Chapter 18 The Train

Three minutes ago, the other end of the tunnel.

Xiao Tan's eyes were like torches as he stood in the middle of the tracks.

He wasn't taking any substantial action, but the system wasn't judging him as passively playing the game either.

Wang Tanzhi and Long Aomin were among the first players of Thriller Paradise. They were well aware that since the map generated by the system was an endless tunnel, a train was bound to come.

At this moment, Xiao Tan was gambling on that train. To achieve a one-hit kill, he had to rely on this behemoth traveling at nearly two hundred kilometers per hour.

And the train had to be coming from his direction towards where Long Aomin was. If it were the other way around, his plan wouldn't work.

It had to be said that Xiao Tan's luck was indeed pretty good. If it were Brother Jue, things would be much harder to say...

In any case, accompanied by a rumbling sound, the train finally arrived, and the direction was right.

Xiao Tan faced the approaching train head-on and roared to embolden himself.

The train was extremely fast, and in the blink of an eye, it was already twenty meters away. Xiao Tan calculated the lead time, raised his right arm, palm facing forward, and unleashed [Fu Ya] (Binding Fangs).

Instantly, a beastly shadow pounced out from Xiao Tan's palm. In mid-air, a roar echoed faintly. The beastly shadow grew exponentially in a second. A giant mouth full of fangs seemed to swallow the entire train as it suddenly snapped shut.

Although the intersecting shadows of teeth were not physical, they still caused the train to decelerate when they plunged into the locomotive.

At that moment, the train seemed to crash into thick glue, noticeably stopping. In the next four or five seconds, it went through a brief process of going from fast to slow and then from slow to fast.

As for Xiao Tan, as soon as [Fu Ya] left his hand, he turned and rushed away, using Flying Nightmare Imprint to run up the wall.

During those few seconds of the train decelerating, he used his maximum speed to run along the wall in the same direction as the train, maintaining a lead of about three meters...

Then, before the train accelerated again, he leaped towards the front of the locomotive. This move cost him 39% of his survival points, but in terms of the result, it was worth it...

These old-fashioned trains had a triangular, protruding edge at the front, and the cylindrical top of the locomotive was also easy to grab onto. Therefore, after paying the price of a skill consumption and nearly half of his survival points, Xiao Tan successfully clung to the front of the locomotive.

"Whew... that was scary..." Xiao Tan felt lingering fear even after completing this task. Although he had planned every step in advance, his fear value still soared when he actually put it into practice, especially in the second he jumped, when his heart stopped beating.

"It really is a train... the immobilization effect of [Fu Ya] is indeed greatly reduced..." Xiao Tan thought to himself.

In fact, before jumping on, he had considered all the possibilities after the skill was released. For example, if [Fu Ya] was completely useless, his subsequent action of running to the wall would have been to stand close to the wall instead of running on it; or, if the train was firmly fixed in place, that would be the best case scenario, and he could leisurely sit on the front of the train; and then there were more extreme situations... if the locomotive derailed or overturned after being blocked by the skill, sliding over due to inertia, then the wall would no longer be safe, and he would only be left with the option of escaping forward as quickly as possible.

Fortunately, the actual result was that the skill created a buffer effect, although getting on the train was still very difficult, it was still thrilling but without any danger.

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In the conference room, Bei Ling's heart also tightened just now. Seeing that Xiao Tan was okay, she breathed a sigh of relief: "That was too reckless... I thought he was going to commit suicide."

"I think I know what he's going to do..." Si Yu continued.

"It's indeed a very risky tactic." Feng Bujue also said, "But from another perspective, it can also be said to be very clever."

"I see it too, isn't he just using the train's momentum to launch [Bu Ying Zhui Hun] (Shadowy Soul Chaser)?" Bei Ling said, "But there are too many variables in this move, what if the train comes from the other side of the tunnel? Also, what if the speed is far beyond expectations? What if the front of the train is flat? What if [Fu Ya] is useless?"

"If that happens, then nothing can be done." Feng Bujue said, "This was originally a gambling plan. He bet the outcome of this match directly on it." He said with a tone of appreciation, "If any link goes wrong, he will fail, and every link in this plan is very likely to go wrong. To succeed, one must have extremely strong on-the-spot reaction ability and... luck." Speaking of luck, Brother Jue couldn't help but think of himself and the [Zero-Type Magic Destroyer], and those stories that had to be told. He paused with a melancholy look, and continued, "It is undeniable that these two are also components of strength. Xiao Tan can think of this idea and risk trying it... then he can afford this victory."

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Time returns to the present, in the tunnel.

Long Aomin looked at Xiao Tan, who was clinging to the front of the train, leaning forward, and holding a military knife, and what arose in his heart was undoubtedly a sense of despair...

"Standing against the wall will definitely be attacked... he just needs to reach out and slash at me with the force of the train." In these short few seconds, many thoughts flashed through Brother Long's mind quickly, "If I jump up... not to mention my heavy armor, my jumping ability is also not good, even if I can really hit the ceiling with my head, and curl up... he only needs to raise the military knife high and slash at my crotch with the force of the train..." His gaze quickly moved to the tracks, "Lie flat in the middle of the tracks... and let the train pass over me... then he only needs to extend the weapon to a height lower than the train's chassis, using the train's force... Ah!"

Long Aomin found that the results of his various mental simulations were not optimistic. At this moment, he couldn't help but think of a famous saying by "Kizaru" - speed is power.

And Xiao Tan, on the locomotive, naturally saw Brother Long's figure. Perhaps it was a habit... when a living thing appeared in his sight, his instinctive reaction was to silently draw a large cross on the front of the train with his finger, and unleash [Hua Ge Chacha Zuzhou Ni] (Draw a Cross and Curse You).

An ominous premonition inexplicably surged into Brother Long's heart, but he didn't care. If he opened the game menu at this moment, he should be able to see the special state of [Curse]...

No sooner said than done...

In the end, Long Aomin's countermeasure was to activate his title skill: [Kuang Bao Zhi Dun] (Berserk Shield).

The name of this title ability is the same as the name of the title itself, and it is a transformation skill, but its effects and side effects are not as amazing as [Dou Mo Jiang Lin] (Battle Demon Descent).

In the Berserk Shield state, Long Aomin can reduce all damage by 30% and increase his maximum health points to twice their original value. This skill can only be used once in each scenario, consuming 700 Stamina Points and 20% of the Stamina Points limit, lasting for three minutes. That is to say, after using this move, until the end of the scenario, Brother Long's Stamina Points limit will change from 3700 to 2960, and it can only be restored when he returns to the login space.

Of course, he couldn't care about that much right now. In order not to be instantly killed, he naturally activated all the skills he could. In addition to the title skill, Brother Long also used another main defensive skill: [Bing Zhi Jia Ke] (Ice Armor), instantly covering the round shield in his hand with a layer of frost.

He leaned against the wall, holding the shield diagonally in front of him, ready to meet the attack...

Looking at Xiao Tan's side... he was also making a desperate bet. He had cast the curse, and [Bu Ying Zhui Hun] had also been activated. The effect of this skill, which changes according to movement speed and impact force, was now the embodiment of Trainman. Combined with the 10% first-strike bonus, only the system probably knew what kind of consequences it would cause...

It can be said that both of them had done everything they could.

The outcome... depended on this one strike.