Chapter 77: Has the Cheat Arrived?

The sound of thunder exploded outside the window.
A flash of lightning illuminated the dim library for a moment, stretching the boy’s thin figure into a long and slender silhouette on the ground.

“I knew you were here.”
Xu Zhi sat down on the long bench with a thump and casually picked up a copy of “Dream of the Splendor of the Capital,” flipping through a few pages.

“I also like to come to the library to read when I have free time.
Maybe I’ll see something interesting.”
The rustling of the turning pages drowned out the downpour outside the window.
“In that case, we might be able to become friends.”

“Gurgle…”
The boy by the window’s Adam’s apple moved up and down, but his rotten vocal cords could no longer make a human sound.

The rampaging corpse qi had already deprived him of his right to speak, and also deprived him of his last wish to rest in peace as a human.

“Unfortunately, there are no ifs.”
The book was closed with a thump.
Xu Zhi placed his pistol on the table.
“I’ll remember what you look like.
I have a good memory and should be able to remember for a long time.
That time is probably enough for me to learn how to draw.”

The boy by the window nodded slightly, as if to thank him with the last bit of his sanity.

“Actually, I wanted to kill you directly at first.”
Xu Zhi slowly drew his long saber.
The tip of the saber hit the marble floor tiles, making a light sound.
“After all, you killed several of my junior colleagues.”

“But when we were playing basketball, I suddenly felt that you seemed to be a good person.”
He straightened his body and began to move his shoulders and neck.
“A person who would deliberately hold back a little force to protect his opponent during a close-quarters confrontation, how could he be a bad person?”

“Don’t think I’m talking too much.
I’m just making a psychological adjustment for myself.”

“Sending someone like you off personally might leave a big psychological shadow on me.”

“But I can’t spare you.
The way you look now, you don’t look like a person.”

Xu Zhi picked up his long saber and sighed.
“Alright, I’ve said a little too much.
Let’s begin.”

“Boom!”

The next second, at the same time as the thunder boomed, the blast wave formed from the condensed corpse qi shattered the library’s floor-to-ceiling windows.

The blade of Xu Zhi’s long saber was struggling with the thick corpse qi, which could condense into a solid form.
His tactical boots left two scorched black marks on the marble floor.

“This is much stronger than the first time we met…”
Xu Zhi gritted his teeth.
The blade trembled slightly.
The thick corpse qi was split in half by him, blowing away countless bookshelves and desks and chairs behind him.
The scattered pages of the books quickly turned black and shriveled as soon as they touched the corpse qi, like the withered leaves of autumn.

“Gurgle…”
The rotten vocal cords trembled slightly, and the thick corpse qi, which was almost completely opaque, had already filled the entire library in an instant.

This concentration of corpse qi would strip any living creature of its vitality in an instant!

But a cold light suddenly flashed in the thick corpse qi.
Xu Zhi’s figure, holding a saber, had already rushed out of the thick fog, the tip of his saber stabbing at the young man’s waist like a bolt of lightning.

“Don’t underestimate people!”

The young man clasped his hands and held the tip of the saber.
But the strong wind that Xu Zhi had brought with him as he rushed over blew away the corpse qi surrounding his body.
The huge force made the two of them rush out of the library through the broken floor-to-ceiling windows.

“Lu Qingtian!”

The moment the raindrops fell on Xu Zhi’s forehead, he shouted into his headset.

“Bang!”

The response was a long-range snipe.
The bullet fired from the anti-materiel sniper rifle shattered the rain curtain and exploded into a spark on the young man’s side.

The young man’s figure was thrown dozens of meters away like a rag doll before he could barely stabilize himself.

On the roof of a building hundreds of meters away, Lu Qingtian pulled the bolt and chambered a round.
A 12.7mm bullet casing “clanged” to the ground, and the smoke from the gunpowder dispersed in the rain curtain.
The crosshairs in the scope were already on the young man’s forehead.

The downpour outside would wash away a part of the corpse qi.
Otherwise, even the bullets fired from an anti-materiel sniper rifle would be corroded by the corpse qi before they could touch Feng Yi.

“Bang!”

The second bullet was fired.
The bullet, engraved with an exorcism talisman, brought a vortex-like airflow and shot straight at Feng Yi’s forehead.

But even so, they could only barely suppress Feng Yi.
No one could completely kill a zombie who was walking between life and death.

“Commander Ye is very angry now.
Zhu Ning and their team are already on their way.”
Zhou Xuan’s voice came from the headset.
From the time Feng Yi’s corpse qi had erupted, he had been intercepting the signal to prevent the Demon Suppression Division’s headquarters from knowing the situation.

He had used all his skills to intercept for a full fifteen minutes.
In these fifteen minutes, the Demon Suppression Division had not noticed the chaos in Lin’an University at all.

This was already an exaggerated achievement.
Intercepting the Hetu module for fifteen minutes alone was something no one else could do.

But fifteen minutes was not enough at all.

“Then let’s solve it before they arrive! Activate the Xuan Shu sequence!”

At the same time as the bullet exploded into a spark on Feng Yi’s forehead, Xu Zhi had already slashed at his shoulder and neck with his saber.

“Authorization granted.
The remote delivery protocol is being activated! Commander Ye will probably dock my salary for half a year for this…”

At the same time as Zhou Xuan’s voice sounded in the headset, the helipad on the roof of the Shanhe Group building in the south of the city suddenly receded layer by layer.
Amidst the sound of mechanical gears meshing, a device similar to an anti-aircraft gun rose in the rain curtain.

That was the remote delivery protocol named “Tai Xu.”

Countless data streams flowed into the server through cables.
Data such as weather, wind direction, and humidity were instantly calculated.
The cannon barrel pointed in the direction of Lin’an University, and sparks flashed in the electromagnetic guide rail.

“Buzz!”

Amidst the faint sound of electric current, a pure black armed cabinet tore through the rain curtain with a tail stream!

“I’ll make up for however much they dock!”

The blade sparked on Feng Yi’s shoulder and neck.
The crimson blade instantly evaporated the surrounding raindrops but still couldn’t leave a mark on his pale skin.

Xu Zhi used the reaction force from his slash to jump back a few meters.
The Demon Suppression Division’s existing methods for dealing with demons were completely ineffective against a living dead person who was not a demon.

Lu Qingtian continuously fired to suppress, and the huge force pushed Feng Yi back again and again.

“Boom!”

The armed cabinet tore through the rain curtain and fell from the sky, smashing in front of Feng Yi.
The airflow instantly blew away the surrounding raindrops and also blew him away.

“Xuan Shu sequence delivery complete.”

The green words “delivery successful” lit up on the armed cabinet, and water droplets slid down the “X-01” painted on it.

“Maybe there’s only one way…”
Xu Zhi inserted his long saber into the authentication interface on the front of the armed cabinet.
In an instant, the sound of gears meshing and machines extending was endless.

“Hey! Boss! You’re not thinking of…”
Before Lu Qingtian’s words in the headset could fall, the armed cabinet had already lit up with a green light.

“Authorization granted.
Welcome to the Xuan Shu-Zhenyue armed system.”

A cold, mechanical female voice sounded.
The armed cabinet unfolded layer by layer, and fine metal armor plates climbed up Xu Zhi’s arm.
In an instant, Xu Zhi’s body was covered in a layer of black mechanical exoskeleton.

The long saber also extended into a ridiculously sized greatsword in the precise mechanical meshing like a clock.

The Taotie-shaped full-coverage faceplate glowed with a faint blue light, like a god in the downpour.

“For all evil creatures, baleful aura is poison.”

Xu Zhi slammed the greatsword into the ground and drew a dagger from his lower back, cutting his palm.
Bright red blood flowed down the hilt of the greatsword and into the groove of the blade.
The faint blue light was gradually covered by a dark red electric light.

“Charging complete.
Broken Army Protocol has been activated.”

“Boss! The qi pulse interface of the Broken Army Protocol hasn’t passed the ‘Lu Ban Shu’ safety certification.
You’ll go on a baleful aura rampage like this!”

“It’s not my fault if a system that’s still in testing breaks.”
Xu Zhi shouldered the greatsword and pointed his index finger at Feng Yi, who had just stood up.
“Come on, round two!”