Chapter 178: Chapter 178: I Will Compensate You
Inside the BOSS room.
"They are attacking!"
The twins holding assault rifles shouted, and immediately dodged to the side.
The monster’s tentacle struck empty air, and at point-blank range they fired at the tentacle, tearing apart its flesh.
"This tactic works!"
As if prearranged, the others immediately followed suit.
Except for Lin Yi, of course.
He extended his left arm, the one that was severed, and a chainsaw popped out of the device.
He charged at one of the tentacles, like a sculptor cutting ice, slicing it into two pieces.
Then he rolled under the tentacle, lying on his side, and cut off a six-meter long tentacle.
The monster roared, and the entire building shook in response.
"Ahhh!"
The twin holding the machete yelled as the tremors caused him to lose his balance, allowing a tentacle to seize him and start squeezing.
He frantically hacked at the tentacle, but it only tightened its grip, coiling around him more securely. The claws dug deep into his flesh, tearing his skin, causing even more severe damage.
"Brother!" The other twin shouted, rushing to help his sibling by cutting off the tentacle.
"I’m still alive!?"
The freed individual exclaimed, despite his body being covered in horrific wounds.
He popped some sort of pill into his mouth, and two seconds later, the bleeding stopped, the wounds began to sizzle, and then gradually healed.
The battle raged on.
Everyone knew Lin Yi was the strongest, and they subconsciously began to assist him.
Lin Yi had already dealt with three tentacles.
Tatiana’s shotgun, which could freeze the tentacle’s flesh, also proved helpful.
Another frenzied roar echoed, shaking the building once more, this time more violently.
Cracks began to form on the ground, and not long after, the master of the tentacles finally appeared.
The monster, covered in thick layers of fat, had no mouth full of fangs but instead had eight tentacles that moved in harmony.
It pegged Lin Yi as the most dangerous target, and four tentacles encircled him, launching an attack.
There was no way to evade, and soon Lin Yi had three bloody gashes on his body and one on his leg.
The tentacles also suffered some damage, but this only made the monster angrier.
It added another tentacle to the attack, assaulting the one-armed man with a total of five tentacles.
The remaining three tentacles turned their attention to the weaker humans.
The three humans let out a huge sigh of relief and began to intentionally distance themselves from the direction Lin Yi was fighting...
After dodging the first tentacle, Lin Yi struck it with an axe, just moments before the other four tentacles smashed the spot where he had just stood.
He leaped backward, quickly rolling away.
The monster roared once more, waving the five tentacles that were surrounding Lin Yi, and suddenly switched to attack the twins.
The unexpected attack caught the brothers off guard, and they were ultimately caught.
"Cover me, I’m going to finish it!" Lin Yi shouted as he charged towards the monster’s maw.
"Alright!"
Tatiana responded swiftly, firing at the tentacles, and a few bullets slowed its speed down.
Lin Yi broke through the defenses.
"Take this!"
He shouted as he hurled the axe into the monster’s mouth, and the girl instantly understood his intent.
She began using her shotgun to continuously freeze the enemy, which quickly exhausted her remaining endurance.
This was now a race against time!
They had to hold on until the poison killed the monster; if Lin Yi died first, the poison would fail, and the monster could very well survive...
Meanwhile, Lin Yi was swiftly exhausting his physical strength due to the axe’s effect, despite his high endurance.
"Please, help us! I beg you!"
One of the twins shouted, his body covered in wounds, but his brother’s situation was worse.
A tentacle coiled around him like a snake, rendering him invisible, with only his desperate cries audible.
Ten seconds later, this guy was crushed to mush.
His brother continued to shoot, but he could barely dodge the other tentacles’ attacks, let alone save his twin brother...
Now that one of the twins was dead, the tentacle that crushed him moved on to attack the surviving brother, and then...
Suddenly froze!
The monster roared, and all the tentacles immediately lunged at Lin Yi with a vicious thrust.
"Die!" the injured twin roared, charging towards the monster’s head, shooting it with a barrage of incendiary bullets.
Lin Yi seized the opportunity to disable two of the tentacles by causing them to tangle with each other.
The monster was panicked, resorting to frenzied attacks.
With two tentacles unable to reach Lin Yi, it turned them against the nearer target—the twin with the assault rifle.
The twin knew he was doomed, so he fought with his last breath, relentlessly attacking the monster’s head.
The tentacle lashed out at him, flinging him into the air and out of the rooftop, rendering him un survivable.
At this moment, the two attacking tentacles became limp, turning blue, then fell to the ground.
From the start of the battle, Lin Yi had grazed them with the axe, but due to the monster’s high endurance, it withstood the poison’s effects for a long time.
"Game over." Lin Yi, still evading the flailing tentacles, started smiling.
As seconds ticked by, despite his waning strength, he remained composed and at ease.
While the monster grew increasingly weaker...
Thirty seconds later, all the tentacles were twitching on the ground.
The monster continued to roar, but now its entire body turned blue, its teeth fell out, and its wounds oozed pus instead of blood.
After a few more agonized roars, the beast’s corpse finally tumbled from the rooftop.
[Congratulations, you have defeated the final BOSS and completed the Trial Dungeon!]
[You have received a reward: 100,000 coins, one skill point, and a level-up!]
[Your attributes have returned to normal!]
[As a bonus reward]:
You will also enhance your attributes based on the number of coins obtained by defeating the boss, one point for every five coins.
Power +5, Agility +5,
Endurance +5, Vitality +6.
[Once again, congratulations for your brilliant performance!]
[You have ten minutes to prepare for teleportation!]
After the message vanished, Lin Yi and Tatiana’s clothing and weapons disappeared, leaving them completely naked, but neither felt any shame.
The endless battles had left them exhausted, with no care for such things. All they wanted now was to rest.
A flash of light passed by...
Their original equipment appeared beside them.
"My equipment! I thought I lost it..."
Tatiana let out a sigh of relief and turned to look at Lin Yi, who was taking his gear.
"You’re... really awesome!"
"You’re not bad yourself."
Lin Yi glanced at her; the girl had a complete set of Second Level armor, a few First Level rings, a Third Level sword, and a Kalashnikov Rifle.
In the shelter, she could barely be considered elite.
"Boss! Can you hear me?!"
Just as Lin Yi put his earphones back on, he heard Melanie’s voice.
"I can hear you. Hold on..." the man said softly, but Tatiana didn’t pay much attention.
Tatiana curiously came over and asked, "What did you just say?"
"Nothing."
"Alright... uh... I don’t need the reward coins. Do you want to trade with me?"
"I’ll sell this to you, fifty thousand."
Lin Yi dressed up and tossed her a small cube.
"Oh my god... No way! Impossible!"
"This is a vending machine, one pound of food sells for 2.5 coins. I don’t recommend reselling it at triple the price; people who tried usually ended up as bug food..."
"Really? I mean... okay! Fifty thousand? Deal! You’re really good to me!"
The girl quickly counted out 50,000 coins, handed them to Lin Yi, and took the vending machine like a treasure.
"...Sorry for before..."
"I don’t mind those things."
Lin Yi thought, if you were here, it would be more trouble for me. Taking fifty thousand coins from you this time and having you use the vending machine to help me open a store makes us even.
At this moment, Tatiana shyly smiled.
After a brief pause, she suddenly hugged Lin Yi tightly and then kissed him hard.
"If you come to Nizhny Novgorod in the future, I’ll make it up to you properly."
Then, she disappeared.
Everything disappeared!
A moment later, Lin Yi found himself back in France, in a field outside Combray.
His beloved ’dagger’ was still beside him.
"Home..."
Lin Yi murmured to himself and then teleported to the shelter near his home.
"Boss! Boss!"
Lin Yi hadn’t had time to open the door when Annie ran over to him, clinging to him like an octopus.
"Boss! We just knew you could clear that Trial Dungeon! Go rest, the professor will come to see you later..."
"Okay... You go first... Wait, what? How do you know about the dungeon?"
"Huh? Well... we saw it all through the cameras... but during that scene, we told the guys to leave, only us girls saw it..."
A string of Chinese curses slipped out afterward.
Lin Yi helplessly patted his forehead and sighed, looking at lively Annie. At this moment, she still refused to get down, the two of them nearly stuck together.
"Since when... have you been able to see everything I do?"
"We saw it from the beginning..."
Her breathing became heavy, and it’s unclear what she thought, but her body felt shockingly warm.
Lin Yi was tired and didn’t want to think.
He pulled the girl off, looked at the dozen or so girls who surrounded him, and spoke.
"Alright... whatever. I’m really tired. I want to sleep. Let’s talk in the morning."
With that, he walked into the house and locked the door.
Seeing the familiar home, exhaustion descended on him like a heavy burden, and he fell onto the bed.
...
"It hurts..."
Lin Yi said, opening his eyes.
He had just fallen asleep when his wound began to itch.
Then, the burning sensation intensified, the wound almost made a hissing noise as it healed.
After taking a sleeping pill, Lin Yi fell asleep again and woke up several hours later.
His body had quickly expelled the poison, rendering the sleeping pill ineffective. He was extremely hungry.
After grabbing some canned meat and other snacks from the warehouse, he quickly ate some and returned to bed.
Exhaustion overcame the itching pain, and Lin Yi fell asleep.
But he didn’t sleep well; the discomfort finally started to ease around midnight...