Chapter 184 - Fusing
translator: xiin
editors: apricot & juurensha
The sun shone down on top of the Mayan pyramids.
The temple, which imitated the Chichen Itza pyramid style, was solemn and grand, and held an altar that led to the kingdom of the G.o.ds. A number of exquisite blood troughs wound downwards on the pyramid, tangled up with inscriptions of the sun G.o.d and Quetzalcoatl. The sacrificial blood slid down the blood troughs and gathered into a well beneath the pyramid that was also known as the ‘well of sacrifice’.
Wu Jin was held down in the middle of the altar.
The youth’s pupils were narrowed due to the glare from the sun, and the muscles of his entire body fought furiously against his captivity, showing the momentum of a fierce animal cub.
The Crosson Show’s live stream room.
Blood Pigeon was looking at the message board and explaining general knowledge to the audience, “In Mayan legends, the city-states offered up pure and devout maidens as sacrifices to the sun. But, in fact, according to archaeological data, most of the city-states actually sacrificed pure youths…”
The scrolling comments were filled with a sweeping string of ‘hahahahaha-hic’ messages.
“Sacrifice a pure ♂ and clean Little Witch! Save me, the Mayan G.o.ds really eat well hahaha!”
“Is there any fairness in the world! A live Little Witch sacrifice ahhhhh! My son is about to be crushed on the altar hahahah––where’s G.o.d Wei––”
Ying Xiangxiang smiled like a fox as she explained to the audience, “In the design for this instance, the power of the priests at the altar exert a suppression force of about 360kg. It’s impossible for Little Witch to break free. Of course, this is also the reason why Zuo Botang chose to set up a trap against him here.”
Blood Pigeon agreed, “Even for top level survival show players, in order to bench press 360kg, they would need to be at least 150kg themselves. Exactly, they’d have to be Caesar’s body type. So, Wu Jin will be expelled from the instance––”
At the top of the altar, the camera that was closest to Wu Jin suddenly swung around!
The shadow cast down by the jade snake G.o.d stone carving was blocked by a strong and solid body, and the nearest priest was stunned. In the next second, the man’s rough and powerful fingers dislocated the main priest’s shoulder, and the metallic bone joints that supported the instance’s AI suddenly broke apart at the joint!
Wei Shi didn’t pause at all as he used his left elbow to smash into another priest that was helping suppress Wu Jin. His right hand picked up a temple soldier who was threatening Wu Jin with a bone knife, and hurled them onto the white jade altar!
There was a crack, and the thin, poor quality stone slabs that surrounded the edge of the altar split apart.
The spinning camera was finally able to focus and capture the shadow of Wei Shi’s figure.
The man bowed his head.
His eyes were cold and sharp, like blades in the dark, and his back was straight as he reached out to Wu Jin, his expression sounding him out.
Wu Jin, who was still fluttering and flailing around, paused guiltily.
He even had the kind of delusion that he’d taken advantage of the time when the big boss was absent to go out and mess around with Little Wei, then he had gotten bullied, hugged the cub and ended up coming back to find the big boss to avenge them.
Fortunately, his capture by the Mayan priests had been dealt with at this time. Wu Jin dusted off his b.u.t.tocks and was about to jump up, but unexpectedly, the altar where Wu Jin had been lying collapsed without warning and revealed the channel that sent contestants out of the instance––
Wei Shi leaned over and picked the youth up at that decisive moment.
His combat boots kicked against the body of a nearby priest, sending the NPC into the channel. When the elimination channel detected the weight of the object, it beeped, and a green light lit up as it mistakenly believed that the AI sacrifice was Wu Jin.
From around the Mayan pyramid, the NPCs and players were all stunned by the changes that had happened over the past few seconds. Wu Jin was being half held by the big boss and was now finally able to stand up straight. Before he had time to set up his gun, Wei Shi, who was beside him, had already pulled back his bow and aimed it at Jingyi!
Arrows shot through the air.
From nearby, Ming Yao cried out and tossed down the alpaca on the spot. The little alpaca bleated angrily, and there was a flicker of an electric light in the air before the surroundings soon returned to calmness.
The spark had been the front cover of a life-saving capsule. After the altar sacrifice had begun, Jingyi’s Double C had almost arrived at the exit to the instance, but unexpectedly, they’d been shot back by Wei Shi. Ming Yao had almost been shot into his life-saving capsule!
Wu Jin and the audience in the live stream all looked admiringly at Wei Shi.
Wu Jin gave the big boss a thumbs up and quickly filled in the gaps in the crossfire.
In the Crosson Show live stream room, the atmosphere was heated!
“Handsome, handsome.” Even Ying Xiangxiang was praising the scene repeatedly, “In this season of the Crosson Show, to be able to switch between middle and short-range combat to sniper attacks, Contestant Wei is definitely worthy of being labelled as the number one player. And he handles the job with skill and ease––”
When he’d jumped up onto the altar just now, it didn’t look like he was there to rescue a sacrifice, but more like he was a G.o.d who’d been inspired by the blood from the sacrifice and decided to lean over for a taste.
On the screen, after being cut off by Wei Shi’s arrow, Jingyi no longer dared to expose their backs to Wu Jin.
The priest that Wei Shi had thrown out into the channel was regarded as the sacrifice. The sun that was driven by sacrificial blood, shifted againk2013;k2013;
From mid-afternoon to dusk.
17:22!
The exit to the instance opened up completely!
Jingyi, Scarf, and a group of Mayan citizens who were glaring at Wu Jin all fell into a vicious battle once again!
The Crosson Show’s sixth elimination match rankings were updating constantly.
Five minutes later, two teams of players had pa.s.sed 4 events.
16 minutes.
The roller coaster shot through the sky with flames behind it. Raphael let go of the other rider at the front of the roller coaster and jumped off.
All the players’ wrist.w.a.tches updated themselves in unison.
The first place was updated. Based on the current record, with five cleared events, it was Raphael.
Two other groups, including Wu Jin’s group, were in second place.
Raphael tossed Lin Ke to the side and led his teammate to run towards the last amus.e.m.e.nt park facility––the jumping machine.
Lin Ke, who’d had his answers copied, wanted to cry but had no tears. He turned to his teammate to complain, “Look, copying the answer is the fastest way to pa.s.s an instance. In this round, looking for answers and clues is useless! Look at Brother Wu and the others – even they didn’t finish the instances as quickly as Raphael did.”
In the sixth elimination match, the support position could provide logic and reasoning, while the sniper positions could use the crossbows to suppress others with firepower, while all the a.s.sault positions could do was overpower other players and pa.s.s the test by copying answers.
Inside the haunted house instance.
Wu Jin and Wei Shi once again pushed Jingyi further away from the exit to the instance. At this time, the supply of arrows for both teams was almost exhausted, and the javelins they were using had been taken from the Mayan soldiers. Zuo Botang and Ming Yao were hidden behind a bunker and couldn’t escape.
Half a minute pa.s.sed.
Wu Jin pulled Little Wei with him and ran in a panic, “Run run run run––”
The two of them ran off in a hurry through the Mayan city-state’s market. The 16 year old Wei Shi’s eyes were dark and clouded.
After Wu Jin had been rescued, the Scarf group’s reputation in the Mayan city-state had instantly dropped to ‘hated’, while Jingyi, as the team who was helping to hunt down Wu Jin, had a ‘friendly’ reputation.
Little Wei might be able to fight off Jingyi on his own, but he was still at a disadvantage when faced with the additional city-wide manhunt.
It was obvious that Jingyi had also sensed that this condition of his would occur every 30 seconds.
From behind them, cold steel weapons flew through the air, and the momentum behind them was terrible. Wei Shi suddenly pushed Wu Jin aside and turned around, “You go first, I’ll guard the back.”
Behind them was the pursuing army.
Wei Shi made a gesture to Wu Jin. Although there are thousands of people, he would––
Wu Jin grabbed the big boss and dragged the cub with him to continue running, “Don’t do that, don’t do that, we’ll live and die together, die and live together…” He picked up a bunch of alpaca kebabs from the market and stuffed them into the cub’s mouth, “Are you hungry! Let’s finish the game together; in a while we’ll find a way to break the deadlock when other players come in… after the game, I’ll take you to go and eat, eat handheld wraps…”
Wei Shi swallowed the kebab and glanced sideways at the little shortie who was already out of breath.
“Hey.” Wei Shi raised his arm to catch a javelin that the natives had thrown at them and hurled it back. Little Wei’s voice was hoa.r.s.e, “Compared with him, am I trash?”
Wu Jin was surprised and quickly comforted the cub as they ran, “No, no! Didn’t I tie him up––careful!”
Wei Shi squeezed in against the corner of the wall to protect Wu Jin, and the arrow sliced across the back of his ribs.
Little Wei frowned, “Do you care about him?”
Wu Jin quickly used flowery, cunning words, “From a timeline perspective, I cared about you first…”
In the next second, the big boss suddenly raised his chin.
The 27 year old Wei Shi returned and spoke indifferently, “Oh, you’re confessing.”
“!!!” Wu Jin immediately stood up properly and then squeaked as he was pressed up against the wall. In the Mayan instance, the 30 second round of pursuit and escape between Jingi and Scarf had long stopped being interesting to the cameras, and there were dead corners everywhere now.
Wu Jin: “I’m being flattened, flattened!!” A strip of Wu Jin was pasted up against the wall and pressed flat until he was short on breath.
Wei Shi was expressionless, but jealousy filled the air.
Wu Jin quickly changed the topic, “Jingyi! Jingyi!”
Near the exit to the instance, Ming Yao was running in a panic, “It’s been 30 seconds, it’s been 30 seconds! Hey, captain, what were you talking about? Intermittent amnesia? That’s not right! Isn’t Contestant Wei still running and jumping around? Doesn’t he still recognize Little Witch? Wait a minute, why aren’t they chasing after us now––”
Ming Yao: “Ouch!” An arrow had suddenly shot over from a distance. This one arrow held extra strength from Contestant Wei’s current bad mood.
Ming Yao chattered loudly, “Captain, how long is this chasing and getting chased standoff going to last for!”
From a hundred meters away, Wei Shi licked his dry lips, “Did you feed him roast meat?”
In the distance, Ming Yao was still yelling and shouting, “When will other players enter––”
Wu Jin swiftly quibbled, “No, no, no! He picked it up from the market himself––”
Wei Shi interrogated him, “Did he feed it to you?”
Zuo Botang rubbed at his forehead, “Little Ming, stop kicking up a ruckus. There’s something going on over there.”
The innumerable Mayan citizens who were stuck between the two teams, “Ahhhhhhhwuuuuuu––”
It was at this moment that the mechanism at the entrance of the instance creaked and turned.
The entrance to the Mayan city-state had opened up again!
Both teams turned back at the same time.
The Mayan priest who’d been tossed out of the instance as a sacrifice instead of Wu Jin stumbled inside again––or in other words, he was carried in through the door.
Red, who held the NPC’s soft body over his head, walked in triumphantly and praised himself exaggeratedly as he spoke to Caesar, “Aren’t I handsome? Super cool! It’s like a mission item that just fell down from the sky. Didn’t your good brother s.n.a.t.c.h it up quickly?!”
Caesar gave him a thumbs up, “Awesome! How do we use this thing?”
Red: “I don’t know! Why hasn’t this AI woken up yet––holy s.h.i.t.”
Both of them looked up together.
At the entrance to the Mayan city-state, the soldiers who were chasing after Wu Jin were stunned. They stared at the Mayan priest Ai who was on Red’s head and had been ‘remotely shut down’ by the Crosson Show logistics team.
––One of the soldier’s lips moved.
“Awuuu––”
The soldiers all rushed towards Red like the tide. In Mayan culture, the priesthood was the cla.s.s that absolutely couldn’t be blasphemed against, as the cla.s.s that was closest to the G.o.ds.
The forces that were pursuing Wu Jin were immediately diverted, and their situation was more optimistic now.
Before Wu Jin could react, the big boss had already peeled him off the wall directly, “Let’s go.”
Wu Jin was instantly happy.
From nearby, Jingyi was also heading towards the exit at a shocking speed.
Just before Ming Yao was about to step out of the instance, Wei Shi threw a javelin at them and almost smashed Ming Yao’s head against the wall. At the same time, he looked back at Wei Shi in horror, “Is this really the strength that a human being can have?”
On the other side, Wei Shi finished throwing the javelin and tensed up his muscles, using force to warn Wu Jin, “Look clearly and see who your real legal partner is.”
Wu Jin once again turned into a wallflower and nodded like a chicken pecking at rice, “……”
Following Wei Shi’s javelin, the situation in the field changed again.
Jingyi retreated quickly, and Wei Shi walked off towards the exit with Wu Jin. On the altar of the Mayan pyramid, there were numerous murals surrounding the altar, and only one person could pa.s.s through the exit pa.s.sage at a time–-
Wei Shi gestured for Wu Jin to go first, then drew the bow again.
Wu Jin quickly turned back, “Wait, 30 seconds––”
29.
30.
Zuo Botang calmly opened his mouth, “Little Ming.”
The sound of a gunshot went off!
Wu Jin’s expression stiffened.
There had only been bows and crossbows in the field up to now, and Jingyi had never used their gun, not because they were out of ammunition, but because Zuo Botang had been looking for the perfect chance to snipe. Their target wasn’t even Wei Shi, but Wu Jin who was stuck in the exit.
Clearing five instances was enough for Wu Jin to advance to the next elimination match, but Wu Jin was a huge threat towards Jingyi’s attempt to win first place in the compet.i.tion.
What Jingyi wanted to do was eliminate all the obstacles in the way of them winning the championship in this elimination match––
This was Zuo Botang’s second trap.
Wei Shi abruptly pushed Wu Jin to the ground!
The two of them rolled along the rough stone.
After the Scarf team left the exit at the same time, the Mayan instance closed up again with Jingyi and Caesar and Red locked inside. The setting sun disappeared into the night, waiting for the next sacrifice before it rose up again.
The instance exit was dark.
Wu Jin moaned quietly and stood up quickly.
The smell of blood filled the narrow exit s.p.a.ce.
Wu Jin was trembling all over.
Zuo Botang’s sniper attack had taken place at exactly the time when Big Wei and Little Wei switched cores. If it had been Big Wei, there was an 80% chance that he would’ve suppressed Zuo Botang’s shot even before he had a chance to attack, but the one who’d charged over to block the gun had been Little Wei…
Wei Shi leaned against the wall, his teeth clenched and his knees bent.
The little shortie beside him was still panting for breath, and his arm was shaking slightly as he helped him check the wound on his leg.
Wei Shi raised his chin, “Hey.”
“I didn’t take this shot to make us even.”
Wu Jin was startled and thought about what the big boss had said in his subconscious about helping him block the gun. Was the gunshot in the subconscious really a gunshot! Wu Jin was distressed as he looked at the cub, but fortunately, the bullet that Jingyi had used had low penetrative power. Even so, there was an open wound on the cub’s calf––
Wei Shi curved his hand.
The dirt and blood stained fingers wrapped domineeringly around the back of Wu Jin’s head.
Their foreheads were drawn close together.
Wu Jin could feel the heat coming from the big boss’s forehead, and it seemed that even their heartbeats were woven together in the dark.
The 16 year old Wei Shi quietly stuck close to Wu Jin like this for a while.
“This gunshot isn’t for you.” He repeated in a low voice, “Me and him are almost fused together now.”
“You owe me a shot, I owe you a shot.”
“Little shortie, don’t forget me.”
Juurensha: Awwwwww, there’s no way Little Witch will forget you!
xiin: omg omg omg T____T