An Unexpected Severed Hand

The first time he had encountered such a goddamn useless teammate, Wang Zhifan felt that he would have to clear this Dungeon solo. But just as he was considering how to deal with the Giant Boar as efficiently as possible, something unexpected happened!

The Tusked Giant Boar, roughly a hundred meters away from them, suddenly stopped rooting around and digging holes. It turned its huge head toward Wang Zhifan and the others, then violently kicked its hind legs against the ground, sending weeds and dirt flying everywhere. Next, like a bulldozer, it charged straight at them at a terrifying speed!

"Damn it! Why did this boar suddenly start attacking on its own?!"

Wang Zhifan was immediately taken aback. Though he had not cleared many Dungeons, he had never encountered a situation where the monster charged at the players before they had even engaged it. Faced with this unexpected development, he quickly shifted position while keeping a close eye on the Giant Boar, making sure he would not be rammed head-on.

The Windbreaker Youth Gunner nearby reacted similarly. Cursing as he ran, he hurriedly moved away, terrified that the Giant Boar would crash into him.

But after the two of them had each run a short distance, they suddenly stopped and turned to look in the same direction—the direction in which the Short Fatty had deserted the group! The reason was simple: they had both realized that the Giant Boar's charging target was not either of them. It was charging straight at the Short Fatty, who was still fleeing into the distance! "This... could it be... some kind of Dungeon Punishment Mechanism?"

The sight immediately gave Wang Zhifan an idea. He had never seen anyone on the forums mention what would happen if someone entered a Dungeon and immediately ran off alone. Today, he was seeing it firsthand. Apparently, if a player chose to flee before even engaging the monster, dumping all the pressure of fighting it onto their teammates, they would immediately face the greatest pressure in the Dungeon themselves!

As Wang Zhifan pondered this, the thousand-pound Giant Boar racing across the grasslands grew faster and faster. In almost a single breath, it had passed near Wang Zhifan and the Windbreaker Youth, charging directly toward the Short Fatty still jogging away in the distance.

The Short Fatty definitely did not yet know that the terrifying Giant Boar behind him had locked onto him, because he had not looked back once since he started running. But very soon, he would realize that disaster had come knocking.

Glasses Short Fatty was panting as he fled across the grassland on his thick, short legs. He had originally thought that his two teammates behind him would rush after him and stop him, but after running for so long, he had heard no sign of anyone catching up. That only made him run harder, because he believed that as long as he got far enough away, he could avoid every potential danger and would not have to endure the horrifying torture from his first Dungeon a week ago, when a wild beast had gnawed away half his flesh while he was still alive.

However, less than two seconds later, the Short Fatty, who had developed a psychological trauma around wild beasts, noticed an enormous, impossible-to-ignore commotion behind him. It was as though a tank had suddenly descended upon the grasslands and was charging at him at full speed.

Startled and suspicious, the bespectacled Short Fatty kept running on his two thick, short legs as he twisted his neck to look behind him. Then he saw a pair of enormous curved tusks, a pair of blood-red beast eyes, followed by the endlessly alternating grasslands, blue skies, white clouds, and eternal darkness.

"Fuck... that guy's body got smashed into several pieces in an instant... even his head flew into the air..."

Two or three hundred meters away, Wang Zhifan's eyes nearly bulged out as he watched his Short Fatty teammate get shattered by the Giant Boar. After all, this was the first time he had personally witnessed someone go from alive to dead. The distance was just too great for him to make out the finer details.

"Fuck!!! That boar turned around! It's charging at me! Get up there and fight it!!! Get up there now!!!"

After the Short Fatty teammate was instantly killed, the Tusked Giant Boar turned its massive, rough body around on the grassland where specks of flesh and blood still drifted through the air. When it pointed its huge head toward Wang Zhifan and the others, the Windbreaker Youth beside Wang Zhifan immediately shouted in panic, trying to force Wang Zhifan, the melee fighter, to rush forward and shield him from the threat.

But was Wang Zhifan the kind of person who obeyed just because someone shouted at him? Long before the Giant Boar had begun its charge, he had already decided not to cooperate with this utterly rude teammate. So when the Windbreaker Youth started roaring at him, he did not move toward the charging boar. Instead, he inconspicuously began edging closer to the Windbreaker Youth.

At this extremely urgent moment, the Windbreaker Youth clearly did not notice Wang Zhifan's unusual actions at first. He was merely enraged that Wang Zhifan was not listening to him, so he began swearing loudly. "Fuck your mother! Get up there and fight it!!! If you don't, we're both dead! You idiot!!!"

But Wang Zhifan did not care about the insults. He merely watched the Giant Boar charging toward them while quietly moving closer to the Windbreaker Youth.

Finally, as the Giant Boar racing across the grasslands drew nearer and nearer, the Windbreaker Youth began to lose his mind. He suddenly raised the Handgun in his hand and roared fiercely at Wang Zhifan, "You won't go, huh?! If you won't go, I'll kill you first... Aah!!!"

Before the Windbreaker Youth could finish his sentence, intending to risk the Punishment Round to threaten Wang Zhifan with his Handgun, he suddenly collapsed sideways onto the ground with a scream of agony. As he had raised his gun at Wang Zhifan, Wang Zhifan—who had already closed in on him—had flashed forward and slashed. In an instant, he severed the youth's gun-holding right hand!

At that exact moment, the racing Giant Boar arrived nearby. It seemed to have selected Wang Zhifan, the only person still standing, as its target and Sprinted toward him with savage ferocity! But Wang Zhifan possessed a Strength of 19 and an Agility of 17. His movement speed, reaction speed, and coordination vastly surpassed those of an ordinary person. With a single sidestep, he easily dodged the Giant Boar's first charge. Before it could turn around, he swiftly picked up the Handgun on the ground, still attached to the Windbreaker Youth's severed hand, then deliberately positioned himself behind the Windbreaker Youth, who was still screaming in agony! How could the simple-minded Giant Boar have ever seen a human who treated it with such contempt? When it discovered that this fellow not only did not run but actually dared to stand nearby and wait for it, it immediately charged again like a tank in furious rage!