Mission Difficulty Increased!

The Black woman was struck by an arrow more than four meters from Fang Linyan and fell. She struggled to lift her head, her eyes full of fury. Gasping heavily, she reached out with her right hand as if she wanted to say something, but her voice was hoarse and her gaze vicious.

The other passengers in first class were stunned. They could only think that the terrorist was utterly ruthless—he was even killing this incredibly helpful volunteer.

But just as Fang Linyan had predicted, another terrorist was indeed lurking in first class. He was a frail-looking man in his forties.

Normally, he looked as though a gust of wind could knock him over. But now, taking advantage of the Black woman distracting Fang Linyan, he pounced with incredible speed!

He seized the hand Fang Linyan held his crossbow in, gripping his wrist so painfully it felt as though it were trapped in an iron shackle.

Then the man suddenly headbutted Fang Linyan in the face. Stars burst across Fang Linyan's vision, and blood streamed from his nose. Worse, the man twisted his wrist, pulled out a dagger, and stabbed toward Fang Linyan's armpit.

The grab, headbutt, and stab flowed together seamlessly. The man had clearly rehearsed the moves countless times until they had become second nature. By the spatial evaluation system's standards, his close-combat ability had to be at least LV4. Fang Linyan seemed utterly helpless before him.

But just as the man began to thrust with his dagger, an indescribable pain suddenly erupted in the back of his neck. His whole body jolted. Instinctively, he raised a hand to cover the spot and let out a piercing scream! Needless to say, the stab went wide.

What had happened? Fang Linyan had released the Blood Spider as soon as he noticed the man making a move!

He hadn't expected the man beside him to attack so quickly and ferociously. Before the Blood Spider could bite him, the man had seized the chance to land several vicious blows on Fang Linyan.

Fortunately, Fang Linyan's body in descent mode was still fairly sturdy. He covered his face and staggered back two steps. After a few seconds of panting, he recovered enough to raise his hand crossbow and pull the trigger at the terrorist groaning in pain on the floor.

This time, Fang Linyan went for the kill. He aimed at the man's head and fired. The man shuddered, twitched for a few seconds, then stopped breathing.

With his death, Fang Linyan received a notification:

"You killed the terrorist: Ars. Your mission completion has reached 20%."

The other passengers saw the man killed on the spot and panicked. They huddled in their seats with their heads in their hands, like quails, clearly terrified.

In reality, the kind of passenger who suddenly turned out to be Rambo or a cop only existed in movies. After seeing bloodshed, most people could barely keep from shaking.

Fang Linyan was quite satisfied with the situation. He found two ropes nearby and securely tied up the Asian man and the fat Black woman. Each time he tied one up, the system notified him that his mission completion had increased by 20%. By the time the woman was bound, his mission completion had reached 80%.

"Wait!" Fang Linyan suddenly realized something was wrong. He had only dealt with three terrorists. How had that added up to 80% completion?

Had the space made a mistake, or had its math teacher died young in a freak accident?

Just then, the partition door between first class and economy slowly opened. A flight attendant stumbled in, pale-faced and looking terrified. The moment the door opened, a series of screams and commotion rang out from the cabin, as if something horrifying had happened.

Fang Linyan's heart sank. His confidence that everything was going according to plan vanished. He knew that no plan survived contact with reality and that unexpected things were bound to happen, but for something to go wrong at this critical moment was truly frustrating.

Hearing the passengers outside scream so desperately made him even more anxious. He immediately strode to the partition door. It was no wonder he was so concerned: if even one passenger died, his rating would drop by 30%.

Through the open door, he saw that two passengers, in seats 12A and 14A, had stood up. At first, they were clutching their heads, their faces twisted in pain.

One of them was already vomiting violently. It was as if he had suddenly been affected by some stimulus and suffered a seizure. Then both his eyes abruptly bulged and burst with a pair of wet pops, leaving two hideous bloody holes. Thick, blood-red fluid poured from his mouth, and he slumped into his seat, melting away like softened wax.

The other seemed to be doing a little better. He kept his head down and trembled without stopping.

A flight attendant screamed:

"They injected themselves with something, and then they turned into this!"

The moment he saw this, Fang Linyan understood. He had only dealt with three terrorists, so how had that added up to 80% completion? The extra 20% had come from here!

These two must have been hidden agents. They had evidently realized that their accomplices were being taken down one after another in a short time. Unaware of what was really going on, they must have concluded that their plan had been exposed and that everyone on the plane was on guard. So they had simply activated their final countermeasure!

They had injected themselves with prepared enhancement serums. The unfortunate passenger in 12A clearly hadn't survived, so he had died and counted toward Fang Linyan's mission completion.

But the person in seat 14A seemed to have pulled through. After getting through the initial period of agony, he immediately began to howl. His voice no longer sounded human, and his face twisted into a savage snarl. He glared viciously at the other passengers as his once well-fitting clothes suddenly bulged, as though something had filled them from within.

Just then, a series of notifications suddenly sounded in Fang Linyan's ears:

"Contractor Fang, number 72AFS, you have experienced seven adventure worlds. Your strength has been judged capable of crushing the other Contractors in this world."

"Therefore, the difficulty of your current mission will increase, but the corresponding mission rewards will also increase!"

"A terrorist has been successfully parasitized by a Gerard Parasite and transformed into a Tier 1 Bio-Weapon Mutant. Defeating it will grant you 45% additional completion!"

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