43: Doomsday Dungeon - Doomsday City (Part 5)

On Tianhua Avenue,

Sheng Tianqi's feet were in a puddle of thick blood.

The crimson blood dyed his expensive leather shoes red, and blood dripped from his long, tailored suit.

In front of him, a burly man knelt.

"Director Sheng, let me go, let me go! I'll never dare again, please, let me go! I'll never dare again!" The burly man kowtowed to the ground, his eyes filled with terror.

Wang Yanyan licked the blood from the corner of her mouth, her eyes glinting with a morbid killing intent: "A dog trying to bite its master, heh heh."

The man trembled, kneeling on the ground.

Amidst the scattered flesh and white bone fragments, the sunlight warmed him as the wind ruffled his hair.

Sheng Tianqi looked indifferently at the person on the ground, raised his hand, and clenched it.

"No, don't!" The man screamed in terror, but soon, his skin cracked open, and blood seemed to be squeezed from his body.

Finally, with a bang, he exploded into pieces.

Wang Yanyan's eyes sparkled with excitement: "Director Sheng, now there's no dead weight holding us back!"

Sheng Tianqi's face was impassive, his leather shoes stepping on the sticky ground, leaving shallow indentations.

"If I find out who planted that bomb, I will make him wish he were dead."

"Director Sheng, it looks like there's something ahead."

A black vortex slowly expanded in front of the two of them.

"A dungeon, Doomsday Perilous City." Sheng Tianqi slowly narrowed his eyes, reached out, and suddenly clenched his hand towards the back of a nearby car!

"Ah ah ah ah ah!" A young man watched his body fly through the air in terror.

"Tell me, who all has entered here."

...Doomsday Perilous City, Pearl Tower

"Such a powerful Infected." Tang Ping wiped the corner of his mouth, then used two fingers to wipe the blood from his sword: "What a pity, such a beautiful face."

The Infected in front of him wore a loose white gown, and at first glance, she was indistinguishable from a human.

Especially her face, which was cold, alluring, and beautiful.

However, she was like a cold machine.

The female physician held a scalpel, her body swayed slightly, and the next second, the dagger appeared before Tang Ping's eyes!

The sharp dagger grew larger and larger!

The speed was too fast.

But just as the dagger entered Tang Ping's one-meter range, he moved, reaching out and directly grabbing the female physician's wrist, then turning his body and slamming her down!

The tiles on the ground shattered, and the female physician's face was scratched by the cold tiles, leaving streaks of blood.

Tang Ping's gaze was sharp, and in his other hand, a Red Lotus Flame bloomed.

Roar! The female physician struggled, trying to get up, but at that moment, a fiery Red Lotus Flame descended.

The Red Lotus Flame seemed ethereal, merging into the female physician's body.

The next moment.

Crimson flames erupted! From within the female physician's body, gushing out from the inside!

This was Tang Ping's S-rank Talent, Red Lotus Flame!

The female physician was still struggling, but as soon as she stood up, her body went limp, as if her bones had been removed.

In reality, the female physician's internal organs, bones, and muscles had already been incinerated!

Finally, only a husk of skin remained on the ground, and then the husk quickly turned to ash.

This was Tang Ping's first time using Red Lotus Flame, and although he had understood this Talent before acquiring the Red Lotus, he still felt a tingling sensation all over his body when he witnessed the terror of Red Lotus Flame.

This was a Talent that almost completely ignored physical defense!

No matter how strong the physique, under the Red Lotus Flame, it would only burn from the inside out.

"I wonder how powerful an SS-rank Red Lotus Flame would be."

Tang Ping turned and pushed open a heavy door behind the female physician.

"Found it." His gaze fell on a bottle of light blue potion.

The reason the female physician hadn't turned into the terrifying appearance of the Infected outside was because of this potion.

Unfortunately, the original purpose of the potion was to allow people to perfectly inherit the power of the Infected, while retaining their intelligence and human appearance.

As a result, the effect, of course, did not go as planned; it only preserved the human appearance.

"Niu Niu, hurry and drink it. After drinking this potion, Niu Niu will recover." Tang Ping stroked the Crimson Fleshball behind him, his eyes filled with affection.

The Crimson Fleshball trembled excitedly, and a little girl's voice emerged from it: "Really? If I drink this water, will Niu Niu recover?"

The little girl's voice gradually became somewhat feverish, with a hoarse, grating quality, overlapping and deafening, as if countless vengeful spirits were shrieking.

The Crimson Fleshball's large mouth opened; that was the sound of this mouth.

"Yes, Niu Niu."

"Thank you, thank you, Big Brother."

The little girl suddenly quieted down again, her small hands grasping the potion and dropping it into the large mouth.

The potion bottle exploded among the jagged fangs, and the light blue liquid emitted a dreamy glow.

Subsequently, Niu Niu trembled all over.

Large chunks of flesh began to fall off.

Behind the face on the fleshball, a small girl's head gradually appeared; that head had no hair.

Next came the neck, limbs, and finally the body.

On a pile of flesh petals, peeled like an onion,

stood a little girl.

"Big Brother, I've become human!" At this moment, the little girl blankly raised her hands, her eyes suddenly filled with a dazed wonder.

"Silly girl, you've always been human."

"A cute little girl."

Tang Ping draped one of the female physician's white coats over the little girl.

"Hehe, thank you, Big Brother."

"Let's go, we'll continue upstairs."

...In the same dungeon, different spaces, another three hundred people entered the [Doomsday Perilous City].

Among them was Sheng Tianqi.

"Director Sheng, where have we appeared?" Wang Yanyan walked to the floor-to-ceiling window and saw the dilapidated high-rise buildings below.

Sheng Tianqi, meanwhile, walked to an office desk and began looking through the documents on it.

"Pearl Tower?"

Another piece of paper fell out of the documents.

Sheng Tianqi picked it up and unfolded the paper.

And at the same time, Tang Ping also arrived on this floor and unfolded the same paper.

"That day, the world changed. A virus, appearing from nowhere, Infected the entire world at a speed no one could react to!

Ninety percent of humanity became what the Doomsday Game called the Infected.

No one knows what the Doomsday Game is, or where it came from; perhaps it's a higher civilization, perhaps a deity, but none of that matters anymore. What matters is that this world is utterly ruined.

No one can save it.

Even if I became a Chosen One and gained powerful Talents.

In the end, this world still fell, completely collapsing in just the tenth year. When the Doomsday Game said that humanity's numbers were less than one in ten thousand, it proved the game had failed. The world didn't change, and we didn't receive any punishment. Even after many years, I still don't know what the cost of failure is.

Or what success would bring.

The Doomsday Game told me that the human civilization glory index of Pearl City met the standard, allowing it to become a dungeon. This dungeon would appear in other worlds.

And as a reward, we could obtain a true Shelter, Pearl City.

This surprised me greatly, delighted me, and also left me feeling powerless.

Ultimately, we still failed, only gaining a place to barely survive thanks to the Doomsday Game.

How ridiculous, how ironic.

People from outside the world, if you see this letter, a person from another world sincerely wishes you success in winning this game.

Although I don't know what happens after successfully clearing it, it can't be worse than my failed world.

Go, go to the top of the Pearl Tower, pull down the switch of hope, and as a reward, I will give you a gift.

A very precious gift.

—Cheng An"

"[Congratulations, Player, you have triggered the unique hidden quest, The Redeemer! Do you accept!]"