Chapter 310: This is a surprise.
"Is that all it takes to make them run away?"
Lin Ye stored the card he had been holding and parked the bus next to the car.
The car contained only the headless corpse of the driver. Lin Ye found a white card in the driver's hand that hadn't been used in time.
[Obtained a white card]
[White Card--Unlock]
[Removes Mental Lockdown for one minute (1/1)]
[Note: One minute isn't long, but it's enough time to accomplish many things]
"...Please send a few more waves of enemies like this."
Lin Ye stored the card and incidentally took the other party's wallet. Unlike the penniless Teacher Lin, the other party's wallet actually contained a stack of cash.
After returning to the bus, Lin Ye casually handed that stack of cash to Liu Yawen. Victoria: Those people should all be participants. This matter is somewhat strange.
Lin Ye: Because only one person can survive until the end in this game?
Victoria: Yes, so they shouldn't be cooperating.
Lin Ye: Unless the rules have changed... Is there a black card that can alter the rules?
Victoria: ...I haven't seen one, but there should be.
Lin Ye: It seems someone doesn't want me to survive until the end.
Victoria: Sorry, this is a problem on my end. If you can survive until the end, I'll give you appropriate compensation.
Lin Ye: That's not necessary. From the moment I entered the game, this became my problem. If the other side doesn't want me to live, then I can only find opportunities to eliminate them.
Victoria: If you can survive until the end, I'll deal with all those people... If you die, I probably won't last much longer either.
Lin Ye: Then it's quite simple.
Victoria: Although you're strong, I still suggest you deal with the enemies one by one. It's very likely they'll produce seventh-tier participants over there.
Lin Ye: How many seventh-tier? How's their strength?
Victoria: No more than three at most, and their strength should be quite ordinary.
Lin Ye: That's good then.
Lin Ye drove toward the town, feeling that those participants had already mixed with the Emerald God Cult. As long as he could clear out the Emerald God Cult's base, he should be able to eliminate those participants along the way.
The bus was fast, reaching the edge of the town in less than half an hour.
"...Why is it so quiet? Where are those people?"
"I don't know, but I feel somewhat uneasy..."
"Those townspeople have disappeared too. This place feels like a dead town."
"Maybe we should leave quickly. Something feels wrong here..."
...
The bus entered the town, where no people could be seen anymore. The previously festive and lively atmosphere seemed like an illusion.
Just as Lin Ye was about to turn around and leave the town, he glimpsed some strangely shaped things crawling toward the bus on the distant road. Their crawling speed was slower than an elderly person with poor mobility, appearing not very dangerous.
Driving a bit further, Lin Ye finally saw clearly what those things crawling on the road were.
They were withered students, only their upper bodies remaining. After long-term parasitism by the parasitic plants, they had lost their mobility. The parasitic plants were pushing them toward the bus.
Lin Ye knew this was a trick by those cultists. They wanted to provoke Lin Ye. Playing with students' remains in front of their teacher - nothing could be more ironic.
They succeeded.
Although Lin Ye wasn't a real teacher, he was currently playing the role of teacher, and he didn't dislike young people. They were at the most wonderful age, their eyes shining brightly as if possessing infinite potential.
And these cultists had destroyed these young people's infinite potential.
Those who do wrong must be punished. Lin Ye would give them the ending they deserved.
At this moment, the students in the bus also saw the remains of their fellow students crawling on the road.
"What are those..."
"The one on the far left looks a bit like Wang Lei from our class. He went missing some time ago."
"These damned cultists!"
"Previously, a classmate said the massage parlor downstairs from his home had excellent service and invited me to go. Later he went missing. If my mother hadn't called me home that day, I probably would have ended up like this too..."
"Can they still be saved?"
"Their bodies are hollowed out. How could they be saved?"
...
Lin Ye decisively crushed the white unlock card he had just obtained.
Everything around him entered Lin Ye's mental perception.
Those students were already dead. What controlled their corpses were plant stems inserted into their brains.
Their lungs contained large amounts of powder-like substances resembling pollen. As soon as someone approached, they could spray large amounts of pollen.
Many cultists wearing black trench coats, hoods, and masks were hiding in the surrounding buildings.
This was a trap.
If Lin Ye couldn't use mental energy, it would indeed be difficult to discover this trap.
Furious, Lin Ye wanted to disassemble spiritual energy here and blow up the entire town, but unfortunately, he still couldn't disassemble spiritual energy over long distances.
So Lin Ye could only control spiritual energy blades to stab through those corpses still crawling on the ground.
The spiritual energy blades accurately hit the vital points of the parasitic plants, and those students finally stopped moving.
The bus didn't stop, driving straight into the town center. This was also the center of the encirclement. Here, Lin Ye could attack all the surrounding cultists.
This time, Lin Ye didn't waste words, directly controlling compressed spiritual energy blade swords to backstab the surrounding cultists. He couldn't control so many compressed spiritual energy blade swords simultaneously, but it didn't matter - the burning blood of those cultists could help him deal with the remaining ones.
This was making use of waste.
The scent of blood flowed through the air. Now this place had truly become a dead town.
Some cards were gathered toward Lin Ye, pushed by spiritual energy. This time there were only four cards, three of which were pink loot cards, with only one blue support card.
[Blue Card--Support]
[Using this card can teleport the nearest participant to the user's location (1/1)]
[Note: This is the surprise]
The remaining blood around gathered in Lin Ye's hand under the control of mental energy. He compressed the blood and spiritual energy together, forming a constantly twisting blood blade.
Lin Ye crushed the blue card, concentrating on perceiving the card's operating principles and the surrounding spatial fluctuations.
Time once again tended toward stillness. In the frozen world, a human figure gradually appeared beside Lin Ye, with a very inconspicuous spatial channel behind him.
Lin Ye wasn't completely unfamiliar with spatial teleportation. He had once merged with the dimensional bus, briefly contacting its core components during that time.
So he had some understanding of spatial teleportation too!
Lin Ye forcibly separated and disassembled one unit of spiritual energy from the blood blade, then transmitted the blood blade to the other side through the residual spatial channel!
Along with it came a message:
"This is the consequence of angering me! Don't make the same mistake in your next life!"
The spatial channel closed. Lin Ye casually blew up the head of the nearby fourth-tier spiritual energy user.
Boom!
Even in the town center, the vibration from the distant underground explosion could be felt, just like a magnitude five earthquake.
Without needing to interrogate for information, he had already located the cult's headquarters.
"Heh, this is the surprise."
Lin Ye coldly laughed.