LWGP - Chapter 45
Chapter 45: Kneel
Zheng Yu's attributes were undoubtedly the strongest, his speed the fastest, followed by Xiao Jue and Xu Zhiyan. But the military expert didn't opt for close combat. He held a sniper rifle, swiftly dodging the constantly swinging spider spears while firing bullets at the burn marks on the Black Widow's skin. The Black Widow's hide was bulletproof, so this was his only way to deal damage. He wanted to shoot its eyes or the mouth it exposed when spitting silk, but its movements were too fast, and it always dodged.
A bronze-grade boss was already quite intelligent.
Still, with his naked eye, he could tell that Zheng Yu was the fastest. He could even directly evade the piercing tips of the Black Widow's spears, and with another flash, he avoided the sticky spider silk.
Meanwhile, Xiao Jue and Xu Zhiyan were forced to pause at the periphery before retreating to dodge.
Just like that, the distance between them widened.
But… who was that? So fast!
He suddenly understood—the opponent's agility had already surpassed the perceptive ability granted by his own 7 points in agility.
How high was their agility? 8, or 9? Or even higher?
He could only see the figure avoid the incoming spider silk, then tap a foot on the ground, moving with even more agility and grace than Zheng Yu. But the Black Widow's spider leg was already stabbing forward ferociously.
Clang!!
A sword slid past. It was described as a slide because she had already dodged its stabbing trajectory, but she raised her hand and used the edge of her longsword to scrape and slide along its spear-like leg.
The Black Widow's body was already bulletproof, let alone its tougher spider spears. The longsword couldn't damage it in the slightest. So why did she…
To pin it down!
Xiao Jue saw her use a sliding cut to momentarily fix one of the Black Widow's spears. In an instant, her windbreaker flared, and she had already jumped onto that very spear, her boots running swiftly along its length.
The Black Widow moved, its spear-like tip swinging, but she had already leaped back. Her jumping power was astonishing, launching her to a height of five meters.
She had just gotten close, only to retreat again?
The Black Widow recognized her. It seemed to roar, shaking its body as it gave chase with ferocious speed.
Not good!
The boss was being kited away! Her goal was to pull the boss.
This was everyone's first reaction.
Dammit, didn't this woman say she was giving up on this secret realm boss? But she came anyway!
She must have a way to kill it!
We can't let her succeed!
Many people, regardless of their personal thoughts, were displeased at the sight of one person trying to monopolize such a huge boss. Even the most magnanimous saint would be unhappy, not to mention that they now knew Wang Jiu's true nature—no different from a psychopath.
So…
While the Black Widow's attention was drawn away by Wang Jiu, the military expert fired a dense volley of shots. Zheng Yu suddenly understood—this woman was trying to kite the Black Widow, using the military's ranged attacks to whittle down its health bar, and then she would snatch the final blow.
Even if she couldn't get it, it would be tantamount to giving the last hit to the military to curry favor with the government.
So cunning!
Zheng Yu's gaze turned vicious. He suddenly flashed forward from behind and landed on the Black Widow's back.
As if seeing Zheng Yu's move, Wang Jiu's eyes narrowed slightly, and she charged back into the Black Widow's attack range.
The Black Widow's enraged phase had reached its final stage. The red glow on its body was at its most intense. The spider spears it stabbed into the ground could pierce through large sections of the thick stone slabs. It would pull them out, then stab again, the piercing speed reaching a terrifying blur of afterimages.
Getting close now was suicide.
In this state, the military expert found that all the bullets he fired were being deflected—damn it, even the burn wounds on its skin were now protected.
While enraged, its defense and attack were amplified. This was the boss's strongest state… which also meant its health was at rock bottom.
In that instant, a glint flashed in Xiao Jue's eyes, and he suddenly threw the longsword in his hand.
A moment behind him, the others, not being fools, also threw their weapons.
Whether they could break through the Black Widow's nearly invincible defense didn't matter; one had to take a gamble.
At that moment, Wang Jiu was only three meters away from the Black Widow. But! Zheng Yu was on its head. He shot a savage grin at the charging Wang Jiu, then suddenly leaped up. In mid-air, he raised his hand. This man used a blade, so what did raising his hand mean?
Hi, how are you?
No, he raised his hand to make a fist, and the fist was to… smash into the Black Widow's head.
A physical punch would certainly be ineffective, unless his Strength reached twenty or thirty points.
But there were exceptions, such as when one had assistance.
When the crowd saw the airborne Zheng Yu tuck his knee and slam his fist into the Black Widow's head, even those with low agility saw a circular radiance explode at the moment of contact. It was a ball of light, like an expanding burst of energy.
Following the strike, there was a loud bang. The ball of light exploded under his fist, forming a shockwave three meters in diameter.
Then, the massive body of the Black Widow slammed downward. Bang!! A second deafening crash, and the stone slabs on the ground were shattered by its body.
It was dead. The enraged Black Widow was dead, just like that.
Even Wang Jiu was astonished. This… this level of damage already surpassed the limits of the human body at this stage. It was comparable to advanced thermal weaponry.
"A skill?" Wang Jiu asked the System directly, her voice laced with surprise and uncertainty.
Was this damn dog really that lucky?
System: "No, it's not a permanent, fixed skill. It's a one-time-use attack skill card—Shockwave Blast."
Wang Jiu narrowed her eyes. "The condition for use is that the monster's health must be extremely low, or its power increases the lower the monster's health is?"
The System knew Wang Jiu had likely deduced this from the fact that Zheng Yu hadn't used this trump card earlier. But she wasn't entirely certain, because it was also possible that Zheng Yu simply hadn't wanted to waste it. After all, barring any surprises, he would have undoubtedly secured the highest participation and even the final blow. But with Wang Jiu's interference, and his extreme wariness of her, he was forced to use it ahead of schedule.
But the System did not deny Wang Jiu's guess. "Shockwave Blast is one of the low-grade special skill cards. Because it's low-grade, it has more restrictions, but it is indeed an excellent trump card at the current stage."
So many people attacking together had been less effective than this single move of his.
He had taken down the enraged Black Widow in one blow.
Wang Jiu: "I didn't expect it to become enraged. If I hadn't kited it here…"
She most likely wouldn't have been able to defeat it; she wasn't strong enough. However, she had one chance to reclaim ownership, so she would have eventually attempted it again after her strength had reached a certain level. The final outcome wouldn't have changed, but this current result…
The final blow undoubtedly belonged to Zheng Yu.
Under the stunned and lingeringly fearful gazes of everyone present, Zheng Yu stood on the Black Widow's head and gave Wang Jiu a coarse, cold smile. "Wang Jiu, for all your deep scheming, you got too greedy. Did you really think you could take all the benefits?"
"I'll be taking your secret realm boss."
Once I've digested these treasures, I'll be sure to pick a good time to torture you to death!
Zheng Yu's gaze raked nakedly over Wang Jiu's body before he reached out to loot the Black Widow's corpse.
Everyone was deeply displeased, especially the military and government personnel.
This man was no good. Letting him get the boss rewards would be like giving wings to a tiger.
Xiao Jue was naturally unhappy and felt a strong sense of crisis. Still, he glanced at Wang Jiu, thinking she must be even more furious. But when he saw her expression… she seemed a bit dazed.
Zheng Yu couldn't care less about them. He touched the Black Widow's head, feeling both joy and caution, wary that the others might try to assassinate him, especially the military.
But he touched it, and there was no response?
He touched it again.
Everyone had been annoyed, but they quickly became surprised as they watched Zheng Yu try three different hand gestures and three different postures.
Li Ting seemed to sense something and quickly looked toward the young military expert, who gave him a slight shake of the head.
Just then.
"Stop touching it. It's useless even if you rub it bald."
"It's still sexual harassment even if you're not the same species, didn't you know?"
That familiar voice.
Everyone's head snapped toward Wang Jiu.
Especially Zheng Yu. His face was grim, and bloodshot veins were faintly visible in his eyes.
Wang Jiu: "No way, you don't actually think I did something, do you?"
A moment later, just as the last syllable of her words faded.
A stream of light from the Black Widow's body flew toward her and entered her body.
The system notification arrived.
Wang Jiu raised an eyebrow, looking somewhat surprised. "Ah, I didn't think it was really me."
Everyone: "…"
"It's probably because I took off 60% of its health right at the start. And it just so happens that secret realm bosses have their ownership assigned from the beginning; it has nothing to do with the last hit."
You didn't need to explain. The System just told us all that.
Furthermore, the System had also added that for secret realm bosses with fixed ownership, unless a participant's contribution completely surpassed the owner's, they could not share in any of the rewards.
With 60% participation, even if all their contributions were added together, they couldn't compete.
This boss had been steadily hers from the very beginning.
And they were the most miserable of laborers.
No, laborers get paid. Did they?
Nope.
The others were mostly fine, just frustrated, feeling as if they had been used for free. But one person in particular probably felt like he had just eaten shit.
Under the watchful eyes of the crowd, Zheng Yu's grim expression surprisingly returned to normal. He gracefully jumped down from the Black Widow's head and remarked with emotion, "Truly amazing. This is the first time I've admired a woman so much… Since it has come to this, I can only accept it. However, I must take my older brother's body with me."
His statement made it seem as if he didn't want any more conflict and wished to settle matters peacefully.
But the worldly Li Ting didn't fully trust him. He gave Qi Dong and the others a look, signaling them to be on guard. But before Qi Dong and his men could secretly aim their firearms at the man…
Swish! Zheng Yu vanished from his spot. With speed exceeding the burst of a cheetah, he closed the short distance to Wang Jiu in an instant. His longsword swung, its blade a thin line that approached Wang Jiu's neck in a flash.
Wang Jiu took a step back, raising her sword to block. The blade was pushed back a tiny bit, but Zheng Yu twisted his wrist, slightly changing the angle, and slashed viciously again.
At this point, there was no hiding it. At this stage of the game, fights were decided by the three main attributes, especially Strength and Agility. Everyone had a slight concept of the numbers now and could roughly judge that Zheng Yu's Strength and Agility were around 14 and 10, while Wang Jiu's were probably 11 and 9.
With her attributes completely suppressed, Wang Jiu was no match for him. But she couldn't escape, as he was clearly aiming for her life.
Li Ting made a hand signal to the military experts and was about to shout for them to stop, but Zheng Yu and Wang Jiu's movements were too fast. Before he could even open his mouth, both of them had drawn blood.
Three seconds.
First second: Zheng Yu's blade neared Wang Jiu's chest, but she dodged with a simple sidestep.
Second second: The blade's path shifted, but Zheng Yu's eyes glinted with cunning. He directly tossed his sword to his other hand, catching it in his left, and swiftly cut toward Wang Jiu's left waist!
Third second: Wang Jiu was forced to angle the sword in her right hand down to her left to block the blow.
Then came the fourth second.
The fourth second was the result.
His Strength attribute overpowered Wang Jiu's, and the blade drew closer to her waist.
At the same time, a dagger slipped out from Wang Jiu's left sleeve, stabbing toward Zheng Yu's chest… He could either abandon his attack on Wang Jiu or continue to slice her waist while taking a dagger to his own body.
Zheng Yu immediately retreated, but the edge of his blade still slid across Wang Jiu's abdomen, spraying flesh and blood. Meanwhile, his chest was only grazed by the dagger, leaving a thin, shallow wound.
This… was the difference in strength.
After all, her attributes were suppressed. Moreover, in terms of true combat ability, an expert mercenary like him was definitely superior to Wang Jiu, who, despite her twisted personality, was still an ordinary person at heart.
Trading a light wound for a heavy one was a terrible loss.
But Zheng Yu's goal was to kill Wang Jiu. Seeing this, he wanted to press the attack, but the snipers had already taken aim at him.
Li Ting also reminded Zheng Yu coldly, "Mr. Zheng, don't forget the rules."
Zheng Yu's eyes flickered. He pointed back at Wang Jiu and sneered, "I know the rules, and I know that whoever strikes first is in violation. But she's a cruel murderer who tricked us and used us as free labor. Are we supposed to just tolerate her?"
He wasn't entirely wrong.
But Wang Jiu said he was.
Where was he wrong?
"Sorry, I didn't trick all of you. I only tricked you."
As she said this, Wang Jiu lowered her head and glanced at her watch. Her tone and posture sent Zheng Yu into a rage. Even Li Ting felt she was just stirring up trouble. Did she really think Zheng Yu wouldn't attack?
Once he attacked, who here could stop him?
He would definitely seize this opportunity!
Just as Li Ting had a bad feeling, Zheng Yu, as expected, did not miss his chance. He decisively raised his sword, preparing to charge at Wang Jiu.
"Fuck, dodge, miss!!" Wang Peng couldn't help but roar.
But Wang Jiu didn't move an inch, watching him charge with cold eyes. And then… Zheng Yu's expression changed, twisting as if in pain and shock. His legs suddenly went weak, and with a thud, he knelt before her.
Everyone: "!"
Wang Peng: "???"
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