Gamers Are Fierce-Chapter 74: The Rebound

In the face of urgent danger, everyone set aside their recent disagreements and rushed to Ao Yong’s side.

The five Fierce Ghosts from different floors of the shopping mall relentlessly chased after them, diving downwards.

Ao Yong removed his gloves. With his right thumb, index, and middle fingers, he gouged out a large chunk of flesh from his left index finger.

Each of his fingers was connected to his heart. Yet, Ao Yong seemed to feel no pain at all as he pressed his bleeding left index finger heavily onto the stone floor.

Using his fingertip as a brush and his blood as ink, he quickly drew an eerie talisman.

The moment the final stroke was completed, a chilling and fierce aura emanated from the center of the talisman, spreading outward.

The five diving Fierce Ghosts, as if hitting an invisible wall, were all repulsed. They could only drift back and stand outside the air wall, glaring at the people inside with malicious eyes.

A skinny male Ghost continually pounded the air wall with both arms. His mouth, devoid of a tongue, let out guttural, tongueless roars while he gesticulated wildly, as if trying to convey something.

This was probably the Ghost of the dead engineer. He had been struck hard in the chest by the Ghost in a suit and fell to his knees in agony, tears of blood streaming down his face, forming two rivulets on the floor.

The bizarre-looking Ghosts lingered in the hall, occasionally reaching out with their claws to scratch at the air wall.

"I can’t hold out much longer."

Ao Yong’s left index finger was still pressed to the floor, blood continuously oozing from the tip to feed the crimson talisman beneath it.

Although he wore a pig-snout respirator mask, obscuring his facial expressions, the weakness and urgency in his tone were evident to all.

With his left hand on the floor, Ao Yong reached into his pocket with his right hand, pulled out a slightly crumpled yellow paper Talisman, and threw it to the Plague Doctor. "Finish the last Talisman!"

The Plague Doctor caught the Talisman but didn’t move a muscle, his motorcycle helmet silently reflecting the moonlight filtering through the glass dome.

....

Ao Yong looked at his three motionless teammates and almost roared, "Have you guys lost your minds?! Hurry..."

"Hurry hurry hurry, dash dash dash, the four-wheel drive warriors are in action~"

Before Ao Yong could finish, Li Ang picked up on the word "hurry" and began loudly singing an old, brainwashing childhood anime song: "Driving the brave race cars, chasing after the champion’s journey~ AWOO~"

It had to be said that his singing was both off-key and discordant, truly unpleasant to the ears.

Especially in a situation like this, surrounded by Fierce Ghosts and on the brink of disaster, it seemed all the more nonsensical.

???

Ao Yong craned his neck forward, and several large question marks seemingly materialized above his head.

Even the surrounding Fierce Ghosts were taken aback by Li Ang’s sudden, bizarre caterwauling, briefly falling into a state of confusion and ceasing their scratching at the air wall.

"Hurry hurry hurry, dash dash dash, the four-wheel drive warriors are in action, racing along the track, it’s the inspiration of mystery and wisdom~ AWOO~"

Li Ang’s resounding voice echoed through the hall, full of overwhelming passion. It made one wonder if, had someone not stopped him, he might have kept singing until tomorrow.

"Are you fucking stupid?"

At his wit’s end, Ao Yong exploded with a curse.

Li Ang abruptly stopped singing, took a half-step back, leaned back, and crossed his arms over his chest, shouting, "Rebound!"

The hell with rebound! Are you a primary schooler? Am I supposed to say "rebound ineffective" now?

Ao Yong felt utterly exasperated.

"You’re mentally calling me a primary schooler, aren’t you?" Li Ang’s expression turned somber. He stood up straight, leaned his neck forward, and said in a low, serious tone, "Cursing others is cursing yourself, you know."

What the hell does ’cursing others is cursing yourself’ even mean? You really *are* a primary schooler, aren’t you?!

Ao Yong felt suffocated, wondering how he could have encountered such an idiot.

Li Ang smoothed out his expression, nodded, and calmly said, "Everyone, don’t mind me. I just thought the atmosphere was too oppressive just now and wanted to lighten the mood."

...

The surrounding Ghosts, disrupted by this, found it difficult to maintain their ferocity. They all stood there dumbfounded, unsure what expressions to make.

"Anyway," Li Ang coughed and gestured to the Plague Doctor. "Give me the Talisman."

The Plague Doctor tossed the Talisman to Li Ang. Li Ang held up the yellow paper with both hands, scrutinizing it carefully under the moonlight as if checking a counterfeit bill, before finally blurting out, "Old Ao, you did a good job imitating this."

...

Ao Yong instantly froze. After a moment, he hoarsely said, "What are you talking about?"

"I’m saying your imitation of the Talisman is very lifelike," Li Ang curled his lip into a mocking smile. "Ao Yong, or should I say, Xu Tuoan, the former construction engineer who has possessed Ao Yong’s body?"

Ao Yong looked as if he’d been struck by lightning.

Xu Tuoan. That was the name of the first person who died in Longheng Square.

Eleven years ago, while Longheng Square was still under construction, Xu Tuoan, an architect, was inspecting the construction site when he accidentally fell from a three-meter-high scaffold, broke his neck, and died instantly.

Since it was purely an accidental death, it naturally didn’t cause much of an uproar. A settlement was paid, the matter was closed, and the dust settled.

Seeing "Ao Yong" stand rigidly, Li Ang smiled, took out his phone, and began reading from the screen:

"Xu Tuoan, male, born in 1974, local resident of Yin City, graduated from Desheng Experimental Primary School in Yin City, Yin City Third Experimental Middle School, and studied civil engineering at Yin City University, receiving a bachelor’s in engineering. After graduation, he worked for Tianhai Construction Company in Yin City. His wife is..."

"Enough!" Ao Yong roared, interrupting Li Ang.

He took a deep breath, the pig-snout respirator making a HISSING sound as he breathed.

After a long while, Ao Yong regained his composure and asked calmly, "How did you figure it out?"

"Suspicion, conjecture, experimentation, and verification." Li Ang looked at Ao Yong and chuckled. "Do you remember what happened right before the mission started, when I first stepped into the lobby on the first floor of Building A?"

Ao Yong said, "...You tried to activate your Spiritual Sense to scan your teammates, but were stopped by the Lost Airship. Then the System announced that all players had arrived, revealing the next phase of the mission prompt."

"Exactly." Li Ang snapped his fingers, smiling. "When I walked into the lobby, the System announced that all players had arrived. This means I was the last player to arrive for this scenario’s mission.

After the next phase of the mission prompt was announced, the Plague Doctor suggested we share our player titles. He then asked where all the security guards in the mall had gone, right?"

The Plague Doctor silently nodded, not saying a word.

Li Ang asked Liu Wu Dai, "Do you remember who spoke next?"

"It was...Ao Yong?" Liu Wu Dai thought for a moment and said, "He said he was the first to arrive. To prevent his identity from being exposed, he had tied up all the security guards beforehand and dumped them in the flower beds outside the mall."

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