Pain System

Pain System

The BOSS wasn't playing by the rules! How were they supposed to fight this?

As she slapped a packet of Golden Wound Medicine onto her wound, Youyou said helplessly, "Sorry, the intelligence I got earlier was wrong. How could Chen Ming not understand hidden weapons? He's incredibly skilled with them... Mm, he could actually predict my movements... Hiss!"

As she spoke, Youyou's face had already turned deathly pale. Beads of sweat the size of soybeans slid down her forehead, yet she gritted her teeth and refused to cry out.

Seeing this, Ye Weiming blurted out in surprise, "Sis, don't tell me you turned on pain perception?"

"Turning pain perception up to one hundred percent not only lets you use willpower to ignore some of the stiffness after being hit... but... mm, it also increases skill training speed in battle by twenty percent... Of course I had to turn it on!"

That made so much sense that Ye Weiming found himself speechless.

"But you're already in so much pain you can barely function. Turn it off already!"

To protect players, the game's pain system could be switched off at any time once activated. However, after being turned off, it required a twenty-four-hour cooldown before it could be activated again. Moreover, pain mode could only be activated outside of combat.

Youyou nodded gently and immediately chose to disable pain perception in the system interface. The agony that had nearly driven her mad receded like a tide in an instant. Only then did Youyou feel her mind relax, and she could not help letting out a comfortable moan.

Although she had turned off pain perception, Youyou was still seriously injured. Her attributes had dropped to half their normal levels, so she could only continue resting where she was. Since she was still in combat, she could not yet meditate and regulate her breathing to speed up her recovery.

Just then, the system suddenly notified them that they had left combat.

Upon hearing the notification, Ye Weiming did not feel the slightest bit happy. Instead, he could not help cursing, "That sneaky bastard. I was planning to wait until he used up all the seven bolts in the Zhuge Divine Crossbow, then rush out and challenge him one-on-one. At this distance, I'm absolutely confident I could catch him during the three seconds he needs to reload."

Youyou had already sat cross-legged on the ground and begun circulating her internal energy to heal her injuries, but that did not stop her from speaking with Ye Weiming in the Team Channel. "The Zhuge Divine Crossbow doesn't hold seven bolts. It holds thirteen. Since I never gave him the chance to fire them all at once, the most you saw him shoot in one volley was seven."

After giving Ye Weiming some more information about the Zhuge Divine Crossbow, Youyou said apologetically, "Sorry for dragging you into this too. This was originally a mission recommended for a team, but I don't trust the others in my sect, and I don't have any other friends in the game... Never mind that. The moment either of us shows our head from behind this pillar, we'll immediately enter combat again. With his shooting, we can't beat him right now, and we can't run either. We're really stuck between a rock and a hard place!"

"Shooting? Him?"

Ye Weiming could not help laughing. "Stop kidding. From watching you two fight just now, I figured it out. That guy is exactly as you said before—he has no idea how to use hidden weapons. His aim is atrocious. All he knows is how to spray wildly!"

Youyou's eyes widened. "Then that prediction earlier..."

"Pure luck." Ye Weiming spread his hands. "You two fought for so long, and he fired nearly twenty crossbow bolts at you. Is it really that strange for one of them to hit by chance?"

Youyou's eyes lit up. "So that means..."

"That means your fancy footwork is going to be a lot less useful against him." Ye Weiming mercilessly shattered the girl's unrealistic fantasy once again. "He probably doesn't even know where his next bolt is going to land. How are you supposed to predict it?"

"If they were ordinary crossbow bolts, like the ones from the crossbow in your hand, I could try to judge their trajectory and speed, then use my sword to knock them aside. But the bolts fired by the Zhuge Divine Crossbow are too fast. It's simply impossible."

Youyou sighed. "You can analyze even something like this so thoroughly. It looks like you're the real gaming expert."

Ye Weiming merely smiled without saying anything in response to the praise. Could he tell her that his hidden weapon skill was just as lousy as Chen Ming's? When he fought Chou Ba back then, he had relied entirely on luck.

After a moment of silence, Youyou asked again in the Team Channel, "What do we do now?"

"Other than hand crossbows, can you use any other hidden weapons? The kind you throw by hand?"

Youyou's answer was crisp and decisive. "No."

Ye Weiming could not help complaining, "Seriously? You're a Tang Clan disciple, and you can't even throw hidden weapons?"

Youyou said, "Can you use a gun? I mean a handgun."

Ye Weiming said, "No. What about it?"

Youyou said, "You're a law enforcement officer, yet you can't use a gun. What's wrong with me, a Tang Clan disciple, not knowing how to throw hidden weapons?"

"Nothing. Please continue healing, ma'am."

Youyou remained seated for more than ten minutes. Ye Weiming stood guard beside her while monitoring BOSS Chen Ming's movements, lest that crafty fellow circle around from another direction while they were not paying attention and mow them down with several crossbow bolts.

From Ye Weiming's observations, the BOSS was fairly well-behaved—or perhaps he was simply crafty and patient?

From the moment the two hid behind the pillar, he had stood motionless in the center of the hall with his hand crossbow trained on their position. Not only did he make no attempt to circle around the pillar and attack them, he did not even try to fire at the stone pillar and destroy their cover.

This allowed Youyou to calmly recover from her serious injuries and restore her health to full, but Ye Weiming also failed to find an opportunity to use tactics to get close.

He tried activating the active effect of Tai Shan's Secret to lure the monster, but the system notified him that the target was too far away and did not meet the skill's activation requirements. He had no choice but to give up.

Half an hour later, Youyou stood up with her condition fully restored. The situation between friend and foe had returned to square one. The only difference was that, instead of being outside the hall, the two were now behind a stone pillar closer to the center.

Youyou quickly peeked out at the BOSS still standing in the middle of the hall, then immediately pulled her head back. She said to Ye Weiming, "What do we do now? You know more about the game than I do, and you're the team leader. I'll follow your command in the next fight."

Ye Weiming rolled his eyes. "Didn't you say you were a professional? Why do you understand the stuff in this game less thoroughly than an ordinary player like me?"

"A professional special forces soldier. Is there a problem with that?"

"No problem at all!"

Only after hearing that answer did Ye Weiming finally understand why her stance while holding the crossbow and her footwork had seemed so familiar. He had often seen those movements in cop movies, war films, spy thrillers, and even some superhero movies. He simply had not recognized them at first after the handgun had been replaced with a hand crossbow and modern clothes with ancient robes.

No longer dwelling on her profession, Ye Weiming said directly, "People with backgrounds like yours are usually the protagonists in early novels. I probably don't need to tell you anything about seizing the right moment. I'll go out first and draw his attention. Find an opening and help create a chance for me to get close."

With that, he poured internal energy into his feet, activated the movement technique of Eight-Step Toad Leap, and circled out from behind the pillar.

"Bastard! Your grandpa's right here!"

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