I Got Up and One-Shot Them with an Arrow, What Can I Say?

Guiji and Yasha, the twin bosses, had actually appeared in the first Streets of Rage game as well. It was just that, back then, they had been much plainer, with slim, well-proportioned figures. They were nothing like the tight-fitting punk women with explosively curvaceous bodies they had become after their character designs were rebooted in the third game.

Their combat abilities had undergone a drastic change along with their figures.

As the game had evolved and its assets had been updated, they had gained more agile jumping abilities than they had possessed in the first game, kicking techniques with incredible explosive power, extremely synchronized combat coordination, the ability to release highly standard ground shockwaves, and a combined technique that could only be used when both twins were present.

Whether in reality or in games, twins always shared certain mysterious connections. As a result, some skills derived from game templates could only produce better effects when used by true twins—and preferably identical twins.

Obviously, the two people who had changed their Chosen IDs to Guiji and Yasha were exactly that type.

The two had successfully obtained, through what was practically a lucky market find, the combined-skill ability dropped by the Guiji and Yasha twin bosses. It allowed them to achieve a result where one plus one was greater than two. Yet this ability, which should have been enough to turn the tables at the limit, had been exposed by Cheng Tian with a single sentence.

Cheng Tian had managed to expose their secret simply by piling up keywords and searching: purple bodysuits, twins, female, ground shockwave. His brain had then automatically located and searched for Streets of Rage. This kind of judgment, which seemed as effortless to him as eating or drinking, was something no one else in Chosen Evolution Space could accomplish.

They simply had no way to possess Cheng Tian's vast game knowledge, which seemed almost as if he had been born for Chosen Evolution Space and could practically generate a "Mind Palace" on that level.

The twin players' already-fragile psychological defenses had completely collapsed. The word "run" now filled both twins' minds.

If veteran players had seen through them, they could have explained it as the opponent being experienced. But for a pure novice who had theoretically only gone through his second Chosen instance to see through them at a glance, what that represented was already enough to make them shudder with fear.

How was Cheng Tian some innocent child flaunting a fortune in public? This was clearly a trap prepared in advance specifically to hunt the two of them!

Which organization had spent so much effort!?

Crimson Dawn? Blue Flame Brotherhood? Or Card Players Supreme? Surely it couldn't be Swords, Magic, and Trap Mountains, right?

Several player organizations they had offended directly or indirectly in the past rapidly flashed through their minds. Under the gazes of Cheng Tian, whose lowered arm swayed slightly, and Erin, who had drawn her bow and taken aim once more, the twins almost simultaneously began edging backward.

The twins had completely lost their will to fight.

Even though they still possessed innate skills and equipment skills capable of causing Cheng Tian considerable trouble, the only thought left in their minds was to escape.

Cheng Tian's position had cut off the possibility of the twin sisters regrouping. They did not develop some determination to die together with their sister, either. Instead, they decisively chose to split up, flee separately, and look for a chance to reunite later.

"Hm? Trying to run?"

The twins' decision to turn and flee caught Cheng Tian, who had quietly adjusted his equipment, off guard. His right hand then lashed through the air like a Vampire Slayer being swung, producing a sharp crack. The next second, Captain America's Shield, which had originally been embedded in the trash can, sprang back into Cheng Tian's hand on its own.

Meanwhile, Guiji had already dashed more than ten meters away. Her movements were erratic; she ran, jumped, and kicked off walls, yet her speed only grew faster.

This was the first time Cheng Tian had properly encountered a high-Agility specialist player, and he immediately realized that with Blitz Charge currently on cooldown, it was impossible for him to catch up by relying solely on his two thick legs, empowered by a mere 12 points of Agility.

Polymorph's projectile not only required a one-second casting channel but also followed a flight trajectory, making the odds of hitting the target rather low. Thus, all Cheng Tian could do was throw Captain America's Shield again, since it had a clearly higher throwing speed.

However, Cheng Tian did not place much hope in it.

Sure enough, Yasha had Bushin-ryu Hurricane Kick, a health-sacrificing emergency skill, while her elder sister Guiji also possessed an emergency skill whose template came from the character Mustapha Cairo, popularly nicknamed "Yellow Hat" by players in Dino Crisis. That skill was Yellow Cyclone.

Just as the shield was about to slice through the back of Guiji's head, the twin elder sister, without slowing down in the slightest, launched into a Yellow Cyclone in midair—or rather, it should be called a Purple Cyclone—and kicked away the shield Cheng Tian had thrown.

Having developed severe PTSD over the main quest, they might not have many other skills, but they had an abundance of emergency techniques and escape methods.

Cheng Tian did not continue wasting time pursuing them. Against a high-Agility enemy like this, killing them was indeed difficult without a suitable enclosed environment. As someone who had only completed the beginner trial, he truly had no other means of restricting their escape and movement.

Was this the gap between him and veteran players? Chosen Evolution Space really was interesting~

Cheng Tian, completely unaware that he had scared his opponent senseless, was clearly smiling. Not only was he not discouraged, he immediately added his plans and ideas for "how to restrict agile units" to his daily agenda.

Players were players. They were not afraid of encountering enemies they could not handle. As long as a player was given a chance to go back and review the fight, that enemy would inevitably be countered to death.

However, just as Cheng Tian decisively abandoned the ineffective pursuit, the Tragic Beautiful Girl archer gave up on hiding altogether. She leaped down from a spot nearly eight stories high nearby. Just as her shapely, muscular thighs were about to become snapped sugarcane, a fierce gust of wind suddenly erupted and sent her soaring for several seconds before she landed lightly.

The emerald-green longbow Erin held, paired with the quiver of emerald-green arrows on her back, instantly filled Cheng Tian's nostrils with a fresh scent that seemed to come straight from nature.

After nocking an arrow, Erin first curled her lips at Cheng Tian, signaling for him to get lost and stop interfering with her aim. Then the muscles in her arms and thighs suddenly tensed, their pronounced bulges showing clearly beneath her otherwise unassuming clothes. She drew the bow to its full extent, and the arrowhead imbued with nature and death pointed at Guiji's retreating back.

The next second, a critical strike wrapped in a storm blasted forth—

Fusion Combat Skill! Storm Force Strike!

Having sensed some sort of danger and chosen to use the Power Word Shield: Enchanted Scroll from her inventory in advance, Guiji was enveloped in a golden shield capable of absorbing damage. She only had time to feel a powerful thrust from behind before her vision sank completely into eternal darkness.

Guiji's corpse, her heart utterly laid bare, was nailed to the tightly closed gate of the abandoned factory. The storm carrying her body scattered the blood evenly across the gate, forming a strange crimson whirlwind pattern. In death, Guiji instead looked like some kind of sacrifice. The entire scene was exceptionally bloody and charged with tension, and even carried a hint of philosophical meaning.

Afterward, a scarlet chest emerged from Guiji's corpse and dropped down all alone.