Excessive ferocity due to caution

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"Master Chen, isn't this the road to Liucheng?"

On the bus, an elderly woman carrying a shopping basket suddenly asked a question.

The driver, with a cigarette dangling from his lips, said casually:

"Yeah, what's wrong?"

The older woman glared and said:

"But you just said you wanted to go to Xiaoshi Village!"

The driver exhaled a smoke ring and said lazily:

"Some people on the train have tickets, so they get priority."

The older woman panicked upon hearing this:

"But my husband said that if I don't get home on time today, he'll divorce me!"

The driver said impatiently:

"It's nothing."

"Four-legged toads are hard to find, but three-legged men are easy to find?"

"Look at the women in the city, aren't they all married to multiple men?"

"Promising!"

Nanga corrected:

"Master Chen is a three-legged toad and a two-legged man."

The driver took a drag of his cigarette:

"It's a four-legged toad and a three-legged man!"

Nanga:

"I've seen toads before; they all have four legs. How could they be hard to find?"

The driver chuckled and took a can from a box inside the car.

Externally transparent.

Nan Jia took a careful look and fell silent.

It was full of frogs.

They all have three legs.

Nanga had nothing to say.

The first thing that came to his mind wasn't why the toad in the jar had three legs.

Instead... why would a driver like you carry a can of frogs with him at all times while driving?

"You young people think you're something special just because you've read a few books. Do you even know what it means to learn through practice?"

"They don't even know the basic fact that toads have three legs, really..."

The driver said a couple of things.

At that moment, someone inside the car suddenly raised their hand and stood up.

"Sir driver, I disagree with your opinion."

Zhao and his companion looked in the direction of the sound. (The umbrella ghost put it away.)

One player was seen frantically tugging at the man's clothes, but the man ignored it.

He pulled out an iron bar from who-knows-where, lunged forward, and while repeatedly lifting and lowering the bar, he said:

"Your statement is not accurate."

"At first glance, what you said seems fine, but upon closer analysis, it's full of problems."

"I'm going to list these problems out for you one by one now."

"First, you didn't add any adverbial phrases when you said that."

"Perhaps somewhere else, there are toads with four legs?"

"Perhaps sometime in the future, toads will mutate genetically and grow to have four legs?"

"Perhaps male and female toads are different?"

"Maybe... Hey, stop pulling at me! What are you looking at me like that? Am I wrong? You can argue with me! What do you mean by tearing my clothes? This is disrespectful to me. Mr. Chen Daozai and I are discussing a matter of great importance concerning the future of humanity. Your behavior is irresponsible towards all of humanity, a desecration of scholarship, and a capital offense!"

"Going to the Tower of Gods with someone like you makes me feel truly ashamed and embarrassed, but I did nothing wrong. You're the one who should reflect on your actions, you jerk..."

This jerk was clearly having a fit; he started muttering to the player next to him who was tugging at his clothes.

The driver frowned and slammed his foot on the gas pedal!

The man who had stood up and was carrying the lever and his iron lever flew to the very back of the car and slammed hard into the windshield!

It exploded into a spray of blood.

No more.

The player who was with the guy with the bar was speechless as he stared at the still-standing iron bar left behind the car.

His main quest... just like that, it's over?

That was such a casual way to die!

The player didn't even have time to react.

"Trouble is brewing."

Chen Daozai suddenly spoke.

His gaze flicked to the rearview mirror.

"What's the trouble?"

Nan Jia is curious.

Chen Daozai:

"The person I just killed seems to have a rather special identity."

"The crime rating has skyrocketed to 3 stars."

"The police station in the chaotic city has deployed armed helicopters."

boom!

No sooner had he finished speaking than a grenade struck the right side of the bus. Fortunately, Chen Daozai reacted quickly and made a sharp turn, avoiding a head-on collision!

However, the player who was with the grenade-wielding player was in big trouble; the flames from the grenade explosion shot into the car window next to him!

Even though he had preemptively activated his protective gear, he underestimated the damage from the flames…

In an instant, the blue protective gear shattered, and his entire upper body was instantly cooked through...

The viewers in Zhao Yi's live stream were watching with their eyelids twitching wildly!

The aftershocks of this fire were so strong that even props couldn't withstand them.

Nan Jia, sitting in the front row, quietly closed the window next to her.

The system message suddenly appeared at this moment.

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[Side quest triggered - Race Against Time!]

[Mission Brief: Chen Daozai accidentally killed an important mission target, raising his crime rating to 3 stars. The city's police department has deployed armed helicopters to apprehend him, and may kill him if necessary. Unfortunately, you people on the bus have also been identified as dangerous individuals by the police!]

[Mission Objective: Survive for 20 minutes until Chen Daozai successfully reaches Liucheng.]

[Mission Requirements: You, Chen Daozai, and Nan Jia cannot die.]

[Mission Rewards: Gravity Gun, 6 points, your team's crime rating reset to zero.]

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"Grass!"

"You call that a 'guilt star rating'? Are you playing GTA 5 here?!"

Zhao Yi made a comment.

Looking in the rearview mirror, he saw that there were actually three armed helicopters behind him!

Zhao Yi quickly pulled out the green umbrella, handed it to Nan Jia, unbuckled his seatbelt, and shouted at Chen Daozai:

"Chen Daozai, drive carefully!"

"I'll go to the back and harass them for you!"

Chen Daozai hurriedly turned around and glanced at Zhao Yi, then called out:

"There's a sturdy rope in the middle of the bus's undercarriage that you can tie around yourself to help secure your position!"

Zhao Yi quickly went to the middle of the car, opened the metal flap, pulled out a rope made of a special material, and tied it around his waist!

hum!

Suddenly, a deafening roar came from the distant armed helicopter, and the barrels of two heavy machine guns were pointed at the rear window of the bus!

The dark muzzle of the gun was separated from Zhao Yi only by a layer of glass!

The barrel is warming up!

Soon, countless terrifying bullets will rain down!

Everyone knows that the windows of a bus cannot possibly protect against an attack by an armed helicopter.

Otherwise, Chen Daozai wouldn't have driven so fast!

Facing the gunshot wound that resembled the eyes of death, Zhao Yi calmly and slowly pulled out a scalpel.

Second stage... activated!

A sword that slays girls!

At this moment, Zhao Yi stood alone in the middle of the bus, under the gaze of hundreds of thousands of viewers in the live broadcast room, holding a knife in one hand, his eyes resolute, coldly looking at the armed helicopter on the other side of the bus window!

So dashing!

The viewers in the live stream went wild:

"Here it comes!"

"Deadpool's iconic scene: cleaving bullets with a knife!"

"Damn it, my Brother Zhao actually knows this trick?!"

"So cool!!"

"..."

Countless comments and gifts flew in.

This propelled Zhao Yi's live stream to even greater heights of popularity!

At that very moment, the guns of the armed helicopter unleashed a torrent of bullets with devastating penetrating power!

Da da da da da...

This is the moment!

Zhao Yi swung his knife with a flourish!

It plunged violently into the car floor beneath its feet!

He used the sword to block the position, and at the same time summoned the corpse-shredder to block in front of him. The sword blade held firmly against the corpse-shredder, blocking the terrifying impact coming from the other side!

That was the destructive kinetic energy of countless bullets raining down on the shredder!

Aside from the shredder and the regeneration machine, Zhao Yi couldn't think of anything else that could stop these bullets.

Let alone bullets, if Zhao Yi dared to use his body to block the dismemberment machine right now, he would be blown away!

It could even kill someone outright!

The live stream audience sighed as they watched Zhao Yi huddled behind the shredder.

"Damn, I thought Zhao Yi was going to slice bullets with his knife... What a waste of my excitement!"

"Damn it... Zhao Yi tricked me into revealing my underwear!"

"Coward! He doesn't even dare to fire a bullet!"

"Are you kidding me upstairs? This is a chaotic city, do you really think these are bullets from outside?"

"+1, I experienced it firsthand. Last time I went to the Chaotic City to do a dungeon, I personally witnessed a passing half-step Great Fiend being blown up by a black spider firecracker in a child's hand..."

"In this chaotic city, you can never predict what will happen next..."

P.S.: One more chapter.

I made tons of revisions, but I'm still not satisfied... Damn it.