Serpent Emperor Destroyer

Monsters surged forth like a tide, unleashing all manner of attacks. Colors flashed endlessly across the screen, while numbers representing lost health popped up one after another above the monsters and characters.

Han Yang handed all numerical calculations over to the chip in his brain, while the human brain handled all logical judgments and decisions.

For visual processing, fuzzy recognition, logical judgment, and final decision-making, the human brain had an innate advantage.

Even a child could pick out the numbers that needed attention amid countless distracting colors, yet even a powerful computer found such recognition extremely difficult.

The same was true for logical judgments and decisions.

In other areas, especially numerical calculations and short-term memory, the human brain struggled greatly.

Even a mathematical genius would find it difficult to instantly calculate complex operations involving hundreds of numbers. But for a computer—even the primitive chip Han Yang had built by hand—it was ridiculously simple.

By combining the two, letting them complement each other's strengths and weaknesses, he achieved an effect where one plus one was far greater than two.

That was precisely why Han Yang was confident he could pull off extreme-level maneuvers and clear the Serpent Emperor dungeon with such poor stats.

Under Han Yang's command, the robot operated the keyboard and mouse with precision and agility, giving the game character movements accurate to the absolute limit. Although the monsters came in swarms, it darted among them like a butterfly flitting through flowers. No matter how many monsters there were or how complicated the situation became, it always minimized the damage it took while maximizing the damage it dealt.

Potions were always consumed at the most critical moment, skills were always released when they could achieve the greatest effect, and movement always brought the character to the most suitable position.

The first wave of minor monsters was smoothly cleared, then the first mini-boss, then the second wave of minor monsters...

Han Yang calculated all kinds of data at full capacity. At that moment, the primitive chip in his mind had been overclocked to 30 kHz, equivalent to performing more than thirty thousand floating-point operations per second. Even so, his control over the other three computers was somewhat affected, and his skill level dropped from expert to proficient.

An hour passed quickly. All the earlier monsters had been cleared, and the game character stood before the final boss, the Serpent Emperor, exactly as expected.

Han Yang planned to take twenty-five minutes to deal with this final boss.

The early maneuvering, bleeding, damage amplification, and buffing flowed as smoothly as drifting clouds and running water. Han Yang gradually whittled it down, and the Serpent Emperor's health bar began falling bit by bit.

The entire process was fraught with danger. Several times, the game character's health bar dropped to a perilous level; one small accident would have made all the effort worthless. Yet every time, Han Yang could control the character as though defying fate, pulling it free from danger and turning peril into safety.

The most dangerous moment came when the health bar had nearly bottomed out, leaving only 30 health points. The potion cooldown had not yet ended, and the game character was poisoned by serpent venom, continuously losing 20 health points per second.

An ordinary person would have given up long ago in that situation. How could anyone keep fighting? Might as well wait to die.

But Han Yang remained calm in the face of danger. One second later, when his health had fallen to 10 points and could no longer withstand the next tick of damage, the potion cooldown ended at just the right moment. Han Yang immediately chugged a large health potion, and his health rapidly rose again, narrowly escaping death.

It looked dangerous, but there had actually been no danger at all. Every value and every interval of time had been within Han Yang's calculations.

An extreme maneuver like that would be enough for an ordinary expert to brag about for ages if they pulled it off once. But to Han Yang, it was merely routine.

Under those circumstances, twenty-four minutes later, the Serpent Emperor let out a mournful cry and its enormous body collapsed. Materials and equipment spilled out in a rush, and the system immediately notified the character that it had obtained an honorary title.

This order was complete.

The reason he finished a little early was that games always had an element of randomness. His luck had been a little better today, so he finished a minute ahead of schedule.

One and a half hours, 150 yuan earned, 100 yuan per hour!

Phew...

Han Yang sighed inwardly. It would be great if I got more orders like this.

If he could maintain a steady hourly rate of 100 yuan, one computer could earn 2,400 yuan a day. Four computers would earn 9,600 yuan, bringing his monthly income straight to 300,000 yuan.

But Han Yang also knew that orders like this were hard to come by.

At that moment in Tiemu City, Zhao Ping was waiting so anxiously that he was scratching at his head and ears.

Under normal circumstances, clearing the Serpent Emperor took around an hour and a half. Only an hour and twenty minutes had passed, so it was impossible for it to be done.

Even an expert probably can't clear it in one try. I'd better not ask. What if they find me annoying and refuse to take my orders again? I'll ask after three hours. They can make two attempts in three hours, so whether they clear it or not, there should at least be a result.

Zhao Ping barely managed to comfort himself and continued waiting. But before long, a notification chimed. A new message had arrived. When he opened it, Zhao Ping saw a message from the customer service representative of the gaming studio called Revival.

"Dear, the task has been completed. Please log in and inspect it. Please confirm receipt as soon as possible, and if you're satisfied, please leave our little shop a good review~"

What the hell?

What was going on?

Even including login time, it had only been an hour and twenty-five minutes. It was already done?

Even an expert couldn't possibly be this fast, right?

At that moment, Zhao Ping felt no excitement at all. Instead, he was filled with despair.

A scammer. He had definitely run into a scammer.

Zhao Ping did not reply. Feeling somewhat nervous, he logged into his account.

Huh? What was going on? Why was I in the Serpent Emperor's hall? This thing... was the Serpent Emperor's corpse? So many gold coins, so much equipment—did all of it drop from the Serpent Emperor?

My title was... Serpent Emperor Destroyer? I got the honorary title? Holy shit, the Serpent Emperor was really killed?

Zhao Ping's mind exploded. First came disbelief, followed by wild joy.

"Big brother, thank you, thank you so much!"

While hurriedly thanking him, Zhao Ping quickly confirmed receipt and casually left a five-star review: "The shop owner is a true expert!"

He took screenshots of the Serpent Emperor kill, the purchased item, and his chat records with Han Yang, then directly posted them in the game group.

The game group fell silent for a moment before suddenly erupting.

"What the hell? For real? With that garbage equipment of yours, you cleared the Serpent Emperor dungeon in an hour and twenty-five minutes for 150 yuan?"

"This isn't just an expert. This is an expert among experts, right?"

"The key is that the price was so low and the speed was so fast?"

"Old Zhao, which shop did you buy it from? Hurry and tell me! I've been stuck on the Crimson Iron Behemoth for five days!"

"Quit dragging your feet and hurry up! I've been stuck on the Planet Devourer for three days too. If I still can't clear it, that whole cart of materials I have will expire, and I'll have to sleep under a bridge!"

"Old Zhao, Brother Zhao, Uncle Zhao! Dad! Hurry up! Which shop was it?"