A Toast to... Uh, I Forgot the Words

An eleven or twelve-year-old boy, carrying a schoolbag, looked at the six strangers inside the room, closed the door, and ran outside.

"So, what's going on now?" Su Yuxuan asked, somewhat confused, looking at the room that had returned to calm. "Have we traveled through time, or have we fallen into an illusion?"

"These are stairs!" Cheng Kui suddenly exclaimed. "We are all fulcrums; to reach the deepest part of the barrier, we must climb these stairs!"

"Only by overturning fate can I find the door to the next step!" Cheng Kui said wearily. "These steps, for some reason, are related to us challengers; they are generated based on us, these pivotal points. So what we should do now is..."

"It's about saving your son!" Su Yuxuan realized and patted Jiang Yuming on the shoulder.

"I think we should act quickly. Didn't you say you'd make your move today?" Zhong Sangtan touched his earlobe and said to the crowd, "Just now, I told myself that someone is targeting your son."

Several people left the house one after another, leaving only Jiang Yuming sitting in a chair, lost in thought.

"What are you thinking? That's your son!" Su Yuxuan turned around and said to Jiang Leyu. These words startled Jiang Yuming then stood up with a wry smile.

"Judging from the traces, your son went this way..." Su Yuxuan, after all, was a former soldier and had some understanding of tracing traces.

"No need for all that trouble!" Jiang Yuming ran in one direction. "I remember the operation plan for that day. The target's mother, my wife, works as a waitress in a restaurant not far away. He must have thought we were debt collectors. His first reaction was to run towards his mother."

"Having realized this, I will definitely snipe from there!" Jiang Yuming put on his glasses and rushed into an old-fashioned residential building.

On the rooftop of the residential building, a man who looked exactly like Jiang Yuming was lying there, sniping and searching for a target. After that experiment, he not only gained a superhuman physique but also a special ability: once he locked onto a target, he could make his shots hit the target even if it was thousands of miles away.

Because the moment his gaze locked onto his target, he had already hit him. Just moments before, he had marked the target, raised his gun to the sky, pulled the trigger, and fired a sure-fire shot. "Goodbye, child!"

There are only two ways to resist Jiang Yuming's superpower. The first is for the opponent to withstand the bullet. Since his superpower only guarantees an accurate hit on the target, and he aims at the temple, even if the conditions are not right, the bullet will still travel through space and hit the opponent's temple. If the opponent wants to withstand it, they can only use their own temple to withstand the bullet.

The second method is to use his own ability to cancel the shot. He can change the target of the shot to his own heart. Although his physique has been greatly enhanced, he still cannot withstand the bullets with his heart. In other words, unless the target withstands the shot himself, he has no choice but to risk his life to cancel the shot.

The bullet whistled through the sky, then changed direction and rushed towards the kitchen of a restaurant, where a little boy was pulling his mother and talking to her. But the next moment, the bullet changed its trajectory, and Jiang Yuming turned around and saw a person who looked exactly like him clutching his chest, lying in front of him.

"Is he stupid? This is an illusion. Even if he saves his son, his son won't come back in reality. Besides, there are better ways to save his son!" Cheng Kui sensed the space trembling again. He could open the door at any time and go to the next step.

"This is his redemption!" Su Yuxuan said, looking at Jiang Yuming's relieved smile. "You don't understand now, but one day you will."

"Open the door!"

With a flash of black light, the remaining five people reappeared on the next step, in a courtyard. From a distance, they could see Li Chengfeng wearing a school uniform and carrying a schoolbag, walking towards them.

"This time it's yours." All eyes turned to Li Chengfeng, eager to hear Li Chengfeng insightful opinion.

"No, something's not right!" Li Chengfeng said with a grim face, "That person isn't me, it's one of those so-called doomsday messengers!"

Li Chengfeng, carrying a schoolbag, gave a strange smile, emanating a large amount of black ash from his body, guiding the surrounding things toward their ultimate destruction. At the same time, Li Yunshui and his group of five or six people walked out from the other side, each radiating various kinds of power.

"They used the power of the plot. What is the original plot? Let's quickly disrupt the original trajectory of fate and leave!" Su Yuxuan turned and asked Li Chengfeng.

"My mother was originally killed by Brother Shui and his gang..." Li Chengfeng looked up and saw the "Li Chengfeng" opposite him turn a man carrying a briefcase into black ash. Behind him, his blind mother seemed to hear the noise and came out of the house.

"Who is it? Fengzi, is that you?" the blind old woman asked, somewhat puzzled.

Saving his mother or killing the woman—these two thoughts simultaneously crossed Li Chengfeng's mind. Looking at the formidable enemy opposite him, he knew that saving his mother would mean facing all of them at the same time, while killing the woman would be a way of breaking his predetermined fate.

Li Chengfeng had gradually developed a mindset of solving everything by killing. The old woman in front of him was just a phantom, not a real person. As long as he killed her, he could easily reopen the stairs and get one step closer to completing the mission.

"You guys go first. It was my bad luck that I let that bastard escape, but I won't do it again this time!" Li Chengfeng turned around, looked at the Doomsday Messenger who had possessed Li Yunshui, his body trembled slightly, and rushed towards him.

Although in reality, those people told me that Li Yunshui had offended someone, his criminal information had been posted online, and he had been imprisoned, how could that compare to beating this beast to death?

Li Chengfeng's body rapidly expanded, transforming into a muscular giant who charged headlong into "Li Yunshui." With the reckless burning of his life force, mixed with the power of the barrier, he relentlessly forced the gamer possessing "Li Yunshui"Li Yunshui out of his body, beating him to death and turning him into mincemeat.

Li Chengfeng was then attacked and torn to pieces by the other players. Cheng Kui looked at the dead Li Chengfeng and felt a surge of emotion again. He opened the door to the next step and led the remaining three people down the stairs.

Not long after, all the other players left, leaving only Li Chengfeng's corpse, which moved slightly.