Beating Instances through Words Left by the Dead

Chapter 342: Chapter 199: Breaking Through the Tier Barrier!

”I didn’t want to, but since you insist, I can only fulfill your request.”

After Wu Chang spoke, he reached through the Calamity Fog, grabbing the Poisonous Snake’s life force with his hand and swallowing it.

The Poisonous Snake’s life force provided him with 45 points of Power, bringing his Strength Attribute to 193 points.

As a cost, his Will was deducted by one point.

Absorbing the Poisonous Snake’s life force, Wu Chang carefully observed the Poisonous Snake, seeing its body shrink rapidly like a deflating doll, halving in size in the blink of an eye.

Just as Wu Chang thought extracting the life force could destroy the time loop of the 88th Underground Shelter, causing the locals to die completely, the Poisonous Snake stopped shrinking as its body began to glow, with large amounts of Calamity Fog rushing in to compensate for the lost life force.

When the glow faded, the green Mohawk in the alley was gone, leaving only an infant in the studded jacket that had just been born.

The rule that locals in the Underground Shelter do not die ultimately defeated the rule of dying from loss of life force, with the Calamity Fog maintaining the Poisonous Snake’s minimal survival, allowing it to live on as an infant.

From his action against the Poisonous Snake, Wu Chang drew two conclusions.

First, the existence of the Calamity Fog is not only as He Yun described, bringing disaster and summoning monsters, but it is also fundamental in maintaining the time prison of the Underground Shelter.

Second, the locals of the Underground Shelter truly are super resilient; with the Calamity Fog as a shield, even after losing all life force, they can still survive.

This further highlights that the Helmeted Man who can kill locals definitely came prepared.

Wu Chang returned to the bar, where the sensible bartender had already prepared hot milk, and on the stage, the Surgical Knife had defeated the opponent known as ”Oil Barrel” from the Mediterranean, ready to continue the challenge.

”Our outsider—the Surgical Knife player, has defeated the 15-5 Oil Barrel and secured another victory tonight!”

”Now, the Surgical Knife player’s record stands at an impressive 9-0! Could the Broken Bottle arena be conquered by a strange outsider today? Let’s see who can stop him.”

The host, as he did last night, began searching for opponents for the Surgical Knife.

The bartender sighed, just about to recite his line when Wu Chang interrupted him, saying, ”Tell the host I want to go up.”

The bartender was a bit hesitant, ”This isn’t appropriate, right? The other party is also 9-0, and only achieved their status after fighting all night. I know you’re strong, but challenging him directly is against the rules.”

”Indeed, following rules is important.” Wu Chang nodded, then began pointing with his finger from the bartender to the customers gathered around the bar.

They, like the Poisonous Snake, were all wearing boxing mechas, clearly fighters.

Wu Chang looked at the bartender and said, ”I’ll take all of you down to match a 9-0, without breaking any rules. Let’s start with you.”

Wu Chang’s words demonstrated his respect for and adherence to the rules, earning the recognition of the bartender and the customers at the bar. The rule-abiding bartender immediately raised his hand and shouted:

”Wait! This gentleman wants to challenge the Surgical Knife! He just took down the Poisonous Snake; his strength is definitely strong enough, and we can all testify!”

The boxers around the bar all nodded in agreement, praising Wu Chang’s strength.

The purpose of hosting mecha boxing matches was to have some fun. As long as it’s exciting and the matches are entertaining, no one cares about the rules.

Moreover, letting Wu Chang join is entirely different from inviting He Yun to step in.

He Yun might be consistent, but his appearance fee is high, whereas Wu Chang is different: losing incurs no cost, and winning with his poor record only earns the lowest tier prize, saving the bar a significant amount of money.

Win or lose, the bar doesn’t lose out.

In a deal with guaranteed profit, why would the host refuse? He immediately allowed Wu Chang’s challenge.

But since it was an exception to allow the challenge, before going on stage, the host, fearing that Wu Chang’s level might be too low and might end up losing badly, prompting boos from the audience, considerately asked:

”Mr. Peace, our arena will provide standard boxing mechas for players. Do you need one?”

”No need.” Wu Chang immediately refused. He looked at the Surgical Knife and said confidently, ”If he doesn’t need it, I don’t need it either.”

This remark caught the Surgical Knife’s attention and ignited the entire arena.

”Okay then, if you insist.”

The host no longer insisted and opened the cage outside the ring to let Wu Chang in.

The Surgical Knife immediately recognized Wu Chang as a player, and when Wu Chang took down the Poisonous Snake at the bar, the Surgical Knife had seen everything clearly.

The Surgical Knife said with a declarative tone:

”You shouldn’t have come up here. Based on the combat performance you saw, you think the gap between us isn’t big, but in reality, the difference is like a chasm. In the face of the Tier Barrier, you don’t stand a chance.”

It’s not that the Surgical Knife was being considerate, fearing hurting Wu Chang as a fellow player, but he feared Wu Chang might have some Special Skills, forcing out his real capabilities.

If too much is exposed, what if that local person named He Yun doesn’t dare to challenge?

Wu Chang didn’t care about the Surgical Knife’s words and proudly said, ”Seeing is believing. What use is being number one if it’s just talk?”

After exchanging harsh words, the host started joking to warm up the crowd, while Wu Chang and the Surgical Knife each took a corner of the ring and began warming up.

”As you can see, both players have chosen to forgo the mechas and fight bare-chested!”

”Next, at the Broken Bottle bar, two powerful outsiders will give the audience a rare match. I believe it will be an incredibly exciting showdown—a clash of dragons and tigers!”