Saving the World in an Apocalypse-Style Text Game

Chapter 33: Chapter 36 Murderous Intent Rises!_1 Chapter 33: Chapter 36 Murderous Intent Rises!_1 Lin Xun was waiting in the lounge for the reforging to be completed when, unexpectedly, he had triggered an option for a forging anomaly.

He carefully read the text description, “Fortunate Apostle, the gaze of an unknown existence allows you to perform miracles…”

An unknown gaze? The phrase seemed familiar. After thinking back for a while, Lin Xun remembered a similar text from a past scene.

It had been at the eastern side of the White Moon Church, after battling through a wave of vegetable monsters to reach a high tower. After touching the Blood Sun sculpture at the top of the tower, a similar text had appeared.

At that time, the text indicated that his connection with the ‘Profane Blood Sun’ deepened, and he was under the gaze of an unknown existence… Following which, he uncovered a temporary +5 leveled new skill.

Could the Profane Blood Sun have mistaken him for a devout believer and provided him with various benefits?

He shook his head, it wasn’t likely. After all, he had already taken down the gems from the Blood Sun sculpture, and the Law Knights chasing him seemed justified.

He stopped pondering the riddle and looked at the low-probability anomaly triggered during the reforging process.

After some deliberation, Lin Xun was somewhat hesitant.

The fusion anomaly involved integrating a new weapon, and according to the text, the higher the quality of the weapon put in, the more incredible the resulting weapon.

Right now, the highest quality weapon he owned was the “Pure Silver Scepter of the White Moon,” which had reached the rare level.

The rest, like Knight’s Greatsword, Crossbow, Church Longsword, etc., were not that good in terms of quality.

However, the phrase “the new weapon will fuse the features of the two weapons” caused some hesitation again.

Based on his understanding of typical game mechanics, blending a close combat weapon with the Dragon Hunting Spear should be the optimal choice. However, the highest quality close combat weapon he has, the ‘Knight’s Greatsword’, only had a common+ level.

After much thought, succumbing to the gambler’s mindset, he finally made up his mind.

“Do it! Maybe I’ll get a dragon-slaying blade +999!”

[You will fuse the ‘Pure Silver Scepter of the White Moon’.]

[Reforging in progress…]

The game text remained stuck.

“I wonder what it’ll end up reforging into.”

This time, Lin Xun waited for an excessively long period without any progress.

Thump, thump, thump~

The short-haired young girl pushed the door open and greeted, “Lin Xun, let’s go. Let’s have a meeting on the third floor. Finish the task early, so we can sleep early…”

Lin agreed and put his phone back in his pocket, leaving the lounge.

…

The suburban area was silent in the deep night.

The residences here were not densely packed, mostly consisting of old, low-rise bungalows.

Many families had already gone to sleep. Looking out, only a few lights could be seen.

A bungalow within a certain compound was still lit.

The “Engineer” carefully held the object in his hand.

He swore that even when he held his daughter after her birth, he had not been so careful.

The object in his hands looked like a rotten, smelly, blackish lump.

Such blackness was like standing on the edge of a cliff, staring into a bottomless abyss, giving one a strong impulse to dive into it!

“The organization so values me that they’ve entrusted me with the precious Source of Doomsday… Even if it costs me my life, I must complete the task!”

The Engineer remembers when his daughter would call him ‘daddy’ with her milk-and-honey voice. A smile of happiness appeared on his face, murmuring: “Good girl, daddy will soon be opening the door to a new world for you. There, there is no conflict, no pain.”

“In the new world, there will be only tranquillity and peace…”

Mid-sentence, his pupils suddenly shrunk. He hastily materialized his game equipment without hesitation.

He was suddenly covered in a dark grey battle suit, tightly encasing his entire body.

A honeycomb shaped tantalum-titanium exoskeleton, intelligent nano fiber muscles, a mechanical spine connected to his body’s motion nerves, all streamline design, this was a suit of nano armor!

Countless tiny holes in the armor instantly injected millions of miniature nano robots into the Engineer’s body. Oxygen levels in his blood drastically increased, adrenaline being quickly secreted.

“Bang!!!”

A dull and oppressive gunshot resonated.

The nano fibers on the armor’s surface immediately altered their particle structure, easily neutralizing the kinetic energy of the bullet hitting the body with their high strength and toughness.

Clang~

It was the sound of the lacklustre, golden sniper bullet landing on the ground.

The engineer’s dark red goggles flickered with data, analyzing the source of the trajectory. Glancing at the shattered window, he leapt out into the courtyard of the single-story building.

…

“Sniper failure, switch to aggressive attack!”

The voice of the sexy woman in black silk came through the earpiece.

Lin Xun glanced at the courtyard in the distance and squinted his eyes.

[You have manifested the ‘Blood Sun Church Law Knight’s’ shell!]

Dark silver metal plate armor replaced his short-sleeved jeans, covering his entire body. Through the slit in the heavy knight helmet, two crimson eyes glowed. A bright red cloak billowed in the evening wind over his shoulder.

A two-handed knight’s sword, as wide as two palms, appeared in his hand.

Perhaps due to the use of the ‘Sunflower Seed Tainted with Profane Essence’, or perhaps due to the enhancement of the shell, the heavy-armored knight—who was already tall and sturdy like an iron tower—grew even taller. The muscles beneath the plate armor bulged, making him resemble a monstrous steel beast!

The knight blew the horn, and a gigantic horse over three meters tall trotted out from the void.

The horseshoe was the size of a basin, and its crimson muscle fibers were thick and robust. The airflow it exhaled from its nostrils was as red as a gusting wind.

The Law Knight mounted the horse. He held the reins in one hand and his large sword in the other, guarding the retreat path of the courtyard like an unyielding wall of iron.

His superior’s mission for this operation was to kill the mid-level members of the New World organization—the engineers.

After killing the engineers, Lin Xun would be able to use his talents in reality.

He will then seize the engineer’s shell and carry out his subsequent plans using this shell…

At first, Lin Xun was somewhat hesitant, worrying about the possible terrifying consequences of seizing a shell in reality. For example, after taking over the shell, would he permanently become like the shell? Or would his own body become vegetative after taking the shell?

Then, several female colleagues in the conference room laughed when they heard his concerns…

Back to the point, as a newbie, his current mission was to “bar the possible escape routes of the target if his female superiors failed to kill the target on the spot.”

Really, was this a reasonable order?

Feeling insulted, Lin Xun grumbled about being relegated to waving flags and cheering for his female colleagues from a distance. The more he thought about it, the more shameful he felt.

Not being able to stand it any longer, he said sarcastically into the mic inside his helmet, “Xiaoxi, your shooting skills are awful. You said that the shell has a 100% hit rate.”

“Shut up, newbie, go stand on the sideline and cheer us on.”

The voice of a short-haired beauty came through the earpiece, sounding both breathless and annoyed.

Lin Xun looked at the courtyard. Inside the courtyard walls, flashes of various colored lights were accompanied by the sound of guns and muffled impact.

Before the mission, Li Xingyue emphasized that as the operation was in the suburban residential area, even though the houses were not dense, they could not make a big noise, so as not to alarm the bystanders.

Clearly, these words were directed at the newbie.

“Sigh…” Lin Xun sighed helplessly and patted the large head of the blood horse.

The Turkmen Blood Horse blinked its red eyes, snorted with its nose, and seemed a little dumbfounded. It didn’t understand why its master was sighing.

After the enhancement of his talent, and once again manifesting the shell of the Law Knight, he was able to suppress the aggressive thoughts of the shell while in a calm state.

If it was the first time he manifested the knight’s shell, he probably would have already charged into the courtyard with his ‘Bloody Charge’.

Why didn’t Lin Xun use the Yellow Bishop’s shell?

He regretted not reforging his weapon first.

Up until now, his game weapon was still being “reforged…”

What use is a mage without his staff?

“Boom!”

The entire courtyard was leveled by the sudden flames that shot up into the sky.

A dull figure jumped out from it and quickly cleared a great distance with several leaps.

The direction of the figure’s escape was precisely the retreat route guarded by Lin Xun!

“Lin Xun, run! Don’t try to stop him!”

The anxious cry of the Black Silk Woman resounded in his earpiece.

That dull figure was getting closer and closer in his eyes…

“Hoo~”

Lin Xun looked upwards and gave a long exhale of dark red breath…

The killing intent roaring within the shell was unstoppable, like a savage beast let out of its cage!