This Is My Last Struggle! It was a familiar recipe, a familiar taste.
Not only was the process the same, but even the final settlement was identical.
Jie Jian looked at the panel and spoke expressionlessly.
"System, is teleportation really random?"
"It's random."
"Then why am I at the same spawn point twice?!"
"Perhaps the host has bad luck. The host can try again, and next time it might change location."
"You'd better actually change location!"
Jie Jian took a deep breath.
Two consecutive times as a human missile had given him a slight immunity to body-slamming the earth.
The only good news now was that dying from falls still increased his physical stats.
If he kept dying like this, he might really be able to raise his physique to the level of an athletic student like Yuji Itadori!
Adjusting his mood, the third journey into the Culling Game began.
As a white light flashed, Jie Jian entered the barrier of the Culling Game once again.
The moment his vision restored, the surrounding scenery entered Jie Jian's field of view.
Good news, the spawn point changed.
Bad news, this time the spawn point was still in the air!
Watching the scene below change from empty concrete ground to a shopping mall building, Jie Jian raised his hand and flipped the middle finger.
"Damn it! Asshole Kenjaku, you never thought ordinary people could survive in the Culling Game!"
With a "bang," Jie Jian's body slammed heavily onto a rooftop, ending this challenge once again.
Failure count: 3 Cause of death: Host attempted to smash the building with his head Evaluation: Trash Reward: Small amount of cursed energy, small increase in impact resistance
Jie Jian sat up in the system space with anger all over his face and shouted defiantly.
"Again! I refuse to believe I can't land safely!"
For the fourth time, Jie Jian fell to his death in an unfinished building.
For the fifth time, Jie Jian fell to his death in a stadium.
For the sixth time, Jie Jian respawned at the very first spawn point, attempting to challenge the concrete ground once more.
The successive deaths made Jie Jian somewhat unable to hold it together.
He suspected that he wasn't here to challenge Sukuna, but was clearly playing a falling simulator!
Returning to the system space once again, looking at the 9 under "Failure count," Jie Jian's eyes were almost devoid of focus.
"Sigh, let's continue. Let's see how many times I can fall to my death."
Jie Jian listlessly had the system send him to the Culling Game again.
However, just as he opened his arms, preparing to welcome his 10th death, the situation changed.
Jie Jian happily discovered that below him was no longer buildings, but seawater!
His spawn point this time was on the sea surface!
"Water, it's water!"
Jie Jian was filled with wild joy. At this moment, he wasn't very far from the sea surface; although he couldn't calculate it very accurately, a preliminary estimate was around several tens of meters.
Jie Jian had no time to overthink and quickly adjusted his posture.
The wind whistled in his ears, and the sea surface grew closer and closer.
With a "boom," Jie Jian's body slammed hard onto the sea surface.
Without training, he naturally couldn't enter the water straight like a real diver.
A huge splash erupted on the sea surface, and Jie Jian felt as if he had crashed into a wall, his head spinning somewhat.
But! This level was acceptable!
The bonuses brought by the previous consecutive deaths came in handy at this moment. The multi-upgraded impact resistance allowed Jie Jian to forcefully withstand this shockwave.
The moment Jie Jian successfully landed, he almost cried with excitement.
"Whohoo! I landed successfully!"
However, this joy lasted only a single second.
The next second, a howling sound instantly plunged him from heaven to hell.
He lowered his head and looked into the distance, only to see a giant fish-like curse lunging toward him!
Jie Jian then remembered that when Kenjaku designed the Culling Game, a large number of curses were released inside the barrier.
Among them, the ocean had even more fish-like curses!
"Unlucky, unlucky, unlucky!"
Jie Jian shouted, not daring to delay for even a moment as he immediately swam toward the direction of the coastline.
Cursed energy had a great attraction to curses, and coincidentally, Jie Jian also possessed a fair amount of cursed energy on him!
Under the attraction of the cursed energy, the curses in the sea all noticed Jie Jian's presence.
They swarmed toward Jie Jian's direction one after another, even crashing into each other due to their sheer numbers.
At this moment, a fish-like curse had already reached Jie Jian's back.
He turned his head to look back and saw the curse tearing toward him with its bloody mouth wide open.
The roar of the curse clearly entered Jie Jian's ears, and he seemed to feel a stench unique to curses and decay.
"No way, brother! Am I going to die the moment I land? This is too ridiculous!"
Jie Jian, who had finally managed to land successfully, was filled with unwillingness.
He refused to accept that after dying 9 times just to land successfully, he would die such a cowardly death in the mouth of a curse.
The desire to survive began to surge violently in Jie Jian's heart; he could not accept such an ending, he had to live!
Jie Jian clenched his fists and fiercely smashed toward the direction of the curse.
He didn't want to die!
This was his struggle in order to survive!
Jie Jian let out a roar, and an invisible force burst forth from the bottom of his heart.
The next moment, a blue cursed energy appeared on Jie Jian's fist.
The moment his fist struck the curse's fish face, a huge force erupted from the fist, and the fish-like curse was actually knocked flying just like that!
Jie Jian looked down at his fist in pleasant surprise.
"This is... cursed energy! I used cursed energy!"
Many people had cursed energy within their bodies, but wanting to truly mobilize it was somewhat difficult.
Yet there was one circumstance that was definitely an exception: when people fell into extreme emotions, it was possible for them to forcibly mobilize the cursed energy within their bodies.
Jie Jian just now had clearly met this condition.
Looking at the curses still attacking from afar, Jie Jian had no time to further comprehend the cursed energy in his hand and hurriedly swam toward the coastline.
Under the blessing of the cursed energy, Jie Jian felt his body become extremely agile.
In merely a few breaths, he successfully swam to the shore.
After going ashore, looking at the fish-like curses thrashing about in the sea, Jie Jian's mouth split into a wide grin.
"Come on over! You can't get up here, right? Hahahaha!"
Having escaped death by the skin of his teeth, Jie Jian breathed heavily, his mood exceptionally great.
As his mood relaxed, the cursed energy that had originally covered his body also vanished accordingly.
Without noticing this, Jie Jian looked around and found that his current location seemed to be in a port, with a large number of shipping containers beside him.
Right at this moment, a "bang" rang out beside his ear.
With a flash of white smoke, a small white bug with a pair of small wings appeared in the air.
"Yo! I'm Gold Beetle! Congratulations to the player for becoming a player and successfully participating in the Culling Game."
"What the fuck!"
Jie Jian was startled by this voice, subconsciously thinking it was his system talking to him.
Yet upon second thought, that wasn't right; his system's voice always rang inside his mind, and the system's voice was mechanical, without a shred of emotion.
But this voice clearly rang beside his ear, and at the same time, the other party's tone was full of cheerfulness.
Jie Jian looked closely and immediately spotted the Gold Beetle flying beside him.
"So it's a little golden bug!"
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