Free Web NovelChapter 35: BREAK
Players with low-level talents have no say.
"Little punk... little punk..."
Wriggle. Wriggle. Wriggle.
On the blood-red ground, the giant face gradually piled itself higher and higher until it resembled a mountain of flesh. Slowly, it formed into a complete human head.
It was the face of a balding man wearing glasses. His eyes were twisted with stubbornness and resentment as he continuously muttered:
"Little punk... little punk..."
Then he opened his mouth.
Like a collapsing mountain, the gigantic head surged toward Komura Shufu in a tide of blood.
"Baka! Baka! What? What is going on here? How did I get here?!"
The scarlet flood rushed toward him.
Having never experienced the polluted world before, Komura Shufu had no idea what was happening.
A cold gleam flashed from his sleeve.
A slender katana slid into his hand.
B-Class Talent: Demon Blade – Muramasa.
"I don’t care what kind of weird thing this is. I’ll cut it all apart!"
Just as he prepared to swing—
Bang! Bang! Bang!
Blisters suddenly exploded across his face, chest, arms, and thighs.
The swollen growths twisted into words:
SCUM.
TRASH.
WASTE.
"W-What?! What is this?!"
"You dare look down on me?!"
"You actually dare?!"
Boom!
The mountain-sized face exploded.
A rain of blood crashed down upon him.
Puff. Puff. Puff.
The countless blisters covering his body burst simultaneously.
In an instant, Komura Shufu became a human bomb.
His body exploded into a cloud of blood mist and vanished into the twisted world of flesh walls and hateful words.
His miserable scream echoed through the polluted world.
And at the same time—
It echoed through the cafeteria on the second floor.
Boom!
At the dining table, Komura Shufu’s head exploded.
His headband flew into the air amidst a spray of blood.
Shen Yu stared intently at the numbers displayed on the floating headband.
The value that had started at -5 instantly jumped to -20, before finally reaching a terrifying -50.
Clearly, something he had done in the polluted world had worsened the contamination.
Bang!
Blood splattered across the table.
The headless corpse collapsed forward.
Fu Jia and Yan Bing, who had been hesitating to eat, immediately froze.
Both looked helplessly toward Yu Ji.
"T-This... Mr. Yu Ji..."
"We can’t eat the food."
"It seems that guy entered the polluted world after eating."
"But if we don’t eat, won’t the strange nurses attack us?"
"Isn’t this another dead end?"
The two argued nervously, their eyes repeatedly drifting toward the approaching nurse.
Behind Yu Ji, the twisted, sunken face of a strange nurse had already settled onto his shoulder.
Rotting flesh, worms, and pus dripped from her face onto his hospital uniform.
A sour stench filled the air.
Yet Yu Ji appeared completely unaffected.
His fingers tapped lightly against the table.
His eyes beneath the headband remained fixed on Komura Shufu’s corpse.
Then—
Without warning—
He stood up.
"Come here."
In a blur, Yu Ji grabbed the Bear Country participant by the zipper of his uniform and yanked him up from his seat.
"You—Mao! What do you want?!"
Anger flashed beneath the foreigner’s headband.
He stared at Yu Ji as if waiting for something.
Yu Ji sneered.
"Trying to stall me?"
"Waiting until I become contaminated?"
"Sorry."
"Right now, you have two choices."
"Use your ability to cleanse my contamination."
"Or die."
Crack.
Both of Yu Ji’s hands tightened around the man’s throat.
The aura around him instantly turned vicious.
"Choose."
"Will you die by my hands?"
"Or heal me so we both survive?"
Crack. Crack. Crack.
Though he called it a choice, his grip showed no sign of loosening.
As the owner of an S-Class talent, Yu Ji’s physical abilities had already surpassed ordinary people.
Even the tall, muscular foreigner struggled helplessly against him.
"Y-You bastard..."
"You..."
His voice became hoarse.
Meanwhile, the rotting nurse attached to Yu Ji’s shoulder began fusing into his flesh.
Writhing tendrils of rotten meat spread across his body.
The sounds of squirming flesh and cracking bones intertwined.
Shen Yu silently watched everything unfold.
His gaze remained fixed on the numbers above Yu Ji’s head.
-15.
-16.
-17.
The contamination increased very slowly.
At this rate, Yu Ji could probably kill the foreigner before the contamination overwhelmed him.
As for Fu Jia and Yan Bing, their situations were completely different.
Fu Jia’s headband already displayed -20.
His eyes had gone blank.
It seemed he had already entered the polluted world. ƒrēewebnovel.com
Yan Bing, however, suddenly emitted a strange shimmer.
Buzz.
The negative value on her headband vanished.
Even the approaching strange nurse disappeared from her sight.
Shen Yu narrowed his eyes.
A talent ability?
It can remove contamination and negative effects?
This is already the second time she’s used it.
How many times can she still activate it?
Watching Yan Bing, Shen Yu couldn’t help feeling a little envious.
This was the advantage of high-level talents.
Their margin for error in a dungeon was far greater than his own.
"Ugh... ugh..."
Finally, the Bear Country participant could no longer endure it.
A green tea leaf slowly materialized in his palm.
He desperately handed it to Yu Ji.
"H-Here..."
"For you..."
"Let go..."
"Please..."
Yu Ji clicked his tongue.
"Tsk."
"You should’ve done that earlier."
Taking the tea leaf, he stuffed it into the hollow opening of his headband.
Immediately, the contamination value above his head began rapidly returning to normal.
The strange nurse attached to him retreated.
Yet even after the contamination disappeared—
Yu Ji still didn’t release his grip.
Crack. Crack. Crack.
His hand continued tightening around the man’s throat.
"Ghk—!"
The foreigner’s eyes widened in disbelief.
"Chicken..."
"How can you..."
"You promised..."
Yu Ji merely smiled.
A cold smile.
"Who said I promised anything?"
"I said you’d help remove my contamination."
"But I never said I’d let you go afterward."
His eyes narrowed.
"If you don’t want to die..."
"Make more tea leaves for me."
The foreigner’s neck twisted unnaturally under the increasing pressure.
Tears streamed from his eyes due to the unbearable pain.
Shen Yu silently watched the scene.
For some reason, he felt an indescribable sadness.
In this dungeon, the weak truly were nothing more than resources for the strong.
And sooner or later—
Someone stronger might decide that he was a resource too.
Tears continuously flowed from the hollow eyes of the Bear Country participant due to the excruciating pain.
Shen Yu silently watched the scene. For some reason, he felt a faint sense of sorrow.
In the dungeon world, nationalities and ethnicities meant nothing.
Only strength mattered.
Being weak was the original sin.
If his own ability had been useful to Yu Ji, perhaps he would have ended up just like this foreign participant—squeezed dry and discarded as a tool.
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"Ugh..."
"Ah..."
Amid intense pain, another green tea leaf appeared in the Bear Country participant’s palm.
The moment the tea leaf materialized, his body visibly weakened. All strength left him. His head drooped beneath the headband, allowing Yu Ji to drag and squeeze him without resistance.
"Tsk."
"So three uses is the limit. That’s enough."
Yu Ji released his grip and coldly glanced at the man before casually spinning the tea leaf between his fingers.
At the dining table, the original group of six had already been reduced to five.
Fu Jia sat motionless.
His body was covered with dense pus-filled blisters that formed twisted words.
Bang.
One of the blisters burst.
The number on his headband immediately jumped from -15 to -35.
Wriggle. Wriggle. Wriggle.
From Shen Yu’s perspective, Fu Jia merely sat there in a daze, his body twitching.
But from Fu Jia’s perspective, the world had become a realm of blood and rotting flesh.
Above him, flesh gathered together and slowly formed a gigantic smiling face made entirely of blood.
"Little brat..."
"Little brat..."
More blisters appeared.
More flesh swelled.
Fu Jia’s expression became bitter.
The Eye of Insight talent activated automatically.
The only feedback it returned was:
Due to certain actions, you have attracted its attention.
"Hehehe..."
The blood-red face split its mouth open all the way to its ears.
Fresh blood dripped from above and stained Fu Jia’s entire body crimson.
His body trembled violently.
Fear gradually transformed into unwillingness.
"No..."
"No!"
"Why is that E-Rank talent guy completely fine?"
"Why are those of us with higher talents dying first?"
Thinking back to the contemptuous words he had spoken when the dungeon began, Fu Jia felt overwhelming frustration and humiliation.
After several deep breaths, he unexpectedly calmed down.
He closed his eyes and shouted:
"Save me!"
"Save me, Yu Ji!"
"I know you’re fine!"
"You can hear me!"
"Save me!"
"As long as you save me, I’ll listen to you!"
"My ability can help you find clues!"
"Save me!"
"Please save me!"
Above him, the blood-red face began collapsing.
A torrent of blood was about to fall.
"He isn’t stupid after all."
In the cafeteria, Yu Ji watched the swollen Fu Jia with amusement.
Then he stuffed the tea leaf into the hollow opening of his headband.
"Ah!"
Fu Jia screamed.
The value above his head instantly dropped back to 0.
His body trembled violently.
Moments later, he returned to reality.
"I... I’m alive?"
"I..."
Before he could finish speaking, a cold voice sounded behind him.
"You belong to me now."
Fu Jia froze.
Then his body trembled.
Immediately, he stood beside Yu Ji.
"I understand."
He reacted quickly. freewebnσvel.cѳm
After narrowly escaping death, he naturally understood who had saved him.
His eyes swept across the cafeteria.
Eventually, they landed on Shen Yu, who remained calm and unharmed.
An inexplicable surge of resentment rose within him.
Meanwhile, the Bear Country participant continued trembling weakly beside the table.
Yu Ji glanced at him and casually waved his hand.
"Breakfast is over."
"Take him with us."
"Even if he’s been drained, he can still serve as a contamination detector."
"Yes."
Without hesitation, Fu Jia obediently picked up the weakened foreign participant.
As he lifted him, something suddenly caught his attention.
His Eyes of Insight activated again.
This time, the information was partially visible.
Name: Poor
Talent: Unknown
The ability information was still blocked.
"A foreigner named Poor?"
Fu Jia looked surprised.
Yu Ji chuckled after hearing it.
"That name suits him perfectly."
The group followed the stream of patients leaving the cafeteria and returned toward the ward.
At that moment, the hospital announcement echoed throughout Qing Shan Mental Hospital.
Attention all patients.
Free activity time has now begun.
Shen Yu slowly raised his head.
The real exploration phase of the dungeon had finally started.
