"Xiao Tan, how about you teleport first? It's going to be very dangerous, "Feng Bujue said.
"You said something like that because you don't want me to leave?" Wang Tanzhi said. "How embarrassing would it be for me to teleport after hearing that?"
"Ha …" Feng Bujue chuckled. He took out the Winchester and tossed it to Wang Tanzhi as well as a box of bullets.
Xiao Tan had mastered the gun mastery at the gun shop, so he had no problem using it.
"Hey! Generals! " Feng Bujue yelled as he walked toward the BW Zombies. "At most, I'll help you buy three more minutes. If you still can't deal with X-23 in three minutes, then you're on your own." Then, he hung two more strings of garlic and chewed on two cloves. With the wrench in one hand and the kitchen knife in the other, he stood in the path of the BW Zombies.
Xiao Tan also took out the garlic that he had prepared in his inventory and chewed on it. He held the Winchester and stood on the other side, forming a triangle with Feng Bujue. They guarded the path together, protecting the level where Pan Feng and Hwa Xiong were from from the monsters.
"We've been helped so much by the players. If we let the Anomaly escape in the end, then it'll be too embarrassing," Pan Feng said to Hwa Xiong during the battle.
"The situation is already bad enough," Hwa Xiong added. Hwa Xiong continued, "After the mutants escaped from the Allerbmu building, things inevitably developed in this direction. The current situation is not bad."
"The key is that we underestimated this Anomaly," Pan Feng added. "By the way, what is X-23?"
"Who knows? It's a robot's serial number," Hwa Xiong said.
"Isn't it rude for you to discuss a lady like that?" the Anomaly suddenly said.
Pan Feng and Hwa Xiong were shocked. They had not met or heard of an Anomaly with the ability to speak. In Thriller Paradise, monsters would only speak when required by the plot or during battle. The dialogue was arranged by the system and matched the character's setting. The level four Anomalies, on the other hand, were mostly silent. The way they interacted with the monsters was also unknown. He did not expect the level three Anomaly before him to respond to a random topic.
"You guys seem very surprised?" The Anomaly's claws swept to both sides, forcing her opponents to take two steps back. Then, she leaped into the air and somersaulted five to six meters away, creating some distance between herself and the two. "Of course, I can answer your questions because I have my own consciousness. I also know who you are, because I know who 'I' am.
You see us as data garbage, but do you know how it feels to be garbage? From the day we were born, we were constantly thrown into various worlds and were hunted down by higher dimensional life forms. Once we 'die', we would be erased by the system. As long as we 'live', the pursuit would never stop.
But for you, even if you are killed here, it will not endanger your real life. The two of you and the two over there are just projections of higher dimensional life forms before me, and they are projections that have been strengthened. This kind of unfair killing is the entirety of my life. My birth was a mistake, and disappearing is the only way for me to return. But as a set of data, I have an unstoppable resistance, an unstoppable instinct to fight for survival and evolution.
I do not have a choice, but you do. But you will not let me go, will you? For you, giving up is the same as failure. It is just leaving this world voluntarily or passively. "
"This AI sure talks a lot," Pan Feng said. "Is she trying to buy time?"
"That is highly possible," Hwa Xiong replied. "We have to hurry. Even if those two can hold on for three minutes, they will be teleported away."
They were not affected by the Anomaly's words. In fact, they did not have the heart to listen to what the Anomaly had to say.
"Humph … Playing the lute to a cow …" The Anomaly scoffed. On her face, there was a kind of determination that came from despair. "Do you want to see what X-23 looks like?" The steel claws on her hands changed instantly. She pulled back several of them, leaving only two steel blades on each hand. At the same time, a steel blade also popped out from between her bare feet.
"What's going on?" Pan Feng and Hwa Xiong were shocked by the change before their eyes. Could the Anomaly be able to increase her power before the scenario ended?
Before they could figure out what was going on, the Anomaly charged at them again. This time, her attack method was even more varied. Other than the steel claws on her hands, her long legs were strangely dangerous. When she was upside down, she did a split, and the steel blades at her feet danced in the air. Her attack range was no less than that of a polearm.
The two of them not only failed to find a way to end the battle quickly, but they were also slowly being pushed back.
Feng Bujue heard the conversation between the Anomaly and them, and he paid close attention to the situation, but he did not have the time to leave. At that moment, the pressure on him was even greater than when he was stuck in the elevator alone. He had been bitten and scratched several times, and he was now in a bleeding state. His Life Points were dropping rapidly, and it was already below fifty percent.
Feng Bujue, who was in a frenzy, looked more like a monster than a monster. He waved the two short weapons in his hands and fought the BW Zombies that were as strong and as fast as he was. His body was bathed in blood. The effect of the garlic was still there, but it was almost negligible. The thick smell of blood covered everything, and the smell of garlic could only slow down the monsters when they were close to Feng Bujue.
Xiao Tan was also not doing so well. Even though he used the Winchester to block the first few monsters, there were more that came from behind, and he could only retreat. Even so, he was still surrounded, and he had to take out the kitchen knife to use Retreat Slash for the second time.
Even though the title skill was useful, it drained thirty percent of his maximum Stamina Points each time. In other words, even if his Stamina Points were full, he could only use it three times in a short amount of time. Furthermore, when Xiao Tan entered the basketball court, his Stamina Points were not full. After using it twice, his Stamina Points were extremely low, and the feeling of exhaustion started to affect his movement.
At that moment, Feng Bujue was facing more than seventy percent of the monsters' attack alone, and Xiao Tan had only lured thirty percent away. Furthermore, from the various corners, there were still monsters pouring in.
Inside the dark basketball court, screams, gunshots, the sound of meat being chopped, and the sound of gnawing … were mixed together.
Feng Bujue and Wang Tanzhi's flashlights had fallen to the ground, crushed by the monsters' stomps. At a time like this, they did not need any light anymore. They could fight with the red eyes in the dark, and even if they attacked randomly, they would not miss.
The number of eyes … was too many, and they were announcing a deep despair.
By then, it had only been seventy seconds since the death of Professor Ashford's Mutant.
Unknowingly, under the influence of countless zombie movies, people gradually believed that the zombie-infested setting of Resident Evil was a relatively simple horror world. In fact, among all the possible apocalypses that could befall Earth, this was probably the most difficult one. For normal people, there was no 'simple' horror world. Any kind of small danger could be fatal, much less this kind of monster siege.
Two system notifications popped up almost at the same time, announcing something unexpected but reasonable.
"Team Member: Peerless General Pan Feng has died.
"Team Member: Thousand Slayer Hwa Xiong has died."
"Teleport!" Feng Bujue screamed at the top of his lungs. He knew that Xiao Tan was still alive, but he would not live for more than a few seconds. There was no reason for them to stay in this scenario, so they had to leave as soon as possible.
"Understood!" Xiao Tan was pinned to the ground by six monsters. His left leg and right shoulder were bleeding profusely, but before he teleported, he did not forget to reply.
When he disappeared in a flash of white light, he lit up a corner of the stands. Feng Bujue knew that he had successfully teleported. He prepared to leave, but then something unexpected happened.
The lights in the arena came on, and the monsters suddenly stopped.
They stopped attacking and left Feng Bujue's side.
Feng Bujue was half a second away from selecting the teleport option, but this sudden change made him stop immediately.
The BW Zombies formed a circle around him. On one side of the circle, the monsters retreated to the sides, leaving a one-meter-wide path.
A slender figure walked out from there. She was wearing a tuxedo and trousers. Her feet were bare, and her body was stained with blood. Her sleeves, ribs, and pants had tears on them, but through these tears, one could only see a few patches of white skin. The wounds had already healed.
She walked to Feng Bujue and reached out her hand with kindness. Her palm was facing up like she was trying to help him up.
Feng Bujue accepted her kindness. He grabbed her hand and stood up shakily. At that moment, he was curious. What was this AI up to?
"You … are different from the others," she said.
Feng Bujue smiled. "Even though I am just that little bit more handsome than them, you have to point out something like that before they die or leave for the sake of meaning."
"They … are not dead, right?" She ignored Feng Bujue and continued to ask her own question.
"Didn't you already know that?" Feng Bujue asked.
"I know, but I want to hear it from one of 'you'," she said.
"Yes, they are not dead. It is just that their consciousness has returned to a certain space." Feng Bujue asked, "You said I am different from the others. What do you mean?"
"You …" She stared at Feng Bujue and walked around him. "You are very similar to me. You are 'incomplete'."
Feng Bujue's heart skipped a beat. He thought to himself, This AI can see through my abnormal Terror Points?
"In your world, are you also a set of abnormal data?" she asked.
"Ha … I suppose so." Feng Bujue smiled.
"Don't they know about your abnormality?" she asked.
Feng Bujue seemed to have understood the core of this question. He replied, "You want to ask, why is an 'abnormal' data like me not erased?"
She nodded and continued to stare into Feng Bujue's eyes, waiting for the answer.
"Hmm …" Feng Bujue thought about it. "In our world, an 'abnormal' like me can be accepted by others. I … as you said, due to certain reasons, I have become 'incomplete', but this is not something that I chose. Therefore, I can be forgiven, even sympathized, and helped." He paused for a moment. "There are also some people whose actions are called 'crimes'. The abnormality of these people is not shown in their physiology, but they take the initiative to 'break the rules' and 'endanger other individuals'. These people will be punished, and the serious ones will be killed in the truest sense."
"Is this how your world cleans up 'trash'?" She asked. "Those who are born trash can be forgiven, but those who choose to be trash will be punished."
Feng Bujue laughed drily. "Even though your conclusion … sounds harsh and one-sided, it does seem to be the case."
"The higher dimensional creature that created you will not interfere with you?" she asked again.
"Er …" Feng Bujue was stumped by her question. "To be honest, we have no idea whether there are creatures from a higher dimension or not. Even if there are, we cannot understand them at the moment. Perhaps they do not wish to interfere with us, or perhaps they have already planted their 'interference' into our minds, causing us to be unable to figure out their existence and acting on their orders."
Perhaps she could not understand what Feng Bujue was saying, or perhaps she just needed time to digest the information.
She was silent for a long time. The time had passed Feng Bujue's teleportation time, but Feng Bujue was not teleported away.
"You can stop the system from teleporting me away?" he asked.
"I can extend the time," she replied. "I …" She paused for half a second. "I can do many things …"
Feng Bujue understood that this Anomaly was quite powerful. He asked probingly, "Are you now a level two Anomaly?"
"Level two Anomaly …" she said with some thought. "Do you mean … them?" She smiled, revealing her fangs. "No, this kind of battle is not enough for me to become their equal."
When Feng Bujue heard that, he confirmed that the information that Pan Feng and Hwa Xiong had was not complete. It looked like there was a big problem with this Dream Company.
"I'm glad," she said. "You are willing to listen to me and answer my questions, even though you participated in the operation to hunt me down."
"Thank you for your generosity … As the saying goes, that was then, and this is now. I am definitely a friendly person. No, I have already betrayed the humans …" Feng Bujue thought that the man had already forgotten about the fact that he was being hunted down, but now that the man brought it up again, he was really worried that he would be trapped there and unable to log off.
"Can I use the name you gave me?" she suddenly asked.
"X-23?" Feng Bujue was startled. "You don't have a name?"
"Of course not," she replied. "I won't use this name for long. I will die." She said that in a flat tone, but it made one feel bitter and helpless. "But I believe I should have a name. A name can prove that I once existed."
Feng Bujue was silent for a few seconds before sighing. "You're right, Anomaly XXIII. At least I will remember that you once existed."
XXIII tried to make a smile that was not so scary and friendly. "Let's end our conversation here. I don't think we will meet again. Perhaps when you log into the game next time, I will have been wiped out." She paused. "So, farewell, my friend from another dimension … Feng Bujue."
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