Fatal Shot

In the underground ruins, Feng Luo and his people continued the exploration mission!

Outside, the sky had already turned completely dark. In Silvermoon City, a Biohazard Crisis created by evolved viruses and some players arrived following the dark night!

In the first minute, at the edge of a leisure square, an NPC couple could not suppress their passion as they sat on a clearing beside a small forest, hugging and kissing in an area where it was unlikely that they would be disturbed by others! But just when things were heating up and they were about to take the next step, a dark silhouette suddenly rushed out from the forest at the side—running straight toward the NPC girl!

“Ah!”

The next moment, the NPC girl let out a painful scream!

“What happened?”

The male NPC was shocked. He saw that attached to his girlfriend’s pant leg was a white dog, dirty and with bloodshot eyes, biting hard!

“Damn it, get lost!”

The male NPC was enraged. He stood and launched a heavy kick at the white dog!

“Dear, are you okay?”

After kicking the dog away, he hurriedly went to check his girlfriend’s leg. He saw that a small chunk of flesh had been torn out. Blood was spilling!

Ah-ooo!

The white dog was no more than 20 centimeters in size. It had been sent flying by the kick and had rolled an entire five or six meters. Its body was twisted, its spine broken. Yet it was still howling where it had fallen in the grass. Its dark, bloodshot eyes stared at them with ferocity. It could be seen that amid its messy fur, there was a very small, needlepoint-like hole!

“F*ck you! I’ll kill you!”

The male NPC was bursting with rage as he rushed over to step on the dog. He failed to notice the three or four giant humanoid silhouettes lying on the ground in the forest beside the clearing. Sets of seemingly nonexistent eyes gazed at his girlfriend, who was still in her original spot, covering the wound on her leg. More accurately, they were gazing at the blood spilling from her leg!

******

The second minute, in a bar.

Many players and young NPC men and women were in high spirits as they twisted their bodies in a hall transformed into a fantasy background by the environmental simulation system.

“Hey, Brother. You’ve drunk too much!”

Holding a beer mug in his hand, a handsome Doctor player with orderly attire and a light smile on his face walked to a sofa to one side and sat down. Seated opposite him, a tall and stalwart Heavy Armor Warrior player had his head slumped on the sofa.

“I’ve drunk too much? Seems like it…”

But when the stalwart player slumped on the sofa raised his head, his eyes were completely bloodshot!

“Ah…! What’s this?! You scared me!”

The handsome Doctor player was clearly shocked. But quickly, his gaze fell once more on the Heavy Armor Warrior’s chest, below his raised head, which was thick with muscle.

“Hey, Brother. Why are your eyes so red? Scaring people and making hearts race… Judging by your alcohol stench, you’ve really drunk a lot. But it’s not right. How could you drink to such a state? Oh, you’ve taken drugs! This game isn’t bad! Not only are you able to take drugs, but they’re unable to cause any effect on the real body! This is especially great, since the feelings of some things are the same as in reality!”

The handsome Doctor player’s voice became unexpectedly gentle, and he reached out to caress the Heavy Armor Warrior’s face. But just then, the lights of the entire hall went out. The environment simulation also disappeared, and the previously loud music stopped!

“Huh? What’s going on? The lights have all gone out. What’s the problem?!”

The handsome Doctor player couldn’t help but look up. He didn’t notice that the Heavy Armor Warrior player behind him had already stood up, swaying, his bloodshot eyes having lost focus. He opened his mouth wide and lunged fiercely at the Doctor player’s back!

Perhaps the handsome Doctor was about to get his wish.

******

The third minute.

The moment the lights in the bar went out, chaos was breaking out all over Silvermoon City! Because even the two public backup energy supply systems had been cut off by someone. In an instant, except for the stores and buildings with automatic backup energy switches, the entire city fell into darkness.

The continuous taking off and landing of levitating hovercrafts ceased. All those in the sky crashed down at once! Levitating hovercrafts were only able to fly at high speeds within the city due to the support provided by energy fields laid on the ground. Thus, the energy SUV was still the main mode of transport in the wild!

Luckily, all these energy hovercrafts carried emergency response functions. Thus, except for a few hovercrafts that crashed into one another or into tall buildings, due to not having proper time to react, the others landed safely. This had jammed the traffic of the entire city—on land and in the air alike!

But this was not the greatest source of chaos!

“Ah, help! Help me!”

From the road beside the square, a male NPC—his body and clothes covered in bloodstains—limped as he rushed out. One hand covered his neck where blood was pouring out. It had stained his clothes. He shouted to players, too afraid to attempt a rescue!

“F*ck! What’s going on?”

“An NPC? Is this a prank, or has this fellow killed someone?”

On the road beside the square, many players had clueless expressions. There were also some players whose eyes lit up, wondering if this was a Hidden Mission. But after they saw what was chasing the male NPC, their faces changed!

Beneath the moonlight were humanoid monsters greater than two meters tall. The skin covering their revolting brains had been completely peeled off, leaving only red flesh exposed on the outside covering the skull. They lunged at the player on the field beside the square so quickly that their movements left a blur marking their trajectories. One among them was holding a woman’s lower leg, chewing it in its mouth. Its super-fast speed caused the lower leg to leave a long trail of blood across the ground!

“F*ck me—what’s going on?! Why are there monsters appearing in the city?”

One player’s expression changed, and he hurriedly took out his submachine gun from his backpack, prepared to fire at the revolting monsters!

The player’s companion, standing beside him, quickly held him back. He tilted his head to indicate the Guard sentry post to the side.

“Shooting isn’t allowed in the city. Do you want to be arrested by the Guards and sent to jail? There’s a Guard sentry right over there!”

But just as he turned his head towards the sentry post, what he saw made him freeze in shock!

From a spot on the tall building at the side, an eye-catching patch of gunsmoke had erupted, simultaneously producing a wave of dense gunshot noises.

Da-da-da…

From the sentry post built by the roadside, the few NPC Guard soldiers who had run out carrying submachine guns after seeing the foragers had no chance. They weren’t even able to fire before they were shot into sieves!

“What’s going on?!”

Just beside the sentry post, Watermelon Skin and a line of players who had just returned from completing a mission were initially prepared to submit the mission. But just then, they were nearly brought disaster by the six-barreled machine gun’s shots.

“In the city, NPC Guard soldiers are being attacked! Furthermore, some were directly shot dead by a machine gun?”

While they were still in shock, a system message already sounded in the ears of all the people in War.

“The epic plot ‘Biohazard Crisis’ has officially started. This plot is an open plot. All players will be able to join and earn rewards of different content according to the faction! A faction switch is officially open. Players may choose to join one. Once joined, existing Power Merit will be cleared to zero!”