Crazy Nezha

Chapter 111 Aren't we the same?

Three helicopters landed on a platform at the foot of an island, one of which was a military transport helicopter.

Li Tianbao got off the transport helicopter, and then a tiger came out as well.

Then came Jiang Baiyue, and several special agents disembarked from the other two planes.

The area had been artificially constructed, with temporary buildings, including a generator room and other equipment, resembling a small military base. When the special agents stationed on the island saw the tiger, they began to whisper among themselves.

Zhang Ke stepped forward and went to coordinate work with his colleagues.

Li Tianbao and Jiang Baiyue stood at the foot of the mountain, looking at the vast lake in the distance.

The tiger obediently crouched behind and licked its fur.

Jiang Baiyue said, "The tiger is just an ordinary tiger. As your magical power improves, will you be able to communicate with other animals?"

Li Tianbao said, "I just tried talking to those birds, but they ignored me."

Not far away, magpies were chattering in the treetops.

"Perhaps only certain large mammals can understand me?"

Jiang Baiyue nodded, said no more, took out her tablet, swiped a few times, and handed it over.

"There are eight death row inmates who will stop at nothing to kill you, and you can't kill them. What you need to do is destroy their will, thereby training your self-control, understand?"

Looking at the prisoner information on the tablet, Li Tianbao scoffed, "If I rode over there on a tiger, wouldn't they be terrified? Would they still have any fighting spirit?"

"Take off your clothes!"

"what?"

Jiang Baiyue took out the snow-white Taoist robe from her bag and said, "After you put on this robe, your face will be automatically blurred out, and those prisoners will believe that this is a high-tech simulated environment, a holographic game from a science fiction movie! Then they won't be afraid of dying!"

Li Tianbao seemed to understand something and said, "No, you came up with this yourself?"

"uh-huh."

"The prisoner isn't an idiot!"

Jiang Baiyue smiled faintly and said, "We'll wait and see."

Li Tianbao changed into a Taoist robe and put on a wig. The next moment, his face was indeed covered with mosaics, making him look extremely unreal.

"Dr. Jiang, where are you going?"

Jiang Baiyue said, "I'm going to the changing room. Who said I'm playing alone?"

"No, you're coming with me?"

Jiang Baiyue walked towards the changing room without turning her head and said, "Li Tianbao, I've said it before, we're comrades-in-arms fighting side by side, and we'll fight our way to the Heavenly Court together!"

Li Tianbao nodded stiffly: "Maybe next time you can bring Chen Rui along?"

"Can."

Nanwan Lake in Xincheng is a national AAAA-level scenic area with more than 70 islands. Although it is called a lake, it is incredibly vast at a glance and is known as the Pearl of Central China.

In recent years, Xincheng has seen a tourism boom, with the development of several islands, mainly used to rip off tourists. A pack of instant noodles costs 20 yuan—take it or leave it—that's the norm!

On an undeveloped, deserted island, special forces have recently been stationed, and there are no tourist boats within several kilometers.

Eight men stood in a row in front of the tent. They were all desperate criminals sentenced to death and would be eating metal peanuts this autumn.

A man who looked like an instructor, holding a leather whip, said in a deep voice: "After training for so long, today you must complete the first..."

Task!"

Originally, ten prisoners were brought to the island and trained daily like special forces soldiers. Due to the extreme intensity of the training, two of them died suddenly.

The instructor snapped his fingers, and two special forces soldiers brought over a large box containing eight helmets that looked incredibly high-tech.

"Are you willing to test the latest technologies for the country?"

The eight people had been "educated" for many days, and one of them asked, "Instructor, what happens if we die in a holographic simulation?"

"Death is like a cool summer night; if you die in the game, you're eliminated."

Following the script Jiang Baiyue had instructed beforehand, the instructor solemnly announced, "Everyone, put on your helmets!"

Eight people lined up to put on helmets and lay down on massage chairs, and the staff immediately turned on the power.

"After the injection, you will enter a mimicry simulation game, understand?"

Several people in white coats came over and injected the eight people with a specially made anesthetic in turn.

"Yes!" These eight villains, who should have been executed, were naturally very willing to have a chance to be reborn.

One of them, with delicate features, stood out sharply from the other menacing criminals. He cried out urgently, "Instructor, I..."

"I was really wronged—I didn't kill that foreigner—" He fell asleep before he could finish speaking.

The instructor watched as the men fell asleep, then waved his hand, and the special agents quickly carried them to a small wooden hut.

The personnel on site quickly cleared away their belongings and evacuated the site according to plan. The instructor took out a walkie-talkie and said in a deep voice, "Dean Jiang, the first phase of preparations is complete."

"Proceed according to plan."

"yes!"

Everyone evacuated the scene, and the transport vehicle drove to the temporary base where Li Tianbao and his group were located at the back of the island.

Half an hour later, one of the prisoners woke up; he was a murderer.

"This...is this really a game world?" He looked around, and the people around him gradually sat up as well, all of them looking completely bewildered.

One of the corrupt officials exclaimed, "Wait a minute, this is too real!!"

What game can be just like reality? The touch, the motion, everything is exactly the same as the real world!

A bald man said, "You know nothing about technology. The holographic helmets we wear stimulate the brain to secrete corresponding chemical signals. Don't doubt it anymore. Let's go check out the mission."

Baldy, nicknamed Squid, has the strongest physique and is ruthless. He is the leader among the eight!

"Hey Squid Bro, look! Look at the needle marks on our arms from when we were pricked! I feel like this is fake, like we didn't even enter the game?"

"Yeah, I can't see any panels or anything, it's not what I expected!"

Squid said, "This proves that the research team has excellent attention to detail! Their dedication is admirable."

Everyone was still quite skeptical. One by one, they walked out of the cabin and saw a wooden box in front of them with many test tubes of medicine and an instruction manual on it.

Squid walked over, and everyone gathered around. "Look, this says 'Power Potion.' One bottle per person per day."

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One person said, "I still think this is a farce."

"I think it's real. If it were a farce, what would be the purpose? Why go through all this trouble, wasting manpower and resources, just to fool us? That doesn't make sense!"

"Yes, there's no reason why!"

"So, right now my body is wearing a helmet, lying in a chair, just like in a science fiction movie, surrounded by a virtual world—it's all fake? And we won't really die!"

At that moment, someone shouted, "Look over there!!"

Everyone looked in the direction the finger was pointing. Dozens of meters away stood a man in a white Taoist robe, his face obscured by a mosaic. He was riding a tiger, standing on a hillside, looking like someone from a fantasy world.

Beside the tiger stood a woman, also dressed in white, her skirt fluttering, carrying a sword case on her back. She was stunningly beautiful, with frost-like eyes and a cold, aloof demeanor, like a female sword immortal.

"Holy crap! Riding a tiger!"

"This woman is amazing! If she existed in real life, I'd lick her so hard I'd die!"

"This is the mission objective? Why is it a fantasy/martial arts storyline? He has a mount, how are we supposed to fight him?!"

"Wait! Why is the face of the person riding the tiger blurred out?"

"Yeah, that's really strange."

Everyone noticed that the person riding the tiger had no face; it was all pixelated. Moreover, this pixelation wasn't a mask; it changed according to the person's movements!

"That's amazing, how can there be mosaic?"

Squid said, "What's so strange about that? The game screen just hasn't finished loading yet."

"It seems to be real; it really is high-tech!"

"I understand. They must have sent us to test for bugs in this game! It should be used to train agents in the future."

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"That's right! That makes sense. We don't know whether we should be glad or not to experience this high-tech stuff!"

In the distance, the person riding the tiger with a pixelated face and the female swordswoman turned and left together, entering the forest.

The squid said, "Everyone, don't panic, listen to my instructions. Drink the strength potions first!"

Several people picked up the small bottle from the wooden box, and the squid, with its head in hand, drank it down in one gulp.

"What does it taste like?"

"It tastes a bit like Viagra, and it's not bad."

Seeing that the leader had drunk, everyone else followed suit.

This is a performance-enhancing drug. After drinking it, people will feel incredibly energetic and physically excited. It is a drug strictly prohibited at the Olympics!

A few minutes later, the squid exclaimed excitedly, "It really is a power potion! I feel full of energy!"

"Me too, I feel so energetic after drinking it!"

A handsome young man held the medicine, hesitated, and looked up at the sky, shouting, "Can you hear me! I've truly been framed!!"

Squid kicked him in the waist, yelling, "Li Zhichun! Are you fucking wailing?!"

Li Zhichun was kicked and staggered to the ground, spilling the medicine all over the floor.

"What are you doing?!"

The squid said, "Go into the woods and take care of that mosaic guy riding the tiger first!"

Someone joked, "Chun'er, why don't you go test the waters! We'll be waiting for your triumphant return!"

The other men surrounded them menacingly, their attitude menacing; they needed someone to be cannon fodder.

Li Zhichun asked, "Why should I go alone?"

"Because you're an honest person!!"

On the other side, in the woods.

Jiang Baiyue held up a tablet computer displaying surveillance footage from the cabin and said, "They believed it."

Li Tianbao said, "It's pitiful that they have no idea that all of this is being manipulated!"

Jiang Baiyue seemed to understand something, "Aren't we the same?"

Li Tianbao sighed: "If the Heavenly Court controls our fate, then what's the difference between us and the pieces on the chessboard!"

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Jiang Baiyue stared at the sky, her teeth clenched: "My father was so close to uncovering the truth back then, and he was struck dead by lightning! He was an honest man, he had never done anything wrong in his life, did he deserve to be struck dead by lightning?"

Li Tianbao said, "You wouldn't believe it, but that honest man outside the woods kept crying foul, was it all a test you set up to see me get the better of him?"

Jiang Baiyue shook her head solemnly and said, "No! Judging from his micro-expressions, there seems to be something wrong! We'll ask him later; maybe we can save someone who has been wrongly accused this time."

"Let's call Zhang Ke and have him check it out."

Li Tianbao pulled up the man's information on his phone and read aloud: "Li Zhichun, convicted of intentional homicide, sentenced to death."

The following details the incident of a man breaking into a newlywed couple's home and stabbing them to death.

"The person has arrived."

Outside the woods, the handsome young man cautiously approached. He clutched a wooden stick, repeatedly encouraging himself, "It's all fake! It's all fake!"

A tiger's roar echoed through the mountains, startling Li Zhichun, who took a few steps back. Then, his expression hardened: "It's all a game illusion! It can't scare me!!"

Li Zhichun charged forward, wielding a wooden stick, but tripped over a stone, fell, and tumbled over. What came into view was a pair of women...

The girl wore embroidered shoes, and her instep was very white.

He looked up from the embroidered shoes and saw the beautiful, aloof female swordswoman staring at him with curiosity.

Li Tianbao squatted down and asked, "Someone like you, how did you manage to kill someone back then?"

"Waaah—I didn't kill anyone, I'm being framed, I've been set up."