at how a group of wannabes did in their task.

Dr. Lu was relieved and complained, “Don’t scare me all the time.”

Only Du Yue, who had never seen Su He, wondered: “Who is Su He?”

Dr. Lu quickly waved his hand: “A super terrible Devil, who is cruel, cunning, and ruthless, the worst in the universe! Your qianbei was killed by him before, and his death was miserable. You could say he’s a freak!”

Du Yue was taken aback: “So bad…”

Qi Leren, who had died miserably: “……..”

“Yes, your qianbei’s boyfriend is grief-stricken, and he’s still wandering the world, unaware that he’s still alive.”

Du Yue was dumbfounded again: “Ah, my qianbei has a boyfriend? Isn’t it a beautiful woman? Qianbei said that she was particularly beautiful!”

Dr. Lu looked at Qi Leren silently. Qi Leren, who had once talked with this youth about first loves while they were watching Annie, coughed twice: “Don’t talk about this now, I have something very important to say: in the glancer beneath the institute…”

Forcibly changing the subject was successful. Qi Leren locked the door of the arsenal, briefly explained the previous events, and skipped a lot of things. He only told the two people about Su He’s saying that he had released Leviathan from the underground glacier, and told them about his previous fight with the monster.

“We need a temperature below minus forty degrees? Awesome, our temperature regulating clothes only guarantee that we won’t lose heat in environments above minus 30 degrees. Once the temperature drops below minus 30, we won’t last long, and even worse when it reaches minus 40. If you cool down that much, you may as well sign your will. To tell the truth, it’s quite amazing that you can still insist on not wearing gloves…” Dr. Lu looked at Qi Leren’s bare hands and then at his own hands in thick gloves and couldn’t help showing envious eyes.

Qi Leren moved his fingers. Although he was cold, he wasn’t frozen. He had good resistance to cold now, otherwise he probably wouldn’t have escaped just now.

“I can’t think of a way to deal with it now.” Qi Leren walked around the arsenal to find the weapons he needed. “Shall we set a trap and blow it up here?”

“You can try, but if there’s an explosion in the arsenal………S/L Data can’t save you from the fire after the explosion,” Dr. Lu worried.

There were indeed difficulties. There were too many explosives in the arsenal. If the explosion lasted for several seconds, even if he saved here, the resurrected Qi Leren would still be blown to pieces.

“What should we do then?” Du Yue looked sad.

Qi Leren was also depressed, and he had to worry about another question: “How much private time do you have left?”

“This is reset at 8:00 every morning…I only have half an hour left.” Dr. Lu was even more sad.

“Me too.” Du Yue was also worried.

Qi Leren looked at his privacy time that was less than half an hour, which was also a headache.

After the privacy time ran out, the invisible camera that followed him would ignore his instructions and shoot him from 360 degrees without any privacy. In this way, he could neither use unscientific skill cards indiscriminately nor discuss things with Dr. Lu.

If only this thing had been blown up when Mark blasted it with a rocket launcher… Unfortunately, he had used the “Prophet’s Heart” at that time and he was unscathed. Sadly, even the camera was preserved.

“Where are the others?” Qi Leren asked Du Yue.

“They ran away, and then I only met Dr. Lu,” Du Yue said sullenly.

“Don’t worry about them, you can’t stop them from dying.” Dr. Lu squatted on the ground heartlessly. “Think about how to get home alive first. By now, this task is definitely not C-level. We might say there is also an A. This Leviathan looks much more difficult than the crazy lady of B-level. ”

Of course, Qi Leren thought. This Leviathan was released by Su He in order to force him to level up. However, now he didn’t even know what the principle of a half-field was, because his teacher Chen Baiqi hadn’t expected him, a loser student, to break his shell. In her prediction, this wouldn’t happen for a long time.

The plan couldn’t keep up with the changes

“Let’s think about it again… This amphioctopus is intelligent, strong defensively, fast, and aggressive… I’m afraid it’s also very strong, and ordinary weapons can’t handle it. I’ll try the rocket launcher next time.” Qi Leren was also very worried about this weapon that he had never used before. There was no instruction manual for weapons here, and Chen Baiqi had never taught him how to use it.

Dr. Lu and Du Yue looked at him with eyes full of doubts.

Qi Leren coughed: “Let’s think of another plan, I don’t think this is foolproof.”

Qi Leren’s biggest reliance was the Prophet’s Heart given to him by the Prophet, but the cooldown time of this item was as long as 24 hours. To try to wait for this to finish its cooldown, Qi Leren didn’t think they could spend 20 hours safely.

Then what else can I do…

Glacier.

Underground glacier.

This word jumped into Qi Leren’s mind without warning, and he suddenly remembered what He Yi had said before he died: “…Even if it’s frozen in the extremely cold environment of minus 40 degrees, it will not die, but will only go to sleep. It’s like the amphioctopuses’ soldier ant, and its fighting capacity far exceeds that of the workers. Leviathan is different from the ordinary octopuses. As long as it senses the approach of living creatures, it will be forcibly thawed…”

He Yi wanted to express the danger of Leviathan, but if you thought about it carefully, wasn’t this its weakness?

40 degrees below zero wouldn’t kill it, but it would go to sleep. If he could lead it back to the underground glacier and then escape quickly, so that Leviathan, that couldn’t sense the biological atmosphere around it, went to sleep, then he could wait for the Prophet’s Heart to cool down before going back and killing it.

The more he thought about it, the more he felt that this may be the only way.

“I have an idea,” Qi Leren said into the silence. “The danger of confronting it is too great. My idea is that I’ll lure it into the underground glacier and let it return to its dormant state again.”

Then Qi Leren explained his reasons, and discussed specific measures with Dr. Lu and Du Yue. The biggest problem was that Leviathan has intelligence, and it was difficult to set traps for it.

“We haven’t been to the underground glacier. I don’t know what the terrain is like. If it’s an underground crevasse or a huge underground lake, even you will be in danger. Why don’t we try the laser corridor, surely it isn’t stronger than steel plates?” Dr. Lu also had an idea.

Du Yue nodded at the side: “Yes qianbei, it’s too dangerous for you to lure it to the underground glacier.”

“He Yi knew about the laser corridor, and that I can pass through it. It would be difficult to lead it into that trap… But it reminds me that we need to find the others. After making sure that they haven’t been infected by the octopuses, I want to send them out of the research institute first, and then re-seal the basement of Annie’s house. If they’re running around here, they could easily be killed by Leviathan,” Qi Leren said.

The corner of Dr. Lu’s mouth twitched: “I think they aren’t already done for.”

It was hard for Qi Leren to refute.

“But if you want to lure it to the underground glacier, will it be fooled?” Du Yue asked.

Qi Leren tried to maintain a strong smile: “Yes.”

Only on this point, Qi Leren had full confidence. He would be able to taunt the monster’s ire towards him. As long as the laser corridor trap wasn’t in front of it, this monster would be like the most loyal boyfriend, only watching him in a crowd, abandoning all temptations and running towards him.

The two EX lucks, Dr. Lu and Du Yue, were just like wild flowers and weeds on the roadside, which were ignored by this single-minded monster.

This kind of thing had happened so many times that Qi Leren was used to it.

Time passed by, and there was only ten minutes left in Qi Leren’s privacy time. The three people discussed how to explain it to the audience later, and unanimously recommended that Dr. Lu pretend to be the anchor, so that he could think of his lines quickly.

Dr. Lu wore a tearful expression as he auditioned:

Ladies and gentlemen of the audience, I have bad news. Just now, XXX went crazy, together with XXXX. Then they were all killed by Qi Leren and God. This god-like Qi Leren is neither a special soldier of the military nor an interstellar mercenary. Please believe that he is just an actor… Oh no, a lead singer of a tone-deaf band. Next, the lead singer of the strongest band in history is going to fight the boss. Please look forward to it.

“You really seem like a default actor. Come on, is this filming?” Anchor Lu said with disgust.

The heavy-hearted Qi Leren was not in the mood to make jokes and rolled his eyes.

He didn’t want to waste any more time, so he could quickly took care of Leviathan and then set off for Ning Zhou in Purgatory.

Qi Leren pondered it. He could only use Save/Load now. Secretly Observing and Rain Day Laundry were cooling down alongside Prophet’s Heart. There were still Pleasing Rations left, but according to his experience, this monster was not in the range of creatures that could be bought off.

Then there were these weapons. Qi Leren picked up a rocket launcher and weighed it on his shoulder. Dr. Lu opened his mouth and said, “Wow, have you used that?”

“No, but I was shot at with one and hit straight on,” Qi Leren said.

Dr. Lu looked at him with an expression of “I know you’re acting, but for the sake of friendship, I will barely cooperate with you.” Only Du Yue, who was stupid, sincerely praised: “Qianbei is so powerful!”

Qi Leren glanced at the time. It was the early morning of the fifth day. Let’s make it quick.

Dr. Lu considered his physical condition and suggested that Qi Leren rest for a few hours to refresh himself. Anyway, the door to the weapons room had been locked by him, so there was no need to worry about Leviathan breaking in.

In the past, Qi Leren might have thought about it, but now he was full of thoughts about Ning Zhou and refused this proposal.

Dr. Lu sighed: “Well, suit yourself. In fact, I’ve thought about waiting in this arsenal until the army arrives and rescues me. Either way, it can’t get in.”

Qi Leren was not so optimistic. The monster would come up with a way to break into the room sooner or later. Here, he could only wait to die, and…

Suddenly there was a slight noise above his head, as if something was crawling in a pipe. The three men looked up and looked at the metal ceiling above their heads, and fell into a strange silence.

Qi Leren suddenly thought of a problem.

The air of this large underground research institute was unexpectedly clean, and there was no staleness of air being trapped. Its exhaust facilities were obviously operational.

Qi Leren’s eyes turned to the vents in the corner of the ceiling. There was a metal shutter one meter square. It seemed that the sound of something crawling had come from there!

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